• “Performing Cerebral Organoids”: SLSA, Aliens, ASU, 2023
• “Pluripotent Selves and the Performance of Stem Cells”: CAA, 2018
• “Pluripotent Temporalities”: SLSA, Out of Time, ASU, 2017
• “On Demonstrable Plasticity”: CAA, 2017
• “Viral Pluripotency”
  SLSA, Neolife, University of Western Australia
  Oct 2015
• “Regenerating Pluripotency, or the Plastic Life of Stem Cells”
  SLSA, After Biopolitics, Rice University, Houston
  Nov 2015
• “Non-life Matters”
  ICI Berlin, Nov 2014
• “Willing Vitality”
  World Picture Conference
  University of Toronto, Nov 8-9, 2013
• “Vital Dependencies: Architecture, Performance, Biotechnology”
  School of Architecture and Urban Planning (UWM) Lecture Series , Sept 21, 2012
• “Vital Dependencies: Bio-Art, Architecture, and Infrastructures of Care”
  University of Vermont, Art History Department, April 4, 2012
• “Readymade Bio-Matter: Art and Synthetic Biology”
  College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 22-25, 2012
• “Vital Dependencies: Synthetic Bio-Art and Infrastructures of Care”
  University of Pittsburgh, February 20, 2012
• “Molecules to Humans: Scaling Synthetic Life”
  World Picture Conference, Toronto, October 21-22, 2011

JJ on Milwaukee’s NPR station, interviewed by Bonnie North on Lake Effect

To listen: “Brave New World: BioArt Pushes Boundaries”

* DeMonstrable, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 3 October – 5 December 2015

* Inaugural Meeting of the Rest of the World Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

* National Forum for Experimental Arts

For more info, see: “Johung to curate exhibition in Australia”

BiofiliA: Base for Biological Arts

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Jan 28 – Feb 1, 2013

In collaboration with SymbioticA

JJ was invited to speak at SymbioticA, the Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the University of Western Australia, on June 21, 2013, as a part of a symposium on \”Agency in Movement\”  Her article on “Choreographic Arrhythmias” will be forthcoming in a special edition of journal Leonardo.

The symposium stems from an Australian Research Council project exploring the use of skeletal muscle tissue which is grown, stimulated and activated in a techno-scientific surrogate “body”. This moving twitching (semi) living material evokes, makes unease, and asks, in sensorial and theoretical means about issues of aliveness and agency. The project is concerned with onto-ethico-epistemological questions about life and the affect created through the phenomenon of movement.