Projects
Lectures & Workshops
Publications
Essays
Installations
2021
JUL
Sensing Machines /
Halle, Germany

New World Dis/Order. Werkleitz Festival 2021

MAY
Embodied Interaction in the Age of Flatness /
Montreal, Canada (Zoom)

Sur_Exposition (online) – Hexagram

MAY
Calculating sense: Fechner, psychophysics and the new (virtual/mixed) realities /
Montreal, Canada (Zoom)

Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses. Center for Sensory Studies. Concordia University

MAY
Sensory Entanglements Roundtable /
Montreal, Canada

Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses. Center for Sensory Studies.

2020
DEC
AI and Artificial Life /
Tokyo, Japan

Panel Discussion with Takashi Ikegami (U Tokyo) and Ken Mogi (Sony CSL). Digi-Lab. MUTEK Japan

DEC
Sensory Orders Conversations /
Gdansk, Poland

Three online conversations between Sensory Orders curators Chris Salter and Erik Adigard – December

NOV
Sensory Orders - Curator Opening Talk /
Gdansk, Poland

Laznia Center for Contemporary Arts

OCT
The Dynamics of Perception - Workshop /
Montreal, October 2020
OCT
Why Sentience? ISEA 2020 - Opening Address (recorded) /
Montreal, Canada (Zoom)

ISEA 2020-Montreal. October 2020.

SEPT
AI: What’s art got to do with it? /
Bolzano, Italy

TRANSART Festival

SEPT
Neuronal Performances /
Bologna, Italy

European Society for History of Science

MAR
Artificial Intelligence: A Media archaeology /
Montreal, Canada

MUTEK AI Lab

FEB
The Performance of Interaction /
Montreal, Canada

Symposium on “Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité.”

JAN
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence - Panel /
Montreal, Canada

CQAM (Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques) Symposium – Artificial Intelligence in the Media Arts, Industry and Academic Community Symposium.

2019
NOV
Sense Factory: Moholy-Nagy in the 21st Century /
Montreal, Canada

MilieuXBauhaus Festival

NOV
Ethical Futurity or Raging against the Anthropocene /
Namur, Belgium

KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium

NOV
Measuring the Senses /
Utrecht, Netherlands

IMPAKT Festival 2019

OCT
Observations of the Data Driven Self - Keynote /
Den Bosch, Netherlands

Den Bosch Data Week Symposium

SEPT
The Production of Monsters - MixtuRe: Digital Arts and Compositional Realities Symposium /
Toronto, Ontario

University of Toronto at Mississauga

SEPT
Research-Creation Paradigms in Montreal: Xmodal/Milieux/Hexagram. /
London, U.K.
SEPT
AI and Art Futures /
London, U.K.

Barbican Center

SEPT
SenseFactory Symposium /
Munich, Germany.
AUG
“From Turntable to Neural Net: Sound Art, Technoscience, Craft and the Instrument.” /
Aalborg, Denmark.

(with Alexandre Saunier). Re:Sound: 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology.

AUG
“Cyborg Senses: Q and A with Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas.” /
London, UK.
JUN
“Hexagram: Canadian Research-Creation in Action.” /
Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Gamma Pro, Gamma Festival.

JUN
“Patterns that Perpetuate: Sensors, Tracking and Un-quantified Selves." /
Potsdam, Germany.

Sensing symposium. Center for European Media Studies.

JUN
“Media Studies and Histories of Science: From a Praxis Perspective.” /
Weimar, Germany.

1st Symposium of the MediaScience Network.

MAY
“Messy Brains, Bodies, Machines and Worlds.” /
London, UK.

Symposium on the occasion of the exhibition AI: More Than Human.

APR
“Digital Encounters.” Research-Creation in Bavaria. /
Munich, Germany.

Master workshop (director/advisor).

APR
“Totem or How an Inert Thing Gains Consciousness.” /
Montreal, Quebec.

Symposium on Media and Paranoia. GEM Lab.

MAR
“Art and Sense.” /
Budapest, Hungary.

Invited Artist Talk at Moholy-Nagy University of the Arts.

MAR
Master Class at Media Arts and Design, Moholy-Nagy University of the Arts /
Budapest, Hungary
MAR
Master Class at Taubman College of Architecture and Design /
Michigan, U.S.A.
MAR
Making Sense in the Age of Sensing Machines /
Michigan, U.S.A.
JAN
Experiencing Machine Agencies /
Montreal, Canada.

at the Machine Agency Research Group, Milieux.

2018
DEC
Workshop with Vision Impaired and Blind Participants /
Krakow, Poland
DEC
Master Class / Artist Talk on the Senses and the Arts /
Krakow, Poland
DEC
"Neuron | Statistic | Machine | Life: Oikos, Performance and the Sensory Order" /
Vienna, Austria

Applied Microperformativity Symposium/Exhibition

NOV
Hexagram @ Ars Electronica: Looking Back /
Montreal, Canada
OCT
"The Tactile Internet" /
Montreal, Canada
SEPT
When are we? AI in Art & Science, Strategy for responsible Innovation /
Linz, Austria

Error:The Art of Imperfection Conference

SEPT
Taking Care /
Linz, Austria

Hexagram network Exhibition, Campus 2018, September 6-10, 2018

SEPT
Talk/Round table @ Unsplit: Art and Science Festival /
Munich, Germany
AUG
Digital Arts in a Digital World Think Tank /
Montreal, QC
JUL
Trying to Make Sense and Master Class /
Sydney, Australia

UNSW Art and Design – NIEA Visual Anthropology

JUN
Alien Agency or How Art and STS make strange but necessary bedfellows! /
London, UK
JUN
"Coding the World" - Coding the Body Roundtable /
Paris, France
MAY
Performance in the Age of the Technosphere - Conference on Cultural Mobility of Performance and Performativity Studies /
Krakow, Poland
MAY
Sensorial Transformations /
Beijing, China
MAY
Visiting Professor - CAFAcat Media Arts Master Class /
Beijing, China
MAY
The Accelerometer: A brief archaeology in the migration of sensation. /
Montreal, Qc.

Uncommon Senses II

FEB
Artificial Senses-Non Selves /
Ottawa, Canada

Artificial Imagination Symposium. Artengine

2017
NOV
Guest Lecture/Talk /
Krems, Austria.

Media Art History MA Program. Danube University. Krems, Austria.

NOV
Research-Creation in Quebec and Canada: The Case of Hexagram. /
München, Germany.

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft und Medien, Energie und Technologie. München, Germany. November 2017.

OCT
Immersion: What For? /
Riga, Latvia.

Keynote at Virtualities and Realities – RIXC International Art and Science Symposium. Riga, Latvia. October 2017.

SEPT
Artist Talk /
Montreal, QC.

Musée d’art Contemporain. Montreal, QC. September 2017.

SEPT
Cross-Disciplinary Music and the Future of Technology /
The Hague.

Panelist at Todays Art. The Hague. September 2017.

JUL
Beyond the Senses: Bodies, Technology, Environment. /
Berlin, Germany.

Artist Talk/Panel Organizer. “Limits of Knowing.” Martin Gropius Bau. Berlin, Germany. July 2017.

JUL
The Creative Idiot, the Wise Fool and the Grey-haired Baby /
Berlin, Germany.

Moderator. “Limits of Knowing.” Martin Gropius Bau. Berlin, Germany. July 2017.

JUL
Haptic Field /
Berlin, Germany.

Seminar talk in “Immersive Arts. Technologie und Praxis immersiver Erfahrung in den Künsten.” University of the Arts/ Martin Gropius Bau. Berlin. July 2017.

MAR
Embodied Cognition /
Montreal, QC.

Roundtable participant. UQAM. Montreal, QC. March 2017.

FEB
New Technologies in Performance /
Bangalore, India.

Video presentation for Attakkalari Biennale 2017. Bangalore, India. February 2017.

FEB
Elusive Life: Transmediale /
Berlin, Germany.

Hexagram presentation. Transmediale. Berlin, Germany. February 2017.

FEB
“Alien Middle" Panel (with Orit Halpern) /
Berlin, Germany.

Moderator. Transmediale. Berlin, Germany. February 2017.

JAN
Art, Experiment and Technoscience: Alien Agencies and the Limits of Knowing /
Gdansk, Poland.

Lazja Centre for Contemporary Art. Gdansk, Poland. January 2017.

2016
DEC
Artist Talk /
Yogjakarta, Indonesia.

HONF (House of Natural Fibres) Lab. Yogjakarta, Indonesia. December 2016.

DEC
Colonizing Sense: Instruments and the Construction of Sensory Subjects /
Sydney, Australia.

AAS (Australian Anthropological Society) Annual Conference. University of Sydney. Sydney, Australia. December 2016.

DEC
Technologies of Sense: Quantification and Embodiment in the Age of the Data Driven Self /
Irvine, California.

A Body of Knowledge: First International Conference on Embodied Cognition and the Arts. UC Irvine. Irvine, California. December 2016.

NOV
Research Presentation /
London, UK.

Research Presentation (internal). Barbican Centre. London, UK. November 2016.

NOV
Hexagram: A Short Genealogy from Studio-Lab to Interdisciplinary Network /
Montreal, QC.

Molior 15 Symposium. Canadian Centre for Architecture. Montreal, QC. November 2016.

NOV
Smart Cities? /
Barcelona, Spain.

European Smart City Expo. Barcelona, Spain. November 2016.

NOV
Workshop on sound/haptics /
Shanghai, China.

Technology and the Transformation of Performance Symposium. Shanghai Theater Academy. Shanghai, China. November 1-6, 2016.

NOV
Atmospheres and Non-Human Scenographies /
Shanghai, China.

Technology and the Transformation of Performance Symposium. Shanghai Theater Academy. Shanghai, China. November 1-6, 2016.

OCT
Atmospheres of Touch /
Weimar, Germany.

Symmetries of Touch Symposium. Bauhaus Universität. Weimar, Germany. October 2016.

AUG
Infrastructures of Sensation: Making up People in the 'Sensor Society' /
Barcelona, Spain.

Annual Meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology). Barcelona, Spain. August 2016.

JUL
Playing with Touch: Haptic Technology and Contemporary Art /
Shanghai, China.

Workshop Leader (in collaboration with Ian Hattwick). CAC (Chronus Art Centre). Shanghai, China. July 2016.

JUL
From Sensors to Sensation: The Sensory Turn in Contemporary Art /
Shanghai, China.

LeonardoArt/Science/Technology Lecture Series. CAC (Chronus Art Centre). Shanghai, China. July 2016.

JUL
Interfacing the Senses /
Linz, Austria.

“Some Notes on a Research Program in New Media, Sensory Studies and Techno-scientific Art.” Department of Interface Cultures. Kunstuniversität Linz. Linz, Austria. June 2016.

JUL
Alien Agency or How Do Artists Work With Responsive Matter /
Berlin, Germany.

Spektrum: Art | Science | Community Space. Berlin, Germany. June 2016.

JUL
Reading Algorithms /
Luneburg, Germany.

Workshop Participant. DCRL (Digital Cultures Research Lab). Leuphana University. Luneburg, Germany. June 2016.

MAY
Alien Agencies: Resonances, Tissues and the Sensorium Turned Inside Out /
Stockholm, Sweden.

Keynote Address. Presumed Autonomy Conference: Literature and the Arts in
Theory and Practice. Stockholm University. Stockholm, Sweden. May 2016.

APR
Research-Creation and the Senses /
Tokyo, Japan.

Symposium – Art/Research/Experiment/Event: Three Perspectives on Perception/Action. University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan. April 2016.

APR
Artist Talk /
Tokyo, Japan.

Information Design/Information Arts Department. Tama Art University. Tokyo, Japan. April 2016.

APR
Alien Agency: Research/Creation with the Nonhuman /
Tokyo, Japan.

Integrated Human SciencesProgram. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan. April 2016

APR
Disturbance, Translation, Enculturation /
Kyoto, Japan.

“A Research Program in New Media, Technology and the Senses” Artist Talk. Doshisha University. Kyoto, Japan. April 2016.

APR
Artists Talk. /
Kyoto, Japan.

Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts. Kyoto, Japan. April 2016.

MAR
The Qualified Self /
Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Keynote Address. “Hack the Body.” De Waag/Pakhuis de Zwijger. Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2016

MAR
Beyond the (two) Synesthesias /
Vienna, Austria.

Digital Synesthesia Symposium. University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. March 2016.

MAR
Alien Agency: Research-Creation and Experimental Life /
Paris, France.

ENSAD Lab. ENSAD. Paris, France. March 2016.

MAR
Art, Research and the Future Imaginary /
Aalborg, Denmark.

University of Aalborg. Aalborg, Denmark. March 2016.

2015
NOV
Performing Sensation: Sensory Anthropology, Performance and Immersion Beyond the Eye /
Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Besides the Screen Conference Keynote Address. University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria Brazil and University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. November 2015.

NOV
Opening Address /
Montreal, Canada.

Chair. Re-Create: 6th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Montreal, Canada. November 2015.

OCT
Research-Creation: Theories, Methods, Acts /
New London, CT.

Guest lecture. Connecticut College. New London, CT. October 2015.

OCT
Artist Presentation /
Rome, Italy.

International Digital Arts Market. Romaeuropa Festival. Rome, Italy. October 2015.

OCT
Artist Presentation /
New York, NY.

Quebec Digital Art @ NYC. Made in New York Media Centre. New York, NY. October 2015.

OCT
Futile Labor /
Perth, Australia.

Artist Talk (with Ionat Zurr). John Curtin Gallery. Curtin University. Perth, Australia. October 2015

OCT
Experimentation in Art and Science - A Short History /
Perth, Australia.

Closing Plenary Keynote Address. NEAF 2015 (National Experimental Arts Forum). Art Gallery of Western Australia. Perth, Australia. October 2015.

OCT
Biological Life and the Computer /
Perth, Australia.

Chair. Panel at SLSA 2015 – Neo-Life.

OCT
Futile Labor: A Panel Discussion /
Perth, Australia.

SLSA 2015 – Neo-Life.

SEPT
Alien Agency – Techno-Science, Art and the Limits of Knowing /
Berlin, Germany

Black Mountain College – Educational Turn and the Avant-Garde Symposium

SEPT
Sound in Public Space /
Montreal, Canada

Panel Moderation/Organization

JUN
Artist Talk /
Aukland, New Zealand

Co-Lab.

JUN
Mediations of Sensation: Designing Performative Sensory Environments /
Vienna, Austria

Department of Digital Media.

MAY
Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making /
Weimar, Germany.

Faculty of Media

MAY
Alien Agency /
Montreal, Canada

Elektra Festival.

FEB
Alien Agency: A Conversation with Andrew Pickering /
Berlin, Germany.

CTM 2015.

FEB
Alien Agency /
Berlin, Germany.

CTM 2015

2014
DEC
Non-Representational Sense Making and Sensory Ethnographic Methods in Displace – an AAA Inno-Vent Revisited /
Washington, DC.

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2014.

NOV
Research-Creation and Contemporary Media Art /
Banff, Canada.

Convergence: International Summit on Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology

NOV
Performance in the 21st Century /
Boulder, Colorado.

Keynote lecture

OCT
Alien Agency/Material Arts /
Mexico City, Mexico.

Conversation with Monica Bello.

SEPT
Modes of Sensory Experience /
The Hague, Netherlands.

Keynote, Bright Collisions Summit

SEPT
Research-Creation and Embodied Knowing in a Digital World /
Nantes, France

Keynote. Digital Intelligence Symposium.

JUL
Dance and Technology: A History /
Yamaguchi, Japan

Keynote Address, YCAM

JUN
Forms of Life /
Mexico City, Mexico.

Keynote and Workshop Leader

JUN
Alien Agency or Making Sounds with the World /
Bonn, Germany

Bonnhören, International Symposium in Urban Listening.

MAY
N-Polytope /
Montreal, QC.

Roundtable

APR
Entangled and Digital Media /
Montreal, QC

Respondent to Alain Thibault. ACAQ (Arts Curators Association of Québec)

MAR
Sonic Atmosphere: Towards a Cross Modal Dramaturgy /
Chicoutimi, QC

From Sound Device to New Forms of Stage Practice: International Colloquium

MAR
Alien Agency or How to Do Ethnographies of the Nonhuman /
Montreal, QC.

La Recherche-Création: Territoire d’Innovation Méthodologique

JAN
Xenakis, Polytopes and the Actions of Perception /
Weil am Rhein, Germany.

Artist Talk at Vitra Design Museum

2000
OCT
The Dynamics of Perception /
Montreal, Canada

Engaging with the Felt Experience of Temporally Dynamic Algorithms Workshop (Co-Chair) with Alex Saunier, David Howes and Joseph Thibodeau. ISEA 2020.