Conferences / Talks

In my role as an annotator, I engage with different audiences to observe, critique and analyse the daily and everyday practices of the digital. In this role, I seek to implement, illustrate, and underscore the critical learning from my research and activism, for an engaged public debate and conversations. Through performance lectures, embedded fellowships, newspaper op-eds, video interviews, participatory workshops, and community blogging, I provide critical annotations to the accelerated digital turn that we collectively live in. The engagements can be identified around 4 key clusters: #Technosocial Subjectivities, #Practices of Collectivity, #Technological Ordering, and #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures

Conferences/ Workshops   

(Selected 2011 – 2018 – Keynotes & Plenaries only)

1. The future of living materials – input talk – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven. #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
2. Living in Upopulated Spaces: human futures of digital cities. Lecture at the Nuremberg Digital Festival, and at CUHK, Hong Kong. #Technological Ordering
3. Algorithmic Governance – UC Irvine, SOAS London, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.  #Technological Ordering
4. Lecture at Madeira Institute of Technology, in ‘progressive products for social europe’  Designing technologies for survival: Touchstones for the digital future. #Infrastructures of digital cultures
5. Keynote speaker. 1^st Istanbul Privacy symposium:  Data Protection and Innovation. #Technosocial Subjectivities
6. Lecture at Khoj. AI for survival: touchstones for living in digital futures.  #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
7. Keynote lecture at the Innovation Diversity and the Digital Turn symposium on The Innovation Blackbox: Technologies, Temporalities, and Topographies at the University of Oslo. #Technological Ordering
8. Lecture on “engaging with histories: An Everyday Life Practice” at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart,  #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
9. Keynote speaker at Webstock 2018, NewZealand, #Technological Ordering
10. Keynote speaker at the TransEuropa Festival 2018, Germany #Technosocial Subjectivities
11. Keynote speaker in Design Dialogue Series, at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications , University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA,  (2017) #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures #Technosocial Subjectivities
12. Plenary lecture at the Collaborative for the Critical Study of Technology,  UIUC, USA (2017) #Technosocial Subjectivities
13. Keynote hosting and moderation at Transmediale 2018, HKW, Call out, Protest, Speak Back with Lisa Nakamura #Practices of Collectivity
14. Performance conversation with Maya Indira Ganesh: Data Discrimination, Dystopia, and the Future of Citizenship – Dangerous Conjunctures. 2018. HKW, Berlin.  #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
15. Keynote speaker – Inclusion in the age of AI –  at the Global Symposium for Artificial Intelligence and Ethics, Networks of Centre for Internet & Society, Brazil. 2017. #Technological Ordering
16. Democracy Under Siege: Digital Espionage and Civil Society Resistance – Spui25, Datactive, university of Amsterdam. #Practices of Collectivity
17. Keynote speaker at the Transmediale Berlin (2015) #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
18. Performance Keynote Lecture  titled ‘The object of our Affection: Pornography, Perversion, and Pleasure’ at the  ‘Did you feel it?’  Symposium,  Designhuis, Eindhoven (2015). #Infrastructure of digital cultures
19. Keynote lecture on ‘Appified Politics: Survival for the Informationally Overloaded Subject’ at the  ‘Digital Media and Borders: Infrastructures, Mobilities, and Practices across Asia and Beyond’ workshop at the Lingnan University Hong Kong (2018) #Technosocial Subjectivities
20. Head to Head conversation with Wendy Chun, “network science, segregation, and the emergence of political extremes’, American Academy of Berlin (2017) #Technological Ordering
21. Workshop on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Hinglish at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2015. #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
22. Plenary speaker at the Theatre & the Net conference by the Heinrich Boele Institute Berlin, 2015. #Technosocial Subjectivities
23. Plenary Speaker at the  Researching Children’s Rights Globally in the Digital Age workshop at the London School of Economics, London, 2015. #Practices of Collectivity
24. Expert inputs at The Biometrics Conference London, 2014.
25. Performance Lecture titled ‘To share is to s©are: networks of Reuptation and machines of Repetition’ Academy of Asociality Graz, Austria, 2014.
26. Expert talk on ‘Cracking the code: Learning how to as the question again’ at  Code Acts in Education seminar at Stirling University Stirling, 2014. #Technological Ordering
27. Expert talk on ‘Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards thinking of the nature of Internet Policy’ at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy, focused on ‘The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet In a Time of Surveillance and Disclosure’  , Vienna, Austria, 2014. #Infrastructure of digital cultures
28. Advisor and keynote speaker at the Digitally Connected Symposium, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2014. #Technosocial Subjectivity
29. Expert input at the workshop on Big Data and Positive Change in the Developing world, organized by the Oxford Internet Institute, at the Rockefeller Bellagio Centre, Italy, 2014. #Practices of Collectivity
30. Keynote Speaker on ‘Chances and Risks of Social Participation’ at the Humboldt Institute for Internet Governance, Berlin, 2013. #Technological Ordering
31. Guest Speaker on ‘Governance in the time of the Network’ Wahlgren Symposium on Media, Globalisation and Democracy, Lund University, Lund, 2013. #Practices of collectivity
32. Podium Discussion on ‘End of Bibliographies’ and a workshop on ‘Open up! The politics and pragamtics of open access’ at the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Lueneburg, 2013. #Infrastructure of Digital Cultures
33. Presented a paper at the World Social Sciences Forum, on ‘Habits of Modernity: Care, Technology and the Indian National Cyborg’, Montreal, 2013. #Technological Ordering
34. Conceived a conference track on ‘Whose Change is it anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology and Citizen Action in the Global South (and the rest of the world)’ at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, Chicago, 2013. #Practices of Collectivity
35. Presented a paper on ‘The ontology of Networks: Citizen Action in network societies’ at the Habits of Living conference, at Brown University, Rhode Island, 2013. #Technological Ordering
36. Presented a paper at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference on Decoding Digital Natives, Dhaka, 2011. #Technosocial Subjectivities

Fellowships

1. Visiting Scholar, Sex Studies Centre, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan. 2005-2006.
2. Asia Foundation Fellow for comparative research on India and China, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University, China. 2010.
3. Visiting Fellow, Institute for Social Sciences, Den Haag, The Netherlands. 2012.
4. International Tandem Partner, The Hybrid Publishing Lab, Innovations Inkubator, Germany, 2013-2014.
5. Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague, September-December 2012.
6. Scholar in Residence at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, India, 2015.
7. Visiting Summer Fellow at the Mudra Institute of Communication (MICA) University, Ahmedabad, India, 2016.
8. Senior Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), Leuphana University, Germany. 2018.