2025
San Francisco Climate Week, The Cloud is Dead: Living With Legacies of Resource Extraction (sponsored by Data and Society)
Debates in Design, UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute
Berkeley Center for New Media Anniversary Conference,
Forking Room 2025: Left Tech. Seoul, Korea
University of California, Santa Cruz, Creative Interventions Series for the Creative Technologies Program January 2025
2024
University of California, Los Angeles. ALIGNED conference.
Feral Frequencies at slash art gallery
Lightning Talk @ Data and Society 10th Anniversary, Foreseeable Futures, recording here: https://datasociety.net/events/data-society-at-10-foreseeable-futures/
Eyebeam. Democracy Machine, Meet the Artists talk
Critical Futures series at ELISAVA School for Design and Engineering, Barcelona, ES
2023
Kill Screen Magazine online event, Making Games to Combat Algorithmic censorship w/Qianqian Ye and Jamin Warren
Conversation with artist Jen Liu on her work, GHOST_WORLD at Berkeley Center for New Media.
2022
Tarot and Tech Workshop, Unfinished Live at The Shed NYC, Sept 2022
FOM Festival with China Residencies, online, Sept 2022
Chinese Food Futures Panel at Emory University with Fuchsia Dunlop and Lucas Sin April 2022
Talk at Goldsmiths Art, June 6 2022
Talk at Royal College of Art for Data Matter Studio, Feb 2022
Talk at Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, January 2022
2021
Future of Memory exhibited as part of a group show 'Deformation and Reformation: A modern taste of Asian Identities' for π»π:π½π π£πππ π© πΉπππ₯ππππ ππ at Palazzo San Giuseppe in Polignano a Mare, Italy, curator Hongzheng Han
FLYOVER Summit, Keynote, Carson Center, University of Nebraska
TED, Monterey
Disruption Network Lab: Powers of Truth, Build Your Own Word Future of Memory workshop, Berlin DE
Unfinished Live, The Shed, NYC
Parsons Design + Technology Cloud Salon
The Mutek Recorder, Montreal CA
Mutek Festival, Build Your Own Word, Future of Memory workshop, Montreal CA
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Conference: Nostos Humanity and AI, Athens Greece
Toronto Public Library: Revolutionizing the Rural x McMaster University, Toronto CA
RightsCon, Closing session speaker
Billion Seconds Institute Internet(s) of Everything, moderating a Logic School panel featuring Emily Chao, Lexi Galantino, Matt Zhou, Nichelle Hall, Willy Solis and Yindi Pei
RethinkAI Summit: Ethical AI & Tools, hosted by Women In AI Ethics on The Future of Memory
Gray Area, BYOW workshop on The Future of Memory
Center for Applied Data Ethics, University of San Francisco
United Nations Development Programme Istanbul Innovation Days
Google: GALE Talks
Press:
Interview in Offscreen Magazine
βOne Personβs Apocalypse Is Another Personβs Day-to-Dayβ in WIRED, Interview by Ling Ma
How Rural China Became an Engine for Global Consumer Capitalism in The Nation, by AY Li
The young hackers transforming rural China by Josh Gabert-Doyon in HUCK magazine
The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China in The New York Times by Clive Thompson
2020
Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
Ctrl.z AI scrying workshop, Barcelona ES
2019
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, THE REDIRECT: TECHNOLOGY AFTER CAPITALISM panel with Finn Brunton, Kim Stanley Robinson, Andrea Steves and Caitlin Zaloom
Place Talks at Prelinger Library on November 21st
Living Room Light Exchange November 19th
Pieter, Land and Sea at Post-Capitalism Queer Ball curated by Martabel Wasserman
Moderator, Logic Magazine CHINA Launch panel, with Shazeda Ahmed and Xin Dai