PAST SELECT SPEAKING
2024, Presentation: “Teaching Habitat Design Solutions for Space Travel and Extreme Environments” Space Tourism Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2022, Lecture: “Artistic Explorations of Liminal Aesthetics and their Applications for Stable Hybrid Subjectivities” 7th Computer Art Congress, Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland
2022, Lecture: “Strategies for Educating Designers in the Age of Space Travel” Space Education and Consciousness Symposium, April 23
2020, Guest Speaker at WNPR Colin McEnrow Show: “Between Two Worlds: The Liminal Nature of Life During Crises,” Produced by: Josh Nilaya, Aired: May 28, 2020
2019, Guest Speaker at WNPR Colin McEnrow Show: “In Pods We Trust: How the Pod Prevails in Consumer and Pop Culture,” Produced by: Josh Nilaya, Aired: December 26, 2019
2019, Lecture: “Radically Creative Approaches to Media Art and Design Education in a Liminal World” Paris Design Summit 2019/World Sustainable Design Framework, Paris, France, February 20
2019, Workshop: “The Camera is Present” Creative Action and Integrated Learning, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 1, 15
2018, Workshop: “Liminal Space as a Strategy for Interactive Media Experiences” Creative Action Integrated Learning, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 12, 19, 26
2016, Poster Presentation: “Sensory Technology and Liminal Aesthetics, Beyond Dialectical Consciousness” University of Arizona, Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 27
2015, Lecture: “Sensory Technology and Liminal Aesthetics” 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Los Angeles, CA, August 5
2014, Lecture and Workshop: “Liminality and the Emergence of Integrated Being” Witwatersrand University, Digital Africa Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, December 6
2014, Round Table Presentation and Workshop: “The Technological Liminality and Art Practice” University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Fine Arts, 4th Computer Art Congress, Brazil, September 2
2014, Poster Presentation: “Aquaponics and Ecology of the Liminal” Ionian Center for the Arts and Culture, Cephalonia, Greece, May 4
2013, Workshop: “COST Arts and Technologies” University of Zagreb, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Croatia, November 27
2013, Lecture: “Liminality, towards a New Order of Being” University of Zagreb, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Croatia, November 25
2013, Paper Presentation: “What is it Like to be Wintermute? Virtuality and Consciousness” Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, October 23
2013, Lecture and Workshop: “Image as Technology of Being and Becoming”
The German University of Cairo, Digital Egypt Art Festival, CR 13 Post-Biological Era, Cairo, Egypt
2013, Lecture: “Games as Liminal Spaces” Leonardo Art Science Rendezvous UCLA, Design Media Arts and California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA, February 21
2012, Paper Presentation: “I am Legion: Apparent or Actual Consciousness” Mutamorphosis, International Center for Art and New Technology, Prague, Czech, December 6-8
2012, Paper Presentation: “Hyper-Production and the Value of Exquisite Corps on the Web” Universite Paris 8, CiTu Paragraphe, Computer Art Congress 3, Paris, France, November 26
2012, Workshop: “Demons and Sorcerers: Identity on the Web” Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano, Dept. of Film and New Media, Milano, Italy, Nov. 21-23
2012, Lecture: “Models of Content Production and Delivery” Plymouth University, iStream eText: words in motion, UK, July 20
2012, Paper Presentation: “@legion #WeAreMany: Sorcery on the Internet” CR 13, Technoetic Telos, Art-Myth and Media, Ionion Center, Cephalonia, Greece, May 1
2012, Lecture: “The State and the Individual in the 20th Century Europe” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, April 3
2012, Guest Artist/Interviewer: Otis Senior Critiques
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, February 29
2012, Panel: “City/Space and Creative Measure” CAA panel moderated by Jeremy Hight at Art Center College, Pasadena, CA, February 23
2011, Paper Presentation: “Fragmentation and Expansion of the Self” Consciousness Reframed 12, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, December 1
2011, Artist Talk: “Meaning Making Across Virtual Media and the World” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, March 18
2011, Artist Talk: “Mediation, Intensity and Self-Expression Across Various Modes of Creation” California State University, San Bernardino, CA, Jan. 25
2010, Paper Presentation: “The Cloudy Self and the Evolution of Consciousness” Consciousness Reframed 11, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Norway, Nov. 5
2010, Panel: “Materiality/Mediatization” Economy of Appearances: Performing Los Angeles, PSFG, Los Angeles, CA, August 4
2010, Paper Presentation: “Sex, Crash and Rock’n’Roll or Strategies for Acquiring a Virtual Extension” Web Studies Conference, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Toluca, Mexico, March 2
2009, Workshop: “Strategies for Alternative Space Mapping” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, April 14
2009, Artist Talk: “Digital Art Practice” Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, February 19
2008, Paper Presentation: “Me Myself and I or Self Amplified” Computer Art Congress 2, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico, March 27
2003, Artist Talk: “The Space Between” Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
2003, Panel Discussion: “Means Without Ends” Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2000, Artist Talk: “Scene in Chicago,” Judy A Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
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