Chronology

Below is a partial list of invited talks, workshops, and exhibitions as well as events I've helped organize. Contributing to a culture of teaching and learning from one another is important to me, and I am always interested to help out with this kind of work.

Please reach out at hi@wxs.ca if you are interested in working together.

(See also my Google Scholar )

Filtering to:
2024-06-05 (organizer) Festival of Ideas 2024 1RG. One-day conference with everything from gongs to guitar to social determinants of mental health
2024-05 (talk) Antiqua Et Nova Reading Series (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) Endemic and 1rg. 3-part series on philosophy of mind and computation. We read The Brain Abstracted, Living Things are Not Machines (also they totally are) and Antiqua et Nova, The Vatican's position paper on AI Toronto, Canada / Online.
2020-12-12 (publication) Mask-Guided Discovery of Semantic Manifolds in Generative Models NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design. Joint work with Mengyu Yang and David Rokeby. Online.
2020-11-02 (exhibition) Latent Space Interpolation Metamorphosis 2020 by Elektra. Collaboration with Mattie Tesfaldet. Montreal, Canada / Online.
2020-02-05 - 2020-03-17 (exhibition) Latent Space Interpolation Human Learning: What Machines Teach Us at the Canadian Cultural Centre Paris. Collaboration with Mattie Tesfaldet. Group show curated by Dominique Moulon and Alain Thibault Paris, France.
2019-11-02 (organizer) Computer Vision Art Gallery at ICCV International Conference on Computer Vision Second Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design. Seoul, Korea.
2019-02-25 (talk) Generative Art. AI Art. Computational Art. Ryerson University Media Languages Guest Lecture. Toronto, Canada.
2019-01-24 (talk) The creative potential and societal risk of applied machine learning Engineering Science Education Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2018-11-21 (talk) Explainable AI: Why it matters, why it's hard Toronto Machine Learning Summit. Toronto, Canada.
2018-10-18 (talk) Model Explainability and Interpretability Ethics in AI: Toronto Synthetic Intelligence Forum. Toronto, Canada.
2018-09-22 (workshop) Shaders in the browser ChangeUp. Toronto, Canada.
2018-09-22 (talk) Emerging Trends in AI Art ChangeUp. Toronto, Canada.
2018-09-14 (organizer) Computer Vision Art Gallery at ECCV European Conference on Computer Vision First Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design. Munich, Germany.
2018-06-09 (talk) Using AI as a tool in artistic creation FutureWorld Toronto 2018. Toronto, Canada.
2018-06-02 (organizer) ML Ensemble #3 Toronto, Canada.
2018-04-08 (talk) Using AI as a tool in artistic creation FITC Toronto 2018. Toronto, Canada.
2018-02-22 (panel) AI & Creativity Roundtable Colloque I.ART. Montréal, Canada.
2018-01-19 (organizer) ML Ensemble #2 Toronto, Canada.
2017-11-30 (publication, talk) High-Resolution Multi-Scale Neural Texture Synthesis SIGGRAPH Asia. Bangkok, Thailand.
2017-11 (exhibition) Subjective Functions x Lionize Offsite Concept Space. Collaboration with Leo Krukowski Toronto, Canada.
2017-09-23 / 30 (workshop) Objective Functions: Creating Images with Neural Networks Interaccess Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-18 (talk) Subjective Objective Functions: High-resolution Neural Image Synthesis ML Ensemble #1. Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-18 (organizer) ML Ensemble #1 Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-18 (talk) Subjective Objective Functions: High-resolution Neural Image Synthesis RBC Research. Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-16 (workshop) Raytrace in the browser with GLSL Shaders JS Workshop. Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-16 (talk) Emoji & Deep Learning A-B-Z-Text. Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-04/05 (organizer) GenArtHackParty #004 Toronto, Canada.
2017-08-04 (workshop) Raytrace in the browser with GLSL Shaders GenArtHackParty #004. Toronto, Canada.
2017-07-26 (talk) Experiments in Neural Image Creation CreateInTO Meetup. Toronto, Canada.
2017-06 (talk) Algorithm Empathy Normative Design + AI Meetup. Toronto, Canada.
2017-03 (talk) Low memory RNNs... for emoji! Machine Learning Toronto Meetup. Toronto, Canada.
2017-03 (talk) Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence University of Toronto Engineering Plenary Lecture. Toronto, Canada.
2017-03 (panel) The Hype and Hope of Artificial Intelligence Massey College, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
2016-11-05 (talk) Emoji & Deep Learning Emojicon. San Francisco, California.
2016-09 (talk) Deep Learning at Whirlscape Toronto Machine Learning Meetup. Toronto, Canada.
2016-09 (talk) The Whirlscape Story University of Toronto Engineering Entrepreneurship Series. Toronto, Canada.
2016-04 (workshop) Building neural nets with Keras University of Toronto Student Group. Toronto, Canada.
2016-04 (workshop) Building fragment shaders with GLSL Toronto JS Workshop. Toronto, Canada.
2016-04 (talk) Whirlscape Story Idea XChange TO. Toronto, Canada.
2016-03-19 (organizer) GenArtHackParty #003 Toronto, Canada.
2016-03-18 (workshop) Fragment shaders in GLSL GenArtHackParty #003. Toronto, Canada.
2015-04-24/25 (organizer) GenArtHackParty #002 Toronto, Canada.
2015-04-24 (workshop) Generative art with three.js GenArtHackParty #002. Toronto, Canada.
2014-11 (talk) Whirlscape Story Business of Software Course, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
2014-10 (talk) Software Engineering at Whirlscape Software Enginering Course, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
2013-02-15/16 (organizer) GenArtHackParty #001 Toronto, Canada.
2013-02-15 (workshop) Generative Art with paper.js GenArtHackParty #001. Toronto, Canada.