2022
- Faciliator, Water play – online community crossing arts, science and traditional knowledge
- Panel with Geert Vermeire, Flows of connection,
27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) Barcelona (10-16 June 2022),
https://youtu.be/wDXN-HKPbuI, video editing by Fred Adam. - TransArts Institute, Open Window Series, Connecting with the local: building relationship with the more-than-human
- Journey to Yarun, Presentation to Plant Lab 22 – link to slides
- Treecreative: Encouraging awareness and action through creative walking projects, 4th Annual BEST Conference on Human Behaviour & Decision Making 2022
2021
- Treecreative: Ecosystems of inclusion, DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture, QUT
- Social Entrepreneurship, values based decision making and Appreciative Inquiry: Treecreate as a case study, Joint conference paper with Elizabeth Sweigart (The Chicago School), 3rd Annual BEST Conference on Human Behaviour & Decision Making 2021
- Presenter, Words 4 Water, ReadFest! Singapore Library
- Vesterheim Museum, Nordic5 Arts Water conversation
2020
- Panel chair and curator, “Weaving Place, Deep Listening and the Sacred”, Guests: Jo Tito, Leah
Barclay, Michelle Maloney and Ruth Irwin, SoundWalk September, hosted by The Valley Centre and
Australian Earth Laws Alliance - Panel guest, “Land and Fire”, Beyond Crisis with Kirsten Larsen, Rebecca Scott, Gemma Meier and Tracey Cooper, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, The Valley Centre, Future Dreaming, Pingala and New Economy Network Australia.
- WEAD, Tree walk meditation
- “Walking with trees in Ngunawal Country”, Urban Tree Festival
- Eco-activism, guest presenter at Walk, Listen, Create cafe.
- Ignite*Energy: Virtual Reality Experience as a means to influence energy consumer behaviour, (with Josiah Jordan) BEST Conference, QUT
2019
- Borderlands, Walking Encounters/Conference in Prespes Greece, July 1-7 2019. Visual March to Prespes/ Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia and Made of Walking (V) / the Milena Principle
- Ignite*Energy – Energy Efficiency Behaviour Change, IREE2019, Brisbane
- Ignite*Energy – Virtual Reality for EE behaviour change, IREE2019, Brisbane
- Ignite*Energy, HDR STEM conference, Institute of Applied Ecology, UC
2018
- Weaving connections, (with Felicity Chapman), Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, Sydney, Australia
- Augmented Reality in Walking Arts projects, Made of Walking, Cyprus
- Giving voice to the Feminine, Women, Arts and Feminism in Australia since 1970, Melbourne, Australia
- Ancestral Journeys : DNA Music (with Josiah Jordan) SCANZ 2018, Parihaka, New Zealand
2017
- Philosophical evening with Haaken Sund @ Kulturhuset Hovtun, Norway
- Waters of the Past @ RIXC Open Fields, Riga, Latvia
- Ritual as creative practice | Guest Lecture @ SAE Masters of Creative Industries
2016
- Art, Ecology and Governance—Intercreate, Panellists: Michelle Maloney; Ilka Blue Nelson; Sandy Sur; Thomas Dick; Leah Barclay; Tracey Benson; Jason Macleod,
Global Ecologies–Local Impacts Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia - Encouraging sustainability behaviour change at home : Lessons learnt from Living Greener APS “World Usability Day”, DIPB, Canberra, Australia
- Way of the Turtle, Video presentation (with Lee Joachim), RIXC Open Fields, Riga
- Way of the Turtle (Prezi), Land Dialogues (with Lee Joachim), Wagga Wagga, Australia
- Speaker, Using Data to Empower Community and Build Culture (Prezi), Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Australasia, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
2015
- Workshop participant to invitation only event: Canberra Digital Inclusion Manifesto Workshop, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- Panel chair, “Vanuatu Women’s Water Music”, Gender in the Pacific, State of the Pacific Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Where to? Symposium, Falmouth University (Skype presentation)
2014
- Contributor (with Ian Clothier, delivered by Deborah Lawler-Dormer) ISEA2014 Educational Forum, American University in Dubai
- Words for Water, Waterwheel World Water Week Symposium, Online
- Artist Talk, PhotoAccess, Canberra, Australia
- Panel chair, Performing the City, ADA Mesh Cities Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand
- Panel discussion, KM Australia 2014 Congress, Knowledge Border Crossings, Sydney, Australia
- Cross Connections: Linking Art, Science and Identity, School of Music, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Words for Water, Waterwheel World Water Week 2014 Symposium (WWWD14)
2013
- Invited Speaker, Inaugural Digital Humanities Meetup, Canberra, Australia
- Panel discussion, (Skype), ADA MESH Cities, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Panel discussion, ISMAR, Adelaide (via video)
2011
- Remotely connected, remotely creative, ISEA2011, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
- Dorkbot CBR, Electrofringe, Newcastle, Australia
- Dorkbot CBR, Girl Geek Dinners, Canberra, Australia
2008
- ‘Now like no place: no place like now”, ISEA2008, Singapore
2006
- Online organising, real world responses, new world consequences, AOIR conference, Brisbane, Australia
2004
- Wearable experience and textile symbolism, (Panel: Geopolitics of Media), ISEA2004, Tallinn, Estonia
2003
- Online networks and public outcomes in Canberra, Australia, N5M4, Amsterdam
2002
- ACT Regional Report, Borderpanic: The Performance Space + Museum of Contemporary Art
Sydney, Australia
- Cross connections, Joining the dots: The CAMEO 10th International Conference’,
University of Canberra, Canberra
1999
- Workshopping the museum of the future, Identities in action,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
1998
- Museum of the future, Postcolonialism/representing difference, University of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia
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