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curriculum vitae CURRENT APPOINTMENT The Infoscape Research Lab, directed by Dr. Greg Elmer since 2005, hosts 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 software based research tools, interface designs, and experimental research theories and methods that analyze the content, use, and implications of new media platforms. RESEARCH INTERESTS I am also a visual artist. My paintings and illustrations have been exhibited at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Alberta. EDUCATION 2002-2004, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies and Course Work 2000-2001, Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Humanities Option Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship Sociology Doctoral Research Grant ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Sociology Student Travel Grant Canadian Sociological Association Travel Grant Graduate Students Association (GSA) Professional Development Grant Graduate Student International Travel Scholarship Graduate Students Association (GSA) Professional Development Grant Tiessen, Matthew (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?" Tiessen, Matthew (2010) "Change, Agency, and Interdependent Affordances: The Outlines of a Modest Ontology." Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, vol. 21, 88-106. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (2007) "Urban Meanderthals and the City of Desire Lines." CTheory. Available online at: www.ctheory.net Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (2006, co-authored with Dr. Rob Shields) "New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities." Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, 9:1, 107-109. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (2004) "Flatness: Flat Objects, Flat Metaphors and Contemporary Compression." GR Journal for the Arts, Sciences & Technology, 2:1, 54-62. BOOK CHAPTERS Tiessen, Matthew (forthcoming) "Infinite Debt and the Mechanics of Dispossession." In R. Braidotti (Ed.), Down by Law: Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze. New York: Continuum. Tiessen, Matthew (forthcoming) "Affects." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, Matthew (forthcoming) "Art and Creativity." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, Matthew (forthcoming) "Becoming." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, Matthew (forthcoming) "Haecceities." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, Matthew (forthcoming) "Virtual." In M. Vallee and R. Shields (Eds.). Demystifying Deleuze: A glossary of key terms. Ottawa, ON: Red Quill Books. Tiessen, Matthew (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. Tiessen, Matthew (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. BOOK REVIEWS (2007) C'est Toujours la Meme Histoire (It's Always the Same Story) - a short film. Clerté, Joris & Anne Morin (Directors). Subtitles by Matthew Tiessen and Petra Hroch. 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, Matthew (2011 Oct. 4). "Digitized Surveillance and the Expansion of Online Algorithmic Computation." Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo). Waterloo, Ontario. Tiessen, Matthew (2011 Apr. 29) "'Agnotological'" Finance and the Emergence of Online Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (2010 Feb. 23) "Relationality and Change." Space and Culture Research Group. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS: PEER REVIEWED Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2011 Apr. 16) "High Frequency Trading and the Shrinking Space-Times of Risk." Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2009 Aug. 10) "Counterpoint, Interdependent Affordances, Mutual Beneficence, and Modest Ontologies." Transdisciplinary Perspectives: The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference. Cologne, Germany. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2008 4 Oct.) "Inhuman Agency and Indeterminate Environmental Interventions." The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities. York University. Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (2008 Mar. 27) "Art, Ontology, Ethics, Affect Pursuing Pragmatic Pathways." Sociology in Progress Seminar. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, Matthew (2007 Nov. 2) "Forests, Freeriding, and Vertical Grids: Deleuzian Navigation Across Ecological Terrain." Pierce Research Colloquium. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2007 Mar. 24) "Mobile Citizens Mixed Loyalties." Narratives of Citizenship. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, Matthew (2006 Nov. 4) "Excess' Excesses." W. David Pierce Research Colloquium. University of Alberta (Department of Sociology). Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2005 Dec. 2) "Painting and the Virtual." Sociology in Progress Seminar. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, Matthew (2005 May 9) "Disentangling the Desire to Deviate." Entanglements. Carleton University (Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture). Ottawa, Ontario. Tiessen, Matthew (2005 Mar. 12) "Speed-Walking-Desire-Paths." The Dromocratic Condition: Contemporary Cultures of Acceleration. University of Newcastle upon Tyne (School of English). Newcastle, United Kingdom. Tiessen, Matthew (2005 Feb. 12). "Creating Constructing Paths of Desire." Construction Sites: Building Histories. University of Toronto (Department of History). Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, Matthew (2004 Nov. 6) "Painting, Virtuality, and Community." W. David Pierce Research Colloquium. University of Alberta (Department of Sociology). Edmonton, Alberta. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2004 Mar. 19) "The Depth of the Surface: Grids, Minimalism and Magazines." Intersections: Approaches to Visual Culture. York University (Art History). Toronto, Ontario. Tiessen, Matthew (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, Matthew (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, Matthew (2004 Feb. 14) "Flatness: Flat Objects, Flat Metaphors, and Contemporary Compression." On Things Atomic. University of Western Ontario (Theory and Criticism). London, Ontario. Tiessen, Matthew (2003 Mar. 15) "Performing Purity and the Icelandic Imaginary." Intersections 2003: Bridging Boundaries. York University (Communication and Culture). Toronto, Ontario. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: INVITED PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: OTHER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ATTENDED TEACHING EXPERIENCE: COURSES TAUGHT (INCLUDING SYLLABI DESIGN) Technology and Society Communication Studies 213 B Visual Communication and Culture Communication Studies 351 B Digital Media and Culture Communication Studies 325 C Visual Communication and Culture Communication Studies 351 B Digital Media and Culture Communication Studies 325 A and B Visual Communication and Culture Communication Studies 351 B and C Technology and Society Communication Studies 213 A Science, Technology, and Society Sociology 462 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: TUTORIAL INSTRUCTION Global Capitalism and the Sociological Imagination Introduction to Film Studies Art and Society: Prehistory to the Renaissance Love and Its Myths RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAVEL 2010 - Lived for four months in Utrecht, the Netherlands to participate in the activities of Dr. Rosi Braidotti's Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. 2010 - Participated in a master class led by Prof. Claire Colebrook at the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 2010 - Participated in one week of intensive training and seminars on the theories of Gilles Deleuze at "Deleuze Studies Camp" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (organized by Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam). 2009 - Attended the 7th Annual European Feminist Conference at Utrecht University. 2007 - Engaged in six weeks of doctoral field work on prehistoric cave painting in the Dordogne Region of France; this trip also incorporated visits to galleries in London, Paris, Lyon, Bern. 2005-2006 - Lived in Lyon, France for one year to research aesthetics, painting, and critical theories of art. INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY SEMINAR PARTICIPATION 2010 - Master class led by Prof. Claire Colebrook. Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University. Utrecht, NL. 2010 - Deleuze Camp 4: "Mille Gilles." University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. Amsterdam, NL. CREATIVE PRODUCTION: MAJOR ART EXHIBITIONS ACADEMIC SERVICE 2007, Website Content and Design 2006, Website Content and Design 2004-2006, Editorial Assistant 2005-2006, Web-Blogger 2004, Co-Chair of Conference Organizing Committee PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS |
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