| 2023 Oct |
2023 Oct "Curating Behaviours; New Media Art." Curating and Art History course, Curatorial Practice Now module invited speaker. 27 October. York: University of York. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2023 Apr |
"New Objects: Collecting New Media Art, Audiences and Exhibiting". Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2023 Mar |
"Critical Digital and the PostDoc Condition: Have fun and change things". British Academy Midlands Multidisciplinary Meet-up: Culture and Heritage in the Digital Age. Birmingham: British Academy, University of Birmingham and University of Wolverhampton. |
Invited
keynote speakerr |
| 2021 Apr |
Kelas Seni Rupa - Curating Art After New Media. Jakarta, Indonesia: https://salihara.org/post_kompetisi/undangan-terbuka-kelas-seni-rupa-curating-after-new-media/. [online]. |
Invited
3-day workshop leader |
| 2021-23 Jan |
"What is the shape of a PhD research process?" Half day, 28 January. Glasgow: Graduate School of the College of Arts, University of Glasgow. [Online]. |
Invited
workshop leader
|
| 2014-21 |
Curating Art after New Media – Professional Development Course. London: University of Sunderland https://curatingprofessionalcourse.wordpress.com/. |
Curator and leader |
| 2019 Dec |
"Curating New Media Art Between Institutional and Commercial Pressures." Contemporary Art // An Unknown Panel. 13 Dec. Istanbul: Istanbul Technical University/ Akbank Cultural Centre. |
Invited
Keynote speaker |
| 2019 Nov |
"Curating and Collecting Interaction" Sentient Circuitries: Digital Media Art Symposium. Vancouver: Surrey Art Gallery. Invited Keynote speaker; chapter in Techlab 20th Anniversary Publication, Consultation of digital art best practices for Digital Strategic Plan; consultation on plans for new Interactive Art Museum. |
Invited
Keynote speaker etc. |
| 2019 Nov |
"An Aesthetics of Interaction and Participation? New Media Art, and Histories of Exhibitions." The age of art. Aesthetics and grammar of contemporary artistic languages. Florence: University of Florence. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2019 Nov |
"Collecting" Credit - a discussion about monetisation and value in the art world. London: Central St. Martins. 1-day symposium. https://www.project.credit/. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2019 Sep |
Graham, Beryl and Sarah Cook (moderators) with guests Rene Cepeda, Jo Joelson, Amanda MacDonald Crowley, Suzy O'Hara, Dominic Smith, Georgia Smithson, Kevin Walker (2019) "CRUMB Radio Hour."" Unfinished List radio streams, a project by ShuLea Chang for Ars Electronica. Vienna: Live stream, archived at: http://stwst48x5.stwst.at/en/unfinished_list. Invited. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2019 Apr |
"Histories of Interactive New Media Art Exhibitions." Art Y Nuevos Medios: Reflectiones, Practicas, Desafios, Conference of Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte. 26 April. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. http://arteuam.com/viii-jornadas-de-especializacion-en-historia-del-arte-arte-y-nuevos-medios-reflexiones-practicas-desafios/. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2019 Mar |
"In conversation with Heath Bunting." Heath Bunting presentation and Workshop: Intimate Data. 4:30 14 March. Newcastle: Northern Charter. |
Invited
chair/dialogue |
| 2019 Feb |
"Curating New Media Art: Participation." Leeds University Visiting Speaker Programme. |
Invited
speaker and tutorials |
| 2018 Nov |
"New Materialities and New Collecting: Future Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art." International Symposium: What do Museums Collect? Seoul, Korea: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA). |
Invited
speaker , published paper |
| 2017 Nov |
"Invited seminar and discussion with Prof. Laozhu, staff and PhD researchers of Media Lab (National Committee of Experimental Art), Annual of Contemporary Art of China." Peking University. 26 November. Invited seminar. Beijing: Peking University. |
Invited
speaker |
| 2017 Nov |
"Exhibiting New Media and Digital Art: Educating Curators." EAST–International Conference on Education, Art, Science and Technology, Beijing, China. 2-day Art/Science Conference. Beijing: CAFA Central Academy of Fine Art. |
Invited
speaker and Consortium Representative |
| 2017 Nov |
IRL to URL: Image Objects. Bloomberg New Contemporaries. 2-day Symposium. Gateshead: BALTIC/ Bloomberg New Contemporaries. |
Invited
chair and participant
|
| 2017 Sep |
Digital Dark Ages Artists' Panel. Castleton: AND Festival. http://andfestival.org.uk. |
Invited
chair |
| 2017 Sep |
"Collection-ish" Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years into the Future. London: British Computer Society; Computer Arts Society; Ravensbourne College; the Electronic Literature Organization; the University of Colorado; and Washington State University. |
Invited
speaker
|
| 2017 Jul |
"Human Computer Interactions - Fused Futures." 31st British Human Computer Interaction Conference. 4 Jul. Sunderland: http://hci2017.bcs.org/programme/. |
Invited
keynote speaker |
| 2017 Jun |
"Gary Zhexi Zhang 'Erotics of the Interface'." Iniva Research Network Events. London: Iniva. |
Invited
conversation host |
| 2017 Mar |
with Coline Milliard, Alison Craighead, Technostalgia Panel Conversation - Anthologies Launch Event. 23 Mar. London: The Moving Museum/ Carroll/Fletcher. Streamed at: http://www.themovingmuseum.com/events/tmm-anthology-issue-1-technostalgia-launch-event/. Invited panel conversation. |
Invited
conversation
speaker |
| 2016 Nov |
"Curating and Collecting New Media Art." Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures. Portugal: University of Lisbon. http://postscreenfestival.com. |
Invited
speaker and workshop leader. |
| 2016 Jul |
Media in the Expanded Field: Curators and museum professionals' Think Tank. Casa Wabi, Mexico: Montabonel. http://montabonel.com/research/media-in-the-expanded-field/. |
Invited
Think Tank member. |
| 2016 May |
Curating Art After New Media Hong Kong. Curators’ Professional Development Course. Hong Kong: Videotage. http://www.videotage.org.hk/web/subpage.php?mid=28&id=402. |
Invited co-director and keynote
speaker. |
| 2016 May |
"Chair's Introduction - Equal Collaborations?" Thinking Digital in the Arts: Unusual Collaborations. 10 May. Gateshead: Sage Gateshead. |
Invited chair and
speaker. |
| 2015 Nov |
"Collecting New Media Art." CI Dialogues, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair. Istanbul: CI. Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmDfTSkmYIw. |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2015 Sep |
"Curating Art" Ormston House/Limerick University, Eire. Invited speaker. |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2015 Aug |
"Collecting After New Media" presenter and panel chair, ISEA 2015 Symposium. Vancouver. |
Speaker and panel chair. |
| 2015 Jul |
2015 Jul "Equal Partnerships" Policy Priorities for the Creative Industries - A Manifesto for the New Government GovKnow Symposium: London. Presenter. . |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2014 Jul |
Cultural Value and the Digital. Tate, RCA and LSBU, AHRC Research Symposium: London: Tate Modern. |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2014 May |
Thinking Digital Art. Digital Cultures: Future Thinking and Innovation for Arts and Heritage. Invited Chair. Newcastle: Tyne and Wear Museums Service. |
Invited
chair. |
| 2014 Apr |
"Catalogues and Exhibitions." Curating the Digital, at CHI Conference. Invited keynote presentation. Toronto: CHI. |
Invited
workshop keynote |
| 2014 Apr |
"Exhibition Histories of Critical Participatory Systems" Association of Art Historians. Paper. London RCA: AAH. |
Paper. |
2013
Jul |
"Exhibiting new media and digital art: Interactive audiences and arts administrators/curators." Giving up the archive? Reflections on the creation, examination and dissemination of arts organisations' archives. London: ARLIS\UK & Ireland, The Glasgow School of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, AHRC. |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2013 Jun |
"Curating Participation - Online and Offline." Online And Offline: Curatorial And Artistic Responses To A Transitioning Internet. Dublin: Rua Red Gallery, Glitch Festival. |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2013 Feb |
"Curating after New Media Art: Museums, Collections and Audiences" University of Manchester, Centre For Museology. |
Invited
speaker. |
| 2012 Dec |
Collecting and Presenting Born-Digital Art working conference. Baltan Laboratories, and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. |
Invited
guest. |
| 2012 Oct |
"Exhibiting new media and digital art: Interactive audiences and arts administrators/curators" Dongduk University, Seoul, Korea. |
Invited
speaker. |
2012
Jun |
"New Media and Digital Art: Interactive Audiences and Arts Administrators" CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China. Paper. Invited lecture. 12 June |
Invited
speaker. |
2012
Mar |
"Histories of Participation and New Media Art" AAH conference, Milton Keynes. Paper. |
Paper. |
2012
Feb |
"Curating Participation" Vrije Universitieit Brussel/IBBT. Invited KEYNOTE and Masterclass. |
Invited
keynote
speaker and masterclass. |
2012
Jan |
"Museums and New Media Art" Leicester University, Museums Studies Lecture Series, Leicester. Invited Lecture. |
Invited
speaker. |
Jul
2011 |
"Museums, New Media Art” EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London.
|
Invited
keynote
speaker. |
May
2011 |
“Curating Participation” Curating Masters, HGDK University Zurich.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Mar
2011 |
“Curating Art After New Media: Curating as a Form of Creative Inquiry?” Edinburgh College of Art, Research Seminar Series.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Feb
2011 |
“Immaterial Portraits: Across Borders” Digital Portraits of Transculturalism, Centre for Creative Collaboration, Goldsmith’s College, London.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Feb
2011 |
“Participation and Engagement: Curating Contemporary Art after New Media” College Art Association (CAA) Conference. New York
|
Speaker and chair. |
Oct
2010 |
“Curating New Media Art and Participation” 3rd Conference on Innovation and Cultural Dissemination, CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. http://www.cccb.org/en/curs_o_conferencia-3rd_conference_on_innovation_and_cultural_dissemination-35282 |
Invited
speaker. |
Oct
2010 |
“New Media Art” Panel chair. Museums Association Conference. Manchester.
|
Invited
speaker. |
May
2010 |
“Documentation, Archiving, and Interaction.” Media Libraries and Archives for the 21st Century symposium. 28-29 May. Gijon: LABoral. |
Invited
speaker. |
Mar
2010 |
“Self-Institutionalisation” Institutional Critique. 26-27 March. Kassel: HGDK and Museum Friederichianum.
|
Invited
speaker and chair. |
Feb
2010 |
“Distributing Ourselves: New Media, Curating, Networks, and Collaborations” College Art Association (CAA) Conference. Chicago.
|
Speaker and chair. |
Feb
2010 |
“Curating Behaviours.” Decoding the Digital. 4-5 February. London: Victoria and Albert Museum.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Aug
2009 |
With Verina Gfader, Sarah Cook and Axel Lapp “Open Bliss: Participatory, Glocal, and Protective Zones” ISEA 2009 festival. Belfast. 3 workshops.
|
Invited
workshops. |
May
2009 |
Gallery Tour, Environment 2.0 exhibition, 14th May, Cube Gallery, Futuresonic Festival Manchester.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Aug
2008 |
“How Open ....” Curating in/as Open System(s) panel, ISEA 2008 Symposium. Singapore.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Feb
2008 |
“Theories, Practices, Shifting Roles”, Digital Curatorship: public programming in the Information Age. 12 Feb. Newcastle: Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies, School of Arts and Cultures (ICCHS), Newcastle University. |
Invited
speaker. |
Oct
2007 |
“Hybrid tools for collaboration on curatorial new media practices.” New media and art education. 25-26 Oct. Liepaja: Liepaja Pedagogical Academy.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Oct
2007 |
“Behaviours, Categories and Folksonomies - Archiving New Media.” Had to Be There. 16 Oct. Liverpool: FACT.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Oct
2007 |
“Community?” Urban Screens. 11-12 Oct. Manchester: Urban Screens. |
Invited
speaker. |
Apr
2007 |
With Sarah Cook and Ele Carpenter “CRUMB Bliss Centre” Enter_Unknown Territories festival. 26-27 Apr. Cambridge: <http://www.enternet.org.uk/>. |
Invited
workshops. |
Dec
06 |
‘out of the internet’ International Symposium.
“Net space and physical space - hybrid practices.”
Brisbane, Australia: MAAP/ANAT.
|
Invited
keynote
speaker. |
Nov
06 |
ENGAGE: Interaction, Art and Audience Experience.
“Participatory Systems.”
Sydney, Australia: University of Technology. |
Invited
keynote
speaker. |
Nov
06 |
Fast Forward: Art History, Curation and Practice After Media. [panel presentation] Cook, Sarah Ele Carpenter and Beryl Graham “Approaches to the Practice of Curating New Media Art .”
London: CHArt, Computers and the History of Art.
|
Paper. |
Jul
06 |
ARLIS (Art Librarians) Annual Conference.
“Databases and Art.”
Newcastle: University of Northumbria.
|
Invited
speaker. |
Apr
06 |
Art-Place-Technology: International Symposium on Curating New Media Art,
[chair] “Charlie Gere presentation/discussion.”
Liverpool: Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT Centre. |
Invited
chair. |
Jan
06 |
HGKZ Curating Visiting Lecturer Series.
“Curating net art.”
Zurich: Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich (HGKZ).
|
Invited
speaker. |
| Dec
05 |
Radiator and Digital Cultures Symposium.
“Critical interaction: New media art interaction and the artworld.” |
Invited
speaker. |
| Dec
05 |
Adelphi Research Institute Seminar Series, Salford
University.
“How is new media art being presented, commissioned, collected
and critiqued?”
|
Invited
speaker. |
| Nov
05 |
a-n think tank: Curated space, Arnolfini, Bristol.
Invited Think Tank participant.
|
Invited
participant. |
| Aug
05 |
Grays
School of Art Research Summer School, Aberdeen.
“Dissertations.” |
Invited
speaker. |
| May
05 |
Revealing
Practice, Wimbledon School of Art, London. Available from
URL: <http://www.wimbledon.ac.uk/revealingpractice/>.
“Sliding scales and namings: Art research.” |
Invited
speaker. |
| Apr
05 |
Museums and the Web 2005, Toronto: Archives &
Museum Informatics. Available from URL: <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/graham/graham.html>.
“Taxonomies of new media art: Real world namings.” |
Conference
paper. |
| Mar
05 |
Art Museum and Gallery Studies, International Centre for Cultural
and Heritage Studies. Visiting Lecture Series, 1st Mar.
Newcastle: Newcastle University.
“Presenting and curating new media art.”
|
Invited
speaker. |
| Oct
04 |
Summit:
Participate/Collaborate: Reciprocity, Design and Social Networks.
Banff, Canada.
“Collaborative art process and product.” |
Invited
speaker & wg co-chair. |
| Aug
04 |
ISEA 2004
(International Symposium on Electronic Art),
Helsinki.
“Interaction
and Audience.” Available from URL: <http://www.isea2004.net/content/presentationpage.php?id=452>.
Paper, and proposer and chair of panel
“Working Across Boundaries: Curating And Preserving New Media
Art”
including Steve Dietz, Caitlin Jones (Guggenheim,) and Sarah Cook.
|
Conference
paper and panel. |
| Apr
04 |
BLOC new media curation seminar. Builth Wells.
“Curating the characteristics of new media.” |
Invited
speaker. |
| Mar
04 |
F2F
Seminar Series, FACT, Liverpool.
“Presenting and curating new media art.” |
Invited
speaker. |
| Feb
04 |
Gage
Seminar, Ferens Gallery, Hull.
“Presenting Digital Arts” |
Invited
speaker. |
| Jan
04 |
Visiting Lecture Series, Newcastle University.
“Curating new media art.” |
Invited
speaker. |
Nov
03 |
Critical
Forum: Caught in the Act, Tate Liverpool.
“The opposite of live: new media art.” |
Invited
speaker. |
Aug
03 |
FILE
Symposium, Sao Paolo (Brazil).
"Curators and Researchers as a Network".
|
Invited
speaker. |
Jul
03 |
Commonwealth
Institute, London.
"Curating Digital Arts: Digital Art Panel Event".
|
Invited
speaker. |
May
03 |
Cornerhouse,
Manchester.
"Discussion lists: CRUMB and wider".
|
Invited
speaker. |
Mar
03 |
Northumbria
University, Newcastle.
"Virtual Museums and other tactics".
|
Invited
speaker. |
Oct
02 |
Liverpool
John Moores University.
"The problems of showing new media art".
|
Invited
speaker. |
| Jul
02 |
British
Interactive Group Conference, Herstmonceux.
"Interactive artworks: a critical view." |
Invited
Keynote
Speaker.
|
| Apr
02 |
The Exploratorium,
San Francisco (USA)
"Art/Science issues." |
Invited
speaker. |
| Apr
02 |
University of Nevada,
Reno (USA).
"Challenges for curating new media art" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Apr
02 |
Mills
College (USA).
"New media art and publishing" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Apr
02 |
San Jose
State University (USA).
"European media art" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Oct
01 |
I'll
show you mine … Workshop on new media spaces. The Media Centre,
Huddersfield.
"Summary session." |
Invited
speaker. |
| Oct
01 |
Coventry
University.
"New media art, new media curating." |
Invited
speaker. |
| Mar
01 |
Museums
and the Web 2001. Seattle (USA).
"Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss". |
Paper. |
| Dec
00 |
Sakshi
Gallery, Bangalore (India).
"Interactive digital art" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Nov
00 |
Use Nor
Ornament exhibition discussion. Northern Gallery of Contemporary
Art, Sunderland. |
Invited
participant. |
| Jul
00 |
Doctoral
Education in Design: Foundations for the future, La Clusaz
(France).
'"What could art learn from design, what might design learn from
art?"
|
Paper. |
| Mar
00 |
Laing
Art Gallery lunchtime talk.
"Playing for Keeps: Fun, Art and Seriousness."
|
Invited
speaker. |
| Jan
00 |
University
of Washington, Advanced Arts Technology (USA).
"Curatorial Practice and New Media". |
Invited
speaker. |
| Nov
99 |
Bakhtinian
Perspectives conference, Norwegian University of Science
& Technology, Trondheim.
"A Dialogue with an Idiot? Some Interactive Computer-Based Art
Installations." |
Invited
speaker. |
| Sep
99 |
Navigating
Intelligence/Curating New Media Symposium, Banff Centre for the
Arts, (Canada).
"Interactivity lo-tech/hi-tech" |
Invited
presenter. |
| July
99 |
Matrix
art research conference, St. Martin's School of Art, London.
"Hybrid Rigour or Strange Beasts: The University of Sunderland
Experience." |
Paper. |
| May
99 |
Newcastle
University, Newcastle.
"Practice-Led Art Research at Sunderland." |
Invited
speaker. |
| Feb
99 |
Exchange
99 conference, UWE, Bristol.
"Practice-Led or Theorised Practice? The University of Sunderland
Experience." |
Paper. |
| Feb
99 |
Northern
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
"Formal Art Research" on panel for Current Research
exhib talk. |
Invited
speaker. |
| Nov
98 |
Soros
Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, (Russia)
"Interactive Artworks in Serious Games" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Sep
98 |
ISEA
98, Manchester
"Irony: Some Rust-Belt Art" |
Paper. |
| Jun
98 |
CADE
Postgrad, Sheffield
Feedback panel, postgraduate art-practice research presentations. |
On
invited
panel. |
| May
98 |
Research
Training Initiative, BIAD, Birmingham
"Art-Practice-Based Research at Sunderland" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Jan
98 |
Napier
University, Edinburgh
"Narrative and Interactive Art" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Feb
97 |
Slade
School of Art, London
"Serious Games" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Feb
97 |
Middlesex
University, London
"Interactive art Ph.D. research" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Nov
96 |
Engage
Conference, Newcastle
"Interactive art: Interaction in process or product?" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Feb
96 |
Teeside
University
"Interactive art: Real Fictions" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Apr
95 |
VideoPositive
Seminars, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
"Games of Art, War ... and Intimacy" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Feb
95 |
Museum
of the Moving Image (BFI), London
"Interactive Digital Art from the USA" |
Paper. |
| Oct
94 |
Leeds
International Film Festival Censorship Conference
"Pornography, Censorship and the New Media" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Oct
94 |
Seeing
the Light conference, Birmingham
"Fear of Computers: Grasping the Technology" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Aug
94 |
ISEA
Internat. Sympos. on Electronic Art, Helsinki (Fin)
"Choices: Gender Issues for Electronic Art"
(Paper accepted but unable
to attend) |
Paper. |
| Feb
94 |
Museum
of the Moving Image (BFI), London
"Interactive Art and Gender" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Nov
93 |
Artec
Digital Dreams Conference, Newcastle
"Interactive Art and Gender" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Sep
93 |
The British
National Photography Conference, Bristol
"Gender and Interactivity" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Jul
93 |
Montage
93 Festival, Rochester NY (USA)
"Eye Openers: British Educational Photography and New Technology"
|
Paper. |
| Apr
93 |
The Exploratorium,
San Francisco (USA)
"New Technologies, New Families: Interactive Photo Artists" |
Paper. |
| Oct
92 |
Wayne
State Uni & Urban Inst. Cont. Arts (USA)
"Post-Industrial Images: New tactics from Britain's Rust-belt" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Mar
92 |
S.P.E.
National Conference, Washington D.C. (USA)
"Photography in Post-Iron-Curtain, Post-Colonial Europe" |
Paper. |
| Sep
91 |
Nottingham
Polytechnic
"Contemporary Photography Practices from West-Coast USA &
Canada" |
Invited
speaker. |
| Jun
91 |
Photoscape
Festival, San Francisco (USA)
"Channel Crossings: Current issues for Photography in Europe" |
Invited
speaker. |
