Talks

"Perfectionism and Other Virtues", Political Philosophy of the City, ETH Zürich, 2024.

"What Art Does", FOUNDING LAB, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria x Ars Electronica, Austria, 2023.

"Action, Affordances, and Aesthetic Properties in Design", Sommerkolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie, TU Darmstadt, Germany, 2023.

"Philosophy of Design: Between Aesthetics and Philosophy of Technology", Institutskolloquium, TU Darmstadt, Germany, 2022.

"A Conceptual Analysis of Artefact Function", Leiden Observatory Colloquium, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2022.

"Technological Affordances and Artistic Value", Sommerkolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie, TU Darmstadt, Germany, 2021.

"Data Ethics in Smart Cities", with Ferdinand Lewis, Conferentie Nederland Digitaal 2020, Groningen, Netherlands, 2020 (event cancelled due to coronavirus)

"The Arts and Compassionate Care in the Northern Netherlands", with Ferdinand Lewis et al., 1st International Meeting of Arts Prescribing in HealthCare, Greece, 2024.

"Retrofitting Goodman to Talk About Retrofitting", 2024 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2024

"Exemplification, Maintenance, and Function Change", ESDiT & 4TU Ethics Conference: Rethinking Ethics—Reimagining Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2024.

"AI-generated Images, Art Creation, and Postphenomenology", with Ralf Cox, EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024.

"A Collaborative Study on Visitor Experiences and Societal Impact at Amsterdam Light Festival Edition 12", with Gemma Schino et al., International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Spain, 2024.

"Defining 'Public Space' for Philosophers of the City", with Charlotte Miller, Philosophy of the City 10th Anniversary Conference, Brooklyn College, United States, 2023.

"Fieldwork for Philosophers", with Marian Counihan and Charlotte Miller, Philosophy of the City 10th Anniversary Conference, Brooklyn College, United States, 2023.

"Designed Things, Technical Functions, and Speech Act Theory", 2023 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology, TU Delft, Netherlands, 2023.

"How to Build a Common World", Philosophy of the City Annual Conference 2022, University of Turin, Italy, 2022.

"Preserving the Pluralistic Ethos of Public Space with Technological Solutions", with Sanna Lehtinen, Philosophy of Human—Technology Relations Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2022.

"Design Ethics: An Invitation", with Sanna Lehtinen and Michael Nagenborg, Philosophy of Human—Technology Relations Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2022.

"Artworks and Their Affordances", The Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference, Université Catholique de Lille, France, 2021.

"Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk About Art", Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, online, 2021.

"Critical Theory of Technology and Democracy in the Smart City", with Ferdinand Lewis, Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development (RC21) Conference, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2021.

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", Philosophy of Human—Technology Relations Conference, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2020.

"Authenticity and the 'Authentic City'", Philosophy of Human—Technology Relations Conference, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2020.

"From Beauty to Utopia: Kantian Aesthetics and the Politics of Space", Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2019.

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) Conference, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2018.

"Authenticity and the 'Authentic City'", Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2018.

"Yet in My Flesh I See God", Happiness, Joy & Pleasure Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 2015.

"Cinematic Spectacle: The Ontology of Film", Film and Media: The Pleasures of the Spectacle, University of London, United Kingdom, 2013.

"What Does it Mean to be Enhanced?" Virtual Reality International Conference, Laval, France, 2012.

"Critical Contextual Aestheticism", UCG Research Seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2024.

"What 'Information Literacy' Means in an Age of LLMs", UCG Research Seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2023.

"Reflections on Working in an Interdisciplinary Team", with Maria Ioannou, Martijn Boot, and Adriana Mattos Pinto, UCG Research Seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2020.

"Drawing the Line Somewhere: Introducing Affordances into Aesthetic Cognitivism", Arts, Culture and Cognition Theme Group, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2020.

"Visions of Political Form: On Kantian Beauty as a Ludic Design Ethos", Visual Studies Group Seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2019.

"Teaching for Lasting Impact", with Christopher May and Merethe Blandhol, University College Groningen Lustrum: Integrating Disciplines, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2019.

"An Affordance Account of Artistic Value", UCG Research Seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2019.

"Teaching for Lasting Impact", with Christopher May, Merethe Blandhol, and Jackson Nijboer, UC Tilburg Lustrum Conference on Dilemmas in Higher Education, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 2019.

"Optimising the Panopticon", Groningse Nacht van de Filosofie, Groningen, Netherlands, 2021 (event cancelled due to coronavirus).

"Optimising the Panopticon", Groningse Nacht van de Filosofie, Groningen, Netherlands, 2020 (event cancelled due to coronavirus).

"Does Technology Determine our Behaviour?" University of Groningen Lecturer of the Year, Groningen, Netherlands, 2020.

"Technological Determinism", University College Teacher of the Year, Groningen, Netherlands, 2019.

"The Two Cultures: Notes on 'Notes on Synchrony'", Moving Futures, Groningen, Netherlands, 2019.

"How the Internet is Killing Democracy", Studium Generale, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018.

"The Fear of Technology", Field Trips, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018.

"The Rise and Fall of Animal Trials", TEDxUniversityofGroningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2017.

"A Graeco-Roman Republic, Reborn: Is Australia’s Political & Cultural Heritage Founded Upon Judeo-Christian Principles?" The Yeah Sessions, Sydney, Australia, 2014.

"Is De-Extinction Wrong?" The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, 2013.

"The Semiology of Barbarous Names", The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, 2013.

"Moral Objects", The Yeah Sessions, Sydney, Australia, 2013.

"Neuroaesthetics", The Yeah Sessions, Sydney, Australia, 2012.

"Art and Brain Science: A Plea for Caution", Blackheath Philosophy Forum, Blackheath, Australia, 2012.