I have given keynote lectures and performances, and talked about my work at many public events - conferences, symposia, festivals, gatherings, Parliamentary committees, and more. Do get in touch if you’d like to discuss a speaking engagement.
Past talks
Infrastructure Fictions I Olin College, Cambridge MA I February 2025.
Hopeful Monsters: Or, How To Technology and Not Despair I Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and the Center for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto I December 2024.
WARP/SPEED I Signal Festival. Prague I October 2024. [Video]
Those Unclear Tendencies I Science and Technology Studies Department, University College London I October 2024.
How To See What Isn’t There I The Conference, Malmō I August 2024. (Opening Keynote). [Video]
Setting the Zero Position I Critical Environments Lecture Series, Transitional Territories Studio, TU Delft I May 2024.
Experiencing Complex Systems I Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge I April 2024.
Between The System and the Deep Blue Sea I UNFOLD!, Milan Design Week I April 2024 (Closing Keynote).
Nervous Systems I Institute of Contemporary Arts, London I April 2024.
Living Currency. I You’re Doing Great, Sweetie. transmediale, silent green, Berlin I February 2024.
Science Fiction and Innovation I Festschrift in Honour of W. Ed Steinmueller, SPRU, University of Sussex I January 2024.
Sublime Depths I a model, a map, a fiction, transmediale, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin I February 2023.
Thin Air. I The Beams, London I January 2023.
Scale and the Infrastructural Sublime. I Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool I September 2021.
Crash Test. I Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, Sussex University I November 2021.
Bigger Than Before. I Rainbow’s End, De Haveloords, Rotterdam I April 2021 (Opening Keynote Performance).
Artist’s Talk. I DesignTO. Toronto I June 2021.
On Automation. I Distributed Proximities, Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) I November 2020
Port Matters. I Institute for Social Research, The New School, New York I February 2020.
The Politics of Air. I Air Matters, Watermans Arts Centre, London I November 2019.
Supra Systems. I HEAD Geneva I November 2018.
All At Once. I Design Academy Eindhoven I May 2018.
Supra Systems. I Design Does, Barcelona I April 2018. (Opening Keynote).
Concrete and the Fourth Dimension. I Bilbao Design Week. November 2017 I (Closing Keynote).
SWAG.I Haunted Machines, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht I October 2017.
A Very Complex System. I Gallery of Fine Arts, Split I April 2017.
Situated Systems. I Gray Area Festival, San Francisco I April 2016.
Artist’s Talk. I Artefakt, STUK, Leuven I February 2016.
Systems Literacy. I Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London I January 2016.
Unfamiliar Topologies I Open Data Institute, London I November 2015.
Speculative Design and Policy-Making I All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, House of Commons, London I July 2015.
Kinetic Frictions. I Faculty of Media and Communication Annual Conference, Bournemouth University I June 2015. (Opening Keynote).
Stigma and Design I School for Poetic Computation, New York I May 2015.
Brighton, Fused. I Cive Morum Congress, Universidad de Porto I June 2013. (Opening Keynote).
In addition to my academic appointments, I’ve also given invited guest talks, workshops, and crits at institutes including: FH University of Potsdam, Design Academy Eindhoven, RMIT (Melbourne), ARUP, Queensland University of Technology, Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths, UCL, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, London Business School, The New School (New York), School for Visual Arts (New York), Olin College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, University of the Arts London, and NYU Gallatin.