NOW
2025-04-02
Exhibiting
2025-02-17
Joined the USITT Research and Creative Endeavours Committee
2025-02-01
Reviewer for EVA London 2025 Conference on Electronic Visualization and the Arts
2025-02-14
Guest lecture at Yale University, for the graduate class Advanced Professional Projection Design. Focusing on the use of AI in visual generation, open source models, and ethic usage.
2025-01-07/2025-01-09
Attendance at CES 2025, Las Vegas. Including attending the Delta Keynote at the Sphere, and NVIDIA Keynote.
2024-12-12
Hosted "Beyond the Screen: Exploring AI Personhood and Their Representation in Media", a discussion on Artificial Intelligence Personhood. As a jumping off point for discussion we will be viewing pieces of media from Star Trek episodes that focus on AI and their legal rights and place in society. We will be discussing how non-human sentient beings are represented and treated within the context of the show and what it means for the rapidly changing landscape of AI in our own world. The Creative School Catalyst, Toronto.
2024-12-03
Joined the Faculty Tenure Committee for The Creative School.
2024-11-23
Became a board member of UKAI Projects.
2024-11-17/2024-11-23
AVARA 2024
Led 8 students over the semester to develop an installation project for AVARA 2024 in partnership with OAMK in Oulu, Finland. This culminated in the students' installation as a creative research presentation at the conference. As well, I delivered the closing keynote for the conference, "Wellness for who? An examination of wellness through a research-creation student project."
2024-11-02/2024-11-03
Ran a workshop on projection design for the Peterbough Theatre Guild, Peterborough, ON.
2024-10-23
Presented the provocation "Personhood // AI" at the UKAI Carnival of Shipwreck (Oct 22-27, 2024).
2024-10-22
Awarded an $1000 Travel grant from Toronto Metropolitan University to support the Shipwreck project in Iceland.
2024-10-16/2024-10-18
Presented at the PQ Symposium: Technologies in theatre, performance and exhibition design, in Prague, CZ. Presentation: “Beyond Tools: Reimaging Technology as Co-Participants in Performance Design.”
2024-10-11
Continued as a member of the CATR committee to select the Heather McCallum scholarship, Robert Lawerence scholarship, and CATR Grants
2024-07-22
Gave talk on the future of AI in the creative industry at a TechTO event.
2024-06-20
Reviewer for International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.
2024-06-02/2024-06-30
Shipwreck: Iceland
With UKAI projects and five other Canadian artists, I travelled to Iceland for a month-long residency with SÍM to develop Shipwreck. I contributed to the group exhibit, as well as created a solo piece,
2024-05-10
Received funding from Erasmus+ to take part in a staff mobility to OAMK in Oulu, Finland. The beginning of collaberative creative projects between our universities.
2024-04-19
Labour and Us Performance
Along with my IMPR cohort and band "Almost Alchemy", we presented a performance that came out of a series of workshops that we developed between March 14 - April 17, 2024. The workshops were designed for workers to explore creative outlets for themselves, to build solidarity with each other through the arts.
The final performance included a roundtable discussion with Alan Filewod, Tom Scholte, Cynthia Ashperger, and Judith Thompson. It was performed at ImprovLab, University of Guelph.
2024-04-12
Presented my ongoing research at the IICSI Research Studio Session, ImprovLab, University of Guelph.
2024 IICSI Research Studio Session Schedule - IICSI (improvisationinstitute.ca)
2024-04-02
Creative AI Symposium panel
Discussed the future of AI in creativity and education on a panel for the first Creative AI Symposium, hosted by the Creative AI Hub at Toronto Metropolitan University.
2024-03-20
Conference presentation at USITT 2024: “Robotics, AI, and the Future of Theatre”. With Hersch Nathan and Jada Vercosa.
2024-01-25
RUBIX 2024
Presenting “Almost Alchemy”, two 360 video experiences that highlighted improvised research creation performances.
2024-01-25
Received Tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University
2024-01-23
Participant in the Pure Research project at Tarragon Theatre, conducted by Guilty by Association exploring the dramaturgical foundations of Unreal Engine and C++ programming and how they affect creative choices for live performance.
2024-01-15
Reviewer for EVA London 2024 Conference on Electronic Visualization and the Arts
2023-12-08
THT582 x Ground
As the final project for this class, engaged with industry partners and created an immersive installation off-site, integrating robotics, AI, and show systems.
2023-10-25
CATR Scholarship and Grant Committee to select the Heather McCallum scholarship, Robert Lawerence scholarship, and CATR Grants
2023-06-04/2023-06-10
WWDC 2023
I was invited to attend Apple’s WWDC special event in person to participate in developer activities and gain a first look at the new Vision Pro. This was written up in The Creative School’s Top 5 newsletter: