Digital Decay Workshop

Join us for a hands-on workshop that explores the generative potential of decay in digital and material images. From corrupted files to faded photocopies, we will use processes like hacking, glitching, scanning and printing. Inspired by Hito Steyerl’s In Defence of the Poor Image and Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism, we’ll rethink the aesthetics of deterioration. How can the ruin of an imager an archive or document open up new creative pathways?

This workshop is hosted by the Textiles & Materiality cluster and organized wit the support from Dr. Miranda Smitheram, as part of a Milieux Institute Invrestigations micro grant.

This workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series, check out the full schedule here.

About the Workshop Facilitators:

Morris Fox (he/they) is a queer-gothic artist/writer, and an Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia (Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal). Fox’s practice cruises the haunted house for feelings of community. Words and materials become a net that enmeshes, becoming a necropolis, a cemetery of desire. He interconnects eco-poetry, self-performance, VR, video, textiles, chainmaille, with queer material research, rubbing against ruins of memory, shimmering with apocalyptic imaginaries. His work seeks to “put the fun in funeral.”

Alexey Lazarev (he/him) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and third year Print MFA student at Concordia, exploring different facets of queer identities and migration: conflicts between personal and collective memories, formation and evolution of hybrid identities and the emotional side of belonging to a marginalized community. He investigates these themes using personal and found archives. Fascinated by how centuries-old methods of imagemaking adapt to the needs of contemporary society, Lazarev examines the interplay between print traditions and emergent technologies, focusing on the unorthodox application of print media, such as alternative ways of editioning, the use of 2D prints to create 3D installations and relief transfer on surfaces such as clay or plaster, creating his own material ecologies.

🗓 September  9, 2025
🕒 1-5 PM
📍Textiles and Materiality Cluster EV 10.730

🎟️ To register please confirm your spot by emailing T&M Cluster Coordinator