Kara Stone is available for speaking engagements and workshops. Please contact at kara.littlestone@gmail.com
Upcoming:
Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Conference at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, What Can Play? Post-Humanism and Videogames. Ryerson University, Toronto. May 31 to June 2 2017
Art Exhibitions:
Curator of Long Winter Arcade for Dames Making Games at AGO First Thursday, Toronto January 2nd 2014
Hand to Heart at Long Winter, Toronto, February 7th 2014
DIY Body at Feminist Art Conference (FAC) , Toronto, March 3rd-March 9th 2014
Medication Meditation at Challenging Ableism: Creating a Culture of Accessibility, Night of Art and Expression: Creating Disability Differently.Toronto, March 14th
Medication Meditation and Hand to Heart at Thinking|Feeling Conference and Art Show – Toronto, March 14th-20th 2014
Hand to Heart at Transgressing Media: The Critical Themes in Media Studies – New York City, April 5th-6th 2014
Medication Meditation at Different Games – New York City, April 11-12 2014
Sext Adventure at E-Poetry, Performance, Play conference. York University April 16th 2014
Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, Interface 2014: Transmediating Culture, Part of the collection Practice Makes Patterns with Rekha Ramachandran and Julia Gingrich
Medication Meditation at Bit Bazaar Spring Fair, May 10th 2014
Part of the collection Practice Makes Patterns with Rekha Ramachandran and Julia Gingrich at Annual Conference of Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes. St. Catherines May 25-27th 2014
Polaroid Panic at TIFF Reel Comfort, July 21st + August 22nd 2014
Sext Adventure at Boston Festival of Indie Games. MIT. September 13th 2014
Sext Adventure at IndieCade. Los Angeles, October 9-12th 2014.
Sext Adventure at World Play Fest. Toronto, November 9th 2014
Polaroid Panic screening and Q&A at TIFF Reel Comfort, Toronto, November 20th
Medication Meditation at Unhealthy, Badly: Remedies, Toronto, November 21st
Techno Tarot at Bit Bazaar, Toronto, December 6th 2014
Sext Adventure at No Coins curated by Christine Kim, Banff Centre Convergence, November to December 2014.
Sext Adventure at Vector Game Art Festival. Toronto, Feb 18- March 13th, 2015
Techno Tarot at Different Games, New York City, April 2-3rd 2015
Cyborg Goddess at Different Games Afterparty, New York City, April 2-3rd 2015
Cyclothymia and Techno Tarot at Bit Bazaar, Toronto May 9th
Sext Adventure and Medication Meditation at Two5Six, New York City, May 15-17th 2015
Cyborg Goddess at Histoire des problématiques de genre dans les jeux / History of Gender in Games, Montreal, June 26-27, 2015
Fairweather Fortunes at Princess of Arcade, Montreal. July 21st 2015
(un)done at Critical Hit Wearable Games showcase, Montreal, August 21 2015
Techno Tarot at Pixelle’s Teacade, Montreal, August 22 2015
Fairweather Fortunes at Feminist Art Conference, Toronto. September 13-27 2015
Cyclothymia at There Should Be Gardens at Inter/Access, Toronto. September 2-26 2015
Cyborg Goddess at Humorous > Disruptions Colloquium from Synoptique Journal of Film and Moving Images http://www.synoptique.ca/. Concordia University, Montreal, October 16th-17th
Techno Tarot at Hand Eye Society’s Society Ball at the Masonic Temple, Toronto, October 9th 2015
Little Pharm at Grow Op 2016, the Gladstone Hotel’s annual Landscape, Urbanism & Contemporary Art exhibition. Toronto April 21-24 2016
The Mystical Digital at Babycastles, showcasing Ritual of the Moon and other games. NYC, May 9-June 17 2016.
Live Among Ghosts at ReFig 2016, Montreal, October 27-30th 2016
Ritual of the Moon at New Toronto Works by Pleasure Dome at The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, November 3rd 2016
Ritual of the Moon, Feminist Art Conference, Toronto, January 9 to 21 2017
Live Among Ghosts with Haunts Collective, Feminist Art Conference, Toronto, January 9 to 21 2017
Conferences:
The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games panel moderated by Sanra Danilovic on –empyre soft_skinned_space March 3rd-31st 2014
Good Laugh, Bad Laugh, Ugly Laugh, My Laugh “Tig Notaro Live and Public Feelings” Department of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, Western University London, Ontario – March 1-3 2012
(Re)Activating Objects “Naturally Crazy: Agency and Affect in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Girl, Interrupted” Department of Visual Culture, Western University, London, Ontario. March 1-3 2013
Co-Chair of Cross-Sections 2013 Politics of Play Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association, York and Ryerson Universities, March 15, 2013
Pop Culture Association PCA/ACA, “Naturally Crazy: Agency and Affect in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Girl, Interrupted,” Washington D.C. – March 27-30 2013
Terror and the Politics of the Abject Department of Social and Political Thought, York UniversityToronto, Ontario – May 2-3 2013
Co-Chair of Thinking|Feeling Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association, York and Ryerson Universities – March 14-15 2014
Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, Interface 2014: Transmediating Culture, Sext Adventure: Mediating Intimacy May 2-3rd 2014
Medication Meditation: Mental Illness and Videogames at Stage Select June 28th 2014
Cyborg Goddess part of AMC Arcade at Allied Media Conference, Detroit, June 2014
Affective Games: Mental Illness and Videogames at Boston Festival of Indie Games, September 13th 2014
Keynote at GAMERella: Boss Up game jam, TAG Lab Concordia University, Montreal, November 8-10th 2014
Panel at North Carolina State University, “The Gamergate Controversy: An Examination of Gender Concerns in Video Game Design, Culture, and Practices” The Rolf Buchdahl Symposium on Science, Technology, and Human Values:Celebrating 100 Years of Rolf Buchdahl’s Life and Legacy, April 10th 2015, North Carolina
Speaking on Digital Intimacy at Two5Six, May 17-19 2015, New York City
Fuck Games: Sex/uality and Game Design, History of Gender in Games Conference, Montreal. June 26-27 2015 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-jcBD1HT4c
Feelings and Videogames at AlterConf Toronto, July 11th 2015
Queerness and Games Conference, “Writing and Selling Queer Bots: Sext Adventure Design Post Mortem,” UC Berkeley, October 17-18 2015
Hand Eye Society’s Wordplay 2015 committee member at large, Toronto Reference Library, November 7th 2015
Different Games, track chair for Affective Play. NYC, April 8-9th, 2016
Live Among Ghosts: Recycling Feminist Materials at The World in 2050: Creating/Imagining Just Climate Futures, Online Conference hosted by University of California at Santa Barbara, October 2016
Function Keys at Centre[3], Affective Play. Hamilton, Canada. November 11-13th 2016 http://functionkeys.ca/kara-stone/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HedFz5UHlQ
Ritual of the Moon at Queerness and Games Conference. USC, Los Angeles. April 1-2 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G6p8dAscTk
Workshops:
Twine workshop with Kaitlin Tremblay at E-Poetry, Performance, Play conference. York University April 16th 2014
Scratch Workshop at UrbanArts. 8-12 year olds. With Dames Making Games. 2014
Twine workshop for TIFF Reel Comfort at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, and St. Michael’s Hospital. July 2014
Full Motion Videogames using iV engine workshop with TIFF youth camp. July 23rd 2014
Scratch Workshop at Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre with Dames Making Games. August 15th 2014
Play Your Story at Rexdale Community Health Centre. August 2014.
Crafting Videogames workshop at A Handmade Assembly. Sackville New Brunswick, October 23-25th 2014
Twine workshop with TIFF Reel Comfort at Gilda’s Club. Toronto, October 29th 2014
TechnoCraft workshop at Intersections Conference, Thresholds, Toronto, March 13th 2015
Twine workshop at McMaster University, March 25th 2015 Hamilton
Indie Game Maker Workshop at HUB Ottawa, hosted by RedBrick Rooster Creative Strategy and Media. March 27th 2015
SELF CARE HOUR, at Different Games, April 2-3rd 2015 New York City
TechnoCraft Workshop, Maker Fest, Toronto. August 2 2015
Interactive Text Games using Twine Workshop at Pixelles, Montreal, November 2nd 2015
