Position

Assistant Professor 

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Faulty of Information (University of Toronto)

Ph.D, Cinema and Media Arts (York University)

MEng, English Literature and Creative Writing (University of Windsor)

BA (University of Victoria) 

Contact Information

Office: AA 3029

Telephone: 709-864-8060

Email: aaron.tucker@mun.ca

Website: aarontucker.ca

Teaching and Research Interests

Media Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Technologies, Film Studies

Creative Writing: Fiction, Creative Writing: Poetry

 

Selected Publications

Scholarly Books

Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet In Popular Film. Palgrave Macmillan. New York: 2017.

Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, New York: 2014.

 

Novels

Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys. Coach House Books. Toronto, 2023

Oppenheimer. Éditions La Peuplade. Trans. Rachel Martinez (French), 2020.

Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos. Coach House Books. Toronto, 2018.

 

Poetry Collections

Catalogue d’oiseaux. Book*hug Press. Toronto, 2021.

irresponsible mediums: Duchamp plays the ChessBard. Book*hug Press. Toronto, 2017.

punchlines. Mansfield Press. Toronto, 2015

 

Articles and Book Chapters

“Interoperable and Standardized Algorithmic Images: The Domestic War on Drugs and Mugshots

            Within Facial Recognition Technologies” Big Data and Society. Forthcoming, September,          

            2024.

“Synthetic Media and Deepfakes: Tactical Media in the Pluriverse.” Digital Studies. Author. 2024.“Incubating AI: The Collaboratory at TMU        

             University Library” The Rise of AI: Implications and

             Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries. Co-author, peer reviewed book        

            chapter. McGill University Press, 2022.

“Photogénie and Facial Recognition Software” Face Forward: New Approaches to the Face on

            Screen. Book Chapter. Ed. Alice Maurice. Edinburgh Press, 2022.

“The 1980s War on Drugs, the FERET Database, and Building Future Infrastructure for Facial

            Recognition Technologies” STREAM: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication. 2022.

“Solving the Conflict Between Breathability and Masked Faces within Facial Recognition

            Technologies.” Afterimage. 2021.

“Against the Deterministic Cinema of Facial Recognition Technologies” Cinephile. 2021.

“The Citizen Question: Making Identities Visible Via Facial Recognition Software at the Border” I

            EEE Society and Technology. December 2020.

“Addressing Machine Co-authorship(s) via Translative Creative Writing.” Journal of Creative

            Writing Studies. Ed. Kathi Inman Berens. Summer 2019.

“3D Printing in the Humanities”. Doing More Digital Humanities 2. Ed. C. Constance, R. Lane, and

            R. Siemens. Routledge. Fall, 2019.

 

Current Research Projects

The history of Facial Recognition Technologies

The Last Horse (Novel)

Canadian AI as Techno-national Project

 

Honours

Governor General’s Gold Medal, Ian Lancashire Student Promise Award, Film and Media Studies Student Essay Prize