Join Media and Materiality Cluster for the second talk of the Montreal Media History Seminar, a series of public talks and discussions on recent media scholarship. ABOUT THE TALK: What is the social significance of a photographic archive with no, or at most a very accidental, external audience? Is it akin to photographs that are […]
Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. The ecological, social, and political challenges of our time require creative, more-than-human, and futures-oriented engagements. However, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative, caring, engaged, or collaborative thinking, making, or doing. […]
Join TAG on November 19 for a talk on children's digital play with Sara M. Grimes. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Sara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the Director and Founder of […]
Join the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster for a special virtual talk with curator and writer Samantha Lance as she shares reflections on curating textile practices. This session will explore ancestral, diasporic, and contemporary contexts, and will be especially relevant for anyone interested in material culture, embodied histories, and textiles as vessels of memory and […]
Join us for the third talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! This new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. While the concept of the geological Anthropocene may have diminished […]
Join us for the second talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! This new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. ABOUT THE TALK: In Fall of 2024, the United Nations hosted hundreds of […]
Join TAG on March 14th for a talk on extreme design and game narrative with Evgeni Puzankov. ABOUT THE TALK: Extreme Design Spaces are wonderful. These are design contexts and tools, not necessarily physical environments. This practice is an exercise in failure to approach every interactive project as its own medium in an industry that’s […]
Join us for the inaugural talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! This new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. In this first event, Alison Donnell, Head of Humanities at the University […]
Co-chairs : Nina Czegledy and Ricardo Dal Farra Presented as part of the LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks series and supported by Hexagram, this event explores how AI and human-computer interaction are reshaping creative practices. Artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are revolutionizing creative practices, offering innovative tools and methodologies for […]
Join the Media and Materiality Research Cluster for the first Montreal Media History Seminar of 2025. This talk will explore the history and significance of Junior Press Clubs in 20th-century newspapers, examining how youth-driven media outlets shaped early youth journalism and the varying motivations behind their creation, drawing insights from Gabriele and Moore's book The […]
Join us for a two-day conference exploring the intersection of AI and Digital Humanities. This event is organized by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) in collaboration with the Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique (GREN) and the Milieux Institute. Program: Wednesday 15 January 2025: 10am-10.30m — Welcome […]
Join LePARC Research Cluster for a book talk with Toni Pape about his new book The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture, Video Games, and the Politics of Perception. In this book, Pape explores how performances of tactical imperceptibility - or “stealth” - have emerged as a crucial mode of cultural expression and political action in […]