Talks at festivals, conferences, universities, and institutions across the US, Europe, and Latin America. Topics include art and technology, civic innovation, AI and creativity, and the practice of building cultural organizations.

As a DJ, I play sets at the confluence of disco, techno, and house — selections influenced by over fifteen years of large-scale media arts production and relationships with well-known music producers.

Josette Melchor speaking at a podium, gesturing, with an architectural rendering projected behind her.

Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination — in conversation with Google engineer and artist Mike Tyka on the creative possibilities of neural networks. Berkeley Center for New Media, 2016.

Selected talks

  • Filmgate Art + Tech
    Miami, FL
  • Google Visitor Experience
    Mountain View, CA
  • University of Chicago
    Chicago, IL
  • Neurosummit Pender Island
    British Columbia, Canada
  • Resonate Festival
    Belgrade, Serbia
  • Mutek Festival
    Mexico City, Mexico
  • Mutek Festival
    Montreal, Canada
  • Digital Life Design
    Munich, Germany
  • Picnic Festival
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • TEDx Silicon Valley
    Stanford, CA
  • Art Center College of Design
    Pasadena, CA
  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
    San Francisco, CA
  • Creators Project Festival
    San Francisco, CA
  • Oakland United
    Fox Theater, Oakland, CA
  • Social Media Week
    New York, NY
  • California College of the Arts
    San Francisco, CA
  • The Art, Technology, + Culture Colloquium
    Berkeley, CA

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Selected DJ sets

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Booking

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