Aleksandra Kaminska
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de communication
Marie-Victorin office B-417
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Affiliations
- Codirectrice – Artefact lab
- Membre – Réseau Hexagram
Education Programs
- Arts and Music
- Arts and Music
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Arts and Music
- Arts and Music
- Social Sciences and Social Action
- Social Sciences Social Sciences and Social Action
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication Economics and Politics
- Communication Economics and Politics Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication
- Arts and Music Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Arts and Music Information and Communication Technologies
- Arts and Music Humanities
- Arts and Music
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
Courses
- COM1600 Introduction aux études médiatiques
- COM2660 Arts médiatiques, technologies et communication
- COM6715 Bricoler les médias
Areas of Expertise
- Media Studies
- Media arts
- Materialites and infrastructures
- Maker cultures
- Research-creation
- Media theory
- Media history
- Aesthetics of communication
- Digital technologies
- Digital culture
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.