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Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.

Exec. Director & Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity

Creative Director & Co-Founder
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

Visiting Scholar
Indiana University:
OSTROM Working Group

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS

    • EDUCATION
    • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    • PRESS & MEDIA
    • RECENT AWARDS
    • PUBLICATIONS
    • INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS
    • HOSTED WORKSHOPS
    • ART EXHIBITIONS & CIVIC EVENTS
    • ADVOCACY / ART INSTALLATIONS
    • ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
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  • Ph.D. & Master's in the Study of Law

    The Ohio State University 2012

    Digital Culture, Law,  & Politics
    Interdisciplinary joint program between the Dept. of English and Moritz College of Law

    Dissertation: "Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age"

  • M.A. English

    The Ohio State University 2012
    Critical Theory: Law & Politics

    B.A. Political Science

    B.A. English
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1998

    Minors: Conflict Resolution, History, International Affairs

    Graduated w/Distinction I Phi Beta Kappa

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  • north central university: 2018-2023

    Director, School of English, Digital Media, and Communication Arts

    Associate Professor, Digital Media  

  • anti-defamation league 2019-2022

    consultant / curriculum designer
    ai ethics, privacy, disinformation

  • hamline university 2011-2017

    assistant professor
    digital culture, politics, and law / First Amendment / arts advocacy

  • mcgraw-hill 2007-2011

    consultant / ed tech inventor disinformation

  • ohio state university 2001-2010

    speechwriter, president's office
    assistant editor, narrative associate, digital media project

    associate, first-year writing program

    instructor department of english

  • ne appleseed center for law in the public interest 1998-2000
    program associate

    nebraskans for peace pac 1998
    coordinator

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  • FORBES
    NBC KARE-11: MINNEAPOLIS
    OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
    NBC: TOLEDO, HOUSTON, SACREMENTO
    HUMAN LAWYER
    PIONEER PRESS
    NEXT GENERATION POLITICS
    AI & YOU 
    OUR BLACK NEWSAG NEWS
    OMAHA DAILY RECORD
    SLOAN FILM SUMMIT
    LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
    DAILY NEBRASKAN

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NEWS: PRINT AND TV

"Regulating Artificial Intelligence -Is Global Consensus Possible?
Forbes.
Sep 9, 2022 

Criminal Conviction By Algorithms Are Ruining Innocent Lives.” 
Omaha World-Herald.
August 29, 2021

After Facebook Scandal, Local College Students Are Talking Issues of Big Tech.”  
NBC KARE-11 Evening News (Minneapolis)
NBC WTOL 11 (Toledo)
NBC KHOU 11 (Houston)
NBC KXTV  (Sacramento)
7 November 2021 

Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?” 
 NBC KARE-11: Breaking the News.
13 September 2018 

“Remembrance of Things Past Fuels Recent Run of Reboots, Relaunches, Remakes.”
Pioneer Press. 
21 April 2018   

“How To Protect Your Personal Info on Facebook.” 
NBC KARE-11. Breaking the News.
Minneapolis:  21 March 2018 

“Post Emmys Cameo, Spicer Says He Regrets Battles Over Trump’s Inauguration Size.”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News 
Minneapolis: 18 September 2017 

“Breaking Down the Election Speeches.”  
NBC KARE-11 Evening News
Live On Air Interview
9 November 2016

“How do Those Political Speeches Come to Life?”
NBC KARE-11  Breaking the News. 
Minneapolis: 27 July 2016

“What is Plagiarism?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News 
Minneapolis: 20 July 2016

PODCASTS

  • “What is Digital Ethics.” Our Black NewsMay 2021w/ Julius Hernandez and Annelane Sallee.  

  • “What the Floyd VerdictMeans for Minneapolis." Our Black News.  April 2021

INDUSTRY PRESS

“Students Tackle Big Questions of Online Privacy Rights.” 
Creighton University News
May 20, 2023

Creighton Prof To Talk Digital Literary At SXSW EDU.” 
Omaha Daily Record
February 18, 2022

“NCU Technology Students Impacting Nation.’ 
AG News
December 12, 2021

  • Primeaux Award for Best Paper (First Runner-Up)

    "Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
    International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 

    w/ Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted

  • Best Paper Award

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  • Next Team Challenge (NPR): Runner-Up

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  • National Endowment for the Arts / MN Arts Board: Grant

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  • Civic Engagement (Awarded) / Professor of the Year (Nominated)

    North Central University
    2019 / 2021

  • International Solo Museum Exhibition

    Czong Museum for Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea: 2019)

    Funding: Provost's Grant (NCU)
    Published in: Posthuman: New Media Art 2020.

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  • WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW
    NEBRASKA LAWYER
    GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 
    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE
    MCGRAW HILL
    INTIMA: A JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE
    HAMPTON PRESS
    CICA PRESS
    LEXINGTON PRESS
    COMPETITION POLICY INTERNATIONAL
    WILEY-BLACKWELL

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FOR THE PUBLIC & INDUSTRY

"Principles of Digital Law and Ethics."
CPI TechREG Chronicle.
Special Issue on Machine Learning
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Feb 2023
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall

"A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics.
Nebraska Lawyer. 
Sept/Oct 2022
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms  Are Ruining Innocent Lives.” 
Omaha World Herald.  

August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.    

“The Legal Implications ofAlgorithmic Decision-Making.” 
Nebraska Lawyer.  
May/June 2020
w/ Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

"As Technology Evolves,So Will the Law, and So Must Attorneys"
Nebraska Lawyer. 
July/August 2019
w/ Thomas Freeman 

“Free Speech in Post-Digital America.”
Hennepin County Library.
Permanent Collection. 

September 2019
w/ The Institute for Digital Humanity and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Are We the RockstarsWe’ve Been Waiting For?”
PopMatters. 
3 Nov. 2008

“Mike Huckabee’s Family Guy Values.”
Alternet
21 Jan. 2008

“A Hypothetical Problem.”
 PopMatters.
17 Sept. 2006

ACADEMIC

***WINNER: Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)

"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference.
 
Proceedings.  (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman

"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."  
Georgetown Journal of Law
and Public Policy.
 
Spring 2023.
w/ Thomas Freeman

“In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist and Patient
Tell Their Story.”
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson. 

***WINNER: Best Paper Award

“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business
Proceedings.  2020
With Thomas Freeman

“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” 
William and Mary Business Law Review. 
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell 

“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.” 
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020
CICA Press: 2020
With Steven Pederson and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“The Future of Collective Bargaining: Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”   
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. 
Proceedings 2019
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.  

“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.” 
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.  
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman

"A Legal And Ethical Audit of Continental Bank and Trust."

Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
 Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019)
With Thomas Freeman 

“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.” 
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times. 
Julie Watson, Ed. 
Lexington Press, 2019
With Thomas Lawson

Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era : How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgmentsfor the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation. 
Ohio State University, 2012.

“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law as Narrative Movement Can Teach the Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge. 
Deborah Journet, Ed. 
Hampton Press, 2011 

“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.  
Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 

“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media.
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach. 
Hampton Press, 2009
w/ Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin, and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 

Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion(for an Age that Desperately Needs One). 
McGraw-Hill, 2009
w/ Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 
Textbook and ed tech platform

“Foreword.”
The Business of Higher Education:Marketing and Consumer Interests.  
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel. 
Praeger, 2009.
With E. Gordon Gee. 

“Re-Learning How to Argue.”  
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.  
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007 
Audio essay.

“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.” 
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. 
Hampton Press, 2007 

Documentary. 
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin. ​​

“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430

A QUICK NOTE ON DR. MCKAIN'S EMBARGOED RESEARCH/IP: 2020-2024

  • INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN BUSINESS ETHICS CONFERENCE
    TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE ON HUMANITY AND AI REGULATION
    DATA, LAW & ETHICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY
    MIDWEST ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
    HEIDER BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM
    NORTH CAROLINA AT & T UNIVERSITY
    DREW UNIVERSITY
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JUSTICE & LAW
    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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INVITED ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

***WINNER: Primeaux Best Paper Award.  (Runner-up)
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics." 
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.  
October 2022

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 
 
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022
***FEATURED IN: "Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible?"
Forbes. September 9, 2022

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.” 
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
With Thomas Freeman.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. 
Online.  April 2022 

“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.” 
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN:
April 2022  (Online.)

“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 
Chicago, IL and Online:  
March 2022

***WINNER: Online Voting Competition
“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman,Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan
Austin, TX: March 2022 

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference:
DePaul University. 
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman,and Amanda Aherns. 
Chicago, IL: October 2021

 “Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium: 
Creighton University. 
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez. 
Omaha, NE.  October 2021

 “Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman. 
Chicago, IL: March 2021 

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop. 
Indiana University School of Business. 
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan. 
Bloomington, IN: February 2021 

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University & Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020 

“Racist Robots?  A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales. 
March 2020

“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019

“Why Digital Rights IsThe New Civil Rights Movement.” 
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018

"EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society: Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018

“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017
In conjunction w/ exhibition for World Press Freedom Day. 

“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.” Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce?
The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016

 “#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson:
Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015 

“Finding Bias in New York Times Reporting on Israel and Palestine.”
Yeshiva University.
New York, NY: February 2010

 “2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact(or, Why Did Postmodernism End?)"
Project Narrative Presents: Prophets in Their Own Century.
Columbus, OH: January 2009

“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU. 
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007

  • MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
    AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
    IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
    NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
    ACLU MINNESOTA
    TUALATIN VALLEY CREATES
    LEWIS AND CLARK UNIVERSITY
     LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY

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PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

“Algorithmic Bias in the Criminal Justice System: Cheat Codes for Defense  Attorneys.” 
Minnesota Legal Rights Center. 
Workshop.
With Marci Exted and Tom Freeman.
Fall 2022

“Technology Inclusivity in Online Dispute Resolution.”
American Bar AssociationDispute Resolution Technology Expo.
With Angie Raymond and Isak NitAsare.
Online.  July 2021

“Social Justice Through Artistic Expression.”  
Creative Impact Series:
Tualitan Valley Creates.
Workshop.
With Allison Baker and Steven Pedersen.
September 20, 2021 Online.  

“Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy:Curating Change.”  
Lewis and Clark University
Workshop.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker. 
Portland, OR and Online:  
October 2021 

***FUNDED BY: Minnesota Health and Human Services.

“Internet Security and CyberbullyingPrevention Workshop.” 
Little Earth Native Community.
Minneapolis, MN.  
April 2019 

  • THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS AND THE HUNDREDS OF ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO SUPPORTED THESE PROJECTS 

    ACLU MINNESOTA
    SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
    RECLAIM THE BLOCK
    GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
    PROTECT MINNESOTA
    SECOND CHANCE COALITION
    NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    URBAN EDUCATORS
    NORTHEAST SCULPTURE FACTORY
    DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

  • JURIED, GRANT-FUNDED AND AWARD-WINNING
    LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL
    DR. MCKAIN AS CURATOR AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR

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ART EXHIBITIONS: FULL LIST

“All Bullets Shatter: Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma.”
Living Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2022  
With the Institute for Digital Humanity, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy; Guns Down, Love Up; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Ohio State, Portland State, George State); and the Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.   

“Plugging In: Race, Technology, and Surveillance Workshop for Advocates and Educators.”
Northeast Sculpture Gallery.
Minneapolis, MN.  
October 2021  
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN). 

“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event
Minneapolis MN and Online: 
February 2021
With the Institute for Digital Humanity, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, ACLU MN, Native Youth Arts Collective, and Councilman Steve Fletcher.  

“Contaminated.”
International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
Minneapolis, MN and Online: 
May 2020 
With the Institute for Digital Humanity and Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy. 

“Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”
Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange
St. Cloud Zine Fest.
St. Cloud, MN. February 2020 
With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Sad Girls and Hopeful Women.”
Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange
Twin Cities Zine Fest.  Minneapolis, MN. 
September 2020
With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity,and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Hopeful Women.”
Student Art Installation on Christian Feminism
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  Dec 2018

“World Press Freedom Day:What Do You Have to Say,”
Student Art Installation on Free Speech
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017

“Y2K16.”
Student Art Installation on Digital Ethics
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. December 2016

 “dronesTruck: Operation Como.”
Student-Curated International Sound Art Exhibition
Saint Paul, MN. May 2016

“School Violence:An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
Student Art Installation on School Shootings
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN.
December 2015

  • AS CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

    CZONG INSTITUTE
    FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
    WHEATON BIENNIAL
    NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORY
    ZVEREV CENTRE OF CONTEMPORY ART
    BAD VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
    RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
    ST. CLOUD ZINE FEST
    TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST
    ELY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
    934 GALLERY
    TUGBOAT GALLERY
    SHELTER IN PLACE GALLERY
    WYOMING CREATIVE ARTS CENTER
    DREAMSONG GALLERY
    FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK

  • AS ARTIST OR PERFORMER

    NORTHERN SPARK ARTS FESTIVAL
    MISSOURI REVIEW
    UNIV. OF MINNESOTA INSTITUTE ON THE ENVIRONMENT
    ITALIAN FILM SOCIETY OF MINNEAPOLIS
    HAMLINE-MIDWAY ARTS FESTIVAL

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ART INSTALLATIONS

“Cellular Home Invasion II.”
Solo Museum Exhibition.
Gallery 610. 
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy 
Menomonie, WI.  
April 2020 

“Cellular Home Invasion.”
Solo International Museum Exhibition. 
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
Seoul, South Korea. 
With the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
May 2019

 “Feminist Aesthetic Criticism.”
Video Installation. 
Bad Video Art Festival
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Moscow, Russia.  
July 2018 

“The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.”
Video Installation. 
Pop’s Movie Night. 
Detroit, MI.  August 2018

“Scientific Home Invasion.”
Installation. Pop’s Packing.
With Allison Baker. 
Detroit, MI.  June 2018 

“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance
Rhetoric Society of America
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, and Allison Baker.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018

***Runner-Up: Miller Audio Prize for Humor      
“How to Write a Poem that
Costs You $175k Plus the Lady.”
Missouri Review. 2017

“Sonance: An Interdisciplinary Discussion Concerning the Affects of Human Noise on Other Animals.”
Sound Performance and Art Residency. 
University of Minnesota
Institute on the Environment.
With Josh Gumiela and Matt Sumera.  
Minneapolis, MN. 
November 2017

“Love Everlasting.”
Invited Multimedia Performance. 
Italian Film Society of Minneapolis.
With Michael Gallope, Jason McGrath, Matt Sumera, and Travis Workman.
Minneapolis, MN.  
February 2016

“dronesTruck: Operation Scarewaves.”
Grant Funded Art Installation.
Saint Paul, MN.  October 2015

“Endlessly Repeating Endlessly.”
Juried Multimedia Performance.
Northern Sparks Arts Festival.
With Michael Gallope, Josh Gumiela,Jason McGrath, Matt Sumera, and Travis Workman.
Minneapolis, MN. June 2015 

“dronesTruck.” 
Juried Multimedia Installation.
Hamline-Midway Arts Festival. 
With Josh Gumiela.
St. Paul, MN.  June 2015

  • DATA, LAW, AND AI ETHICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
    MIDWEST ACADEMY FOR LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
    AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE,
    AND THE HUMANITIES
    HUBER HURST RESEARCH SEMINAR
    RHETORIC OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE CONFERENCE
    RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (11)
    INT. SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE (6)
    COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION (4)
    THOMAS R. WATSON CONFERENCE ON RHETORIC (2)
    EDWARD G. HAYES RESEARCH FORUM

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COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.” 
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Online: October 2020

“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.  May 2020

“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR.  May 2020. (COVID).

“Make Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected ExpressionUnder the First Amendment and Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020

 “Racist Robots: A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Dan Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020

“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II:The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.” 
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA.  
March 2020

 “The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”
Huber Hurst Research Seminar in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL.  January 2020

 “Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA.  April 2019

“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance. 
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018

Sound Studies.  Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Bloomington, IN. May 2017

“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX. May 2014 

“The New New Journalism:The Post-Postmodern Aestheticsof Narrative As Rhetoric.”
The International Societyfor the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA. March 2014

Rogue Publics. Workshop.

Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.

Lawrence, KS. June 2013

21st Century Presidential Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.
Lawrence KS: June 2013.

 “Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA. May 2012

 “The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO. April 2011 

“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY. March 2010

“End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK. June 2009

“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2008

“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA. May 2008

Digital Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY. June 2007 

“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn."
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2007

“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY. March 2007 

“Alive and well and living in Washington’: Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C. March 2007 

“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2006

 “The Rhetoric of ‘Rhetoric’ in Rhetoric and Political Science.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Memphis, TN. May 2006

“New Media, New Curricula.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. April 2006

“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen (And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA. April 2006 

“Narrative Temporality in News Stories.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Ottawa, Canada April 2006 

“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY. March 2006 

“Is It Something or Nothing?  Narratologically Situating the Music of John Zorn’s Naked City.”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2004

“’But…This is a Good Graph’: What a Political Science Classroom (and the Spanish-American War) Can Tell us About Interdisciplinarity, Grad
Students, and the Rhetoric of Rhetoric (and Vice Versa).”
The Ohio State University.  EGO Spring Graduate Colloquium
Columbus, OH. May 2005