Olszanowski

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Last name

Olszanowski

Position

PhD Student, TA, RA

Institution

Communication Studies

Website

http://words.raisecain.net

Brief Bio

PhD Student and artist focused on locative media, critical cartography, and emerging cinematic spaces.

Full Bio

Magdalena Olszanowski is currently pursuing a research-creation PhD in Communication Studies at Concordia University with an Arts&Science Fellowship, under the supervision of Kim Sawchuk. She is a research assistant at Sawchuk's Mobile Media Lab and a TA for Sawchuk's Communication Studies Diploma course. She is research affiliate at the Topological Media Lab. She is also a TA for Jeremy Stolow's "History of Media and Communication" undergraduate course. She obtained her BA honours summa cum laude from the University of Toronto and an MA in Communication and Culture from York University. She has studied at the University of Amsterdam on full scholarship. A certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto school of Continuing Education also hangs on her mom’s wall.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, she is a sujet-en-proces, existing within the contours of relations. Her work grounds itself in the multi-faceted topology of surveillance and process/movement. Magdalena’s research topics include the body as an ‘open system’ prepared for ‘abstract sex’, granular synthesis, process philosophy’s potential in re-framing mapping practices, revolution in the mundane everyday, the production of space, emerging media and the liminal spaces of the ‘not yet’ in immersive environments.

By the by, she identifies as an arts-based researcher with lax hygiene and no social graces.