Creating an artist's lecture about one's own work can be an immensely fulfilling but it can be nerve-wracking too. My first venture into public speaking was a thirty-minute talk about an interactive animation called Littoral Zone. In February of 1999, I flew to Providence, RI, rented a car and got lost at least six times in attempting to find Connecticut College. The title of my talk was "Littoral Zone: Seeing Bodies and Letters in Cyberspace." This lecture was part of a festival called the Seventh Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology.
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