Talks
I’m often invited to give talks & presentations. Because knowledge is better when it’s shared, I’ve made all my slides freely available here—just click on any of the titles below. However, often my slides don’t make sense in isolation (if had everything I said written on my slides and just read it out my talks would be really boring).
I am available as a guest speaker (and livecoding performer) for both scholarly and corportate-y events. If you’re interested then drop me a line and we can discuss making it happen.
11 Jan '19
Pop-production as problem-solving
Sure, computers are useful for solving problems, but what about when creativity is required? How do we solve problems like producing a pop song using code? A talk for the National Youth Science Forum 2019
19 Nov '18
The ANU Laptop Ensemble
Where do new media creators fit in the modern university? A talk for code 2k18: A Media Conference of Platforms, Devices and Screens
07 Nov '18
The World Since Google
A short, incomplete, mostly wrong history of the internet since 1996. A talk for the Canberra chapter of the University of the Third Age (U3A).
07 May '18
ARTH2165: the role of myth in AI
Recent developments in AI (i.e. deep learning) have produced some amazing images, and the discourse surrounding these images has been even more fascinating. A guest lecture for ARTH2165: Theories of the Image
06 Sep '17
Drawing like a 5-year-old
Who drew pictures as a 5yo? Everone! This one-hour interactive talk/workshop provides an introduction to code art in the web browser using the p5.js library. This talk was originally presented at Telopea High School.
17 Aug '17
The creative potential of random
There’s so much to randomness than just “crazy, unpredictable dice rolls”. Understanding the different types of randomness allows us to shape this randomness for our own creative ends. A talk given as a guest lecture to COMP1720: Art & Interaction in New Media in 2017.
16 Jun '15
Live coding: bringing scientific computing to life
An invited presentation at Yunnan University, China, on the use of live programming techniques in scientific computing.
18 May '15
PIC Live: Real-time interactive programming in scientific simulation
My talk at the Supercomputing Frontiers conference in Singapore about Extempore in HPC.
12 Feb '15
Live coding for Human-in- the-Loop Simulation
A talk I was invited to give to the Defence Sciences Institute in Melbourne about haressing human-in-the-loop simulation codes with Extempore.
29 Apr '14
Coding Livecoding
My talk at CHI ‘14: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Here’s the paper.