Aleksandra Kaminska

Bricoler les médias – maker projects

The annual maker faire for my graduate course on “making and media” had to take place virtually this year, so we zoomed, we blogged, and you can see and...

articles and essays

“The Intrinsic Value of Valuable Paper”

ABSTRACT Authentication devices transform cheap paper into legitimate documents. They are the sensory, informational, and computational features that make up valuable papers like banknotes and passports, and they provide...

edited journals

Biometrics: Mediating Bodies

I co-edited a special issue of the journal PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas on Biometrics. This issue maps out some of the ways that bodies have been measured and identified based on...

articles and essays

“Nano-Optical Image-Making”

This article has been a long time coming* but it is finally available in print form in the April 2020 issue of Leonardo. Nano-Optical Image-Making: Morphologies, Devices, Speculations ABSTRACT...

events

Bricolab YR1

First year at the Bricolab is a success! Here’s a recap of some of the things that went on in the past few months. See you (hopefully) in 2020-2021...

teaching

Reading group @ Artefact Lab – winter 2020

This year we started doing some readings as a lab as a way to focus our monthly meetings. This has been especially useful since individual project topics are very...

teaching

Bricolab in the news

A few news stories on the new Bricolab space from this Fall. Université de Montréal, UdeMnouvelles, October 1, 2019: Université de Montréal, Quartier Libre (student paper), November 9, 2019:...

events

Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data

Presenting a paper next week on “Speech Portraits and the Audio/Visual Self” at a conference at Goldsmith’s. Here is the programme in PDF with full abstracts. From the CFP:...

events

AI Commons Workshop

This week, I participated in a day-long workshop at Concordia, organized by the Machines Agencies working group, to think about what an AI commons might look like. Here are...

projects

Nano-Verses website…LIVE and in the news!

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. Working with...

events

Actualités de l’obsolète : journée d’étude sur le(s) temps du rétro

Ma présentation : Mythes et limites de l’obsolescence Résumé : Cette présentation offrira des exemples de projets personnels et étudiants, passant par la photographie et l’impression, pour compliquer les...

events, projects, teaching

The Bricolab is open!

The Bricolab is a space for creation and making of all kinds located in the Department of Communication at the UdeM that aims to encourage a variety of research-creation...

events

4S presentation on quality, trust, and the senses

Heading off to New Orleans next week to attend my first 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) conference. I’m excited to be on a panel on “Technicalities of...

events

Media, making et savoirs intermédiaires

Ce novembre, je participerai aux Entretiens Jacques Cartier durant une journée de présentations sur le thème: Art-Science : La frontière est un lieu en soi ! Les infos ici...

articles and essays

Don’t Copy That: Security Printing and the Making of High-Tech Paper

Abstract Printing is not a new media technology, but it is continuously being renewed. In this sense, it is an example of novelty going largely unnoticed, woven into the...

Aleksandra Kaminska

Assistant Professor, Media Studies · Université de Montréal

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