Aleksandra Kaminska

calls

CFP: Recognizing Bodies (SCMS 2018)

This panel considers the media technologies and representational strategies that allow humans and machines to recognize bodies. What are the ways that presence and absence are detected or indicated,...

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...

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...

articles and essays

Real and Virtual Histories of Past and Future in the Heritage Village

This paper considers the immaterial aspects of the history of land as way to reimagine heritage. Through the heritage village – that imagined, artificial, and curated representation of history...

books

Land|Slide Possible Futures Catalogue

I co-edited the catalogue for the Land|Slide: Possible Futures exhibition with Janine Marchessault, Chloë Brushwood Rose, and Jennifer Foster. This is an exhibtion that took place at the Markham...

events

Launch of Land|Slide: Possible Futures catalogue

Edited by: Janine Marchessault, Chloë Brushwood Rose, Jennifer Foster, and Aleksandra Kaminska We’re thrilled to be launching the catalogue of the Land|Slide: Possible Futures exhibition, which took place at...

edited journals

Public?

PUBLIC 37: Public? 20th Anniversary Issue, Spring 2008 Edited by Aleksandra Kaminska, Janine Marchessault, and Jason Rovito “In seeking to capture the journal’s ambition to interrogate and complicate this...