2016

1. •  Pedagogies of Ontology: Interventions and Intraventions of Practice Based Research, American Education Research Association (AERA) conference, Apr. 2016, Washington, D.C. Co-presenters: Natalie LeBlanc, Adrienne Boulton-Funke, Rita L. Irwin.
   
   

2015

1. •  Network Art/Network Pedagogy: Educating Artists Beyond Digital, International Conference on the Arts in Society, 2015 Special Focus: The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society, July 2015, London, UK. (accepted)
   

2. •  Creating Dialogical Space for Emergent Knowledge. Panel: “Group Critiques in Foundation Studies Drawing Courses”, Foundations in Art: Theory & Education (FATE) conference, Mar. 2015, Indianapolis, IN.
   
   

2014

1. •  Educating Artists Beyond Digital. CSEA PhD Dissertation Award paper presented at the Canadian   
     Society for Education through Art conference, Oct. 2014, Halifax, NS.
   

•Interventions and Intraventions in Practice Based Research. A paper presented at the Canadian Society for Education through Art conference, Oct. 2014, Halifax, NS. Co-presenters Adrienne Boulton-Funke, Rita L. Irwin, and Natalie LeBlanc.

1. • Network Art/Network Pedagogy: Educating Artists Beyond Digital, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 29-31, San Diego, CA, USA
   

2. • Through Intraventions: Generating Emergent and Ongoing Learning in Art Teacher Education, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 29-31, San Diego, CA, USA (with Natalie LeBlanc, Adrienne Boulton-Funke, and Dr. Rita Irwin)
   

2013

1. • The Interactive and Dialogical Teaching Model: Smartphones and Networked Technologies in Art Education, Georgia Art Education Association (GAEA), October 10-13, Savannah, Georgia, USA (with Dr. Bret Lefler)
   

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1. • Intraventions of Becoming: Provoking Inquiry and Self-Knowledge in Art Teacher Education, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 7-10, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Heidi May, Adrienne Boulton-Funke, Rita Irwin, Natalie LeBlanc)
   

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1. • A/r/tography as Intervention, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 7-10, Forth Worth, Texas, USA (Kimberly Baker, Heidi May, Natalie LeBlanc)
   

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2012

1. • Intervention / Intravention: A/r/tography Inquiry in Visual Art Teacher Education, Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA), October 25-27, Edmonton, Alberta, CAN (Adrienne Boulton-Funke,  Rita Irwin, Donal O’Donoghue, Natalie LeBlanc, Heidi May)
   

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1. • Relationality and Pedagogy in A/r/tography, American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 15, Vancouver, BC, CAN (Carl Leggo, Rita L. Irwin, George Belliveau, Heidi May, Donal O Donoghue, Valerie Triggs)
   Presenting paper: May, H., O Donoghue, D, Irwin, R. L. “Performing an Intervention in the Space Between Art and Education”
   

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1. • Interventions: Conceptualizing, Designing, and Examining Democratic Participatory Research with Secondary Art Teacher Candidates, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 3, New York City (Rita Irwin, Donal O Donoghue, Adrienne Boulton-Funke, Heidi May)
   

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1. • Intraventions: Pedagogy and Democratic Participatory Research with Visual Art Teacher Candidates, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 3, New York City (Adrienne Boulton-Funke, Donal O Donoghue, Heidi May, Natalie LeBlanc) 
   

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2011

1. • Processing Digital: Opening up to a Space of Emergence in Art Pedagogy, Symposium on Online Education, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, CAN, May, 2011. (with Dr. Jody Baker)
   

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1. • Art in the Age of Networked Learning, Panel: Social Networking Your Way to Visual Literacy, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education + Mid America College Art Association (FATE),
   March 30 - April 2, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
   

Chair: Marlene Lipinski, Columbia College, Chicago; Panel participants: Sara Dismukes, Troy University; Liz Murphy Thomas, University of Illinois, Springfield; Nell Ruby, Agnes Scott College; Peter Tucker, SUNY Fredonia.

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1. • Creating Acts of Pedagogy through Art Practice, National Art Education Association (NAEA), March 17-20, Seattle, WA, USA (with Dr. Rita Irwin, Dr. Donal O’Donoghue, and Dr. James Sanders)
   

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1. • Art that Decodes: Making Sense of Data Process, Panel: Data as a Creative Medium, College Art Association (CAA), February 9-12, New York > personal blog entry following panel discussion
   

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3. • Processing Digital: Opening up to a Space of Emergence in Art Pedagogy, New Media Caucus - Fight the Power: Open Source, Free Software, and Critical Digital Practice, College Art Association (CAA), February 9-12, New York (with Dr. Jody Baker)
   

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5. • Invited discussant for Contesting the Netopticon, Moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Australia) with fellow discussants Marc Garrett, Davin Heckman (USA), Patrick Lichty (USA), Christina Spiesel (USA), and Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (UK). http://www.subtle.net/empyre - January archive
   

2010

1. • Processing: Understanding Art as Encountering Ongoing Narrative. International Digital Media Arts Association Conference, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, CAN, November, 2010.
   

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1. • Dialogical Process: Critical Dialogue and Creative Process via the Internet, National Art Education Association (NAEA), April 14-18, Baltimore, MD, USA
   

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2009

1. • Digital Graffiti Transnationally, British Columbia Teachers’ Association + Canadian Society for Education Through Art Conference (CSEA), Oct 22-24, Vancouver, BC, CAN (with Kimberly Baker)
   

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1. • Teaching Art Online: Disrupting the Teacher-Student Hierarchy, International Conference of the Arts in Society (4th Annual), Venice, Italy, July 28-31 (with Kyla Mallett)    
   

    Student-Centred Learning and Strategies for Active Participation: 1) Mapping the Course (Moodle), 2) Technology and Student-Centred Learning, 3) Discussion Forums and Peer-Based Learning;

   Recording and Archiving Creative Process through Dialogue: 1) Psychological Theory and the Internet, 2) Working Through the Process (Moodle), 3) Conversation, Dialogue and Critique, 4) Personalizing Knowledge with Self-Reflexivity

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1. • The Bigger Picture: Digital Graffiti Transnationally, International Conference of the Arts in Society (4th Annual), Venice, Italy, July 28-31 (with Kimberly Baker)
   

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1. • Art in the Age of Networked Learning, Canadian e-Learning Conference (7th Annual), Vancouver, BC, CAN June 17-19
   

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1. • Critical Dialogue in Online Learning: Shifting Curriculum to a Networked Space, Investigating Our Practices (IOP) Conference (12th Annual), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CAN, May 2 (with Kyla Mallett, Jody Baker, Glen Lowry)
   

    Student-Centred Learning and Strategies for Active Participation - Kyla Mallett

    Recording and Archiving Creative Process - Heidi May

   Wiki Ecology: Mutual Trust and Collective Effort - Jody Baker

    Active Learners and Reconfiguring the Exchange of Knowledge - Glen Lowry

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2008

1. • Teaching Art Online, Educational Technology Users Group (BCcampus), Spring Conference (Creativity theme), Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, CAN, May 28-30 (with Kyla Mallett)
   

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1. • network art
   

2. • art pedagogy
   

3. • interdisciplinarity
   

4. • digital art practices
   

5. • studio critiques
   

6. • internet culture
   

7. • dialogical process
   

8. • social art practices
   

9. • online learning