Gardner is interdisciplinary scholar, whose multimedia practice and written scholarship binds cultural studies, feminist media studies and science and technology studies. She is the Asper Chair in Communications in the Faculty of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University, where she runs Pulse Lab, and Adjunct Faculty at OCAD University, where she co-founded the Mobile Experience Lab (mobilelab.ca). Gardner is incoming President of the International Communication Association, sits on the Steering committee for FemTechNet, and was a founding PI on the GRAND NCE network. Gardner’s research creation practice has been supported by SSHRC, Heritage Canada, National Centres of Excellence, among others. Her current research creation projects employ visual aesthetics, participatory design, critical feminist, mobile and locative theory to create in mobile, gesture-based and biometric platforms that aim to create unique art experiences as well as therapeutic interventions. She is completing a documentary film on US asylum system problematics since 9/11/01 and is working on a book entitled Pace, the Affective Labour of Activity Trackers. Her textual scholarship has been published in Body and Society, Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, the Journal of Medical Humanities, the Canadian Journal of Communication, and Aether: Journal of Media Geography.
