Professor at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Throughout his career, Nikos has provided strategic consultancies for government agencies on issues relating to cultural identity and worked on collaborative projects with the artists and theorists such as John Berger, Jimmie Durham and Sonya Boyce. 

His current research focuses on the investigation of the historical transformation of contemporary art and cultural institutions by digital technology. Nikos has recently published Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday (2006), which examines the new processes, contexts and relations through which contemporary art is produced, and co-edited with Scott McQuire, Empires Ruins and Networks, Melbourne University Press, 2005.