Lecture Performance on the Web

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This online workshop explores the rich history and aesthetics of lecture performance as an artistic form, tracing its emergence from the experimental pedagogies of Joseph Beuys and Black Mountain College to the new media inspired practices of artists such as Joan Jonas and William Kentridge.

Situating this lineage within the context of the Internet, the course asks: what does it mean to perform knowledge online? Exploring the lecture performance as both method and object of inquiry, students will research, develop, and deliver their own short lecture performances.

A special focus will be placed on the World Wide Web as a site-specific venue, a place of gathering, organizing, storytelling, and political imagination and on the aesthetic and social possibilities that emerge when performance takes place online.

Course Logistics

Dates: Sundays, June 7 + June 14, 2026

Times: 12 – 1:30 PM PT

Location: Online

Cost: $120

Scholarship: We also offer Diversity Scholarships.
Apply by May 24, 2026.

Experience Level: Beginner

Requirements:
• Participants will need a laptop to connect to Zoom and can use the presentation software (or not) of their choice.

Prerequisites:
Students should have access to their own laptop or smart device to join. They have an invitation to share a 5 minute lecture performance to the group in the second class. The entire class will be recorded, edited and published online. Students will need to consent to being recorded.

Additional Information:
• No refunds or exchanges
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Workshop Outline

Day 1

Introduction to early new media and performance artists experiments with lecture format
Discussion of the features and limitations of web as a place of lecture performance
Guideline for participants to make their own lecture performance on the web

Day 2

Participant presentations

Educational Goals

The session is designed as an open space of creative exploration. Students will leave with both a historical grounding and the artistic license to develop their own lecture performance work for the web — bringing together research, presence, and networked space as expressive tools.

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Instructor(s)

Taeyoon Choi

Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, curator, and activist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, technology, society, and human relationships. His current research focuses on the history of computing and communications, resource and labor extraction, the politics and culture of industrial production and excess. Through research and artistic practices, he examines how these systems connect to past and present relationships of colonialism and capitalism. As a visual artist, his work has been presented at both grassroots spaces in North America, Asia and Europe and institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and MASS MoCA. In ongoning support for and in collaboration with artist communities in South Korea, he runs Forever Gallery in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and since 2024 has been working with the New Suns curatorial team to create opportunities for learning and collaboration. As an educator, he co-founded the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) in New York in 2013 — a school, residency, and research organization investigating the intersections of coding and artistic practice. He taught various classes and helped shape the school's curriculum and community in collaboration with a network of organizers and teachers. Since 2021, the school has become a non-profit organization and is run by a new generation of leaders. Choi currently teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit. He has served on the Board of Advisors of the Processing Foundation, and currently serves on the Board of Strategy of AFIELD, an international network of artist-led systems change.