Speaking and Curating
2009
Presenter "The Lives of Animals in Art" on the Global Media Space Panel at Minding Animals: The 2009 International Academic & Community Conference on Animals & Society.Newcastle, Australia. July 2009.
Presenter "Critical Animal Studies" at Minding Animals: The 2009 International Academic & Community Conference on Animals & Society.Newcastle, Australia. July 2009.
Presenter "The Reconfiguration of Animals: Ethical issues in database aesthetics" on the Database Aesthetics PANEL at College Art Association 2009 Conference, Los Angeles, Feb. 2009.
2008
Presenter "The Case for Critical Animal Studies" at Giving Voice to Other Beings at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. May 2-4, 2008. (authored with Steven Best, PhD).
Opening Keynote “The Case for Critical Animal Studies” (a keynote with Dr. Steven Best) at the 6th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies & 2nd Annual Green Theory and Praxis Conference at Montana State University. Feb. 22-24, 2008.
2007
Presenter "The Soul of the Brute" at Nature Matters Conference 2007. Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment
Toronto, Ontario,October 25-28, 2007
Presenter "Code ≠ Informatics ≠ Animals" at SLSA '07:CODE.
Twenty-First Annual Conerence of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Portland, Maine, November 1-4, 2007
Presenter “Sustaining Creativity and Losing the Wild” The Planetary Collegium/Montreal 2007 Summit. April 19-22.
2006
Presenter
“Animal Pleasure/Human Desire” Kindred Spirits, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. September 7-9.
Lead Speaker, UCLA Art|Science center presents: Genetic Technologies & Animals UCLA Design/Media Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. Archived stream:
http://artsci.ucla.edu/events/biotech.html
2005
Opening Keynote “The power of the non-human”,
New Forms Festival 05: Eco-systems, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver,
BC. September 16-18.
Panelist "Beings in Common: Embodiment
and Interconnectedness” New Forms Festival 05 Eco-systems, Museum
of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. Septemeber 16-18.
Keynote “Leonardo’s choice:
the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies.” Interactive
Futures 05, Victoria International Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada.
February, 4-6.
Panel Chair “The Bio-question.”
Interactive Futures 05, Victoria International Film Festival, Victoria,
BC, Canada. February, 4-6.
Invited Speaker University of the Arts,
Sponsored by the Multimedia Department, Philadelphia, PA.
2004
Presenter "The Ethical Subject: ethics and subjectivity
in the interactive work of Char Davies and Toni Dove." Gender,
Subjectivity, Embodiment and the Transformation of Cinematic Practice
in Contemporary New Media Art: Exploring the Interactive Work of Char
Davies, Toni Dove and Zoe Beloff. Univeristy of Montreal, Montreal,
Canada.April 29.
2003
Presenter "This Crazy, Mixed Up, F--ked-up World"
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Moderator “Cyberfeminism,” New Forms Festival, Vancouver,
BC, Canada.
2002
Panelist "Cyborgs and Ethics," in
conjunction with the exhibition "The Uncanny: Experiments in
Cyborg Culture. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada.
Panelist "The Journey to Journey" in conjunction
with the exhibition, Journey. Surrey Art Gallery, BC, Canada.
Presenter " Art and Design Explorations in New Media."
New Media Consortium Conference 2002. The Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH, USA.
Presenter "Animal Minds and Artistic Involvement in Bio-genetics."
Department of Visual Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
BC, Canada. 2001
2001
Moderator “The Technological Interface:
Four artists’ approaches to interactivity.” Panel in The
Body, Mind Technology series Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre,
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Presenter "Animal Minds and Artistic
Involvement in Bio-genetics." President's Lecture Series. Emily
Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2000
Invited Speaker “Growing
Things: 2000” Banff Center for the Arts Summit, June 1-4, 2000.Banff,
Alberta , Canada.
Invited Speaker “The Contested
Journey: Embodiment and Cyberspace” with Jennifer Cobb and Char
Davies. Planetworks: Conference on Ecology and Information Technology,
May 12 14, 2000, San Francisco, CA. USA.
Respondent "Nature in the Microchip:
Art and Artificial Life" at CAA2000: 88th Annual Conference of
the College Art Association, New York, USA.1999
1999
Keynote Speaker (1999), “Educational
New Media: A Strategy Session.” Banff Center for the Arts, Banff,
Canada.
Keynote Speaker “Teaching Towards
the Future.” at CADE99: the Third Annual Conference on Computers
and Art and Design Education. University of Teeside, UK.
Panelist “The Aesthetics of Virtual
Environments and Our Place in Nature.” Abstracts 1999: College
Art Associations’ 87th Annual Conference, Los Angeles , California
on the “Artists on the ‘New Frontier’: Virtual Realities.”
panel.
1998
Presenter “The Metaphoric Environment of Art and Technology.”
Consciousness Reframed: Second International CAiiA (Centre for Advanced
Inquiry in the Interactive Arts) Research Conference. University of
Wales College, Newport.
Respondent “Advancing Neo-Colonialism:
Emerging Theory and the Changing Work of Art in the Age of Information
Technology.” at CAA98: 86th Annual Conference of the College
Art Association, Toronto, Canada.
1997
Panelist “Is Electronic Art Changing Aesthetics or is
That Just a Figment of the Electronic Imagination.” at Connections:SECAC/MACAA
College Art Conference, Richmond, Virginia. USA
Presenter “The Diverse Meanings
of Artificial Life,” at ISEA97:International Symposium on Electronic
Art at the The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. USA
Keynote Speaker “What is consciousness
for?” at Consciousness Reframed:art and consciousness in the
post-biological era. at the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive
Arts. University of Wales College, Newport, UK.
Presenter “Technology, Art Education
and Internet” at the National Art Education Association Conference,
New Orleans, LA. USA
Presenter “Ethical Questions about
Artificial Life:applications for artists” in Roy Ascott (Session
Chair), “The Artificial Life Class”, 85th Annual Conference
at the College Art Association held in New York, USA.With Matthew
Lewis.
1996
Herbert Zipper Keynote Speaker “The Arts, Education
and Technology” at the 59th National Conference of the National
Guild of Community Schools of the Arts.
Invited Speaker “The Interactive
Art Museum”, at the Total Museum Conference at the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Invited Speaker Ethics and Virtual Reality
Symposium, The University of Michigan.
Presenter, ISEA 96, International Symposium
on Electronic Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, “Bridge To, Bridge
From: Arts, Education and Technology.”
Invited Speaker Life, Sex, and Death
in the Digital World. New School for Social Research, New York City.
Funded by the New School, Creative Time, Inc. and Thread-Waxing Space.
Co-Curator ACMSIGGRAPH Art Show 96,
“The Bridge”, Exhibition of 32 interactive computer-mediated
works to be held concurrently at the Contemporary Art Center of
New Orleans and the New Orleans Convention Center. July-August
1995
Invited Speaker Ethics and Technology, St Francis College,
Fort Wayne, Indiana,. Funded by a grant from the Lily Foundation.
Panel Chair, ISEA 95, International Symposium on Electronic Art, 1995,
“Gender and Technology: What Problem?”
Invited Speaker “The ethical life
of the digital aesthetic.” The Digital Dialectic: Conference
on Technology, Media, and Theory, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,
CA.
Invited Speaker Technology Education
Program for Teachers, 95, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH:, “The
World Wide Web.”
Invited Speaker Multimedia 95, Toronto,
Canada, “Virtual Environments for Education, the Arts and Communications:
Issues in Design and Development.”
Co-presenter NAEA 95, National Art Education
Association Conference, Houston, Texas, with Mary Leigh Morbey, “Taking
Responsibility for the Social Relations of Science, Technology, and
the Electronic Arts.”
Co-presenter AERA 95, American Educational
Research Association Conference, San Francisco, California, with Mary
Leigh Morbey, “Taking Responsibility for the Social Relations
of Science, Technology, and the Electronic Arts.”
Invited Panelist Columbus College of
Art and Design, 1994, Columbus, OH, “Ethics and Aesthetics of
the Interactive Interface.”
1994
Invited Panelist ISEA 94, International Symposium on Electronic
Art, August, 1994, Helsinki, Finland. “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
Co-presenter NAEA 94, National Art Education
Association Conference, Baltimore, MD., with Anthony Scott and Vesta
Daniel. “Cultural Issues in Interactive Technologies.”
1993
Presenter FISEA 93 Fourth International Symposium on Electronic
Art, November,1993, Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, “Aesthetics
of a Virtual World.”
1992
Invited Speaker Currently Grounded: Department of Art Symposium
on Art and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
September, 1992.
1980’s
Invited Speaker Comparisons, Connections, and Separations
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia. 1983. Connected with participation
in the exhibit.
Invited Speaker National Museum of American
Art, Washington, DC. 1981. Lectured on Printmaking for the National
Aesthetic Education Learning Center.