Upcoming events:
On 4 December, 2025, I will be moderating this upcoming screening event on Sinophone video art at Framer Framed (Amsterdam):
I will be sharing my research Binary arithmetic with an ethical twist: From I Ching to Ifa Divination on 11 December, 2025 at this wonderful symposium at Stroom Den Haag, curated as the first event in their multi-year programming on Entangled Codes, which frames contemporary technology in relation to public space, and civic life: https://www.stroom.nl/en/stroom/agenda-en/save-the-date-universal-language-i-human-computer-interaction
Some selected events in the past years:
Public Engagement Talks, Artistic, and Cultural Events
- Talk and Workshop, “Magical Pasts, Decolonial Futures”, Raise Your Voice at Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, Oct 9 2025
- Sharing and publication launch on dialogical dramaturgy in community arts practice, Mar 2025, RE: Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong Arts Centre
- Reimagining Techno-Futures Through Creative Practice, Feb 2025, Utrecht University: bit.ly/EvelynWan_ArchAI
- Lecture Performance and Exhibition at ICAS13, “Between History and Myth: Sea Legends in Hong Kong’s waters from mermaids to pirates”, July 2024, Surabaya, Indonesia.
- Hybrid lecture-performance-workshop “Cultivating the Arts of Noticing: From Methods and Concepts to Everyday Praxis”, Artistic Leadership Culture Study Programme for creative professionals at Utrecht University’s Creative Humanities Academy in June 2024, hosted by BAK, Utrecht.
- Guest lecture and panel, Digital Colonialism, IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], Utrecht, Jan 2024
- Guest presentation and panel, Holistic Technology Salon, on the exhibition Liquid Dreams (Annika Kappner), hosted by V2_Lab for the Unstable Media and TETEM, Enschede, Oct 2023
- Speaker, Ghosts in the Machine, a symposium to reflect on the role of AI in the arts and research, hosted by ARIAS (Platform for Research through the Arts and the Sciences), Amsterdam, Sep 2023
- Workshop Facilitator, Performance Creation and Artistic Research Workshops in collaboration with independent artist and dramaturg Alysa Leung, ngau4 gat1 dei6/ 牛吉地, Hong Kong, July 2023
- Panelist, “Making Performance with/in Cities: A Conversation with Dramaturgs” (從劇場構作看城市與創作), Art and Culture Outreach Bookstore/ 艺鵠, Hong Kong, July 2023
- Inspiration Lecture, Finissage: Digital Shadows Performance Evening, Waag Society & OBA/ Public Library Amsterdam, Feb 24, 2023
- Invited Respondent, “Thinking With… Wendy Chun” on Discriminating Data, Research Centre for Material Cultures, Leiden, Sep 2022
- “Colonising Time: A tale of timekeeping technology, rotational movements, and murder”, in the Panel “The Techno-Colonization of Time: On Clocks, Zones, and Regimes of Precision”, Symposium for No Linear Fucking Time, basis voor actuele kunst/ BAK Utrecht, May 2022
- Presentation and panel discussion, “The Unalphabet: Language and Power”, Studio Julian Hetzel, Frascati Theater Amsterdam, Nov 2021
- Speaker in Panel on AI Futures & Book Launch of “Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection”, Digital Asia Hub/ METTA, Hong Kong, Jan 2019
- Invited Lecture Performance, “When the world is at war, we just keep dancing”, soft/WALL/studs, Singapore, Dec 2018
- Invited Public Lecture, Proost op de Wetenschap: Who’s Afraid of Algorithms?, SPUI25, University of Amsterdam, Nov 2018
- Invited Closed Event: Inspiration Session for Data Professionals and Municipal Staff, Gemeente Rotterdam/ City Government for Rotterdam, Nov 2018
Guest Lectures and Teaching Practice
- “Slowing Down in the Age of AI”, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mar 21 2025
- Guest talk, “Archaeologies of AI: Hauntings in Deep Time”, in Social-X Seminar Series for interdisciplinary researchers from computer science, the social sciences and humanities, and design, with Dr Blake Ewing (Nottingham), Nov 21 (Thu), 2024, 1-3PM Amsterdam Time, Online
- “The Medium is a Medium — Intersecting Technology and Death in a More-than-human World” Guest seminar, Transmission in Motion Seminar, Utrecht University, May 2023; Guest lecture performance, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Feb 2024
- “Does your smartphone know you better than you know yourself?: Profiling Citizens from Computational Psychiatry to Psychometrics”, Guest Lecture in the Open Minded Lecture Series, eLaw Centre of Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, February 2020
- Conference Workshop: “Lost in Translation: An Interactive Workshop Mapping Interdisciplinary Translations for Epistemic Justice”, CRAFT Workshop Session, ACM* FAT Barcelona 2020, 27-30 Jan 2020
- “A Place for Indigenous Knowledges: What belongs to ‘citizen science’ in times of climate crises?”, Guest Seminar, WTMC Fall Workshop Series on Teaching & Learning STS (Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture), Nov 2019
- Invited guest lecture and workshop, “Unravelling Work, Undoing Time”, Honours Programme, University of the Arts Arnhem (ArtEZ), Oct 2019
- Workshop Facilitation and Summer School Programming during my tenure in the Future Advisory Board, Performance Studies international (Melbourne/ Hamburg/ Daegu 2016-2018)
Keynotes
- A CRASH COURSE IN ART & MEDIA TECHNOLOGY: MEDIA ART X FEMINISM, hosted by V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Oct 2023
- “Asynchronicities: Living with Technological Mediations of Time”, Transformer Summit, Waag Society, Amsterdam, 23 Sep 2021
- “When technology knows you better than you do: Biopower and the Politics of Standardisation and Measurement” NEUROLIVE Online Symposium on Liveness, Goldsmiths, London 2021, 24-26 Mar 2021
- “Depressed? Your smartphone knows before you do: On Uses of Machine Learning in Computational Psychiatry”, Interfaculty Symposium 2019, Utrecht University, May 2019
Selected Conference Presentations
- “How We Lost Sense of Time: A Prehistory of Algorithmic Governance”. Temporal Mediations in Digital Capitalism, Wolf Conference University of Pennsylvania, Feb 11, 2023
- “Techno-chrono-biopolitics: Three meditations on temporal governance in pandemic time”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (online), National University of Singapore, 28 Jul 2021
- “Laboring in Digital Waste Infrastructures: Colonial Temporalities of Violence in Asia”, Association for Asian American Studies Conference (online), 10 Apr 2021
- “Split Personality!: On the politics of data subjects and the dissolving boundaries of self in algorithmic life”, Connected Life 2019: Data & Disorder, Oxford Internet Institute/ London School of Economics/ Alan Turing Institute, Oxford/ London, UK, 24-25 June 2019
- “Performing Rhythms of Labour: Biopower and Algorithmic Mediations of Time”, Beyond the Clock: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Time, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore, 15-16 Mar 2019
- “Algorhythms and Algovisions: Artistic Imaginaries of Algorithms”FAT*Asia (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency) Conference, Digital Asia Hub/ University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 11-12 Jan 2019
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