[1] He has also expanded his research into the area of Media Geography, working in close collaboration with James Craine (Cal State Northridge).
(1987) and Life and Nothing More... (1992)," published in Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives, edited by Stuart C. Aitken & Jacob Rowlett (Routledge, 2024).
Gardner is also the author of critical essays on Bruno Ganz’s characters in Knife in the Head and In the White City for Silke Panse and Dennis Rothermel’s A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan); Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces (for Creation Books’ Jack Nicholson: Movie Top Ten, edited by Mikita Brottman); as well as a theoretical study of Diana Thater’s video installations in Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art (Erika Suderberg, ed.)
On a local level, Gardner has worked extensively with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (as blogger, panelist and lecturer) and the Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), including catalog essays for Sandow Birk's “Prisonation” series, Linda Stark's “Runaway Love” retrospective, and the 2001 group exhibition, “Diabolical Beauty,” co-curated with UCSB Professor, Jane Callister.
In 2012 Gardner presented a keynote address “Samuel Beckett’s ‘Peephole’ Venus: Re-Sexualization, The Oral Mother and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe, Ghost Trio and ...but the clouds...” at the “Venus as Muse: Figurations of the Creative” conference organized by the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata and the Centre for Media Studies, University of Cologne, Germany.
In 2014 he presented a keynote address at The Centre for the Arts and Learning’s (CAL) series, “Material Cultures of Resistance.” Goldsmiths, University of London, England, titled “Probeheads of Resistance & The Heterotopic Mirror: Tiffany Chung and Dinh Q. Le’s Stratigraphic Cartographies.” [9] 2014 keynote panels Gardner participated on include: “Out of the Labyrinth, Into the Métro: Becoming-Animal, the Waking Dream and Movements of World in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malle’s Zazie Dans Le Métro” to launch “The Animal Catalyst Network” and the publication of The Animal Catalyst: Towards Ahuman Theory (Bloomsbury Publishing), with Patricia MacCormack and Ruth McPhee (Anglia-Ruskin University, UK) at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England; “Judgment and/or Justice: Constructing an Affective Ethics” for the launch of A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television, Silke Panse and Dennis Rothermel, eds.
(Palgrave Macmillan) at The SHOWROOM Gallery, London, England; “Into the Zone: Affective Counterpoint and Ecosophical Aesthetics in the Films of Terrence Malick” for “Screening Nature: Life, Catastrophes and Eco-sophy,” with Anne Sauvagnargues (Univ.