Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor for Cultural Studies and Media & Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. He often researches contemporary sociopolitical realities in relation to changes in art spectatorship. Recent publications include: Cosmopolitanism and Culture (2012); Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place, and the Everyday (2006); and Metaphor and Tension: on Collaboration and its Discontents (2004). Papastergiadis lives and works in Melbourne. [Last updated 2013]