Dr Agnieszka Kiejziewicz
agnieszka.kiejziewicz2@rmit.edu.vn
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agnieszka-Kiejziewicz/research
About
Dr. Agnieszka Kiejziewicz – holds a PhD in the Arts and Humanities (with an emphasis on Film and Media) from the Jagiellonian University in Poland. She is the author of over fifty peer-reviewed articles about audiovisual art, media art, Asian film, media, culture, digital art, games. For the past few years, she has been working at RMIT Vietnam, developing Virtual Reality and holographic display-based projects. She is particularly interested in connections between body and nature and human perception of the connection to nature in technology-driven surroundings.
After studying Asian cultures, film and audiovisual art and programming, she turned into research on Game narratives, archiving games through emerging technologies, VR and holographic projections. Currently a lecturer in the Game Design program, specializing in Game Narratives, Game Archives, and a contextual approach to gaming cultures.
Books
2021 Kiejziewicz A, Completed in Apparent Incompletion. The Sculpture Art of Wojciech Sęczawa [Skończone w pozornym nieskończeniu. Rzeźby Wojciecha Sęczawy]. Gdańsk: University of Gdańsk Press. ISBN: 9788382061956 (in Polish language).
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film. Berlin: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3631798133.
Book chapters
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Battin J, Asian solarpunk: theorizing urban planning narratives between utopia, collective futures, and remedies for climate panic. In: D. Roh, B. Huang, G. Niu, C. Fan (eds), Techno-Orientalism 2.0. New Intersections and Interventions. New Brunswick: Ruthers University Press. ISBN: 9781978839212 (in press, to be published July 15, 2025).
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Virtual reality as a documentary medium. The case of Kênh Tẻ memory preservation and community storytelling practices. In: Outside the System - Southern & Eastern Documentary Production monograph, Schleser M (ed), Intellect Publishers (in press, proofs approved).
2021 Kiejziewicz A, Stelarc. In: A. McFarlane, G. J. Murphy, L. Schmeink (eds), Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture. New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003091189-42.
Journal articles
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Visual expansions and immersive education. The possibilities of Virtual Reality (VR) films in narrating contemporary conflicts and history. Iluminace. The Journal of Film Theory, History and Aesthetics. Czech Republic (in press, proofs approved).
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Dinh TA, Using ChatGPT to Learn Vocabulary in Context -The Case of In-Service Teachers Learning Vietnamese. ASEAN Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 3, Issue 1, 100-108. eISSN 3009-0539.
2023 Kiejziewicz A, The boundaries of oblivion: Ghosts and memory in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s short films. Short Film Studies, Vol 13, Issue 1, 21-33. DOI: 10.1386/sfs_00089_1.
2022 Kiejziewicz A, Sensibilities of the digital era. New media and future technologies in K-drama subgenre narratives. Panoptikum. Vol 28. DOI: 10.26881/pan.2022.28.06.
2022 Kiejziewicz A, Kolekcjonowanie popkultury. Kilka słów o archiwizacji anime i japońskich filmowych memorabiliach [Collecting popular culture. A few words about anime archiving and japanese movie memorabilia]. Studia Filmoznawcze. Vol 42, 5-16 (in Polish language).
2021 Kiejziewicz A, Zwolan M, Smakowanie filmu. Kulinarna promocja filmu jako paratekst w kontekście badań nad międzynarodową recepcją kina azjatyckiego [Tasting the film. The culinary promotion of films as paratext in the context of international reception of Asian cinema]. Panoptikum. Vol 25, 155-170. DOI: 10.26881/pan.2021.25.09.
2021 Kiejziewicz A, Voices from a distance: Sámi Short film production in 2020. Short Film Studies Vol 11, Issue 2, 211-220. DOI: 10.1386/sfs_00056_1.
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Cyberpunk in the Museum: Actuality, Future, and the Challenges of Exhibiting Movie Memorabilia. SFRA Review, published online, 59-67. ISSN: 2641-2837.
Conferences and workshops
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Virtual reality as a documentary medium. The case of Kênh Tẻ memory preservation and community storytelling practices. Documentary & Non-Fiction Nexus Conference. Organiser: Swinburne University, Malaysia
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Athugala R, Pixels and holograms: cross-media teaching of Asian gaming heritage. Gaming Intermediality: New Methods for Studying Digital Games, Organiser: Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Växjö, Sweden [Online].
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Athugala R, Kaliyaperumal S, Hansen J,Game Design in Southeast Asia: between teaching perspectives and games industry in Vietnam, 53rd Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Organiser: Stephen F. Austin State University, Austin, US
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Dinh TA, Acquisition of vocabulary-in-context using ChatGPT. A report on a Vietnamese case study. AILA2024, 21st International Association of Applied Linguistics Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Breakfast around Kênh Tẻ Canal. The Possibilities of VR Film as an Ethnographical Tool and Immersive Community Engagement in Vietnam, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Austin, US [Onlie].
2023 Kiejziewicz A (panel chair), Rabin K, Wajda P, Battin J, Pham HN, Vietnamese Heritage through Digital/Mixed Art and (Audio)Visuality. Methods and Practice; Individual presentation: Immersive Community Engagement around Kenh Te Canal, HCMC: VR Film and Digital Ethnography, 14th Engaging With Vietnam Conference. Organiser: Engaging with Vietnam Association, Hue City, Vietnam
2022 Kiejziewicz A, Immersive community engagement around Kenh Te Canal, HCMC. The possibilities of VR film as an ethnographical tool. Engaging with Vietnam 12, USSH, HCMC.
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Cyberpunk in the Modern Museum. Actuality, Future and the Challenges of Exhibiting Movie Memorabilia. CyberPunk Culture Conference, Organisers: Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany [Online].
Exhibitions, NTROs and others
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Athugala R, Kaliyaperumal S. Morphology of Kinesis [digital installation]
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Stiff A. Research-based exhibition: Kênh Tẻ. Past/Future/Intermedia. Curation. Ho Chi Minh City. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26828086.
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Kênh Tẻ Canal. Past/Future. Virtual Reality (VR) experience. Virtual Reality experience/video. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26828191
2020 – Kiejziewicz A, The Language of Stray Bodies, Flamingo E. Curation, at the exhibition: Twilight of the Anthropocene, The Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, Poland. The installation got the exhibition first prize and the first prize at WRO Media Art Biennale 2021: REVERSO, Poland.
Key grants and funding
2025 Kiejziewicz A, Athugala R, Kaliyaperumal S, Regenerating Play: Emerging Careers through Immersive 3D Technologies, RMIT CEIQ Educational Innovation Grant
2023-2024 Earl C, Kiejziewicz A, Dinh TA , 2AI: Academic integrity in the age of machine learning applications, RMIT Learning & Teaching Grant
2023 – 2024 Kiejziewicz A, Stiff A, Denis-Delacour C, River Cities as Method: Biography of the Sai Gon River VR storytelling pilot, RMIT Tier II Internal Grant
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Cyberpunk movie memorabilia. Preliminary research, ZAiKS (Union (or Association) of Authors and Stage Composers) stipend for writers, Poland
2018 Kiejziewicz A, Japanese culture and film, Erasmus + Internship Grant
2017 – 2018 – Kiejziewicz A,Researching on New Japanese Experimental Film. Young Researcher Award, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Invited lectures and presentations
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Immersive Community Engagement around Kenh Te Canal, HCMC: The
Possibilities of VR Film as a Research Method, invited lecture and workshop, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Cross-media storytelling in anime and digital games in the context of franchise models and industry cooperations, invited lecture and panel lead, Research Symposium Making Anime: In Between Art and Cinema, La Salle, Singapore LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2024 Kiejziewicz A, Dreams of sustainable futures: Solarpunk aesthetics and ecological
metanarratives in Japanese film and animation, keynote lecture, Research Seminar "Digital Dreams: Time of Reflection as Reflection of Time," LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2023 Kiejziewicz A, Community Engagement around Kenh Te Canal, HCMC, invited lecture, University of Architecture HCMC (UAH)
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Japanese tropes in Janusz Kaniewski’s design art, open lecture, Gdynia City Museum, Gdynia, Poland
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Tradition and modernity. The changes in cultural norms depicted in Japanese cinema, invited lecture, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
2020 Kiejziewicz A, Social changes in Japan as presented in the Japanese films. Chosen aspects, invited lecture, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Memberships and associations
2025- Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) (international)
2023- Association of Asian Studies (US)
2023- River Cities network, Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University, Netherlands