- “Out of Control,” Society for Critical Exchange Winter Theory Institute, February 2019 [article version forthcoming in symploke 28.1-2 (2020)]
- “Media, Power, Politics,” West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics (WHAP!), February 2019
- “Proxy Speech,” American Comparative Literature Association, Georgetown, March 2019
- “Computational Creativity,” Symposium: “Computational Models as Mimesis.” The Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College, July 2019
- “The Emulation Game,” Association for the Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP/11), University of Maryland, October 2019
- “In the Wake of Ovid’s Unicorn,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of California, Irvine, November 2019
- Respondent: “Human Reading, Machine Reading,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2020
- COVID-19…
Lectures & events, 2018-2020
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Lectures & events, 2017-2018
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- “The Afterlife of Machine Writing,” ASAP/9, University of California, Berkeley, October 27-29
- “Machines Writing,” “The Futures of Literature, Science, and Media,” Duke University, November 17
- “Algorithmic Insecurity,” Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018
- Grinnell College, March 1-2, 2018
- Symposium: “Literature and Information,” Duke University, April 13, 2018
Lectures & events, 2016-2017
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- “The Politics of Form – What Does Art Know About Society,” Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, November 17-19
- Symposium: “Composition Across/Between Edges, Surfaces and Materialities,” UCLA, December 8
- “The Asemic at the End of the World,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, January 2017
- Workshop: Contemporary Literature & New Media, Queen Mary University, London, April 7-8, 2017
- Keynote: “Ordinary Media” symposium, Northwestern University, May 18-19, 2017
- “Translating Machines,” American Comparative Literature Association, Universiteit Utrecht, July 6-9, 2017
- Keynote, “Machine Writing: Translation, Generation, Automation,” ELO conference, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, July 19-22, 2017
Lectures & events, 2015-2016
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- Roundtable: “Reading together: a cross-institutional pedagogic experiment with Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar,” Association for the Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP/7), Clemson University, September 24-27
- “Translating Computational Literature,” American Literary Translators Association conference, Tucson, October 28-31
- “Disintegrated Reading,” Modern Language Association, Austin, January 7-10, 2016
- Chair, “Informatics of the Subject,” Modern Language Association, Austin, January 7-10, 2016
- “Bookwork” after Bookwork, “Charisma of the Book,” NYU Abu Dhabi, March 14-16, 2016
- “New Reading Interfaces,” Electronic Literature: Critical Writing & Critical Making, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley, March 29, 2016
Lectures & events, 2014-2015
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- “At the Edge of Legibility,” “Translation and the Global Humanities,” University of Louisville, October 16-17
- “Living Data: Inhabiting New Media,” University of Oregon, February 20-21, 2015
- “The Post-Alphabetic Future,” “Translation-Machination,” NYU, February 27, 2015
- “The Temporal Aspects of Processual Text,” American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, March 26-29, 2015
- “Algorithmic Translations,” “Performance, Technology, Translation,” Theater Department/Center for Translation Studies, Barnard College, April 16, 2015
Lectures & events, 2013-2014
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- “global aCtIVISm,” ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, January 24-16, 2014
- “Speculations on a Critical Digital Humanities,” Information Studies Colloquium, UCLA, May 8, 2014
- “The Post-Hermeneutic in Digital Language Art,” New Technologies and the Future of the Humanities, City University of Hong Kong, May 14-17, 2014
- “Planetarity and Translingualism,” ASAP/6, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, June 27-29, 2014
Lectures & events, 2012-2013
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// During the academic year 2012-2013, I held a visiting appointment in the English department at NYU. My fall courses were ENGL 252: Distracted Reading and ENGL 800: Media Theory. My spring graduate course (co-taught) was Humanist Enterprises: Institutions, Practices, Media.
- Dialogue with Mark Z. Danielewski, The Contemporary Literature Series, NYU, October 18 [poster]
- “Disintegrated Reading,” First Wednesday lecture series, Dept of English, NYU, December 5
- Roundtable: The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities, MLA, January 3-6, 2013
- Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin, February 15, 2013
- Digital Dialogues at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), February 25, 2013
- “Disintegrated Reading,” “Surface Reading/Machine Reading: New Approaches to Text and Text Data,” NYU, March 11, 2013
- Respondent: “Mediating the Nonhuman,” UC Santa Barbara, March 15-16, 2013
- “Courseware.com,” The Dark Side of the Digital, Center for 21C Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May 2-4, 2013
Lectures & events, 2011-2012
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- The Re:Enlightenment Exchange 2, London, July 13-15
- Panel discussion: Speculative, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, July 28
- Panel discussant, “Art, War, Surveillance, and the Sustainability of Urgency in the Post 9/11 Era,” ISEA2011, September 16
- Writer in residence, The Dutch Foundation for Literature in cooperation with The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, December 2011
- Keynote presentation, “‘Living Letterforms’: The Ecological Turn in Contemporary Digital Poetics,” ELMCIP Seminar on Digital Poetics and the Present, University of Amsterdam, December 9-10
- “Transient Interfaces,” “Reconfiguring the Literary,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2012
- Panel: “Reconfiguring Publishing”: Electronic Literature Collection 2, Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2012
- Screen Culture Research Group, Concordia University, March 29-30, 2012
- “Gaming the Game: Tweaking, Cheating, Hacking, Creeping,” UC Davis, April 12-14, 2012
- “Tactical Media as Speculative Practice,” Berkeley Center for New Media, April 26, 2012
- MIT Communications Forum / Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book, May 3-4, 2012
- Poetry on the Mobile Screen, The Stedelijk Museum and TrouwAmsterdam, May 17, 2012
- Symposium: “Prototyping Futures/Occupying the Present,” Rotterdam, May 19-21, 2012
- Critical Digital Humanities Mellon Workshop presentation, UC Riverside, May 31, 2012
Lectures & events, 2010-2011
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- “Dataveillance: Design & Dissent,” Annual Conference, American Political Science Association, September 2-5
- Plenary presentation: “Dataveillance & Countervailance,” DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, University of Toronto, November 12-14
- “Crowdspeak: Mobile Telephony and TXTual Practice,” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 8, 2011
- Media Arts and Technology lecture, UC Santa Barbara, February 7, 2011
- ACGCC/Transcriptions Symposium: “Risk Media and Speculation,” UC Santa Barbara, March 3-5, 2011
- Digital Studies Symposium, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC, March 7, 2011
- “Towards a Rhetoric of Interactive Text Projection,” Steinhardt School, NYU, March 28-29, 2011
- Seminar: “The Graphic Novel in a Global Context,” ACLA, Vancouver, April 1-3, 2011
- Short-term Fulbright appointment, ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, University of Bergen, Norway, April-May 2011
- HUMlab seminar on interactive text events, Umeå University, Sweden, April 29, 2011
- ELC2 Launch at the Bergen Public Library, May 2, 2011
- Panel: Data as/and Poetry, Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, June 19-22, 2011
Lectures & events, 2009-10
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- Keynote address: “How to do things with layers: Artistic uses of locative media,” ISMAR, October 21-22
- “Mobile Media Poetics,” DAC09, University of California, Irvine, December 12-15
- “Red Dot Sight,” “Premediation, Anticipation, Speculation: Futures in Finance and Security,” University of Amsterdam, January 21-22, 2010
- Futures of Digital Studies, University of Florida, February 25-27, 2010
- “Biopolitical Informatics,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies, March 17-21, 2010
- The Re:Enlightenment Exchange, New York University, April 21-23, 2010
- Seeded speaker: Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Brown University, June 4-6, 2010