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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland\, the latest publication by Will Straw. \nIn its time (the 1920s and 1930s)\, the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison in 1925. In recent years\, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. \nThe fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan\, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives. This talk will deal with the historical usefulness of these accounts\, and with the problem of researching magazines which were rarely preserved in libraries and\, until very recently\, ignored by historians. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nWill Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery\, 2006) and the new Nights in Fairyland: Gossip\, Blackmail\, and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities. Will Straw is also the co-editor of numerous books\, including Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin\, 2014)\, Night Studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli\, 2020) and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Night Time Economy(with Jess Reia and Alessio Koliulis). Dr. Straw has published more than 200 articles on cinema\, music popular culture and the urban night. \n  \n  \n  \nFebruary 13\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure your register for this event \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-and-book-launch-nights-in-fairland-by-will-straw/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Talk with Jeremy Stolow
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre on April 10th for the last event of their Montreal Media History Seminar. \nProfessor Jeremy Stolow will give a lecture about his latest book Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press). \nThe talk will be followed by a reception. \nThe event is free and open to all! \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nJeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University\, where he teaches and conducts research on religion and media\, the history of technology\, occultism and science\, and visual culture. In addition to his latest book\, Picturing Aura (MIT Press 2025)\, he is the author of Orthodox By Design (U of California Press 2010) and Deus in Machine: Religion\, Technology\, and the Things in Between (Fordham u press\, 2013). \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nPicturing Aura (MIT Press\, 2025) offers a historical\, anthropological\, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize that hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as our aura. This book chronicles the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques of picturing aura\, from the late nineteenth century to the present day\, exploring how its images are put to work in the diverse realms of psychical research\, esotericism\, art photography\, popular culture\, and the New Age alternative medical and spiritual marketplace. These sometimes complementary\, sometimes conflicting histories – shaped by exchanges among professionals and amateurs\, scientists and occultists\, countercultural artist and entrepreneurs\, metropolitans and hinterland figures – show how the aura operates as a boundary object: something ontologically plural and somehow serviceable to the varying tasks and making art\, healing bodies\, and mapping technologies\, and images migrations\, while also reflecting on the very enterprise of picturing aura and the challenges it poses to settled assumptions about religion\, science and art. \n  \n  \n📅 April 10\, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM\n📍: Now in Speculative Life Room EV. 10.625 (was Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705)\n🔗 Please confirm your attendance here\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-and-talk/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Output with Nick Montfort
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 17 for a reading and panel discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953-2023 edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. \nWe’re thrilled to welcome authors Sofian Audry\, Bill Kennedy\, Erín Moure\, and Darren Wershler for a conversation about the book and the fascinating world of computer-generated writing. \nCopies of OUTPUT will be available for purchase\, and there will be free giveaways of other books featuring computer-generated writing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNick Montfort uses computation to develop literary art. His work includes ten computer-generated books (in print from seven presses)\, the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between\, and Memory Slam: Batch-Era Text Generation. Among his MIT Press books are The Future and two co-edited volumes\, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023. He’s professor of digital media at MIT and principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. Montfort directs a lab/studio\, The Trope Tank\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nAn anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems\, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. \nThe discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation\, as it happens\, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology\, Output\, thoughtfully selected\, introduced\, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort\, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include text generated by research systems\, along with reports and utilitarian texts\, representing many general advances and experiments in text generation. \nOutput is first and foremost a collection of outputs to be encountered by readers. In addition to an overall introduction\, each of the excerpts is introduced individually and organized by fine-grain genre including conversations\, humor\, letters\, poetry\, prose\, and sentences. Bibliographic references allow readers to learn more about outputs and systems that intrigue them. Although Output could serve as a reference book\, it is designed to be readable and to be read. Purposefully excluded are human–computer collaborations that were conceptually defined but not implemented as a computer system. \n🔗 More about the book here \n  \nThis event is supported by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) https://www.crihn.org/ \n  \n🗓 March 17\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 6 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n 
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch
DESCRIPTION: Technoculture\, Art & Games Research Centre (TAG)  is excited to announce the launch of Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch\, a new book by Mia Consalvo\, Marc Lajeunesse\, and Andrei Zanescu. The event will feature a discussion with the authors\, moderated by TAG co-director Rilla Khaled. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\n\nAn in-depth investigation of the Twitch streamers who make up the largest population on the platform: those streaming to small audiences or even no one. \nThe vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us\, Mia Consalvo\, Marc Lajeunesse\, and Andrei Zanescu investigate who they are\, why they do so\, and why this form of leisure activity is important to understand. Unlike the esports athletes and streaming superstars who receive the lion’s share of journalistic and academic attention\, microstreamers are not in it for the money and barely have an audience. In this\, the first book dedicated to the latter group\, the authors gather interviews from dozens of microstreamers from 2017 to 2019 to discuss their lives\, struggles\, hopes\, and goals. \nFor readers interested in livestreaming\, and Twitch in particular\, the book rethinks the medium’s history through accounts of the everyday uses of webcams\, with particular attention to notions of liveness and authenticity. These two concepts have become calling cards for the videogame livestreaming platform and underlie streamer motivations\, the construction of their practices (whether casual\, serious\, or anywhere in between)\, and the complex “metas” that take shape over time. The book also looks at the authors’ own practices of livestreaming\, focusing on what can be gained through experiencing the lived reality of the practice. Finally\, the authors explain how Twitch’s platform (studied from 2017–2023) informs how streamers structure their every day and how corporate ideologies bleed into real-world spaces like TwitchCon. \n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\n\nMia Consalvo is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University. She is the co-author of Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames (2019) and Players and their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset (2015). She is also co-editor of Sports Videogames (2013) and the Handbook of Internet Studies (2011)\, and is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (2007) as well as Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context (2016). \nMia runs the mLab\, a space dedicated to developing innovative methods for studying games and game players. She’s a member of the Centre for Technoculture\, Art & Games (TAG)\, she has presented her work at industry as well as academic conferences including regular presentations at the Game Developers Conference. She is the Past President of the Digital Games Research Association\, and has held positions at MIT\, Ohio University\, Chubu University in Japan and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \n\nMarc Lajeunesse is a research associate\, course instructor\, and the coordinator of TAG\, the Technoculture\, Arts\, and Games Research Centre. His recent work examines toxicity in online game spaces\, with an emphasis on player-led strategies for in-game toxicity mitigation. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrei Zanescu is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University\, specializing in the intersection of Hollywood film\, prestige television\, and blockbuster video games. His research explores the cultural resonance of blockbuster games\, the processes of legitimizing these works at trade shows and award ceremonies\, and the impact of AAA game-making on global gaming culture. \n  \n🗓: February 20\, 2025\n🕒: 3:00 PM\n📍: TAG Lab EV 11.435
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