• SJTU-Warwick Joint Seed Fund, research award (50,000RMB + 5,00GBP), for “A ‘Genetic Ontology’ of Immersive Media for Museums,” a collaboration and AI indexing computer science investigation with Professor Jianhua Yang, Warwick Manufacturing Group, Warwick University, UK, 2023-24.

• Over the last several years, the use of immersive media for museum exhibition and education programs has exploded.  During covid restrictions, museums of varying sizes around the world implemented programs to allow remote access and remote experiences of museum collections.  Moving forward, institutions are seeking to assess what media experiences are effective for education, promotion, revenue streams, and enhancing audience experiences in general.  This research project seeks to use new computer science techniques, suitable for AI implementations, to develop a taxonomy for categorizing and assessing immersive media experiences. Instead of a traditional hierarchical categorization method, we will base the taxonomy on Genetic Ontology, where clusters of features are identified and connected, in a network structure, with clusters of effects and relationships.

• 2023 Future Curators Symposium, West Bund Museum

On the occasion of World Museum Day, West Bund Museum held the "Future, Problem Awareness - 2023 Future Curators Forum" on May 13, and jointly launch the museum-school cooperation with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University-USC School of Cultural and Creative Industries Future Museum Studio, inviting outstanding young curators from home and abroad to gather at the West Bund to discuss future-oriented curatorial methods. Curatorial content and the development trend of curatorial institutions, showing the most cutting-edge curatorial pulse to the public, and imagining the future of curation together.

The Future Curators Forum aims to build a platform for dialogue between new young curators and future curators, so as to establish a long-term and effective professional communication platform to facilitate the development and international exchange of curatorial and curatorial ideas in China.Panels included the curators: Huang Songhao研讨嘉宾:程然、Jérémie Thircuirs, Chen Jiaying 陈嘉莹, Chen Junyao 陈鋆尧, Cheng Ran 程然, Gu Ling 顾灵, Gu Youyou 顾悠悠, Huang Songhao 黄淞浩, Jérémie Thircuirs, Miao Zijin 缪子衿, Wang 王东, Wang Yiquan 王懿泉, Xiang Yaojing 项偞婧, Yuan Jiawei 袁佳维.

• Future Museum Symposium 2022, and 2023.  Two international symposia on the subject of future museums, organized in collaboration with Mona Kim (Mona Kim Projects exhibition design, Paris), Jack Ludden (Getty Museum), John Russick (Chicago History Museum).  Participants have included Lonnie Bunch (Smithsonian), Lāth Carlson (Museum of the  Future, Dubai), Koven Smith (Knight Foundation), Joy Bivins (NY Public Libraries),  Robert Bickers (University of Bristol), Cristiano Bianchi (keepThinking design studios), Josh Goldblum (Blue Cadet), and many others.

• China Academy of Art, International Design Education Forum on Art & Technology: Design Humanities in the Age of Entanglement (Hangzhou, 4/23/2023), keynote address: “Media Art & Magic Tricks: AR and Future Museums.”

• Shanghai Conservatory of Music Annual International Forum for Music and New Media Art, (Shanghai, West Bund Museum, 12/10/21) keynote address:  “Future Museums时空未来博物馆：利用新媒体技术创造历史体验”

• China Cultural Industry Development Forum (Beijing, 9/4/2021): keynote address: “The Future Museum: Using New Media Technologies to Create Experiences of History”

• “The Future of Digital Art and Art Education,” public panel discussion with Lauren Lee McCarthy, UCLA and Iris Long Xingru, CAFA @ FutureLab Education Expo, Westbund Art Center, Shanghai, 2020.

• “Future Museums,” (keynote lecture), Art and Technology: Major Construction and Development Summit @ The School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2020.

• “Crossover” (symposium host), ICCI Art Valley artists’ residency, Shanghai, 2020.

• “Augmented Reality. Future Art. Future Museums.” (public lecture), ‘project-er’ @ Lingang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai 2020.

• Exhibitions:

o   “Near East to Far West” at the Denver Art Museum (2022),

o   XuHui Museum Shanghai ‘CrossOver’ (2020).

• People’s Daily: Presenting the Development Picture of Contemporary China to the World" (Reading China). Reporters Yu Yichun, Wang Dan, and Liu Lingling. People's Daily ( July 24, 2022, Edition 03).

• Xinmin Newspaper, Shanghai: "Shanghai is Figuring Out Its Identity in the World" (March 6, 2022).

• KNews / Shanghai Media Group: “Museum of Art Pudong as a cultural monument” (July 2021).

• Xinmin Evening News, Shanghai, "Shanghai Through Our Eyes" (August 2021).

• CGTNL: Footprints, “Geoffrey Alan Rhodes: an artist who connects the real and the virtual” (November 2021).

• News pieces and interviews about Chicago 00:

• XR in Museums: A Review of the Current State of the Field, by Kate Haley Goldman and Madeleine Pope, a study funded by the National Science Foundation, USA, April 20, 2023.

• Yahoo News: “The 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire” (October 8, 2021)

• WTTW News, Chicago: “Chicago History Museum Remembers Great Fire of 1871” (October 7, 2021).

• American Alliance of Museums: “Evaluating the Impact of Augmented and Virtual Reality” (January 15, 2021)

• ABC 7 News, Chicago, ‘Happening Today’, the Chicago00 World’s Columbian Exposition project (March 2020).