The Synthetic Humanities?
June 2026 Paper The Digital Conference London, UK
Wynter's Theory of Play
February 2026 Paper SWPACA Albuquerque, NM
Teaching in the Basement: How Video Games Are Leveling Up the Classroom Experience
November 2025 Teaching demonstration UTA Libraries Arlington, TX
The Art of Behavior
October 2025 Paper ASAP Houston, TX
On Protective Play: Risk, Farocki, and Operational Games
August 2025 Paper SLSA Corvallis, OR
Risking My Career: Doug Stark Ten Years On
August 2025 Performance SLSA Corvallis, OR
Speculative Adaptation: On Playing with 4D Toys
August 2025 Paper SLSA Corvallis, OR
Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket
June/July 2025 Paper DIGRA Msida, Malta
On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games
June/July 2025 Paper DIGRA Msida, Malta
Why Simema?
June/July 2025 Paper DIGRA Msida, Malta
Protective Play: Farocki's Operational Games
April 2025 Invited talk Center for Theory, UTA Arlington, TX
Brecht's Experimental Games, Or the Philosophy of Art-Science
March 2025 Paper Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar Tampere, Finland
Playing at White Supremacy: Memes, Humor, and History in Paradox Interactive's Gaming Community
February 2025 Paper SWPACA Albuquerque, NM
Simema: The Aesthetics of Autoplay in Freudenheim's Schema
February 2025 Paper CAA New York, NY
Fluxus as a Way of Life: Art, Attention, Attitude
November 2024 Performance SLSA Dallas, TX
Immunitary Climbing: On the Environmental Aesthetics of Free Solo (2018)
November 2024 Paper SLSA Dallas, TX
Protective Play: Farocki's Operational Games
November 2024 Paper Playing War Regensburg, Germany
Protective Play: Farocki's Operational Games
June 2024 Invited talk UNC/KCL Game Symposium London, UK
The Infrastructure of Game Pedagogy
June 2024 Invited talk UNC/KCL Game Symposium London, UK
Gaming Habits: The Biopolitics of Play Under Neoliberalism
March 2024 Invited talk UT Arlington Arlington, TX
A Room for Play: The Infrastructure of Game Pedagogy
January 2024 Paper Leveling-Up the Classroom University of Kentucky
Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Ambivalence of Cricket
December 2023 Paper Race in Games University of Waterloo, Canada
Train Like an Alien: Flux Your Muscles at Useful Games, Acquire Useless Skills
October 2023 Performance SLSA Tempe, AZ
Unalienating Alienation: Ludo-Orientalism, Afrofuturist Dub, and Space Invaders
October 2023 Paper SLSA Tempe, AZ
Are Games That Change Their Own Rules AI?
June 2023 Paper DIGRA Seville, Spain
Graceful Gaming: Aesthetics, Automation, Habit
June 2023 Paper DIGRA Seville, Spain
'Not a Man Move': Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Cosmotechnics of Cricket
March 2023 Paper ACLA Chicago, IL
Graceful Gaming: Aesthetics, Automation, Habit
March 2023 Paper Triangle Film Salon North Carolina State University
Black Skin, White Flannels: C. L. R. James and the Uses of Sport History
October 2022 Paper History of Games Virtual
Recursive Games as AI?
October 2022 Paper SLSA Purdue University
Infrastructural Poiesis: Fluxus Games and Creating the Conditions for Creativity
July 2022 Paper Generation Analog Virtual
Becoming Animated: Paprika's Dream Machines
March 2022 Paper Triangle Film Salon UNC Chapel Hill
'What Else to Do but Practice?' The Pleasures and Politics of Digital Skill in David Sudnow's Pilgrim in the Microworld
October 2021 Paper 4S Toronto, Canada
Aesthetic Exercise Machines: Video Game Training in Harun Farocki's Serious Games and Parallel Series
October 2021 Paper SLSA Ann Arbor, MI
'What Else to Do but Practice?' The Pleasures and Politics of Digital Skill in David Sudnow's Pilgrim in the Microworld
August 2021 Paper BACLS Virtual
Harnessing Ludic Indeterminacy; or, Gregory Bateson on Croquet
November 2020 Paper Indeterminate Futures / The Future of Indeterminacy Virtual
Fluxus Play Before Games: Experimental Play as Cultural Technique
November 2019 Paper SLSA Irvine, CA
'Just Playing Around:' Agonistic Play and the Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Video Game Communities
August 2019 Paper Configurations of Empire London, UK
'This Body that Knows More than We Do:' QWOP the Walking Simulator
July 2019 Paper Wandering Games Conference Bangor, Wales
Anti-Realist Simulation Games
November 2018 Paper SLSA Toronto, Canada
Glitch Myths: Narrativizing Error in Video Game Development Fiction
July 2018 Paper BACLS Loughborough, UK
Kill Your Darlings
June 2018 Game jam debrief Literature and Video Games St Andrews, Scotland
The Limits of Empathy: Resisting the Virtual Colonization of Subaltern Space
May 2018 Paper MELUS Las Vegas, NV
Turn Page to Read: Ready Player One and the Role of the Video Game Novel
April 2018 Paper Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies Munich, Germany
Playing with Plague: Doing History in Black Death the Video Game
March 2018 Paper North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Durham, NC
Dis/ability, Race, and Realist Hoping in Octavia Butler's Parable Series
February 2018 Paper 2nd Biennial Butler Conference Atlanta, GA
Hyperempathy for a Hyperspace: Intersections of Bodily Ecology and Communities of Pain in Octavia Butler's Parable Series
October 2017 Paper CUNY Graduate Conference New York, NY
Chaotic DeepArcher: Technology and Liminality in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
June 2017 Paper International Pynchon Week La Rochelle, France