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
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
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.
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cinEXmedia: Ensuring Well-Being in the Screen Age. A Partnership Supporting the Inclusive Use of Cinematic Experiences in Health, Education, and Society Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2030
FI - The Sociability of Sleep Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2024
FD - The Sociability of Sleep Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2024
High-tech paper: Security printing and the aesthetics of trust Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2024
Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada's Moving Image Heritage Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2024
The Paperology Symposium Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2023
Les arts de la reconnaissance : stratégies et tactiques de l’intelligence entre identification et interactivité Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2023
Authenticating People and Things: Technical Materials and Media Convergence in the Search for Security Projet de recherche au Canada / 2017 - 2022
BricoLab: Création d'un laboratoire de création et fabrication numérique au sein du Département de communication Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019
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