My thinking has benefitted from speaking and convening conversations at a number of dynamic interdisciplinary events.
Upcoming:
- Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures, National Science and Media Museum (Bradford, GBR), Dec 2020
- IASPM US—BPM: Bodies, Places, Movements, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA), May 2021 (postponed in 2020 because pandemic)
Selected Conference Presentations and Lectures:
- “Nine Questions for Media Art (For 2020 and Beyond),” Index, gnration (Braga, PRT), Oct 2019
- “Broken Glass, Metallic Beat: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm,” IASPM Canada 2019, Legacies and Prospects: The Pasts and Futures of Popular Music, UQAM (Montreal, CAN), May 2019
- “A Line—and a Sketch,” Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), Nov 2017
- “How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later,” MUTEK_IMG, PHI Centre (Montreal, CAN), Oct 2015
- “McLuhanism,” InterAccess 30th Anniversary MECHA KUCHA, The Drake Hotel (Toronto, CAN), Jan 2014
- “Mediated Cityscapes,” Resonate, Dom Omladine (Belgrade, SRB), Mar 2012
- “Networked Geography,” Dorkbot, InterAccess (Toronto, CAN), Mar 2010
- “Beyond the Edifice: Architectural Representation Reconsidered,” VISUALIZAR’08: Database City, Medialab-Prado (Madrid, ESP), Nov 2008
Selected Panels:
- “Spilling Ink: The Business and Craft of Coverage,” MUTEK, Studios des 7 Doigts (Montreal, CAN), Aug 2019 (panelist with Julia Kaganskiy & Andrew Ryce)
- “Critical Perspectives on Embodied Storytelling,” Weird Reality, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), Oct 2016 (moderator with Yasmin Elayat, Ali Momeni, Sarah Rothberg, Omer Shapira, Milica Zec)
- “What Are the Opportunities When the Abstract World of Computing Encounters the Material World?,” Unhanded, Arts Court Theatre (Ottawa, CAN), Sep 2016 (moderator with Sarah Brin & James Hayes)
- “Space, Media, Material,” ACT Festival, ACT Center (Gwangju, KOR), Nov 2015 (panel chair/moderator with Jürg Lehni, Nobuhiro Nakanishi, Els Vermang)
- “Generative Strategies,” Resonate, Kinoteka (Belgrade, SRB), Apr 2014 (moderator with Benedikt Groß, Luna Mauer, Jonathan Puckey, Karsten Schmidt)
- “Design Fiction—Provocations & Pedagogy,” Resonate, Dom Omladine (Belgrade, SRB), Mar 2013 (panel chair/moderator with Anthony Dunne, Golan Levin, Liam Young)
- “Can Sound be Spaceless?,” Surrounding Sound, Arts Court (Ottawa, CAN), Oct 2012 (panel chair/moderator with Mitchell Akiyama, Geeta Dayal, Darsha Hewitt)
- “Code and Public Space,” Eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA), Jun 2012 (panel chair/moderator with Jake Barton, Julian Oliver, Kevin Slavin)
- “Auto/biography: Data, Identity and Narrative,” Eyeo Festival, McNamara Alumni Center (Minneapolis, USA), Jun 2011 (panel chair/moderator with Janet Abrams, Nicholas Felton, Jer Thorp)
- “Acoustic Cartography: Re-listening Vancouver,” The Western Front (Vancouver, CAN), Apr 2011 (panelist with Geraldine Pratt & Barry Truax)
- “Toronto Hackerspaces,” DIY Citizenship Conference, University of Toronto (Toronto, CAN), Nov 2010 (moderator with Rob Cruickshank, Kate Hartman, Leigh Honeywell, Liav Koren)
- “Architecture and the Blogosphere,” Postopolis! LA, The Standard Hotel (Los Angeles, USA), Apr 2009 (panelist with Matt Chaban, Dakota Smith, Christina Ulke, Alissa Walker)