From time to time you can hear and see me in meatspace.
Some upcoming engagements:
12-14 Feb 2025 – FACT 2025 – Future of Arts Culture & Technology, ACMI, Melbourne
Bookings?
If you’d like to book me to speak or deliver a workshop then make contact. If the booking is for venues outside of Melbourne then full travel and expenses will be required as a bare minimum.
Recent past engagements: (full list available on request)
25 Nov 2024 – Henry Mayer Lecture, RMIT, Melbourne
20 Nov 2024 – Futurescape Festival, Arts Korea Lab, Seoul
13 Nov 2024 – Public Domain & Open Source Software International Conference, Seoul
12 Nov 2024 – Guest lecture, Yonsei University, Seoul
18-20 September 2024 – AMaGA National Conference, Ballarat
10 September 2024 – RMITxACMI Designing with Data w/Joel Gethin-Lewis & Chris Speed, ACMI
3 May 2024 – Node + Code – Interactive media in film museums, DFF, Frankfurt
25 April 2024 – BAFTA Game Preservation, National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK
24-25 April 2024 – Digital Works, Leeds, UK
16 April 2024 – Victorian Tourism industry Council Summit 2024, MCEC, Melbourne
14-15 February 2024 – Future of Arts Culture Technology 2024, ACMI, Melbourne
29-30 November 2023 – Born Digital Cultural Heritage, ACMI, Melbourne
20-22 November 2023 – National Digital Forum, Wellington, NZ
15-17 November 2023 – Between Humans & Machines – 54th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Melbourne
14 November 2023 – On the Limits of Curatorial Knowledge and the Digital panel at Critical AI, ANU, Canberra (online)
17 October 2023 – Design Trends International Forum, Taipei, Taiwan (via videoconference)
7 September 2023 – Panel at Documenting Australian Society, ACMI, Melbourne
10-11 August 2023 – Keynote at Beyond the Book symposium at State Library Victoria, Melbourne
4 August 2023 – Keynote at ALIA: What’s The Source at State Library Victoria, Melbourne
31 May-2 June 2023 – Semi-Permanent, Carriageworks, Sydney
16-19 May 2023 – AMaGA National Conference 2023, Newcastle
21 April 2023 – Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable Public Talk, Stanford, Palo Alto, USA
31 March 2023 – Good Work: Building a Stronger Ecosystem in the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
23-24 March 2023 – Data Informed Design, RMIT, Melbourne
22 March 2023 – Greg Binns Memorial Lecture, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
21 March 2023 – Digitalisation of art, Committee For Melbourne, Melbourne
15 March 2023 – Everything Open 2023, Melbourne
14-15 Feb 2023 – Future of Arts Culture Technology symposium, ACMI, Melbourne
6 December 2022 – ‘Culture Is Bad For You: Inequality In The Arts’ conversation with Dr Mark Taylor, ACMI, Melbourne (recording)
3 December 2022 – ‘The Art Institution’s Web3 Playbook’ panel at Tezos x Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 (via teleconference)
25 November 2022 – Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres Annual Conference, Swinburne University
24 November 2022 – Asia Society Australia x APEC Asia Pacific at RMIT, research paper launch, RMIT
21-23 November 2022 – The Climate, Art, and Digital Activisms 4-day Festival of Ideas, University of Melbourne
16 November 2022 – Tessitura Asia Pacific Leadership Forum (with Dr Indigo Holcombe-James and Anne Dunn)
11 November 2022 – Museum Computer Group UK (with Dr Indigo Holcombe-James)
19-20 October 2022 – roundtable, CIMED22, Valencia, Spain (via video)
27 Sept 2022 – The Future of AR, Contemporary Art & Public Space, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1-2 Sept 2022 – Remix Summit London 2022, London, UK
20-28 August 2022 – keynote (text transcript), 26th ICOM General Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
14-17 June 2022 – AMaGA National Conference, Perth
3 May 2022 – Western Sydney University Management Conference, Parramatta
26 April 2022 – Presentation to EU.OpenDOORS event, Ars Electronica, Austria (via teleconference)
22 April 2022 – New Institutions for the Artists of the Future panel at Unfinished Camp, Venice Biennale, Italy
5-7 April 2022 – DigiKult Digital Heritage Conference, Sweden (via teleconference)
22-23 February 2022 – in conversation with Honor Harger, National Digital Forum, New Zealand
7 October 2021 – Games4Change Australia
August 2021 – ACCA with Sahej Rahel (recording), Melbourne (via video conference)
August 2-6 2021 – TLCC2021 keynote with Kwame Kwei-Armah (recording) , USA (via video conference)
July 2021 – speaker, Towards Public Digital Cultural Infrastructure, at Media Architecture Biennale, Netherlands (via video conference)
May 18, 2021 – OFCH Lausanne (via video conference)
May 10-15, 2021 – Delphi Economic Forum, Athens (via video conference)
April 2021 – Museums and the Web 2021 (via video conference)
February 24, 2021 – MuseumNext Digital with Lucie Paterson (recording), (via video conference)
November 23, 2020 – World Museum Forum, Seoul, Korea (via video conference)
December 5, 2020 – Muze.X Pre-conference webinar series, Malta (via video conference)
December 12, 2020 – Media Culture Fast Forward, Belgium (via video conference)
November 17, 2020 – Engaging our Audiences Online: Representation, Diversity and Disability in Arts & Creative Industries, University of Western Sydney (via video conference)
November 12, 2020 – Global Forum on Arts, Culture, Creativity and Technology – G-FACCT 2020, Bogota, Columbia (via video conference)
October 13, 2020 – In Conversation, MuseumNext Europe (via video conference)
June 2, 2020 – Future Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (video conference)
May 27-29, 2020 – Intermuseum XXIII, Moscow, Russia (video conference)
3-5 February 2020, Pause Festival Melbourne
28-29 November 2019 – Museum Summit 2019, Hong Kong
30 October 2019 – Re:frame, AFTRS, Sydney
12 June 2019 – The Space Between, Vivid Sydney, Australia Council.
30 May 2019 – Keynote, Creative State Summit 2019, Melbourne [words/slides]
21 May 2019 – Keynote, Futureslam, Techweek NZ, Auckland
3-6 April 2019 – Museums and the Web 2019, Boston, USA [paper]
27 March 2019 – Humanities, Arts and Culture Data Summit, National Library of Australia
December 2018 – National Heritage Board of Sweden
7 December 2018 – SDNOW03 (Service Design Now), Melbourne [video]
21-22 November 2018, China Art Academy Institure for Network Society, Intelligent Urban Fabric, Hangzhou, China.
19-21 November 2018, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan.
September 2018 – COMPASS, Locative Mobile, Exploratorium, San Francisco
August 2018 – Digital Directions, NFSA, Canberra
July 28, 2018 – Preserving the near future symposium, ACMI, Melbourne
June 29, 2018 – Speaker, ASTEN conference, Adelaide
June 4-7 – Museums Galleries Australia annual conference, Melbourne
May 9, 2018 – Museums, Data, Privacy, American Alliance of Museums, Phoenix, USA
May 8, 2018 – City Shaping Symposium, Melbourne Knowledge Week
May 1, 2018 – Preserving the artefacts of the future, ACMI, Melbourne [recording]
March 19-21, 2018 – Museumnext Australia, Brisbane
March 7 & 8, 2018 – Collecting the Now, NGV, Melbourne
February 9, 2018 – ADA Copyright Forum 2018, Canberra
February 7, 2018 – VR is so Passe, Pause Festival, Melbourne
November 8, 2017 – Collaborating with Collections / ANU Digital Collections, Canberra
October 25-26, 2017 – Australian Sound Recordings Association 2017, Canberra
October 24, 2017 – Digital Writers Festival, Melbourne
June 29-30 – Creative State Summit, Melbourne
June 12-13, 2017 – We Are Museums, Riga, Latvia
June 9, 2017 – Immersive Experiences – What, Why and How?, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
June 5, 2017 – Museum Masterclass, Digital Catapult, London
May 29-June 1, 2017 – TNC17, Linz, Austria
May 7-10, 2017 – American Alliance of Museums Conference, St Louis, USA
May 5, 2017, Melbourne Knowledge Week
March 2, 2017 – Design Thinking and Business Innovation, Melbourne at ACMI X
February 15-17, 2017 – MuseumNext, Melbourne
February 13-17, 2017 – ALIA Information Online 2017, Sydney – [recorded video]
December 5-7, 2016 – The Digital In Cultural Spaces conference at National History Museum, Singapore
November 22-23, 2016 – National Digital Forum keynote, Wellington, New Zealand – [recorded video]
November 10-11, 2016 – Web Directions 2016, Sydney
October 13, 2016 – Docuverse, NonFiction Lab, RMIT, Melbourne
October 12, 2016 – The Future of the Object, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
September 16, 2016 – Digital Democracies, QUT, Brisbane
September 15, 2016 – Museums and Galleries Queensland Seminar, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
September 9, 2016 – New Cardigan, ACMIx, Melbourne
July 15, 2016 – Digital GLAM symposium, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
July 13, 2016 – Florence Guild talk at Work Club Melbourne, Melbourne
June 7, 2016 – Collection Directions, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
June 2-3, 2016 – Remix 2016, Sydney
May 16-19, 2016 – Museums Australasia, Auckland New Zealand
May 11, 2016 – Open Knowledge, Melbourne
April 16, 2016 – Art and the Connected Future Symposium, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
April 11-15, 2016 – Speaker/participant, Cultural Analytics & User Experience Design, UCLA, Los Angeles
April 7-10, 2016 – Museums and the Web, Los Angeles
March 21-22 – UX Australia Service Design 2016, Melbourne
February 25, 2016 – Objects on Display: Disrupting Tradition, MAAS/Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
February 9, 2016 – Pause Festival 2016, Digital Publics: Creative Intervention In Placemaking, Melbourne
November 18, 2015 – Earth, Design, Science, Technology, Netherlands
October 17-22, 2015 – Speaker/Facilitator, Young Cultural Innovators, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg
October 6-8, 2015 – Museums and the Web Asia 2015, Melbourne
September 29-30, 2015 – No Boundaries: A Symposium on Art & Culture, Bristol/Manchester
September 23, 2015 – Keynote, Lets Get Real 2015, Culture 24, Brighton, UK
September 2-4, 2015 – Reimagining the Museum, Fundacion TyPA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 16-20, 2015 – Innovator keynote, Tessitura Learning & Community Conference 2015, Orlando Florida
July 5, 2015 – Guest speaker, Beautiful Data 2, Metalab Harvard, Boston
June 29, 2015 – Tech Evolution: Shaping the Future of Museums, ArtsTech Meetup, NYC
Jun 2-3, 2015 – Remix Sydney 2015, Sydney | view slides
Apr 28, 2015 – IMLS Focus, Washington DC
Apr 19-21, 2015 – MuseumNext, Geneva
Apr 8-12, 2015 – Museums and the Web, Chicago
Mar 27, 2015 – If Book Then, Milan
Mar 18, 2015 – A Night of Social Wonder, American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis
Feb 10-12, 2015 – Europeana Tech, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris | watch video
Feb 3, 2015 – ‘Data in the Museum‘ at the Empirical Reasoning Lab, Barnard College, NYC
September 2014 – Google Remix NYC
June 19, 2014 – Beautiful Data at MetaLab Harvard
June 5 – 6, 2014 – We Are Museums 2014, Warsaw.
May 19, 2014 – ‘Tough Times, New Ideas: Experiments in Organizational Change’ with Kathy MacLean, Janet Carding, Suzanne Seriff, and Marsha Bol, American Alliance of Museums Annual conference 2014, Seattle.
May 16, 2014 – SUNY/Fashion Institute of Technology’s 2014 Exhibition Design MA Capstone keynote address, New York.
April 28 – 29, 2014 – Leadership Nouveau 2014, New York.
April 26, 2014 – Lasky 2014 Symposium, Jerome Robbins Foundation at WNYC Greene Space, New York.
April 22, 2014 – New Media and the Museum at CUNY, New York. Slide deck online on Slideshare.
April 2 – 5, 2014 – Museums and the Web 2014, Baltimore
March 27 – April 1, 2014 – Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK
21 November, 2013 – Acquiring the future: speculative curatorship for the new millennium (w/Aaron Cope), Pratt Manhattan, NYC
3 November, 2013 – Freer-Sackler Exhibiting Asia Lecture Series: The Digital Museum and the Evolving Promise of Digitization, Washington DC
23 October, 2013 – Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material National Conference 2013, Adelaide (via video link w/ Aaron Cope)
10-13 September, 2013 – Directors workshop at Biennial International Congress of Maritime Museum 2013, Cascais, Portugal
10-17 August, 2013 – Keynote at International Council of Museums Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5 July, 2013 – Keynote at Digital Acrobatics: Performing the Circus Oz Archive Symposium, Melbourne
4 July, 2013 – Public ‘in conversation with …’ talk at RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne
24 June, 2013 – “How Are Museums Using Digital Technology To Advance Education and Exhibition Practices?” panel at Art Table, New York
11-14 June, 2013 – Human Computer Interaction in Informal Science Education, Alberquerque
20-21 May, 2013 – Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software summit, Library of Congress
17 May, 2013 – Keynote at Brooklyn Visual Heritage, Pratt Institute
13-14 May, 2013 – Opening keynote at MuseumNext, Amsterdam. Slide deck online on Slideshare.
7 May, 2013 – Participation, Engagement, & the Curator at MOMA, Association of Art Museum Curators NYC
26 April, 2013 – TriState Libraries Consortium, Philadelphia
16-20 April, 2013 – Museums and the Web 2013, Portland
11 April, 2013 – public talk on Technology and the Future of Museums at 92Y, NYC
5 April, 2013 – Yale University Library
25 March, 2013 – ArtsTech, NYC
20 March, 2013 – Brown University workshop
19 March, 2013 – Museum Mobile 6 (online conference)
7-11 January 2013 – Digital Humanities Winter Institute, University of Maryland
19 November 2012 – Strategic design workshop at Wellcome Collection, UK
10-12 October 2012 – AV-ICOM 2012, Montreal
3 October 2012 – Museum Ideas, Museum of London, UK.
20-21 September 2012 – Art Museum Libraries Summit, Peabody Essex Museum
17/18 May 2012 – Contemporary Art Forum: Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form, MOMA, NYC.
29 April 2012 – Panellist for “Bringin’ It All Back Home: Acknowledging Your Online Support Community.” at American Association of Museum conference 2012, Minneapolis.
28 April 2012 – Art Museum Marketing Association conference, Minneapolis
24 April 2012 – Rubin Museum of Art
11-14 April 2012 – Museums and the Web, San Diego. I’m running my usual workshop on web analytics for culture institutions, as well as presenting papers, chairing the mobile crit room, and organising the closing plenary on failure.
1 March 2012 – IMLS WebWise, Baltimore.
29 February 2012 – US National Art Education Association’s Museum Division Preconference in New York City, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.