Talks + Activities

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International Society for Contemplative Research, Padua, Italy, Paper: “Body Politic and the Art of Perception,” 19-23 June 2024

Featured speaker, Planetary Consciousness: Art, Embodied Presence, and Ecology panel, University of Missouri Shutz lecture series, 2 March 2023
International Society for Contemplative Research Inaugural Conference, UCSD, 4 February 2023
Research podcast, Resourcing and Reconnecting: Thinking Through Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Visual Arts, CAA College Art Association, Season 6, 2022
Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) Conference, Paper: “Contemplating Vision,” 5 November 2021
Keynote address for RIACT, “Video and Painting: Parallel Movements” Conference, University of Lisbon, 30 November 2021
Artists Now! Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 19 February 2020
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference (SLSA), UC Irvine, Panel chair: “Reading, Looking, and Resisting Differently: Embodiment and Pedagogy in a 24/7 World,” 7-10 November 2019
Visiting Guest Scholar, Center for Global Culture and Communication summer institute on “Media Aesthetics,” Northwestern University, 15-19 July 2019
Critical Intersections in the Practice and Theorization of Experimental Filmmakers since the 1970s, 28 February 28-1 March 2019
International Digital Art Festival, MIAN/BIAN speaker, Montreal, Canada, 28-29 June 2018
“Post-anthropocentric Spectatorship,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference Panel: “Twenty-First Century Mediations of Subjectivity,” Los Angeles, CA, March 29-April 1, 2018
Book forum on A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art, 9 March 2018
Image result for penn state art architecture Dickson Memorial Lecturer, Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, 4 April 2017
Image result for u arizona art Speaker, Visual Art in the Age of Rapid Acceleration lecture series, University of Arizona School of Art, 2 February 2017
Keynote Speaker, Post Screen International Festival of Art, New Media, and Cybercultures Lisbon, Portugal, 17-18 November 2016
“What is Media? Conference-Experience,” SOJC, Portland, OR, 14-16 April 2016. Panel Session Chair: “Genealogies II”
  Keynote Speaker, “The Interface” Conference, Graduate Student Association in the History of Art Department, The Ohio State University, 25 March 2016
 Invited Speaker, “Staging the Body in Video Installations” Symposium, Jeu de Paume Museum and Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 16 January 2016
   Living Data: Inhabiting New Media Conference, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Eugene, OR, 20 February 2015
   “The Art of Digital Art History: The Case of Installation Archive,” College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, February 2015
   Getty-UCLA Summer Institute for Digital Art History, Los Angeles, CA, 26 July-6 August, 2014
  “Unbecoming Human” paper presentation, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA-EU), Torino, Italy, 3-6 June 2014 (Conference theme: “Life, in Theory”)
“Patricia Piccinini and the Challenge of Bioart,” invited lecture at Washington State University, March 2014
A Collection of Misfits: Time-Based Media and the Museum Symposium, Carnegie Museum of Art, 21-23 November 2013

“Are We Family,” presentation and panel chair  for “Contemporary Art After Nature” session, Society for Science, Literature and the Arts Conference (Conference theme: “Postnatural”), October 2013
Colloquium on Art History and Materiality, Clark Art Institute, March 2013 (co-convener with Jennifer Jane Marshall)
Piero Dorazio and the Power of Abstraction, invited talk in conjunction with the American Association for Italian Studies Conference, April 2013
Before Utopia: The Political and Historical Context of ‘West of Center’, Panel Discussion, JSMA, February 20, 2013
“Mind Over Matter: Contemporary Art and the Neuroscientific Turn,” lecture, Center for the Study of Women in Society CSWS, January 23, 2013
“A Capsule Aesthetic,” presentation at Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference (Conference theme: “Nonhuman”), September 27-30, 2012
“Linked In: Mariko Mori,” invited lecture at University of Notre Dame, April 2012