
Alex May gives talks about digital art, art/science collaboration, digital preservation, and public engagement with robotics through art.
To keep this list cleanly formatted there is a separate page of videos here.
2024
- Algorithmic Photography – BCS, London (2nd April)
2023
- Royal College of Art with Anna Dumitriu (11th May)
2021
- Creative Comm 21 – National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) (13th September)
- Forum Design Pays De La Meije – round table (2nd July)
- Biotechnology From the Blue Flower: The Unnatural, That Too is Natural – Art Science Node Berlin online panel (30th June)
- Value(s) of NFT-ART: A critical discussion about Cryptoart and NFTs – UCLA Art/Sci online panel (20th May)
- NFTs: Smoke and Mirrors or The Future of Digital Art? – Computer Arts Society (13th April)
2020
- Fermenting Futures (online panel discussion) – TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE (TTT) in Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna (27th November)
- Algorithmic Photography – Alianza Francesa San Salvador (20th October)
- A Mirror For Remembering – #WeMissiPRES, Digital Preservation Coalition (22nd September)
- Creating and Curating with Data – how do artists make sense of data? – Online webinar (15th September)
- Digital arts practice in the time of the pandemic – University of Brighton (21st July)
- A Mirror For Remembering – Computer Arts Society online talk (7th April)
- Cyberspecies Proximity – Biocomputation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire (3rd April)
- CHIC Presentation – CHIC Consortium (26th March)
- A Mirror For Remembering – Kent and Medway Museum Conference, Historic Dockyard Chatham (24th February)
2019
- Cyberspecies Proximity Vertigo STARTS Residency – Alex gave a talk and was in conversation with his artistic collaborator Anna Dumitriu, and Silvio Napoli (Chairman of Schindler) as part of a panel discussion on “Art, Innovation and Society”, chaired by Nicolas Henchoz (Director of the EPFL-ECAL Lab) at the Schindler City Auditorium in Ebikon, Luzern, Switzerland (2nd December)
- AI, Art & Nature – Berlin Science Week, Berlin (4th November)
- Intelligent Machinery: Algorithms – Ugly Duck, London (28th September)
- (Co)Art workshop “Working with Technology to Co-create Art”
- BioCoderDojo Timisoara, Romania, supported by the European Capital of Culture Timisoara 2021
- “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” at the WRO 2019 Media Art Biennale in Wrocław, Poland, as part of the conference “Human Aspect – Non Human Aspect” to accompany the exhibition of the work at the Four Domes Pavilion in the Biennale (17th May)
- National Institute of Art and Design in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The event was hosted by curator Nasima Dzhuraeva, and Normurod Negmatov director of the Tashkent Art Biennale.
- Artistic Exploration of BioRobotics and Sequencing – SynBio19 Conference, Warwick University (30th January)
- Future Digital Life – Digital Future Life: A World Without Us? conference, IMPAKT, Utrecht (18th January)
- Alex May (moderator)
- Ghislaine Boddington
- John Holder
- Ine Poppe
2018
- Light, Code + Time – Eden Project, Cornwall (2:30pm 26th May)
- Texas A&M University, Health Sciences HPEB LL30 (6th March)
- Northern Ireland Science Festival: The Art and Science of Linen – PRONI, Belfast (22nd February)
2017
- Technology & Emotions Conference 2017 – Sentralen, Oslo, Norway (7th November)
- MAKE 2017 Symposium: Art + Biology – CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork (4th March)
2016
- Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) – University of Westminster, London (15th November)
- Colloquium – University of Hertfordshire (13th April)
- Gut Reactions: The Microbiome and Human Nature – Princeton University, New Jersey (31st March)
- International Visiting Artist talk – University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1st March)
- ATLAS Speaker Series – University of Boulder, Colorado (8th February)
- Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) – University of California, Los Angeles, CA (4th February 2016)
2015
- Mendel’s Legacy: Exploring Bacterial Genomics through Art – Mendel Museum, Brno, Czech Republic (28th November)
- BioCon – Seoul, South Korea (6th November)
- Digi-Fears Part 1 – part of Brighton Digital Festival, Fabrica (8th September)
- Curating in the Digital World: Talk with Robert Storr and Alex May – Chelsea College of Arts, London (13th July)
- Where to now The Digital Revolution? – Art That Makes Itself Symposium – Watermans Arts Centre, London (16th May)
- Maria Chatzichristodoulou
- Jim Boulton
- Nico Macdonald
- Alex May
- Computer Arts Society – Phoenix Leicester (11th March)
2014
- TEDx Bucharest – Bucharest, Romania (22nd December)
- Painting With Light – Nottingham Trent University (14th November)
- The Lightbox – Woking (28th October)
- Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam
- Music Tech Fest – London (5-7 September)
- Public Engagement in Science through Art – Politics, Ethics, Power, and Propaganda – Waag Society, Amsterdam (31st January)
2013
- ICT2013 – Vilnius, Lithuania (6th November)
- Painting With Light – Museum of Contemporary Art. Caracas, Venezuela (26th September)
- Robot House Artist Residency Colloquium – University of Hertfordshire
- My Robot Companion: Living in the Uncanny Valley – GameHorizon 2013 (9th May)
- Video Street Art – State University of New York (SUNY), Freedonia, NY, USA (8th March)
2012
- Computer Arts Society Christmas Lecture – October Gallery, London (12th December)
- Computer Art Pioneers on Making Art by Writing Code – In discussion with Manfred Mohr and on a panel with Roman Verostko, Frieder Nake, and Ernest Edmonds – Site Gallery/Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (17th November)
- Behind Intuition and Ingenuity – Phoenix Square, Leicester (3rd November)
- Guests @ Gray’s – Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (12th October)
- Digital Design Weekend – The London Design Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London (23rd September)
- Painting With Light – Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (12th September)
- The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)/The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) World Congress 2012 – Wolfson Centre, The Medical School, University of Birmingham (3rd July)
- Sinclair and Me – Horizons, British Film Institute (BFI), London (5th May)
- The Hoxton Mix Mixer #7 – Digital Shoreditch, London (29th May)
- Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival – Sheffield (23rd Mar, 2012)
- Code as Art? – Lighthouse, Brighton (25th February, 2012)
- My Robot Companion – Lighthouse, Brighton (21st February, 2012)
- Kinetica Art Fair – London (12th February, 2012)
2011
- Ahmed Shawky Museum – Cairo, Egypt (November)
- My Robot Companion – University of Hertfordshire (November)
- Institute of Unnecessary Research Panel – ISEA, Istanbul, Turkey (September)
- Bio-sensing and Network performance workshop – ISEA, Istanbul, Turkey (September)
2010
- Quadratura: The Art of Video Mapping – Farnham University (February)