talks + performances


MUTEK, Montreal, August 2026 (forthcoming). MUTEK Forum Returns with Symbiotic Frequencies: 100+ Innovators Shaping the Future of Digital Creation

AI Meditations, Claremont College, CA, US, Apr 17-18, 2026

Provocation Talk: Neuroscience needs the Arts, Scientia / De Lange Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX, US, Mar 12-14, 2026

Opening Talk with Spherical Studio, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA, US, Feb 11, 2026

Design for Intelligence: Humans, Machines and Nature in Emergent Co Creation, NeurIPS, San Diego, CA 2025

Future Figures: Dance and Emerging Technologies Artist Talk, Jacob’s Pillow, Berkshires, MA, 2025

USC Expanded Animation Seminar, invited speaker, Los Angeles, CA 2025

Spectra Synthesis lecture series with USC School of Cinematic Arts, Spectra Studios, invited speaker, LA, CA 2025

Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture — Superradiance. Embodying Earth + Introductory Remarks, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 2024

The Art of Designing Large-Scale Digital and Spatial Experiences (Immersive), Tribeca Film Festival, 2024

The New Digital Art Community, moderated by Alex Estorick at Interreality, curated by Mieke Marple. Invited panelist, 2024

Creative Machine Artist Talks, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, 2024

UnfoldX Festival. Invited speaker and performer, Seoul, South Korea, 2024

Artist Talk, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, Venice, 2024

AI and the Arts: Perception to Dream, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, hosted by the Asia Society, Los Angeles. Moderator, with panelists Refik Anadol, Parag K. Mital, and Devang Thakkar, 2023

LIFELIKE, curator’s tour, Vellum / LA, 2023

LIFELIKE, curator’s tour, Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2023

Intimacy, Safety and Power in Tech, hosted by XREnsemble. Invited panelist, 2022

From Eroticism to Extinction, a guided tour of Chelsea galleries and High Line projects for the FIT graduate program, 2019

Sci-Fi: Artists Who Build Worlds, Invited Guided Studio Tour to benefit Arts Gowanus: Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, 2015

Art From the Heart: Curatorial Talk, Vanderbilt Republic, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 2014

Niki Kriese, Inside Histories.  Introductory Address Given at Parsons, the New School for Design, 2014