Carl Diehl

Animating Sound : Histories & Futures: In this workshop I share some pertinent histories of artists experimenting with visual music and synthetic sound, followed by browser-based tools and technology info to inform and support participants own animated sound explorations into the future

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2026

Guest Presentation in Colin Williamson's Hands-on Film History class, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

The Connective Unconscious

This talk considers the ways in which contemporary cultural moments are indebted to previous techno-social developments. Rough analogies with telecommunications infrastructure suffice– today’s data transmissions and mobile computing networks are built on top of structures put in place for earlier models, from railroads to telegraphy, telephony to radio and TV.  The older media and transport infrastructure may be less obvious now or faded in use, still there are significant relationships that link between old and new. 

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2017:

Post-Truth Project, presentation and panel discussion, Open Signal, Portland, OR

Painless Magic in Progress: In this talk, I share my initial inquiries into the worlds of Werner "Dorny" Dornfield, and screen recent work on the documentary-in-progress being spun out of my interviews with relatives, magicians, historians, and live cinema artists.

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2024

The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR

PNCA FOCUS WEEK (Lunchtime Event) Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Post-School School [ v.2.0 ]

In a course entitled Survival and Resistance in the Information Age, I was asked to imagine a "post-school school.' by my professor, Tom Sherman. These became significant blueprints for cultivating a life of cultural production after college. Reflecting on the time period between finishing my BFA and entering a graduate program, I revisited Sherman's concept of the post-school school, extending it with five key infrastructural components informed by my own experiences.

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2014:

Visiting Artist Talk, Nicholas Sagan’s Media Practices class, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

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2012:

Hybrid Careers: Seeking, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR

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2010:

Visiting Artist Lecture, Kartz Ucci’s Professional Practices class, University of Oregon, White Stag Building, Portland, OR

Apparitions for That: In this talk, the idea that "there's an app for that" is countered by the premise that every object, app, technology and tool is haunted by alternative uses waiting to be summoned into conversation with the situation at hand, then synthesized into ingenious solutions. 

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2018:

NW Media Summit: Access the Future, "Low Tech / High Returns," presentation and panel discussion, Open Signal, Portland, OR