talking
2013
“Lossy Motion and Digital Blur,” paper accepted for presentation at the 2013 Film-Philosophy Conference, Amsterdam (July 10–12, 2013) abstract
“Reverse Shot, Forward Motion,” roundtable discussion with Michael Koresky, Eric Hynes, Andrew Tracy, and Genevieve Yue at the Museum of the Moving Image (April 7, 2013, 4PM)
“Critical Means #2,” panel discussion on the state of film criticism, Ann Arbor Film Festival (March 22, 2013, 2:30PM, Michigan Theater Screening Room)
“Magnetic Disorientation: Navigating Ben Russell's TRYPPS,” presented at the 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago (March 6–10, 2013) abstract
2012
“Blink and Burn: China Girls in Experimental Film,” presentation at Anthology Film Archives, co-sponsored by NYU Cinema Studies and the Orphans Film Project (29 November 2012, 9PM)
“Headless Women: A Technics of Female Silence,” presented at the 2012 American Studies Association, Puerto Rico (November 2012) abstract
“Yoko Ono, Plastic Woman,” presented at the 2012 World Picture conference, University of Sussex (November 2012) abstract
"Films the Color of Blood: The American Avant-Garde, 1960–73," Art School lecture in conjunction with "Renegades: American Avant-Garde Film, 1960–73" at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (23 September 2012, 1PM, Walker Cinema)
“The Past Reformed: Three Digital Works by James Benning,” presented atthe 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston (March 25, 2012) abstract
“Color Imbalance: Film, Race, and the China Girl,” invited talk for the American Studies Colloquium, Macalester College (March 8,2012, 12PM) link
“The Invisible Face: China Girls On and Offscreen,” invited talk for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Group in Moving Image Studies, University of Minnesota (10 February 2012, 3PM) link
2011
“Medusa-Image,” presented at the 2011 American Comparative Literature Conference in Vancouver, Canada. March 2011. abstract
“Flesh on Film: The China Girl on the Margins of Cinema,” presented at the 2011 Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, and chair of the panel “The Body Offscreen” (March 2011) abstract
“Love Among the Ruins: The Couplets of Lewis Klahr,” paper presented at the 2011 Experience Music Project annual conference in Los Angeles, California as part of the panel “Music and Money,” Greil Marcus, chair (February 2011) abstract
2010
Invited participant, Moving Image Workshop, organized by Tom Gunning. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. April 2-3, 2010.
“The Sensitive Medium: Remediating Spirit Photography in the Fatal Frame,” paper accepted for the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Tokyo, Japan, and presented at the 2010 SCMS conference in Los Angeles. Co-chair with William Huber of the panel “Fatal Frames.”.April 2010. abstract
2006-2008
“Architectures of the Inside: The Rhetoric of the Cut in the Films of Stan Brakhage and Gordon Matta-Clark,” paper presented at the 2008 Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and chair of the panel “Anarchitectural Cinemas.” (March 2008) abstract
“Lost at Sea: Intermedial Encounters in the Films of Janie Geiser,” paper presented at Film Indiana: Screening Shorts, Indiana University (September 2007) abstract
“Lost Lost Lost: The Odyssey of Jonas Mekas,” paper presented at the 41st Annual Comparative Literature Conference at Cal State University Long Beach (March 2006)