Milieux is an interdisciplinary graduate research institute for new media arts, digital culture and information technology at Concordia University in downtown Montreal.
Drawing on a legacy of media arts research-creation, Milieux aims to mess with the boundaries of creative experimentation, graduate research and training, and progressive critical thought and practice. We work with partners and collaborators from cultural and technology sectors and across the world to examine, co-create and share ideas, prototypes, experiences and practices that challenge assumptions shaping contemporary digital culture.
The recent news that a voter profiling company called Cambridge Analytica had obtained 50 million American Facebook users’ data and used it to formulate Trump…
It’s clear the moment you cross the threshold into SenseLab’s light-filled work space on the EV Building’s 10th floor that you’re entering an atypical academic…
What is the invisible glue that holds a research institute together? Money for projects, certainly, committed researchers, workspaces — Milieux has all of these in…
This year marks the inauguration of Milieux’s Undergraduate Fellows program, which awards $500 and membership privileges to a group of highly motivated and talented undergraduate…
This fall, Milieux’s porous outer membrane has stretched to accommodate a brand-new cluster: LePARC, the performing arts research cluster. This newest cluster’s faculty members –…
