ABOUT

ExpressiveAI is a global, interdisciplinary platform dedicated to understanding and expanding how creative AI transforms art, culture, education, and the ethics and policies of our shared technological future.

ExpressiveAI.net began as one of the first dedicated platforms and symposia focused on cinematic AI—a groundbreaking initiative connecting artists, technologists, activists, and scholars. The platform is a strong advocate for the inclusion of the arts and the humanities into important conversations and regulations regarding AI. What sets ExpressiveAI apart is its hybrid identity as both academic resource and curatorial platform. It connects scholars, artists, and technologists through open access to projects, case studies, and teaching tools, while also highlighting the human stories and philosophical questions behind creative AI. The site continues to expand as a community-driven and crowdsourced repository, charting how AI transforms cinematic language, authorship, and participation across different media and computational tools.

The name ExpressiveAI was inspired by the work of Michael Mateas, the co-creator of the first interactive drama storytelling video game Façade (2005). According to Mateas, expressive AI is an AI-based mode of cultural production that combines AI art practice and technoscientific research.[i] Expressive AI combines “the thought experiments of the AI researcher with the conceptual and aesthetic experiments of the artist” in a “knowing-by-making” process.[ii] The “knowing-by-making” approach to AI has the potential to stimulate new research questions, provide a different perspective on old questions, and enable new forms of artistic expression that could also lead to scientific and technological breakthroughs. Visit our Mission page for more.

Marina Hassapopoulou

ExpressiveAI.net Founder

Cinema & Media Studies Studies Professor | Creative Tech, Digital Arts & Education Consultant | Digital Arts Curator | Author, Editor & Journalist | Art & Film Events Programmer | Innovation Strategist


“International leader in innovative education, creative tech, and AI research | Connecting scholars, artists, and technologists to create positive change”

Marina Hassapopoulou is an international award-winning professor, critically acclaimed author, creative tech innovator, public speaker, multidisciplinary journalist, and driven project leader with over 20 years of experience in creative and academic fields (with a vested interest in herbal medicine and health optimization).  I enjoy taking on new challenges that make a positive impact in the world, particularly through socially engaged technology and participatory community-building activities. Scroll down for a summary of my professional experience and a list of available services I provide by request (email: mh193[at]nyu[dot]edu).

For more information, you can visit my LinkedIn, New York University faculty profile and my personal website, and watch videos of some of my media interviews, public talks, and online projects. For recent publications, visit my book’s website, Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), and my publications page. Chapter 3 of Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation focuses on automation and non/beyond human interactivity and is particularly relevant to ExpressiveAI.net because it combines the lesser-known pre-histories of creative AI with recent cutting-edge practices.

Besides ExpressiveAI.net, that has grown into one of the largest resources for creative experiments with AI and computational tools, some of my other projects include:

  • Visual Voices Augmented Reality (AR) Application– Telling Stories for Peacebuilding through Digital Graffiti, in collaboration with the Visual Voices non-profit organization and ITICA Lab. The Visual Voices AR App for #DigitalGraffiti and #Storytelling brings together socially engaged art and AR in an innovative way that promotes user-generated content and powerful stories of peace advocacy. This is the first step in developing an ecosystem of digital tools and platforms that promote civic engagement and cross-cultural community-building. Awarded several USA and EU grants, including New York University’s Mega Grants Incubator grant and EU funding. Demo: https://vimeo.com/520899508 .
  • Interactive Media Archive: An over a decade-long collaborative project featuring innovative student-produced projects and multimedia scholarship. Featured in publications including The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities (2021), Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), educational forums, and conference presentations.
  • Weird Wave Archive: The first English-speaking collaborative resource on contemporary and diasporic Greek cinema.
  • Transformations.net: An online directory and archive focused on cross-pollinations between Cinema, Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Part of the Transformations: Cinema & Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools conference I co-organized with NYU and Columbia University in 2016, and the interactive CD- DVD-ROM exhibition I curated for the conference.
  • Interactive Media Exhibition: A collaborative, experimental and DIY site dedicated to archiving, curating and preserving ephemeral interactive media; part of an on-site exhibition showcasing the cutting-edge work of some of the first ever digital interactive artists in new participatory contexts. Featured in art publications and scholarly articles, and nominated for a global Digital Humanities award. Trailer:
  • “The Ephemera of Interactive Cinema” multi-grant funded interactive and archival remix project with critically acclaimed creative technologist Erik Loyer, that focuses on new ways of accessing and preserving older digital media interactive artworks. Pitch:

SERVICES:

  • Motivational and inspirational talks for tech and educational companies wishing to inspire their employees to think creatively and out of the box
  • Consulting for Creative Tech, Humanities-centered AI, Digital Arts, Non-Profit and Education/Ed Tech
  • Podcasting and media features on topics including AI, arts and culture
  • Academic and Career Coaching, including assistance with grant-writing, digital humanities projects, job application materials, interview prep, teaching improvement
  • Writing, Journalism, and Editorial Services
  • Art, Film, Exhibitions, and XR Events Programming and Curation
  • Professional Development, including teaching digital literacy workshops and how to successfully incorporate technology into the classroom for a broad range of courses and disciplines (click here to visit my pandemic-inspired workshops & more samples on my blog, plus student projects and pedagogy on the Interactive Media Archive)
  • Media Ethics Advocacy and Social Impact Campaigns
  • Partnerships with non-profit organizations to develop community-building and peace advocacy technology

LANGUAGES: Native Speaker: English & Greek. Intermediate: Spanish & Classical Greek. Limited Working Proficiency: French.

Above: Invited by Facebook France to give an inspirational talk to software engineers at Facebook NYC Headquarters, focusing on strategies to increase user participation through creative endeavors

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Ongoing: Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Aug. 2025-present (Previously: tenure-track Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University, Aug.2018-July 2025; Visiting Professor at NYU for 3 years prior)
  • Director of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program, Spring -Summer semesters 2025 (previously: Associate Director of MIAP)
  • Ongoing: Technical Advisor, Visual Voices NGO, 2019-present
  • Ongoing: International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) member, & Webby and Anthem Awards voting member, 2019-present
  • Program Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Spring 2025
  • Editor, “Virtual & Immersive: Audience and Reception Studies,” and “Disciplinary Approaches,” for the new initiative Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies, Spring 2022-present
  • Faculty Fellow, NYU Center for the Humanities, Aug. 2019-Aug.2020
  • Co-Associate Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, NYU, Aug. 2018-Aug.2019
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University, Aug.2015-July 2018
  • Digital Content Manager and Research Journalist for EU-funded startup, TaxLinked.net, Oct. 2014-June 2015
  • Film and Media Studies Instructor (B.A. & M.A. program), Humanities & Cultural Studies program, University of South Florida, Aug. 2013-May 2014
  • Graduate Instructor, English Department, University of Florida, Fall 2008-Summer 2013
  • Editorial Assistant to Professor Kenneth Kidd for Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature, ed. Kenneth Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2011)
  • American English Institute Office Manager and Activity Coordinator, University of Oregon, Jan.-June 2008
  • English Language and Culture Tutor, American English Institute, University of Oregon, Aug. 2007-June 2008
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF), English Department, University of Oregon, Sept. 2006-June 2007
  • Film and Media Archives Manager and Acquisitions Supervisor, University of Oregon, Aug. 2005-Sept. 2006
  • Journalist and reporter, Oregon Daily Emerald, 2007-2008

DEGREES & CERTIFICATES

EDUCATION:

PhD in English (Film & Media Studies track), University of Florida, 2013, cum laude

MA in English with Emphasis in Film Studies, University of Oregon, 2007, cum laude

BA in English Literature, University of Bristol, England, June 2005

CERTIFICATES:

  • LinkedIn Learning Courses, including “SEO Copywriting: Crafting Content for Both Humans and Search Engines” training
  • Inclusive Teaching certificate, Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation, NYU, Spring 2020
  • Marketing and Online Reputation Management certificate, awarded by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, May 2015
  • Community Management certificate, awarded by FeverBee – A certificate of proficiency in the management of online professional community networks and content management, February 2015
  • Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE), awarded by the University of Cambridge, June 2001
  • A-Level, AS-Level, and O-Level Exam Certificates
  • Full list of professional development: https://marinahassap.wordpress.com/professional-development

PRESS COVERAGE & MEDIA FEATURES

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for Digital Publication for project: “Countering Media Obsolescence through Interactivity: Grappling with Issues of Access and Preservation in Interactive Cinema Traditions” ($40,000), 2025
  • Dean’s Travel Grant for eMerge Americas Conference, Miami FL, 2025 ($1000)
  • “The Ephemera of Interactive Digital Art,” pre-selected project for IDFA International Documentary Institute’s DocLab Forum [semi-final round], Amsterdam, 2024
  • Dean’s Travel Grant ($500) for EYE Filmmuseum International Conference, 2024
  • Miscellaneous Dean’s Conference and Research grants, NYU-Tisch, 2016-present
  • Research Technology Faculty Advisory Board (RT FAB) funding for proof-of-concept design for “The Ephemera of Interactive Cinema” project in collaboration with Erik Loyer ($2,000)
  • Book Publishing Grant ($2,000), Center for Research and Study, NYU, AY 2023-24
  • Dean’s Research Grant ($2,000), NYU-Tisch AY 2023-24
  • NYU Global Research Institute Fellowship in Paris ($5000), France, Summer 2023
  • Goddard Fellowship awarded for successful third-year review, NYU, Spring 2023
  • Future of Storytelling (FoST) Explorers Club Scholarship offer, 2023 cohort, Melcher Media, NY
  • Dean’s Faculty Research Grant for project on “Immersive and Interactive Media Histories from a Rare Australian Perspective” ($2,700), NYU-Tisch AY 2022-23
  • Science New Wave Luminary, Habitat LaboCine Community, Summer 2022-present
  • Humanities Grant for Book Publication Subventions ($1,000), NYU Center for the Humanities, Spring 2022
  • Innovative Pedagogy Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2021
  • International Research and Collaboration Award for Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power. University of Cambridge. Part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence. Fall 2020-Summer 2021 (Amount: £1500; approx. $2,000)
  • Mega Grants Incubator seed grant award (up to $50,000), NYU Tisch Creative Research Initiative, Spring 2020-present
  • Curricular Course Development Grant ($2,000), NYU, Spring 2017, for 2-year development plan
  • David Payne-Carter teaching award nomination, NYU, Academic year 2016-17
  • English Department Teaching Award, University of Florida, academic year 2012-13
  • University of Florida Teaching Excellence Award finalist, academic year 2012-13
  • Holmes Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2013
  • Center for European Studies Course Development Grant for “Youth in European Cinema” course proposal, University of Florida, 2012-13
  • Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida, 2008-2012
  • Miscellaneous Travel Awards and Grants, University of Florida, 2010-2013
  • Outstanding Achievement Awards, University of Florida International Center, 2009-13
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship (GTF), University of Oregon, Sept. 2005-June 2007
  • University of Bristol Socrates Study Abroad Scholarship, Fall Quarter 2004
  • Honorary Scholarship for Academic Merit, University of Bristol, 2002-05

SELECTED INVITED TALKS & INTERVIEWS

  • “Co-Creation Not Replacement: Embracing the Learning Potential of New Technologies,” Focus on Pedagogy conference on “Contemporary Teaching in a Time of Change,” Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, June 2026
  • Invited book talk for Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, December 2025
  • “Co-Creation not Replacement: How AI Can Create New Meaningful Human Experiences,” invited keynote speaker for the “International Journey on Audiovisual Narratives with Artificial Intelligence,” Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, Brazil, December 2025
  • Invited panelist, “The Future of Entertainment in the Age of AI,” DeepStation MoonMax AI Film Festival, Miami, Florida, Nov. 2025
  • Invited facilitator, Interactive Film and Media Conference: Resonances, online, June 2025
  • Invited panelist, SAMAGAM 2025: Art and Interconnectedness, The Center for Peace and Performing Arts virtual symposium, May 2025
  • The Ephemera of Early Interactive Digital Cinema,” for seminar on “Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, online, May-June 2025
  • “F for (Deep) Fake: Surpassing Indexical Concerns about the Real through Experimental AI Documentaries,” Visible Evidence: Decentering Documentary (2024), Melbourne Australia and online, Dec. 2024
  • Interactive Cinema book launch events and interactive CD-ROM/DVD-ROM emulator showcase and exhibition website (https://interactivemediaexhibition.net), Cinema Studies department, NYU, Nov. 15, 2024
  • “Countering the Ephemerality of Complex Media with Do-It-Yourself Archiving,” EYE International Conference, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2024
  • Invited book talk for Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, TBD
  • “ExpressiveAI.net: Creative AI as Ethical Critique,” invited speaker for the “International Journey on Audiovisual Narratives with Artificial Intelligence,” Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, Brazil, date TBD
  • Author interview and book spotlight, New Books Network podcast, January 2025
  • Author interview, Conversations Across Screen Cultures online speaker series, November 2024
  • Author Interview, book author spotlight, and feature on Film Quarterly’s Page Views Live, Summer 2024
  • Book launch event for Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation, Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference, June 12-14, online
  • “The Myth of (Post)Cinema: Participatory Experience and the Dispersal of the Cinematic,” invited keynote for the 23rd New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference, Kadir Has University, May 9-11, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey
  • “The Potential Contributions of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Tools to Film Historiography and Media Obsolescence/Excess,” invited participant, Orphan Film Symposium seminar “Considering Questions of Scale in Non-Theatrical Film” organized by Tanya Goldman and Martin Johnson, NYU, April 2024
  • “Pandemic Anxiety, Collective Memory, and Identity Crises in Christos Nikou’s Apples (2020),” invited speaker at the 24th International Film Festival, Mercy University, April 2024, New York    
  • “The Greek Weird Wave: The Activist Potential of Crisis-Driven Filmmaking,” invited speaker for the “Unscreening Media: Towards Planetary Perspectives for Screen Studies in Times of Crises” workshop organized by NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, NYU, 7-8 March, 2024, New York
  • “Audiovisual Data and Sensemaking,” invited speaker for the Beyond Search: Opening up Audiovisual Content for Humanities Studies workshop funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland/online, Sept. 2023
  • “Digital Humanities Projects and/for Archives,” guest talk for Juana Suárez’s Advanced Topics in Preservation Studies graduate course, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, NYU, Fall 2023
  • “Generative AI: Art and Creativity,” invited interview as AI expert, Context series, Reuters, Feb. 2023 < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2ROELlAJs >
  • “Back to the Future: Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s Creative Potential Through Film Historiography,” invited lecture, Hong Kong Baptist University, Academy of Film & School of Communications, Spring 2022, Hong Kong, China and online
  • “Multisensory Approaches to Digital/Analog Visualizations,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, May 2021
  • “What Is Are Digital Cinemas? Computer films, Discs, Hypercards, Floppys, Flash, and Other Digital Cinemas,” guest lecture for Juana Suarez’s Introduction to MIAP graduate course, NYU, Fall 2021 
  • Invited exhibition of Augmented Reality App Visual Voices with non-profit organization Visual Voices, Conflict and the Creative Arts Conference and Art Exhibition, Canterbury, UK/Online, Fall 2021
  • “ARTificial Intelligence for Civic Engagement,” invited talk for Jack Stenner’s Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence course and art workshop, University of Florida, Fall 2021
  • “Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Posthuman’ Condition in Experimental Cinema,” media presentation and clip curation, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence, Summer School, University of Cambridge, July 2021
  • “Back to the Future: Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s Creative Potential Through Film Historiography,” poster session presentation, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence, Summer School, University of Cambridge, July 2021
  • “Expressive AI: Artificial Intelligence from an Arts and Humanities Perspective,” research and project presentation, part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, June 2021
  • “Beyond the Viz: Multisensory Approaches to Analog and Digital Visualizations,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, May 2021
  • “Back to the Future: Early Cinematic Experiments with Artificial Intelligence,” organizer, presenter and moderator of virtual symposium: “Cinematic Experiments with Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Expressive and Activist Potential of AI from an Arts and Humanities Perspective,” NYU and University of Cambridge, Apr. 9 2021 https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/spring-2021/cinematic-experiments-artificial-intelligence
  • “The ART of Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Exclusion, and Subversion,” Tisch School of the Arts, Pecha Kucha event, Fall 2021
  • “Online and Blended Teaching Workshop,” co-organized with Dr. Feng-Mei Heberer, Cinema Studies department, New York University, June 2020
  • “Low/No Budget and DIY Media Making in the Digital Humanities,” invited guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, May 2020
  • “Interactive Storytelling: Traditions, Influences, and New Modes of Spectatorship,” invited talk for Facebook France and Facebook NYC Headquarters, NYC Facebook headquarters, Oct. 2019
  • “Artificial Intelligence, the Popular Imaginary, and New Inequalities,” invited lecture for Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies (RISE), Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 2019
  • “Process-Oriented Pedagogy and Multimedia Scholarship,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, May 2019
  • “Is Our Future Our Past? Artificial Intelligence, the Popular Imagination, and New Inequalities,” invited lightning talk, An[0]ther {AI} in Art summit: Decolonizing Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Art Making, Columbia University and the Knight Foundation, April 24-26, 2019
  • Invited lecture, “Interactive Cinema: The Ethics of Participation and Collectivity in the Era of (Dis)Connection,” Media and Audiovisual Processes Program, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2019
  • Invited lecture and public seminar, “Paradoxes of Visibility in Border Cinemas of the ‘New Europe’ and Beyond,” Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do SESC (Research and Education Center of SESC), São Paulo, Brazil, March 2019
  • Invited Participation and Membership, An[0]ther {AI} in Art summit: Decolonizing Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Art Making, Columbia University and the Knight Foundation, April 24-26, 2019, plus participation in additional events and projects
  • “Multimedia Visualizations and Data Curation in Cinema and Media Studies,” guest talk for Arlene Ducao’s Data Visualizations for the Community course, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Fall 2018
  • “The Influence of Brecht on the French New Wave,” guest talk for Robert Stam’s French New Wave course, NYU, Spring 2018
  • “Theory-Practice, Experimentation and Process-Oriented Pedagogy,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, Spring 2018
  • “Virtual Reality Ethics,” guest talk for Susan Murray’s Techniques of the Real course, Media Culture and Communication, NYU, Spring 2018
  •  “Multimodal Scholarship and Expanded Dissertations,” guest talk for Robert Stam’s PhD Dissertation seminar, Spring 2018
  • “Alternative Modes of Film Theory: The Remix, the (Video)Graphic, and the Interactive as Proto-Theory,” guest talk for Robert Stam’s Film Theory course, Fall 2017, NYU Abu Dhabi
  • “Cultural Translation and Subjective Subtitling: Case Studies from Europe, the U.S., Asia, and the Middle East,” invited keynote, Subtitula Short Film Festival. Τμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων [Department of Business Administration, Applied Languages program], ΤΕΙ Ηπείρου College, Ηγουμενίτσα, Greece, June 16, 2017
  • “Digital Humanities Meets Cinema Studies: Theory-Practice and Process-Oriented Pedagogy,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Draper, Spring 2017
  • “Cinema Studies and the Digital Humanities: Exploring Transformative Crossovers,” invited talk at NYU Abu Dhabi’s Digital Humanities Conference, 9-12 April, 2017
  • “From Distracted to Distributed Attention: Image & Sound in Cinema Studies,” Distracted Reading: Acts of Attention in the Age of the Internet Symposium, New York University, NYC, Sept. 2016
  • Scientific Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH): Rhizomes, Bridges, Networks. Bali, Indonesia, 22-23 Sept. 2016
  • “Cinema and the Digital Humanities,” NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) invited participation to NECS pre-conference state-of-the-field workshop, Potsdam, Germany, Jul. 2016
  • Invited guest speaker for Zhen Zhang’s PhD Methodologies seminar, Fall 2016
  • “Virtual and Time-Based Experiences in the Digital Humanities,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Draper, Spring 2016
  • “Remix as Adaptation,” guest talk for Robert Stam’s Film and Literature Adaptation graduate course, NYU Cinema Studies, Fall 2015
  • “Choose Your Own History: Interactive Cinema and Other New Old Media,” NYU Cinema Studies Department, Tisch School of the Arts, NYC, Dec. 2014
  • “A Critical History of Interactive Cinema,” Centre Point for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec. 2014
  • “Hybrid and Blended Teaching: New Approaches to 21st Century Pedagogy and Syllabus Redesign,” University of Kansas, Department of Film and Media Studies, Lawrence, KS, Jun. 2014
  • “Interactive Cinema: Issues of Archiving, Access and Distribution.” Invited online contribution for the Reimaging the Archive Symposium Blog, UCLA, Fall 2010

SELECTED EVENTS PROGRAMMING, PRESENTATIONS & CUSTOM WORKSHOPS

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, EVENTS & CURATION

  • “The Ephemera of Early Interactive Digital Cinema,” for seminar on “Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, online, May-June 2025
  • “F for (Deep) Fake: Surpassing Indexical Concerns about the Real through Experimental AI Documentaries,” Visible Evidence: Decentering Documentary (2024), Melbourne Australia and online, Dec. 2024
  • Interactive Cinema book launch events and interactive CD-ROM/DVD-ROM emulator showcase and exhibition website (https://interactivemediaexhibition.net), Cinema Studies department, NYU, Nov. 15, 2024
  • “Countering the Ephemerality of Complex Media with Do-It-Yourself Archiving,” EYE International Conference, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2024
  • Organizer and moderator, virtual class visit of critically acclaimed filmmaker and queer rights activist, Panos H. Koutras, for my Greek “Weird” Wave seminar
  • Organizer and moderator, “Two Events with The Kissinger Twins,” Fall semester 2023
  • “Artist as Machine/Machine as Artist: Co-Creation as Intervention,” Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2023
  • “Locative Media and Do-It-Yourself Activism,” HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) 2023: Critical Making & Social Justice, NYC/Online, June 2023
  • Event organizer and moderator for Brett Gaylor’s “Big Data Literacy and Interactive Documentary,” NYU Cinema Studies, Fall 2022
  • “Writing Up A Multiverse: A Masterclass on Branched Narrative Storytelling by Tobias Weber-Ingold,” event co-organizer and moderator, NYU Cinema Studies, Spring 2022
  • Workshop organizer, “Lessons from Hybrid Teaching,” NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 10, 2022
  • “Playing with History: Virtual Reality DocuGames as Experiential Sites,” Visible Evidence Conference, Frankfurt, Germany (hybrid), Dec. 2021
  • “Artificial Intelligence and Post-Human Embodied Experience,” PostSensorium Conference and Arts Science Festival, Riga/Online, Sept. 2021
  • “Interactive Historiography: Revisiting Cultural Memory and Trauma through Virtual Reality,” The Role of Body Experiences and Society Explorations in Contemporary VR Projects, NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) virtual conference, Summer 2021, Sponsorship by NECS Cinema & Contemporary Visual Arts workgroup
  • “Cinematic Experiments with Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Expressive and Activist Potential of AI from an Arts and Humanities Perspective,” virtual symposium organizer, presenter and moderator, NYU and University of Cambridge, Apr. 9 2021 https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/spring-2021/cinematic-experiments-artificial-intelligence  
  • Participant and interviewer, special Instagram event series to promote co-authored Cinema Studies book chapter in The Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2021), Mar. 2021
  • Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Cinema project websites: https://expressiveai.net and https://aifilmography.cargo.site – project manager and research director, in collaboration with PhD advisee Da Ye Kim (web design and research assistantship)
  • “Hybrid Teaching: Tips, Tricks and (Productive) Fails,” workshop organizer/instructor, NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 12, 2021
  • Moderator, “Never Lost But Found in The Ocean: On Biographies of Film Copies” panel, Orphan Film Symposium, NYU/Amsterdam/Online, May 2020
  • “The Interactive Museum: Rethinking Cultural Heritage and Historiography in the Digital Age,” Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites conference, Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies (RISE), Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2020 – postponed to June 2021
  • “Expanding the Digital Humanities through Multimedia Scholarship,” Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, Trinity College, NH, Feb. 2020
  • Moderator and co-organizer, “Brazil: News from the Front,” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, NYU, Nov. 2019
  • Moderator, “Media, Heritage, and Memory” panel, MIT10: Media in Transition: Democracy & Digital Media, MIT, Boston, May 2019
  • “The Limitations of ‘New Media’ Historiographies and Interactive Memorialization in Virtual Reality Documentary Games,” MIT10: Media in Transition: Democracy & Digital Media, MIT, Boston, May 2019
  • Event Co-Organizer, Panelist, and Moderator, “Screening and Discussion of Ko I-Chen’s Blue Moon (1997),”  NYU Cinema Studies Event, Co-Sponsored by: Cinema Studies, Taiwan Film Institute, Taiwan Cinema Toolkit, Asian Film and Media Initiative, and Fourth Wall Cinema, Fall 2019
  • Moderator, Panel on “Political Implications of Reactive Image and Performance,” The Re/Active Image Cinema Studies Student Conference, NYU, Feb. 2019
  • “Multimedia Scholarship: Project-oriented and Alternative Forms of Academic Writing,” workshop organizer/instructor, NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 2019
  • “Collaborative Blogging as Open Resource Archive,” presentation at OpenCon NYC 2018, Fall 2018
  • Organizer for Thomas Elsaesser’s guest lecture on Film Theory through the Senses, NYU Cinema Studies public event, New York, Apr. 2018
  • “Handmade, Hands-On, and Low-Tech Practices in Media Pedagogy,” workshop presenter, SCMS 2018, Chicago, Apr. 2018
  • Organizer and moderator for The Kissinger Twins’ experimental talks and screenings on Cinematic Labyrinths and Multimedia Storytelling, NYU Cinema Studies public event, Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 2018
  • “Experimenting with Locative Media and Augmented Reality,” workshop organizer/instructor, NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 2018
  • Co-organizer with Linnéa Hussein and Anna McCarthy, “Navigating the Academic Job Market for Non-Citizens” workshop, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Organizer and moderator for Toni Dove’s experimental talk, “Haunting the Movie: Embodied Interface and Responsive Narrative,” NYU Cinema Studies public event, 20 Sept. 2017
  • Organizer for Thomas Elsaesser’s guest lecture on “The Cinema of Abjection: Politics and Ethics of European Cinema,” NYU Cinema Studies public event, 24 Apr. 2017
  • “Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe in Transition,” SCMS, Chicago, Apr. 2017
  • “Playing with History in Virtual Reality DocuGames,” panel on Virtual Reality and Sites of History/ Historicity, Codes and Modes: ReFraming Reality, Virtuality and Non-Fiction Media Symposium, Hunter College, NYC, Mar. 2017
  • Organizer and co-founder (with Special Events Committee), Annual Digital/ Multimedia Lecture series, NYU Cinema Studies, Spring 2016-present
  • Organizer and moderator of special interactive event with artist Paul Vanouse, featuring a rare screening of his late 1990s-early 2000s collaborative multimedia interactive documentaries, The Consensual Fantasy Engine and Terminal Time. NYU Cinema Studies public event, 29 March 2017.
  • “Multimedia Film Analysis,” workshop organizer/instructor, NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 2017
  • Moderator: “Deterritorialized Borders,” At the Limit: Borders, Margins, Walls, NYU Student Conference, Cinema Studies department, NYU, NYC, Feb. 2017
  • “Playing with History in Virtual Reality DocuGames”, Extending Play, Rutgers University, NJ, Fall 2016
  • Organizer and moderator for interactive screening of award-winning film Late Shift (2016), with filmmaker Tobias Weber. NYU Cinema Studies public event, 29 Sept. 2016
  • Presenter & panel organizer: “Digital Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of an In/Between Europe,” NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) conference, Potsdam, Germany, July 2016. Sponsorship by the NECS Cinema & Contemporary Visual Arts workgroup
  • “Cinema and the Digital Humanities,” NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) invited participation to NECS pre-conference state-of-the-field workshop, Potsdam, Germany, Jul. 2016
  • Presenter/Opening Panel: What is DH? “Social Media as Analytical Tools in Cinema Studies,” NYU Digital Humanities (NYUDH) Special Project Showcase, NYC, Apr. 2016
  • Organizer and Curator, The Labyrinth Project Showcase, in collaboration with Marsha Kinder and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, Transformations I Conference, Apr. 2016
  • Conference Co-Organizer: Transformations I: Cinema & Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools, New York University Cinema Studies/ Columbia University, NYC, Apr. 2016
  • “The Classroom as Research Environment: Social Media Repurposing and Audience Reception in Cinema Studies,” Transformations I conference, NYU/ Columbia, NYC, Apr. 2016
  • Organizer for Thomas Elsaesser’s guest lecture on “Immersion, Recursion and Self-Reference: Paradoxes of the Film Experience,” NYU Cinema Studies public event, 25 April 2016
  • Moderator: “Displaced Media & Technologies,” Displacement NYU Graduate Student Conference, Cinema Studies, NYU, NYC Mar. 2016
  • Workshop organizer, Easy-to-Use Tools for Film Analysis, NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 2016
  • Event Organizer, Day of Community: International Exchange, for Tisch School of the Arts 50th Anniversary Celebration, Cinema Studies department, NYU, Oct. 2015