Speaking

“Networked Animal Media,” Online Panel, invited by Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. 

“From beluga whales stealing GoPro cameras and octopuses taking selfies to humans wandering through video games as animals, this online panel discussion will explore the relationship between us and animals within the photographic act.”

Keynote Presentations

“Feral Hospitality: Making Space for Multispecies Co-Existence,” 307 Open Sidewalk #4 Winter Warmer. Sidewalk Labs, Toronto, ON, March 2, 2019

Invited Talks (Selected)

“Architectures of Hospitality,” Online Panel, PUBLIC. Art. Culture. Ideas. Co-hosted by Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the University of Florida School of Architecture, March 9, 2021,

“Grizzly Man: The Death and Sacrifice of Timothy Treadwell,” Virtual Lecture, FILM 305: Documentary Film, University of Calgary, November 16, 2020.

“Animals and Film,”  Virtual Q & A, FM4413: Ecocinema: The Nature of Film, St. Andrew’s University, October 9, 2020.

“Authorship, Style, and the Question of the ‘Lynchian'” Lecture, FILM 403: The Cinema of David Lynch, University of Calgary, October 31, 2018.

“The Mass Production of Non-Human Senses: Accidental Animal Videos as Creaturely Vernacular Modernism,” Toronto Film and Media Seminar, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON, January 13, 2017.

“Animals and Motion: An Archaeology of a Human Preoccupation,” COMS 200: History of Communication, at McGill University, May 9, 2016.

“Kinetic Longings: The Tropes of Vitality and Freedom in the Culture of Mobile Media,” The Visible City: Working Papers Series, Free Times Café, Toronto, ON, March 28, 2015.

Podcasts

“Unwrapping The Return.”The Lodgers: A Twin Peaks Podcast, episode 30, Sordid Cinema Podcast Network, Dec. 17, 2017.

“Me, a Tulpa?” The Lodgers: A Twin Peaks Podcast, episode 26, Sordid Cinema Podcast Network, Aug. 20, 2017.

“Attack of the Plant Vaginas.” The Lodgers: A Twin Peaks Podcast, episode 7, Sordid Cinema Podcast Network, Apr. 4, 2017.

Conferences (Selected)

“Feral Filmmaking: Accidental Animal Videos as Multispecies Ethnographies.” Feral: A Nearly Carbon Neutral Conference, Co-hosted by Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre and Wageningen University Centre for Space, Place, and Society, Online, November 14, 2018. 

“Feral Hospitality: Making Space for Multispecies Co-Existence in Kedi.” Thinking Space, The Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, ON, May 11, 2018.

“The Feathers at the Edge of the Frame: Contemplating Avian Involvement in the Development of the Aerial View.” Film Studies Association of Canada’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, May 27, 2017.

“A Monkey Steals a GoPro and Makes a Movie: A Case for the Cultural Significance of Accidental Animal Videos.” Canadian Communication Association’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, June 1, 2017.

“Wildlife Imagery, Interrupted: Aesthetics of Resilience in Accidental Animal Videos.” John Douglas Taylor Conference: Resilience in a Multispecies World. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, April 22, 2017

“Animals Meet Drones, Aesthetics Meet Ethics: On Ubiquitous Cameras, Non-Human Image Making, and Human Responsibility” Film Studies Association of Canada’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, May 30, 2016.

“The Carrier Pigeon: Exploring the Feathered Edges of the Modern Communication Network” Canadian Communication Association’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, May 30, 2016.

“An Octopus Steals a Camera and Makes a Movie: Revisiting Cinema’s Non-Anthropocentric Ontology With Accidental Animal Videos” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 30, 2016.

“Glimmers of Strange Worlds: André Bazin and the Ontology of Accidental Animal Videos” Film Studies Association of Canada’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, May 29, 2014.

“Tablets of Testimony: How “Apps for Apes” Illuminates the Affective Dimension of Communication” Apps and Affect Conference at Museum London, London, ON, Oct 19, 2013.

“Faster, Hobbit! Thrill, Thrill!: Revisiting the Question of Cinema at 48 Frames per Second.” Film Studies Association of Canada’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria, BC, June 6, 2013.

“A Seagull Stole My Camera: Non-Human Mobilities and Capturing the Animal Moment” 4^th International Conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network, Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies, at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 10, 2013.

“The Marvels of Motion: An Examination of The Tropes of Animality and Liveliness in Mobile Phone Culture” Canadian Communication Association’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University & Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON, May 31, 2012.

“‘A Horror of Great Darkness All Around’: The Mobile Phone & Auditory Immersion in Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried’” Film Studies Association of Canada’s Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University & Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON, June 21, 2012.

“The Myth of Total Cinema Revisited: Theorizing Mobile Technology With a Bazinian Lens” International Colloquium of the Permanent Seminar on the History of Film Theory: The Impact of Technological Innovations on the History of and Historiography of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, November 1, 2011.