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.
Publications
'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.
Conference Presentations
20-22 September 2023 - De-ciphering the unmeasurables: performance indicators and exhibition spaces - 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, 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.