▮ Histories and Futures of Creativity

Presentations on collaborations in science, art, and technology

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of joyful doing. —György Kepes

We live inside systems that will define tomorrow. They operate now, often invisibly. Learning to see them might require perception more than prediction, along with activating different types of creativity: logic, empirical observation, moral imagination, practical experimentation. Sometimes intuition reveals what intelligence cannot yet prove.

How we make meaning from what we observe shapes every decision we make, creative or otherwise. My presentations create space to pause and look closely at moments when art, science, and technology collide. In that pause, surprises appear. Something resonates that wasn't visible before.

My presentations trace bleeding edge ideas across eras, following unusual paths by which speculation becomes reality. My 2026 talks explore virtual worlds and simulation as grounds for these questions. Talking about these topics together reveals something about what we value, what concerns us, and what we're building toward. The conversation itself might become a form of meaning-making that influences what comes next.

It is always a pleasure to adapt these presentations to a variety of gatherings. Past audiences have included The Museum Computer Network, The Andy Warhol Museum, MIT Design Thinking and Invention Professionals, SXSW, The Association of Professional Futurists, nonprofits, and private gatherings.