Selected Presentations & Appearances
Traces, Imprints, and Ghostly Presence: Excavating Spaces In-Between
· November 16, 2025
Keynote/Named Lecture
ArtNow Magazine,
Westbund Art Fair Main Venue
Ecologies
- SuperNature
· 2022
Invited Talk
IDEAT Magazine
Research-Based Practice / Practice-Driven Research
· 2021
Invited Talk
Experimental Arts,
Central Academy of Fine Art
Trigger: Artistic Methodology
· 2021
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Power Station of Art
Inside Dogma Lab
· 2021
Invited Talk
ArtSci Salon and Leonardo Laser Talks,
University of Toronto
Skin Series
· 2021
Invited Talk
Art Laboratory Berlin
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Creative Industries
· 2021
Invited Talk
Luca School of the Arts (Belgium)
Co-Evolution of 2 AI's
- Inter-World-View (World Young Scientist Summit)
· 2020
Keynote/Named Lecture
China Academy of Art and Zhejiang Association of Science and Technology,
Wenzhou, China
The Silkworm Project and Other Works
- On the Nature of Nature, Making Nature: Talks on Design and the Wondrous
· 2020
Invited Talk
Sino-French Design Week,
Ponidou and West Bund Museum
Education + Media
- 6th Annual Intermedia Festival: International Academic Seminars
· 2020
Keynote/Named Lecture
China Academy of Art,
Ningbo, China
The Silkworm Project and Other Works
· 2019
Invited Talk
Matters of Activity, Cluster of Excellence,
Humboldt University
The Artist-Silkworm Interface: The Agricultural Treatise as Source and Scrutiny for Creating an Artist Book
· 2019
Invited Talk
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Art x Tech
- Australia-China Youth Dialogue
· 2019
Invited Talk
Australian Embassy,
Shanghai
Future Materials and Bio Design
· 2018
Invited Talk
BioFiction,
Chronus Art Center
The Silkworm Project
- Nonhuman Subjectivities
· 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Art Laboratory Berlin,
Art Laboratory Berlin
The Silkworm Project
- NeoLife
· 2015
International Meeting or Conference
SymbioticA,
University of Western Australia
Biological Variation and Art Practice
· 2014
Invited Talk
Rockbund Museum,
Rockbund Museum
Service to the Profession
Reviewer
- Art Papers
·
2025
Editorial Activities
SIGGRAPH
Co-Lead
- Art, Media & Cybernetics Working Group
·
November 2024
Other
American Society of Cybernetics
Co-Initiator and co-lead of the Art, Media, and Cybernetics Working Group at the American Society of Cybernetics with Benjamin Bacon.
Reviewer
·
2024
Editorial Activities
Technoetic Arts Journal
Research Member
- Ambient Intelligence Research Cluster
·
2024
Other
V2_Lab for the Unstable Media
Research Member
- XResearch Cluster
·
2022
Other
V2 Lab for the Unstable Media
The XResearch Cluster is led by Associate Prof. Benjamin Bacon (DKU) and Director of Lab Boris Debackere (V2). It is a collaboration between the Design, Technology, and Radical Media Labs and V2_Lab for the Unstable Media. The cluster's research focuses in investigations at the intersection between Extended Reality and art.