Aleksandra Kaminska
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de communication
Marie-Victorin, room B-417
Profile
Research expertise
I'm an Associate Professor in media studies, media arts, and research-creation. I work primarily at the intersection of media aesthetics, material and visual cultures, and history and philosophy of science and technology. I’m particularly interested in my current research in print and paper histories, technologies, and practices.
I’m currently working on a book called High-Tech Paper: Security Printing and the Aesthetics of Trust, a historical and theoretical study of security printing and document aesthetics that investigates the material protocols of identification, authentication, and recognition.
I’m also co-directing a collaborative project on sleep. The Sociability of Sleep is an interdisciplinary research-creation project exploring the epistemologies and equities of sleep. We are interested in both the everyday and the exceptional experiences of sleep and its disturbances. Our approach is rooted in art-science experimentation, collaboration, prototyping, and various forms of “critical making” that integrate and engage with qualitative or quantitative research data. We aim for interventions into sleep in art, design, media, and performance to generate novel sleep situations that can enrich knowledge, understanding, and normative treatment of sleep conditions, as well as the collective care of all sleepers.
Biography
Doctorat (Ph.D).
2013, Communication and Culture, York University (Toronto, Canada)
Maîtrise (M.A.)
2005, Media, Culture,and Communication (MCC), New York University (New York, États-Unis)
Baccalauréat (B.Sc.)
2004, Media, Culture,and Communication (MCC), New York University (New York, États-Unis)
Affiliations and responsabilities
Research affiliations
Teaching and supervision
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
Passages et connexions : adapter artistiquement et médiatiquement les témoignages de personnes vivant avec un trouble anxieux
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Odorama V2 : tentative de médiation technologique de la synesthésie tactile-olfactive
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Images du temps dans les manuels scolaires : recherche-création pour comprendre les rapports entre représentations et savoirs en physique
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Projects
Research projects
cinEXmedia: Ensuring Well-Being in the Screen Age. A Partnership Supporting the Inclusive Use of Cinematic Experiences in Health, Education, and Society
FI - The Sociability of Sleep
FD - The Sociability of Sleep
High-tech paper: Security printing and the aesthetics of trust
Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada's Moving Image Heritage
The Paperology Symposium
Les arts de la reconnaissance : stratégies et tactiques de l’intelligence entre identification et interactivité
Authenticating People and Things: Technical Materials and Media Convergence in the Search for Security
BricoLab: Création d'un laboratoire de création et fabrication numérique au sein du Département de communication
Description
Appel de projets d'innovation liés aux technologies numériques/Initiatives en soutien direct à la réussite.
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Publications
Disciplines
- Communication
- Media and Visual Arts
- History
- Art History
Areas of expertise
- Media Studies
- Materialites and infrastructures
- Media arts
- Maker cultures
- Digital technologies
- Digital culture
- Media history
- Media theory
- Aesthetics of communication
- Research-creation