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Selected Presentations & Appearances


The Aesthetics and Politics of Digital Accumulation: Medium Specificity and Vernacular Photography in the Age of Smartphones - Triangle Film Salon Conference · March 2025 International Meeting or Conference North Carolina State University, NC State

This conference presentation dissects the aesthetics and politics of the circulating images of camera phones—"telephonic images"—by placing it in a larger economic context of digital and reflexive accumulation to chart how the ideal media subject became mobilized and how the image was integrated in the mode of production post-digitality.

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.