Professional Activities
2008
Inflexions online journal - Advisory Board
The Contemporary Collaborator in an Interdisciplinary World - Panel, Reflections on Differing Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Projects and Related Collaboration Methodologies, CAA, Dallas
Adjunct Faculty - Korea University, Seoul Korea (forthcoming)
An Embodied Expansion of Neural Aesthetics — The Aesthetics of Neosentience, Duke University (forthcoming)
2007
Adjunct Faculty - Korea University, Seoul Korea
Unpacking Neosentience / Dystopian Techno-Evolution? Mutomorphosis, Prague
Neosentiece — A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry Related to Artificial Intelligence, Co-written with Otto Rössler, Presented at Reviewing The Future: Vision, Innovation, Emergence, Planetary Collegium, Montreal, Canada
Book Review for University of Chicago Press
Book Review for the Journal Presence - From Communication to Presence
External Academic Advisor, City University of Hong Kong
Possible Futures for Digital Literature, Literary Arts 2006/07 Reading/Lecture Series,
Panel, Brown University
2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Program Juror
Brown University Visiting Faculty, Providence, Rhode Island
2006
Neosentience, talk presented in conjunction with Digital Aesthetic 2, Harris Museum, Preston, UK
ATTSEA, Myspace publication,
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=80272026
Brown University Visiting Faculty, Providence RII
Ph.D. Thesis Review, Sydney, Australia
Major Public Art Proposal for the Oslo Computer Science building
2005
“Intelligent Computerized Dolls as Companions in Old Age”, Delivered by Otto Rössler. Co-authored with Kensei Hiwaki, Walter Ratjen, Bill Seaman, Markus Locker, George E. Lasker and Ayten Aydin; 17th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, August. 1-7, 2005. Paper presented at the session “2nd Symposium on Personal and Spiritual Development in the World of Cultural Diversity”, August 2
Recorded a 45 Hour conversation/interview with the Scientist Otto Rössler
Guest participant in International Forum on Digital Writing - Empyre List (Hosted in Australia) https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2005-October/subject.html
Tenure Review - Chicago Art Institute
FindingFluidForm , Brighton, England (Guest speaker)
Harvard GSD Forum, Digital Determinism - Roundtable Discussion with Seaman, Kostas Terzidis, Despina Kakoudak, Antoine Picon, Verena Conley, April 28, 2005
Founded the experimental band ATTSEA with Raphael Attias / over 25 new works composed
Review of Proposal for major Architecture/Sensing/Dance Research project, Arts and Humanities Research Board, England
ACM Multi Media Interactive Art Program Committee, Singapore
Review of Major International Proposal for Austrtalian Centers of Excellence
Consultation for Anonomous Foundation
Advisory Board - Initiative for New Media, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
Lef Foundation Consultation
Developed a new course with Dean Dr. Barbara Von Eckardt – Cognitive Science and Digital Media which was funded in part by the RISD, Kyobo fund.
Brown University Visiting Faculty, Providence, RI
Board of Directors — Electronic Literature Organisation
Major Report for Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture,
Quebec, Canada
Pattern Flows | Hybrid Accretive Processes Informing Identity Construction, forthcoming Convergence Magazine, winter, 2005
2004
Major Invited Proposal for “The Public” related to public interaction environment, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England
Chaper Review for the book “Biomimetics - Mimicking and Inspired by Biology”,
Edited by Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Referee for Guggenheim Foundation
2002
Board — Electronic Literature Organisation, Los Angeles, California
Academic Board, Abstract Reviews for — Digital Arts and Culture / Steaming Worlds, Melbourne, Australia
“Recombinant Poetic Networks”, Computers in Art and Design, Paper Derby, England
“Re-embodied Intelligence” Objects vs. Pixels Symposium, Paper Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Artists Teaching Artists” The Master Class Paradigm, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paper Rotterdam, Netherlands
“Hyperanimation: Digital Images and Virtual Worlds” book by Robert Russett, John Libbey and Company publishers
Forthcoming. Included in “The History of Technologically-Assisted Art Since World War 1” by Frank Popper,
Tenure Review, University of California, Davis
Tenure Review, University of California, Irvine
2001
SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, Aug 12 - 17: “The Pixel / The Line: Approaches to Interactive Text”. paper entitled “Recombinant Poetics - Media-Element Field Explorations”
“Emotional Architectures / Cognitive Armatures” at the Banff Center, Presented “The Hybrid Invention Generator” and gave the paper “Toward the Production of Nano-computers and in Turn Nano Related Emotive