Yelena Gluzman

Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, & Society Studies
Department of Art and Design, Media & Technology Studies Unit

Office: 3-91 Fine Arts Building
gluzman@ualberta.ca

Areas of Teaching and Research

Teaching: Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS); Art/Science Collaboration; Interaction Studies; Experimental Methods, Feminist Methods

Research: (1) Experimental ways of knowing across the arts and laboratory sciences; (2) Histories and embodied practices of real-time talk-to-text captioning; (3) Reflexivity, experimentality and collaboration in STS

The first of three film stills from Gluzman's 'Invisible Machines', an experimental short film about the history of feminized information labor and what it may mean for captioning in the classroom today. 

Biography

BA in Biopsychology (Barnard College, 1996)
MFA in Theater Directing (Columbia University, 2001)
PhD in Communication, Science Studies, and Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science (University of California, San Diego, 2021)

Yelena Gluzman works in emergent modes of collaborative and experimental Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS). Her research has developed critical collaborations with scientists, engineers, experimental subjects, and stenographers, informed by the "methodologics" of experimental theater and feminist STS. Most recently, she completed a project reconsidering experimental methods in cognitive neuroscience experiments on autism, where she collaborated with cognitive neuroscientists to design alternatives to deficit-based experimental paradigms. She is currently working on a multimedia project researching stenographers who caption talk-to-text in real time for d/Deaf students, exploring the dynamics and distributed sense-making of this kind of access work, and considering these in respect to automated captioning systems. She is open to working with graduate students and advanced undergraduates on projects that use performance, artistic, or critical making strategies and engage with the history, sociology, anthropology or philosophy of science/medicine/technology.

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The second and third of three film stills from Gluzman's 'Invisible Machines', an experimental short film about the history of feminized information labor and what it may mean for captioning in the classroom today.