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1999-2003
2004
Invited participant, ACLS inaugural workshop to articulate
future needs and opportunities in the humanities with respect
to digital technology and infrastructure, New York, NY, February
9, 2004.
Commentator on session "Visualizing the Past", conference
on History and Geography: Assessing the Role of Geographical
Information in Historical Scholarship, Newberry Library, Chicago,
IL, March 25-27, 2004.
"Techniques of Epiphany" (at The University of Georgia)
and "Technology, Instruments, and the Amplification of Reality"
(at the Georgia Museum of Art), Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting
Artist/Scholar Program, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., April
12-14, 2004.
"Beyond Productivity," Responses to the National
Research Council (NRC) Report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Seedbed Initiative for Transdomain Creativity, April 16-17, 2004.
"Sir William Hamilton's 'Shadow-Shews': Theurgy and the
Media Origins of Art," Inaugural Speaker for Nicholson Center
for British Studies, University of Chicago, April 22, 2004; Workshop:
"Techniques of Epiphany," April 27, 2004.
Visiting Scholar Series, "Art and Technology". Department
of Art and Art History, DePaul University, Chicago, April 26,
2004.
"Public Health as Public Art. The Role of Images in a
Time of Epidemic," for the "Gender Science and Anatomy"
Series Workshop and Public Lecture, Northwestern University,
Chicago, May 3, 2004.
"Projection and Epiphany : on the Forgotten Media Theory
of the Origin of the Art", Colloque international, "L'histoire
de l'histoire de l'art en France au XIXe siècle",
Paris, France, June 3, 2004.
Co-chair (with Bridget Elliott), Panel, Mapping the Body,
International Congress of Art History (CIHA): Sites and Territories
of Art History, Montreal, August 22-27, 2004.
Symposium Speaker, "Outside In: Exploring the Human Genome
Project from Across the Disciplines,"Mary and Leigh Block
Museum of Art, Northwestern University, October 2, 2004.
Keynote Speaker, "Interplay," Midwest College Art
Association Conference, Minneapolis, October 7, 2004.
Faculty-Graduate Student Seminar, Art History Department,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 6, 2004.
Chair, panel on "Scientific Mappings," at annual
Science, Literature, and Society Conference, Durham, N.C., October
14-17, 2004.
Paper,in same session :"Hedonics: Pleasure, Pain, and
the Neurobiology of Feeling."
"Optical Technology & the Construction of Subjectivity",
The 2004 Dale Lecture, The University of Western Ontario, November
8, 2004.
Invited Lecture, "Transcendence Machines: Nanotechnology's
Romantic Vectors," Symposium: Das Bild in der Wissenschaft
(Image in Science), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, December 15-17,
2004.
2005
"A Cognitive Aesthetics of Human Interiority", University
of Southern California Workshop on Visualizing Science, February
25, 2005
"'Mirror Neurons': Looking at Face Painters from the
Vantage of Brain Dynamics," Session: "The Face",
Annual Meeting of the American Eighteenth-Century Society,"
March 31-April 3, 2005. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Plenary Lecture, "Recapturing the Complexity of Mimesis:
Mirrors and the Optical Technology of Subjectivity," Narrative:
An International Conference, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville,
KY, April 8, 2005.
Plenary Lecture, "The remaining 10%: The Role of Sensory
Knowledge in the Age of the Self-Organizing Brain", International
Conference on Visual Literacy at University College Cork (UCC),
Ireland, April 14-15 2005.
Plenary Lecture, Neuroaesthetics Conference, Goldsmiths College,
London, May 20-21, 2005.
Commentator for "Field Works: Art/Geography," at
UCLA's Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, May 5-6, 2005.
Keynote Speaker, "Artificial Intensity: The Optical Technologies
of Personal Reality," Gender, Perfomativity and Technology,
Institute for Women's Studies and the Institute for Science Studies,
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, June 8, 2005.
Invited Presenter, "Orientation: on the Pre- and Post-History
of the Sublime." at Image and Meaning 2: Discovering
New Visual Expressions for Science and Technology: A Participatory
Forum, the Getty Center, Los Angeles, June 23-25, 2005.
Invited Speaker at Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomenon
Conference, June 26 - July 1, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy
Museum, Chicago, IL.
Plenary speaker, "Synchronizing the Local with the Distant:
What Compressive Emblems Reveal about Oscillatory Brain Dynamics,"
Triennial Meeting of the International Society for Emblem Studies,
Champaign-Urbana July 24-30, 2005.
Organizer and Speaker, Plenary
Panel: Image Science and "Representation": From a Cognitive
Perspective; Refresh! First International Conference on the
Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology, Banff New
Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 28 - October
2, 2005. Link to further information
Chair of Plenary Panel: Feeling Thought: Reimaging Interiority
in Light of Recent Cognitive Research, at Nineteenth Annual Conference
of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Chicago,
IL, November 10-13, 2005.
Cognitive Forum with Gerald Edelman, Warren Neidich, Katherine
Hayles, Cary Wolfe, Eduardo Kac, Joseph Tabbi, at Nineteenth
Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and
the Arts, Chicago, IL, November 11, 12, 2005.
2006
Plenary lecture, "The Return of Autonomy: From the Aesthetic
to the Cognitive Object," Freie Universität Berlin,
February 6, 2006
Keynote Address, "Beyond the Atomistic Aperture: The
Spiritual History of Apparatus," International Society For
Photographic Education, Chicago, March 25, 2006.
Address on the Occasion of the Rededication of Buttrick Hall
(dedicated to Humanistic and Interdisciplinary Knowledge), Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, April 20, 2006.
University Lecture for Depts. of Art, Art History, Film, Media
Studies, Philosophy and Neuroscience,"No Pictures on the
Inside: From Representation to Mental Representation,"
University of Edinburgh, May 6, 2006.
Lecture, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, June 6, 2006
Lecture, "On the Impossibilities of Self-Consciousness:
From Representation to Mental Representation," in Conference
on Representations of Impossibility, Institute for Hermeneutics
and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich, July 7, 2006.
Plenary Speaker, "Putting Images Back in Mind: From Representation
to Mental Representation," University of Manchester, Manchester,
UK, November 7, 2006.
2007
Invited Speaker, "Visual Formulas, Schema, and How They
Mean," Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, January
16, 2007.
Speaker, "Narrative or Episodic Self-Consciousness: The
View from Neuroaesthetics" for Art and Psychoanalysis: Theoretical
Perspectives from Antiquity to the Comic Strip, Annual College
Art Association Conference, New York, February 14-17, 2007.
Burke Lecturer, "The Return of Grammars of Expression:
Schematizing Nature and the Body," for the Symposium on
Human Nature: Future Worlds, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine
Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 1, 2007.
Inaugural Lecture, "Neuroscience and the Art Museum:
What's Left of Selective Attention?" for the Lecture Series
on The Future of the Art Museum, at High Museum, Atlanta, March
22, 2007.
"Narrative or Episodic Self-Consciousness: The View from
Neuroaesthetics" 23rd Annual Meeting of ASECS, Atlanta,
GA, March 23, 2007.
Invited lecture,"Compounding: Emblems and Neural Synchrony",
SUNY-Buffalo, April 11, 2007.
Lecture, "Grammars of Expression and the Encapsulation
of Thought," in Conference on Humanities and Neuroscience,
Bucknell University, April 20-22, 2007
Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination
(New York): participant with Vittorio Gallese and David Freedberg
in a roundtable "The Eye of the Beholder" exploring
how and whether the discovery of mirror neurons can give some
insight into the way art is perceived, what is perceived as art,
and how art is understood and responded to, April 23, 2007, New
York, NY.
Plenary Speaker, for "Image Processes, Imagination and
the Imaginary in Exchange between Cultural and Natural Sciences"
at ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology), Karlsruhe, Germany,
May 3-5, 2007.
Plenary Speaker, for Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations,
Theory, Culture, & Society 25th Anniversary Conference, Tokyo
University Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan, July 13-16, 2007.
Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Arts, Reed
College, Portland, Oregon, October 1-5, 2007.
Dayton Visiting Artists Program, "Technologies of Interiority:
Instrumentalizing Subjectivity," Connecticut College, New
London, Oct. 17, 2007.
Invited Speaker, NSF Workshop on Nano-Imaging, University
of South Carolina Nano Center, October 25-27, 2007.
"The New Attention Disorders and the Limitations of Autopoiesis,"
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, 21st Annual Conference:
CODE, Portland, Maine, November 1-4, 2007
Plenary Speaker, Representations of Invisible Worlds, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, November 5-9, 2007.
Invited Speaker, "Philosophy and Ethics" Conference
[Species of Origin
Project], "Moral Grammar: Towards an Evolutionary Biology
of Images,"University of Glasgow, Glasgow, December 13-14,
2007
Templeton Research Fellow, Creativity: An Inquiry into the
Nature of Innovation in Science, Art, Philosophy, and Religion,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2007-08.
2008
Lecture Series as Templeton Fellow, "Crystal and Smoke:
Facets of Cognitive Aesthetics," University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, January 28-February 10, 2008.
lecture 1: "Skeletal Figures: The Emotional Intuition
of Form"
lecture 2: "Cold Intimacy:/Hot Entanglement: Meaning in
Combinations"
lecture 3: "Motor Mirroring: Recognition as the Performance
of Other
Minds"
lecture 4: "Inner Sky: Cave Vision or the Topography of
Sensory
Deprivation"
lecture 5: "T he Miscellaneous Subject: Episodic Personhood
from Mosaic
to Bar Code"
lecture 6: "The Long Conscious Look: Towards a Pedagogy
of Attentiveness"
"Whatever Happened to Conscious Attention? Why the Brain
Sciences Need the Aware-Making Visual Arts", Dialogues
in Art and Architecture lecture series, Athenaeum
Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA, Tuesday, February 12,
2008
Invited Lectures, The Bar-Hillel Colloquium for the History,
Philosophy and Sociology of Science, 27th Annual Series, sponsored
by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, The Cohn Institute for the
History and philosophy of Science and ideas, Tel Aviv University,
the Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science,
Technology and Medicine, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, March 23-29, 2008.
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