Academic Lectures and Panels
2023 Decolonized Perspectives in FilmmakingMasterclass in seminar by Gayatri Parameswaran at Züricher Hochschule der Kunst (ZHdK)
2023 Real-Time Emancipatory Worldbuilding
Public lecture and panel discussion, Real-Time Symposium, created by Farzin Loutfi-Jam, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2022 Cities, Growth, Politics, and Power - Disrupting Colonial Continuities
Panel discussion with Marie-Louise Richards and Shukri Sultan, Marlene Rutzendorfer Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2022 Pneumatophores
Trailer sneak peek and panel discussion with Sumayya Vally, Marlene Wagner, Marlene Rutzendorfer, Architektur.Film.Sommer, AzW, Vienna, AT
2022 Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR
Presentation & Discussion, Immeasurable Cities, Emanuel Admassu, GSAPP,Columbia University
2021 Speculative Histories for Emancipatory Futures
Keynote, REFRESH Festival, Department of Game Design, Maike Thies, Züricher Hochschule der Kunst (ZHdK)
2021 Reconstructing Memory: Harnessing Storytelling and New Media for Liberation
Masterclass, REFRESH Festival, Department of Game Design, Maike Thies, ZHdK
2021 Imaginary Nostalgias and Worldbuilding
Guest Lecture, Transmedia Art, Extraction, & Environmental Justice, Marisa Moran Jahn, Co-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies/Writing and Art, Culture & Technology within the Schools of Humanities, Art, and Social Science Architecture, MIT
2021 Worldbuilding and Compositing
Critic, Final review discussion, Alexey Marfin, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
2021 The Culture Archive
Public Presentation with Kidus Hailesilassie, MIT Open DocLab, Co-Creation Workshop
2021 Designing Emancipatory Worlds
Public Lecture, Exploring Design Practices, Jeannie Kim, Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto
2020 Emancipatory Worldbuilding
Guest Lecture, Lazy Computing, Andrew Bako, Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto
2020 Emancipatory Storytelling and Worldbuilding
Guest Lecture, Virtual Environments, Memo Akten, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
2020 Emancipatory Storytelling and the Memoir
Public Lecture, Building Science Lecture Series: Generative Citizenship, Mae-ling Lokko,Rensselaer University
2020 Myth, Legend, Superstition
Keynote Speaker, U12 Seeing SouthSeminar, Sumayya Vally, Graduate School of Architecture (GSA), University of Johannesburg
2020 VR Film Sets
Critic, Midterm review, Alexey Marfin, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
2020 Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR
Guest Lecture, Research Studio: Los Angeles Portraits, Yara Feghali, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Public Speaking
Festival of Curiosity, Dublin, Ireland, Production Design in XRSXSW Conference, Bridging Cultures Through Narratives
Alliance Française Quito, Ecuador
NewImages Festival Conference, Women in XR Discussion
Scatter XR Nights, Art in Conversation with Race
IDFA DocLab Spotlight, Do [not] Touch
Tribeca Talks at Home, Kinfolk
Kaohsiung Film Festival, Home
MU Hybrid Art Space, Worlding Worlds