Talks & patents · 2015–present
Talks on the Portals, and nine patents behind them.
Talks
Keynotes and conversations on the Portals, public art, and what the internet is for.
Selected talks
Beyond the StudioTsai Center for Innovative Thinking, Yale
2021
New Frontiers for Cultural InstitutionsCultureSummit, Abu Dhabi
2019
Portals and the Future of EducationWith Vesla Weaver and Youseph Yazdi · Johns Hopkins Board of Trustees, Baltimore
2018
Events, Live Technology, and CommunityTIDE, Las Vegas
2018
Food and Community in the Digital AgeGoogle Food Labs, Palo Alto
2018
Internet and SpaceGames for Change, New York
2017
Keynote on Portals, Technology, and Girls’ EducationNational Coalition of Girls’ Schools, Washington DC
2017
Toward a Global Creative EconomyNuqat, Kuwait
2016
The Emergent Chorus: Collaborative CreativityWith Michele Norris and Jose Antonio Vargas, moderated by Damian Woetzel · Aspen Ideas Festival
2016
Creating an Internet You Can Walk Throughre:publica, Berlin
2016
Grounding the Connective Potential of the InternetTribeca Film Institute, New York
2015
Connecting Across Distance Through Public ArtWith Mary Ellen Carroll · Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
2015
How Contemporary Artists Use Law as MaterialIntroductory remarks at The Legal Medium · Yale Law School, New Haven
2015
Earlier talks on How the World Sees America include the New America Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, C-SPAN, and lectures at Berkeley, Chicago Harris, Columbia SIPA, George Washington, The New School, UCLA, USC, and Villanova.
Patents
Sole inventor on nine United States patents covering the Portal — the network architecture that connected the rooms, and the physical design of the rooms themselves.
Network architecture for immersive audio-visual communicationsFour grants in one family, filed 2015 to 2018 · US 9,706,166 · 9,998,708 · 10,015,444 · 10,694,147
2017–2020
System and method for performing immersive audio-visual communicationsUS 11,356,639 · filed 2020
2022
Design patents for the Portal and video wallFour design grants covering the communication portal, the video wall, the modular video wall, and the at-home portal device
2016–2020
All nine filed by Shared Space Studios LLC, assigned to Shared Space Studios Inc. in June 2023. Records checked against USPTO filings, August 2026.