Presentations
Conference Presentations
2014
SECAC Southeastern College Art Conference – panel chair
Digital Tools for an Analog Praxis – (//benitez_vogl, Jason Ferguson, Alex Murray-Leslie, Scott Betz)
Sarasota, Florida
Shapeshifting – paper presentation
s.a.r.a. synesthetic augmented reality application
Auckland, New Zealand
2013
Digital Fashion conference – paper presentation
Open Source Tools for Artists and Designers in a Closed Source environment
London, United Kingdom
SXSW – South by SouthWest interactive – conference presentation
Open Source in a collaborative arts praxis
Austin, Texas
2012
Open Hardware Summit
Poster and Poster Presentation of the status of the OSLOOM project
New York, New York
BIFT/ITAA
Conference Presentation Beijing Fashion Institute/International Textile Conference
Beijing, China
Artist Talks
2015
Guest Lecturer
School of Visual Arts + Design at the University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
The BOX Gallery
{skin}d.e.e.p and versus 0.02[gridiron]
Akron, Ohio
2014
s.a.r.a. – synesthetic augmented reality application
Great Lakes Science Center, ingenuityfest
Cleveland, Ohio
//benitez_vogl a collaborative praxis
CAA 2014 – New Media Caucus
Chicago, Illinois
2013
Open and Collaborative Art
Combinat, Quartier21/Museumsquartier
Vienna, Austria – May
//benitez_vogl
Mini-Maker Faire Cleveland, Cleveland Downtown Public Library
Cleveland, Ohio
Open Source in a collaborative arts praxis and the SXSW experience for local business
NXNE post mortem – Cleveland American Advertising Federation
Cleveland, Ohio
2012
E-Textiles
LLUNATICS, 080 Barcelona Fashion Week
Barcelona, Spain
CAED Pecha Kucha presentations
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
2011
Artist Lecture during Design Week 2011
Myers School Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
fash-uh-n tek-nol-uh-jist
Pecha Kucha Night Cleveland Volume 12.
Cleveland, Ohio
2010
“Open Source Implementation in Digital Fabrication Arts Praxis.”
Approaching the Nanofax Singularity
Version Fest 10, NFO XPO / Free University, Chicago, Illinois
Guest Lecturer
Fashion Design and Merchandising Department at Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
Panels
2014
Digital Technologies for an Analog Praxis Panel at SECAC
Co-Chairing Panel with Markus Vogl
SECAC – Southeastern College Art Conference, Sarasota, Florida – October
Ingenuityfest – NEO Making and Open Source
panel of experts discussing the current status of NEO making
Cleveland, Ohio
2013
NXNE – panel of Ohio talent showcased at SXSW
//benitez_vogl invited by Cleveland American Advertising Federation (AAF)
Post mortem of our panel at SXSW: Open Source in a collaborative arts praxis and the SXSW experience
Cleveland, Ohio.
2012
COLLIDER3 – Transform: Artist Panel Discussion
//benitez_vogl invited by Tony Samangy and Rod Bengston
A panel of experts on careers in new media
Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art Auditorium
Akron, Ohio – March
2011
Interpreting the Bridge: Artist Panel Discussion
//benitez_vogl invited by James Krouse
Ingenuity Fest 2011, Cleveland, Ohio – September
Visiting Artist
//benitez_vogl
Visiting Artists Lecture and Critiques
Clevleand Institute of the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio – Spring 2014
Open Studio Presentations – open thread :: wien
8 open studio artist talks to multiple students and international visitors to Museumsquartier/quartier 21
Fulbright Fellowship Artist-in-Residence at MuseumsQuartier | quartier21, Vienna, Austria – Summer 2013
Margarita Benitez – Visiting Artist Lecture and Artist Studio Critiques
Cleveland Institute of the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio – January 2011
Margarita Benitez – Visiting Artist Lecture and Artist Studio Critiques
Textile Graduate Seminar, Kent State University. Kent, Ohio – January 2011
fash-uh-n tek-nol-uh-jist
Visiting Artist, Lecture and Artist Studio Critiques
Fibers | Herberger College School of Art, Arizona State University – November 2010
- 6 Conference Presentations
- 13 Artist Talks
- 1 Panel Chair
- 5 Expert Panels
- 5 Visiting Artist