Did you know there were anime games made in Montreal? Come meet CyberConnect2 (Naruto STORM, Demon Slayer) VP Taichiro Miyazaki and art director Yohei Ishibashi at an event co-hosted by TAG and the Concordia Game Development Club! CyberConnect2 will introduce their studio, the artistic ins and outs of anime game development in Japan and Montreal, […]
When we use a computer, do we have to think in the language of the computer? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with digital interactive artist Tim Murray-Browne. I’ll talk about my artistic practice of building embodied interactive systems. Particularly with dancers, I’ve found code introduces abstractions of the body, […]
Post Image presents Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal, in the fourth installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting […]
Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia's talk 'Postcolonial Nature'. In this talk, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs […]
Join us for the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find the Ground, Post Image's cycle of artist talks and artist residencies, featuring a talk with black feminist theorist Tina Campt! Tina Campt's lecture reflects on the the afterlives of images re-activated in ways that imagine black life, bodies, and spaces across time. This lecture […]
The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting, analyzing, and visualizing digital text as data. A deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars, proper methodological […]
Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk "Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making": Regulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. […]
How can science fiction contribute to doing social sciences otherwise? On February 17th, 2023, the Ethnography Lab will be welcoming fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss fiction writing in relation to ethnographic practices. Kim Stanley Robinson is a world renowned science fiction author, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, who’s work centers […]
Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate, learn, and interact with one another. In response, it's important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. To this end, the Digital Intimacies, Gender and Sexuality Lab, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute, is organizing a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick […]
Join us for a live watch party of Elaine Gómez-Sanchez’ talk The Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized Communities in Creative Works. Elaine will speak to how gaming has the power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions and will explain how games can be designed to create social impact in meaningful ways. […]
The Immersive Storytelling Studio (previously the Immersive Reality / VR Lab) invites you to Immersive and Augmented Performance practices, where our guests Zoey M. Cochran, Pierre-Henri Barralis and Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin will speak about their individual approaches to immersion and their collaborative process working with the “OpéRA de poche” project. When? March 6, from 5-7pm Where? […]
Dr. Marika Cifor will speak about Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry, as part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum and co-hosted by the DIGS Lab. The talk will […]