"Entangled: Real time Sound, Performativity and Embodied Machines," Challenging Music, Dance and Performance: The Electronic Media, Symposium, Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz, Austria, September 2009

"Saturation versus Silence: Audio-Visual Perception in the Visual and Media Arts," See This Sound symposium, Linz 2009, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria, September 2009

"Shopping and Performativity," The Future of Retail, Symposium, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, September 2009

"Just Noticeable Difference: Space, Embodiment and the Thresholds of Perception," Elektra Lab, Montreal, Canada,
October 2009

"The Stage as Organism: Liveness, Dynamics and Expression in Early Twentieth Century Scenography," Re:Live: Third International Conference on Media Art History, Melbourne, Australia, November 2009

Panel Chair/Moderator, Enuciations of Non Human Performativity, PSI (Performance Studies International) Conference #15, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2009

"Some Recent Projects," Elektra, International Market for Digital Arts. Cinemateque Quebecois. May 2009.

"Performative and Embodied Interaction," Department of Interaction Design. University of the Arts, Zürich, April 2009

“Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance,” Colloquium Series, Music and the Body, Department of Music, Brown University, April 2009

“Embodiment, Subjectivity and Machines in Recent New Media Projects,” Keynote Talk, Embodiment and Mobility Symposium, Digital Media Department, RISD, April 2009.

Live Sound Design and Real Time Performance. Theater et Son research group. CRI. Monument Nationale, Montreal, March 2009.

“Performance, Knowing and the Dynamics of Time,” Keynote Talk, Attakkalari India Biennial 2009, Bangalore, India, February 2009.

“From Representation to Performance: Some Notes of Machine Agencies,” Un/Contained Body, 2nd Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the Humanities Program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia,” Studio 303, Montreal, QC, April 2008

“Dramaturgies of Sound: Interactive Sound Design in Live Performance-Two Case Studies,” Sound in Interaction Design, CHI 2008 Workshop, April 2008

“Schwelle and Responsive Performance Environments,” Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India, February 2008

“Performing Technologies,” ITP, New York University, November 2007

“Performing Technologies,” City University of New York, Queens College, November 2007

“Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices,” Re:place: Second international Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin, Germany, November 2007

“Sensor driven Responsive Audio Environments,” Hexagram research presentation at Cirque du Soleil Headquarters, Montreal, October 2007

“Performative Architectures/Architectures of Performance,” DAM (Deutsches Architectur Museum), Frankfurt, Germany, July 2007

Schwelle, Roundtable Discussion, Place des Arts, May 2007

“Schwelle: Sensor Augmented, Adaptive Sound Design for Live Theatrical Performance,” NIME 2007, New York, NY, April 2007

Guest Artist Lecture, Fondacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina November 2006

“Sensation and the Threshold of Immanence,” Conference on the work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, November 2006

“Schwelle: The Thresholds of Experience.” Public roundtable organized with the Society of Arts and Technology (SAT) in Montreal by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, October 2006

“Technologies of Performance,” Guest lecture in the Topological Media Lab’s (Concordia) Black Box Cinq a Sept series, May 2006

Research talk as part of Hexagram visit to National Research Council’s Industrial Materials Institute (IMI) in Boucherville, Quebec, March 2006

“Performative Spaces and Ubiquitous Computing.” Floating Points Lecture Series. Emerson College, Boston, MA. Invited lecture by Turbulence.org founder Helen Thorington, February 2006

“From the Stage to iPods: Performance and Technology,” International Society for Performing Arts Presenters (ISPA) Annual Conference, New York. Plenary conference presentation in front of three hundred of the world’s top performing arts presenters about the history and future of technological innovations for the stage, January 2006

“Technology and the Transformation of Performance,” Digital Cultures Dance-Technology Laboratory, Nottingham Trent University. Guest lecture with invitation from Kondition Pluriel (Montreal), December 2005

“Media Research/Creation for the Performing Arts Outside of the Performing Arts: Two Case Studies,” Digital Cultures Symposium, Nottingham Trent University, December 2005. December 2005

“The Performative Turn in New Media.” REFRESH! First International Conference on Media Art Histories. Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada, October 2005

“Immersive Performance Spaces: Responsiveness, Immersion and the Elasticity of Time,” Elektra Festival 2005, Montréal, Canada, May 2005

“Seminar vs. Studio: Theory/Praxis in New Media Education,” Share, Share Widely Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. Plenary presentation at 1st conference on new media education, April 2005

“Sponge: A Case Study in Practice-based Research.” 4th Annual ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition, Goldsmiths College, London, April 2005

“Thresholds of Performance/Immanence, Blurring and Sentience,” Becoming Uncomfortable: Performance Studies International Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 2005

“Technology and the Transformation of Performance: A Short History,” Visiting Artist lecture public lecture series, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass, February 2005

“Sponge’s Public Experiments in Phenomenology and Perception.” Conference on Responsive Spaces and Ubiquitous Presence, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff Canada, August 2004

Workshop Leader, “Technology and the Passerby” 2nd Annual Sommerakademie, Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, August 2004

“Suspension: The Edges of Experience,” DAMPF (Dance and Media Performance Fusion), Tanz Cologne,Cologne, Germany, July 2004

Panel Presentation. “Performance and Interaction: Passivity and Threshold.” SLS (Society for Literature and Science), Paris, France, June 2004

“TGarden: Augmented Physicality and Wearable Instruments. Mobile Music workshop. Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute. Göteborg, Sweden. June 2004

“Blurred Bodies/Sentient Space: Ubiquitous Computing and the Realm of the Stage.” Subtle Technologies Conference. Toronto. May 2004

“Responsive Musical Environments: Theory, History and Praxis.” Concordia University, MFA Visiting Artists Lecture Series. Montreal, Quebec. Canada. February 2004

“Schwelle: The Edges of Experience” Transmediale 04, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, February 2004

“Apparent Motion: A study in Real Time Physical Modeling for Collective Musical Interaction and Performance using Max/MSP.” Workshop at theTopological Media Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology. January 2004

“Scenography in the 21st Century.” HfG-Karlsruhe. December 2003

“Aesthetics, Technology and Experience of Responsive Environments.” N_Space. HfF Potsdam. November 2003

“Acoustic Space and Embodiment.” Interveneur. Soundxchange conference, University of the Arts(UdK), Berlin. October 2003

“Transforming Space: Performance and Interaction.” E-Culturefair, Amsterdam. October 2003

“Performing in (Public) Space: Performative Architecture, Ubiquitious Computing and Interaction.” Freie Universität, Berlin, Conference: Performing Spaces: Spatiality in Visual Culture. May 2003

“Blurring the Lines: Interdisciplinary Art, Design and Research.” Transmediale salon Berlin. May 2003

“Real Time Audio Responsive Spaces.” Robert Schumann Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf. May 2003