Aleksandra Kaminska

events

Media History from the Margins

Retreats are one of my favourite ways “to conference” for both the intellectual work that can be done in this format, and the personal relationships that are inevitably formed...

calls

CFP – Biometrics: Mediating Bodies

Special issue #60 of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas Publication Fall 2019 Biometrics refers to the way that bodies are measured and identified. It uses the logic of calculation to reduce the...

events

Spring conferences on recognition

I recently presented some early work thinking working towards a political philosophy of media art that pivots around the technologies, the practices, and the concept of recognition. First at...

articles and essays

“Nano-Optical Image-Making” in Leonardo

This article has been a long time coming but it is finally available in online form in Leonardo’s Just Accepted (and on my Academia page). Nano-Optical Image-Making: Morphologies, Devices,...

projects

Artefact Lab

The Artefact Lab is new space for research and exploration in the field of media studies in the Department of Communication at the UdeM. Privileging a reflection on media...

projects

nano-verses website…coming soon

For the past few years I have been working with artists and scientists to explore optics and substrates at the nano scale. The project is called Nano-Verses, and I’m...

events

Porting Media II

Looking forward to presenting at Porting Media II, happening in Montreal October 12-14. I immediately loved the whole concept for this conference when I saw the call: Porting Media is...

events

Spring conferences

I recently presented some early work on my authentication devices research, first at SCMS then at CCA. Below a bit of detail from both. Article version in the works....

articles and essays

Audible Walls, Breathing Vaults, and the Fantastic Sites of Re-Imagination

Based on a presentation at the Media Art Histories conference in Riga, Latvia a couple of years ago, the final paper of my longstanding Polish media art project has...

books

Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field

Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, February 2016) Publisher’s website Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field situates media art—as technologies, practices, and experiences—in...

teaching

Making and Doing: Cultures of Creativity

A graduate seminar I offered at Ryerson University in Fall 2015. DESCRIPTION This is a course about making. We will be thinking about making, but also making in order...

articles and essays, edited journals

Technologies of Wonder

I chaired a special session panel called “Technologies of Wonder ” for the New Media Caucus at the 2015 College Art Association meeting. The papers were then published in...

articles and essays

Designing Nano-Media Across Disciplines

As part of my Postdoc with SFU, I worked with a lab specializing in nano-optics. One of my interests was to bring artists to the lab to see how...

teaching

Art in the Public Sphere

I taught this graduate course at OCAD University in Summer 2015. CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION As the mythic narratives of collective unity, nationalism and progress have faltered in the era of...

teaching

Cultures of Light from Sun to Screen

I offered this intensive graduate summer course in Spring 2015 at Sensorium, Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University. It was devoted to thinking about light in...

Aleksandra Kaminska

Assistant Professor, Media Studies · Université de Montréal

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