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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