Public lectures, keynotes and invited talks
‘Getty Images: copyright hawk or corporate copyleftist?’ CREATe (Centre for the Regulation of the Creative Economy), University of Glasgow, November 2023
‘Assetisation and Datafication’. New Paradigms for Accessing and Curating Audiovisual Collections symposium, EPFL, Lausanne. September 2023.
‘A History Of Getty Images’. ZDok: Reality Second Hand conference, Zurich University of the Arts. March 2023
‘Delivering inclusive festivals and outdoor events in the age of COVID-19’. Together! 2012 annual conference. November 2021
‘Changing minds: innovative ways to attract and engage new audiences’. UKRI Healthy Ageing 2021 conference. November 2021
‘An Annotated History Of The World According To Getty Images’. The Video Essay symposium, University of Paris – Diderot. October 2021
‘Online Culture: Achievements and Aspirations’. Vienna Shorts Film Festival. May 2021.
‘Relating [to] Colour’. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. March 2020. Postponed.
‘A Machine for Viewing’, IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam, November 2019.
‘Audiovisual Media Studies: A Primer’. AMiM 2019 Reading Beyond Words: Approaches to Multimodality in the Media conference, Queen Margaret University of London, May 2019.
‘Black and White in Colour’. Experience Colours! Aalto University, Helsinki, November 2018.
‘The Films of Eric Rohmer’. Royal Belgian Film Archive, June 2018.
‘Six of Seven Things I Know About The Video Essay’. Monash University, Melbourne, April 2018.
‘All talk: Matias Piñeiro’s verbal narratives’. Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels, November 2017.
‘Why I Pirate Films’. TedX, Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, June 2017.
‘Notes on the Video Essay’. European Network for Cinema and Media Studies pre-conference, University of Paris VII Diderot, June 2017.
‘Détournement’. Forms of Criticism, Parasol Unit, London, June 2016. Organised by the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.
‘The Stolen Film’. Cinematic Bricoleurs: Remixing, restyling and repurposing in contemporary filmmaking practice, King’s College London, January 2016.
‘Eric Rohmer and the Nouvelle vague’. King’s College, University of London, March 2015.
‘The True Colours of the Universe’. CHROMA symposium, University of Florence, September 2013.
‘Rohmer Obsession Project’. New York University, Paris, October 2012.
‘The Colour of Walter Benjamin’s “Aura”’. Ambika P3 Gallery, University of Westminster; delivered in conjunction with the exhibition, Digital Moving Image, December 2010.
‘Complexity and Emergence in Database Narrative’. Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, June 2010.
Recent conference presentations
‘A Machine for Viewing’. Video Vortex XII, University of Malta, September 2019.
‘The Unseen Film’. Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Seattle, March 2019.
‘An Image of Space: Flatness, Immersion and Virtual Reality’. Film-Philosophy annual conference, Gothenburg University, June 2018.
‘The Interactive Timeline’. iDocs, Watershed Arts Centre, Bristol, March 2018.
‘The Black Screen’. Indefinite Visions, Whitechapel Gallery, London, June 2016
‘Learning from Fair Use’. Besides the Screen: Piracy in Theory and Practice. Coventry University Disruptive Media Centre, April 2015.
Panel member of ‘Videographic Film Studies’ workshop at European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) annual conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, June 2014.
‘What is Montage?’. European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) annual conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, June 2014.
‘The Death of Remix Cinema’. Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga, October 2013.
‘Urban amnesia: development, destruction and documentation’. European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) annual conference, Charles Unviersity, Prague, June 2013.
‘Remixing the City: public and private media space in Los Angeles Plays Itself’. The Spectacular / Contested / Ordinary Media City, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, May 2013.