April 2024

I gave a talk on my doctoral  thesis on Hansjörg Mayer's  titles of the 1960s for the Computer Arts Society at the British Computer Society in London; a video of the talk is available at:

https://youtu.be/ZTz8PqAbCz4?si=bIssOEB2-M4KOSuv

February 2024

I co-organised an event, "Cybernetic Serendipity - Towards AI" -- from 1:00-9:00 pm  at the ICA on 24 February, with an amazing line up of speakers and performers. Details:

https://www.ica.art/learning/cybernetic-serendipity-towards-ai

17 January 2024: I introduced the Inaugural Jasia Reichardt Lecture for the Computer Arts Society, at the British Computer Society in Bishopsgate in London

8 November 2023: I contributed a 25 minute talk on Hansjörg Mayer's typographic titles of the 1960s to the "Typomorphies: the poem and graphic forms (type)"dayat the II Jornada Internacional de Poesia Visual: Do Corpo do Signo ao Cyber Céu, at Casa das Rosas, São Paulo

June 2023: "From Monkeys at Typewriters to Hallucinating Large Language Models: What Can 'AI' Systems learn from [leading] Artists and Poets?" An evening event with performative readings by Tony White and a visual presentation and discussion with Paul Brown and Joel McKim. Organised by Joel McKim and me in Bloomsbury.

 April 2023

I spoke at the Watch Words symposium in Bristol, organised by Dr Natalie Ferris and Dr Greg Thomas. I spoke on connections between John Furnival and Hansjörg Mayer, and interviewed Liliane Lijn about her machine, text and visual poetics of the 1960s.