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2024

Apr:
(upcoming): Closing Keynote, Video Mapping Festival, Lille, FRANCE.
Jan:
Invited Presentation: “Like Being There:” Understanding Mediated Presence. BayCHI, San Francisco.

2023

Sep:
Invited Presentation: The Lomax’s Global Jukebox Project and its Untold 150 Year Story10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Venice, ITALY.
Sep:
Closing Plenary: How the 65 Year Story of Art at MIT Shaped the Media Lab Ethos, for the 30th Annual International Light Art Symposium, International Kepes Society, Budapest, HUNGARY.
Jun: Class Project: "XR Tradeshow 2028: Speculative Design Sketches," Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley.
Mar:
Invited Presentation, "The Defining Quality of the Metaverse is Presence," MAS.561, The Metaverse: What, How, Why, and When, MIT Media Lab.
Jan:
Faculty, "Designing XR Experiences," Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley.

2022

Dec:
The One Earth Model: Geographic Interoperability in the Real-World Metaverse, Medium.
Jun:
Presenting NYU Shanghai’s Telewindow project at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), Barcelona.
May:
Big Tech's Race to the Ground (View), Medium.
May:
VR/AR Fundamentals, an online presentation series on Mediated Presence, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco.

2021

Dec:
Publication, Where's Planet Earth in the Metaverse?, Medium.
Dec:
Invited Guest Critic, Inaugural MDes Showcase, UC Berkeley.
Jun:
Presentation, Intro to VR/AR: Past, Present, Future, Shanghai Pudong Public Library.
May:
Portals & Frames: Immersive Projections made for Social Viewing (3D immersive projection installation), NYU Shanghai class project.
Jan:
Publication, A Cheap Simple Hack for Improving Your Online Classtime Experiences, Medium.
Jan:
Presentation, Online PhD seminar, SmartLab Academy, University College Dublin.


2020
May:
VR Confinement Sketches (3D 360 YouTube video), nine 30-second VR narratives made from photogrammetry scans of personal spaces by NYU Shanghai students.
Feb - Sep:
Shanghai Updates



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