Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions
The Aesthetics and Politics of Reflexive Accumulation: Vernacular Photography and the Telephonic Image
- Triangle Film Salon
· March 2025
International Meeting or Conference
North Carolina State University,
NC State
This talk dissects the aesthetics and politics of camera phones and their "telephonic images" by placing them in the larger economic context of digital, reflexive accumulation. Charting how the ideal media subject of digitality became mobilized, this presentation addresses modifications to the image through a medium specific analysis of camera phones. It concludes by highlighting the impact of telephony on photography, demonstrating how each remediated the other and intensified vernacular forms of mobile image making.
Communication Breakdown: Separation Aesthetics, Habermas, and the Documentary in Behemoth (2015)
- Critical Theory Conference
· May 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Loyola University Rome,
Rome / Online
Panel - Collapsing Ecologies: History, Photography, and Ecomedia
- Context and Meaning
· January 2022
Other
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Seeing Wilderness Again: Speculative Photography and the Extreme Ice Survey
- Context and Meaning: Art and the Anthropocene
· January 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Vibe Shifts: Text/Image/Sound in Digital Art and Visual Culture
- Producer Pod - Episode 42
· November 2021
Broadcast Appearance
JustJerry,
Chicago
Discussing music, personal history, practices of making and creating, and digital culture, this interview spans the problems posed by automated visual art and music, capitalism and the desire to create, and the shift from a paradigm of authenticity to one of communication and profiles.
Panel - Returns and Refusals
- A Visual Culture Symposium
· April 2020
Other
SAIC,
Chicago
Warehousing Nature: Toward a Critical Ecology with Documentary Photography
- Very Current Subjects - A Visual Culture Symposium
· April 2020
International Meeting or Conference
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Internetted Cognition: Memes, Problematic Faves, and Documentary Aesthetics in Digital Culture
- Vers Magazine Live
· February 2019
Broadcast Appearance
Vers Magazine
Taking the retirements of two trans rappers (LoneMoon and Ayesha Erotica) as a starting point, the folks at Vers Magazine discuss internet cultures and their relationship to moralism and marginality, subcultures and the politics of support, Nietzschean ressentiment, and the questions surrounding what to make of 'problematic' artists who are also marginalized.