Talks, Lectures, Curating and Writing. 

Talks and Lectures

Grant me the Power to Revolutionize the World: A Personal History of Art, 2017

Dames Making Games talk on Don't Bleed Through Your Pants, 2017

DMG talk for Don't Bleed Through Your pants

Grant me the Power to Revolutionize the World: A Personal History of Art, 2017

Dames Making Games talk on Don't Bleed Through Your Pants, 2017

DMG talk for Don't Bleed Through Your pants

Selected Interviews and Guest talks

  • Fatal Frames: NeoBaroque Aesthetics in horror games from the aughts, Dames Making Games, April 2019
  • Alternative Digital Art Festival, Art Criticism, with Lana Polansky, Emilie Reed, Aevee Bee, and Zolani Stewart. 2015
  • Indie3, Games and Art, with Auriea Harvey of Tale of Tales and Liz Ryerson 2014
  • Game over Retry, Scare Tactics -on Horror videogames 2014
  • Fanshawe College, The Not so Popular art of Robotics. 2014
  • University of Western Ontario, Studio Critique, Photography. 2013
  • BYU Radio, Videogames in the Smithsonian. 2012
  • CHRY 105.5 FM, Cult of the Personality, Review of Rodney Graham’s A little thought. 2004

Conferences:

  •  Gynaecologist…What? E-Health Conference, Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto Ontario. 2015
  • The Neverending Narrative: What Videogame A.I can learn from Borges and Propp. Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario. 2011
  • Videogames and Collage. Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario. 2009
  • Appropriation, Bricolage, the Open Work and Emergent Gameplay. Canadian Game Studies Association 3rd Annual Conference, Carlton University, Ottawa, Ontario. 2009
  • The Independent Group, Collage and Kingdom Hearts, Context and Meaning VII Graduate Student Conference, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. 2009
  • Machinima: Emergent Game Play and the Accessible Cinema. It’s All Been Done Graduate Student Conference, University of Western Ontario. 2007

Curating

Curated exhibitions as part of Player 2

  • The terror of knowing, LOMAA, VibraFusionLab, London Ontario. 2016

Curated Exhibitions as part of Team Vector

  • Vector at Long Winter, Long Winter, Toronto Ontario. 2014
  • Networks 2.0, VideoFag, Toronto Ontario. 2014
  • Impedance, Interaccess, Toronto Ontario. 2014
  • Vector x Punk Arcade, OCADu, Toronto Ontario. 2014

Writing

  • Foreword for Mediations, LOMAA 2018
  •  “the terror of knowing” LOMAA 2016
  • “PTSD Rocket ship” Static Zine #8 Mental Health. 2014
  • “Everything, I know about Skyrim, I learned from Jorge Luis Borges.” Kill Screen Daily. 2013
  • “Glue Gun.” Kill Screen Daily. 201
  •  “Stray from the Path.” Kill Screen Daily. 2012
  • “Our Future Past.” Kill Screen Daily. 2012                                                                   
  • “Augmented Remembering.” Kill Screen. 2011
  • “Going for Baroque,” Kill Screen. 2011
  •  “Art and Video Games: Intersections.” Gamasutra, (Feature). 2011
  • “PC Gaming and Copy Protection” MONDO Magazine. 2009
  •  “Machinima: Emergent Game Play and Accessible Cinema” It’s all been done? What’s been Done, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 2007
  •  “Artist of the Month: Stelarc” MONDO Magazine, Winters College Vol. 5 issue 6 2006
  • “Video Games Don’t Kill People” MONDO Magazine. Winters College. Vol 5 issue 5 2006
  • “Artist of the Month: Adam Farlie” MONDO Magazine. Winters College. Vol 5 issue 4 2006
  •  “Artist of the Month: James Mulligan” MONDO Magazine. Winters College. Vol 5 issue 3 2005
  •  “Me, Myself and the Media – Laura Windman.” SNAFU Vol 1 Issue 2 2005
  • “Aldo Parrise” SNAFU. Vol 1 Issue 1. 2005
  • “Seth” Art Flack. Traction Vol 1 issue 3. 200
  • “Better Lives Than Yours or Mine” Art Flack. Traction Vol 1 issue 3. 2005

Co-authored Publications

  •  Impedence: Game + resistence, co-authored with Martin Zellinger and Skot Deeming, Interaccess 2014