Tristan Manco is an author and designer based in the UK, specializing in art direction, curation and publishing.

Since the publication of Stencil Graffiti I have been invited to give talks about the books and the field of street art in general. I have also given lectures about my design practice. Here is a list of most of the talks plus some details of teaching experience.

Talks

Lecturer at Universidad de Los Andes as part of the Memoria Canalla festival, Bogota, August 2009
Participating speaker at Groucho Marxism: Street Art – Avant-garde – Resistance event, Lodz,Poland May 2009
Street Art in Different Cities – talk given at Tate Modern August 2008
What is Street Art? – talk given at Amaze Festival, Belgium 2008
Connextions – talk on work practice in relation to art teaching – Arnolfini, Bristol, 2008
Difusor Stencil festival – Street Art talks, Barcelona 2007
Street Lab – talk on Street Art’s relationship to the gallery, Amsterdam 2007
Too Cool for School – talk on Street Art’s relationship to the gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 2007
Red Bull Street Gallery, Lisbon, 2007
Nuart Contemporary Urban Art Festival in Norway, 2007
Branding the Street: New directions in graffiti art, ICA – London 2004
Festival Edicion, Madrid 2004
Cheltenham Literature Festival, 2004
Street Logos lectures, 2004 – Cube Cinema – Bristol
Victor Burgin/Semiotics Workshop – Arnolfini, Bristol, 2003
Arnolfini Annual Presentation – Arnolfini, Bristol, 2003
Stencil Graffiti lecture – Arnolfini, Bristol, 2002

Teaching

Graphic design and illustration tutoring at foundation level – Stroud College of Art and Cheltenham Art college, University of Gloucestershire 2001–2007
Visiting lecturer & teacher, Berghs School of Communication, Sweden, 2005
Hereford Art College, 2005 & 2006 – lecturing and tutoring
Bath College, Sion Hill 2007 – lecture
Personal work practice – talk given at University of West Wales, 2007
Visiting lecturer, Wolverhampton University, 2001 & 2008