KEYNOTES, PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS 1994 – 2020: STELARC 2020 SCIENCE IN THE CITY FESTIVAL Video Presentation: “Meat, Metal & Code: Embodiment, Agency & Interactivity” 6 September – Gruppo78, I.C.A., Trieste, Italy. 2020 DIGITAL TAKEOVER Video Presentation: “Digital Dilemmas: Analogue Bodies, Excessive Desires” 7-11 September – 24SATA, Zagreb, Croatia. 2020 EVENT HORIZON SYMPOSIUM Video Presentation: “Contestable Futures: Meaning in an Age of Chimeras” 18 August – UniMelb, CVA, Science Gallery, A+a- Melbourne, Australia. 2020 TECHNOTRIBALISM Zoom Keynote: “Meat, Metal & Code: Hybrid Human-Machine Systems” 11 July – Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece. 2020 1ST BEYOND HUMANISM CONFERENCE: POSTHUMANS GO VIRAL Online Presentation: “Inverse Desires: Split Bodies and Phantom Glitches” 3 July – 10th Anniversary of the Metahumanist Manifesto, Live on YouTube. 2020 CoVA RESEARCH SEMINAR Online Zoom Presentation: “Uncanny, Creepy & Contestable” 20 April – Centre of Visual Art, VCA, UniMelb, Melbourne, Australia. 2020 AUGMENTED HUMANS CONFERENCE Keynote: “Contemporary Chimeras: Creepy, Uncanny & Contestable Bodies” 16 March – German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern. 2020 SENIOR CLASSES Presentation: “Zombies and Cyborgs: Obsolete and Augmented Bodies” 4 March – Adelaide High School, Adelaide, Australia. 2020 ADELAIDE BIENNALE OF AUSTRALIAN ART: MONSTER THEATRES Keynote: “Contestable Chimeras: Excess, Indifference & Obsolescence” 2 March – Masonic Lodge, Adelaide, Australia. 2019 CHINA CENTRAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS (CAFA) Performance Workshop: “From Extreme Bodies to Virtual Selves: Sumo, Butoh, Robots, Avatars & Performance” 12 December – China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. 1 2019 ART MASTER LECTURE SERIES CHINA CENTRAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS (CAFA) Keynote: “Meat, Metal & Code: Alternate Anatomical Architectures” 11 December – China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. 2019 INSTRUMENTA #2 : MACHINE / MAGIC Performance Workshop: “From Extreme Bodies to Virtual Selves” 12 November – Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. 2019 INSTRUMENTA #2 : MACHINE / MAGIC Presentation: “Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Circulating/Fractal/Phantom Flesh” 11 November – Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. 2019 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MoCA) Presentation: “Contingent & Contestable Futures: Zombies, Cyborgs & Phantoms” 26 October – MoCA, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. 2019 DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL (DA FEST) Presentation: “Excess, Extrusion & Indifference: From Physical to Phantom Flesh” 24 October – Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2019 DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL (DA FEST) Performance Workshop: “From Extreme Bodies to Virtual Selves: Sumo, Butoh, Robots, Avatars and Performance” 23 April – Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2019 THESSALONIKI PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL / 54 DIMITRIA Presentation: “Meat, Metal & Code: The Comatose, The Cadaver & The Chimera” 17 October – MOMus Experimental Centre for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece. 2019 THE MEETUP Presentation: “Contingent & Contestable Futures: Glitches & Contaminations” 4 October – Clyde Hotel, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. 2019 MelCHI / SIGGHI MELBOURNE : CYBORGS AND SUPERHUMANS Presentation: “Proximal & Remote Chimeras: Alternate Anatomical Architectures” 24 September – University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. 2019 THEATRUM MUNDI X – PROGRESS AND DECADENCE Skype Presentation: “Excess & Indifference: Contingent & Contestable Futures” 9-14 September – Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #27 Presentation: “Contestable Futures: Fleshy, Fractal & Phantom Bodies” 19 June – ACMI X Studio, Melbourne, Australia. 2019 DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL (DA FEST) Presentation: “Excess, Extrusion & Indifference: From Physical to Phantom Flesh” 29 May – Goethe Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2 2019 SPECULATIVE FUTURES SALON Presentation: “Obsolete & Ambivalent Body: Alternate Anatomies” 26 April – Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium. 2019 SHAKE THE DISEASE: EXPLORING DIGITAL HEALTH Keynote: “Excess, Emptiness & Ethics: Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras” 25 April – Brussels Health Campus, VUP, Brussels, Belgium. 2019 SENSILAB MONASH UNIVERSITY Presentation: “Excess & Indifference: Alternate Anatomical Architectures” 27 March – Sensilab, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 2019 GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Introductory Presentation: “Fractal Flesh / Flickering Phantoms” 25 March – Asia Pacific Leadership Summit, Adelaide, Australia. 2019 GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Keynote: “Alternate Anatomical Architectures: Bodies, Robots and Virtual Agents” 24 March – Asia Pacific Leadership Summit, Adelaide, Australia. 2019 IN VIVO Presentation: “Phantom Flesh / Hyper Human” 21 February – Cinema 2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. 2019 RADICAL MATTER Presentation: “Fractal Flesh / Phantom Flesh” 13 February – Dyson Hall, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 2018 SPECULATIVE FUTURES MELBOURNE Presentation: “Excess & Indifference: Prosthetic, Fractal & Phantom Flesh” 23 November – Loop Project Space, Melbourne, Australia. 2018 RIDDOCH ART GALLERY Presentation: “Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternate Anatomical Architectures” 3 November – Riddoch Art Gallery, City of Mount Gambier, South Australia. 2018 SITUATE – ART IN FESTIVALS Presentation: “Excess, Ambivalence & Indifference” 24 October – Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia. 2018 QUITE FRANKLY: IT’S A MONSTER CONFERENCE Presentation: “The Thickening: Flattened Faces & Flickering Phantoms 17-19 October – University Club, University of Western Australia, Perth. 2018 KEEPING THE BODY IN MIND Presentation: “Excess, Ambivalence & Indifference” 1 October – Forum Theatre, Arts West, UniMelb, Melbourne, Australia. 3 2018 THE NON-HUMAN IN JAPANESE CULTURE & SOCIETY Skype Presentation: “Phantom Flesh / Hyper Humans” 21-24 September – Centre Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada. 2018 MASTER OF DESIGN AND ART Presentation: “Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras” 20 August – Curtin University, Perth, Australia. 2018 LEONARDO’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY DISCUSSIONS Skype Interview with Danielle Siembieda, Managing Director, Leonardo 27 July – Anilla Cultural Latino Americano-Europa, Uruguay. 2018 TEDxUWA SALON Presentation: “Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras” 26 July – Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth, Australia. 2018 AUSTRALIAN DELPHI USER GROUP Presentation: “Contestable Chimeras: Circulating, Fractal & Phantom Flesh” 24 July – Artifactory, Perth, Australia. 2018 DAEJEON BIENNALE BIO SYMPOSIUM Presentation: “Ambivalent, Uncertain & Indifferent” 18 July – Daejeon City Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea. 2018 UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Presentation: “Ambivalent, Uncertain & Indifferent: Circulating, Fractal & Phantom Flesh” 25 June – School of Art and Design, Hatfield, UK. 2018 IOTA BIOART SERIES: ARTISTS TALKS Presentation: “Contestable Chimeras: Prosthetic, Fractal & Phantom Flesh” 29 May – Paul Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, Halifax, Canada. 2018 GOGBOT CAFÉ Presentation: “BioArt Projects – From Extra Ears to Second Skins” 23 May – Tetem, Enschede, The Netherlands. 2018 META.MORPH 2018: DANGEROUS FUTURES Book Launch: “Stretched Skin- Obsolete, Uncertain & Indifferent Body” 4 May – Dokkhurst, Trondheim, Norway. 2018 META.MORPH 2018: DANGEROUS FUTURES Presentation: “Smart Bombs / Dumb Bodies: Devious Machines, Phantom Glitches” 4 May – Dokkhurst, Trondheim, Norway. 2018 NOVA FESTIVAL Performance Workshop titled “Extreme Bodies to Virtual Selves: Sumo, Butoh, Performance Art & Phantom Flesh” 21 April – Point, Bucharest, Romania. 4 2018 NOVA FESTIVAL Public Presentation titled “Inadequate / Ambivalent / Indifferent: The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera” 20 April – Point, Bucharest, Romania. 2018 BIOART SOCIETY Presentation: “Bioart: From Lab to Landscape”, 16 April – Kuusi Palaa, Helsinki, Finland. 2018 SCHOOL OF DESIGN, ART AND ARCHITECTURE Presentation: “Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternate Anatomies” 13 April – Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. 2018 UNIARTS / ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SIBELIUS ACADEMY Presentation: “Creepy & Uncanny Bodies: Prosthetic, Fractal, Phantom Flesh” 12 April – Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland. 2018 THEATRE ACADEMY Performance Workshop: “Extreme Bodies to Virtual Selves: Sumo, Butoh, Performance Art & Phantom Flesh” 12 April – Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland. 2018 UNI ARTS HELSINKI + ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS + SIBELIUS ACADEMY + THEATRE ACADEMY Presentation: “Creepy & Uncanny Bodies: Prosthetic, Fractal, Phantom Flesh” 10 April – Theatre Academy, Auditorium 1, Helsinki, Finland. 2018 ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES BEAUX-ARTS Presentation: “Prosthetic, Fractal & Phantom Flesh” 5 April – Ampitheatre des Loges, Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. 2018 CONSTRUCTING REALITIES LECTURE SERIES Presentation: “Contestable Chimeras – Bodies, Machines and Phantom Flesh” 22 March – Bartlett School of London, Here East, London, UK. 2018 VIRTUAL FUTURES: NEAR FUTURE FICTIONS Presentation: 20 March – Meeting Room, London Library, London, UK. 2018 INTER: ART ACTUEL – TECHNOCORPS ET CYBERMILIEUX Online Round Table with Orlan, Jacques Donguay and Michael La Chance 21 February – School of Art, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada. 2018 BDYHAX2018 Presentation: “Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras” 2-3 February – Sheraton Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA. 2018 THE ECOTIC CHALLENGE: POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECOLOGICAL 5 STAKES OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Presentation: 23-24 January – French Embassy, Tokyo, Japan. 2017 VIRTUAL FUTURES / ALTERNATE ANATOMIES Panel Discussion