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(updated 2026)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Pat Badani is a Canadian artist, researcher, writer, and editor, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Education: MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (U.S.A). BFA from the University of Alberta (Canada).
She works mostly out of Chicago (USA). She has previously lived and worked in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Canada, and France, and she has travelled to exhibit and/or talk about her work in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, the USA, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, Australia, Turkey, South Africa, China. And the UAE.
Her work has been showcased in international art, science and technology contexts: ISEA; Siggraph; Transmediale; ELO; Consciousness Reframed (CR2024); New Forms Festival; New York Hall of Science Museum; CURRENTS, DRHA, Balance-Unbalance; VINCI, FILE; Festival Internacional de la Imagen; B-Seite Biennial; The Wrong Biennial; and in museums and cultural centers such as Guggenheim Gallery @ Chapman University (California); Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts (Michigan); Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ; Stanley Picker Gallery (London, UK); Canadian Cultural Center (Paris); Maison de L’Amerique Latine (Paris); Forum des Images (Paris), Museo de Arte Moderno, (Mexico); Museo de Monterrey (Mexico), and Museum London (Ontario, Canada), to name a few.
Her artwork has been subject of critical essays published in “LEONARDO Journal”; “Art Papers”, “Art Journal”, “Drain Journal”, “Afterimage”, “Art Nexus”, “Nouvelle revue d'esthétique”, “Artelogie”; in numerous exhibition catalogues; and in visual art anthologies: “The Performing Observer: Writings on Contemporary Art, Performance, and Photography”, Dr. Martin Patrick, Intellect Press, Bristol, UK - 2022; “Advances in Visual Methodology,” Ed: Dr. Sarah Pink, Sage - 2012; “Extranjeros en la Tecnología y en la Cultura,” Ed: Dr. Néstor García Canclini, Ariel , Spain (Fundación Telefónica) - 2009; "Of Borders & Bridges", Dr. Andrea Giunta, Jrp/Ringier - 2009.
As lecturer she has participated in academic discussions hosted at: Northwestern University (Chicago); UIC (Chicago); Pratt Institute (N.Y.); The New School (N.Y.); NYU Steinhardt School of Culture (N.Y.); CAA (NY); UCLA Art-Sci Center (Los Angeles); University of Toronto; Concordia University (Montreal); Simon Frazer University (Vancouver); Universidad de Caldas (Colombia); Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (Brazil); University of Sydney (Australia); Institute of Cultural Studies ZHdK Zurich (Switzerland); LASER Leonardo, Zurich; iDAT Plymouth University (U.K.); Kungl. Konsthögskolan/KKH, (Sweden), University of Bologna (Italy); Durban University of Technology (South Africa), and ZAYED University (UAE).
As a writer and editor, she is currently co-editing two special publications about Latin American Women Artists involved in Art, Science and Technology since the 1950s (LEONARDO Journal, and CAA Art Journal, USA). She is past Editor-in-Chief of “Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus” (USA), and Lead Guest Editor of “Artelogie” EHESS (France). Her writing and research have been published in English, Spanish, and French, in “LEONARDO Journal” (MIT Press), “International Journal of Performance and Digital Art” (Taylor & Francis: Routledge, UK), DRAIN Journal, SPARKS-ACM Siggraph, and in critical anthologies in art and culture: “Penser par l'art. Jeux de regards, enjeux esthétiques, débats sociologiques », (Ed.Tania Vladova, Hermann, Paris, France); “Extranjeros en la Tecnología y en la Cultura” (Ed. N. Garcia Canclini, Ariel); Advances in Visual Methodology (Ed. S. Pink, Sage); “Parcours Interculturels. Être et devenir” (Ed. M. Morel, Éditions Peisaj).
 As an educator, her academic trajectory includes full-time faculty positions in the USA at Illinois State University, where she created the School of Art’s first curriculum in Integrated Media, and at Columbia College Chicago, where she directed the Interdisciplinary Media Arts Graduate program in the USA. She is a former lecturer at the IUFM in Paris (France) and at the NBCCD in Canada.
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EDUCATION
-M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA)
-B.F.A. University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)

PROFESSIONAL WEBSITES-
Artist Website: http://www.patbadani.net
ADA (Archive of Digital Art): https://www.archive-digitalart.eu/database/artists/general/artist/badani.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Badani
MacDowell Fellow: https://www.macdowell.org/artists/pat-badani
Leonardo: https://leonardo.info/network/3011

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS (selection since 2002)
2025- Media Arts Abroad Grant - Canada Council for the Arts
2025- LABVERDE selected for “Speculative Ecologies” Residency, Amazon State, Brazil
2024- The Canada Council for the Arts Grant- Concept to Realization / Explore and Create Program
2024- Harvestworks New Works Fellowship Commission (NY, USA)
2023- e-Culture Awards - 3rd Edition – AnillaCultural LTINOAMERICA - EUROPA
2023- Media Arts Abroad Grant - Canada Council for the Arts
2022- Media Arts Abroad Grant - Canada Council for the Arts
2018- Media Arts Abroad Grant – Canada Council for the Arts
2018- Nominated for an AWAW merit award (USA)
2017- Media Arts Abroad Grant - Canada Council for the Arts
2016- DCASE Grant for Creative Projects (City of Chicago Cultural Affairs and Special Events)
2016- MacDowell National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (USA)
2015- Media Arts Abroad Grant - Canada Council for the Arts
2012- Robert Heinecken Trust Fund - support for the “AL GRANO’ project (USA)
2011- “On Our Radar” Creative Capital (NY, USA)
2010- Nominated for an “Art Matters” Fellowship (NY, USA)
2007- Illinois Arts Council Finalist Fellowship Award, Interdisciplinary/Computer Arts (USA)
2002- Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts, 1-year Research Grant to Established Artists

NEW MEDIA Festivals & SCREENINGS
(selection since 2000) (* indicates a publication accompanies the exhibition)
2026-ISEA2026 - ELYAH: Constellating Place, Data & Identity, (International Symposium of Electronic/Emerging Art), “BichEden: ParaDoxa” media installation – curated, juried, group exhibition, November 2026, Dubai, UAE.
2026-Amplification, VISAP 2026, “BichEden: ParaDoxa”, media installation, curated, juried, group exhibition, November 9 to 13, 2026. MET Wearhouse, MIT, Boston, USA.
2025-Collapse: Everything folds, THE WRONG BIENNALE, “BichEden Folds: Oceanic Banquet” curated group exhibition by “InAbsentia Digital Pavilion” - November 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026.
2025- Love Letters to the Past and Future, ELO25 @ 25 (Electronic Literature Organization), “BichEden: Folds”, curated media exhibition. July 10-13, Toronto, Canada.
2025- Re:Generative, XXV Festival Internacional de la Imagen + MAH Media Art Histories Conference) “BichEden: Festín Oceánico”, invitational, group exhibition. Bogota and Manizales, Colombia.
2025- From Nature, Harvestworks Digital Media Center, “BichEden: ParaDoxa”, media installation, curated, exhibition, the culmination of a one-year residency. August 29-September 26, 2026New York.
2024- *The Chimeric Mind, Consciousness Reframed, “BichEden: Oceanic Banquet”, media installation, curated, juried, group exhibition. Technoetic Arts, DeTAO, Shanghai, China.
2023- Ripples Across latent Spaces, VINCI’23: The 16th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction *“BichEden: Folds”. Juried, electronic media, curated, group exhibition. September 22-24, 2023. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China..
2022- *Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation. DRHA 2022 (Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts). “Bichicuchitu & Bichicu-Chow”. Stanley Picker Gallery, Kinston School of art, Kingston University. Juried, media, curated, group exhibition. September 4-10, 2022. London, UK.
2022- *ELO-Italia (Electronic Literature Organization). “Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan: Food as Text”. Juried, electronic literature, curated, group exhibition. May 30-June 1. Como, Italy.
2021- *“Bichicuchitu & Bichicu-Chow”. B-Seite Festival / Version 1.4/21. Mannheim, Germany. (October 23-30, 2021). (Juried, curated media, group exhibition)
2020- Enredamentos Estéticos, do HUB Eventos Media Lab 2020 - #19. “La comida como texto: Cultura(s) entrelazadas”, Invitational, electronic media, artist’s book launch. October 19 to 23, 2020. Morumbi, Brasil.
2020¬ - (un)continuity, ELO (Electronic Literature Organization), “@Comestiblemealplan”. Curated electronic literature, group exhibition. July 16 to 19, 2020. University of Central Florida Art Gallery.
2020- * WOWretro-the retrospective 2000-2020 – Javamuseum NewMediafest. Curated media exhibition by Agricola de Cologne. Aferro Gallery Newark/NJ, USA (February 23rd); CeC-Carnival of eCreativity, Sattal/India (22-24 February 2020).
2017- * Balance-Unbalance: Art + Science + Technology=Environment/Responsibility, A Sense of Place. “Comestible: Seven Day Meal Plan”. Curated, electronic media, group exhibition. August 21–23, 2017. iDAT, Plymouth University, UK.
2016- Currents New Media New Mexico Trail. “AL-GRANO: Framing Worlds”. Curated, electronic media, group exhibition. June 17 to July 2, 2016. Warehouse 1-10, Magdalena, New Mexico, U.S.A.
2015- Security/Surveillance, Art Souterrain Festival. “make-A-move”. Commissioned for exhibition in public space at Place des Arts during “Nuit Blanche”. February 28 to March 15, 2015. Montreal, Canada.
2015- *“make-A-move,” Vitrine, Agence TOPO Center, Montreal, Canada. (Curated, solo, electronic media installation)
2015- Balance-Unbalance: art, science, technology, and environmental responsibility. “AL GRANO: Framing Worlds”. Curated, electronic media, group exhibition. March 21 to 29, 2015. Arizona State University Herberger Institute Night Gallery, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
2015- Three Questions on Media Criticality. Transmediale 2015. Book launch with Flavia Caviezel, Senior Researcher, Critical Media Lab. January 28 to February 1, 2015. Basel, Switzerland.
2014-* 13th Festival Internacional de la Imagen. “AL GRANO: Formas de Pensar Mundos,”, Invitational, commissioned, solo, electronic media installation. Centro de Museos, Universidad de Caldas. May 2014, Manizales, Colombia.
2013- “AL GRANO© Augmented Cereals,” Augmented Reality interventions using mobile technology in Supermarkets in the U.S.A. Also exhibited at Vermont Studios, USA.
2012- Visualfram, Video Guerrilah & Video in the Built Environment (v1b3). “AL GRANO©Corp-Cropping”. Curated, new media festival integrating time-based art into the fabric of the city. November 22 to 24, 2012. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2012-* exDox - Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival. “AL GRANO©Corn Regime”. Curated video & film festival screened in the following venues:
-Kansk International Video Festival, August 17-25, 2012, Moscow, Russia
-Budapest International, Shortfilm Festival, September 5-9, 2012, Hungary
-Fine Art Film Festival, October 11-14, 2012, Szolnok, Hungary
-ExTeresa Arte Actual, October 18 &19, 2012, Mexico City, Mexico
2009-* Extranjerias. “Where are you from_Stories”. Espacio Fundacion Telefonica. Curated, commissioned 10-person media exhibition. July 8 - September 27, 2009. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009-*Because the Night. “Insomnia Cure”. Guggenheim Gallery @ Chapman University. Curated, group exhibition. October 19 to November 13, 2009. California, U.S.A.
2008-*[in time time], Tarble Art Center Museum. Invitational, commissioned, solo, electronic media and object-based installation. Eastern Illinois University. January 18 - February 24, 2008. Charleston, Illinois, U.S.A.
2006- Under Cover: an exhibition of artists books. Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Curated group exhibition. Spring 2006. Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
2005-* FILE International Electronic Festival. “Where are you from?_Stories”. Juried, curated, electronic media, group exhibition Centro Cultural FIESP. November 1 to November 20, 2005. São Paulo, Brazil.
2005-* Extasy - [R]-[R]-[F] 2005 - JavaMuseum, Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art. “Where are you from?_Stories”. Curated, new media screenings in Palestine, Israel and Germany.
2003-* “Where Life is Better,” I space, Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Solo, electronic media and object-based installation. September 2003. Chicago, U.S.A.
2001-* “Home Transfer,” Net_Working, Watershed Media Center, Bristol, UK. (Curated, Net.Art exhibition)
2001-* De-Globalizing-Re-Globalizing. Medi@terra, Art & Tech Micro-Museum. “Home Transfer”. Curated, Net.Art exhibition. September 14 to October 15, 2020. Traveling to Art Centers in Greece, the Balkans and Germany, culminating in the Frankfurt International Book Fair.
2001-* NETaforas v3. MECAD Media Art Center. “Home Transfer” Curated, Net.Art exhibition. Barcelona, Spain.
2000-* Revelations. ISEA2000, 10th International Symposium on Electronic Art. “Home Transfer”. Juried & curated, group exhibition. Forum des Images. December 7 to 10. Paris, France.

SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS in galleries and museums
(selection from 1978 to 1997) (* indicates a publication accompanies the exhibition)
1997-*Tower-Tour. Canadian Cultural Center. Solo exhibition curated by Catherine Bedard and Christophe Domino. Services Culturelles de l’Ambassade du Canada. May 16 - September 6, 1997. Paris, France.
1997-*Géographiques. FRAC Corse et Pallazu Naziunale. Group exhibition curated by Christophe Domino. June 21 to September 13, 1997. Corsica, France.
1994-*R'évolution des particules. Maison de l'Amérique Latine. Solo exhibition curated by Jacques Leenhardt.March 3 to 25, 1994. Paris, France .
1990 -*Dibujo de mujeres contemporaneas. Museo de Arte Moderno, Sala Antonieta Rivas Mercado. December 1990 to March 1991. Mexico City, Mexico.
1988-*Ruinas de Olor Liquido. Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM. Solo exhibition. June and July 1988. Mexico City, Mexico.
1986- *Image-Object. Exhibition curated by Raquel Tibol, traveling to 8 Art Centers and Museums in Mexico, through the auspices of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico:
-Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
-Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca
-Instituto de Cultura de Queretaro
-Casa de Cultura de Morelia
-Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes
-Museo de Monterrey
-Museo Francisco Goitea, Zacatecas
-Centro Cultural de San Luis de Potosi
1987- *Imagenes traspuestas. Museo de Arte Moderno. Group exhibition curated by Carlos Blas Galindo. July to September 1987. Mexico City.
1985- Pat Badani 1983-84. Owens University Gallery. Solo exhibition curated by Hermenegilde Chaisson. August 26 to September 28, 1985. Sackville, New Brunswick.
1984- *3D-NB-200. Curated group exhibition by Paul Souci and Hermenegilde Chaisson. Traveling to the following Centers and Museums in Canada :
- Galerie Restigouche et Centre National d'Exposition, New Brunswick
- Musée de Madawaska, Nouveau Brunswick.
- Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island
- Memorial University Art Gallery, Newfoundland
- Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Nova Scotia
- Musée de Rimouski , Quebec
- Musée de Bas Saint Laurent, Quebec
1980- *Young Contemporaries '80, London Regional Art Gallery. Group exhibition with 72 emerging artists curated by Paddy O’Brien. London, Ontario, Canada.
1978- * Young Contemporaries '78. Group exhibition of emerging Canadian artists curated by Lynn Barbeau and Fleur Tipton. Traveling to the following Centers and Museums in Canada:
- London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario
- Art Gallery of Brant, Ontario
- Peter Whyte Gallery, Nova Scotia
-Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia
- National Exhibition Center, New Brunswick
- Centennial Art Gallery, Nova Scotia
- Memorial Art Gallery, Newfoundland


ESSAYS / BOOK articles/ REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS about Pat Badani’s work
(selection since 2008)
2027- ACEVES, Gabriela (SFU, Canada) and Claudia Costa Pederson (Wichita University). Art Journal, CAA (College Art Association) Special edition devoted to female artist working with science and technology. Upcoming, 2027 spring summer edition.
2025-LEONARDO Journal, “Bichi” in SHOWCASE, Artful Minds: Health and Wellbeing, Vol 58, December 2025.
2023-PEDERSON COSTA, C., “Home Transfer (2000), a Gaming Recipe by Pat Badani", Artelogie # 20/10 Ans. https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/12693
2022-PATRICK, M. “Pat Badani: [in time time] (2008)” in The Performing Observer: Writings on Contemporary Art, Performance, and Photography, Intellect Press, Bristol, UK. (2023), 27.
2021- BORSANI, V. “Comestible”. Brotefanzine. July 21, 2021: https://brotefanzine.com/el-comedor-ime-un-sobreviviente-de-la-cultura-obrera-local
2020- PEDERSON COSTA, C., “Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan: Food as Text”, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, University of California Press, Volume 47, Issue #4, Book Review, December 2020.
2020- SULA, M., “Fill up with Pat Badani’s Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan”. Chicago Reader, October 6, 2020: https://chicagoreader.com/food-drink/fill-up-with-pat-badanis-comestible-7-day-meal-plan/
2017- QUINTAS, E., LEFEVRE, M., MACROUS, P. “Pat Badani, make-A-move Installation, Vitrine TOPO,” in Habiter L’Incertitude d’une Vitirine, (Bilingual: French/English) Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2017 - ISBN 978-2-9810580-3-4 (EPUB)
2017- “Creative Recoding: Big Ideas and Bit-sized Morsels: Pat Badani in conversation with Jordan Carter”, in RIDE-ON, Pratt Institute, New York, USA (2017), 128 to 131
2016- BEDARD-ARASSE, C . “Pat Badani: Tower-Tour”, AICA (l’Association internationale des critiques d’art), November 2016. http://aicafrance.org/pat-badani-tower-tour-catherine-bedard/
2016- CAINES, R. “Community Sound [e]Scapes: Improvising Bodies and Site/Space/Place in New Media Audio Art” in Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice), Ed. Gillian Siddall & Ellen Waterman, (Duke University Press) -55. ISBN (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8223-6082-7
2015- MACROUS, P. “Pat Badani, make-A-move, Installation Vitrine_TOPO”, Archee, revue des arts médiatiques & cyberculture, l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada. November 2015: http://archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=article&no=513
2015- “AL GRANO- Framing Worlds”, 13th Festival Internacional de la Imagen, interview, January 26, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_KNYTpqqeI
2015- CAVIEZEL, F. “Three Questions on Media Criticality,” Transmediale Festival – CAPTURE ALL 2015, ed. Critical Media Lab Basel and Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland.
2015-SUTERMEISTER, A.C., “Eighty Seven Questions on Artistic Research,” (SARN::Swiss Artistic Research Network, 2015) - 37, 56, 65
2012- COOVER, R. with Pat Badani, William Uricchio, etc. “Digital Technologies, Visual Research and the Non-fiction Image” in Advances in Visual Methodology, ed. Sara Pink (Sage Publication Ltd., London, 2012) – 191 to 209. ISBN 987-0-85704-849-5
2011- BEDARD-ARASSE, C. “Culture transgénique et art global: le projet AL GRANO de Pat Badani,” Disparition de l'oeuvre, Nouvelle revue d'esthétique, 2011, Vol. 8 (Presses Universitaires de France) -144 to152. ISBN: 978-2-13-058728-6
2008- CAVIEZEL, F. “The Relativity of Boundaries: Art, Technology and Visual Culture,” Art Papers Magazine, March/April 2008 – 34 to 39.
2009- GARCIA CANCLINI, Néstor. “Extranjerías: Miradas convergentes del arte y las ciencias sociales,” catalogue essay, Extranjerías 2009, (Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Argentina) - 9 to 13. ISBN 978-987-24475-7
2009- GIUNTA. A. “Estéticas del Extrañamiento,” catalogue essay, Extranjerías 2009, (Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Argentina) - 9 to 13. ISBN 978-987-24475-7
2009- “Where are you from?” – Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, interview, July 8, 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfgxMyN49g
2009- CAINES, R. “Pat Badani Interviewed by Rebecca Caines,” Improvisation, Community, and Social Space, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. December 2009: http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/pat-badani-interviewed-rebecca-caines
2009-GIUNTA. A. “Snapshots” in Of Bridges and Borders. Sigismond de Vajay ed., 2009 (Jrp/ringer publications, Switzerland) – 376, ISBN : 978-3-03764-081-4
2008- PATRICK, M. “Pat Badani - In time-time,” exhibition catalogue essay January 2008, (Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University), U.S.A.: http://www.patbadani.net/in_time_time_text1.html

PAPERS PUBLISHED / BOOK CHAPTERS / CONFERENCES / LECTURES
Written by Pat Badani
(selection since 2011)
2027- “Mapping coexistence through movement”. Lines of Affinity: Latin American Women Artists, in Art, Science, and Technology 1960s-to present. Ed. Gabriela Aceves (SFU, Canada) and Claudia Costa Pederson (Wichita University). Art Journal, CAA (College Art Association) Special edition devoted to female artist working with science and technology. Upcoming, 2027 spring summer edition.
2025-Artful Minds: Health and Wellbein. Leonardo Journal, SHOWCASE, Ed. Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Claudia Costa Pederson, & Pat Badani. Vol 58, December 2025. Page 631.
2025-“The Bichi Project, materiality, immaterialities, realities, intelligence, and data”, in Enchantments, Transmissions, Infections: A Poetics of Knowledge by Latin American women Artists”. CAA 2025, 113th Annual Conference. Panel discussion with Maria Fernandez, Pat Badani, Claudia Costa Pederson, Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Mariela Yeregui, and Analays Álvarez. New York, U.S.A.
2024- “Artistic Research: A Landscape”. Lecture: Hybrid landscapes. Cátedra en Diseño, Arte y Ciencia,
MediaLab Brazil Network.
2023- “The Bichi Project Metabolic pathways, biological food chains, and global networks”, International Journal of Performance and Digital Art, Taylor & Francis: Routledge, UK.
2023-“The ‘Bichi’ Project: Symbiotic Food Networks & the Alchemist Kitchen, ISEA2023 (28th International Symposium of Electronic Art), Paris, France.
2023-"Poetics of the Imagination", 4th Symposium of Design Art and Technology" (4DAT) at the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Brazil: June 15th. With Gilbertto Prado (organizer), Claudia Pederson, Jorge La Ferla & Mariel Szilfman.
2022- “Vivre en lisière .01”, book chapter in « Penser par l'art. Jeux de regards, enjeux esthétiques, débats sociologiques », dirigé par Tania Vladova, Hermann, Paris, France.
2023- TRA+, Dialogos, Universidad Tadeo Lozano & MALOKA, Bogota, Colombia.
2022- “Sustainable human-nonhuman relations”, ELO-Italia (Electronic Literature Organization), Como, Italy. Symposium Panel member. https://www.elo2022.com/
2022- "An inward look” 9th BALANCE-UNBALANCE @ Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogota, Colombia. Online Zoom panel discussion. Panel member.
2021- "Local Actions around Climate Change". 8th BALANCE-UNBALANCE @ PANORAMAS 2021. Panel curator and moderator. June 15-18, 2021: https://www.even3.com.br/panoramas2021
2021- “Art, Science, and the Invisible World We Live In”. SPARKS-ACM Siggraph.“Pat Badani-Work Plans and Creative Chances”. May 29, 2021. Online Zoom panel discussion. https://dac.siggraph.org/art-science-and-the-invisible-world-we-live-in/
2021- “Environmental Issues / Sustainablity / Climate Change”. SPARKS-ACM Siggraph. Panel discussion co-moderator. February 25, 2021. https://dac.siggraph.org/environmental/
2021- “Cru et Crédible (Raw and Credible) Art and Food” in Social Affects, Drain Journal, February 2021 (Essay publication). http://drainmag.com/cru-et-credible/
2020- “La comida como texto: Cultura(s) entrelazadas”, CEIARTE (Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas), Unversidad de Tres de Febrero, November 19, 2020. https://ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/2020/11/la-comida-como-texto-patbadani (Abstract publication)
2020- “La comida como texto: Cultura(s) entrelazadas”, Enredamentos Estéticos, do HUB Eventos Media Lab 2020 - #19.ART, VII SIIMI, II RETINA Internacional, Media Lab / BR, PUC -SP e Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Brasil, October 19 to 23, 2020. (Round Table discussion)
2020- “Particles – Episode 2 - Pat Badani”, UCLA Art Sci Center, Podcast interview with Victoria Vesna.
2020- “Heritage of New Media, the work of Diana Domigues”, Europe-Latin America Cultural Ring in Uruguay – 5th International Online Congress on Art and New Media, May 5-6, 2020.
2018– “Délocalités, translocalités et activisme dans l'art électronique et biomédiale latino-américain”, Artelogie Vol 11, EHESS (L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Paris, France. https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/1453
2018- BADANI. P. “Chunking and Recoding in the AL GRANO Project,” Leonardo - Arts, Sciences and Technology, Vol 51 #1, ed. Roger Malina, (MIT Press) - 24 to 27. ISSN 0024-094X –February 2018. (Illustrated paper)
2017- “Comestible: Seven-Day Meal Plan,” Balance-Unbalance 2017, A Sense of Place, iDat.org, Plymouth University, August 21, 2017 (Lecture)
2017- “Comestible: Seven-Day Meal Plan,” Composite # 15 - HUB Montreal 2017 chez Lune Rouge, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Artist Talk)
2016- “GMOs: Threats, impacts and opportunities for a sustainable future”, LASER Leonardo-Zurich, July 12, 2016, Zurich, Switzerland: http://www.laserzurich.com/blog-6-12-july-2016--gmos-threats-impacts-and-sustainable-futures (Artist Talk)
2016- “Models of Diversity: Current Transdiscourses in Art, Science and Social Issues,” Institute of Cultural Studies ZHdK Zurich and The Institute of Integrative Biology, ETZH, Zurich, Switzerland. (Panel Moderator)
2015- “Radical Reordering in the AL GRANO© Project,” Disruptions, 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art,” Session 21, BioArt II. (Lecture and essay publication in proceedings), August 14 to 19, 2015. https://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_36.pdf
2015- “Economies of Aesthetics,” invited researcher, Academy of Art and Design Basel in cooperation with the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), Senior Researcher Flavia Caviezel. (Book entry)
2015- “Creative recoding: Big ideas and bit-sized morsels in the AL GRANO© Project,” RiDE Lecture Series (Risk, Dare, Experiment), organizer Prof. Analia Segal, convenor curator Jordan Carter. (Lecture)
2015- “Three Questions on Media Criticality,” Transmediale 2015, Flavia Caviezel, Senior Researcher, Critical Media Lab (Basel- Switzerland), Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Switzerland/Academy of Art and Design FHNW. (Book entry)
2014- “Another node in the system: communicational spaces // cultural practices // systems,” Location. 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art. (Lecture with Dr. Gail Kenning)
2014- “Al Grano: Formas de pensar mundos,” 13Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia. (Seminar)
2013- “Something in the Air, Artist Talk About Interventionist Strategies in Augmented Reality,” panel co-chair with Lanfranco Aceti, in partnership with Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Kellen Auditorium, The New School, New York, September 7, 2013. (Artist Talk)
2013- “I Am Occupied Occupying: Rhetoric and Realities of Artistic Interventions from Performance to Augmented Reality Art,” panel co-chair with Lanfranco Aceti, convenor Prof. Robert Rowe, and artist Mark Skwarek. In partnership with Leonardo Electronic Almanac and the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York, September 9, 2013. (Lecture)
2013- “Eco-Activism Panel,” Resistance is Futile, ISEA2013, 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, discussion of the Augmented Reality project AL “GRANO©Crop-Cropping Sugar Daddy,” University of Sydney, Australia, June 11, 2013. (Lecture)
2013- “Seeding Relationships,” Decolonial Aesthetics of the Americas, e-fagia organization in collaboration with FUSE magazine, “Decolonial Landscapes Panel B,” Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada, October 10, 2013. (Lecture)
2011- “A Maze about maize: A Mesoamerican Divinity and its Transgenic Avatars,” Practices in Bio-Art Panel, ISEA2011, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. (Artist Talk)


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
(selection since 2002)
2023-ongoing- Editorial Board member of LINK Praxis Design Research Journal, Auckland University of Technology.
2016-ongoing – Board member, ISEA International. https://www.isea-international.org/about/meet-the-board/
2016-2018–Lead Guest Editor, Artelogie Vol 11, EHESS (L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Paris, France. https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/1453
2016-2010- Executive Board of Directors of the New Media Caucus.
2106-2010- Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly publication: Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, an affiliate of the College Art Association, U.S.A.
2016 - MacDowell Fellow, USA.
2015 - RiDE Fellow, Pratt Institute, New York, U.S.A.
2008- ongoing - AICA (USA) International Association of Art Critics. Its objective is to support art criticism in all its forms, worldwide.
2007-2008 - Full time Lecturer and Acting Director, Interdisciplinary Media Arts, Columbia College Chicago, U.S.A.
2002-2010 - Full time faculty, Integrated Media, School of Art, Illinois State University, U.S.A. Created a sequenced, digital media, undergraduate curriculum.