Re:Wire 2011 The Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media, Arts, Science and Technology, Liverpool, October 2011. Paper presented: "Venice, Art & Technology. The breaking of the Biennale’s curatorial model, 1968", author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by IOCT, DMU.
ISEA 2011, Istanbul, September 2011. Paper presented: "Computer Art vs. Computer Music. Different approaches to art & technology at the 1970 Venice Biennale", author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by IOCT, DMU.
ISEA2010 Ruhr, Dortmund, August 2010. Paper presented: “Computer art in the mainstream. How the Venice Biennale responded to the historisation of computer art in the 1980s”, author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by AHRC, CAT Project.
Re:live 2009, The Third International Conference on the Histories of Media, Arts, Science and Technology, Melbourne, November 2009. Paper presented: “The first computer art show at the 1970 Venice Biennale. An experiment or product of the bourgeois culture?”, author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by AHRC, CAT Project.
The Politics of Identity Symposium, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, June 2009. Paper presented: “New Media, Art and Politics at the Venice Biennale. The Legacy of 1968”, author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by Birkbeck, University of London.
International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Singapore, July 2008. Paper presented: “Art and Democracy at the Venice Biennale”, author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by Birkbeck, University of London.
SocialEast Seminar, Jagellonian University, Krakow, April 2008. Paper presented: “Political Radical Ideals and Commercial Indulgence at the Venice Biennale. The Legacy of 1968”, author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by Birkbeck, University of London.
Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, April 2008. Paper presented: “Democratic Space and Urban Intervention. Venice Biennale 1986-1990”, author: Francesca Franco, attendance funded by Birkbeck, University of London.