Upcoming events:

I’ll be part of IMPAKT Festival on 11 April 2026, in the Panel “Transgenerational Counter-Coding” together with Adriana I. Churampi Ramirez, and Yauri Muenala & Inty Muenala, moderated by Dr Edward Akintola Hubbard.

https://impakt.nl/festival/2026/panel-discussion/transgenerational-counter-coding

I’ll present my latest lecture performance “When AI dreams of death…” in the Archaeologies of AI series on griefbots and death technologies, at Wijsgerig Festival DRIFT (‘Between Dream and Deed’/ ‘Tussen Droom en Daad’) in Amsterdam on 16 May 2026. It will subsequently be presented at University of Antwerp at Performing Ends Symposium, as a keynote, in October 2026.

Some selected events in the past years:

Public Engagement Talks, Artistic, and Cultural Events

  • Talk, Binary arithmetic with an ethical twist: From I Ching to Ifa Divination, Universal Language: Human-Computer Interaction, STROOM Den Haag, Dec 11 2025
  • 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
    • Read our blogposts reflecting on the workshop experience here, here, and here
  • “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