Speaking

I am Roy Christopher. I be thinking about stuff. Sometimes I talk about it. I am available to speak about the following topics:

• Social Impacts of Technology
• Platform Building and Publishing
• Theoretical Applications of Hip-hop Culture
• Staying Motivated and Getting Things Done

Some previous talks, presentations, and guest lectures include the following:

• Alex Chitty’s Artist Talk and Panel (with Alex Chitty, Steven Kase, and Alex Kapadia), during which we discussed self-sustaining systems, mutability, and loops.
  October 22, 2014, Latitude, Chicago, IL
• What Happened to the Big Idea in Music Technology? (with Dave Allen, David Ewald, Rick Moody, Jesse von Doom, and Anthony Batt)
  2pm, March 14th, 2012, Room 16AB
  Austin Convention Center
  SXSW Music
  Austin, TX
• The Lack of Disruption in Music Technology
  (with Dave Allen, Corey Denis, Jesse von Doom, Alex Ljung, and David Ewald)
  September 12th, 2011, 10:30am, Sakura Room
  SF MusicTech Summit
  San Francisco, CA
• Disconnecting the Dots: How Our Devices are Divisive
  October 3, 2011, 3:30pm
  Geekend Roadshow Boston / DMA 2011
  Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
  Boston, MA
• The Advent Horizon: Drawing the Line Online
  November 2, 2011, 11am, PST
  Rheingold University
  Blackboard Session
• Disconnecting the Dots: How Our Devices are Divisive
  March 13, 2011, 9:30am
  SXSW Interactive
  Austin Convention Center, Room 6AB
  Austin, TX

• Release Your Darlings: Platform Building and Postmodern Publishing
  February 7th, 2011, 3:00pm
  Guest Lecture for Bill Minutaglio’s Reporting and Writing Nonfiction Books class
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX
• Follow for Now: Behind the Book and Beyond
  Thursday, September 30, 2010
  Guest Lecture for Michael Schandorf’s Writing for New Media class
  The University of Illinois Chicago
  Chicago, IL
• How to Do Stuff and Be Happy
  November 6, 2010, 1:30pm
  Geekend 2010
  Savannah, GA
• Floating Siginifiers: The Haunting of Hip-hop by the Ghosts of Emcees Passed (with Joe Faina)
  November 14, 2010, 2:00pm (poster session)
  NCA Annual Conference
  San Francisco, CA
• Media and Metaphors: Theory Building in Media Studies, Design, and Architecture
  February 16, 2007
  Design Machine Group
  Architecture Department
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA
• The Medium is the Metaphor: Toward a Unified Theory of Computer Mediation
  October 17, 2006
  Roundtable discussion lead at the DMG’s Lab-Lunch
  Architecture Department
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA