The Concordia University's Centre for Sensory Studies invites everyone to the international multidisciplinary conference Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies & Aesthetics, happening from May 3rd to May 6th at Concordia University and on-line! The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the focus […]
A Student Symposium on Critical AI Studies in CanadaHosted by Machines Agencies of Speculative Life June 16 from 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM and June 17 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PMOnline and In Person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W Register on Eventbrite to Participate About UsWe are excited about using this event […]
About midway through the exhibition portion, we present to you the Symposium segment, where you'll be able to hear presentations about exciting research-creation projects and participate in a Gameboy workshop led by Alex Custodio and Michael Iantorno! What a variety! It's all happening May 13th, from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM, at the Milieux Resource […]
It is (once again!) with great enthusiasm that we introduce to you another segment/announcement/development for In the Middle, a Chimera, the Milieux Institute's Year-End Exhibition and Symposium! This time we are announcing the official programming for the warm-up segment, happening from April 21st to May 3rd. This segment encompasses three diverse, incisive and vivifying events—a […]
Fossilation, installation, 2020-2021 (detail).Bioplastic membrane, an apparatus for harvesting residual energy interacting with light, 2021. A project designed collectively by rice Ammar-Khodja, Alexandra Bachmayer, Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Pier Boucher, Didier Bouchon, Maria Chekhanovich, Matthew Halpenny, Alice Jarry, Raphaëlle Kerbrat, Annie Leuridan, Vanessa Mardirossian, Asa Perlman, Philippe Vandal and Lucile Vareilles, as part of a collaboration between […]
Register for this event Milieux Engagement This year's program features 20+ Milieux Institute students, faculty, and collaborators: Alexandre SaunierAllison MooreAntonia HernandezCeyda YolgormezCsenge KolozsvariEmmanuelle ForguesGarrett JohnsonJoseph ThibodeauMatthew HalpennyNavid NavabNima NavabSamuel ThulinSamuelle BourgaultSuzanne KiteChristopher SalterDavid HowesJill DidurRicardo Dal FarraRilla KhaledMaurizio MartinucciNathalie Dubois CaleroSofian AudryStanzi Vaubel See the full program for details. ISEA2020 Theme ISEA 2020 turns towards […]
Register for this event Hexagram, the network dedicated to research-creation in arts, culture, and technology, is hosting the first edition of its online Interdisciplinary Summit. This web platform, which will provide a creative laboratory for all, will be launched on the 15th of September at noon. The theme of this first edition makes reference to […]
New Nature is a year-long exchange between 25 leading climate scientists, artists, producers, and creators working on the forefront of immersive technologies, initiated by the Goethe-Institute of Montreal, in partnership with the Milieux Institute and others. Originally planned as an on-site event in Montreal, the project is now kicking off online from Monday May 25 […]
Education Makers invites you to attend their belated Arduino Day celebration. Hosted by #CU4thSpace and Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia, this virtual and global celebration will introduce you to the exciting world of Arduino: an open-source hardware and software project and user community that designs and manufactures single-board kits for building […]
Use, re-use, engagement, creation, distraction, immersion, seduction, play, critique—media and culture consist of practices that shape experience, meaning, and communities. The basic dynamism of media present and past, though, is not always accommodated in our critical, theoretical, and scholarly approaches. We need critical explorations that recognize and assess media and their full cultural complexities in […]
A discussion of... What is liveness? How do we do liveness? This event is part of the weeklong planning session for the new SSHRC project “Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences” which looks at "liveness" across three different but neighboring practices: participatory theatre, larps (live action role playing games) and digital-physical games. Lynn Hughes and […]
Milieux is excited to host the inaugural Conference on Maker Cultures. For the very first time, this event will bring top international scholars studying maker culture together with active maker faire participants, scholars and students and the general public. Together, we turn our gaze on the maker movement itself though insight and discussion around five crucial themes: the […]