Kara Stone is available for speaking engagements and workshops. Please contact at kara.littlestone@gmail.com
Talks:
Barbie: Femininity and Nostalgia, Twitch Stream. November 25, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6STwJMPXRA&feature=youtu.be
Mental Illness and Videogames, IndieCade, Los Angeles October 6-8 2017
Ritual of the Moon: Queer Time and Game Design at Queerness and Games Conference. USC, Los Angeles. April 1-2 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G6p8dAscTk
Muddied Waters: Decomposing the Anthropocene, “What Can Play? Post-Humanism and Videogames.” York University, Toronto. May 26 2017
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
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
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
The Playsthetics of Experimental Digital Games panel moderated by Sanra Danilovic on –empyre soft_skinned_space March 3rd-31st 2014
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
(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 University, Toronto, Ontario – May 2-3 2013
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 2013
Publications:
Stone, Kara. “Ritual of the Moon: Time and Reparative Game Design.” First Person Scholar. January 2018. http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/ritual-of-the-moon/
Driver, Susan, Mel Patenaude, Kara Stone. Engaging Affects, Thinking Feeling: Social, Political and Artistic Practices. Cambridge Publishing. 2016
Stone, Kara. “Sext Adventure,” Guts Canadian Feminist Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 2014/2015 http://gutsmagazine.ca/issue-three/sext-adventure-2
Stone, Kara. “Naturally Crazy: Agency and Affect in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Girl, Interrupted,” Health Tomorrow, Interdisciplinarity and Internationality. Vol 2, No 1 (2014)
Teaching and Guest Lectures:
Guest Lecturer, Media Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2017
Instructor, Critical Play undergraduate class, OCAD University, Winter 2016
Instructor, Game Maker, at Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School, November- December 2015
Guest Lecturer, Gaming The Body graduate class. Professor: Dr. Nick Taylor. North Carolina State University, Fall 2015
Guest Lecturer, Making Culture graduate class, Instructor: Dr. Aleksandra Kaminska Ryerson University, Fall 2015-2016
Lead Facilitator, Videogame Design at Rexdale Community Health Centre. August-September 2014
Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Interactive Media undergraduate class. Instructor: Dr. Mark Chen University of Washington, Spring 2014
Guest Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality graduate class. Professor: Dr. Susan Driver. York University, Spring 2014
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
