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Conference Presentations

“Canada, Frontier AI, Frontiers.” Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association. York University, Toronto. Nov., 2025.

“The Past and Future Frontiers of Canadian Artificial Intelligence.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL, U.S.A. Spring, 2025.

“White Faces, Black Eyes: Faciality within Facial Recognition Technologies” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada. Queen’s University, Kingston ON, Canada. Summer, 2025.

“CMST 4004: A Case Study in Teaching Generative AI in the Humanities,”Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Conference, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Spring, 2025.

“Canadian Artificial Intelligence as Technological Nationalism in the 1980s: CIFAR, PRECARN, IRIS” FMSAC. June 2024.

“The Move Away from Expert Systems: Losing the Human-In-The-Middle of 1980s Canadian AI” CSDH. June 2024.

“Translating ‘Computer Physiognomy’/’Computer Magnifying Glass’: The First Public Demonstration of Facial Recognition Tech” 4S. November 2023.

“Re-imagining In the Archives of Woodrow W. Bledsoe, the “Father of Facial Recognition” FMSAC, Toronto, May 2023.

“Reconstructing the Constellations of Technical, Political, and Representational Protocols within Facial Recognition Technologies via Media Archeology” CSDH, Toronto, May 2023

“Captured Algorithmic Images: Mugshots Within Facial Recognition Technologies.” Presenter and panel co-organizer. SCMS, Denver, Colorado. April 2023.

“Working or Not Working with Problematic Data: The Right to Look and the Forming of Political Subjects within Facial Databases” Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto, September, 2022.

“Incomputable Prototypes: The Lean Startup as a Methodology for Scaling Absurd and Inefficient Algorithmic Systems” Stanford and Leuphana Summer Academy, June 2022.

“The 19th Century Science of Vision within Contemporary Facial Recognition Technologies” FSAC, Online, May 2022.

“The 1980s War on Drugs, the FERET Database, and Automating Facial Recognition Technology’s Infrastructure.” SCMS. April 2022.

“The Positive Disruptive Potential of Deepfakes and Synthetic Data.” CSDH. Online, June 2021.
“The Biopolitics of Recognition within Facial Recognition Technologies.” FSAC. Online, June, 2021. R “The FERET Database: Building the Infrastructure for Future Facial Recognition Software.” CCA. Online. June, 2021.
“Solving the Conflict Between Breathability and Masked Faces within Facial Recognition Technologies.”

Online. SCMS. March 2021.

“The Celebrity Faces of Facial Recognition Software” FSAC Graduate Student Conference, York University, Toronto, 2020

“Portrait Production and Processing in Facial Recognition Software as Symptomatic of the Assemblage of Modern Governmentality” MLA, 2020

“Diversity in Faces: IBM, Flickr, and the Facial Data as a Tactic of Governmentality” The End of Social Media Symposium, University of Toronto, 2019

“Meta-Watching: The Cinema of a Facial Recognition-Enabled Camera” FSAC , 2019

“Governmentality, Facial Recognition Software and Hollywood Cinema” FSAC Graduate Student Conference, 2019













“The Celebrity Faces of Facial Recognition Software” FSAC Graduate Student Conference, York University, Toronto, 2020


“Portrait Production and Processing in Facial Recognition Software as Symptomatic of the Assemblage of Modern Governmentality” MLA, 2020


“Diversity in Faces: IBM, Flickr, and the Facial Data as a Tactic of Governmentality” The End of Social Media Symposium, University of Toronto, 2019





“Meta-Watching: The Cinema of a Facial Recognition-Enabled Camera” FSAC , 2019“Governmentality, Facial Recognition Software and Hollywood Cinema” FSAC Graduate Student Conference, 2019

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