Events and appearances.
Podcast appearances
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Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction
The claustrophobic density of the city, the homogeneity of suburban developments, the vast isolation of the deep woods, Antarctic ice, or open ocean. What horrors emerge when we make a wrong turn or enter an unfamiliar environment?
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From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us
Our panelists take us on a tour of the strange world of spores, fruiting bodies, and vast clonal colonies, the symbiotes and parasites, toxins and pathogens, that have always occupied an important place in the annals of the weird.
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Imagining Utopian Futures
Post Tech Radio
What’s a utopia, really? Three designers explore the theoretical and practical paths to utopias.
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Holiday Readings Special
The Outer Dark Podcast. Episode 87. Reading from “Mondegreen.”
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The Product Outsiders #4
I talk with The Product Outsiders about how you can build impactful tech by building collaborative teams.
Events + convention appearances
Necronomicon 2022
The Outer Dark Reception Party – Next Wave of The Weird: Readings from Rising Authors
Participants/readers: Melanie Crew, Richard Gerlach, H.Y. Hsu, Jess Lewis, Joanna Roye, Rosalynde Vas Dias. Moderator/Host: Anya Martin.
Reading from “As the Crow Flies”
Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction
Panelists: F. Brett Cox (M), Julie C. Day, Craig Gidney, Jess Lewis, Henry Ward, Heinrich Wilke
In literary criticism, psychogeography explores how the physical environment impacts the mind and behavior of the individual. The claustrophobic density of the city, the homogeneity of suburban developments, the vast isolation of the deep woods, Antarctic ice, or open ocean. What horrors emerge when we make a wrong turn or enter an unfamiliar environment? What madness follows when we attempt to exist in places not meant for human occupation? Our panelists discuss the role of place as a driver of psychology and narrative in weird film and literature.
From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us
Panelists: Rick Claypool, Nicholas Kaufmann, Jess Lewis, Eric Schaller (M), Douglas Wynne
Mind control. Bodily infiltration. Altered states of consciousness. Zombification. Encounters with truly alien species. Fungal horrors abound in weird fiction and film. Our panelists take us on a tour of the strange world of spores, fruiting bodies, and vast clonal colonies, the symbiotes and parasites, toxins and pathogens, that have always occupied an important place in the annals of the weird. A little Mycology and a lot of fiction are on your plate.
The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird
Organizer & Reader. Cyberspace.
When the world gets weird, the Weird goes virtual. A series of events, panels, and readings creates a space that’s all about cross-pollination of what forms Weird fiction across genres.
Find out more at theouterdark.org
Let’s Get Digi-Physical: How to Design Experiential Spaces
Guest lecturer for a class of graduate and undergraduate interaction design students at SCAD Atlanta.
Alien Concepts: Creating Sci-Fi Utopias Through Zine Making
Southern Fried Queer Pride. Atlanta GA.
Led a workshop where participants created zine pages that illustrated their personal utopias.
Hot Diggity Darn: Basic Mending Techniques
Queer Apocalypse Skillshare. The Bakery, Atlanta GA.
Led a skillshare workshop on basic stitchery, mending practices, and building material problem-solving capacity.
Dark Patterns in Technology
Guest lecturer for a class of graduate and undergraduate interaction design students at SCAD Atlanta. Led a lecture on design ethics and “dark patterns” or unethical design in technology. Provided a framework for conceptualizing of ethical relationships between technologies and interactors.
Our Food: Zine Making Workshop
Global Growers. Decatur GA.
Led a zine making workshop where participants, Global Growers interns, created a zine full of family recipes and food stories.
Southern Roots: Zine Making Workshop
Museum of Design Atlanta.
Facilitated a zine-making workshop that explored cultural roots of a group of participants.
Storied Skateboards Storytelling Workshop
Museum of Design Atlanta. Inspired by Timothy Goodman’s work.
Half writing workshop, half Graphic Design 101, in this workshop we learned how to blend visual and textual modes of expression. We explored an object, told its story, and represented the story on the object itself.