I am represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau.
Please contact Kim Thornton Ingenito with inquiries:
212-572-2299 or kthornton@penguinrandomhouse.com
Selected past appearances:
Stories about Objects. Public talk and student workshop, University of Texas at Austin. September 2023
Lost Objects. Group reading and event, Brooklyn, NY. October 2022
The Art of Noticing. Online talk associated with “Global Moment In Time” program organized by World Partnerships. August 2022
The Art of Noticing. Talk and workshop, private event, Chicago. October 2021
The Art of Noticing. Online talk for Penguin Random House company reads program. August 2021
The Art of Noticing. Remote conversation/Q&A. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. December 2020
The Art of Noticing. Remote talk and workshop. Cranbrook Academy of Art 4D Design graduate program. October 2020.
The Art of Noticing. Remote talk and Q&A. Accenture Proposal Services group. June 2020.
The Art of Noticing. Emory University and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 2020.
The Art of Noticing. Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI. October 2, 2019.
The Art of Noticing vs. Keep Going. In conversation with Austin Kleon. Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX,. October 27, 2019.
The Art of Noticing. Lecture and workshop. Private event. Sausalito, CA. June 25, 2019.
The Art of Noticing. Lecture, and gallery walk, at Dallas Museum of Art, in conjunction with the Dallas Books & Ideas Festival. Dallas, TX. June 1, 2019.
The Art of Noticing. Lecture/book launch, with live string trio, in conjunction with Birdfoot Festival. New Orleans, LA. May 30, 2019.
The Art of Noticing. Book discussion. American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. New Orleans, LA. May 21, 2019
The Art of Noticing. Book launch, in conversation with Melissa Kirsch. Brooklyn, NY. May 7, 2019
The Art of Noticing. Lecture. Private event; San Francisco, CA. May 15, 2019.
The Art of Noticing. Lecture. Phil Patton Memorial Lecture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. April 9, 2019
The Art of Noticing. Lecture. Private event; Deerfield, Illinois. April 4, 2019.
The Art of Noticing. Lecture. Private event; Turlock, California. March 20, 2019.
Improvisation: A Tricentennial Conference. Panel discussion (moderator) on The Dark Side of Improv. December 1, 2018, New Orleans.
The Future of Advertising in an Age of Tribalism. Institute for the Future. Mountain View, CA. September 2018.
How To Win The War Against Seeing. Portland Design Week main stage. Portland, OR. April 2016
Knotty Objects. Moderator, “Manufactured Objects” panel, with Revital Cohen, Anab Jain, Tanya Menendez. MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. July 2015
Things Speak Symposium. Keynote. Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, NE. October 2014
March 2014: Design & Violence Debate I. Discussion with Cody Wilson, moderated by Paola Antonelli, on 3D printing and weapons, at the Museum of Modern Art. Video. Coverage on Gizmodo. Coverage on PCMag.com. Storify.
Radiovision green room. (It was just there. Not a contract rider thing.)
October 2013: Radiovision. Panel discussion (moderator) with Bob Garfield, Starlee Kine, and James Delon, on “native advertising.” New York, NY
May 2013: Significant Objects: A Conversation with Elizabeth Merritt. Conversation with Elizabeth Merritt of the Center for the Future of Museums on objects, stories, and the museum context. American Alliance of Museums: Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, Baltimore.
December 2012: Significant Objects: Do Good Stories Make Objects More Valuable? Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Conference. Chicago, Illinois
June 2012: Stories, Consumed. On objects, narratives, and significant consumption. Keynote at The Ad Club “Consumed” Edge Conference. Boston, MA.
February 2012: A Conversation with Bobbi Patterson. Rob Walker and Bobbi Patterson of Emory University’s Department of Religion talk about one of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism — that suffering is caused by desire — and the complexity of navigating contemporary consumer culture.
Private event; Turlock, California. March 20, 2019.
May 2011: As Real As it Gets: Imaginary Objects and Fictional Critiques. Keynote at School of Visual Arts Design Criticism Conference. New York, NY
December 2010: Implausible Futures For Unpopular Places. Lecture on Hypothetical Development Organization project at Grand Arts. Kansas City, MO
October 2010: Imprint Culture Lab 2010: Conversations. Panelist (with Alex Bogusky, John Maeda). New York, NY
April 2010: Significant Objects. PSFK Conference keynote. New York, NY
Buying In book launch, NYC, June 2018. Hosted by PSFK, sponsored by Fast Company, with guests Barking Irons and Andrew Andrew
October 2009: Creating A New Craft Culture. Keynote at American Craft Council conference. Minneapolis, MN
June 2009: HOW Design Conference. Keynote. Austin, TX
May 2009: If You Follow Me I Will Follow You Back. Keynote at “Blowing Up The Brand,” New York University conference. New York, NY
March 2009: SXSW Interactive:. Panelist (with Tim Brown, Gary Hustwit, others), Objectified panel. Austin, TX.
November 2008: Marketing Week conference, keynote Q&A. Toronto, ON
June 2008: Printer’s Row Book Fair/CSPAN2. Chicago, IL.
SXSW Interactive, 2008. I used to ask members of my audience to obscure their faces, at which point I would take a picture.
March 2008: SXSW Interactive. “Buying In” reading at Austin, Tx.
March 2006: Guest lecture for “Colloquium on Design Criticism,” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York, NY.
Dec. 2005: “Letters From New Orleans” reading, Gulf Coast Writers Literary Evening fundraiser, Little Red Schoolhouse Performance Space, New York, NY.
May 2005: Panelist on “New Voices In Design Criticism” panel, ID Magazine/RISD/NAJP. New York, NY.
April 2005: Lecture at “Beyond The Object,” IDSA-NY conference. NY, NY.
March 2005: Lecture, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies IEM Spring Lecture Series. New Haven, CT.
April 2004: Hearst Visiting Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin (College of Communication). Austin, TX.
April 2004: Panel moderator: “Shopping And The City: The Good, the Bad, and the Fabulous in New York Retail Design,” MAS Urbanists event. New York, NY.
April 2004: Panel discussion, panelist: “Transculturalism.” Trace Magazine / Columbia University. New York, NY.
Feb. 2004: Hitesman Lecturer , Louisiana State University (School of Mass Communication). Baton Rouge, LA