Spoke at UX Live during Product Design Week 2024.

Gave a keynote talk at Øredev Developers' Conference in Malmö, Sweden.

Spoke at Media Evolution's "AI & Creativity" event at Malmö Art Museum.

Gave a guest lecture for Stanford University's "Entrepreneurship and the Arts" class.

Participated in a roundtable discussion on "Generative AI in Media Creation" at the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster.

It was a pleasure to attend TIME Magazine's AI100 Impact Dinner in London.

Professor Payal Arora and I are thrilled to launch the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University.

I was honored to speak on a panel about Dr Arora's new book, From Pessimism to Promise, alongside Profs Annette Markham, Bruce Mutsvairo, and Erik Stan.

Excited to share an artistic exploration of Spatial AI in collaboration with Sensor.Graphics.

At Dundee Design Festival, I co-curated an exhibit and workshop of Sebastian Schmieg's work, called The World Is Beautiful Again. I also spoke on a panel alongside Sebastian, Martin Zeilinger, and Sarah Cook.

Thrilled to have successfully passed my PhD "viva" (defense) and received my doctorate!

Our latest publication on The Algorithmic Pedestal is out now in Arts: "A Machine Walks into an Exhibit: A Technical Analysis of Art Curation."

Excited to share the findings from the practice-based research component of The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibit, published in Leonardo: "The Algorithmic Pedestal: a Practice-Based Study of Algorithmic & Artistic Curation."

Had the opportunity to participate in the Yale University-Paul Mellon Centre's Graduate Summer Programme: two incredible weeks of cultural reflection and artistic practice in London and Cape Town, South Africa.

It was a pleasure to speak at Adobe x Museums annual convening with attendees from MoMa, V&A, MIS (Brazil), MAP (India), and NCAR (Japan).

Our article about Content Authenticity Initiative research, "Unmasking AI: Informing Authenticity Decisions by Labeling AI-Generated Content," has been published in ACM Interactions.

My work with Payal was featured in Suhair Khan's "Decolonising Design, Decolonising Technology, Decolonising AI" article.

Spoke on a panel for "AD Talks: Why generative AI needs design leadership" in San Francisco, which is out as a Design Better podcast episode.

Thrilled that the BRAID UK team has selected our project, "CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives," for one of their 2024 fellowships.

Gave a keynote talk & fireside chat at Nordic Media Days in Bergen, Norway.

Contributed research and opinions for this piece in PC Mag, titled "Algorithmic Curation is Ruining the Internet. Here's How to Fix That."

Gave the keynote talk at the NextM Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Gave a talk about my doctoral research at Google London for the YouTube and Deepmind staff.

Participated in a roundtable discussion at the University of Edinburgh Law Faculty called "Producing cross-disciplinary insights for diverse and inclusive design to AI in arts and fashion."

Spoke at the British Council for their Arts & Digital Innovation programme.

Gave a guest lecture in Professor Joe Dumit's "AI & Co-Creativity" course at UC Davis.

Gave a guest lecture on AI, Creativity, and Culture for "Cultural Analytics" course at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Delivered a talk at REMIX Summit 2024, a gathering for cultural institutions & the creative industries.

Our paper, "Introducing the Method of Exhibit-Based Research," has been published in Communication Design Quarterly.

Spoke at "Protecting Creativity in the Age of AI" at Kings College London, alongside lawyers, technologists, regulators, unionists, and creatives to inform DCMS, DIST, and ACE's Generative AI policies.

Participated in BRAID UK's Generative AI Policy Summit (run by the University of Edinburgh, BBC, and the Ada Lovelace Institute), which will result in future-facing recommendations for the UK Department of Culture, Media, and Sport.

It was a pleasure to host my colleague, Dr Aaron Hertzmann, at the Oxford Internet Institute to discuss "Can Computers Create Art?"

Our ACM ISS paper, "Using Online Videos as the Basis for Developing Design Guidelines: A Case Study of AR-Based Assembly Instructions," has been published.

Honored that my research has been featured by the University of Oxford as part of their OxfordAI programme.

Spoke about Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative at the Oxford Generative AI Summit on the "Multi-stakeholder responses to deepfakes and synthetic media" panel.

In Milan for the International Association of Design Research Societies conference, where I'm sharing two papers: "For Who Page? TikTok creators' algorithmic dependencies" and "Decolonizing Creativity in the Digital Era."

Gave a keynote speech at Emerce Eday in Amsterdam.

Gave presentations at the Possibility Studies Conference as well as the Marconi Institute of Creativity conference.

Shared my thoughts on how AI is changing the creative process at The Conference in Malmo, Sweden.

Shared my presentation, "How do algorithmic platforms shape creative practices and processes?" at the Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor & Social Reproduction conference at the University of Amsterdam.

Gave a presentation for the Centre for the Aesthetics of AI Images in Aarhus.

We expand on our Science paper (below) in "The art and science of generative AI: a deeper dive," up on arXiv.

Our perspective paper, "The art and science of generative AI," is now out in Science Magazine!

Spent a few days experimenting, experiencing, and reflecting in Olafur Eliasson's Copenhagen backyard at EER's annual workshop.

Hosted Adobe Research's 2023 Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Lev Manovich.

My chapter, "Globalized Creative Economies: Rethinking Local Craft, Provenance, and Platform Design" is included in the newly-released Feminist Futures of Work, an open access book published by Amsterdam University Press.

"Towards Better User Studies in Computer Graphics and Vision" has now been published in Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.

Thrilled to join the Centre for Aesthetics of AI Images.

Gave a guest lecture on data-driven curation for Aarhus University's "Datafication of Society" course.

Had a lovely time participating in the FemLab.Co workshop-retreat in the Netherlands.

In this Newsweek article, I discuss both the opportunities and risks of AI being used to reconstruct high resolution images from human brain activity.

Spoke on a panel at SPUI25 to launch our book, Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy, with Amsterdam University Press.

BBC Radio 4 has aired a feature of The Algorithmic Pedestal, which can be replayed here.

This term, I am a visiting researcher at Aarhus University, where I'll be spending time with researchers at the Centre for Digital Creativity and the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre while conducting fieldwork at Olafur Eliasson's studio as part of EER.

The New Scientist has released a video of The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibit.

Excited to share that Forbes has written a feature on The Algorithmic Pedestal!

SURFACE has kindly shared an article on The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibit.

Apollo Magazine has shared a thoughtful article on the conceptual underpinnings of The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibit.

The Algorithmic Pedestal is up on ArtNet!

Grateful that Wallpaper* has featured The Algorithmic Pedestal.

Excited to share our exhibit, The Algorithmic Pedestal, which will take place January 11-17 in London.

The Serpentine Galleries' Future Art Ecosystems 3 Report is out now!

Excited to share the volume of proceedings from our ICCC'22 workshop, The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human & Artificial Creativity, which also includes our paper, "Exploring Embodiment’s Role in Creativity with Live Artistic Performances."

Presented to AnswerLab's "Humans of Research" hive on inclusive research practices.

Presented my research, "Algorithms' Impact on Human Artistic Creativity," at the Doctoral Symposium for the 10th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X (xCoAx).

Hosted "The Role of Embodiment in Human & Artificial Creativity" two-day workshop at the International Conference of Computational Creativity, together with Dr. Caterina Moruzzi.

"Towards Better User Studies in Computer Graphics and Vision" is out on arXiv; in it, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoya Bylinskii, Stefanie Hutka, Yile Zhang, and I share best practices for user research in the computer graphics field.

Grateful for thoughtful feedback and interesting discussions at ACM Creativity & Cognition's 2022 Graduate Student Symposium in Venice, Italy.

Excited to share our paper, "In the eye of the beholder: A viewer-defined conception of online visual creativity," now published in New Media & Society.

Gave the Concluding Keynote on inclusive design at the "Inclusive Work and the Platform Economy" conference.

Thrilled to join the UK's Arts & Humanities Research Council's Doctoral Training Programme via an Open-Oxford-Cambridge full studentship.

Received the 2022-23 United States Fulbright Research/Study Award.

Our paper, "Larger visual changes compress time: The inverted effect of asemantic visual features on interval time perception" has been published in PLOS ONE.

Dr. Caterina Moruzzi, Dr. Aaron Hertzmann, and I are thrilled to have received the University of Konstanz's Intersectoral Cooperation grant for our project, "The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human and Artificial Creativity."

Looking forward to our accepted workshop at the International Conference of Computational Creativity '22– paper submissions are now open!

Honored to have received the Zonta International Women in Technology scholarship.

Delivered a guest lecture at Prof. Payal Arora's CM2092 course, Artificial Intelligence and Social Design, at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Excited to begin work on our project, "Algorithmic Influence on Creative Labour in the Global South," which has been funded by an OII-Dieter Schwarz Foundation grant.

Grateful to have received generous funding for our project, "AI Futures and the Curated Visitor Experience," through the Minderoo-Oxford AI Challenge Fund (Large).

Grateful to have been promoted to Senior Research Lead at Adobe.

Published a thought piece on creativity & platform design in the Global South via FemLab.

Guest lectured for Dr. Niloufar Salehi's Interface Design & Development course at the University of California, Berkeley alongside longtime collaborator Dr. Stefanie Hutka.

Became a Fellow at IDRC-funded FemLab.Co under the supervision of Payal Arora to study creativity in the Global South.

Thrilled to have joined the Board of Trustees for Arts at the Old Fire Station, an Oxford-based arts organization that supports people experiencing homelessness.

Gave a talk at the XXVI Conference of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics at the City University of London.

Honored to have been elected to the Board of Trustees for Eastside Educational Trust, a London-based non-profit that fosters creative experiences for children in underserved communities.

We organized a collection of essays for the Journal of Cultural Anthropology, titled Technology and Anthropological Ways of Knowing, including a piece on disability + AI that I co-authored: "What Can Tech Learn from Crip Futurity?"

Enjoyed participating in the Graduate Student Seminar at ACM's Creativity & Cognition, where my paper "Remixing, Seeing, and Curating: Algorithms' Influence on Human Creativity" was published. Thanks to the mentors & fellow students for their feedback!

Together with researchers, designers, and research ops at Airbnb, Workday, DoorDash, and Uber, we published the first issue of the Inclusive Research Guide, a publication that centers the experiences of historically underinvested communities.

Illustrator on the iPad won a Webby Award as the Creative Production App & Software People's Voice Winner. Congratulations to the team!

Our article on building user-centered Beta programs was published on Adobe Xd Ideas.

Synesthetic artwork featured in Placeholder Zine.

Excited to share some of my poetry-based artwork as the “featured artist” in Stirring Literary Magazine's Winter 2021 issue.

I wrote a piece about my artistic experience, and it was featured on the Adobe Blog.

Illustrator on the iPad, on which I've led research for the past year, is released– immediately becoming #1 in the App Store for both the US and Japan.

Shared my pro bono research on homelessness, facilitated by the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation, with many San Francisco City departments in their inaugural Learning Labs event.

Some pieces from my Syn(aesthetic) art project are featured in BINGE magazine.

Invited to give a guest lecture in artist James Welling's class at Princeton University, VIS 236: Pathological Color.

An art piece from my "Syn(aesthetic)" project is on view at the Ars Electronica virtual gallery.

Presented my pro bono research on perspectives on homelessness in San Francisco to the Mayor's Office and the Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing.