Rounding out my trip to Canada, I'll be giving a talk about my recent book on Bride of Frankenstein at the University of Toronto's Centre for Culture and Technology on Nov. 10! Info and registration here.

On Nov. 9, 2025, Karin Denson and I will give an artist talk, titled "Non/phenomenalities: A Hodological Laboratory for Unstable Times," at the Western Film & Art Festival. In line with the festival theme of "Emerging Visions of AI, Art, and Environment," we will be discussing our recent artistic and curatorial collaborations around AI and environments, both natural and computational. Selected pieces from our ongoing series GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimalsInLatentSpace! will also be screening throughout the festival.

I'm excited to be giving one of the keynotes at the Media Theory Conference 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology in Toronto. On Nov. 8, I'll give a talk titled "AI as Existential(ist) Risk and Aesthetic Opportunity." Here is the abstract: Contemporary debates around artificial intelligence often frame the technology in terms of “existential risk.” Yet such framings rarely pause to consider what…

With apologies for the late announcement, the Digital Aesthetics Workshop is delighted to welcome our first speaker of the 2025-26 academic year! Joseph DeLappe will present on "Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play" on Wednesday, October 22, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take place in Wallenberg 433A, at the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Dinner will be served.

I'm excited to announce a book launch event for my new book on Bride of Frankenstein, followed by a screening of the 1935 film, on Oct. 30, 2025 at Gray Area in San Francisco! Doors open at 6:30pm, and the event starts at 7:00. I'll have copies of the book on hand and will be happy to sign them too! More info here!

Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics. Abstract: The rapid spread of generative AI tools has sparked urgent debates about ethics, governance, and even existential risk. These concerns are real, but they often miss a prior and constitutive dimension: the aesthetic.

Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.

I'm excited to announce that GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimals! -- BOVINE, part of a larger series of collaborations between me and Karin Denson, will be installed at GearBox Gallery in Oakland. The opening is Saturday, November 1 (1-4pm), and it will be on view through December 6 (with a closing event and artist talk starting at 2pm). The installation comprises a set of paintings and custom software that runs a real-time generative audiovisual experience. You can read more about the piece here. And here are a couple of installation shots from a recent show at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley:

My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a minute-by-minute engagement with the film, combining close looking, philosophical speculation, historical contextualization, and a variety of other ekphrastic and experimental approaches. Print versions are available anywhere books are sold, including on the…