Speaking

Selected plenaries, keynotes, invited talks, and invited panels.

June 3, 2026 Why I Work With (and Against) AI in the Theater, Aesth:ethics, Akademie für Theater und Digitalität · Dortmund, Germany
May 29, 2026 Making Connections, Breaking Systems: Hamlet.ai and the Theater, Laboratoire International de Recherche sur l’Image et la Scénographie / IRET, Sorbonne Nouvelle · Paris, France
May 8, 2026 AI and Embodiment, AI + Live Arts Summit, UCLA · Leonard Nimoy Theater, Los Angeles, California
February 5, 2026 The Director’s Signature: Computational and Historical Perspectives on Theatrical Stylometry via Pose and Action Recognition, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University · Wallenberg Hall, Stanford, California
November 8, 2025 Artistic Collaboration with AI: One Dead-End and Three Promising Paths, Generative Acts, American Society for Theatre Research · Denver, Colorado
October 12, 2025 AI and the Future of Theater, NextGenAI · Teatro di San Marco, Naples, Italy
September 27, 2025 Distant Viewing, Close Reading: Computer Vision in the Theater, Association of Nordic Theater Scholars / Lithuanian Culture Research Institute · Vilnius, Lithuania
September 6, 2025 Act II—New Tech and New Stage; Futures in Play: AI and Impact in Theatre, Ars Electronica Conference · Linz, Austria
August 3, 2025 Between Human and Algorithm, Worlds in Play Conference · Allerton Park and Conference Center, Monticello, Illinois
June 3, 2025 Shaping Narratives in the Digital Age, Residenztheater, State Theater of Bavaria · Munich, Germany
April 17, 2025 Pose Detection in the Theater: Implications and Futures, KiU Talks, Fulldome Dortmund U · Dortmund, Germany
April 16, 2025 Stage Directions: Navigating Theater’s AI Future, Fachhochschule Dortmund, University of Applied Sciences and Arts · Dortmund, Germany
January 22, 2025 Decoding Directorial Style | Using Pose & Action Estimation to Analyze Theater Performances, Stanford HAI Seminar · Gates Building, Stanford University
August 25, 2021 AI and the Performing Arts, Research at the Intersection of Human Science and Information Technologies for Creativity, Collaboration, and AI / Facebook and MediaX at Stanford · Stanford, California
August 29, 2019 Comunicação Digital e Novas Mídias, University of São Paulo · São Paulo, Brazil
August 20, 2019 Methodologies and Explorations for Digital Theater, University of Brasília · Brasília, Brazil
June 28, 2017 Directing in the Digital Age: A Framework, University of Brasília · Brasília, Brazil
November 4, 2016 What Live Performance Can Teach Us About VR; or Five Meditations on Creating Immersive Experiences, Books in Browsers Conference · San Francisco, California
October 8, 2016 The Economics of Creating Personalized Experiences at Scale, Future of Storytelling Festival · New York, New York
May 23, 2016 Temping with Wolf 359, StoryCode at Lincoln Center · New York, New York
June 6, 2012 Keynote Performance: Righteous Money, Bodies on Stage, 21st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English · Mülheim, Germany