Selected Presentations
2025
"Creating an Urban Rooftop Garden at NYU Shanghai." Gardening in Universities Workshop. Duke Kunshan University. November 29.
"On Wonder." Quantum Planet: The Tiniest Carries the Vastest. Berggruen China Peking University, Beijing. November 1.
Keynote: "QR codes and the Sentient City." Everyday Urbanism and People-Centred Smart Cities. Nordic Centre, Fudan University. October 18.
Panel Discussant. Antikythera Discussions: Scaling Intelligence: Evolved & Artificial. A-Life Conference, Kyoto, Japan. October 8.
Discussant. Yan Huo Qi: Collective Wisdom through Improvisation. Shanghai Picnic. Rockbund Museum, Shanghai. September 13.
"Wireless China and Wave Philosophy." Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. May 13.
"Mou Zongsan and AI Ethics." Sophia University's Institute of Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Japan. April 26.
2024
China and the Wireless Wave. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on China. India International Centre. October 5.
The Nature of Artifice & Gardens Unbound. Humanities Matter: Ecological Crossroads, Past, Present and Future. DKU. August 30.
Moving Earths. Panelist. Institute of Contemporary Arts. NYU Shanghai. August 28.
"Time Waves." Cybernetics for the 21st century Part II: Cybernetics to Come. April 15.
"Mou Zongsan and AI Ethics." University of Michigan. April 4.
"On Waves, Megacities & China." Theory Underground. February.
Book Talk. *China and The Wireless Undertow*. Aarhus (Online). January.
2023
Panel Discussant. Synthetic Cities: A Symposium on Human-Machine Creativity. NYU Shanghai. September.
"Cultivating a Garden at NYU Shanghai." NYU Florence. May 4.
"Time Waves." Cybernetics for the 21st century Part II: Cybernetics to Come. December 15.
Panel Discussant. Synthetic Cities: A Symposium on Human-Machine Creativity. NYU Shanghai September 9
"China and the Wireless Undertow." Digital Theory Lab. NYU. February 11.
2022
Keynote. "The Wireless Undertow." Asian Futurism: Linking Asia's Digital Imagination to the World. UIC Zhuhai. May. 21
2021
"Techno-culture: Wireless Media Cosmology in China." Chronus Art Center & Conversazione. May.
2020
"Wave Machines." Sinofuturities & Automation. Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Computation. December.
2019
"The Cultivated City: Mou Zongsan and the Abstract Infrastructure of Wireless Waves." Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. University of Irvine. November.
"Mou Zongsan and AI Ethics." Workshop on AI & Culture. NYU Shanghai. September.
"China and the Wireless Wave." Humanities Research Conference. Duke Kunshan University. September.
2018
Panel Discussant. "City Food: Comparative Study of Street Vending Across Time and Place." November.
Panel Discussant. "Artificial Intelligence: What Does it Mean for NYU." President's Global Council: Meeting in Beijing. October.
"Wireless Waves." Second Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure History and the Social Sciences. Università Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. June.
"Future Mutations." New Normal. Strelka Institute. April.
"Wireless Waves & New Confucian Thought." Research Seminar Series of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. University of Michigan. April.
2017
"Sinofuturism: A Screening & Panel Discussion" (with Steve Goodman & Lawrence Lek). All. Shanghai. November.
"Time Waves." Extinction Narratives: Challenges and Opportunities. Duke Kunshan. September.
"Wireless Waves." Reset Modernity! A Shanghai Perspective (with Bruno Latour). Himalayas Museum. May.
"Moveable Feasts." City Food Conference. New York. April.
"Deep Mapping Shanghai's Street Food." City Food Symposium. New York. April.
"Digital Mapping in the Classroom." Mapping Cultures. New York. April.
Panel Discussant. "Getting to Know Your Inner Cyborg." OCAT Shanghai. April.
"Moveable Feasts." Digital Humanities Asia Resident. Stanford. February.
"Street Food in the 21st Century City." Sophia University, Tokyo & DHAsia Stanford University. Winter.
2016
Panel Discussant. "Thinking with Lu Yang." NYU Shanghai. December.
Panel Discussant. "AI in Asia." Digital Asia Hub. Hong Kong. November.
"Copycat Electronics in 21st century China." Duke Kunshan Faculty Colloquium. September.
Panel Discussant: Opening Panel. Shanghai Project. Minsheng Art Museum. September.
2015
"Wave Machines." Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Masters Academy at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art. November.
"Cultivated City" (with Francesca Tarocco). Philosophy of the City. Hong Kong. November.
"Street Life & Street Markets" & Panel Discussant. International Symposium. Social Design: Urban Change. University of Applied Arts. Vienna. October.
Panel Discussant: Symposium. "Chinese Science Fiction and the Post Human." Duke Kunshan University. September.
"Shanghai Future." Fora Lecture: UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative. June.
"The Road versus the Street." Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club. May.
"Moveable Feasts." Food in the Global Asian City. National University of Singapore. April.
"Wireless Waves." School of International Communications. University of Nottingham Ningbo. March.
2014
Panel Discussant: Open Innovation Panel. Shenzhen Industrial Design Fair. Fall.
"Time Waves." Imagining the Future: The Utopian, The Dystopian and The Posthuman. Institute of Cinematic Arts. Shanghai Theatre Academy. November.
"Cultivation and the Nature of Cities" (with Francesca Tarocco). Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns and Places of Nature. Hong Kong Institute of Humanities. Hong Kong University. June.
"Shanghai Future." Shanghai Literary Festival. March.
2013
"Shadow Markets." CIEE Faculty Seminar. East China Normal University. June.
2012
"Neomodern Metropolis." Global Studies Symposium. Shantou University. December.
"Shanzhai Style." New Media and Cultural Transformation. Shanghai University. December.
"What Time is the Future?" A public conversation with Mathieu Borysevicz, Hu Xiangcheng, Francesca Tarocco and Nick Land. *Just What is it about the End of the World that Makes it so Appealing?* Minsheng Museum, Shanghai. December.
"Back Alley Banking." CIEE Faculty Seminar. East China Normal University. June.
"Shanghai: The Creative Metropolis?" Ret/Prospectives of Hong Kong and Delta Cities in a Global Shadow. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. June.
2011
"Shanghai's Retrofuturism." Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai. December.
"Gothic Futurism." Shanghai Palimpsest: Shadows of the Past in the 21st Century. October.
2010
"Shanghai's New Modernity." San Diego State University: Shanghai Program. June.
"On the City's Edge." Transit Labour. September.
"Creating the Future." China Study Group. February.
2009
"Shanghai. City of Tomorrow?" Urban Research Lab. December.
2007
"Outsourcing & the India Experience" (with Mr Ding Haijiao, Vice Chief of the Luwan District). Luwan District Government. December.