SELECTED LECTURES
2007
- The Films of Ingmar Bergman. Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
- Cosmic Tensions in Bela Tarr's Satantango. Minnesota Film Arts, Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
- The Art of Stillness. Quiet Time Art Exhibition / Love's Labour at the Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
- My Film Practice. University of Iowa Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature Department, IA
2006
- The Current Art Scene in Lebanon. Carleton College, MN
- Reflections on Current Events in Lebanon . Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- The Middle East and US Foreign Policy: Alternative Voices. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Why The Arab Institute of Film? Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
- The Films of Béla Tarr. Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
- Cinema in the Arab World: A discussion with Hisham Bizri and Egyptian filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah. Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning Show (March 23, 2006)
- My Film Practice. Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
- Panelist, Cinema-Society in the Arab World. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2005
- My Method. Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
- My Method. Frati House, Bellagio, Italy
- Art and the Figure of Truth. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- The Essential Image. NosOtros/Nous Autres: Imaging Relation and Difference. Ninth Annual Symposium in Romance Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2004
- Spatial Construction of Arab Identity in Classical Egyptian Cinema. Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
- Mythic Cinema: The Cinematization of Joyce's Ulysses. Int'l James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland
- La Cité de Cuivre: L'Art de Masquer la Réalité dans le Cinéma Digital. Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France
- My Method. Critical Praxis Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MI
2003
- Panelist, Creating and Sharing Knowledge: UNESCO Empowering Young People through Digital Creation States. World Summit on Information Society, Geneva, Switzerland
- Building a Collaborative Network between Artists and Scientists in the Arab States. UNESCO Digi-Arts Program, Lebanon
- The Aesthetics and Practices of Electronic Filmmaking. Full Day Workshop Fraunhofer Center for Research, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
- Vertices & Multi-Screen Projections. Eugene Lang College, New York, NY
- Utopian Images. University of Southern California Art Department & Cinema Department, LA, CA
- Utopian Images. University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
- Digital Cinema Workshop. Higher Institute of Cinema, Cairo, Egypt
2002
- The Exilic Experience of Modern Life. MediaTerra, Athens, Greece
- Utopian Images. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Exile + Computation. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Scripps College, Los Angeles, CA; American University, Washington, DC; RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
- Patrick Bokanowski: Imaginary Digital Narratives. School Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
- The Oneiric Capacity of Digital Video Medium. 19th Int'l Conference on Dreams and Culture, Tufts University, MA
2001
- Modernist Poetics in Joyce's Ulysses and the New Digital Arts. MIT Interactive Expressions Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA
- The Invention of Grammar for the New Media Art: James Joyce's Mythic Method. MIT Interactive Expressions Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA
- The Future of Art & Technology. 2nd Digital Renaissance, Keihanna, Japan
- Cinema: The Art of Masking Reality. 2nd Digital Renaissance, Keihanna, Japan
- The Future of Art & Technology . Tachi Lab, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2000
- Altered States of Computer Graphics. Department of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- Narrative and Central Conflict Theory. MIT Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland
- City of Brass: Hieroglyphic Perceptions in Digital Cinema. SIGGRAPH, Art Sketch, New Orleans, LA
- Towards a New Perceptual Image in Digital Arts. MIT Comparative Media Studies Lecture Series
- Motion Graphics in Architecture. MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, MA
- Information Technology & Virtual Environments. Political Science Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
1999
- Cinema in the Age of Digital Computers. Korean National University Of Arts, Seoul, Korea
1998
- Representation in Virtual Reality. Absolut Vision3, Wood St. Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Articulation of Vision in VR. SIGGRAPH, Art Sketch, Orlando, FL
- Las Meninas in VR: Storytelling and Illusion in Art. Virtual Worlds Conference, Paris, France
- Mitologies: Medieval Labyrinth Narratives in Virtual Reality. Virtual Worlds Conference, Paris, France
1997
- Images of Nowhere. Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Chicago, IL
- Seeing: Narrative Structures in Cinema versus Virtual Reality. Interactive Computing Environments Labs, Chicago, IL
- Mimesis in Virtual Reality. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995
- Architectures of Cinema. American University of Beirut, Lebanon
1990
- Cinema and the Question of Imagination: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet. New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
- The Cinema of Raul Ruiz. New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
1989
- Flickering & Momentary in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror. Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
- Robert Bresson & Carl Theodor Dreyer: Film Style as Social Commentary. Boston University, Film Department, Boston, MA