Hisham M. Bizri Website

The 13th Kyoto University International Symposium: New Horizons of Academic Visual-Media Practices, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-14; http://gaia.net.cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp/visual-media.practices/en/about.html

My Film Practice, Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, MN, February 2008.

Eyes That See the Stars: Béla Tarr’s Werkmeister Harmóniák as a Methaphysical Western. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 2007.
The Films of Christopher Maclaine, Film Collaborative, University of Minnesota, February 2007.
My Film Practice,, University of Iowa Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature Department, February 2007.
Stan Brakhage's Arabics, Film Collaborative, University of Minnesota, February 2007.
The Films of Ernie Gehr, Film Collaborative, University of Minnesota, March 2007
My Film Practice and Q & A, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, December 2007.
The Films of Ingmar Bergman. Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
Cosmic Tensions in Bela Tarr's Sátántangó. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cinema in the Age of Digital Computers. Korean National University Of Arts, Seoul, Korea

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

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

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

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