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Char
Davies

Osmose
Ephémère

Previous Lectures

2008

  • Panel participant
    From Cinema to Machinima - Software, Database and the Moving Image
    Lecture Hall, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA. April 2008
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  • Panel participant, "360° of Difference"
    Vision and Voices Conference
    Leonard Davis Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. February 2008

2007

2006

  • Invited Speaker
    Imagined Landscapes Symposium
    CLEAR - Centre for Landscape and Environmental Arts Research at Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK, October 2006
  • Invited Speaker
    Fall Lecture Series
    Digital + Media Department (Graduate Division), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, October 2006
  • Invited Speaker
    Film and Digital Media department, University of California-Santa Cruz, California, USA, May 2006

2005

2004

  • Interview with Marie-Louise Arsenault
    Art&D Event
    Société des arts technologiques (SAT), September 2004
  • Invited Speaker
    Femmes du Cinéma de la Télévision et des Nouveaux Médias
    Société des arts technologiques (SAT), Montréal, Québec, Canada, September 2004
  • Invited Speaker
    Gender, Subjectivity, Embodiment and the Transformation of Cinematic Practice in Contemporary New Media Art: Exploring the Interactive Work of Char Davies, Toni Dove, and Zoe Beloff. Symposium on Feminist New Media Art
    University of Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 2004
  • Invited Speaker
    Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series, School of Art and Design
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, March 2004
  • Invited Speaker
    Centre for Digital Arts and Experimental Media
    University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, Feb 2004
  • Invited speaker
    Southern California Institute of Architecture
    Los Angeles, California, USA, Feb 2004

2003

  • Artist Lecture, in conjunction with the exhibition Transfigure
    Screen Gallery, Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia, December 2003
  • Keynote
    VSMM 2003 (Ninth International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia)
    Science Center of Montreal, Québec, Canada, Oct 2003
    See also "Rethinking VR: Key Concepts and Concerns" by Char Davies.
  • Invited speaker
    Consciousness Reframed: Fifth International CAiiA (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts) Research Conference
    University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, July 2003
  • Keynote
    The Digital Surface
    Tate Britain, London, UK, June 2003
  • Invited speaker and Residency
    Plogsterth Visual and Performing Arts Series
    Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, April 2003
  • Workshop leader
    Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland, January 2003
  • Invited speaker
    Space, Time and Beyond: 5th Biennial International Symposium of Science, Technics & Aesthetics
    Lucerne, Switzerland, January 2003

2002

  • Artist Lecture, in conjunction with the exhibition Immersion at the Biennale of Electronic Arts
    John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, September 2002
  • Regent's Lecturer
    Centre for Design and Media Arts
    University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 2002
  • Invited speaker
    Nature/Creativity
    Center for Art and Technology, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada, January 2002

2001

  • Invited panelist
    From Document to Event - What Will Remain?
    ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2001
  • Invited panelist
    Be There Here: Art & Virtual Reality
    SFMOMA Media Arts Council Event (co-presented by IN/SITE, the Society for Exploration of Contemporary Art), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2001
  • Invited speaker, "Virtual Space"
    Space: 16th Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2001
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, February 2001
    See also "Virtual Space" by Char Davies

2000

  • Invited Speaker
    Perceptions of Space, Time and Sound, Attraction-Distraction: Perceptual Conditions of Media Art
    Stanford University, San Jose, CA, USA, November 2000
  • Invited Speaker
    Visual Arts Faculty Lecture
    Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA, October 2000
  • Invited Speaker, "How Real Should We Get?", (with John Harrison)
    Living Architectures: Designing for Immersion and Interaction
    Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2000
  • Invited Speaker, panel "Ecologies, Land, Environments and Aesthetics"
    Growing Things: The Cultures of Nano Tech, Bio Tech, and Eco Tech Meat Art
    Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2000
    Audio recording of Char's presentation
  • Invited Speaker
    Creativity, Spirituality and Computing Technologies, Silicon Valley Conference
    San Jose, California, USA, June 2000
  • Invited Speaker, "Slip-sliding Between the Virtual and the Real: Representing Nature in Immersive VR Environments"
    Planetworks: Conference on Ecology and Information Technology
    San Francisco, California, USA, May 2000
  • Invited Speaker, “The Contested Journey: Embodiment and Cyberspace”, with Jennifer Cobb and Carol Gigliotti
    Planetworks: Conference on Ecology and Information Technology
    San Francisco, California, USA, May 2000
  • Invited Speaker, "Ephémère"
    3rd Annual Digital Arts Symposium: Interfacing the Future
    School of Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, April 2000
  • Invited Speaker, "Char Davies - Immersive Virtual Artist"
    Design & Visualization Public Lectures
    The Center for Design Visualization, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, January 2000

1999

  • Invited speaker
    Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, June 1999
  • Panel Chair, "Artists & the 'New Frontier': Virtual Realities"
    College Art Associations' 87th Annual Conference
    Los Angeles, California, January 1999

1998

  • Invited Speaker, "Osmose and Ephémère"
    Media Art Symposium Stockholm (MASS) '98
    Stockholm, Sweden, December 1998
  • Invited Speaker, "Landscape, Earth, Body, Being, Space and Time in the Immersive Virtual Environments Osmose and Ephémère"
    Emergent Futures: Art in the Post Biological Era
    Valencia, Spain, December 1998
  • Invited Speaker, "Landscape, Earth, Body, Being, Space and Time in the Immersive Virtual Environments Osmose and Ephémère"
    FutureFusion: Application Realities for the Virtual Age, Fourth International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM)
    Gifu, Japan, November 1998
  • Invited Speaker, "Ephémère"
    Consciousness Reframed: Second International CAiiA (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts) Research Conference
    University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, August 1998
  • Artist lecture, "Ephémère and Osmose: Landscape, Earth, Body, and Time in Immersive Virtual Space", in conjunction with the exhibition of Ephémère
    National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, June 1998
  • Invited Speaker and Workshop Participant, "Being in Virtual Space"
    Science and The Spiritual Quest (Computing)
    Centre of Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, USA, January 1998

1997

  • Invited Panelist, Virtual Communities Virtual Worlds
    New Media Minds Forum
    San Francisco, USA, October 1997
  • Invited Speaker, "Changing Space: VR as an Arena of Being"
    Beyond Shelter: The Future of Architecture
    The Graham Foundation, Chicago, USA, September 1997
  • Invited Speaker, "VR as Poiesis: Evolution of the Artist’s Work"
    8th International Symposium on Electronic Art
    School of the Institute of Chicago, USA, September 1997
  • Invited Speaker, "VR as Poiesis: Seeking Virtual Ground"
    Consciousness Reframed: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era: First International CAiiA (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts) Research Conference
    University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, July 1997
  • Invited Speaker, "Conversation with Char Davies and Peter Ride"
    Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK, June 1997
  • Invited Speaker, "Osmose"
    Restructuring Space-Sensing the Future
    Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland, April 1997
  • Invited Speaker, "Paradoxes of Being in Immersive Virtual Space: An Artist’s Approach to Virtual Reality"
    Mary Anne Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture Series
    Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, March 1997

1996

  • Invited Speaker. "Being in Immersive Virtual Space"
    Across Two Cultures: Digital Dreams 4
    Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK, November 1996
  • Invited Speaker, "Osmose: Univers Virtuel"
    Les 2ième états Généraux de l'écriture interactive
    Art3000, Vidéothèque, Paris, France, October 1996
  • Artist lecture
    TPW-Inter Access
    Toronto, Canada, 1996
  • Panelist, "Osmose as Metaphor: Alternative Aesthetics and Interaction in Immersive Virtual Space"
    Panel: Cognition, Perception, and Experience within VR, ACM SIGGRAPH '96
    New Orleans, USA, 1996
  • Panelist, "Soul in the Machine: The Paradox of Being in Immersive Virtual Space"
    Panel: Soul of the Machine: Spirituality in Cyberspace, SIGGRAPH '96
    New Orleans, USA, 1996
  • Artist lecture
    Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, 1996
  • Invited Speaker, "Osmose"
    Intelligent Interaction, Imagina
    Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1996

1995

  • Artist Lecture & screening
    Video Viewpoints Series
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 1995
  • Invited Speaker
    "Osmose: Rediscovery of Being through Virtual Immersion", Doors of Perception 3: Matter, Netherlands Institute of Design
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995
  • Artist lecture, in conjunction with the exhibition of Osmose
    Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, Canada, 1995
  • Invited Speaker, "Osmose"
    6th International Symposium on Electronic Art
    Montreal, Canada, 1995
  • Panelist, "Embodied in VR: The Body as Experiential Ground"
    Panel: Body Matters, 6th International Symposium on Electronic Art
    Montreal, Canada, 1995

1993

  • Invited Speaker, "Painting in Virtual Space: Towards an Alternative Aesthetic"
    4th International Symposium on Electronic Art
    Minneapolis, USA, 1993
  • Invited Speaker, "The Interior Bodies Series", in conjunction with the exhibition
    State of the Image: New Tendencies In The Field Of The Image and Related Technologies
    Centrum voor Beeldcultuur, Antwerp, Belgium, 1993
  • Artist lecture
    Prix Ars Electronica
    Linz, Austria, 1993

1992

  • Workshop Leader, "An Artist's Introduction to SoftImage"
    3rd International Symposium on Electronic Art
    Sydney, Australia, 1992
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