Invited Lectures

Notable Invited Lectures and Presentations (for conference talks and public presentations please see the corresponding tab above)

"Generative AI and the Art of Disruptive Innovation," The Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, and Wharton Clubs, The Whittelmore House, Washington, D.C., September 14, 2023.

"Art and AI: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Emily L. Spratt and CUCNY President James P. Gerkis," The Columbia Club of New York, Penn Club, New York, NY, April 4, 2023.

"The Future of NFTs for Fine Art," NFT.London, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London, England, November 3, 2022. 

"Art and Technology Beyond Disruptive Innovation: The Catechistic Demands of Creative AI and Distributed Ledger Technologies in the New Tech Economy," Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, May 24, 2022. 

"The Future of Art, AI, and Creativity," Cultural Heritage, Creativity, and the Summer of Artificial Intelligence Symposium, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk Univeristy, Brno, Czech Republic, (online broadcast) December 7, 2021. 

"Reassessing the Question of Authenticity in Art and Media: Deepfakes, Non-Fungible Tokens, and Forgeries with Blockchain and AI Technologies," Künstliche Intelligenz Convention (KI-Camp), The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and The German Informatics Society, Germany, (online broadcast) April 27, 2021. 

"Eucharistic Imagery and Dissent: The Iconography of Liturgical Discord," On Being Conquered in Byzantium, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (a Harvard University research institute), Washington D.C., (online broadcast) April 16-17, 2021.

"AI and the Art of Culinary Presentation: Gastronomic Algorithms between Alain Passard and Giuseppe Arcimboldo," Distinguished Speaker Spring Preservation Lecture Series, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY, (online broadcast) February 15, 2021. 

"Venice and Byzantium: Icons between Empires," Save Venice Foundation, New York, NY, (online broadcast) February 4, 2021.

"Fireside Chat with Dr. Emily L. Spratt," AI for Good Global Summit, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, (online broadcast) (forthcoming) 2020. 

"The Augmented Dataset: Artistic Appropriations of GANs and their Bearings on Ethical Considerations of AI," in La mesure des images : approches computationnelles en histoire et théorie des arts/The Measurement of Images: Computational Approaches in the History and Theory of the Arts, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Lille (MESHS), Lille, France, (online broadcast) November 18-20, 2020.

"C-Suite Thinking for Data Scientists: Planning, Strategizing, and Collaborating across Fields," DSI Scholars Program, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, (online broadcast) July 14, 2020.

"Art, Ethics, and AI: Problems in the Hermeneutics of the Digital Image," École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France, October 22, 2019.

"Archaeologies of Knowledge for Data Science: A Discourse on Art, Archives, and AI," The American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS), Sofia, Bulgaria, April 5, 2019.

"Archaeologies of Knowledge for Data Science: A Discourse on Art, Archives, and AI," University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, March 29, 2019.

“Archive Fever in the Age of AI: The Machine-Learned Image and Cultural Heritage Preservation,” (distinguished speaker invitation) in Record / Replay: On Data, Technology and Experimental Preservation, Fitch Colloquium, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 15, 2019.

“Searching Through Seeing: Optimizing Computer Vision Technology for the Arts,” (Keynote presentation) in Searching Through Seeing: Optimizing Computer Vision Technology for the Arts, The Frick Collection, New York, NY, April 12, 2018.

"The Art of Seeing in the Digital Age: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science," Digital Art History Lab Lectures, The Frick Collection, New York, NY, May 10, 2016. 

"Through Machine Eyes: Art, Artifice, and Artificial Intelligence," Digital Art History in Practice Series, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY, February 11, 2016,  

"The Art of Seeing: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science," (Part One of a Two-Part Presentation with Ahmed Elgammal), CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and the Graduate College Computer Science Colloquium, CUNY Graduate College, New York, NY, December 10, 2015.

"The Art of the Late Byzantine Empire: Communities Past Conquest and Borders," "Icons across Empires: Renaissance and Ottoman Networks of Exchange," "The Pervasiveness of the School of Crete: Post-Byzantine Icons at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post- Byzantine Studies," The Byzantine Nachleben: Resiliency, Nostalgia and the Visual Culture of Early Modern Orthodox Communities, Tripartite Public Lecture Series in association with the Byzantine Art History Seminar at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, March 7-8, 2013. 

Emily L. Spratt presenting the keynote lecture for The Frick Collection symposium "Searching Through Seeing: Optimizing Computer Vision Technology for the Arts," on April 12, 2018. Photo Credit: George Koelle and The Frick Collection. (Top image is Spratt presenting at The New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 2016.)