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. Read more...
  
• Panel participant, "360° of Difference", Vision and Voices Conference. Leonard Davis Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. February 2008.

2007

• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA, May 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

• Invited Speaker, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Nov 2005
• Keynote. Landscape of Epehemeral Embrace. Interactive Futures 05, Victoria International Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, February 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