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Conference Presentations:

“Exploring the Acoustics of Language Through New Media: A Case Study of Moholy-Nagy’s “Sound-Script.”Global Positioning Systems; The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference; University of Toronto, April 2013.

“In the Belly of the Beast: A Comparative Rhythmanalysis of 35mm Film and D-Cinema Projectors.” Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World; Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference; University of Waterloo, May 2012.

“Visual Rhythm/Mechanical Speed: Early Avant-Garde Film, the Art of Noises and the Technology of Mechanical Reproduction.” La savoir branché / Connected Understanding; Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference; Concordia University, June 2010.

“A Thousand Words’ Worth a Picture: Seeing the Language of Experimental Film as Acoustic Space.” Capital Connections: Nation, Terroir, Territoire; Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference; Carleton University, May 2009.

“The Blinded Light of Animated Sound: Towards a Semiotics of Optical Sound Composition, Abstract Cinema, and Visual Forms in Acoustic Space.” Capital Connections: Nation, Terroir, Territoire; Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference; Carleton University, May 2009.

“On ‘Abstract Cinema – Chromatic Music’: the Futurists, the InterArts, and Early Avant-Garde Cinema.” The New Paragone: Cinema and Vanguard Art Movements; Ryerson University, March 2009.           

“What Light Through Yonder Filmstrip Breaks? Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Semiotics of Cinema: A Case Study of Stan Brakhage’s Black Ice.” Intersections 2006: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes; York & Ryerson Universities (Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture), March 2006.

“c: won eyed jail: Sewing the Divide between Form and Function, Art and Craft, Precept and Concept through the Feminization of Structural Film.” Intersections 2006: Hybrid Identities; York & Ryerson Universities (Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture), March 2005.

“The Site of Sound: Explorations in Intermedia Affect.” Intersections 2003: Bridging Boundaries: Contemporary Thought in Communication and Culture; York & Ryerson Universities (Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture), March 2003.

 

Publications:

“Film in Canada.” The Forties in America. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2010.

“Radio in Canada.” The Forties in America. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2010.

“In Between Trama and Holon: The Role the Object in the Performance of Film.” Christian Lebrat. Toronto, Ontario: Loop Collective Press, 2009.