Invited Lectures and Talks
“Forests as Technologies.” Presentation for the Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, seminar series. University of Exeter, UK (20 November 2023).
“Forests that Compute.” Online talk for “The Only Lasting Truth Is Change” symposium. Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Bergen, Norway (18 November 2023).
“Animating Digital Infrastructures: From Networks to Phygitalities.” Presentation for the symposium and annual conference of the CRC 1265, “Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene.” ICI-Berlin, Germany (6 October 2023).
“South Designs for Planetary Futures.” Opening Roundtable Conversation with Paulo Tavares and Michael Uwemedimo, moderated by Kenny Cupers. Critical Urbanisms, University of Basel, Switzerland (26 September 2023).
“Forests as Environmental Media.” Workshop and walk for “The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023.” Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Bergen, Norway (12-14 September 2023).
“Citizens of Worlds.” Presentation on new book for Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK (2 June 2023).
“Data Citizens and the Right to Data.” Keynote presentation for Transnational Citizen Science online event. University of Oulu, Finland (30 May 2023).
“Dialogue on Citizens of Worlds.” Discussion of new book in conversation with Lilly Irani, Hannah Knox, and Brian Larkin. Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UK (16 May 2023).
“Citizens of Worlds.” Seminar presentation on new book for the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK (9 May 2023).
“Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds.” Presentation on new book for the seminar series “Action, Climate, Crisis: Anthropological tales in times of climate change.” University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (23 March 2023).
“How to Do Things with Sensors.” Presentation for the Information Design Lecture Series, Information Design (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands (8 March 2023).
“Citizen Sensing and Air Pollution.” Presentation for Congreso Futuro, Santiago, Chile. (18 January 2023)
“Smart Forests and Wildfires.” Presentation for Congreso Futuro, Regiones: Valparaiso, Chile. (17 January 2023)
“The Forest Multiple.” A two-day symposium hosted by the Smart Forests research group, considering the pluralistic mobilizations and inhabitations of forests in locations worldwide. Department of Sociology. University of Cambridge, UK (27-28 October 2022).
“From Public Engagement to Policy.” Presentation for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Food Standards Agency (FSA), and UK Government Social Research (GSR) “Citizen Science for Policy and Practice” (20 October 2022).
“Digital Technologies and the Future of Forests.” Presentation for “RegTech, Governance and the Future of Forests.” Wageningen University & Research and FAO (7 October 2022).
“The Future is Phygital: 5G in Smart Cities and Smart Forests.” Keynote presentation for the conference, “Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves.” Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, Germany (23 September 2022).
“Big Data and the Environment.” Panel contribution for the Big Data & Society Colloquium (22 September 2022).
“Citizen Science.” Presentation for UK Government Social Research (12 May 2022).
“Sensing Smart Forests.” Presentation for the seminar, “AI and the Environment.” As part of the research project, “The Mediated Planet.” KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (5 May 2022).
“Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds.” Speaker series presentation. Digital Writing and Research Lab. University of Texas, Austin (28 April 2022).
“Citizens of Worlds.” Installation of Citizen Sense materials for the exhibition, “Highly Sensitive.” Curated by Wendy Walls and Judy Bush. Melbourne School of Design. University of Melbourne, Australia (April 2022). Read the exhibition catalog.
“Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds.” Dean’s Lecture. Melbourne School of Design. University of Melbourne, Australia (12 April 2022).
“Breathable Worlds.” Panel response for the program launch, “Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical.” Urban Institute. University of Sheffield, UK (18 March 2022).
“The Forest that Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site.” Presentation for the seminar series, “Media Ecologies.” Center for Comparative Media. Columbia University, USA (25 February 2022).
“Im/materialities — Structural tensions between AI and the environment.” Panel discussion for the JUST AI Deep Sustainability working group. JUST AI Network (24 February 2022).
“Sensed Landscapes (Mapping Change).” Presentation for multi-day symposium, “Instruments of Change.” EMLab. University of Pennsylvania, USA (15 February 2022).
“Being Planetary as Praxis.” Presentation for the “Narratives for Earth” session of “Constellations for Futures: Stories on Ecology, Kinship and Sciences.” La Loge and Goethe-Institut Brussels, Belgium (3 December 2021).
“Sensing Smart Forests.” Presentation for “Sentience.” Centre for Sensory Studies and Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture. Concordia University, Canada (2 December 2021).
“Data Citizens and the Right to Data.” Presentation for Centre for Data, Culture, and Society. University of Edinburgh, UK (24 November 2021).
“Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure.” Panel discussion for the workshop, “Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies.” King’s Digital Lab, King’s College Department of Digital Humanities, and Critical Infrastructures Studies Initiative. King’s College London, UK (18 November 2021).
“AI for Earth: Investigating the Social Consequences of Environmental Technologies.” Keynote for Cambridge Zero Research Symposia: AI & Sustainability. University of Cambridge, UK (17 November 2021).
“Smart Forests and the Vegetalization of Digital Technologies.” Keynote for HUMlab’s 20th anniversary conference, “Digital Transformations: The Humanities in Challenging Times.” Umeå University, Sweden (17 November 2021).
“Sensing Smart Forests.” Presentation for “Human Entities 2021: Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” CADA, Portugal (21 October 2021).
“Dustbox and AirKit.” Installation of Citizen Sense Dustbox and AirKit material for the physical and online exhibition, “Climate Care: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, a MAK exhibition.” Curated by Anab Jain. Vienna Biennale for Change 2021: PLANET LOVE. Climate Care in the Digital Age. Vienna, Austria (28 May – 3 October 2021).
“The Internet of Trees.” Summer school lecture for “The Posthuman and New Materialism.” University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (23 August 2021).
“The Forest that Walks.” Presentation for “Parallel Ecologies: A Symposium on Art, Media and Environments.” University of Oslo and Kunstnernes Hus, Norway (24 June 2021).
“Smart Forests.“ Panel presentation and discussion for “Prototyping AI Ethics Futures: Data, AI and Environment.” Just AI initiative. Ada Lovelace Institute, UK (22 June 2021).
“Citizen Infrastructures.” Presentation for Centre for Science and Policy. Lunchtime seminar for policy fellows. University of Cambridge, UK (9 June 2021).
“Phyto-Sensor Toolkit: Cultivating the Swamps of Urban Air.” Presentation and discussion for the performative book pre-launch, “Terrestrial University: Swamps and the New Imagination.” ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (13 May 2021).
“Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City.” Keynote for the workshop, “Digital Ecologies.” University of Cambridge, UK (29 March 2021).
“Vegetal Sensors: How to Construct Air Quality Gardens.” Keynote for the Myles H. Thaler Memorial Lecture, School of Architecture. University of Virginia, USA (11 March 2021).
“Particle Stories.” Panel contribution for The Long 2020 collection. Center for 21st Century Studies. University of Wisconsin, USA (19 February 2021).
“Citizen Engagement in Air Pollution: Transforming Social, Scientific and Technical Research.” Presentation for the workshop, Social Research and Air Quality. Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK (26 January 2021).
“From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Design.” Presentation for “Green Recovery: Citizen Science for Environmental Policymaking.” Joint workshop with UNEP Argentina and Centre for Science and Policy. University of Cambridge, UK (29 October 2020).
“How to Do Things with Sensors.” Keynote and “Conversation on Ecology and Ethics” for “Distributed Proximities.” Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, USA (26 October 2020).
“Citizen Data: From Monitoring to Justice.” Presentation for the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) Virtual Symposium. University of Cambridge, UK (21 October 2020).
“From Planetary Sensing to Becoming Planetary.” Keynote for “Sentience.” ISEA International, Montréal, Canada (15 October 2020).
“Citizen Initiatives for Environmental Urban Sensing.” ERC grantee presentation for “Turning Contemporary Cities into Smart, Interactive and Safe Urban Living.” Euroscience Open Forum, Italy (4 September 2020).
“Programming the Planet and Reconfiguring Sense.” Presentation and seminar discussion of Program Earth for Cambridge Digital Humanities Open Series. University of Cambridge, UK (1 July 2020).
“Expertise and Urban Air Pollution.” Presentation for the seminar, “Citizen Science.” Department of History and Philosophy of Science. University of Cambridge, UK (11 June 2020).
“Citizen Science.” Presentation for Centre for Science and Policy annual conference. University of Cambridge, UK (28 May 2020).
“Sensing a Moving Planet.” Panel presentation and contribution for the launch of the exhibition, Critical Zones. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (22 May 2020).
“From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Sciences.” Contributor to Citizen Science workshop. Centre for Science and Policy. University of Cambridge, UK (24-25 March 2020).
“Sensing Practices.” Seminar presentation for SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media research group. Potsdam University, Germany (31 January 2020).
“Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds.” Public lecture (IKKM Wednesdays) for the IKKM Senior Fellows residency program. Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie. Weimar, Germany (29 January 2020).
“Citizen Sensing and Practices of World-making.” Presentation for the IKKM Laboratory, as part of the Senior Fellows residency program. Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie. Weimar, Germany (17 January 2020)
“Data Citizens and the Right to Data.” Contributor to Data Politics book launch. Mile End Institute. Queen Mary University of London, UK (11 November 2019).
“Air Quality Gardens and Citizen Toolkits for the Built Environment.” Presentation for the Kingston Citizens’ Assembly on Air Quality, Kingston, UK (10 November 2019).
“Citizen Sensing and Air Quality Data.” Presentation for the Social Sciences Expert Group, Defra, UK (5 November 2019).
“A Media Ecology of Particulate Matter.” Contribution to “Media Ecology.” Columbia University, USA (24-25 October 2019).
“Environmental Sensing and Citizen Sense.” Presentation for “Sensors Day.” Hosted by the EPSRC Sensors Centre for Doctoral Training. University of Cambridge, UK (10 October 2019).
“How to Do Things with Sensors.” Seminar presentation for L’atelier interdisciplinaire de recherches sur l’environnement. Sciences Po, France (30 September 2019).
“Urban Sensing.” Contributor to the workshop, “Air Pollution, Toxicity and Local Agency.” Critical Ecologies. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (27 September 2019).
“Citizen Sensing and Air Pollution.” Presentation for Trust and Technology Strategic Research Initiative Symposium. University of Cambridge, UK (19 September 2019).
“Program Earth: Environmental Sensors and Digital Citizenships.” Presentation and session contribution to the “Smart Political Ecologies” summer school and conference. Wageningen University, the Netherlands (30 June – 2 July 2019).
“Sensing Particulate Matter and Transforming Chemical Ecologies.” Presentation for the workshop, “Chemical” at “IAS Turbulence.” Department of Geography/Institute of Advanced Studies. University College London (UCL), UK (6-7 June 2019).
“How to Do Things with Sensors.” Keynote for “Making SPAce: Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology student PGR conference.” University of Exeter, UK (16-17 May 2019).
“Becoming Planetary.” Presentation for “Session 4: Réimaginer Le Planétaire” at “Geontopower : Cartographie de la scène européenne de la critique du libéralisme tardif.” Columbia Global Centers, France (10-12 April 2019).
“Sensing and Participating in Urban Air Pollution.” Keynote for the “Take Part” seminar of the Cultures of Participation network. Aarhus University, Denmark (10-11 April 2019).
“Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World.” Presentation for “Navigation Beyond Vision.” Part of the e-flux 10th anniversary event series. HKW, Germany (5-6 April 2019).
“Sensing Haunted Dust.” Presentation for “Haunted Machines.” Design Museum, London, UK (16 March 2019).
“Instruments and Instrumentality.” Presentation for the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies seminar. University of Edinburgh, UK (11 March 2019).
“Processing Waste from a Smart(er) Planet.” Presentation for the seminar series, “Waste: Histories and Futures.” Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences. Rice University, USA (31 January – 2 February 2019).
“A Feeling for Worlds: Encountering Animals as Sensors.” Presentation for the “Machine Feeling” Transmediale workshop with Aarhus University and the Cambridge Digital Humanities programme, CRASSH. University of Cambridge, UK (15 January 2019).
“From Citizen Sensing to Collective Monitoring.” Public lecture for Digital | Visual | Cultural research group. Department of Geography. University of Oxford, UK (7-8 January 2019).
“How to Do Things with Sensors.” Public lecture and research salon for Technologies in Practice (TiP). IT University, Denmark (21-22 November 2018).
“Program Earth: From Environmental Sensing to Citizen Sensing.” Presentation for the annual John Fekete Distinguished Lecture series, Cultural Studies. Trent University, Canada (1-2 November 2018).
“How to Do Things with Sensors.” Presentation for Department of Sociology Lunchtime Seminar Series 2018. University of Cambridge, UK (30 October 2018).
“Changing Trajectories of Environmental Research.” Presentation for the 25th anniversary address, Environment and Planning theme, Global Urban Research Unit. Newcastle University, UK (17 October 2018).
“Air Walk: Speculative Atmospheres.” Walk and workshop by Jennifer Gabrys and Francesca Perona for the Design Museum, London, UK (29 September 2018).
“Planetary Media and the Becoming Environmental of Computation.” Keynote for the “Digital Cultures” conference. Center for Digital Cultures. Leuphana University Lüneberg, Germany (19-22 September 2018).
“Citizen Sensing: From Data to Action.” Contribution to the “Community Science” panel at Air Sensors International Conference. Oakland, USA (12-14 September 2018).
“Phyto-Sensor Toolkit.” Presentation for “Urgent Matters I: Plants, People and Pollution.” Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London, UK (12 July 2018)
“Lewisham’s Air Quality.” Citizen Sense talk for Goldsmiths public engagement event, “People’s University” at Lewisham People’s Day, Catford, UK (7 July 2018).
“Air Pollution and Citizen Sensing.” Presentation for the Deptford Folk Evelyn200 First Tuesday Talks. London, UK (3 July 2018).
“Phyto-Sensor Toolkit.” Presentation for the Lithuanian Swamp Pavilion Swamp Summer School. Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (26-30 June 2018).
“Environment as Experiment in Sensing Technology.” Presentation for “Sensing Media: Reconfigurations between Technologies, Bodies and Environments.” University of Siegen, Germany (14-15 June 2018).
“The Participatory Platform in the Idiotic City.” Presentation for “Prototyping the Idiotic City.” Centre for Invention and Social Process. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (5 June 2018).
“Operative Models.” Panel contribution for Forensic Architecture exhibition. Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, UK (7 April 2018).
“Phyto-Sensor Workshop and Walk.” Public engagement event on citizen-sensing toolkits for air-quality gardens, by Jennifer Gabrys with Francesca Perona. Open Fest, Barbican and Museum of London, UK (17 March 2018).
“Environmental Sensing and Expanded Subjects of Sense.” Presentation for the Department of Art. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (19 February 2018).
“Citizen Sense Dustbox.” Installation of Citizen Sense Dustbox materials for the “London Gallery” as part of the exhibition, “City Now City Future.” Museum of London (14 July 2017 – 2 January 2018).
“Tuning Earths.” Citizen Sense symposium, with contributions from Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Doina Petrescu, Didier Debaise, Beth Coleman, Alex Murray-Leslie, Susan Schuppli, Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, and Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas. Including a film screening of Fabrizio Terranova’s Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival. Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (30 November – 1 December 2017).
“Practices and Projects: Citizen Sense.” Presentation for Centre for Research Architecture seminar. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (20 November 2017).
“A Cosmopolitics of Energy.” Presentation for the symposium, “Architecture of Energy.” Architecture, Space and Society Centre. Birkbeck, University of London, UK (3 November 2017).
“Citizen Sense Dustbox: Air Walk.” Lunchtime “Air Walk” to test the Citizen Sense Dustbox. Organized in relation to the installation of Citizen Sense Dustbox materials for the “London Gallery” as part of the exhibition, “City Now City Future.” Museum of London, UK (Air Walk: 19 October 2017).
“Environmental Sensing: Citizen Sense.” Presentation for “Reframing Citizen Engagement with Urban Climate Systems.” Parsons Transdisciplinary Design MFA. The New School, USA (4 October 2017).
“Citizen Sense.” Presentation at “FOMO: Falmouth Art Publishing Fair 2017.” Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, UK (1 October 2017).
“Dustbox” and “Frackbox.” Citizen Sense installation for the exhibition, “The New Observatory.” FACT, Liverpool, UK (22 June – 1 October 2017).
“Program Earth.” Presentation for the colloquium, “Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as Laboratory.” University of Westminster, UK (30 September 2017).
“Re-Calibrating DIY: Practices of Citizen Sensing.” Co-presentation with Helen Pritchard and contribution for “The Theatre of Measurement” workshop. Part of The New Observatory exhibition. FACT, Liverpool, UK (29 September 2017).
“Citizen Sensing and Citizen Data.” Participant and presentation for the workshop, “Citizen Data and Official Statistics.” Part of the ERC-funded ARITHMUS (Peopling Europe: How Data Make a People) research project. Goldsmiths, University of London (25 September 2017).
“Making and Unmaking Citizens through Sensing Environments.” Keynote presentation for “Making and Unmaking the Environment.” Design History Society annual conference. University of Oslo, Norway (7-9 September 2017).
“Media Environments, Environmental Media.” Lecture for “Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene” summer school. Utrecht University, the Netherlands (21-25 August 2017).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Participation.” Lecture for “The Participatory Environmental Humanities.” University of New South Wales, Australia (18-19 July 2017).
“Environmental Sensing: Telepathically Urban.” Presentation for the Imminent Commons book launch for the Seoul Biennale 2017. V&A Museum, London, UK (4 July 2017).
“Instrumenting the Planet: Sensing and Actuating Remote Environments and Smart Cities.” Presentation for “Remote Control.” Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. Interdisciplinary Laboratory. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (28-30 June 2017).
“Citizen Sense.” Presentation for the launch of “The New Observatory” exhibition. FACT, Liverpool, UK (22 June 2017).
“Data Stories and Data Citizenships.” Presentation for the “Ethics of Big Data” research group series at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities seminar. University of Cambridge, UK (5 June 2017).
“Citizen Sense.” Contribution to “Investigative Practices.” Part of the Forensic Architecture book launch. Department of Visual Cultures. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (24 May 2017).
“Citizen Sensing and the Becoming Environmental of Computation.” Presentation for the Social Theory Network. Co-led by the departments of Media & Communications and Sociology. London School of Economics, UK (18 May 2017).
“From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Data.” Presentation for “Toxic Expertise” second annual workshop. University of Warwick, UK (3-4 May 2017).
“Citizen Sense: Monitoring and Contesting Environments of Extraction.” Keynote presentation and workshop for launch of new Environmental Humanities program. Ohio State University, USA (19-20 April 2017).
“Capturing Air and Creaturing Data.” Presentation for workshop on “Capture.” For the Global Emergent Media Lab research group. Concordia University, Canada (14-15 April 2017).
“The Becoming Environmental of Computation.” Keynote presentation for the workshop, “Sensor Publics: The Politics of Sensing and Data Infrastructures.” Munich Centre for Technology in Society. Technical University Munich, Germany (5-7 April 2017).
“Citizen Sense and Urban Sensing.” Presentation for “Greening the Hill.” Telegraph Hill Festival, Hill Station Café, Telegraph Hill, UK (1 April 2017).
“Citizen Sense and the Dustbox.” Presentation with Lara Houston for “How Do We Get Clean Air for All Londoners?.” London’s Living Room. City Hall, Greater London Authority, UK (21 March 2017).
“Tracing and Citizen Sensing Laboratory.” Contribution with Helen Pritchard and Lara Houston for “Who Are We?”, a creative impact week of participatory installations, conversations, and learning labs on citizenship in Europe. Curated by Tate Exchange Associates: Counterpoints Arts, Open University, Warwick University, and Loughborough University as part of Tate Exchange. Tate Modern Switch Gallery, London, UK (14-19 March 2017).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Data.” Presentation for the symposium, “Arts and Environment.” Brown Arts Initiative. Brown University, USA (3-4 March 2017).
“Sensing Environments, Inventing Citizens.” Presentation for the conference, “The Noise of Being.” Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (23-26 February 2017).
“Environmental Data and Data Citizenships.” Presentation for research seminar, Department of Geography. University of Exeter, UK (23 February 2017).
“Sensing Air and Creaturing Data.” Presentation and panelist for “Data Publics” international research forum. An Austrian Science Fund research project co-located at the Institute of Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology and the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (26-28 January 2017).
“Environmental Sensors and Planetary Computerization: Remaking Milieus and Subjects through New Sensing Practices.” Keynote presentation for the 6th STS Italia Conference — Sociotechnical Environments. University of Trento, Italy (24-26 November 2016).
“Animals as Sensors: Machines and Organisms Generating Computational Environments.” Keynote presentation for Hybrid Matters symposium. Theatre Academy. University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland (24 November 2016).
“Sensing Environmental Conflict with Lichens: Bioindication and Expressive Modes of Environmental Politics.” Keynote presentation for the “Future Fiction Summit.” Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (22 October 2016).
“Citizen Data and Data Stories as Evidence.” Presentation for the kick-off workshop at “DATACTIVE.” University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (15-16 September 2016).
“The Becoming Environmental of Computation.” Presentation for the symposium, “Ecologies of Existence.” Digital Cultures Research Lab. Leuphana University Lüneberg, Germany (1-2 July 2016).
Program Earth book launch and conversation at Mondbasis. Hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Lab. Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany (28 June 2016).
“Automatic Sensing, Environmental Participation and Indeterminate Technology.” Contributor to the panel, “Infrastructure and Automatic Participation.” Techno-Collectivities. University of Konstanz, Germany (9-11 June 2016).
“Reworking Sensing Practices through Environmental Monitoring Technologies.” Workshop and presentation with Helen Pritchard for the CISP Salon. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (25 May 2016).
“Citizen Sense: Inventing New Forms of Environmental Citizenship.” Presentation for the panel, “Urban Agenda.” Open Innovation 2.0 Conference. Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23-24 May 2016).
“Environmental Sensing for an Urban Planet.” Presentation for the workshop, “Urban Anthropocene.” Department of Geography, Durham University, UK (18 May 2016).
“Digital Infrastructures of Withness: Constructing a Speculative Smart City.” Presentation for “Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition, and Intelligent Devices.” Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. University of Warwick, UK (21-22 April 2016).
“Vegetal Sensing, Bio-Indication, and Expressive Modes of Environmental Politics.” Presentation for the seminar, “Cultivation: Vegetal Lives, Global Systems and the Politics of Planting.” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (18-19 March 2016).
“Re-materializing Toxic Materialities.” Presentation and panel discussion for “Toxic Materialities: Where Heaven Meets Hell.” Passengerfilms. The Water Poet, London, UK (29 February 2016).
“Planetary Sensing.” Presentation for the seminar, “Terra Bytes.” Centre for Research Architecture. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (19 February 2016).
“Citizen Sense: Urban Sensing for an Urban Planet.” Presentation for “Horizon 2020.” Part of ERC = ScienceSquared campaign, “The Human City.” Brussels, Belgium (16 February 2016).
“Re-Programming Participation in the Smart City.” Presentation for the panel, “Re-Programming the Internet of Things.” Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (5 February 2016).
“Re-thingifying the Smart City.” Workshop co-organized with Helen Pritchard for Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (5 February 2016).
“Sensing Practices.” Citizen Sense annual seminar series, co-organized with Helen Pritchard. Speakers included Etienne Turpin, Mel Y. Chen, Ele Carpenter, Alex Taylor, Lucy Suchman, Rosi Braidotti, and Rebecca Ellis. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (2014-2015)
“Citizen Sense: Participatory Approaches to Air Pollution Monitoring.” Presentation for “The Power to Act.” This Happened London. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (1 December 2015).
“European Citizen Science via the Web.” Open Science Citizen Science Open Research Accelerator co-organized with Sven Schade, Helen Pritchard, and Francesco Cara. MozFest, Ravensbourne, London, UK (8 November 2015).
“Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet.” Presentation for the D-Lab colloquium, Digital Methods Initiative. Media Studies. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (28 October 2015).
“Programming Environments, Programming Sense: Infrastructures of Withness.” Presentation for “Controlling Environments.” School of Geography and the Environment. University of Oxford, UK (15 October 2015).
“Citizen Sensing and the Problems and Practices of Citizen-Gathered Data.” Presentation for the panel, “Low-Cost Instrumentation.” Community for Data Integration. United States Geological Survey, USA (14 October 2015).
“Sensing Air and Creaturing Data.” Presentation for the panel, “Datum: On the Calculus of the Technosphere.” Part of the launch event for Technosphere, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2 October 2015)
“Dreaming Collectives.” Dialog with Clapperton C. Mavhunga for launch event, “100 Years of Now.” Part of Technosphere. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (30 September 2015).
“Digital Rubbish.” Presentation for “Bodies of Planned Obsolescence.” V&A Digital Cultures. The White Building, London, UK (2 July 2015).
“Animals as Sensors: The Problem of Milieus.” Presentation and dialog for “Are We Stewards of the Earth?.” Forum for European Philosophy. London School of Economics, UK (22 June 2015).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Presentation for “DIY Science.” Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy (16-17 June 2015).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Presentation for ERC panel, “A Toolkit of Genuine Science Stories.” World Conference on Science Journalism, Seoul, South Korea (8-11 June 2015).
“Bio-Sensing and Vegetal Transformations.” Presentation for panel, “Photography, Colonialism and the Politics of Planting.” As part of the exhibition, Garden State. The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK (28 May 2015).
“Re-thingifying the Internet of Things.” Keynote for “From Media to Materialities: Mapping the Afterlife of Digital Technologies.” HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden (20-21 May 2015).
“Petrocultures and Citizen-Based Air-Quality Monitoring.” Presentation for “Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures.” Part of Arts Week, Birkbeck, University of London, UK (18 May 2015).
“Pollution Sensing and Fracking: Practices of Citizen-Based Air-Quality Monitoring.” Presentation for the Environment Research Group seminar series in the School of Planning and Geography. Cardiff University, Wales (28 April 2015).
“Citizen-Based Monitoring of Air Quality at Sites of Shale Gas Production.” Presentation for Department of Geography seminar. University College London, UK (24 March 2015).
“Conceptualizing Smart Cities: Sensors, Environmentality and Digital Participation.” Presentation for Smart Cities Workshop. Departments of Geography and Sociology. Open University, Milton Keynes, UK (23 March 2015).
“Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City.” Presentation for “Digital Material Culture” MA course. Birkbeck, University of London, UK (11 March 2015).
“Citizen Sensing, Smart Citizens and Rethinking the Problem of Urban Participation.” Presentation for “Open Data/Smart Citizens” with the London Media Cities Network. Birkbeck, University of London, UK (27 January 2015).
“Citizen Sense: From Digital Utopia to Techo-Political Participation.” Presentation for the panel, “Activating the Public Space.” Part of “Digital Utopias,” a one-day conference curated by Abandon Normal Devices as a trailblazer event for Hull City of Culture 2017. Funded through Arts Council England and Google. Hull Truck Theatre, Hull, UK (20 January 2015)
“Participatory Research for Monitoring Air Pollution: Citizen Sensing for Fracking-Related Environmental Concerns.” Citizen Sense presentation by Helen Pritchard of material co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys for the conference, “Border Topologies.” University of Sheffield, UK (26 November 2014).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Keynote for the conference, “PhD by Design.” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (6-7 November 2014).
“Citizen Sensing, Smart Citizens and Rethinking the Problem of Urban Participation.” Presentation for “Could Cambridge be a Smarter City.” Organized by Collusion for the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. University of Cambridge, UK (30 October 2014).
“Sensing Practices and Environmental Monitoring: Putting Political Technologies to Work.” Presentation for “Environmental Entanglements: Art, Technology and Natures.” Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark (28-29 October 2014).
“Sensors and the Computational Experience of Environments.” Presentation for the workshop, “Computers and the Environment.” Hosted by UPMC and Paris-Sorbonne. Banyuls sur Mer, France (2-4 October 2014).
“Pollution Sensing: An Opening into Speculative Research and Practice.” Presentation for the workshop, “Transforming Data.” CRESC. Open University, London, UK (25-26 September 2014).
“Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart and Sustainable City.” Presentation for “Mediating Urban Uncertainty.” London School of Economics, UK (11 September 2014).
“Locating the Idiot in the Smart City: Troubling the Practices of Sensor-Based Citizenship.” Presentation for SummerPIT. Participatory Information Technology Centre. Aarhus University, Denmark (12 August 2014).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Presentation for seminar series, “Future Cities.” Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (23 June 2014).
“Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Presentation for “Live Transmissions.” Part of the Transmissions and Entanglements ESRC seminar series. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (12 June 2014).
“Data Practices.” Annual Design and Social Science annual seminar series. Co-organized with Alex Wilkie, Evelyn Ruppert, and Noortje Marres (Interaction Research Studio and CSISP). Speakers included Citizen Sense, Interaction Research Studio, Kat Jungnickel, Big Data & Society editorial team, Matthew Fuller, Chris Kelty, Adrian Mackenzie and Ruth McNally, Isaac Marrero-Guillamon and Michael Guggenheim, and Tahani Nadim. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (2013-14).
“Environmental Sensors and Participatory Urbanism: Troubling the Practices of Data-Based Citizenship.” Keynote for multidisciplinary symposium, “Defining the Sensor Society.” Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. University of Queensland, Australia (8-9 May 2014).
“Speculation and Speculative Research.” Roundtable workshop co-organized with Marsha Rosengarten, Martin Savransky, and Alex Wilkie (Unit of Play). Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (3 May 2014).
“DIY Urbanism and the Emergent City of Sensor-Based Citizenship.” Presentation for roundtable, “Artistic and Cultural Strategies, Technology and Urban Transformations.” Informationsvidenskab & Digital Design. Aarhus University, Denmark (27 March 2014).
“Electronic Waste: From Digital Futures to Digital Fossils.” Keynote presentations for the seminars, “When All That Is High-Tech Turns Into Waste” and “Digital Futures.” Lancaster University, UK (27 February 2014).
“A More-than-Empirical Materiality: Rethinking the Problem of Electronic Waste.” Presentation for “When All That Is High-Tech Turns Into Waste” e-waste seminar, Lancaster University, UK (26-27 February 2014)
“Monitoring Pollution and Speculating about Fracking.” Presentation for the conference, “Petrocultures.” McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montréal, Canada (6-7 February 2014).
“Speculating with Organisms in the Plastisphere.” Presentation for the panel, “An Ecosystem of Excess.” Transmediale afterglow festival, Berlin, Germany (1 February 2014).
“Practicing, Materializing and Contesting Environmental Data.” Presentation with the Citizen Sense research group as part of the “Data Practices” Design and Social Science seminar series. CISP. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (4 December 2013).
“Digital Fossils, Transformative Geologies: The Materialities of Electronic Waste.” Presentation for Four by Four Lecture Series: Design + Art x Science. California College of the Arts, Oakland, USA (16 October 2013).
“Speculative Research and Practice.” Seminar with Steven Shaviro. Co-organized with Unit of Play, Department of Sociology. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (8 October 2013).
“The Mouth of the Thames: How Can the Estuary Thrive and Survive?.” Community workshop led by YoHa, with presentations by Critical Art Ensemble, Arts Catalyst, and Jennifer Gabrys. Held at The Coal Hole, Leigh Old Town, Essex (28 September 2013).
“From Ubiquitous Computing to Electronic Waste: Anticipating Environmental Cultures.” Presentation for the interdisciplinary conference, “Mapping Environmental Cultures: Comparative Approaches to Waste in China.” Balliol College. University of Oxford, UK (16-17 September 2013).
“Digital Fossils, and Transformative Geologies: The Processual Materialities of Electronic Waste.” Presentation for “Geologies of Value and Vestige.” Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre. Kingston University, UK (10 July 2013).
“Air Walk: Environmental Monitoring in NXG.” Urban walking event for the International Visual Sociology Association conference. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (8-10 July 2013).
“Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship.” Presentation for Multimodality Workshop. Funded through the ESRC project, “Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction.” A joint venture between the ESRC/EPSRC energy and community projects at Cardiff University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Cardiff City Hall, Wales (4-5 July 2013).
“Tracking Trash and Monitoring Environments: Energy Monitors as Digital Media?.” Presentation for postgraduate conference and workshop, “Media Archaeology and Technological Debris.” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (20-21 June 2013).
“Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City.” Presentation for “Smart Cities and Speculative Urbanism” at Urban Salon. University College London, UK (20 May 2013).
“Locating the Idiot in the Smart City.” Presentation for the “Social City” in the “Digital Citizen” series of events. Organized by Close and Remote. Deptford Lounge, London, UK (16 May 2013).
“Salvage Programs and Natural History.” Presentation for the panel and book launch, Depletion Design. Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (30 January 2013).
“Digital Materiality in the Smart City.” Presentation for the symposium, “Media Places: Infrastructure, Space, Media.” HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden (5-7 December 2012).
“Sensing and Remediating a Garbage Patch.” Seminar contributor and discussant for “Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects.” Organized by University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne and TU Darmstadt. Hosted in Nancy, France (25-28 October 2012).
“Sensing an Experimental Forest.” Presentation for the launch event, “Computational Culture.” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (22 October 2012).
“Ecological Observatories, Fluctuating Sites and Sensing Subjects.” Presentation for “Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude.” National Institute for Experimental Arts. University of New South Wales, Australia (25 August 2012).
“Programming Environments: Politics and Practices of Urban Sensing.” Presentation for the Digital Media Research Seminar. Co-hosted by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Institute for Culture and Society. University of Western Sydney, Australia (23 August 2012).
“Citizen Science and the Politics of Sensing.” Presentation (Utrecht) and keynote speaker (Waag) for “The Citizen Scientist on the Move: Digital Play, Politics and Epistemology.” University of Utrecht and Waag Society Amsterdam, the Netherlands (25-27 June 2012).
“Materiality as Process: The Case of Electronic Waste.” Presentation for the Ecology, Environment, Culture Network, an international interdisciplinary research network on media, technology and environment. Trondheim University, Norway (24-25 May 2012).
“The Art of Gathering Environmental Data.” Plenary presentation for Pixelache, Helsinki, Finland (12 May 2012).
“Remaking Electronic Waste: Materiality, Process and Creative Intervention.” Presentation for Trashlab. Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (10 May 2012).
“Global Geographies of Electronic Waste.” Participant for “meet the authors” open public discussion at book launch for Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World. Held at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK (13 March 2012).
“Materializing the Dirt of Electronic Energy.” Presentation for “The Invisible Seminar.” Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway (18-19 January 2012).
“Bluebottle Flies, Biodegradability and Urban Matter.” Presentation for “Insect City.” Hosted by Urban Laboratory, University College London. Held at Fritz Haeg’s “Animal Estates” exhibition. Arup phase 2, London, UK (25 October 2011).
“Field_Notes / Cultivating Ground.” Arts and sciences environmental data workshop and residency, “Politics and Affect of Environmental Computing.” Hosted by Finnish Bioart Society and held at biological station, Kilpisjärvi, Finland (26 September – 2 October 2011).
“Material Politics: Plastic, Carbon, and the Work of the Biodegradable.” Co-organizer and speaker for the conference, “Accumulation: The Material Ecologies and Economies of Plastic.” Co-organized by the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process. Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Queensland. Held at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (21 June 2011).
“Life in the City.” Presentation for Department of Architecture seminar series. University of Sheffield, UK (16 March 2011).
“Moss-Eye View: Life under the Radar.” Presentation for the Visual Cultures conference and workshop, “Life Itself.” Department of Visual Cultures. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (28 January 2011).
“Moss-Eye View: An Urban Ecological Tour of Bryophytes in the City of London.” Urban walking event. This Is Not a Gateway Festival, London, UK (22 October 2010).
“Dirt.” Presentation for the Design and Social Science seminar, “Object Fair.” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (10 March 2010).
“Arts, Sciences and Researching Environmental Change.” Presentation with Kathryn Yusoff / Weather Permitting for AHRC Living with Environmental Change seminar. London, UK (7 April 2009).
“Museum of Failure.” Speaker for Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process seminar series, “Design and Social Science.” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (5 March 2008).
“Forecast Factory.” Presentation and symposium participant for “Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever.” British Library, London, UK (19-20 November 2007).
“Modernity and Waste.” Panel participant. The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, New York, USA (15 September 2007).
“Media in the Dump: Global Geographies of Electronic Waste.” Exhibition on electronic waste. Interdependence Day 2006. Royal Geographic Society, London. Sponsored by the Geography Discipline, Open University, and ESRC/NERC (1 July 2006).
“Atmospheres of Communication.” Presentation and panel participant for Mobile Digital Commons Network symposium. Society for Art and Technology, Montréal, Canada (7 May 2005).
“The Code and Motor of Failure.” Presentation for the Interactive Media seminar. Centre for Cultural Studies. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (26 April 2005).
“The History of Excess in the Information Age.” Presentation for the seminar, “Knowledge and Society.” Institute of Historical Research. University of London, UK (8 February 2005).
“The Art of Salvage.” Essay and postcard project for USED/Goods exhibition. Organized by Cut Rate Collective at Salvation Army, Montréal, Canada. Reviewed in La Voir, November 2004 (5-24 November 2004).
“Projects outside Art.” Presentation for the panel on “The Virtual Object.” Part of the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization conference. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada (18 June 2004).
“Please Take the Ticket.” Parking lot installation in collaboration with landscape architect Nathan Anderson, Jerome Foundation, Temporary Public Art on Campus, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, US (25 October – 30 November 2002).
“D.I.Y. and the Translocal Landscape.” Presentation and panel participant for “Local Bits, Global Bytes.” Society for Arts and Technology, Montréal, Canada (16 October 2002).
“Space Gardens” (“Glovebox Gardens”). Online exhibition and essay for Jardins Virtuel. New Media Group Show. Studio XX, Montréal, Canada. Originally hosted at www.signalspace.net (27 September 2002).
“Transit.” Book art bus schedule and installation. Jerome Foundation fellows exhibition. Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Minneapolis, US (2001).
“Los Angeles River.” Presentation and walk organizer for field tour of Hansen Dam, landscape architecture studio. University of Southern California, USA (2001).
“Temporary Public Art.” Presentation and participant for public art discussion. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, USA (2000).
Professional Presentations
“Re-constituting the Sensory Infrastructures of Smart Forests.” Conference presentation for the panel, “Sense Ecologies.” 4S, Toronto, Canada (6-9 October 2021).
“Sensors and Sensing Practices.” Roundtable chair for the launch of the special issue with Science, Technology, & Human Values. Additional contributions from Andrea Ballestero, Helen Pritchard, Endre Dányi, Christelle Gramaglia, and Stefan Helmreich. 4S, New Orleans, USA (4-7 September 2019).
“Data Citizens and the Right to Data.” Conference presentation for the panel, “Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data.” 4S, New Orleans, USA (4-7 September 2019).
“Making Urban Worlds: Involving Citizens, Particles, Sensors and Cities.” Contribution to the panel, “Involving Compounds.” EASST, Lancaster, UK (25-28 July 2018).
“Citizen Sensing, Urban Politics, and Workarounds.” Presentation by Lara Houston of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard for the panel, “The Ethnographic Effect: Imagining a Next Generation of Methodological Possibilities.” 4S, Boston, USA (30 August – 2 September 2017).
“Collaborative Urban Sensing with the ‘Dustbox’ Air Quality Monitor.” Presentation by Lara Houston of material co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard for “Making and Doing.” 4S, Boston, USA (30 August – 2 September 2017).
“Environmental Exposure and Citizen Sensing: New Modes of Monitoring, New Modes of Politics.” Presentation by Helen Pritchard of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys for the symposium, “Exposure Science Meets Social Science: Tools for the Effective Communication of the Health Risks Associated with Air Pollution Exposure and Implications for Policy Development.” International Society for Exposure Science, Utrecht, the Netherlands (9-13 October 2016).
“Instruments and Instrumentality.” Conference presentation with Helen Pritchard for the five-panel track, “New Collective Practices of Measurement, Monitoring and Evidence.” Co-organized with Evelyn Ruppert and Dan Neyland. 4S/EASST, Barcelona, Spain (31 August – 3 September 2016).
“Monitoring Air Pollution and Fracking: An Opening into Citizen Sensing Practices and Speculative Research.” Conference presentation for the two-part panel, “Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies.” Co-organized with Helen Pritchard. American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, USA (30 March 2016).
“Citizen Sensing, Monitoring Air Pollution, and Building the Frackbox.” Presentation by Helen Pritchard of material co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys. Citizen Science 2015 Conference, San Jose, USA (11-13 February 2015).
“From Network to Egg: The Extended Arrangements of Air Pollution Data.” Presentation by Nerea Calvillo of material co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard. 4S, Buenos Aires, Argentina (20-23 August 2014).
“Materializing, Practicing and Contesting Environmental Data.” Panel session organized with Citizen Sense researchers Nerea Calvillo, Helen Pritchard, and Nick Shapiro, and chaired by Nerea Calvillo. 4S, Buenos Aires, Argentina (20-23 August 2014).
“From Cloud to Cupboard: Speculative Computing and Cloud-Making in the Citizen Sense Project.” Presentation by Citizen Sense researchers Helen Pritchard and Tom Keene of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys for the track, “Emerging ICT and Citizens’ Values: Anticipating and Responding to Challenges.” Part of the 5th STS Italia Conference — A Matter of Design: Making Society through Science and Technology. Milan, Italy (12-14 June 2014).
“Pollution Sensing and the Shadowy World of Things: An Opening into Speculative Research and Practice.” Conference presentation for special panel event on methods, “Speculation in Social Science: Novel Methods for Re-Inventing Problems.” Organized through the Unit of Play, Goldsmiths. British Sociological Association, Leeds, UK (25 April 2014).
“Natural Gas Extraction, Intimate Exposures and the Biopolitics of Infrastructure.” Co-authored with Nick Shapiro (presenter) for “Infrastructural Worlds.” Duke University, Durham, USA (28-29 March 2014).
“Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship.” Conference presentation for “Ecologies of Evidence, Life and Politics.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual conference, San Diego, USA (9-12 October 2013).
“Ecological Observatories: Fluctuating Sites and Sensing Subjects.” Presentation for the conference, “Participation in Science: More-than-Human Participation.” Co-hosted by the Dana Centre and the Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers annual conference, London, UK (27-30 August 2013).
“Energy Scavenging and Cosmopolitics: Expanding the Materialities of Participation in Sustainable Technology.” Conference presentation for the panel, “Design, STS and Cosmopolitics: From Intervention to Emergence in Participation and Sustainability.” Co-organized with ESRC Energy project collaborators. Part of the joint EASST/4S conference, “Design and Displacement — Social Studies of Science and Technology.” Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark (17-20 October 2012).
“City as Platform: The Politics of Participation in the Connected Sustainable City.” Presentation for the conference, “Platform Politics.” Part of the Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics project. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK (12-13 May 2011).
“Citizen Sensing in the Connected Sustainable City: Linking Urban and Political Ecologies.” Presentation for the panel, “The Green Apparatus? Political Technologies of the Sustainable City.” American Association of Geographers, Seattle, USA (12-16 April 2011).
“Surveying and Sensing an Experimental Forest.” Conference presentation for “Emerging Landscapes.” School of Architecture and the Built Environment / School of Media, Arts and Design. University of Westminster, London, UK (26 June 2010).
“Green Machines.” Conference presentation for “Networks of Design.” University College Falmouth, UK (3-6 September 2008).
“Snow Globes: The Frozen and Transient Scenes of Nature.” Conference presentation with Kathryn Yusoff for “Nature behind Glass.” Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK (6-8 September 2007).
“Spaces of Remainder.” Conference presentation for “Modernity and Waste.” University of St. Andrews, Scotland (16-17 June 2006).
“Media in the Dump.” Conference presentation for CongressCATH 2005: “The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality.” AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History. University of Leeds, UK (30 June – 3 July 2005).
“Weather and the Eroding Globe.” Conference presentation with Kathryn Yusoff for “Globalisation and Representation.” University of Brighton, UK (12-13 March 2005).
“Electronic Waste: The Case of Disposable Media.” Conference presentation for “Making Use of Culture.” Cultural Theory Institute. University of Manchester, UK (21-23 January 2005).
“Machines Fall Apart: Failure in Art and Technology.” Conference presentation for “Futures Past.” CHArt (Computers and the History of Art). Birkbeck, University of London, UK (11-12 November 2004).
“Expanding the Interface: From Digital City to Urban Database.” Co-author of conference presentation by Michael Longford for “Culturepoles: City Spaces, Urban Politics and Metropolitan Theory.” Canadian Association of Cultural Studies. McMaster University, Canada (14 February 2004).
“Debris Landscapes: The Excesses of Print.” Conference presentation at “Print Culture and the City.” McGill University, Canada (26-27 March 2004).
“Urban Database as Feedback Loop.” Digital Cities conference presentation with Michael Longford for VSMM 2003 — Ninth International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: Enhanced Environments and Mobility. Montréal, Canada. Awarded best Media Arts presentation (15-17 October 2003).
“Noise and Contamination in the Information City.” Conference presentation for “Visual Knowledges.” University of Edinburgh, Scotland (17-20 September 2003).
“Leaflet Drop.” Conference presentation for “Casting Doubt.” Visual Studies Department. University of Rochester, New York, USA (5 April 2003).
“Paper Landscapes.” Conference presentation for the symposium, “a/tension.” Department of Art History and Communication Studies. McGill University, Canada (2003).
“Satellites: The Orbital Environment.” Conference presentation for “Transparencies: Technology, Culture, Communication.” Department of Radio, Television and Film. University of Texas, Austin, USA (1-2 November 2002).