lectures

"And life is like a song..... "

I lecture on a number of topics - art, technology, spirituality, writing, business, community building and more. 

Guest Lectures (selected)
 
"Wellness & Longevity" panel organizer & moderator for OLLI at Cal Poly, with guests Dr. Mark Monnin, Christine Troples and Xiaoping Shanbrom. 2011

"The Writing Life - a Conversation" with husband Mark Onspaugh for OLLI at Cal Poly, winter 2010.

"What's So Important About Art & Beauty?" for OLLI at Morro Bay Library, 2009.

"3D Theory" Art Center College of Design, Pasadena 2009
Guest of M.A. Greenstein's classes on Critical Practice

"3D Theory" School of Visual Arts, NYC 2009
Guest of Joseph Nechvatal's class on the "viractual"

“Playing With Space and Time”, Cornell University  2006  Live, remote guest lecture and inworld presentation Topic: “TCWF: Tobey Crockett’s Wild Frontier”
 
“Virtual Minds – Congress of Fictitious Figures”, exhibition and symposium 2004 Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen Germany. Live, remote lecture and inworld presentation  Topic: “Virtual Resistance, Virtual Minds”

The Southern California Institute of Architecture, “Fire in the Library” series, created by Eugenia Butler 1997 & 1998. Featured speaker, with Dr. Zhen-Su She
Topics: “Q.I.: Quantum Information”  and “Q.I.: Quantum Information 2”

Orange County Museum of Art, featured speaker  1997
Topic: "The Pursuit of Deity"
 
"Art Protects You - Municipal Project by Jochen Traar” 1994.
Villach Kulturamt, Villach, Austria  (in German)
 
“The Art of Arleen Schloss”, Bremen KunstAkademie  1993. Bremen, Germany
 
“Joseph Nechvatal and Excess in the TechnoMediacratic Society”  1992
Arbois, France (in French)
 
"The Architecture of Memory and Mischa Kuball" 1990
Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna  (in German)

Background

During the past two decades, I have lectured, moderated panels and been a guest speaker at museums and galleries in the US and internationally, including such venues as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, the USC Public Art Forum, the California Institute for the Arts, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Rhode Island, the Bremen Kunstakademie, the Wittgenstein Haus in Vienna, the Villach Kulturamt, in Villach, Austria, and the Arbois Municipal Museum in France, the last lectures being in german and french.

I have addressed conferences and delivered papers at such venues as the 2007 Indigenous Film and Media Conference at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, the 2006 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Vancouver, the first Refresh Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology at Banff in 2005, the Siggraph 2002 and 2004 Art Gallery talks, the 2004 Virtual Minds, Congress of Fictitious Figures held at the Bremen Kunstlerhaus, the 2002 Digital Cultures Conference at UCLA, the 2002 WHA Conference on Translation and the Reproduction of Culture, the National Conference on Liberal Arts, School of Visual Arts in New York in 2000, the Digi Debate at the American Film Institute in 1994, and the International Art Critics Association in Vienna in 1992.

In addition, I coordinated the 2003 Digital Cultures Project conference held at UC Irvine, the Life By Design: Everyday Digital Culture symposium and an exhibition at the Beall Center for Technology, organized UC Irvine's 2003 round table on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and organized and chaired the 1992 panel at the Los Angeles Art Fair “Quality and the Marketplace: What Role for the Art Critic Today?”

I was a part time Art History lecturer at the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) from 1995-1998, and was a teaching assistant in Asian Art History at UC Irvine in 2002-2003. Besides my more academic offerings, I continue to offer lectures at such venues as the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Joslyn Center in San Luis Obispo County, and the Institute for Philosophy and the Arts in Pasadena.