(1966) He is a writer and critic teaching in the Department of Art History at University College London. He is presently completing a new book, Migrations: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Globalization, that explores the relation of contemporary photography and video to mobility and statelessness. Demo's essays have appeared in Artforum, Grey Room, October and Texte zur Kunst, among others, and in 2007 he published The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp, which places the artist's work in relation to the early twentieth century's nationalisms and political upheavals. Recent catalog essays include: "Giardini: A Farytale", Steve McQueen, British Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; and "The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology", Radical nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2009. During 2008-2009, he organized Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art During Global Crisis, comprising a series of research workshops in London and an exhibition in New York. Demos lives and works in London.