CONFERENCES & LECTURES

02/2019               

« Revolutionary Textiles. A Philosophical Inquiry», Open Lecture, Design School, Kolding (DK).

 

02/2018               

« Attempts, Failures, Trails and Errors », Round table, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest (RO).

 

02/2018               

« Revolutionary Textiles. A Philosophical Inquiry on Electronic and Reactive Textiles », Open Lecture, Ethnography Lab, Concordia University, Montreal (CA).

 

02/2018               

« Bricolage, Reversed Engineering and technical Re-Enactement as Strategies for Artistic Interventions », Technologies and Improvisation: Tools and Theories for Uncertain Futures” Nordic Summer University Ad Hoc Symposium, University of Gothenburg (SE).

 

11/2017               

« Ethical and Sustainable Textiles. Can textiles products enhance fair working conditions? », Open lecture and round table in the frame of WEAR Sustain EU Project, ENSAD Paris (FR). (https://wearsustain.eu).

 

5/2017                 

« Interactive Textiles, Reactive Materials, Personalised Mass-Production», University of Washington at Seattle (USA).

 

5/2017                 

« Methods of Inquiry in Arts and Technology »,SFAI – San Francisco Art Institute (USA).

 

10/2016               

« Designatures. Economies of Design, Politics of Participation », Critical Discourses Competition, East Centric Architecture Triennale, Bucharest (RO).

 

06/2016               

« Nano-textiles: on aesthetics of imperceptibility »,Keynote: KEA – Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (DK).

 

09/2015               

« The Haptic », Lecture and round table, Sonic Pattern Seminarorganised by Craft Council UK, Kaunas Biennale(LT).

 

09/2015               

« An Internet of Soft Things », Presentation in the frame of Artful Spark Talks, Furtherfield, London (UK).

 

03/2015               

« The Radio Free Europe Archives – between historiographical expression and artistic research», Round table, transit.ro, Bucharest (RO).

 

03/2015               

« Signal to Noise and Ghost Veil: presentation of two artistic researches on reconstructing the “otherness” based on archives means », OSA Lectures Series, Open Society Archives, Budapest (H).

 

02/2015               

« Reactive Textiles: On What Makes a Cool Design and How Can a Material Be Fashionable? », Presentation, Arcintex’15, Nottingham Trent University (UK).

           

11/2014               

« Aesthetics of Physical Computing », Open Lecture, Opening of Digital Art Center, Stockholm University (SE).

 

08/2014               

« Signal to Noise», Presentation,Interference Conference, Amsterdam (NL).

 

07-08/2014          

« E – textiles Summer Camp »,“Beyond Openness” Panelist, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes (FR). (http://etextile-summercamp.org/).

 

11/2013               

« Design or Not Design: On Open Digital Production and Its Contexts»,invited workshop, Amber Festival, Istanbul, (TR). (http://amberplatform.org).

 

11/2013               

« Desing and Design Education», « Design and Entrepreneurship», Round tables chair, “Artists in Industry. Designers”, Plan B Gallery, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj (RO).

 

12/2012               

« Nanotextiles or the aesthetics of wearwell-ness », selected paper, MutaMorphosis International Conference, Prague (CZ).

 

11/2012               

« Artists in Industry. The Role of Design in the Digital Age », Keynote speech, “Artists in Industry” International Conference, ‘Ion Mincu“ Architecture and Urbanism University Bucharest (RO).

 

02/2012               

« Re-playable, Remixing, Referencing, Reaction, Reworking and Recreation in Media Art », invited lecture together with Paidia Institute, IPC Cluster : University of Hull, Scarborough (GB).

 

06/2011               

ICP Cluster, Research Generator Symposium,University of Hull, Scarborough (GB).

 

08/2010               

« Wearables and Smart Textiles », invited lecture at the BAW – Bolyai Art Workshop, 10th Edition, Tg. Mures (RO).

 

06/2010              

« Analyse et synthèse chez Kandinsky et Moholy – Nagy »(in French), Colloquim “La vision dynamique de Moholy-Nagy”, CREDE, Centre St Charles, Paris 1 University Panthéon-Sorbonne (FR).

 

11/2009               

« Phenomenological aspects of interactivity », Invited lecture, « Temps d’images» Festival, Cluj (RO). (www.tempsdimages.eu).

 

11/2006               

« Fleshing Out – Wearable Interfaces, Smart Materials and Living Fabrics », Seminar, De Waag, Amsterdam (NL). (http://www.fleshingout.blogspot.de).

 

06/2001               

« Romanian Documentaries of the ’50’s and ‘60’s »,The Annual Conference of the Cultural Anthropology Institute, “Babes – Bolyai” University, Cluj (RO).

 

06/2001               

« Art and Censorship », roundtable in the frame of ‘Tranzindex – Workshop in Media Theory, Criticism and Creation“, Tranzit House, Cluj (RO).

 

05/2001               

« Propaganda Slide -films of ’50s and ’60s », Tranzit Foundation, Cluj (RO).

 

02/2001               

« Tranz art in situ – The Rehabilitation of Public Space », in the frame of ‘Tranz art in Situ“ project, Tranzit Foundation, Cluj (RO).