My thinking has benefitted from speaking and convening conversations at a number of dynamic interdisciplinary events.
Recent(ish) Conference Presentations and Lectures:
- “Purple A-U-T-O-matic: Prince, Virtuosity, and the LM-1 Drum Computer,” Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 2021, University of Alberta (Edmonton, CAN), Jun 2021
- “Driving Rhythms: Automobility, Automation, and Transpacific Musical Time,” IASPM US—BPM: Bodies, Places, Movements, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, USA), May 2021
- “Real Drums at Your Fingertips: A Close Reading of the LM-1 Drum Computer Interface,” Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures, National Science and Media Museum (Bradford, GBR), Dec 2020
- “Nine Questions for Media Art (For 2020 and Beyond),” Index, gnration (Braga, PRT), Oct 2019
- “Broken Glass, Metallic Beat: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm,” IASPM Canada 2019, Legacies and Prospects: The Pasts and Futures of Popular Music, UQAM (Montreal, CAN), May 2019
- “A Line—and a Sketch,” Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), Nov 2017
Selected Panels:
- “Spilling Ink: The Business and Craft of Coverage,” MUTEK, Studios des 7 Doigts (Montreal, CAN), Aug 2019 (panelist with Julia Kaganskiy & Andrew Ryce)
- “Critical Perspectives on Embodied Storytelling,” Weird Reality, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), Oct 2016 (moderator with Yasmin Elayat, Ali Momeni, Sarah Rothberg, Omer Shapira, Milica Zec)
- “Space, Media, Material,” ACT Festival, ACT Center (Gwangju, KOR), Nov 2015 (panel chair/moderator with Jürg Lehni, Nobuhiro Nakanishi, Els Vermang)
- “Design Fiction—Provocations & Pedagogy,” Resonate, Dom Omladine (Belgrade, SRB), Mar 2013 (panel chair/moderator with Anthony Dunne, Golan Levin, Liam Young)
- “Can Sound be Spaceless?,” Surrounding Sound, Arts Court (Ottawa, CAN), Oct 2012 (panel chair/moderator with Mitchell Akiyama, Geeta Dayal, Darsha Hewitt)
- “Auto/biography: Data, Identity and Narrative,” Eyeo Festival, McNamara Alumni Center (Minneapolis, USA), Jun 2011 (panel chair/moderator with Janet Abrams, Nicholas Felton, Jer Thorp)
- “Acoustic Cartography: Re-listening Vancouver,” The Western Front (Vancouver, CAN), Apr 2011 (panelist with Geraldine Pratt & Barry Truax)