Aleksandra Kaminska
- Professeure adjointe
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de communication
Marie-Victorin office B417
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Affiliations
- Codirectrice – Artefact lab
- Membre – Réseau Hexagram
Education Programs
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Information and Communication Technologies Communication
- Communication
- Arts and Music Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Information and Communication Technologies Communication
Courses
- COM1600 Introduction aux études médiatiques
- COM6715 Bricoler les médias
Areas of Expertise
- Media Studies
- Media arts
- Materialites and infrastructures
- Digital technologies
- Digital culture
- Media history
- Media theory
- Aesthetics of communication
- Research-creation
I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, specializing in media studies, media arts, and research-creation. I also regularly venture into other disciplines such as art history and STS. My primary interests are the politics and aesthetics of media as materials and infrastructures; the meeting points between culture and technology; and questions of the body and identity in technological contexts and interactions. I’m currently particularly engaged in projects centered on the protocols of identification, authentication, and recognition.
My next book project, tentatively called High-Tech Paper: A Media History of Security Aesthetics, is a historical and theoretical study of security printing and its artefacts (passports, banknotes, etc.). In a budding new project I’m thinking about human-machine interaction in an age of machine listening. I’m interested in invisible disabilities, and particularly to start in the algorithmic programming of technologies of speech and voice recognition that define and reproduce ideas about what it means to be a “good” speaker, and the consequences of being dysfluent and “out-of-sync.”
I am also co-investigator in the Archive/Counter-Archive: Activitating Canada's Moving Image Heritage partnership, which is working to “activate” Canadian moving image archives (SSHRC Partnership). And, I'm leading the project Nano-Verses, a collaboration with artists and scientists that is at once a speculation on the possibilities of new nano-optical medium and a reflection on the nature of interdisciplinary work. My first book is Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2016).