Lila Lee-Morrison, PhD. lilaleela@gmail.com

• “On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face,” Astrid Noacks Atelier, Dec 16, 2025. In discussion with the video work of Niels Christensen titled, Body Bona Fide 1.

• Launch Event: VIEW journal, “Echoes and Frequencies: Tele-Visions and Wireless Technologies,” IMAGO-Cultures visuelles, Zoom event, November 18, 2025.

• ‘AI Enunciations: Redefining Identity, Space, and Meaning Across Disciplines,’ (conference panel), The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images Conference, Università Iuav di Venezia, May 8-10, 2025.

• “Looking Up and Looking Away: Art and Imaging Technology of the Cosmos” In conversation with Annick Bureaud, Imago / Cultures Visuelles, Salle Benjamin, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris, France, February 5, 2025.

• “Cosmos as a site of subjectivity: Aesthetics of Solar Imaging in the art of Rohini Devasher,” SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design), (online), November 5, 2024.

• “The Figuring of Subjectivity in the Cosmos: Art and Aesthetics of Astronomical Imaging,” (Conference speaker), EASST-4S 2024 Conference, Vrije University, Amsterdam, NL, July 16-19, 2024.

• “Machinic Landscapes: Art practices at the intersection of machinic logic and natural forms,” (Invited seminar) Linköping University / Eco & Bioart Lab, April 15, 2024.

• “Technology, Art and Environment in an Age of Planetarity” (Invited Public Talk) skēnē gallery, Malmö, Sweden, April 13, 2024.

• “Technodiversity – Beyond Datafication and Digital Colonialism,” (Invited public talk) Stedelijk Museum and Rietveld Academie, Studium Generale, March 20, 2024.

• “Equitable Data,” Just CITIES Conference, (Invited Panel Speaker) University of Copenhagen, October 12, 2023.

• “An Aesthetics of Machine Vision: The Surplus Value of Algorithmic Images,” Keynote Lecture: RMeS Summer School 2023: Imagophilia: Place, Politics, Passion. Leiden University. June 19-21.

• “Machinic Landscapes: Aesthetic entanglements of nature and technology,” (Invited speaker) at Fragmented Evidence: The Social Life and Death of Images conference, (Invited speaker) Eikonos, University of Basel, 5-6 June 2023. 

• “Operational Environments,” Operational Media symposium, November 17-18, 2022. (Invited Speaker) University of Oslo, Norway. Organised by the Media Aesthetics group in the Media and Communication Department.

• Visual Culture: 20 years Jubilee, (Invited Speaker) University of Copenhagen, November 24, 2022.

• “Machinic Visions of the Planetary,” for “What is Digital Theory?” symposium held at New York University, 6. May 2022. Organised by Digital Theory Lab, NYU.

• “Artistic Techniques of Technology: Art as a Source of Theoretical Inquiry” Talk given at Lunds Konsthall, Sweden. 21. Apr 2022.

• This talk will examine the work of artists who use the technologies of machine vision as an aesthetic gesture within their work. It will draw on the speaker’s research into the phenomenon of machine vision from the perspective of art history and visual culture studies. As part of her research, the work of contemporary artists figures prominently as sources of theoretical inquiry, as they critically intervene in the ways machine vision processes and its production of images can reconstitute an understanding of vision and visuality. She will discuss how artistic methods and production can be a rich source of speculative knowledge about technology, further revealing its social and cultural implications through an engagement with its processes outside of the contexts of its development.

• “Visual Culture of Machine Vision” – The Meetings on Meaning Symposium on Semiotics & Artificial Intelligence, (Invited Lecture) University of Turin, Italy. 10. Mar 2022

• Portraits of Facial Recognition: An art historical inquiry into statistical ways of seeing the face, (Invited Seminar) Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France, 21. Jan 2022

• Machinic Visuality: A visual culture inquiry into algorithmic perception, (Guest lecturer) Aalto University, Finland, 23. Nov 2021.

• Photography Potentials: On Glitch & Error, Experimental Documentary and Interdisciplinary Storytelling, (Invited speaker) Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden. 12. Oct 2021.

• On the relationship of Art and Artificial Intelligence, (Invited speaker) Konstnärernas Riksorganisation, Stockholm, Sweden. 7. Nov 2019.

• Future Portraits: Histories of preemption in facial recognition, Facial Machines: Obfuscation in an age of biometrics and neural networks conference, (Invited speaker)Aarhus University, Denmark, 13. Nov 2018 → 14. Nov 2018.

• The Composite Portrait: an historical study into statistical ways of seeing, Uncertain Image Conference, (Invited speaker) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 22. May 2017 → 23. May 2017.