Conferences and Invited Presentations

Respondent, The Cultural Logics of Replay, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Spring 2011

Invited Presenter, DATABASE | NARRATIVE | ARCHIVE: An International Symposium on Nonlinear Digital Storytelling, Spring 2011

Moderator and Presenter, “Realizing Scalar Capacities to Transform Media Archive Scholarship” at Reimagining the Archive, Fall 2010

Panel Chair: Visible Evidence XVI, Emerging Modes of Documentary: Mobile, Computational, Distributed, Summer 2009

Workshop: The Korsakow System: A Database Documentary Workshop, Visible Evidence XVI, Summer 2009

Paper Presentation, “Fair Use and the Future of Media Studies: the Case for Critical Commons,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Summer 2009

Respondent, Installation, Energy Monitor Project: Visualizing Energy Consumption, Mobilities and Metadata Flows, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Summer 2009

Invited Presentation: Open Video Conference, “Fair Use and Critical Commons,” Summer 2009

Paper Presentation: Games For Change: Documentary Games: The Case for Computational Documentary, Spring 2009

Invited presentation: “Interface Epistemologies: Designing New Paradigms of Knowledge” at American Comparative Literature Association conference, Spring 2008

Invited presentation: Respondent to Tracy Fullerton, “The Potential of Play: Digital Game Innovation” at Getty Research Center Works in Progress Lecture Series, Spring 2008

Panel Chair: State of the Art at 24/7: A DIY Video Summit with Henry Jenkins, Alex Juhasz, Juan Devis, Sam Gregory and Thenmozhi Soundararajan, February 2008

Workshop leader: Designing Interactive Narratives at 24/7: A DIY Video Summit, February 2008

Invited presentation: “Scholarship at the Interface” at Harvard Digital Humanities Center, November 2007

Invited presentation: “Multimedia Literacy in Higher Education” WASC Annual Conference, San Jose March 2007

Panel Chair: “The Roots and Future of Remix” at TransFormations I: Remixing the Archive, November 2006

Workshop: “San Jose Remixed: An Open Source Interactive Narrative Workshop” at ISEA (Inter-Society for Electronic Arts) San Jose, Summer 2006

Panel Chair: “The Future of Digital Education” Panel discussion held in Second Life, November 2006

Paper presentation: “Coming to Terms with the Digital Avant-Garde” Inter-Society for Electronic Arts, San Jose 2006

Poster session: “Re-Imagining the Electronic Journal” at Inter-Society for Electronic Arts, San Jose 2006

Workshop: “Designing Interactive Documentaries” SIGGRAPH Guerilla Studio, Boston 2006

Workshop: “Experiments in Interactive Panoramic Cinema” Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Symposium, San Jose 2006

Invited presentation: “Open Source Scholarship” Massive Multimedia Database, Annenberg Center for Communication, 2006

Invited presentation: “From Paper Prints to Fast Film: Techno-Syncretism and Digital Materiality” Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral lecture, Swarthmore College 2003

Paper presentation: “Steal This Archive: The Demise of Intellectual Property in the Digital Millennium” Society for Cinema Studies, Denver 2002

Paper presentation: “Past Indiscretions: Interactive Media and Recombinant History” Visible Evidence IX, Brisbane, Australia 2001

Paper presentation: “Where History Lies: Fact, Fiction and the Margins of History” Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago 2000

Panel chair: Spatializing History and Memory Interactive Frictions, USC 1999

Paper presentation: “Landscape Historicide: Textualizing the Past in James Benning’s Southwest Trilogy” Visible Evidence VII, UCLA 1999

Panel chair: Hollywood Cinema/Visionary Film Society for Cinema Studies, San Diego 1998

Paper presentation: “Dis(re)membering the Past: Experimental Film and Narrative History” Society for Cinema Studies, San Diego 1998

Paper presentation: “Politicizing the Past: The Materialist History Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniéle Huillet” Making/Unmaking History, USC 1998

Paper presentation: “Appropriated Images: Home Movies and Autobiographical Film” Visible Evidence V, Northwestern University 1997

Paper presentation: “Creative Remembering: The Significance of Anti-Realist History on Film and Television” International Association of Media and History Salisbury State University 1997

UCLA Reimagining the Archive conference

Mark Williams organized this panel titled “Realizing Scalar Capacities To Transform Media Archives” with Erik Loyer, Craig Dietrich and myself, which was to be our first public debut of our work on Scalar for the Reimagining the Archive conference at UCLA on November 13, 2010. Unfortunately, Mark was unable to attend but was ably replaced by Jackson Stakeman, who stole the show with an improvised VJ set using sampled video sequences from his project about Walter White, incubated during the NEH funded Broadening the Digital Humanities seminar at USC last summer. You can download my presentation from the conference site as a PDF here; Erik’s slides are here.

Steve’s Lightning talk at Open Video 2009

My five-minute presentation sketching the origins, goals and context of Critical Commons for attendees at the 2009 Open Video conference.

IKEA as ARG project at HASTAC conference

On Friday April 16 as part of the HASTAC Grand Challenges and Global Innovations virtual conference, I will be “presenting” (live via pre-recorded video) a project from my class last semester titled “Interactive Experience and World Design: IKEA as ARG” in which graduate students from USC’s Interactive Media program infiltrated an IKEA retail outlet to analyze the spatial and narrative design of the store as part of an Alternate Reality Game experience. The video offers a summary of the course context and project assignment, focusing on the concept of “scripted spaces,” drawn from Norman Klein’s book The Vatican to Vegas. This video also marks the first time I have had content automatically removed from my YouTube account due to the inclusion of copyrighted material. In representing the transmedia context for this project, the video includes clips of television programs, feature films, advertisements and popular music, at least one of which was flagged by YouTube’s copyright-filtering system on behalf of the Fox/News Corp. media conglomerate. I have filed a counter-takedown notice with YouTube in the hopes of having the video reinstated for public viewing, but for now, it is viewable as a Quicktime file or on Vimeo.

Project Documentation Talk at Art Center

I just gave a talk at Art Center College of Design to students in the graduate Media Design Program about video documentation. My basic thesis was that, for many interactive media projects, installations, performances (etc.), the documentation can be as important as the work itself. Good documentation begins well before the project is complete, often incorporating video and still images of the process, iteration and underlying technologies associated with the project. Although I have been teaching documentation strategies for many years, this was the first time I have attempted to outline a taxonomy of documentation genres. Slides from my presentation are posted on Slideshare; most of the video samples are available online.

Presentation to Interactive Media seminar

A two-part presentation by Steve Anderson at the Interactive Media 511 seminar September 24, 2008: “Evocative Knowledge Objects” and “The War Between Theory and Practice.”

EKO & Theory/Practice presentations

A couple of people have asked to see the presentations from this week’s seminar on Evocative Knowledge Objects and The War Between Theory and Practice, so here are links via Vuvox and Slideshare:
Vuvox: Evocative Knowledge Objects
Slideshare: The War Between Theory and Practice