A Random Collection of Talks
I give a lot of talks; talking is a big part of my job, after all (reading is another, and sitting on my arse staring into space is yet a third). Only a few of the talks are recorded, so this collection is both sparse and random. The files are mostly hosted elsewhere, so the links are potentially fragile.
- Accountability of Presence: Location Tracking Beyond Privacy at the Stanford HCI Seminar in October 2007.
- A talk on ethnography at the LIFT conference in Geneva in 2008.
- Postcolonial Computing at PARC in June 2010.
- A March 2012 distinguished lecture at Virginia Tech entitled Towards a Materiality of Information.
- A presentation on The Materiality of Databases from the Values in Design workshop at UCI in August 2012.
- A talk with catchy title "Reconfiguring Sociomateriality: An Ethnographic Investigation of Robotic Deep Space Science", given in the Digital Interventions talk series at RMIT University in Melbourne in March 2013.
- A talk in the series What Matters To Me And Why that I gave at UCI in March 2013.
- Closing Remarks at the "Governing Algorithms" symposium at NYU, May 2013.
- I talked about Reconfiguring Sociomateriality: An Ethnographic Investigation of Robotic Deep Space Science" at Stanford in February 2014.
- A somewhat speculative talk on The Cultural Narratives of Design Practice which I was invited to deliver at UC San Diego in April 2014. (That link seems to have died, but you can also view a version that I presented at the Highwire Lab in Lancaster.)
- my presentation on The City and the Feudal Internet from the marvelous Programmable City workshop in Maynooth, Ireland, in September 2014.
- my Miegunyah lecture on The Social Lives of Algorithms at the University of Melbourne in January 2016.
- an Informatics department seminar entitled Spreadsheets in Organizational Life: A Case Study in the Materialities of Information.
- a 2017 talk in Edinburgh (well, nearby) entitled the Practical Lives on Algorithms and Data.
- Exploring the Materialities of Digital Information, the 2017 annual Bellwether lecture at the Oxford Internet Institute.
- a talk about the materialities of Artificial Intelligence given at the New School in February 2020
- a reprise, at Informatics, of a talk I originally gave when accepting an award from SIGCHI (so it has multiple names and is more biographical than usual)