Keynotes & Plenaries (selected)
2024 “Datalgia”: The pain of datafication (a diagnosis)” Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context. University of Virginia. (July 18, 2024)
2023 “The Body Politic of Data Infrastructure” 3rd annual Summer Institute, Digital IDEAS, University of Michigan. (July 19, 2024)
2022 “Terrains of Climate: A Geography of Responsible Practices” Keynote for the 59th Annual Geography Conference, University of Calgary. March 25, 2024. (Co-presented with Susan Cahill)
2020 “Big Data Ecologies” End to End Symposium, transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, Plenary panel, Jan 31.
2020 “Genomic Media” McLuhan Lecture, Embassy of Canada in Germany, transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, Jan 29.
2019 “Genomics: Staking Identity since 2003” The Ends of Social Media Symposium, University of Toronto, Canada. Plenary panel, Nov 15.
2019 “Genomic Media at the End of the World”, CGC Conference Keynote, Carleton University, March 21-22.
2017 “Living Together in the Data Center Industrial Complex" - TBLR/ESSCS PhD-researcher training summer course (“Living Together”) in Bergen (Norway), August 14-18, 2017.
Invited Lectures, Workshops & Webinars (selected)
2024 UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry - Master Class (Dec 6, 2024)
2024 “Art, Design, and Critical Digital [Infra]Structures” at the Climate Futures Symposium, University of Michigan (Oct 17, 2024)
2024 STS Nord - École d'été en science, technologie et société (STS) / STS North - Summer School in Science and Technology Studies (STS) (Aug 26-29, 2024)
2024 CCA Research Network Summer Kick-Off Lecture Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile (June 27, 2024)
2024 Charting the Course: Navigating Climate Justice in the Digital Age (June 10, 2024)
2023 Data & Environmental Justice roundtable. Data Justice Conference 2023, hosted by the Data Justice Lab (Cardiff, UK) (June 19-20)
2023 “Data Promises” Planetary Resources, Data Centres, and Scientific Knowledge Production. Winter Webinar, Ruhr-University Bochum, Research Centre Virtual Life Worlds (Feb 20)
2022 “Big Data Ecologies” Medialab Matadero (Madrid). Online. Nov 29.
2022 “After datasets: big data and the environment” Big Data & Society. Online. Sept 22.
2022 “Contested Data Territories: Resisting Data Infrastructure From Below” hosted by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) at the University of Cambridge. Online. Sept 21.
2022 “The Pulse of the Data Center: AI, Emotions, and Planetary Destruction” Concordia University, Distinguished Alumni Event. Online. March 11.
2022 “The Pulse of the Data Center: AI, Emotions, and Planetary Destruction” Big Data Studies Lab, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University. Online. February 22.
2019 "Sweaty Zuckerberg and Cool Computing" McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology (UofT) Monday Night Seminar: "Hot Line, Cold Call". Toronto, November 18.
2019 "Genomic Media/Sustainable DNA" Sustainability Lectures, University of Alberta, Sept 13.
2019 "The Medium Question of Genomics" CMST Speaker Series, McMaster University. Feb 25.
2019 "Sweaty Zuckerberg and Cool Computing" Esker Gallery. Feb 7.
2018 Public Talk "Genetic Gold in the Cloud" Tulane University, New Orleans, Dec 7. Sponsored by the Altman Program for International Studies.