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MATTHEW TIESSEN, PHD | CV ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, School of Professional Communication Specialization: Visual & Digital Communication, Culture, and Design The Creative School Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Ontario) Faculty Associate, Graduate Program in Communication and Culture Toronto Metropolitan University & York University (Toronto, Ontario) 2018-2022, Graduate Program Director, Masters of Professional Communication School of Professional Communication @ The Creative School Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Ontario) 2021-2022, Associate Chair, School of Professional Communication School of Professional Communication @ The Creative School Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Ontario) 2019-2020, Associate Chair, School of Professional Communication School of Professional Communication @ The Creative School Ryerson University (currently Toronto Metropolitan University), Toronto, Ontario 2011-2017, Research Associate, Infoscape Research Lab: Centre for the Study of Social Media Faculty of Communication & Design (FCAD), Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario) CURRENT RESEARCH FUNDING (SSHRC) 2017-present, SSHRC Insight Grant (IG) School of Professional Communication The Creative School Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Ontario) Project: "Connecting Torontonians to Urban Nature in the Don River Valley: How Digital Communication Technologies can Support Greater Environmental, Economic, and Social Resilience in Canadian Cities" My SSHRC Insight Grant research focuses on the ways digital technologies and social media platforms (eg. smartphones, fitness apps, and GPS devices) can help Torontonians connect and engage with Toronto's natural urban ecologies (parks, trails, ravines) in pursuit of social, ecological, and economic health, resilience, and well-being. Scientific and medical research confirms that immersion in natural settings – even urban ones – contributes to happier, healthier, and more productive citizens. 2013-2016, SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG) School of Professional Communication & Infoscape Research Lab: Centre for the Study of Social Media Faculty of Communication & Design (FCAD), Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario) Project: "Visions of the Gamocracy: Digital Economies of Incentivization and the Integration of Virtual Screens and Productivity 'Apps' into the Affective Experience of Everyday Canadian Life" My SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG) research project -- entitled “Visions of the Gamocracy: Digital Economies of Incentivization and the Integration of Virtual Screens and Productivity 'Apps' into the Affective Experience of Everyday Canadian Life” -- focuses critical attention on the emergence across Canada's digital economy of “gamification” -- the use by industry, governments, and socially innovative organizations of mobile digital screens and visual communication technologies, “big data” analytics, and computer algorithms to embed game-like logics, incentives, and rewards into everyday life. By examining the role “gamification” protocols are playing in Canada this research will contribute to stakeholder knowledge both inside and outside the academic community by examining: 1) the interconnected relationship between humans, graphic user interfaces, and technological assemblages and the shifting nature of bio/technological agencies and decision-making, 2) the potential benefits and risks of incentivizing human behaviour based on points and competition rather than intrinsic or collective values, 3) the relationship between “gamification” and emerging modes of market-based “discipline” and “modulation.” POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH (SSHRC) 2011-2013, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Infoscape Research Lab: Centre for the Study of Social Media Dr. Greg Elmer, Director Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario) As a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Infoscape Research Lab my teaching and research focused on: (1); visual communication, new media, and screen culture; (2) gamification and critical media studies; (3) the political economy of communication and culture; (4) affect theory and algorithmic culture; and (5) cities, space, and urban environments. The Infoscape Research Lab, directed by Dr. Greg Elmer since 2005, hosts interdisciplinary research projects that focus on the cultural and socio-political impact of digital code, particularly with regards to social media and digital technologies. The lab develops experimental research methods, interfaces, theories and tools to analyze the content, use, and social implications of new media technologies and platforms. EDUCATION 2010, PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies in Visual Culture and Critical Theory Departments of Art & Design (Visual Culture) and Sociology (Theory and Culture) University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Dissertation: Creativity, Relationality, Affect, Ethics: Outlining a Modest (Aesthetic) Ontology Co-Supervisors: Dr. Rob Shields, H. M. Tory Chair; Dr. Anne Whitelaw, Dept. of Art & Design External examiner: Dr. Gregory Seigworth, Professor 2002-2004, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies in Visual Culture Institute for Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Culture (Visual Culture specialization) Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada (I transferred my doctoral studies to the University of Alberta with Dr. Rob Shields upon his being appointed Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Arts) 2000-2001, Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Humanities Option (Dean's List) Department of Religion and Culture Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada 1994-2000, Joint Honours BA (Dean's List) Visual Arts (Studio) and English Literature University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS FCAD Creative Innovation Fund 2015—2017, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2013-2016, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council "Living in the Gamocracy: Digital Incentivization and Integrating 'Apps' into Everyday Canadian Life" Recode Social Innovation Initiative 2015—2016, Recode @ Ryerson Project: “Global Social Innovation Game Project (GSIG)” SSHRC PostDoctoral Research Fellowship 2011-2013, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship - the University of Alberta's "most prestigious award" 2005-2007, Killam Trusts and the University of Alberta SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2005-2007, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship 2005-2007, University of Alberta Sociology Doctoral Research Grant 2007, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Sociology Student Travel Grant 2009, 2010, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta Canadian Sociological Association Travel Grant 2007, 2008, Canadian Sociological Association Graduate Student International Travel Scholarship 2007, University of Alberta Graduate Students Association Professional Development Grant 2006, 2007, University of Alberta Student Travel Grant 2006, University of Alberta Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award 2005, University of Alberta Clifford H. Skitch Endowment Graduate Student Travel Award 2005, University of Alberta Graduate Award 2004-2005, University of Alberta Graduate Intern Tuition Supplement 2004-2005, University of Alberta Graduate Scholarship 2002-2004, Carleton University Domestic Tuition Scholarship 2002-2004, Carleton University Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship for Academic Excellence 2002-2003, Carleton University Graduate Scholarship 2000-2001, Wilfrid Laurier University Entrance and Upper Year Scholarships 1994-1999, St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) SUMMARY OF PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS & CREATIVE VISUAL PRODUCTION Edited journal volumes: 1 Papers in refereed journals: 17 Invited: 2 Co-Authored: 4 Chapters in books: 6 Professional publications: 1 Online essays (non-refereed): 2 Encyclopedia entries: 5 Book reviews: 1 Translations (French to English): 2 Scholarly presentations: 74 Invited: 14 Scholarly panels organized: 3 Public presentations: 2 Invited: 1 Creative visual production: Major art exhibitions: 1 Creative visual production: Group art exhibitions: 8 Creative visual production: Solo art exhibitions: 4 EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES Tiessen, M. and G. Elmer (2013) Special Issue on Deleuze / Foucault - a Neoliberal Diagram. MediaTropes: an interdisciplinary eJournal devoted to the study of media and mediation. 4(1). REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES: INVITED Tiessen, M. (2015) “The Appetites of App-Based Finance.” Cultural Studies, 29(5-6), 869–886. Tiessen, M. (2014) “Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due: Making Visible the Ex Nihilo Dimensions of Money’s ‘Agency.’” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (special issue on “The Financialized Imagination and Beyond”). 30-31 (Fall 2013/Spring 2014), 290-300. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Tiessen, M. (forthcoming). “Creating Escape Places in Toronto’s Don River Valley: pursuing flow-states, “holey spaces,” and ephemeral infrastructure in the contemporary metropolis.” Space & Culture. Tiessen, M. (2023). “To the Ravines! Digitally Encountering (and Expanding) Toronto’s Mountain Bike Trails During and Beyond the Coronavirus Crisis.” Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences. Tiessen, M. (2022). “#buildbanksbetter: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), Public Banks and Money's Potential as a Non-Scarce Medium of Communication and a Source of Local Self-Determination." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (special issue on “Zero Credit: Countering the Dreams of Techno-Finance”). 45, 62-101. Tiessen, M. (2018). “Our Anthropocene: Geologies, Biologies, Economies and New Pursuits of Profit and Power.” Space & Culture. 21(1), 72-85. Tiessen, M., McKelvey, F., Simcoe, L. (2015). “A Consensual Hallucination No More? The Internet as Simulation Machine.” European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS), 18(4), 577-94. Tiessen, M. (2014). “Coding the (Digital) Flows: Debt-by-Design and the Econo-Blogospheres’ Transparency-Driven Infowar.” Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies. 14(1), 50-61. Tiessen, M. (2013). “Monetary Mediations and the Invisible Overcoding of Potential: Nietzsche, Deleuze & Guattari and how the Affective Diagrammatics of Debt Have Gone Global.” MediaTropes: an interdisciplinary eJournal devoted to the study of media and mediation. 4(1), 47-64. Tiessen, M. & G. Elmer (2013). “Neoliberal Diagrammatics and Digital Control.” MediaTropes: an interdisciplinary eJournal devoted to the study of media and mediation. 4(1), i-xvi. Seigworth, G. & M. Tiessen. (2012). “Mobile Affects, Open Secrets, and Global Illiquidity: Pockets, Pools, and Plasma.” Theory, Culture & Society. 29(6), 47-77. Tiessen, M. (2012). “High-Frequency Trading and the Centering of the (Financial) Periphery.” Volume/Archis: Special Issue – Centers Adrift. 32, 108-11. Tiessen, M. (2011). “Being Watched Watching Watchers Watch: Determining the Digitized Future While Profitably Modulating Preemption (at the Airport).” Surveillance & Society, Special Issue: “A Global Surveillance Society?” 9(1/2), 167-84. Tiessen, M. (2010). “Change, Agency, and Interdependent Affordances: The Outlines of a Modest Ontology.” Pli – The Warwick Journal of Philosophy. 21, 88-106. Tiessen, M. (2007). “Accepting Invitations: Desire Lines as Earthly Offerings.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: “Deleuze and Guattari's Ecophilosophy.” Issue 15. Available online at: www.rhizomes.net Tiessen, M. (2007). “Urban Meanderthals and the City of Desire Lines.” CTheory. Available online at: www.ctheory.net Tiessen, M. (2006). “Speed, Desire, and Inaction in New Orleans: Like a Stick in the Spokes.” Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces. 9(1), 35-37. Tiessen, M. & R. Shields (2006). “New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities.” Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces. 9(1), 107-109. Tiessen, M. (2004). “From Paintings to Print: The Grid in Agnes Martin and Wallpaper.” TRANSverse: University of Toronto's Centre for Comparative Literature. 1, 37-52. Tiessen, M. (2004). “Flatness: Flat Objects, Flat Metaphors, and Contemporary Compression.” GR Journal for the Arts, Sciences & Technology. 2(1), 54-62. BOOK CHAPTERS Tiessen, M. (2018). “Making Our Way in a World of Our Making: The Anthropocene, the Benefits of Nature, and the Costs of Humanizing the Nonhuman.” In J. Jagodzinski (Ed.), Anthropocene, Ecology, Pedagogy: The Future in Question. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Tiessen, M. (2014). "Deleuze, Guattari, and the Modulation of Education Policy: FinLit and the Breeding of Financialized Subjects and Subjectivities." In J. Wallin and M. Carlin (Eds.), Deleuze & Guattari, Politics and Education. New York: Bloomsbury/Continuum, pp. 141-61. Tiessen, M. (2014). "Gamed Agencies: Affectively Modulating our Screen-Based Digital Futures" In M. Fuchs, N. Schrape, S. Fizek and P. Ruffino (Eds.), Rethinking Gamification. The Gamification Lab and the Hybrid Publishing Lab at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Lüneburg, Germany: Meson Press, pp. 251-69. Tiessen, M. (2012). "Infinite Debt and the Mechanics of Dispossession." In R. Braidotti and P. Pisters (Eds.), Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze. New York: Continuum, pp. 115-30. Tiessen, M. (2011). "(In)Human Desiring and Extended Agency: A Modest Ontological Expression." In R. Shields, T. Davidson, O. Park (Eds.), Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 127-42. Tiessen, M. (2008). "Uneven Mobilities and Urban Theory: The Power of Fast and Slow." In R. Shields and P. Steinberg (Eds.), What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, pp. 112-24. PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS Tiessen, M. (2013). “High-Frequency Trading and the Centering of the (Financial) Periphery.” HFT Review: the online magazine and social network high frequency and algorithmic trading. Available online at: http://www.hftreview.com/pg/blog/mtiessen/read/70726/ ONLINE ESSAYS: NON-REFEREED Tiessen, M. (2016). “Tax Havens-R-Us: Digital Non-Geographies and the Financial Gaming of Distance and Difference.” Space and Culture. Available online at: http://www.spaceandculture.com/2016/05/05/tax-havens-r-us-digital-non-geographies-and-the-financial-gaming-of-distance-and-difference/#more-577 Tiessen, M., McKelvey, F., Simcoe, L. (2013). "We Are What We Tweet: The Problem with a Big Data World When Everything You Say is Data Mined." Culture Digitally: Examining Contemporary Cultural Production. Available online at: http://culturedigitally.org/2013/06/we-are-what-we-tweet-the-problem-with-a-big-data-world-when-everything-you-say-is-data-mined/ ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Tiessen, M. (2013). "Affects." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, M. (2013). "Art and Creativity." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, M. (2013). "Becoming." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, M. (2013). "Haecceities." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, M. (2013). "Virtual." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. BOOK REVIEWS Tiessen, M. (2004). "Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada, by Erin Manning." Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, 8:1, 101-103. FILM AND TEXT TRANSLATIONS (FRENCH ENGLISH) Tiessen, M. (forthcoming). "The Power of Places." Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces. Originally published as: Maffesoli, Michel (1993). "Pouvoir des Hauts Lieux." In Un Autre Partage: Homme, Ville, Nature: actes de la rencontre internationale. (1993). Toulouse: Érès, pp. 79-91. Tiessen, M. and P. Hroch (subtitles) (2007). C'est Toujours la Même Histoire (It's Always the Same Story) - a short film. Clerté, Joris & Anne Morin (Directors). Based on the story of Jean-Luc. Animated by Joris Clerté. Senso Film - Maryline Charrier. Executive production by Virginie Giachino, Doncvoila (Paris, France). SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS: INVITED Tiessen, M. (2019 Nov. 23). "Digital Technologies and Urban Ecologies." Let's Talk Digital. The Samara Centre for Democracy and the Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2016 Apr. 1). “Turn the Earth Into Swiss Cheese: Big Data, Urban Nature, and Emerging Expressions of Ecological Escapism.” An Informational Right to the City? American Association of Geographers Annual Conference. San Francisco. Tiessen, M. (2016 Feb. 4). “The Anthropocene: We Made This!” Lecture Series 2015-2016: Anthropocene, Ecology, Pedagogy: The Future in Question (a lecture series presented with support from the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta and the Arts-Based Research Studio). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aouA505d25o Tiessen, M. (2015 Oct. 15). “Transpierce the Mountains: Forests, Ubiquitous Computing, and the Affective Evolution of Urban Ecological Escapism.” Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures. Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. Tiessen, M. (2015 Jun. 4). “Banking Data: Financial Information, Bank Apps, and Interest Rates Want to be (Better Than) Free.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting (panel on Critical Data Studies). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2015 Mar. 28). “Digital Money and the App-Based Gamification of (Mobile) Banking.” Toronto Semiotic Circle. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2014 Nov. 15). “Digital Labor and Geographies of Crisis Roundtable.” Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, Barricades. The New School for Liberal Arts, New York City. Tiessen, M. (2014 Nov. 1). “Financialized Pedagogies and the Optics of Economically Overcoded Education in Ontario.” Reconceptualizing Diversity: Engaging with Histories, Theories, Practices, and Discursive Strategies in Global Contexts (The American Educational Studies Association and the International Association of Intercultural Education). Hyatt Regency Toronto and the Toronto Metro Hall, Toronto, Ontario Tiessen, M. (2013 Nov. 25). “Gamification and Visualizing Virtual Success: In the App-Economy of the Future, Will We Be Playing or Being Played?” ProCom Mashup: Apps and Digital Gaming: Pedagogies and Philosophies of Playing and Being Played. School of Professional Communication. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2013 Mar. 26). “The Global Econo-Blogosphere as New Social Movement: The Affects, Affordances, and Algorithms of Digitally-Driven Finance and Its Discontents.” Graduate class in “The Political Economy of Communication and Culture.” Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. York University. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2012 Jan. 31). “Theorizing Extended Human and Non-Human Agencies in the Social Sciences.” Graduate class in “Material, Visual, and Virtual Culture.” Department of Sociology. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2011 Nov. 16). “Networked Markets, High Speed Computing, and the Culture of Acceleration.” Graduate class in “The Political Economy of Communication and Culture.” Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. York University. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2011 Oct. 4). “Digitized Surveillance and the Expansion of Online Algorithmic Computation.” Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo). Waterloo, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2010 Nov. 20). “Visual Modulation, Embodied Exposure, and Fleshy Photography: Exhibitionism for Safety’s Sake.” Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies. McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2010 Feb. 23). “Relationality and Change.” Space and Culture Research Group. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2015 July 14). The Implicit Algorithmic Ontologies Driving Our Digital Hegemony. International Association for Media and Communication Research: Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambiguous Power of Communication. Faculty of Communication of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Tiessen, M. (2022, Aug. 26). "Navigating Oil's Flows and Human/Nature Relations: an ethnographic account of the oil pipelines and singletrack trails in Toronto's Don River Valley." PetroCultures 2020. Norwegian Petroleum Museum. Stavanger, Norway. Tiessen, M. (2017, Jun. 22). “Data-Power in Toronto’s Don River Valley: Digitally Seeking Salutary Flow-States Amidst the Urban Grid.” Data Power 2017. Carleton University and Sheffield Universities. Tiessen, M. (2017, Jun. 7). “Queering Urban/Nature in Toronto’s Don River Valley: pursuing flow-states, “holey spaces,” and ephemeral infrastructure in the contemporary metropolis.” Taking Flight: Assembling, Becoming, Queering: 10th International Deleuze Studies Conference. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2017, May 7). “Creating Escape Places in Toronto’s Don River Valley: Pursuing Flow-States, ‘Holey Spaces,’ and Ephemeral Infrastructure in the Contemporary Metropolis.” The Idea of Place: Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2017, Apr. 21). “Resilience Rhetoric and the Deer, Foxes, and Salmon of Downtown Toronto’s Don River Valley: Symbols of Struggle or Symbols of Strength?” 2017 John Douglas Taylor Conference: Resilience in a Multispecies World. McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2016 Apr. 14). “Big Data and the Digital Remediation of Human/Nature Relations.” Theorizing the Web 2016 (TtW2016). Museum of the Moving Image. New York, New York. Tiessen, M. (2015 July 14). “The Implicit Algorithmic Ontologies Driving Our Digital Hegemony.” International Association for Media and Communication Research: Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambiguous Power of Communication. Faculty of Communication of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec. Tiessen, M. & L. Chapman (2015 June 19). “Behind the Digital Screens: Stock Photography, Search Algorithms, and Gendered Representations of Women in STEM-Based Careers.” The Women and Technology Conference. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2015 Apr. 17). “On Digital Surveillance.” Theorizing the Web. International Center of Photography. New York City. Tiessen, M. (2014 Aug. 14). “Banking at Street Level: Banking-Apps and the Everydayness of Ubiquitous Financialization and Monetized Incentivization.” Critical Finance Studies VI. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Tiessen, M. (2014 June 19). “Virtually Taking Public Space to the Bank: Banking-App Design and Making a Market out of Everyday Social Spaces.” Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science). Tiessen, M. (2014 May 29). “The Implicit Ontologies Behind Today’s Algorithmically Driven Digital Culture.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2013 Oct. 18). “The Global Gamification ‘App’aratus: Incentivizing the Digital Modulation of Affect and Agency.” Apps and Affect. Faculty of Information & Media Studies and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2013 Jun. 5). “The Life and Times of Everyday Digital Games: Gamification, Incentivization, and the Imminent High-Speed Loss of Reflection.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting. University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia. Tiessen, M. (2013 May 2). “Gamed Innovation and the ‘App’earance of Digitally- and Globally-Modulated Agency.” The Dark Side of the Digital. Center for 21st Century Studies. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tiessen, M. (2013 Apr. 6). “Global (Ontological) Positioning Systems and the Affective Effects of Relational Radicalism” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2012 Oct. 20). “Debt-By-Design: Algorithmic Finance, Speed, And The Economic Overcoding Of Desire.” Workshop on Time, Globalization, and the Human Condition. Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2012 May 31). “Algorithmic Culture and Capital’s Geo-spatial Desire.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting (panel: Theoretical Approaches to Algorithmic Media). Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario Tiessen, M. (2012 May 4). “Deleuze, Relational Radicalism, and the Persistent Ubiquity of Creativity (Disavowing Anthropomorphic Residues).” Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts. King’s University College and the University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2012 Mar. 9). “Deleuze and Guattari’s Anticipation of Finance’s Algorithmically Driven Future.” Foucault/Deleuze: A Neo-Liberal Diagram. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2012 Feb. 25). “Digitally-Driven Debt and the Overdetermination of Potential: Credit-Money’s Modes of Affecting (and Being Affected).” Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. New York, New York. Tiessen, M. (2011 Sept. 25). “Affect Theory, Individuation, and Immanent Processes of Creative Inter-Relation.” Pharmakon: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference 2011. Critical Media Lab/University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2011 Jun. 29). “High Frequency Trading and the Catastrophic Speed of Contemporary Capital: a Deleuzo-Guattarian critique.” 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference. Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen, Denmark. Tiessen, M. (2011 Apr. 16). “High Frequency Trading and the Shrinking Space-Times of Risk.” Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington. Tiessen, M. (2010 Jul. 14). “Limits and the Relationally-Determined Conditions of Deleuzean Creativity.” Connect, Continue, Create: 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference. Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Tiessen, M. (2010 Jun. 4). “Reciprocal Relationality and the Dissolution of Individual Social Agents.” Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting and Conference, 2010 at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities. Concordia University, Montréal, Québec. Tiessen, M. (2010 May 6). “Debt, War, and the Enslavement of Desire: Combating Infinite Debt by Loving Our Fate.” Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze: Re-Thinking War in the 21st Century. The Nietzsche Workshop @ Western. Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2009 Nov. 7). “Psychogeographies of Control: Becoming (Creatively) Invisible Within Predictive Networks of Surveillance.” Psychogeographies of Possibility: Re-Imagining Spaces in Critical Times. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2009 Oct. 24). “Creative Economies and the Culture of Control: the ‘New Normal’ Security and Prosperity Partnership.” Canadian Association of Cultural Studies: Biennial Conference. McGill University. Montreal, Quebec. Tiessen, M. (2009 Aug. 10). “Counterpoint, Interdependent Affordances, Mutual Beneficence, and Modest Ontologies.” Transdisciplinary Perspectives: The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference. University of Cologne. Cologne, Germany. Tiessen, M. (2009 Jul. 10). “Humanature Intra-action and the Production of (Pre-Historic) Visuality.” Visuality / Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice. The Royal Institute for British Architects. London, United Kingdom. Tiessen, M. (2009 Jul. 2). “Becoming Imperceptibly Creative: Anonymous Mobility and the New Politics of Transnational Surveillance.” Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk: An international, interdisciplinary conference. Cardiff University. Cardiff, Wales. Tiessen, M. (2009 May 28). “Urban Ephemera and Digital Cameras: Making Meaning in the Street (and Online).” Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting at the 2008 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (panel: Picture Taking as Social Action: Power, Pleasure, and New Media). Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2009 Mar. 30). “(In)Human Desiring and Extended Agency: a Modest Ontological Expression.” Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope Symposium. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2009 Mar. 21). “Creativity in Crisis: Becoming Imperceptible Within the New-Normal Surveillance Apparatus.” Intersections 2009: Crisis – Critical Disruption of Communication and Cultural Flows. York University. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2008 Oct. 4). “Inhuman Agency and Indeterminate Environmental Interventions.” The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities. York University. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2008 Jun. 4). “Militant Urbanism and Emergent Innovation | Segmenting and Smoothing City Spaces.” Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting at the 2008 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (panel: Contested Urban Spaces). University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. Tiessen, M. (2008 Mar. 27). “Art, Ontology, Ethics, Affect | Pursuing Pragmatic Pathways.” Sociology in Progress Seminar. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2007 Nov. 2). “Forests, Freeriding, and Vertical Grids: Deleuzian Navigation Across Ecological Terrain.” Pierce Research Colloquium. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2007 Oct. 27). “Grounding Theory: Emergent Paths of Bottom-Up Production.” Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-Than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment. Hosted by the Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture, the Faculty of Environmental Studies, and York University. York University. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2007 Oct. 4). “When is Too Much Too Much? Excess in Deleuze and Bataille.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, 2007. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2007 Jul. 22). “The Excess of Excess: the Role of ‘Too Much’ in the Economies of Bataille and the Aesthetics of Deleuze.” Cultural Studies Now. University of East London (Docklands Campus). London, United Kingdom. Tiessen, M. (2007 May 30). “Urban Meanderthals and the Flows and Blockages of City Life.” Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting at the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (panel: Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things). University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Tiessen, M. (2007 May 26). “Time and Truths: Yoder, Deleuze, Vattimo, and Bergson's Ongoing Revelations.” Inheriting John Howard Yoder: A New Generation Examines his Thought. Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre at the University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2007 Mar. 24). “Mobile Citizens | Mixed Loyalties.” Narratives of Citizenship. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2006 Nov. 4). “Excess' Excesses.” W. David Pierce Research Colloquium. University of Alberta (Department of Sociology). Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2006 Oct. 20). “Cities and Mobilities: What Dominant Urban Paradigms Can Leave Behind.” What is a City? Western Humanities Alliance, 25th Annual Conference. University of Calgary (Calgary Institute for the Humanities). Calgary, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2006 Jun. 14). “Desire Paths and the Posthuman.” Close Encounters: 4th European Biannual Conference of the SLSA, the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts. University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis). Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tiessen, M. (2005 Dec. 2). “Painting and the Virtual.” Sociology in Progress Seminar. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2005 May 9). “Disentangling the Desire to Deviate.” Entanglements. Carleton University (Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture). Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2005 Mar. 12). “Speed—Walking—Desire—Paths.” The Dromocratic Condition: Contemporary Cultures of Acceleration. University of Newcastle upon Tyne (School of English). Newcastle, UK. Tiessen, M. (2005 Feb. 12). “Creating | Constructing | Paths of Desire.” Construction Sites: Building Histories. University of Toronto (Department of History). Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2004 Nov. 6). “Painting, Virtuality, and Community.” W. David Pierce Research Colloquium. University of Alberta (Department of Sociology). Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, M. (2004 May 1). “Hirst, Burke, Nietzsche: Seeking the Sublime.” Interface 2004: Cultural Mediations in Theory, Practice and Context. Carleton University (Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture). Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2004 Apr. 24). “From Paintings To Print: The Grid in Agnes Martin and Wallpaper.” Material Worlds: At the Intersections of Print and Material Culture. University of Toronto (Book History and Print Culture, Department of English). Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2004 Mar. 19). “The Depth of the Surface: Grids, Minimalism and Magazines.” Intersections: Approaches to Visual Culture. York University (Art History). Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2004 Mar. 13). “Compressed Time, Space and Art: The Theories of Virilio and the Paintings of Murakami.” Intersections 2004: Error 404 File Not Found. York University (Communication and Culture). Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2004 Mar. 5). “Performing Purity: Iceland, Tourists, and Fetishistic Mirroring.” Conflict, Challenge and Change: (re)thinking state, class and gender at the turn of the millennium. Carleton University (Institute of Political Economy). Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2004 Feb. 14). “Flatness: Flat Objects, Flat Metaphors, and Contemporary Compression.” On Things Atomic. University of Western Ontario (Theory and Criticism). London, Ontario. Tiessen, M. (2003 Mar. 15). “Performing Purity and the Icelandic Imaginary.” Intersections 2003: Bridging Boundaries. York University (Communication and Culture). Toronto, Ontario. SCHOLARLY PANELS ORGANIZED Tiessen, M. (2016 May 15). Alternative Economic Futures: Why Climate/Global Change Requires a Steady State Non-Growth Economy, featuring Dr. Peter Victor. Pegasus Conference 2016. Toronto, ON. Tiessen, M. (2015 Nov. 16). Affective Ecologies and Everyday Outdoor Encounters (two panels). Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures. Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. Panel 1: Stephanie Erev: “What is it Like to Become a Bat? Trans-species Affects in an Age of Extinction” Emily Roehl: “The Outlines of Impacts Suffered': Performing the Petrochemical Landscape” Bridget Guarasci: “Birding Under Fire: Iraq's Marsh Restoration during the Recent War” Courtney O'Dell-Chaib: “Desiring Devastated Landscapes: Affective Intimacies After Ecological Collapse” Panel 2: Alec L. Foster: “Emotional Ecologies and Economies of Care in Philadelphia” Aurora Fredriksen: “Cats, crabs, conservation: The affects of eco-nostalgia and monstrous hybridities in everyday outdoor encounters” Matthew Tiessen: “Transpierce the Mountains: Forests, Ubiquitous Computing, and the Affective Evolution of Urban Ecological Escapism” Gavin Weedon: “Mud, Premodern Nostalgia and Overcoming Obstacles in an `Extreme' Endurance Sport” KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION & COMMUNICATION www.thegamocracy.com https://twitter.com/thegamocracy PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: INVITED Tiessen, M. (2010 Aug. 21). "Walkability, Livability, and Sustainable Communities." Livable Waterloo Region. Kitchener City Hall. Kitchener, Ontario. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS Tiessen, M. and P. Hroch (2010 Feb. 25). "Walkability and Sustainability in Waterloo Region: Next Steps?" Public Presentation by the Pedestrian Charter Steering Committee of Waterloo Region. Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener, Ontario. CREATIVE VISUAL ART PRODUCTION: MAJOR ART EXHIBITIONS 2004, "Iconoclastic: Contemporary Mennonite Visual Art," University of Waterloo Gallery, Waterloo, ON CREATIVE VISUAL ART PRODUCTION: GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS 2007, "Visual Thinking: the practice of drawing," Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB 2004, "Visual Melodies," Conrad Grebel College (University of Waterloo), Waterloo, ON 2003, "The Mennonite Artists," Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener, ON 2003, "The Mennonite Artists," Walper Terrace Hotel Gallery, Kitchener, ON 2003, "The Mennonite Artists," Kuntz House Gallery, Waterloo, ON 2002, Eldon Gallery, Waterloo, ON 2000, "Identified By Site," Modern Languages Gallery, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON 2000, "Gifts for Mom," Eldon Gallery & Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Kitchener, ON CREATIVE VISUAL ART PRODUCTION: SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002, Kitchener Downtown Health Center, Kitchener ON 2002, The Jane Bond, Waterloo ON 2001, VIVA, Waterloo ON 2000, The Jane Bond, Waterloo ON CREATIVE VISUAL ART PRODUCTION: VISUAL DESIGN PROJECTS My photographs, paintings, and illustrations have been featured on the covers of books published by Routledge, University of Toronto Press, and Kentucky University Press. I have also produced websites, logo design, illustrations, paintings, and portraits for universities, individuals, and not-for-profit agencies. ACADEMIC COMMITTEES 2016—present, FCAD Design Minor Development Group Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD), Ryerson University 2015—present, Design Thinking Course Development Group Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD), Ryerson University 2015—present, SSHRC Doctoral Awards Evaluation Committee Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD), Ryerson University 2015—present, SSHRC Masters CGS Awards Evaluation Committee Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD), Ryerson University 2015—present, ProCom Department Hiring Committee (elected) School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2014—present, Awards Committee School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2014—present, BA Curriculum Committee School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2014—present, Master of Professional Communication (MPC) Curriculum Committee School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2014—present, ProCom Operations and Equipment Committee School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2013—present, Master of Professional Communication (MPC) Graduate Awards Committee School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2013—present, Master of Professional Communication (MPC) Graduate Committee School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University ACADEMIC SERVICE 2016—present, Academic Peer Reviewer (monographs) Routledge 2016—2017, Steering Committee, Deleuze Conference and Camp 2017 2015 Media@McGill & Beaverbrook Student Paper Award Jury Canadian Communication Association (CCA) 2015—present, Academic Peer Reviewer Canadian Journal of Urban Research 2015—present, Academic Peer Reviewer The Information Society 2015—present, Academic Peer Reviewer Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization 2015, Coordinator, MPC Evening With Industry School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2014, Coordinator, MPC Evening With Industry School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University 2013—present, Academic Peer Reviewer Theory, Culture & Society 2013—present, Academic Peer Reviewer TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 2013—present, Academic Peer Reviewer European Journal of Cultural Studies 2012, Faculty Representative, Contract Academic Faculty Department of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University 2004—present, Academic Peer Reviewer Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces 2006—2007, Website Content and Design Space and Culture Research Group & Sociology Graduate Students Association (U. of Alberta) 2004—2006, Editorial Assistant Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces 2005—2006, Web-Blogger Space and Culture blog, Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, 2005—present 2004, Conference Organizing Committee Co-Chair Institute for Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Culture. Interface 2004: Cultural Mediations in Theory, Practice and Context. Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario. SERVICE IN THE COMMUNITY 2014, Art Adjudicator, Art with Potential (an Art Competition and Silent Auction Event hosted by Raising the Roof) 2008-present, Pedestrian Charter Steering Committee, Region of Waterloo: The PCSC helps implement pedestrian-friendly infrastructure in the Region of Waterloo. PCSC activities include: reviewing policy, advocating for pedestrians in the media, and making presentations to councilors and city planners. INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND SEMINARS 2012 - Participated in a symposium on Deleuze and Guattari featuring Prof. Keith Ansell Pearson at Dr. Rosi Braidotti's Centre for the Humanities (CfH) at Utrecht University. 2011 - Participated in one week of intensive training and seminars on the theories of Gilles Deleuze at "Deleuze Camp 5: Creation, Crisis, Critique" at the Copenhagen Business School. 2010 - Lived for four months in Utrecht, the Netherlands to participate in lectures and seminars sponsored by Dr. Rosi Braidotti's Centre for the Humanities (CfH) at Utrecht University. 2010 - Participated in master classes led by Prof. Claire Colebrook at the Centre for Humanities at Utrecht U. 2010 - Participated in one week of seminars on Gilles Deleuze at "Deleuze Studies Camp 4" in Amsterdam. 2010 - Attended "Walk21: Getting Communities Back on Their Feet" in The Hague, The Netherlands as a representative of the Pedestrian Charter Steering Committee of Waterloo Region (a citizen/activist group in support of sustainable urban transportation). 2007 - Engaged in six weeks of doctoral field research on prehistoric cave painting in the Dordogne Region of France; this trip incorporated galleries visits in London, Paris, Lyon, Bern. 2005-2006 - Lived in Lyon, France for one year to research critical theories of aesthetics and painting. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Canadian Association for Cultural Studies (CACS) Canadian Sociology Association (CSA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Association of American Geographers (AAG) Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) |
