Talks

Alex May gives talks on digital art, art–science collaboration, memory, technology, and digital preservation at venues internationally, including universities, conferences, galleries, and science festivals. Contact him to enquire about inviting him to speak at your event, institution, or conference.

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Cyberspecies Proximity - Art, Innovation and Society Panel

    · Schindler, Schindler City Auditorium, Ebikon, Luzern, Switzerland

  • AI, Art & Nature

    · Berlin Science Week, Berlin, Germany

  • Intelligent Machinery: Algorithms

    · Ugly Duck, London, UK

    Video recording of the talk.

  • ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form

    · WRO 2019 Media Art Biennale, Four Domes Pavilion, Wroclaw, Poland

  • Artistic Exploration of BioRobotics and Sequencing

    · SynBio19 Conference, Warwick University, Warwick, UK

  • Future Digital Life - A World Without Us?

    · IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands

2018

2017

  • Art Science and Cocktails

    · Technology & Emotions, Sentralen, Oslo, Norway

  • MAKE 2017 Symposium: Art + Biology

    · CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland

2016

2015

2014

  • Painting With Light

    · Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

  • The Lightbox

    · The Lightbox, Woking, UK

  • Willem de Kooning Art Academy Talk

    · Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands

  • Music Tech Fest

    · Music Tech Fest, LSO St Luke's, London, UK

  • Public Engagement in Science through Art

    · Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013

  • ICT2013

    · ICT2013, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Painting With Light

    · Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela

  • Robot House Artist Residency Colloquium

    · University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

    Video recording of the talk.

  • My Robot Companion: Living in the Uncanny Valley

    · GameHorizon 2013, UK

  • Video Street Art

    · State University of New York (SUNY), State University of New York, Freedonia, New York, USA

2012

  • Computer Arts Society Christmas Lecture

    · Computer Arts Society, October Gallery, London, UK

  • Computer Art Pioneers on Making Art by Writing Code

    · Sheffield Hallam University, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

  • Behind Intuition and Ingenuity

    · Phoenix Square, Leicester, UK

  • Guests @ Gray's

    · Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, UK

  • Digital Design Weekend

    · The London Design Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK

  • Painting With Light

    · Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK

  • AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012

    · University of Birmingham, Wolfson Centre, The Medical School, Birmingham, UK

  • Sinclair and Me

    · British Film Institute, BFI, Horizons, London, UK

    Video recording of the talk.

  • The Hoxton Mix Mixer #7

    · Digital Shoreditch, London, UK

  • Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival

    · Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield, UK

  • Code as Art?

    · Lighthouse, Brighton, UK

  • My Robot Companion

    · Lighthouse, Brighton, UK

  • Kinetica Art Fair

    · Kinetica Art Fair, London, UK