BOOKS
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Leonardo Electronic Almanac. DAC 09: After Media: Embodiment and Context. Vol. 17, no. 2, January 2012, pp. 50-64. [PDF]
Leonardo Electronic Almanac. DAC 09: After Media: Embodiment and Context. Vol. 17, no. 2, January 2012, pp. 74-91. [PDF]
Leonardo Electronic Almanac. DAC 09: After Media: Embodiment and Context. Vol. 17, no. 2, January 2012, pp. 160-171. [PDF]
Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Issue 8, spring 2011. [HTML]
CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. Creativity and Cognition. Vol. 6, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 187-206. [PDF]
Toward a Theory of Critical Computing: The Case of Social Identity Representation in Digital Media Applications
CTheory. May 2010. [HTML]
Toward a Theory of Phantasmal Media: An Imaginative Cognition- and Computation-Based Approach to Digital Media
CTheory. September 2009. [HTML]
Generative Visual Renku: Poetic Multimedia Semantics with the GRIOT System
Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Visionary Landscapes. Issue 6, Summer 2009. [HTML]
Cultural Roots for Computing: The Case of African Diasporic Orature and Computational Narrative in the GRIOT System
Fibreculture Journal. DAC Conference. Vol. 11, 2008. [HTML]
Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapor
CTheory. October 2005. Reprinted in Critical Digital Studies: A Reader. Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, eds. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2008, pp. 158-174. [HTML]
Speaking in Djinni: Media Arts and the Computational Language of Expression
CTheory. September 2003. Reprinted in Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader, Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, eds. Victoria, Canada: New World Perspectives Books, 2004, pp. 277-284. [HTML]
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Elastic Anchors for Imaginative Conceptual Blends: A Framework for Analyzing Animated Computer Interfaces
Language and the Creative Mind, Barbara Dancygier, Mike Borkent, and Jennifer Hinnell, eds., CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2014.
Style: A Computational and Conceptual Blending-Based Approach
The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning, Shlomo Argamon and Shlomo Dubnov, eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2010, pp. 147-170. [PDF]
A Journey along the Borderland: A Critical Approach to Artificial Intelligence-Based Literary Practice
Arts: A Science Matter, Lui Lam, ed. Singapore: World Scientific, 2010.
GRIOT’s Tales of Haints and Seraphs: A Computational Narrative Generation System
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, eds. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007, pp. 177-182. Peer-reviewed and republished in Electronic Book Review, February 19, 2008. [HTML]
Metalogic, Qualia, and Identity on Neptune’s Great Moon: Meaning and Mathematics in the Works of Joseph A. Goguen and Samuel R. Delany
Algebra, Meaning, and Computation: Essays dedicated to Joseph A. Goguen on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Kokichi Futatsugi, Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, José Meseguer, eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 31-49. [PDF]
Information Visualization and Semiotic Morphisms
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations. Grant Malcolm, ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier, 2004, pp. 83-98. [PDF]
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS – REFEREED
Understanding Players’ Identities and Behavioral Archetypes from Avatar Customization Data
In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2015), Tainan, Taiwan. Aug-31 – Sep 2. 8 pp. [PDF]
Toward Avatar Models to Enhance Performance and Engagement in Educational Games
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2015), Tainan, Taiwan. Aug-31 – Sep 2. 8 pp. [PDF]
Developing Computational Models of Players’ Identities and Values from Videogame Avatars.
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG2015), Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Jun-22 – Jun-25, 2015. 5 pp. [PDF]
Toward Evaluating the Impacts of Virtual Identities on STEM Learning
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG2015), Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Jun-22 – Jun-25, 2015. 3 pp. [PDF]
Designing and Analyzing Swing Compass: A Lively Interactive System Provoking Imagination and Affect for Persuasion
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Chicago, IL. Jun-4 – Jun-5. pp. 107 – 120.
Developing Social Identity Models of Players from Game Telemetry Data
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE2014), Raleigh, North Carolina, Sep 30 – Oct 5. 7 pp. [PDF]
An Approach to General Videogame Evaluation and Automatic Generation using a Description Language
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2014), Dortmund, Germany, Aug 26 – Aug 29, pp. 286-293. [PDF]
The Chimeria Platform: User Empowerment through Expressing Social Group Membership Phenomena
The Digital Humanities 2014 Conference (DH 2014), Lausanne, Switzerland, July 8 – July 10, 2014. 7 pp. [HTML]
Stories of Stigma and Acceptance Using the Chimeria Platform
Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2014: Hold the Light (ELO 2014), Milwaukee, WI, June 19 – June 21, 2014. 3 pp.
Authoring Conversational Narratives in Games with the Chimeria Platform
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2014), Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 3 – April 7, 2014. Designated Exemplary Paper. 8 pp. [PDF]
Modeling Player Preferences in Avatar Customization Using Social Network Data
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2013), Niagara Falls, Canada, Aug 11 – Aug 13, 2013. 8 pp. [PDF]
A Digital Humanities Approach to the Design of Gesture-Driven Interactive Narratives
Proceedings of Digital Humanities Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 16 – 19, 2014. pp. 206-210. [HTML]
The Advanced Identity Representation (AIR) Project: A Digital Humanities Approach to Social Identity Pedagogy
Proceedings of Digital Humanities Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 16 – 19, 2013. pp. 210 – 213. [HTML]
Slant: A Blackboard System to Generate Plot, Figuration, and Narrative Discourse Aspects of Stories
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Creativity, Sydney, Australia, June 12 – 14, 2013. 8 pp. [PDF]
Computationally Modeling Narratives of Social Group Membership with the Chimeria System
Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative – a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, July 31 – August 3, 2013. pp. 123 – 128 [PDF]
Exploring Everyday Creative Responses to Social Discrimination with the Mimesis System
demo abstract, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2012), Dublin, Ireland, May 30 – June 1, 2012, p. 223. [PDF]
The Arts, HCI, and Innovation Policy Discourse
extended abstract, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), Austin, Texas, May 5-10, 2012, pp. 1111-1114. [PDF]
Enduring Interaction: An Approach to Analysis and Design of Animated Gestural Interfaces in Creative Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 2011), Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-6, 2011, pp. 95-104. [PDF]
A Reading of Skeleton Seas of Mare Incognitum: An Interactive Fiction Expedition in Curveship
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 2011), Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-6, 2011, pp. 435-436. [PDF]
Steps Toward the AIR Toolkit: An Approach to Modeling Social Identity Phenomena in Computational Media
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2011), Mexico City, Mexico, April 27-29, 2011, pp. 147-152. [PDF]
Embodying Generative Visual Renku: An Approach to Generating Metaphors through Interaction
Proceedings of the 13th Generative Art Conference (GA 2010), Milan, Italy, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 254-269. [PDF]
A Cultural Computing Approach to Interactive Narrative: The Case of the Living Liberia Fabric
position paper, Proceedings of the Fall 2010 AAAI Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative, Arlington, Virginia, November 11-13, 2010, pp. 18-20. [PDF]
Material-Based Imagination: Embodied Cognition in Animated Images
Proceedings of the 8th Digital Arts and Culture Conference. After Media: Embodiment and Context (DAC 2009), Irvine, California, December 12-15, 2009. [PDF]
System Intentionality and the Artificial Intelligence Hermeneutic Network
Proceedings of the 8th Digital Arts and Culture Conference (DAC 2009), Irvine, California, December 12-15, 2009. [PDF]
Exploring the Potential of Computational Self-Representations for Enabling Learning: Examining At-risk Youths’ Development of Mathematical/Computational Agency
Proceedings of the 8th Digital Arts and Culture Conference (DAC 2009), Irvine, California, December 12-15, 2009. [PDF]
Computational and Cognitive Infrastructures of Stigma: Empowering Identity in Social Computing and Gaming
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 2009), Berkeley, California, October 26-30, 2009, pp. 49-58. [PDF]
Avatar Art: Transformative Outcomes of the Advanced Identity Representation Project
Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2009), Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 23 – September 1, 2009. [PDF]
Memory, Reverie Machine: Toward a Dance of Agency in Interactive Storytelling
Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2009), Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 23 – September 1, 2009. [PDF]
Define Me: A Cognitive and Computational Approach to Critical Digital Identity Representation in Social Networking Applications
Proceedings of the 2009 Digital Humanities Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 22-25, 2009, pp. 130-136. [PDF]
Active Animation: An Approach to Interactive and Generative Animation for User-Interface Design and Expression
Proceedings of the 2009 Digital Humanities Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009, June 22-25, pp. 350-353. [PDF]
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hermeneutic Network: A New Approach to Analysis and Design of Intentional Systems
Proceedings of the 2009 Digital Humanities Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 22-25, 2009, pp. 301-304. [PDF]
Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design
Proceedings of the 2nd AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Stanford, California, March 23-25, 2009, pp. 156-162. [PDF]
Daydreaming with Intention: Scalable Blending-Based Imagining and Agency in Generative Interactive Narrative
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford, California, March 26-28, 2008, pp. 156-162. [PDF]
Walking Blues Changes Undersea: Imaginative Narrative in Interactive Poetry Generation with the GRIOT System
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop in Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Happiness and Beauty, Boston, Massachusetts, July 5-15, 2006, pp. 61-69. [PDF]
Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation
Proceedings of the 6th Digital Arts and Culture Conference (DAC 2005), Copenhagen, Denmark, December 1-3, 2005, pp. 133-143. [PDF]
The Griot Sings Haibun
Music: Bertram Turetzky, David Borgo, and Ryoko Goguen, multimedia performance at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, La Jolla, California, 2005.
Style as a Choice of Blending Principles
Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music and Design, Arlington, Virginia, October 21-24, 2004, pp. 49-56. [PDF]
JURIED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Mazzy: A STEM Learning Game
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG2015), Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Jun-22 – Jun-25, 2015. 2pp.
Exigent: An Automatic Avatar Generation System
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG2015), Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Jun-22 – Jun-25. 2 pp.
An Intelligent Narrative System for Modeling Social Identity-Related Experiences
Intelligent Narrative Technologies 7 Workshop (INT 7), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. June 17-18, 2014. [PDF]
Mimesis: An Integrated Social Networking Application and Computer Game for Exploring Social Discrimination
Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 20-23, 2012.
Exploring Social Discrimination through Interactive Narrative using Mimesis
New Media Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 13-15, 2012.
A Reading of Skeleton Seas of Mare Incognitum: An Interactive Fiction Expedition in Curveship (Demo)
Art Program of the 8th ACM Conference of Creativity and Cognition, Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-6, 2011.
Coding Landscapes, Crossing Metaphors
Computational Thinking in Existing Art Forms, Writing Machine Collectives 4th Exhibition, Hong Kong, January 15- 30, 2011.
Performance of the Living Liberia Fabric
Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, June 4, 2010.
Generative Visual Renku
The Media Showcase, CHI Conference (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Atlanta, Georgia, 2010.
Authoring the Living Liberia Fabric: A Generative and Interactive Narrative for Peace, Truth, and Reconciliation
Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010. [PDF]
Loss Undersea
Digital Arts and Culture Conference Literary Arts Extravaganza, UC Irvine, California, 2009.
Fantastic Transformations and Blends: A Reading of Computationally Generated and Traditionally Written Prose Poetry
The Sublime in the Fantastic: The 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida, 2008.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS – NON-REFEREED
Gesture, Rhetoric, and Digital Storytelling
National Endowment for the Humanities white paper. August 31, 2011, 22 pp. [PDF]
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, México City, México, 27-29 April 2011, 165 pp. [HTML]
Identity, Avatars, Virtual Life – and Advancing Social Equity in the ‘Real’ World
Digital Media and Learning (DML) Central, March 1, 2011. [HTML]
Strategies for Arts + Science + Technology Research: Executive Report on a Joint Meeting of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts
NSF report, 2011, 18 pp.
Phantasmal Fictions
American Book Review. Vol. 31, no. 6, September/October 2010, pp. 4-6. [HTML]
Chimeric Avatars and Other identity Experiments from Prof. Fox Harrell
Boing Boing, April 19, 2010. [HTML]
Identity and Online Avatars: A Discussion
Kotaku, April 24, 2010. [HTML]
Ghost Values – Infrastructures of Digital Design Conference Review
Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Vol. 9, no. 3, September, 2003, pp. 106-110.
How An Artist-Scientist Conjurer Thinks, Works and Lives
featured article on Dr. Harrell’s work, International Review of African American Art. Vol. 23, no. 3, 5 pp.
Phantasmal Media/Subjective Computing
article sidebar, International Review of African American Art. Vol. 23, no. 3.
SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, ETC.
Imagining the Future of Social Identity
Google, SciFoo, Mountain View, CA. June 27.
Fabricating Self and Other in Digital Media
Invited talk, Leuphana University, Terms of Media Conference, Lüneburg, Germany. June 18.
Exploring Construction, Play, and Use of Virtual Identities in STEM Learning
Jean Piaget Society Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. June 6
Imagining Social Identities Through Computing
Invited talk, University of California, Santa Cruz, Computational Media Department, Santa Cruz, CA. May 11.
Coding Ourselves/Coding Others: Imagining Social Identities Through Computing
Invited talk, Longnow Foundation, The Interval, San Francisco, CA. May 5
Software Selves: Computationally Expressing and Analyzing Social Identity Phenomena
Invited talk, Stanford University, Psychology Department, Social Area. Stanford, CA. April 27.
Roundtable Discussion of Phantasmal Media
Invited speaker/moderator, Stanford University, Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program. Stanford, CA. April 16.
Software Selves: Computationally Expressing and Analyzing Social Identity Phenomena
Invited talk, Stanford University, Psychology Department, Social Area. Stanford, CA. April 27.
Digital Selves in Phantasmal Media
Invited talk, 5 Colleges Digital Humanities Speaker Series, Amherst, MA. April 1.
Coding Ourselves: Computational Expression and Analysis of Social Identity
Invited talk, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. March 11.
Cultural Computing and Identity: Critically Modeling Selves and Others
Invited talk, Columbia University, Digital Black Atlantic Project. New York City, NY. March 13.
Computational Narrative for Empowerment and Expression
Invited talk, Stanford University, Center for Comparative Study in Race and Ethnicity. Stanford, CA. February 19.
Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
Invited talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Communications Forum, Cambridge, MA. December 4.
Cultural Computing and Computational Identity
Invited talk, Communication Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. November 20.
Phantasmal Media Poetics: Computing and Imagination for Expressing Humanistic Critical Inquiry
Invited talk, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. November 7.
Culture Coding: Thinking Identity, Culture and Computation
Invited talk. Visions and Voices: University Arts and Humanities Initiative (co-sponsor: Harman Academy for Polymathic Studies). University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. September 29.
Transforming the Classroom for the 21st Century
Invited panelist. Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, CA. September 27
“#Publicintellectual: Media Interaction, Social Branding, and Knowledge
Invited chair. Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, CA. September 26.
Computing, Imagination, and Identity in Phantasmal Media
Invited talk, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. September 18.
Phantasms in Visual Studies: Addressing Cognitive and Technological Aspects of Images,
Invited talk, Haverford College, Haverford, PA. April 10.
The Politics of Phantasmal Media: How Ideology is Built into Digital Media
Invited keynote, Tufts University, Medford, MA. April 17, 2014.
Creating Culture in Virtual Worlds
Invited talk, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA. March 27. [HTML]
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science for Social Empowerment
Invited talk, Harvard Society of Mind, Brain, and Behavior (HSMBB), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. December 5, 2013.
Fox Harrell reads from and discusses Phantasmal Media,
Invited talk, sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. December 6, 2013.
Expressive Outcomes of the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory
Invited talk, Mexican Conference on Computational Creativity, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City, Mexico. November 14, 2013.
A Phantasmal Media Approach to Computational Creativity
Invited talk, Mexican Conference on Computational Creativity, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. November 15, 2013.
Critical Computing Practice: Outcomes of the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory
Invited talk, History Design Studio, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. November 6, 2013.
Social Identity in Phantasmal Media,
Invited talk, Hutchins Center W. E. B. DuBois Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. October 9, 2013.
Subjective Computing: AI and Entertainment Systems as Phantasmal Media
Invited talk, Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), Boston, MA. October 17, 2013.
The Living Liberia Fabric: An Interactive Narrative Artwork Memorializing Civil War in Liberia
International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney, Australia, June 7-16, 2013.
Outcomes of the NSF-NEA Alliance
Invited speaker, Networking Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design to Confront the Hard Problems of Our Time, National Endowment for the Arts and Network for Science, Engineering, Arts & Design (SEAD) Workshop, Washington D.C. May 15, 2013.
Phantasmal Selves: Computing, Cognition, and Social Identity
Invited talk, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. April 16, 2013.
Empowerment, Identity, and Computational Media Phantasms
invited talk, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, January 23, 2013.
Imagination and Empowerment with Videogame Characters
Game Developers Conference Online, Austin, Texas. October 10, 2012.
Gesture-Driven Electronic Literature for Mobile Devices: The Gestural Narrative Interaction Engine (GeNIE)
Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 20-23, 2012.
A Narrative Generation Conversation
Purple Blurb Digital Writers Series, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1, 2012.
Media Interaction and Social Branding
chair and panelist, Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, California, September 21, 2012.
Getting the Message Out: Public Sphere Writing and Speaking
panelist, Senior Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, California. September 20, 2012.
Interactive Animated Visuals as Elastic Anchors for Imaginative Conceptual Blends
Proceedings of the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, And Language Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 17-20, 2012. [PDF]
The Expanding Domain of Computer Science: Engineering for Social Awareness and Empowerment
keynote talk, New England Undergraduate Computer Science Symposium, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, April 21, 2012.
How Social Media is Defining Us
radio interview, WGBH Innovation Hub, Boston, Massachusetts, April 7, 2012.
GO ASK A.L.I.C.E.: A Panel Discussion on the Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Test
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 29, 2012.
Black Reality 2.0: Creating and Making in a Technical Age
invited talk at Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston, Massachusetts, February 28, 2012.
Subjective Computing: Using Computers for the Arts and Social Change
invited talk, Plenary Presentation at the Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Ford Foundation, Irvine, California, October 15, 2011.
The Birth of Pong and Video Games
live panel and broadcast, Action Speaks Radio: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America, WGBH, NPR, October 12, 2011.
Improvisation as a Way of Life: A Symposium
Panelist Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, February 25, 2011.
Improvisation and Phantasmal Media – D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conversation with Alondra Nelson
invited talk, Columbia University, New York, New York, April 26, 2011.
The Gestural Narrative Interactive Expression (GeNIE) Project
National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 27, 2011.
AI-Based Art and HCI Practice: Demos, Prototypes, and Exhibitions
Media Showcase Interactivity Demo Panel I, CHI Conference (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Atlanta, Georgia, April 13, 2010.
The Generative Visual Renku Project: Integrating Multimedia Semantics, Animation, and Interface Design
The Media Showcase, CHI Conference (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-15, 2010.
Computing, Imagery, and Ideology: Phantasmal Media and Social Expression
Futures of Digital Studies. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, February 25, 2010.
Symposium on Virtual Worlds at the Intersection of Race, Class and Possibility
panel session, Digital Media and Learning Conference, La Jolla, California, February 19, 2010.
Gesture, Rhetoric, and Storytelling: The Speakerly Interactive Narrative Project
Project Director’s Talk, Washington D.C., September 28, 2010.
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab: Making Phantasmal Media
MIT CMS Colloquium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 23, 2010.
NSF/NEA Workshop: Identifying Synergies and Fostering Collaborations in a Joint Workshop of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts
Principal Investigator and Executive Committee Member, September 15-16, 2010.
Digital Shadows: Narrative and Empowerment in Social Identity Computing
CTheory/Pacific Center for Technology and Culture. Critical Digital Studies Workshop, Victoria, Canada, June 5, 2009.
Imagination, Computation, and Expression: A Cognitive Approach to Storytelling and Identity
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009.
Social Storytelling and Digital Identity: Empowering Narratives for Diverse Communities
Impacting the Health of Millions through Social Marketing and Entertainment Education: The Power of Narratives. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, July 28-29, 2009.
Working Across Disciplines: Crafting Interdisciplinary Projects (Invited Presentation)
Moderator and Presenter. Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, California, October 16, 2009.
Phantasmal Narrative: Values, Games, and Cultural Expression in Interactive Stories
A Narrative Summit: How to Think About Narrative and Interactivity, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, October 20, 2009.
Phantasmal Media: Practice and Theory of Imagination Computing
Purple Blurb Digital Writers Series, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 16, 2009.
Computing Phantasms: Imagination, Subjectivity, and Digital Media Expression
International Roundtable for the inauguration of the Research Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences. University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom, October 16-17, 2009.
Working Across Disciplines: Crafting Interdisciplinary Projects
Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, California, October 16, 2009.
Phantasms and Shapeshifters: Imagination and Identity in Computing
Noted Scholar Lecture, Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, September 23, 2009.
Imagination, Computation, and Expression: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Media Arts
Cognitive Science Colloquium. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, January 21, 2009.
Active Animation: An Approach to Interactive and Generative Animation for User-Interface Design and Expression (Demo)
Software demo/poster, Proceedings of the 2009 Digital Humanities Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 22-25, 2009, pp 350-353. [PDF]
Generative Visual Renku: Linked Poetry Generation with the GRIOT System
Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization Conference. Vancouver, Washington, May 29 – June 1, 2008.
Narrating Artificial Daydreams, Memories, Reveries: Toward Scalable Intentionality in Expressive Artificial Intelligence Practice
Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2008, Vancouver, Washington, May 29 – June 1, 2008. [PDF]
Digital Metaphors for Phantom Selves: Computation, Mathematics, and Identity in Speculative and Fantastic Fiction and Gaming
The Sublime in the Fantastic: The 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida, 2008.
SF and Technoculture Panel Discussion
The Sublime in the Fantastic: The 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, panelist, Orlando, Florida, March 21, 2008.
Computational Meaning Evocation: Cognitive Linguistics and Digital Poetics
South Atlanta Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007.
Ghosts, seraphs, and daily life under the heavy sea: Cognitive Semantics and Computational Narrative with the GRIOT System
Digital Media Colloquium. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
Imagination, Computation, Expression and the GRIOT System
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006
Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapor (Demo)
Powering Up/Powering Down: An International Festival of Radical Media Arts, La Jolla, California, 2004
UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS
A Data-driven Approach for Computationally Modeling Avatar Customization Behavioral Patterns of Players
In proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE2015), Santa Cruz, CA. Nov-14 –Nov-18.