This workshop will give an overview and teach the participants how to use the free, open-source, cross-platform software ossia score, starting from the ground up, and with the goal to enable them to create installation work, displays, interactive music. The workshop will be given by the software’s principal author, Concordia postdoc Jean-Michaël Celerier. Dubbed “interactive […]
We are happy to invite everyone to join us for the first workshop in the Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches series: Fabric pressure sensors and soft switches workshop, with lee wilkens & Alex Bachmayer. When? Monday, March 13th 2:00 – 5:00 pm Where? MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825) In this workshop you will learn how to use e-textiles to […]
Join Nostagain's path to creative nostalgia with a neuroscientist-artist via guided meditation, active recollection, and diorama crafting! Following the successful LOSTAGAIN symposium last February, the Nostagain Network continues the exploration of Creative Nostalgia (Boym 2001) in an intimate fashion. Led by neuroscientist-artist, Dr. Cristian Zaelzer, participants can expect to: Bring your oldest owned object to the workshop; Tell […]
Participatory Open Studio: VHS Residence at LePARC with visiting artist and master's student Juan Miceli. I will be working with 80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave me to construct a temporary collective video installation. I invite people to open those casetes, share personal archives, discuss the way vision machines mold us and find antidotes […]
A one-day workshop hosted by the City of Montreal, the Milieux Biolab, and the Concordia Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality In urban settings, the toxicity of the air, a milieu that is felt although invisible, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated by transport and construction activities have significant […]
"we are all 'in this together' as a shifting set of materials without privilege over each other." (Attala 2019) In this 2.5-hour workshop, you will learn the basics of paper-making and how to use pulp to form 3D objects. We will focus on repurposing and using found materials to create imagined creatures. This playful workshop […]
Join us for our last Walk in LePARC of the semester with visiting artist Margo Zālīte! Following a residency at LePARC, she will share her current process and work through informal discussion. Margo Zālīte describes her work as “moving pain paintings” that, in a free flow, balance between reality and imagination. Numerous opera productions have […]
The Immersive Storytelling Studio is looking forward to hosting a hands-on AR storytelling workshop, and they are looking for up to three Concordia students who have an interest in immersive storytelling and/or the concept of embodiment in digital space. You can find more information below and the sign up form here. Workshop title: How do […]
More-than-ethnographic probes: On scales, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human with Maxime Le Calvé The CURC in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Milieux Biolab are happy to host anthropologist of art and science Maxime Le Calvé (Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence, U. Humboldt) for a four-day workshop (April 28th to May […]
Interested in learning how to do data activism? Join our free workshop from May 5-7th on Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism, at Concordia University and online! “Mobilizing Data for Justice” is a three-day skills development workshop where activists and critical researchers can learn methods for making sense of and engaging with data in social struggles. […]
The Data Justice Hub invites you to a webinar with artist, activist, and architechtural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown: Unraveling Industry: Mapping Oil and Gas Infrastructure to Demand Reparations Unraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by company, supporting local and global demands for corporate accountability and "ecological reparations". It maps […]
DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP! What? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations When? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) Where? Milieux Institute, Concordia University We are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative […]