Bio
Aline Zara is a Ph.D. candidate and artist at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, supervised by M.E. Luka. Their research focuses on voice, sound, embodiment, and AI at the intersection of critical AI studies, voice and sound studies, transfeminist science and technology studies, disability studies, queer studies, and research-creation methods. Their dissertation brings together media histories of synthetic voice technologies with research-creation and speculative workshops to critically explore the relationship between AI-generated voices and imaginary bodies. Their written work has been published in Feminist Pedagogy and is forthcoming elsewhere. Learn more at alinerossizara.com.
Specialization
Media, Culture, and Technology concentration
Book History and Print Culture collaborative program
Degrees
MI (University of Toronto)
MMSt (University of Toronto)
BA (York University)
Committees or Affiliations
Critical Digital Methods Institute (CDMI)
Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)
Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures (GRASAC)
Recognition and Accolades
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC CGS-D)