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Performed MultiLiminal with the Veiled Borders Quartet, an international improvising electroacoustic quartet with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This performance was part of the Tenth Annual Electroacoustic Barn Dance, a three-day festival of electronic music and art, held November 5-7, 2020 (virtually). 


Performed with an international improvising electroacoustic quartet called Veiled Borders, with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This multi-location online telematic performance was part of the International Network Music Festival, an innovative digital music, art and research festival that investigates the impact of networking technology on musical creation and performance practice.


Performed with a new international quartet project, Veiled Borders: Analog/Digital Hybridity with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). This multi-location online telematic performance was part of the Earth Day Art Mode 2020 ‘Music in Place’ online festival. (2020)


Premiered a new international quartet project, Veiled Borders: Analog/Digital Hybridity with collaborators John Godfrey, Karen Power (Ireland) and Jane Rigler (USA). The performance was part of the Irish Sound, Science, and Technology Association National Conference in Cork, Ireland, where he also performed Ujjayi, an improvisational duo project for flute and computer with Rigler. Ciufo led a masterclass on Extended Instrument Design and Improvisational Performance Practices for the students in the Experimental Sound Practice Masters program at the University College Cork, Ireland, and he presented an artist talk entitled Adventures in Electronic and Experimental Music for the students at the University College Cork, Ireland. (2019)


Day I. (2024). Invited Speaker and Workshop Respondent, Eco-Criticism and Capitalism, USC Transpacific Symposium, Transpacific Research Cluster, April, 19, 2024.


Day, I. (2024). Keynote lecture. “Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Analogy.” Johns Hopkins University, Keywords for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism Graduate Symposium, The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. May 2-3 2024.


Day, I (2024). Invited Speaker, “Black Mirror Black Mirror/Black Marxism: Racial Capitalism in the Green Colony. Duke University, Program in Literature Spring Symposium: Entangled and Incommensurate Racializations. April 4-5, 2024.


Day, I (2024). Invited Speaker, “Black Mirror Black Mirror/Black Marxism: Racial Capitalism in the Green Colony.” NYU CRACS Co-Lab, A Global Feminist Critique of Capital: Fanon, Federici, Spillers, and Spivak. March 28-29, 2024.


Day, I. (2023) Invited Speaker, “Racial Capitalism and Crisis After Black Marxism.” Harvard American Studies Workshop, Harvard University, December 8, 2023.