| +++ June 2025. Disruption Network Lab, Berlin. Keynote with Florian Cramer and Tatiana Bazichelli as part of the Conference Shadows of Illiberalism. Our panel was devoted to “The New Right’s Cultural Hegemony and Contradictions.” A video of the keynote and panel discussion can be found here. +++ June 2025. AAS-IN-ASIA, Kathmandu. A paper entitled “Affordable Deepfake Russian Wives Amongst Chinese Digital Influencers.” The research for this paper was prepared in collaboration with Minyan Huang. +++ November, 2004 Beijing Queer Arts Festival, As part of the panel “Queer Futurism, Fantasic Nowness” I gave an online talk about queering deepfakes. +++ September , 2024. Network Disruption Lab, Berlin, I collaborated with Tatiana Bazichelli of NDL Berlin and cyber-feminist mathematician and researcher Irma Mastenbroek to give a talk and hold a workshop about deepfake bodies as sexualized and misogynist misinformation issued by radical-right groups. We will also work on techno-feminist models of AI ethics as a way to redeem deepfake creativity. +++ September-October 2024: I received a Bogliasco Foundation Grant for an Art Residency in Bogliasco, Italy. I worked on projects related to trans-human creatures and digital embodiment and entitled “The resurrection of Dr.Jacobs” and “”The Wet Ones” +++ 2022 “Algorithmic Bellyfat and How to get rid of it” at University of Ghent for a conference organised by ECREA Gender & Communication. Here is a pre-recording of the talk. +++ 2022 “The Ubiquitous Deepfake Remix of a Sexual Spectacle,” Symposium on Future Bodies, Taikwun, Hong Kong, January. +++ 2022 “Psychotic politics, sexual fears & fantasies” for RITCS Belgium as part of a symposium on conspiracy theories and psychotic politics organized by Lieven de Cauter. +++ 2022, Gogbot Arts symposium, “Up and Down the Rabbit Hole with Deepfake Porn” (2022) +++ 2021, “Radical-Right Sexuality and social media sex/gender wars” For the Belgian LGBTQIA+ organization Samen Sterk and Çavaria A SAMPLE OF PAST CURATED EVENTS +++ Gender/Queer Sexualities and Digital Activism, Chinese University of hong Kong and ACO bookstore, Hong Kong +++ Transmediale Festival Berlin, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, curated several events in collaboration with Francesco Palmieri and Tatiana Bazzichelli; including The Chinese Dream: The Doctrine and the Sexy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGdvDw5ExY +++ Extra/ordinary Dresscode: Costuming and The Second Skin in Asia, City University of Hong Kong, Catalogue +++ Art and Politics of Netporn, Amsterdam, De Badcuyp and Institute of Network Cultures The Art and Politics of Netporn-catalogue +++ Porn Ar(t)around the World, KC NoNa Mechelen Photogallery | Videogallery | Essay | Blurb |
