Keynotes and invited talks

2018 “Feeling Through Media: Film and Video Games in Perception.” Invited talk. Creative Media Industries Institute, Georgia State University, April 11.

2015 “Media in Mind: A Transactional Encounter.” Closing keynote address, Media Fields 5: Encounters conference, UCSB, April 3.

Papers presented

2019 “Contingency and Accumulation: Rebooting Tetris in the Anthropocene.” Literature Film Association Conference, Portland, OR, September 13.

2018 “Flowing Forms: Virtual Bodies.” Flow Conference, Austin, TX, September 28.

2018 “The Spectatorial Mouth.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto, ON, March 17.

2018 “A Taste for Cinema: Chemotaxis and Media.” Rendering the Visible III: Liquidity conference. Atlanta, GA, February 9.

2017 “The Moving Mover: Wind as an Animating Force in Media and Theory.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 11.

2017 “Fumito Ueda’s Ecological World Building.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference, Oakland, CA, October 27.

2017 “Emergent Portals, Portable Authors.” Porting Media II Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 13.

2016 “Three Films Imagine Emergence.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 5.

2016 “How Do Games Think About Television?” Flow TV Conference, Austin, TX, September 17.

2015 “Pulling Mario’s Nose: Nintendo, Branding, and Embodiment, 1977-present.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, QC, March 28.

2014 “Camera Issues.” Rendering (the) Visible Conference. Atlanta, GA, February 7.

2013 “Constraint and Emergence in Videogame Use.” Society for Social Study of Science. San Diego, CA, October 10.

2013 “La Vita Loca: The Promise of Playing in Public.” With Ethan Tussey. Digital Games Research Association. Atlanta, GA, August 28.

2012 “Radical Embodiment and Affective Interactivity.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA, March 22.

2011 “Cognitive Extension at a Distance.” World Picture Conference. Toronto, ON, October 21.

2011 “A New Mode of Being.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, LA, March 10.

2008 “Virtual World Naturalism.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, PA, March 6.

2006 “Film as a Narrative Influence in Music Education.” With Alison Reynolds and Matthew Hoy. Narrative Inquiry in Music Education. Phoenix, AZ, April 6.

Panels chaired

2012 “Playing with Feelings 2: Medium, Immersion, and Affect.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March 2012.

2011 “Video Game Worlds.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2011.

Discussant

2013 Shadows and Illuminations (dir. Robert Lemelson) film screening, Emory University, October 23.

2013 The Wisdom Tree (dir. Sunil Shah) film premiere, Emory University, February 21.

2009 Opening Roundtable, Media Fields Conference 2: Infrastructures, UCSB, April 9.

2007 “Fields of View and the Experience of Place,” Media Fields Conference, UCSB, April 7.

2004 “An Evening with Tsai Ming-liang,” Boston University, October 21.

Campus presentations

2018 “Representation in Cultural Forms.” Panelist, Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference. March 26.

2017 “Sensations of Sound: On Deafness and Music.” With Rachel Kolb. December 4.

2016 “Life of the Mind: Game On.” With Tanine Allison. November 1.

2014 “From Rambo to Rushdie via Linklater and Lavant: Our Peanut Butter Cup Runneth Over.” With Marshall Duke, Emory Department of Psychology. Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Lunch Series. September 18.

2014 “Letters and the Unknown Woman: Epistolary Architecture in Three Recent Videogames.” Film and Media Studies department colloquium. September 11.

Conferences organized

2011 “Aesthetic Mutations.” Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture conference, UCSB, May 27.

2010 “Celebrity and Glamour.” Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture conference, UCSB, May 21.

2009 “Risk.” Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture conference, UCSB, May 29.

2009 “Media Fields 2: Infrastructures.” UCSB, April 9-10.

2007  “Screening Media.” Graduate student conference, UCLA, October 20.