Speaking
2025
2025-10-25 “Conference & Screening: The Future of Cinema: From Locarno to LA.” UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, USA
2025-10-17 “Talk & Screening: Khartoum.” Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano, USI – Auditorium, Lugano
2025-10-03 “Public Talk & Screening: AI Film Now.” USI, Lugano
2025-08 “Appearance on RSI: Interview & discussion on Cinema & AI.” RSI Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
2025-06-19 “Workshop: Site-based Videographic Methods for Film Festival Research” (with Kreutzer, Cipelletti, Grizzaffi). NECS Conference, Lisbon
2025-05-08 “Conference: Towards a Generative Archival Practice.” Ethics & Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA–AI), IUAV Venezia
2025-04-05 “Conference: Videographic Criticism as Dissemination: Ideology of Formats, Formats of Ideology.” SCMS Annual Conference, Chicago
2025-01-03 “Presentation: Viewing with Care: Videographic Afterlives of Extremist Media.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City
2025-01-03 “Screening series & Discussion: Expanded Screens: The Video Essay” (with DiGravio, Gibbs, Kreutzer, Oliva). Museum of the Moving Image, New York City
2024
2024-12-06 “Masterclass: Open Lecture at FMK Singidunum University.” Belgrade
2024-12-05 “Artist Program: Kevin B. Lee.” 32nd Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade
2024-11-05 “Conference: The Generative Afterlives of Problematic Archives.” If AI Was the Answer…, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK)
2024-11-01 “Presentation: DECODING OR RE-ENCODING?” (with Binotto & Kreutzer). As We May See, Zurich
2024-09-30 “Lecture: AI and Filmmaking.” German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)
2024-08-13 “Conference: Cinema and Audiovisual Futures.” Locarno Film Festival Basecamp
2024-08-15 “Presentation: Listening to Ice.” Locarno Film Festival
2024-08-14 “Presentation: Digital Migration.” Locarno Film Festival Basecamp
2024-08-13 “Presentation: AI and Generative Humanity.” Locarno Film Festival Basecamp
2024-06-28 “Presentation: From AI to Paper: De-materializing and Re-materializing Evidence.” Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2024-05-30 “Keynote: Navigational Approaches to Essay Cinema.” XIII AIM International Conference, Porto
2024-05-08 “Presentation: Towards a Generative Archival Practice.” Ethics & Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA–AI), IUAV Venezia
2024-02-16 “Presentation: The Ecology of Science Fiction.” Woche der Kritik, Berlin
2024-02-14 “Presentation: Filmmaking Against All Odds? Cinema, Criticism, Climate Crisis” (with Cipelletti). Woche der Kritik Conference, Berlin
2023
“Desktop Videography: Showing the labour of thought” at the annual congress ASLGC/SGAVL, Sull’Orlo del Visibile, Literature comparate e visualità
Video essays made by students of USI on ecocinema at “IN THE WORKS. Makings and Unmaking of the Video Essay”, International conference at HSLU, Luzern
Conversation with Andrea Rizzoli in The Film Comment Podcast: The Future of Intelligence with Kevin B. Lee
Speaker for the Long Night of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence, sponsored by Università della Svizzera italiana and Mercator
Masterclass on Video Essay as Ecocriticism (with Silvia Cipelletti), USI Documentary Summer School, Swiss Study Foundation and Locarno Critics Academy
Masterclass with Hito Steyerl, Locarno Critics Academy and BaseCamp Academy
“Viewing with Care: Digital Afterlives of Extremist Violence” at the two-day symposium Violence & Visibility in Computational Regimes, John Cabot University, Rome
“Meet the Media Guru”, Keynote presentation at MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
“Missing Images: On Festivals, Essay Films and Untold Histories”, Masterclass for L’immage e la Parola, Locarno
“Future of Film Festivals”, Masterclass with Berlinale Talents, Berlin
“Landscape of Film Criticism”, Masterclass with Berlinale Talents, Berlin
2022
Mentor at the Videography Conference for the University of Hannover
Presenter in ArteVisione22 Panel Beyond Data, Milan
Masterclass at the Locarno Audience Academy
Conversation with Hito Steyerl “On the Future of Cinema” at the Locarno Film Festival
Conversation with Rene Vautier at BaseCamp, Locarno Film Festival
Participation in the “24h Talk on the Future of Attention” curated by Raphael Dernbach at BaseCamp, Locarno Film Festival and Twitch
“Video Game Aesthetics in Hollywood Blockbusters”, Locarno Film Festival Masterclass at Blue Cinema, Zurich
“TikTok’s Relationship with Film Festivals”, Masterclass at Haus der Schweiz, Milan
“The Spaces of the Video Essay”, Keynote presentation at Accademia della Architettura, Mendrisio
“Cinema in the Age of Netflix”, Locarno Film Festival L’immagine e la parola, Locarno
2021
26.01.2021
“Bottled Songs: Progress.” Document Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
20.01.2021
Guest on The Video Essay Podcast
19.01.2021
“Desktop Documentary Filmmaking.” Masterclass at Bertha Doc House, London
2020
25.01.2020
“Countering Images.” Critics Choice VI closing roundtable, International Film Festival Rotterdam
26.02.2020
“CTRL+ALT+DEL: Leaving the System.” Berlinale Talents, Berlinale Film Festival
05–06.03.2020
Guest Artist, PRISM Workshop, True/False Film Fest, Columbia, Missouri
07.03.2020
Conversation with Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. Field Sessions, True/False Film Fest, Columbia, Missouri
25.04.2020
“Why Watch Essay Films Online?” Online panel. Docdays UA International Human Rights Documentary Festival
13.06.2020
“The Unassembled.” Flaherty Film Seminar
20.08.2020
Panelist, “Nonfiction Vernacular and Collaboration.” BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia (online)
15.09.2020
Panelist, “The Language of the Essay Film.” London Open City Documentary Festival
19.09.2020
“Bottled Songs.” Videograms Days, Kaunas International Film Festival
31.10.2020
“The Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist.” Trump, Television and the Media Conference, London Metropolitan University
17.11.2020
Panelist, “Investigating Islamism.” Center for Investigative Journalism Logan Symposium, University of Goldsmiths
21.11.2020
Panelist, Singapore Youth Jury and Critics Programme, Singapore International Film Festival
12.12.2020
“Teaching Screen Storytelling in the Era of COVID-19.” Alternative Research Forum, Belgrade