2018
The Basement Tapes: Media Arts Reunion, at InterAccess. Curators, artists, and artworks active between 1980-1989, representing Toronto's early electronic arts scene. Talk on my Telidon work, Toronto, ON
A-B-Z-TXT interdisciplinary typography school, presentation on Telidon artists in Toronto in the 1980s, Toronto, ON
Ideas Digital Forum organized by Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. State of the Field: panel moderator, Oshawa, ON
Artificial Imagination symposium on artistic practice, machine learning and artificial intelligence organized by ArtEngine: panel moderator, Ottawa, ON
2014
lecture “Stretching the Envelope of New Media Art”: invited speaker in Killam Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Dalhousie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
2013
Hexagram-Concordia Distinguished Speaker Series, in collaboration with Hexagram | CIAM and Phi Centre, Montréal, QC: lecture “When Materialities Multiply: Chaos and Promise between the Computational and Biological Arts”; and round-table “When Forms of Life Collide” in HEXA_OUT series.
OCAD University Digital Futures Initiative TalkxTalk speaker series, with Melanie Baljko, Toronto, ON
2011
artist’s talk and panel discussion on the state of new media art at Ottawa Art Gallery, thelivingeffect, Ottawa, ON
2009
Art Meets Science plenary lecture, York University 50th Anniversary event, Toronto, ON
2008
artist's talk at Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2007
artist’s talk at Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
guest lecture in Women, Art, Technology series, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2005
panel on low-res signal in Images Festival, with John Kamevaar and Gebhard Sengmüller, Toronto, ON
2004
artist’s talk at Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
2003
artist’s talk at St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB
2002
Artificial Stupidity, paper on relationality in a-life art, Banff, AB
Shifting Practices, RCA Visual artist-run centre, panel, St. John's, NL
ARCCO conference: Convergence, artist-run centres meeting, Ottawa, ON
"If it ain't broke don't fix it: aesthetics and pragmatics of low tech", presenter and co-organizer with Paul Vanouse, ISEA02, Nagoya, Japan
2001
artist's talk at Ryerson Polytechnic University Toronto
2000
American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposia, paper/video presenting my work, Falmouth, Mass.
artist's talk at SUNY Visual Art Dept. Buffalo, NY
Growing Things: The Cultures of Nano Tech, Bio Tech & Eco Tech Meat Art, paper/video presenting my workBanff
Zero Degree Monstrosities, Clinical Trial symposium Vancouver
College Art Association Annual Meeting, panel, Negotiating the Tensions Between Two Divergent World Views -- Art and Science chaired by Margot Lovejoy, New York
1999
artist's talk at Washington University St. Louis, MO
Brown Bag Seminar Series, speaker, Atkinson College Art and Technology program, York University, Toronto
Invencao: Thinking the Next Millenium, paper and two panels at combined ISEA/Caiia/Leonardo conference [invited guest at Leonardo editorial board meeting, Rio de Janeiro], Sao Paulo
Art ex Machina: Art and the New Media, colloquiam at Carleton University (Carleton Gallery), Ottawa
Des souris et des oeuvres, colloque on new media and Internet in university art programs, UQAM, Montreal
workshop on Net cams, Technoboro Kool-aid series, Montreal
1998
panel, "Scope as Trope" in ISEA98Terror Manchester, UK
artist talk at InterAccess, Tactile Video series, Toronto
Okanagan University College (talk and crits) and Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
talks at McGill University (graduate students) and Universite de Montreal, Montreal
1997
Imaging the Future, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Femmes-branchees at Studio XX, talk on Neonudism, Montreal
Wildest Dreams: Conversations about Art and Technology, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ont.
Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, poster Brighton, UK
Technology Cheated my Image symposium, University of Windsor School of Visual Arts, Windsor
panel in conjunction with Promises of Monsters Rockville, MD
College Art Association Annual Meeting, panel The Artificial Life Class chaired by Roy Ascott, New York
1996
artist's talk in conjunction with Myths from Cyberspace, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
Digital Dreams, conference on art, science and technology Newcastle-on-Tyne
Interpenetrations: Art, Science, Cultural Theory, panel organizer and presenter, ISEA96, Rotterdam
1995
Que sont les pionnieres devenues?, panel organized by CRITIQ in conjunction with ISEA95, Montreal
The subject under surveillance, panel, Floating Gallery photo-festival and symposium, Winnipeg
University of Western Ontario, Art Department, artist's talk and student critiques, London
1994
Carnegie Mellon University Art Department, lecture Pittsburgh
Art and Virtual Environments Symposium, Centre for the Arts, Banff
Deuxieme rencontres internationales art cinema, art s video, art ordinateur, Videotheque de Paris, table ronde, Paris
1993
University of Reading, artist's talk and student crits Reading, England
Sheffield Hallam University, artist's talk and student crits Sheffield, England
Ecole des Beaux Arts, conference et critiques Dijon, France
Intervenante, performance d'Orlan transmise de New York au Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Jan van Eyck Akademie, artist's talk, Maastricht, Holland
Utrecht Universtiy, gender and technology program Utrecht, (Prof. Rosi Braidotti), artist's talk, Holland
Artist's talks, Vilnius, Lithuania
Images de la Nature, table ronde, Societe de l'esthetique Montreal
Universite Concordia, guest in MFA Video class, Montreal
Universite Concordia, guest in Feminism inhabits Technology, Communications Dept., Montreal
The Ordering of Bio-space, paper, College Art Assoc. Seattle
Cyberspace, Virtual Reality and the Artist, videoconferencing panel, Toronto and Montreal
1992
The Ordering of Bio-space in Transcending Cyberspace, symposium organised by Inter/Access, Toronto
Artist testimonial dans Points de forces: les centres d'artistes, colloque organisee par R.C.A.A.Q. et La Centrale, Montreal
Simulation and Immersion in Virtual Space, National Gallery of Canada (for Land, Spirit, Power exhibition), Ottawa
Respondent for panel Gendered Space, in Architecture + Culture symposium, Carleton University, Ottawa
Les Cent jours d'art contemporain, artist's talk, Montreal
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, artist's talk, Montreal
Mount Allison University, artist's talk and student crits, Sackville
NSCAD, artist's talk and student crits, Halifax
1991
Banff Centre for the Arts, artist's talk Banff
Simon Fraser University, artist's talk and student crits, Vancouver
Invited panelist with Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield, La Centrale, Montreal
UniversiteConcordia, guest in Women and the Fine Arts Montreal
1990
Artspeak, artist's talk with Johanne Lamoureux Vancouver
Women, Aesthetics, Theory, Practice, panel in Canadian-German symposium on feminist aesthetics, Goethe Institute, Toronto
Theory Invasion, panel, Concordia Fine Arts, Montreal
The Banff Centre, Art Studio, invited artist, Banff
1989
Invited panelist with Nancy Spero and Margaret Harrison, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Woman as Television, reading for The Postmodern Commotion, CKUT Radio McGill, Montreal
Gallery 1.1.1., artist's talk, Winnipeg
1988
Mackenzie Art Gallery, artists' panel Regina
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, artist's talk Halifax
1987
Walter Phillips Gallery, artist's talk, Banff
The Ethics of Being an Artist, CARFAC panel, Ottawa
Inter/Access, videotex workshop, artist's talk, Toronto
1985
Video Inn, videotex workshop Vancouver
1984
Plug-In Gallery/MAWA, talk on art and feminism Winnipeg
Premiere Biennale de l'Est du Quebec, panel L'art, lieu Riviere-du-du pouvoir Loup
Artists Talk About Technology/Interface: artistes/technique, ANNPAC/RACA panel, Halifax
1983
Institut Simone de Beauvoir, talk Montreal
La Chambre Blanche, artiste invitee Quebec
Art and Feminism, ANNPAC/RACA, panel chair Kingston
1982
Art et feminisme, Musee d'art contemporain, panel Montreal
1980
First International Festival of Women Artists, talk Copenhagen