Aaron Tucker

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Aaron Tucker
Born1982 (age 4142)
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater University of Windsor; University of Victoria; York University
Notable worksIrresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp (2017); Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films (2017); Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos (2018); Catalogue d'oiseaux (2020); Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys (2023)
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aarontucker.ca

Aaron Tucker (born 1982) is a Canadian writer, digital artist, and scholar. [1]

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He is a lecturer in the English department and a research fellow with the Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University. [2] He received his Ph.D. from the Cinema and Media Arts Department at York University in March 2023, where his graduate work studying the cinema of facial recognition technologies was awarded the Governor General Gold Medal. [3]

Life and work

Tucker was born in Vernon, British Columbia, and resides and works in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of two novels, three books of poetry, and two academic books. [4] [5] [6] [7] He teaches and researches 3D printing [8] and other artistic ways of rethinking the relationship between humans and computers. [1] He also collaborates with poets, programmers, and artists on digital art projects [1] such as The ChessBard [9] and Loss Sets. [10]

His academic work looks primarily at the intersection of citizenship, the management of citizenship resources, and crises within facial recognition technology, with articles appearing in IEEE Technology and Society and Afterimage. [11] [12]

Works

Novels

Poetry collections

Academic monographs

Art projects

Art exhibitions and performances

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  6. "Aaron Tucker | Coach House Books". chbooks.com. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  7. 1 2 "Catalogue d'oiseaux by Aaron Tucker | Book*hug Press". 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
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  9. 1 2 "Chess Poetry". chesspoetry.com. Aaron Tucker. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  10. 1 2 "Loss Sets". aarontucker.ca. Aaron Tucker. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  11. Tucker, Aaron (2021-03-01). "The Citizen Question: Making Identities Visible Via Facial Recognition Software at the Border". IEEE Technology and Society. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  12. Tucker, Aaron (2021-09-01). "Solving the Conflict Between Breathability and Masked Faces within Facial Recognition Technologies". Afterimage. 48 (3): 58–70. doi:10.1525/aft.2021.48.3.58. ISSN   0300-7472.
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  14. Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys.
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