"Art and Mechanical Reproduction from the Westinghouse Works to Lunch Break"
22nd International Screen Studies Conference
University of Glasgow
June 29 - July 1, 2012
"Film Power, Off the Grid: Electrical Infrastructure and Studio Technology in Paris, 1904-1925"
Network Archaeology Conference
Miami University, Oxford, OH
April 19-21, 2012
"Fantastic Functionality: Early Studio Architecture and its Photographic Representations"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Boston, MA
March 21-25, 2012
"Technology and Visual Culture at the World’s First Film Studio"
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) -- Annual Meeting
Cleveland, OH
November 3-6, 2011
"Reinventing the Studio: Film Architecture in Southern California, 1909-1915"
The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference
Newcastle University, UK
July 1-2, 2011
"The Black Maria and its Afterlives: Visual Technology and Visual Culture"
First Annual Anne Friedberg Memorial Grant Lecture
USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program
April 14, 2011
Panel Chair: "A Specific Art of the Machine: New Approaches to Film and Technology"
Paper: "The Black Maria: Studio, Machine, Human-Built World"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
New Orleans, LA
March 10-13, 2011
"Producing Cinema and Industrial Modernity at the Cité Elgé, 1919-1929"
First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema -- Cinema Across Media: The 1920s
University of California, Berkeley
February 24-26, 2011
"Georges Méliès’s ’Voyages Extraordinaires’: Film Technology and Technological Critique"
Society for French Historical Studies Conference
Charleston, SC
February 10-12, 2011
"Glass, Steel, Concrete, and Celluloid: Building Cinema in the Bronx, 1906-1909"
11th International Domitor Conference:
Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 13-17, 2010
"Factories of Vision/Visionary Factories: Early Cinema, Technology, and the Modern Built Environment"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Los Angeles, CA
March 17-21, 2010
"Les premiers studios du monde : architecture, technologie, et le film des premiers temps"
Séminaire « Cinéma et modernité. Histoire culturelle du cinéma »
Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA)
Galerie Colbert, Salle Pierre Demargne
17 February 2010
"The Imponderable Fluidity of Modernity: Cinema, Architecture, and the World’s First Film Studios"
UCI Visual Studies Graduate Student Conference - Birth/Day
University of California at Irvine
March 6-7, 2009
"Modernity, Postmodernity, Convergence: What’s New?"
Media in Transition 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 27-29, 2007
"Digital Inscription: Marking the Flesh of the Cinematic Body"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007
"Perceptual Potentiality in the Spaces (and Sounds) of Michael Snow’s Wavelength"
Expanding the Visual Field - Exploration Within & Beyond the Image
Department of Art History, University of Southern California
March 2006