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Wioleta Kaminska

Chair, digital communication

Education

  • M.F.A., Design, California College of the Arts
  • M.A., Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw
  • B.A., ESL Teaching, University of Gdańsk
  • A.S., Interior Design, West Valley College

Credentials

  • Chair, digital communication, 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Professor of digital communication, 2019–23
  • Lecturer, design and media, 2019, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
  • Lecturer, design, 2017–19, University of San Francisco, San Francisco
  • Lecturer, design and media, 2018–19, San Francisco State University, San Francisco
  • Lecturer, design and media, 2018–19, San Francisco State University, College of Extended Learning, San Francisco
  • Lecturer, design and media, 2015–19, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
  • Human-centered design consultant, 2018–19, SF Office of Digital Equity, San Francisco
  • Strategy director, 2013–16, Motion Design Inc., Santa Cruz, CA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Presidential Fellowship Award, "Digital Leadership and Ethics of AI," Savannah College of Art and Design, 2025
  • Presidential Fellowship Award, "AI Strategy," Savannah College of Art and Design, 2024
  • Curator's Choice Award, "Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine," Europeana Space Project, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, 2016

Organizations

Professional certifications

  • AI Strategy, Cornell University
  • Designing and Building AI Solutions, Cornell University
  • Digital Leadership, Cornell University
  • Ethics of AI, The London School of Economics and Political Science
  • AI, Empathy and Ethics, UC Santa Cruz

Publications and presentations

Exhibitions and recognitions

  • Melting Glaciers, screening, ArtFields Festival 2025, Lake City, SC, 2025
  • Morfar i Grønland, a multi-media exhibition showcasing life in the Arctic Circle, Gallery 2424, Savannah, GA, 2024
  • SAV.EXE, a multi-site exhibition of new media installations developed around one question: What does it mean to work at the intersection of art and technology today? Screening of the video landscapes: Truth and Forest Bathing, ARTS Southeast and Gallery 2424, Savannah, GA, 2024
  • Retreating, Cedar House Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2023
  • "Melting Glaciers," Gathered VI, group exhibition, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA, 2023–24
  • Look!, group exhibition, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA, 2023
  • Retreating, exhibition, Jepson Center at Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, 2023–24
  • Retreating, exhibition, Gilfélagið/Deiglan, Akureyri, Iceland, 2022
  • Open Studio, SÍM, Seljavegur Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2022
  • How We Hear Now, presented by ECOPOESIS Project, California College of the Arts; The San Francisco Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, 2021
  • Urban Legends, screening with music by Zenial, Live Concert, MuseInSitu. La Muse En Circuit, Paris, France, 2021
  • The Sensory Orders, Center for Contemporary Art, ŁAŹNIA, Gdansk, Poland, 2020–21
  • Following the Deep, LEM Station with Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Kiev, Ukraine, 2020
  • Our Journey Together, video installations, Museum of Folk Culture, Węgorzewo, Poland, 2019
  • FOG. And The Whole World Stops, screening, Plexus Projects Gallery, New York City, NY, 2019
  • 20 Years of Form Studio 1999-2019, photo exhibition, Institute of Advancing Uncertainty, San Francisco, CA, 2019
  • Oculis Magnis, screening, San Francisco Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, CA, 2018–19
  • "Inside Silence" series, Sense of Place, Wobneb Magazine, 2018
  • "Inside Silence" series, photography exhibition, F-Stop Magazine, 2018
  • "The Subtle Cosmos," TREES, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT, 2018
  • Loop, Past Is Present, Before Silence, Simulacrum, Group Media Arts film screening, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2018
  • The Bird and the Machine & And the Whole World, Installation in Employee Lounge Google, San Francisco, CA, 2017–18
  • The Sadness of the Machine, screening, Inside/Outside: Working Our Way Out of the Damaged Now. Design As Dialectics, San Francisco State University Design Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2017
  • A Wildfire Lullaby #1, screening, Passage Collective VM 23, Arnhem, Netherlands, 2016
  • Stages, screening, Alma Matter, CCA 2016 Alumni Exhibition, CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA, 2016
  • I Miss My Homes, screening, Europeana Space 3rd Int. Conference - Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum Fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany, 2016
  • Fog. And the Whole World Stops + Acting Bodies. The Ghost In the Machine, screening, Borders, International Art and Architecture Festival - Fragmented Identities, Venice, Italy, 2016
  • Fog. And the Whole World Stops + Acting Bodies. The Ghost In the Machine, screening, The Contemporary Video Art and Performing Art Festival, Rome, Italy, 2016
  • And the Whole World Stops series, screening, FERMATA exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2016
  • Through the Looking Glass, CRANK juried screening, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2015
  • Fog. And the Whole World Stops, screening and honorable mention, London International Creative Competition, London, UK, 2015
  • Labyrinth series, screening, Fall Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2015
  • Labyrinth series, screening, The Fairmont of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2015
  • Fog. And the Whole World Stops, screening, Biennale WRO Test Exposure. New Media & Visual Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, 2015
  • Fog. And the Whole World Stops, screening, YICCA – International Contest of Contemporary Art, Lugano, Switzerland, 2014
  • And the Whole World Stops series, screening, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, 2014
  • And the Whole World Stops series, screening, Pop-Up at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2014
  • Osmosis, screening, "Metamorphosis" Nightlife Event, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2013
  • ABC Portfolio Primer Posters, exhibition, "Orange Nights: Amsterdam and San Francisco," De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, 2013

Presentations and talks

  • Artist Talk for Retreating. Presented at Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, 2023.
  • Artist Talk. Presented at SÍM, Seljavegur Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2022.
  • Online conversations with Sensory Orders Exhibition artists. Part of the Disorientation and Hybrids Discussions. Presented at Center for Contemporary Art, ŁAŹNIA, Gdansk, Poland, 2020.
  • "Following the Deep," presented at LEM Station, Kiev, Ukraine, 2020.
  • "And the Whole World Stops," presented for In the Making Lecture series, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2020.
  • "Design As Dialectics," presented for Inside/Outside: Working Our Way Out of the Damaged Now (Design As Dialectics), SFSU Design Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2017.

Artist residency

  • Gilfélagið Residency, Akureyri, Iceland, 2022
  • Seljavegur Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2022
  • Honorary AIR Awardee – KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2017
  • Headlands Center For the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2015