Renata Pękowska
PhD Research Student
Renata Pękowska
Multimodal exhibition practices as sites of attention care
Research Supervisor: Dr Katherine Nolan
Renata Pękowska is a visual artist and researcher based in Dublin. She is currently a PhD Researcher at the School of Media, TU Dublin.
Her background includes architectural studies, BDes in craft design (NCAD), MA in critical theory and curating (NCAD), MA in UI and UX Design (TU Dublin).
Her PhD project is funded by the Irish Research Council. The project considers multimodal exhibition practices as sites of attention care, in the context of the attention economy of online platforms. It interrogates discursive potential of sites of presence and co-presence, generating sociable togetherness or hybrid togetherness through liveness and embodiment. The expanded forms of outreach and exhibition design practices are considered in the context of three ecologies: individual, social and environmental.
Recent Publications:
‘Seeking Attention: Exhibition-Related Practices As Sites of Attention Care in the Context of Digital Attention Economies’ - Mimesis Journal Vol. 13 No. 2 (2024), DRHA, pp. 617-624 https://doi.org/10.13135/2389-6086/9937
‘Can drawing workshops take on a role of attention care? Exhibition-related practices in the context of attention economies’ - Museum Ireland 2023: IMA Annual Journal Vol. 30, Irish Museums Association; Widdis, B. (Ed), pp. 34-38. https://www.irishmuseums.org/museum-ireland-2023.pdf
'Embodied cognition and the limits of digital museum experience' - Museum International Vol 74, No. 293-294, International Council of Museums, Taylor & Francis / Routledge, December 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/13500775.2022.2157571
Conference Presentations:
23-25 October 2024 - Drawing Attention: Multimodal Drawing Workshops; Exploring Aesthetic Practices conference, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
18-19 October 2024 - Drawing Attention - Can drawing practice reclaim multisensory nuance? The 4th Annual European Culture & Technology Lab (ECT+) Conference, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
13-14 September 2024 - Now draw this smell! Multimodal drawing workshops and the unmeasurables against performance indicators; Wild Research Symposium, University of Glasgow.
8-10 September 2024 - Back to the drawing board! Can drawing practice help our digitally depleted attention?; Banal Devices - Everyday Technology in Globalised Technocultures, DRHA Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 2024, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
13-14 June 2024 - Seeking attention: multimodal exhibition related practices as sites of attention care in the context of the digital attention economies; Digital Art in Ireland Symposium, University College Cork.
15-17 April 2024 - Role of smell in multimodal drawing workshops - presentation; Olfactory Cultural Studies Workshop, University of Copenhagen.
20-22 September 2023 - De-ciphering the unmeasurables: performance indicators and exhibition spaces - pecha kucha presentation; SPACEX Training Event on Cultural Policy, University of Amsterdam.
10-13 September 2023 - Seeking attention: tangible and intangible museum experiences and the effects of the digital attention economy - conference paper, DRHA 2023 Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts conference, University of Turin.
9 September 2023 - Careful attention: museum as a site of attention care in the context of the digital attention economy - conference paper, 2023 Irish Museums Association (IMA) Annual Conference, Ulster University, Magee Campus, Derry.
3-6 September 2023 - Museum as a site of olfactory communication and learning - presentation, NOS-HS Exploratory Workshop in Olfactory Cultural Studies, Volda University College, Runde, Norway.
29 June 2023 - Careful attention: museum as a site of attention care in the context of the digital attention economy - conference paper, Care-ful Museums Conference, Nottingham Trent University.
2 June 2022 - Intermodal and intersensory potential of interactive audiovisual performance - symposium presentation, Digital Art in Ireland Conference DigiArt22, University College Cork.