Rita Raley

• “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

• 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

• “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

• “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

// 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

• 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

• “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, UmeÃ¥ 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

• 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

• Lecture, “Locative Narrative: Figuring Urban Space in the Network Society,” Otterbein College, October 9
• Conference: “Interrupt,” Brown University, October 17-19
• “Global English, Language Technology, and the Culture of Security.” Workshop on “Global Chinese / Global English: Technology and the Geopolitics of Writing,” Columbia University, October 31
• Conference: “Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres,” University of Siegen, Germany, November 20-21
• “Mobile Media Poetics,” Modern Language Association (Poetry Division), San Francisco, December 27-30
• “Virtual Strikes,” Modern Language Association (Media & Literature), San Francisco, December 27-30
• Panel organizer: “The Ecological Imagination: From Land Art to Bioart,” College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 25-28, 2009
• “Looking at Artificial Creatures,” College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 25-28, 2009
• Conversation with John Cayley, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, March 5, 2009
• “On Locative Narrative,” eNow! lecture series, Dept of English, University of Minnesota, March 9, 2009
• Seminar organizer: “Global Englishes,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard, March 26-29, 2009
• Residential Fellowship: Speculative Globalities, UCHRI, April-June 2009
• Presentation, Violence, Technology and Public Intervention, UC San Diego, April 24, 2009
• “Global English,” Summer Institute: Dept of English, Miami University of Ohio, June 1, 2009

• “The Visualization of Financial Networks,” Art Panel, SIGGRAPH, August 5-9
• “List(en)ing Post,” Reading Digital Literature, Brown University, October 5-7
• UCSB Second Life Project, DET/CHE Conference, November 28
• Video chat, Eyal Amiran’s class on “Digital Object,” UC Irvine, November 29
• Panel chair and organizer, “New Reading Interfaces,” Modern Language Association (Association for Computing and the Humanities), Chicago, December 27-30
• “War Games,” Modern Language Association (Division of Literary Criticism), Chicago, December 27-30
• Presentation, Mellon Faculty Seminar, UCLA, January 11, 2008
• “List(en)ing Post,” Dept of English, UCLA, February 2008
• Lecture, MA Program in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, Leicester, February 25, 2008
• Lecture, Department of English, UC Irvine, February 28, 2008
• NSF CreativeIT workshop on “Codework,” Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University, April 3-6, 2008
• Plenary presentation: Console-ing Passions, April 2008
• “Spores and ‘Vores: ALife Gaming Narratives,” ACLA, April 2008
• “Unframed: Electronic Literature Beyond the Screen,” keynote address, English Festival, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, April 29-30, 2008
• Software Studies Workshop, UC San Diego, May 2008
• Conference: Electronic Literature Organization, Vancouver, WA, May 29-June 1, 2008