Recent Lectures:
•World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT), Yerevan, Armenia, October, 2019. Invited participant in panel ‘Where Art we Going’, on AI and Art. Fellow participants James Bridle (moderator), Ahmed Elgammal, Katherine Sarafian (Senior VP, Pixar), Sergey Smbatyan (Conductor, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra), Eric Esraelian (Forgotten Man Films).
•”The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine,” Art & Science: Conference on Empirical Methods in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. November, 2017.
•”Creating Our Own Alternatives: Artificial Cultures for Post-Humans,” ASAP Symposium [Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present], Tartu, Estonia. September, 2016. With Kurmo Konsa, Tartu Art College & University of Tartu.
*"Fey Aesthetics vs. American Mass Culture: How Andy Warhol Re-made Consumer Objects into Art", SECAC conference, Pittsburgh PA, October 2015.
•“Identity Construction in Pubic: Material vs. Digital, conference Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, Clemson University, Greenville SC, September 2015.
•“Assemblage and the Aesthetics of ‘Real’ Abstraction: Pierre Schaeffer and Robert Rauschenberg, ca. 1950”, conference Music and Figurative Arts in the Twentieth Century, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca Italy, November, 2014. (with Blake Stevens, music historian)
• “Computational Analysis of Andy Warhol’s Flowers” presentation with Thomas Brady at the conference American Art History and Digital
Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., November 2013.
*“New Media and the Idea of the Post-Modern” invited lecture at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Romania, January 2012.
*“The Problem of 20th century Art History, Approached from East Europe” invited lecture at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Romania, January 2012.
*”Cage and Information Systems Theory”, Reviewing Black Mountain 3: John Cage, UNC Asheville, October, 2011.
•“Kabakov & Koons: The Artist in the Collective”, College Art Association, Dallas TX, February 2008.
•“Drawing Conceptual Lessons from 1968,” conference on Art & Revolution, MIRIAD and Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, February 2007.
*“Contemporary Art and the New Media”, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine, December 2005.
•“Milan Knízák, Václav Havel and the Absurd Reality of Unofficial Life in 1970s Czechoslovakia”, Southern Conference of Slavic Studies, Roanoke VA, March 2004.
•World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT), Yerevan, Armenia, October, 2019. Invited participant in panel ‘Where Art we Going’, on AI and Art. Fellow participants James Bridle (moderator), Ahmed Elgammal, Katherine Sarafian (Senior VP, Pixar), Sergey Smbatyan (Conductor, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra), Eric Esraelian (Forgotten Man Films).
•”The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine,” Art & Science: Conference on Empirical Methods in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. November, 2017.
•”Creating Our Own Alternatives: Artificial Cultures for Post-Humans,” ASAP Symposium [Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present], Tartu, Estonia. September, 2016. With Kurmo Konsa, Tartu Art College & University of Tartu.
*"Fey Aesthetics vs. American Mass Culture: How Andy Warhol Re-made Consumer Objects into Art", SECAC conference, Pittsburgh PA, October 2015.
•“Identity Construction in Pubic: Material vs. Digital, conference Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, Clemson University, Greenville SC, September 2015.
•“Assemblage and the Aesthetics of ‘Real’ Abstraction: Pierre Schaeffer and Robert Rauschenberg, ca. 1950”, conference Music and Figurative Arts in the Twentieth Century, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca Italy, November, 2014. (with Blake Stevens, music historian)
• “Computational Analysis of Andy Warhol’s Flowers” presentation with Thomas Brady at the conference American Art History and Digital
Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., November 2013.
*“New Media and the Idea of the Post-Modern” invited lecture at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Romania, January 2012.
*“The Problem of 20th century Art History, Approached from East Europe” invited lecture at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Romania, January 2012.
*”Cage and Information Systems Theory”, Reviewing Black Mountain 3: John Cage, UNC Asheville, October, 2011.
•“Kabakov & Koons: The Artist in the Collective”, College Art Association, Dallas TX, February 2008.
•“Drawing Conceptual Lessons from 1968,” conference on Art & Revolution, MIRIAD and Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, February 2007.
*“Contemporary Art and the New Media”, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine, December 2005.
•“Milan Knízák, Václav Havel and the Absurd Reality of Unofficial Life in 1970s Czechoslovakia”, Southern Conference of Slavic Studies, Roanoke VA, March 2004.