Conferences

2024

Rethinking the Inevitability of AI, Part 2: Assimilation and Refusal in The History of AI
Paper: “Reclaiming software: Licensing as a tool for climate action in open-source communities”
Panel: AI’s Environmental Impacts

2023

Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Paper: “Challenging corporate power through ‘Right to Repair'”
Panel: Ecological crises and the role of technologies: harm, violence, and the quest for accountabilities (co-organized with Fieke Jansen, Becky Kazansky, and Jenna Ruddock)

Conference of the Union for Democratic Communication
Paper: “AI systems and the environment: challenging solutionism, creating alternatives”

Association of Internet Researchers’ (AoIR) annual conference
Paper: “Tackling the environmental footprint of digital technologies through a ‘Right to Repair’?”
Panel: Digital Infrastructures and Environmental Justice: Policies, Practices, and Visions (co-organized with Sophie Toupin)

“Situated Solar Relations” symposium, Concordia University (co-organizer and speaker)

Open Hardware Summit, demo table

2022

Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Paper: “What’s behind ‘green’ computing? Re-imagining and co-creating digital infrastructures”

Dialogues in Data Power conference
Paper: “Activist ecosystems vs AI ecosystems”, co-authored with Alessandra Renzi

DIY Methods conference
Zine titled “Salvaging”, co-authored and co-produced with lee wilkins

Media Rurality Colloquium, McGill University (respondent)

2021

Annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA)
Paper: “A New Northern Frontier? Renewable-powered Data Operations in Arctic Norway”

Annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Paper: “Memes, Scenes and #ELXN2019s: How Partisans Make Memes During Elections”, co-authored with Fenwick McKelvey and Scott DeJong