Lectures 2009 – 1995

2009

2008

  • October 01: Presentation at "Curatorship applied to new media," organized by Espacio Fundacion Telefonica and Langlois Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • September 04: Presentation at "Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art," conference organized by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute; Media.Art.Research at Ars Electronica 2008, Linz, Austria
  • June 13: "Presenting and Preserving New Media," Lecture at the Academy of Art, Split, Croatia
  • June 13: "Bio Art," Lecture at the Academy of Art, Split, Croatia
  • June 11: "Projecting New Media: History and Theory of New Media," Lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
  • June 10: Database Aesthetics: From Network to Landscape -"Database Aesthetics: The Database as Cultural Form" Lecture at Kibla Multimedia Center, Maribor, Slovenia
  • April 25: Presenter at ACLA 2008, Long Beach,CA: “Aesthetics of Interfacing — Human-Computer Interaction and Embodiment”
  • April 18: Lecture, Dept. of Film & Media Studies, New School, NYC: "From Cinema to Machinima and Beyond — A Diagram of Media Studies"
  • April 14: Co-organizer and moderator of the panel "From Cinema to Machinima — Software, Database and the Moving Image" at San Francisco Art Institute

2007

2006
  • December 04: Moderator, "Open Source: On the Line" Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, NYC
  • December 02: Moderator, Artist talk with Shu Lea Cheang, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC
  • October 08: Panelist at "The New Curator," Santa Fe Center for Photography in conjunction with Photo NYC
  • October 05: Lecture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY: "Data Visualization and Database Aesthetics: The Database As Cultural Form"
  • March 11: Panelist at DiVA Art Fair, NYC: "Presenting and Collecting New Media"
  • February 08: Panelist at ARCO Expert Forum, Madrid Spain: "Curating the blackbox"

2005

  • September 28– October 01: Refresh!, The First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada
  • June 17–18: Presenter at Transliteracies, UCSB
  • June 05: Lecture at the Conference "Curating, Immateriality, Systems," Tate Modern, London
  • May 25: Lecture at UC San Diego
  • May 23: Lecture at UC Irvine
  • May 21: Panelist at "Institutional Critique and After," Los Angeles County Museum of Art; organized by Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS) and LACMA
  • May 19: Free Flow Lecture at UCLA, Design | Media Arts
  • March 15: Panelist at “Hypertemporality: A Discussion of Internet Art," University of Richmond, VA
  • March 12: Panelist at DiVA (Digital and Video Art) Fair, Embassy Suites Hotel, NYC
  • February 18: Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC: “Aesthetics of Digital Art”
  • February 12: Presentation at ARCO Expert Forum, Madrid, Spain: "Coming Communities”
  • February 05: Panelist at “Basics of Media Art,” Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany,
  • January 08: Panelist at Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; panel in conjunction with the exhibition featuring Lev Manovich and Marty St. James

2004

  • November 11: Lecture at San Francisco State University, Arts Dpt.: "Data Visualization and Dynamic Mapping"
  • November 08: Lecture at New York University, Dept. of Museum Studies: "Cataloguing, Collecting, and Preserving new Media Art"
  • October 21: Panelist at "Art and the Internet," Rubin Museum, NYC; moderated by Saul Hansel, The New York Times
  • October 10: Moderator and organizer of the symposium "Negotiating Realities: New Media and the Post-Object," Tishman Auditorium, New School University, NYC
  • October 04: Lecture at New York University, Dept. of Museum Studies: "Presenting New Media Art"
  • September 23: Guest lecture at the Dept. of Digital media, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI: "Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality"
  • September 16: Keynote at the Symposium "Tool vs. Medium -- The Use of Rapid Prototyping in Contemporary Sculpture": "Fluid Forms: The Aesthetics of Digital Sculpture," De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • August 21: Moderator and organizer of the roundtable "Cultural Softwares: Artistic Tools & DIY Networks" (participants: Mary Flanagan / Ken Perlin, criticalartware, Adam Hyde), ISEA 2004, Helsinki
  • June 19: Presentation at ZKM (Center for Culture and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany as part of the symposium Media Art | Art Media: "Re-Media: Reconfiguring Media / Art Connections"
  • May 08: Panelist at "Echoes of Art: Emulation As a Preservation Strategy," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • April 29: Presentation at the National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC: "Engineering Artistic Environments"
  • April 28: Keynote at the Ciberarts Festival Bilbao Conference, Spain: "Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Presenting and Preserving New Media"
  • February 28: Curator's Talk in conjunction with the exhibition "eVolution -- the art of living systems" at Art Interactive, Boston
  • February 27: Presentation at Emerson College, Boston: "Data Visualization and Dynamic Mapping"
  • February 14: Presentation at ARCO Forum, Madrid, Spain: "What's New in New Media? Historical Roots and Future Scenarios"

2003

  • November 14: Lecture at Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona: "Presenting New Media"
  • October 14: Lecture at the Tate Museum, London, "When New Media Was New lecture series"
  • October 10: Presentation at University of California at Santa Barbara, Media Arts Department: "Media Aesthetics: Notes on Representation and Simulation, Time and Space"
  • September 11: Moderator and Presenter, Software & Art II, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
  • April 27: Keynote at the Digital Art in Public Space conference, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, MA
  • April 23: Panelist at An Evening with New Media Curators at the 10th New York Digital Salon Digital Art and Culture Symposium, MoMA Film at the Gramercy Theatre, New York
  • April 22: Moderator of Theory and Aesthetics of New Media at the 10th New York Digital Salon Digital Art and Culture Symposium, MoMA Film at the Gramercy Theatre, New York
  • April 05: Panelist at Movies, Buildings, Brains, symposium at the University of California at Los Angeles: "Neural Networks vs. Computer-Networked Environments"
  • April 04: Presentation at University of Southern California, Los Angeles: "Media Aesthetics: Notes on Representation and Simulation, Time and Space"
  • April 02: Presentation at Otis College, Los Angeles: "Data Visualization and Dynamic Mapping"
  • April 01: Presentation at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles: "Media Aesthetics: Notes on Representation and Simulation, Time and Space"
  • February 22: Presentation at the College Art Association (CAA) conference, New York: "Neural Networks vs. Computer-Networked Environments: Cognition and Communication in Digital Art"
  • February 12: Presentation at Art Interactive gallery, Boston: "From Cyborg to Databody: Body and Identity in Digital Art"

2002

  • December 10: Moderator of “Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion,” a lecture by Oliver Grau; organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Goethe Institute New York and the Parson’s School of Design; Tishman Auditorium, New School University
  • November 22: Moderator of “The Question Concerning Media Technology -- A dialogue: Timothy Druckrey and Mark Stafford,” collaboration between Intelligent Agent and the "Netart Initiative," Center for New Design at the Parsons School for Design. Video archived at http://www.netart-init.org
  • November 01: Moderator of “A discussion with W. Bradford Paley” collaboration between Intelligent Agent and the "Netart Initiative," Center for New Design at the Parsons School of Design. Video archived at http://www.netart-init.org
  • September 23: Presentation at the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden: “Dynamic Mapping and Data Visualization”
  • April 05: Panelist at the “Electronic Intersections” Conference at Alfred University, NY: “Subject/Object/Technology”
  • March 19: Panelist at “without walls – 24/7 and Everywhere: The Online Museum,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • March 08: Moderator of 2002 Whitney Biennial Net Art, a panel featuring the artists included in the net art section of the Whitney Biennial; collaboration between the Whitney Museum and the "Netart Initiative," Center for New Design at the Parsons School of Design. Video archived at http://www.netart-init.org
  • February 16: Moderator of “Database Cinema” – a discussion with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy; collaboration between the Whitney Museum and the "Netart Initiative," Center for New Design at the Parsons School of Design. Video archived at http://www.netart-init.org
  • January 15: Moderator of “Interface Cultures” – a discussion with Andruid Kerne and Golan Levin, collaboration between the Whitney Museum and the "Netart Initiative," Center for New Design at the Parsons School of Design. Video archived at http://www.netart-init.org

2001

  • November 19: “Context as Moving Target: Mapping the Digital World,” presentation as part of The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley
  • July 20: "Timelines, clusters, knowledge maps. Collaborative structures for networked knowledge spaces," expert workshop at MARS Exploratory Media Lab, Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin, Bonn
  • July 11: Presenter and moderator at 2001 California Digital Arts Workshop and Summit: “The Arts and Streaming Media,” a presentation of the American Film Institute, co-sponsored by the California Arts Council and the Rockefeller Foundation
  • April 23: “Multimedia Art: Avant-Garde Art,” presentation at the International Summit on Internet and Multimedia, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; organized by FIAM
  • March 05: Panel at San Francisco Art Institute in conjunction with the exhibition “Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace”
  • February 18: “Dimensions of Infinity: Information Architecture in Virtual and Physical Spaces,” Lecture at the School of Architecture, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NYFebruary 09: Panelist at “Dialectics of Interactivity: Art and the Public,” Symposium at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2000

  • November: 22: Panelist at Chicago Humanities Festival: "Re-Media: An Overview of Web-based Art"
  • October 17: Panelist at "Surrealism and the Cyborg"; panel organized by the Art History Dept. of the School of Visual Arts, NY
  • September 14: Panelist at "Art, Science and Free Speech: The Work of Eduardo Kac" organized by the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • May 07: Moderator of "Seminar with Artist Mark Amerika;" as part of the Whitney Museum's Seminar with Artists series
  • April 16: Presentation at the Dept. of Design | Media, UCLA: "Re-Media: An Overview of CyberTopography"
  • February 10: Presenter at the College Art Association's annual conference, NYC; Presentation title: "Art and Science in the Digital Age: Hybrid Forms of Inquiry"

1999

  • August 13: Presenter at: Invencao thinking the next millennium organized by Itau Cultural Institute, S‹o Paulo, Brazil Presentation title: "Art, Science, and Communication in the Digital Age: Interspaces between the Virtual and the Actual" Panel discussion: "Women, Art, and Technology;" organized by Leonardo/ISAST
  • May 17: Panelist at The On-Line Art World, The New School for Social Research, New York
  • April 10: Moderator of The Techno-Digital Sublime, a panel discussion in conjunction with the "Techno-Digital Sublime" exhibition at Central Fine Arts, NY
  • January 21: Moderator of From Text to Image to Object: The Fluid Transition of Modalities, a panel in conjunction with Michael Rees' exhibition "From Ear to Ear" at Central Fine Arts, NY

1998

  • August 20: Presenter at: Consciousness reframed 2, art and consciousness in the post-biological era organized by CAiiA, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts at the University of Wales, Newport, UK

1997

  • June 15: 1997 Governor’s Conference on the Arts, San Francisco: The Globalization of Culture: The Arts, Economics and Cultural Trade, Participant in a Roundtable Discussion on the Effects of Globalization on Society: Setting the Stage: What Do We Mean By Globalization of Culture

1996

  • November 19: Panelist at FMA (Fulfillment Management Association) Seminar on “Alternative On-Line Media,” New York, NY
  • June 03: ED-MEDIA & ED-TELECOM ‘96, Boston, MA World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Presentation: “Hypermedia in the Literature Classroom”
  • March 17: SITE—7th International Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. Presentation: “Remapping Conceptions of Literacy”

1995

  • October 23: “The Laboratory of Hypertext: Exploring the Interface”; INTERFACE '95, Atlanta, Georgia; Annual Humanities and Technology Conference sponsored by Southern College of Technology and The Humanities and Technology Association.