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SUMMARY:Reflections on Artistic Research
DESCRIPTION:Join the Milieux Institute’s Post Image research cluster and MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain for a day-long reflection on artistic research. This event builds on the Biennale’s theme\, “In Praise of the Missing Images\,” which explores the complex narratives and contemporary issues surrounding images today. \n\n\n\nThis conference brings together artists\, curators\, and scholars to explore the distinct nature of research within art. Beyond academic conventions\, artistic inquiry unfolds through materials\, gestures\, and embodied memory. This conference invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique\, and how can curiosity\, imagination\, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing?   \n  \nSCHEDULE: \n\n \n10 AM: Raven Chacon in conversation with Martín Rodríguez \n\n\n\n11:30 AM: Panel | Mallory Lowe Mpoka\, Lou Sheppard\, Sanaz Sohrabi moderated by Alice Ming Wai Jim. \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: Panel | Caroline Mauxion\, OK Pedersen\, Anouk Verviers moderated by Alanna Thain. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Keynote: Lucy Cotter \n\n\n\n3 PM: Keynote: Nathalie Loveless \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 10-6 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute\, Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ This event is free but spots are limited\, Please Reserve your seat here \n  \n\n \nThis event is supported by the Hexagram Network\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Post Image research cluster\, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain\, Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA)\, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery and Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/reflections-on-artistic-research/
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions: Ruminations on Plurality
DESCRIPTION:Embodied Interventions\, LePARC’s signature event\, is coming back for its 6th edition on May 17 & 18!  \nCurated by Esteban Donoso and Michele Fiedler\, this year’s program\, titled Ruminations on Plurality\, will consist of a series of exchanges\, workshops and performances where participants can act as an intruder’s eye on each other’s proposals in order to signal towards questions\, concerns and opacities and to provide different perspectives. We will approach performance through ruminating\, as in deploying repetitive ways of relating to our environments and processing information. By attending to the plurality of identities that dwell within our hybrid bodies\, we aim to get in touch with movements and voices that display multiple influences.  \n​ \nOn May 17 and May 18\, public presentations of these processes will be shown at 4 different venues around the downtown Concordia University campus. These presentations are free\, and open to the public. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOPS: \nHannah Schallert – “Improvisation and Creation Workshop: Talking and Moving With Animation Software” \n \nThis workshop will introduce participants to a methodology for improvisation and choreographic creation inspired by the movement concepts and tools of computer animation software. Drawing on close embodied study and iterative group discussion\, we will attend to the language and imagery of specific video excerpts from online software tutorials and interviews with animators as the jumping off point for generating choreographic gestures\, phrases\, and states. The workshop will include small group exploration as well as collective sharing and discussion of our experiences and findings.\n\nThis workshop requires you to sign up in advance by emailing hannah.schallert@gmail.com\nMore information about the workshop can be found here.\n.\n.\n.\nAybüke Özel + Yuki Kéké Tam – “Gestures of Care Workshop”\nOur workshop has two parts: discussion and movement. We will start with a common gesture of care—the sharing of food. While participants snack and drink tea\, we will begin by discussing care and its meanings. What does it look like? Is it big or small or in-between? What does it mean to each of us\, personally? We will investigate the definition\, spectrum\, limitations\, and embodied gestures of care we all carry through conversation. While theoretical language and ideas are encouraged\, this is meant to establish camaraderie\, comfort\, and trust between participants. The second part of this workshop will be movement-based. Participants will be led in bodily explorations rooted in vocabularies of dance and the everyday.\n  \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n \n🗓May 17-18\, 2025\n📍Video Production Studio\, LePARC Performance Lab\, Black Box\, Mini Box\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions-ruminations-on-plurality/
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SUMMARY:LUDODROME
DESCRIPTION:Let’s get together! Everyone is busy but it’s time to renew connections – to share what we’ve been making\, and to hang out together. \nLUDODROME proposes to bring together an inspiring collection of 40 experimental games in the SAT’s downstairs space on May 15th for an evening of conversation and PLAY. \nWhile Montréal has a solid ecosystem to support games as an industry (MIGS\, La Guilde\, Zone Indie\, etc.) we are missing venues that highlight games for their artistic\, innovative and critical approaches (whether commercial or not). In 2018 the Mount-Royal Games Society closed its doors after almost eight years of inspiring meet-ups\, and FLOP suspended its activities in 2020. Since then\, other than a small number of art game exhibitions such as the one organized by Sporobole in 2022\, there have been a (very) few opportunities to celebrate experimental games. What happened to the energy? What’s happening with experimental games now in Montreal? What even are experimental games now? \nWe want to find exciting games wherever they can be found – solo work\, indie and artists’ studio work\, and\, of course\, university research-creation initiatives; local games that beat with the experimental impulse\, that explore new\, wonderful\, and eccentric mechanics\, narratives\, aesthetics and formats. \nSchedule: \n\n13h – 18h: Come play our games!\n18h – 23h: Evening expo (with cash bar service / refreshments)\n\n  \nThis event is open to ALL and FREE! \n  \n🗓 May 15\, 2025\n⏱️ 1-11 PM\n📍SAT\, 1201\, Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\n🎟️  Reserve your spot here\n\n\nThis event is supported by Hexagram Research Centre (Concordia)\, the Behaviour Interactive Research Chair in Game Design (Concordia)\, the Chaire de Recherche en Économie Créative et mieux-être FRQSC (Axe créativiténumérique\, NAD-UQAC) and Milieux (Concordia).
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CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival,Game - Maker Jam
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SUMMARY:Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies\, Economies & Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION: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!\nThe senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However\, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the focus on the “prereflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception\, and the emphasis on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience. The collision of the senses is inherent to Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the “collideroscope” of the sensorium. With this conference\, we seek to explore the potentialities of the latter concept. \nIn the same spirit\, the conference will welcome contributions relying on differing disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives may complement one another (multidisciplinary research) or they may coalesce (interdisciplinary research). “Cross-disciplinary research” is the expression we prefer — “crossing” in the sense of blending\, but also of confronting. \nThe overarching aim of the conference is to highlight the relevance of the emergent understanding of the collision of the senses to thinking about some burning issues of our times: the ecological crisis\, the commodification of the senses under capitalism\, and “the new aesthetics” as framed by the late Gernot Böhme. \nWhen? From May 3rd to May 6th \nWhere? Concordia University – in-person and on-line \nFeaturing over 150 papers grouped in 50 sessions and 12 panels\, 6 roundtables\, 9 workshops and a multisensory and virtual art gallery\, as well as a reception on the Friday evening entitled “A Feast for the Senses.” The four keynotes are free and open to the public. For all other sessions\, participants are required to register.  \nKeynote Speakers:\nConstance Classen\nHsuan Hsu\nKathleen Sitter\nCharles Spence \nConference website\nFor more information please contact senses@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/uncommon-senses-iv-sensory-ecologies-economies-aesthetics/
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SUMMARY:Hype\, Hyper or Over-Hyped: a Student Symposium on Critical AI Studies in Canada
DESCRIPTION:A Student Symposium on Critical AI Studies in CanadaHosted by Machines Agencies of Speculative Life \n\n\n\nJune 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 \n\n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite to Participate \n\n\n\nAbout UsWe are excited about using this event to build community and care across the student of AI in Canada. Our objective is to accept all submissions and develop a form that ensures fair\, supportive participation. We encourage work-in-progress\, research at all levels\, and all stages. As host\, we will share guidelines for moderation before the event and facilitate constructive discussion. The world can feel a little stressful and we hope this conference might be something different. \n\n\n\nWe Are Guided by a Desire To: \n\n\n\n\nconvene critical researchers studying in Canada;\nsupport graduate research in-progress and imperfect; and\ndevelop a community of care and support for this research.\n\n\n\n\nWe are committed to equity\, humility\, and good relations in our research and among each other. \n\n\n\nDownload the tentative schedule (PDF) \n\n\n\nEthos \n\n\n\nWe are only a few organizers with no professional support. Please mindful of the gendered division of labor. When you arrive at the symposium\, ask how you can help. Take initiatives that benefit the community of critical AI researchers we are creating.  \n\n\n\nBe mindful of and reflexive of your own behavior. Support others to accomplish their full potential\, don’t dominate the conversation and don’t interrupt others.   \n\n\n\nWe encourage all to engage with and uplift the scholarship and voices of Black\, Indigenous\, Global South and other equity deserving groups. AI remains a white EurAmerican male ethnocentric field of research which needs to be enriched and troubled.   \n\n\n\nDuring the period of the conference\, we have appointed “Angels”consisting of two individuals who serve as contact persons for the purpose of receiving and addressing confidentiality issues that might arise at the conference. We are committed to feminist\, anti-racist and intersectional values in both the content of our research and the way we enteract with each other.  \n\n\n\nModeration Guidelines During the conference\, we will use the progressive stack to solicit comments and feedback after each presentation. Moderators will maintain a speakers queue\, giving priority to new and marginalized voices.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/hype-hyper-or-over-hyped-a-student-symposium-on-critical-ai-studies-in-canada/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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 Room and MakerSpace\, AND online (for the morning presentations)! \n\n\n\nModerating the symposium will be Mona Hedayati\, an artist-researcher and a joint PhD student in the research-creation stream of Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University and the digital arts doctorate program at Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts at University of Antwerp\, Belgium. \n\n\n\nOFFICIAL PRESENTERS \n\n\n\nAlex Custodio & Michael Iantorno\, Ali Kenefick\, Hanine El Mir\, Melina Campos\, Kregg Hetherington\, jacqueline beaumont\, Rythâ Kesselring\, Miranda Smitheram\, Laurent Simon (HEC Montreal)\, Helen Brunet (Vestechpro)\,  Alicia Turgeon (Eastern Bloc)\, Chris Salter & the Animate Team\, the Solar Media Project team\, & the Minecraft and Modernity Student Research Cabal. \n\n\n\nWORKSHOP DETAILS1:30 PM EST—Milieux MakerSpace (10.825)BRING YOUR BROKEN GAMEBOYS! \n\n\n\nOur proposed intervention interrogates the black boxing of technology and empowers users to repair their own hardware to extend the lifespan of their consumer electronics. We begin with a brief presentation to situate videogames within the narrative of planned obsolescence and challenge assumptions around the legality or authenticity of altering proprietary hardware. We then demonstrate how to perform a simple act of repair: replacing a CR1616\, CR2025\, or CR2032 battery in a Game Boy\, Game Boy Color\, or Game Boy Advance cartridge. We spend the remainder of the time supporting participants as they repair their own hardware. \n\n\n\nWe ask interested participants to please register via email directly to Alex at alexandra.custodio@concordia.ca so that the coordinators have a general sense of how many people will be there! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-symposium/
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera | Warm-Up Segment
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIt 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 (double) book launch\, a work presentation and a (series of) performance(s). Read on to find out more— \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 21: DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH + ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONArt in the Age of Machine Learning | Sofian Audry + Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life | Chris SalterAnteism Books—435 Rue Beaubien Ouest\, #1003 PM EST \n\n\n\nJoin us for the kick-off warm up event (featured in Hexagram’s EMERGENCE/Y programming): the Chris Salter/Sofian Audry double book launch and round table discussion at Anteism! The event begins at 3 PM EST\, and artworks related to topics discussed will be installed in the exhibition space. You can access the Facebook event via the above image.Authors Christopher Salter and Sofian Audry will get together to discuss their recent publications\, respectively\, “Art in the Age of Machine Learning” (MIT Press\, 2021) and “Sensing machines: How sensors shape our everyday life” (MIT Press\, 2022). The live-streamed roundtable will be followed by a book launch and signature session. Both authors entangle art\, culture and social-cultural responses to technology. More info via the above image! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilieuxMake Workshops PresentsLISTENING TO RADIO WAVES (CHAPTER 1)By Zeph Thibodeau \n\n\n\nDATE: Tuesday April 26th\, 1:00 – 4:00 PMLOCATION: MilieuxMake\, EV-10.825In this workshop\, we will be exploring the fascinating world of electromagnetic listening. Using AM radios we can listen to human radio broadcasts\, but we can also listen to the countless voices of the natural and built environment. Taking things a step further\, we can attach two radios to a pair of headphones\, constructing immersive radio-listening machines. Together\, we will make\, think and talk our way through the experience of connecting to the electromagnetic world in a different way. We will collaborate in recording the process and our findings\, which will form the basis for subsequent workshops. This is a do-it-together workshop—no technical expertise is necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend and to contribute in whatever way they can.Registration is required for this onsite workshop as spaces are limited. Please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register and include ‘Listening to Radio Waves’ in the subject line of your email. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIsa Arriola\, Beyond the “Crossfire”: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islands\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 27: BEYOND THE CROSSFIRE | THERESA ARRIOLALive presentation of Beyond the “Crossfire”: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islandsdaphne—5842 rue St Hubert6 PM EST \n\n\n\nProfessor Theresa Arriola will be presenting her project\, Beyond the “Crossfire“: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islands\, on Wednesday\, April 27th at daphne at 6 PM. The presentation will take approximately one hour\, including a Q&A with the artist and researcher following the presentation. The work will be on view prior to and following the presentation. \n\n\n\nWhen militarization becomes commonplace\, how does one denaturalize this reality? As the hypermilitarization of Oceania continues to accelerate\, I want to offer alternative ways of imagining Indigenous futures that are not tied to the whims of military goals\, but privilege Indigenous sovereignty instead. One way to approach this task is through the hard work of denaturalizing what have become commonplace notions of territory and environment under U.S. imperialism and militarism. These imaginings work to unsettle the taken for granted ways in which the Marianas is framed by military planners in both its violent vocabulary and stagnant cartographic renderings of land\, water and air. \n\n\n\nTheresa “Isa” Arriola was born and raised on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in sociocultural anthropology. Her research focuses on the socio-political implications of contemporary militarization throughout the Marianas archipelago and Oceania more broadly. She is currently an assistant professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Concordia University where she teaches about militarism\, Indigeneity and Oceania. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMAY 3: TATIANA KOROLEVA | BODY ARCHEOLOGY: ANCESTRAL MEMORY IN THE CONTEXT OF (IM)MIGRATIONPerformance presentation following Koroleva’s workshop by participating artists Anissa Boukili\, Danielle Douez\, Tricia Enns\, Somaye Farhan\, Goldjian/Anne Goldenberg\, Myro Le Ber Assiani\, Eliza Mcfarlane\, & c t pIntermedia/Cyberarts Video Production Studio—Concordia EV Building\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W\, 6. 6356 PM EST \n\n\n\nTatiana Koroleva and the participating artists from the Body Archeology: Ancestral Memory in the Context of (Im)Migration workshop series welcome you for a presentation of their findings and developed projects. The presentation will take place at the Intermedia/Cyberarts Production Studio and will last approximately two hours. The following are the featured participating artists: \n\n\n\nAnissa Boukili El Hassani \n\n\n\nAnissa Boukili El Hassani draws on her experience as an immigrant\, perpetually torn between opposite cultures. Her artistic practice revolves around the notions of decolonization\, reappropriation\, self-criticism and repair. The plurality of identities and fragmentation are her main sources of inspiration\, hence her goal: the democratization of conceptual art through an intersectional perspective. Thus\, she seeks to combine the extremes to paint a picture of the complexity of the social\, economic\, cultural and historical relations existing within the capitalist system. \n\n\n\nDanielle Douez \n\n\n\nDanielle Douez (she/her) is a writer and creator based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) with Colombian\, African American\, and French ancestry. She loves projects that involve community building and transformative justice work\, and that explore migrations\, borders\, decolonization\, and beyond-human kinship. \n\n\n\nTricia Enns \n\n\n\nTricia Enns is a masters of design student at Concordia University who explores our relationship with public space through participatory\, sensory\, materially engaged methods. Her work challenges preconceived value hierarchies held within public space by engaging with debris and directing the senses towards the unheard narratives. Enns uses paper making\, illustration\, electronics\, performance\, photography\, audio walks\, and the postal system in her work. Sign-up at her website to have her send you a package in the mail! \n\n\n\nSomaye Farhan \n\n\n\nSomaye Farhan (born in Tehran\, Iran) is a multi-disciplinary artist is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and sculpture. An undergraduate student of Studio Arts program\, Concordia University (Montréal). Farhan explores the theme of perception\, mind\, body\, identity\, nature and women. Most of her artworks are influenced by her two and a half journey on bicycle\, her meditation experiences\, and women. \n\n\n\nHer works are exhibited in the VAV Gallery and Art Matters Festival at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nanne goldenberg/goldjian \n\n\n\nGoldjian is a transdisciplinary artist interested in relational practices between human beings\, ecologies and technologies. Their work creates intimate spaces dedicated to mutual learning and slowing processes. goldjian embraces performance art\, media arts\, land art\, installation and video dance. They facilitate collaborative\, collective and restorative practices. They were born in fRance from rural french and romanian jewish ancestors and crossed the ocean in 2004 to grow roots on an island traditionally named Tiohtia:ke and colonially known as Montreal. To connect to this world\, goldjian practices reliance\, to oneself\, to spaces\, to other human beings and non-humans\, and questions the conditions needed to activate this quality of presence. \n\n\n\nMyro Le Ber Assiani \n\n\n\nQueer and non-binary artist\, Myro Le Ber Assiani lives on the unceded territory of Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. They graduated with the B.A. in Theatre Studies from UQÀM and has been refining their practice in workshops. As a daredevil bush performer\, Myro Le Ber Assiani is interested in risk and transformation as engines of existence and resistance. Their approach is site specific and reflects collective space as a political ecosystem where structuring boundaries lead them to rethink notions of “power\,” “trauma\,” and “consent.” Their work has been presented in solo and collaborative performances at various festivals and venues:  Dare-Dare\, Fonderie Darling\, Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts\, Théâtre des Écuries\, Festival d’arts performatifs de Trois-Rivières\, Festival La plage des Six pompes (Switzerland) and Festival Chalon dans la rue (France). Their work has been distributed by La Serre and Vidéographe in Canada\, the United States and Europe. \n\n\n\nEliza McFarlane \n\n\n\nEliza McFarlane is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Toronto\, ON. She is currently completing her BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. Her current focus is in print making and performance art. She also is active as a vocalist\, organizing and participating community music events in Montreal. Since 2017\, Eliza has lived and worked in Montreal QC. She roots her work and life in economic\, environmental\, and community sustainability. She plans to continue centering community solidarity\, creative experimentation\, emotional resilience\, and interconnectivity in her life and work. Eliza’s instagram account acts as her website at present – It is fitting for the hybridity of private and public life. For the indecisive value of daily\, mundane\, or minute existence\, vs\, isolated\, intentional\, artwork.” \n\n\n\nc t p  \n\n\n\nchantal t paris · my doctoral research-creation project (études et pratiques des arts\, uqam) pulses in the relations between listenings\, situated knowledges and changing climates\, through different moving explorations and within a more than human sympoietic perspective. \n\n\n\nMask wearing for attendees is required\, and we will observe social distancing measures to the best of our ability. \n\n\n\nON THE WORKSHOP: \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore a variety of ways our genetic memory can be activated in the process of performance creation with the purpose of reviewing and connecting to the history of our ancestors. Focusing specifically on the experiences of migration\, immigration\, displacement and relocation as a part of global history\, the workshop proposes to activate the invisible link between our cultures of origin and our present moment. Opening the space for connecting to our roots while also acknowledging the hybridity of (im)migrant’s experiences and identities\, we will focus on creating individual and group projects to venerate our ancestral past and to give voices to the parts of our identities that often remain silenced in a new cultural context. Using the framework of ritual and a variety of performance art methodologies\, this workshop brings forward the concepts of empathetic presence\, collaboration\, dialogic witnessing\, and awareness of belonging to a larger community as fundamental principles of performance art creation. This workshop is suitable for international students and faculty\, immigrants\, travellers\, and/or anyone interested in exploring ancestral memory and the multiplicity of ways it continuously affects our present.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop is organised and facilitated by Tatiana Koroleva\, a multi-disciplinary artist\, poet\, educator\, and researcher who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and creative writing. Currently\, Tatiana teaches at the Department of Studio Arts\, Concordia University (Montreal\, QC). Her work is grounded in the subjects of ancestral memory\, migration\, intergenerational trauma and search for personal and collective healing. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-warm-up-segment/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210128T142000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210128T175000
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SUMMARY:Milieux at La nuit des idées
DESCRIPTION: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 the Milieux Institute (Concordia University)\, EnsadLab (École des Arts Décoratifs and its Chair in Arts and Sciences) and the University of Toronto Mississauga.With the collaboration of Louise Rustan (Light Design) and Théo Chauvirey\, Corentin Loubet\, Joséphine Mas and Simon Paugoy (technical support)Photo: Vanessa Mardirossian \n\n\n\nRetake/Reprise de vues: Milieux researchers present at La nuit des idées\n\n\n\nWhere: Hexagram’s Youtube Channel & www.reprisedevues.org \n\n\n\nImages act as both remedy and problem in the current health crisis: they limit movement and increase the possibility of social relations at a distance\, but they also have an ecological impact that can no longer be neglected. \n\n\n\nHow can we rethink the materiality of the image in light of this dual approach? How do we implement images which\, by their materiality\, bring us closer to each other\, and closer to the environment? \n\n\n\nIn the spirit of the 2021 La nuit des idées theme\, “Closer\,” Reprise de vues invites us to consider ‘the image’ from environmental and societal perspectives. We will engage in discussion\, visit an exhibition (Matières d’image and the artwork Fossilisation\, during Hors-Pistes Festival\, Georges Pompidou Centre\, Paris)\, and discover research-creation practices that interrogate the materiality of images and of interfaces that bring us closer together. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to formal discussions\, the event will include video capsules and a resolutely performative format\, anchored in action\, making\, and demoing from the very locations of creation and dissemination — the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Speculative Life Biolab at the Milieux Institute. \n\n\n\nThe reflection will be modeled by three pivotal concepts: (1) fossil-imprint\, which questions the eco-signatures left by contemporary images; (2) residual energy\, which questions methods of capture and recovery of energy linked to images and; (3) matter-data\, which critically examines the ubiquity of big data and its infrastructural and socio-environmental weight. \n\n\n\nThis event will\, therefore\, be an opportunity to construct a reflection and a collective dialogue on planetary futures in connection with major projects of technological infrastructure that condition the production and circulation of images. \n\n\n\n\n\nWITH \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja (Individualized Program\, EnsadLab – Concordia University) \n\n\n\nSofian Audry (École des médias\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nAlexandra Bachmayer (Design and Computation Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nMartin Beauregard (Création et nouveaux médias\, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue) \n\n\n\nSamuel Bianchini (EnsadLab et Chaire arts et Sciences\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nFrédéric Bigras-Burrogano (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nMarie-Pier Boucher (Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information & Technology\, Université of Toronto Mississauga) \n\n\n\nAntoine Caron (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nTheo Chauvirey (Maîtrise en Design\, Université Concordia) \n\n\n\nMaria Checkhanovich (Studio Arts\, Université Concordia) \n\n\n\nJean Dubois (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nDelfina Fantini Van Ditmar (Design Products\, Royal College of Arts) \n\n\n\nGéraldine Gomez (Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris) \n\n\n\nMatthew Halpenny (Design and Computation Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nOrit Halpern (Sociology and Anthropology\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nAlice Jarry (Design and Computation Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nRaphaëlle Kerbrat (EnsadLab et Chaire arts et Sciences\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nAnnie Leuridan (Design lumière\, EnsadLab\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian (Individualized Program\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nFilipe Pais (EnsadLab\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nGuillaume Pascale (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nArchie Reid (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nMiranda Smitheram (Design and Computation Arts\, Université Concordia) \n\n\n\nGisèle Trudel (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nPhilippe Vandal (Intermedia Cyber Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nLee Wilkins (School of Information\, Université of Toronto) \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganized in partnership with the Museum of Arts et Métiers and the Pompidou Centre\, this event is co-developed by Hexagram – International Network for Research-Creation in Arts\, Culture and Technology – and the research-creation team of the international project Membranes in action: Multidisciplinary Creation of Sustainable Interfaces between Communities\, Ecological Milieux and the Built Environment (dir. Alice Jarry\, Concordia University\, Montreal; Samuel Bianchini \, EnsadLab – laboratoire de l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Université PSL; Marie-Pier Boucher\, University of Toronto Mississauga). \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Concordia University (Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology); The Chaire arts & sciences of École polytechnique\, École des Arts Décoratifs-PSL and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. With the support of the Institut français\, the Consulat général de France à Québec and the Délégation générale du Québec à Paris.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-at-la-nuit-des-idees/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201019
DTSTAMP:20221217T073214Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux Institute @ ISEA2020 Online
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nMilieux Engagement\n\n\n\nThis year’s program features 20+ Milieux Institute students\, faculty\, and collaborators: \n\n\n\nAlexandre 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 \n\n\n\nSee the full program for details. \n\n\n\nISEA2020 Theme\n\n\n\nISEA 2020 turns towards the theme of “Why Sentience?” Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. ISEA2020 will be fully dedicated to examining the resurgence of sentience—feeling-sensing-making sense—in recent art and design\, media studies\, science and technology studies\, philosophy\, anthropology\, history of science and the natural scientific realm—notably biology\, neuroscience and computing. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe ask: why sentience? Why and how does sentience matter? Why have artists and scholars become interested in sensing and feeling beyond\, with and around our strictly human bodies and selves? Why has this notion been brought to the fore in an array of disciplines in the 21st century? \n\n\n\nFounded in the Netherlands in 1990\, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art\, science and technology. ISEA is one of the most prominent international events on art and technology around the world\, bringing together scholarly\, artistic\, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in electronic art\, interactivity and digital media.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-institute-isea2020-online/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200915T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200915T120000
DTSTAMP:20221217T073220Z
CREATED:20200910T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Hexagram - SYMPOÏÉTIQUES 2020 Launch
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nHexagram\, 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. \n\n\n\nThe theme of this first edition makes reference to sympoiesis (Haraway\, 2016)\, which is to say the relationship between participants and the sharing and co-extension of their projects—extending from the design of the works to the practical organization of the symposium. The event was initially intended to take place in person over three days in May 2020 and has since been adapted due to the pandemic. Through the digital platform\, the hope is to extend typical approaches online by engaging researchers and the public to interact together. The precarity affecting physical creation spaces\, caused by the current situation\, demands a much-needed reimagining of the means by which social solidarity can be practiced. Given the spatial constraints inherent in physical distancing\, Hexagram’s Interdisciplinary Summit will attempt to present a new world filled with innovative online contributions\, including other events and projects to be added over the course of the Fall season. \n\n\n\nThe digital platform created especially for this first edition acts as a full-fledged avenue for research-creation. It will bring together over 20 participants from academia and communities of practice\, and audiences will be invited to discover a multitude of innovative approaches. The platform will be comprised of performances\, scientific articles\, discussions\, workshops\, presentations\, videos\, BioArt\, photography\, games\, sounds\, and 3D imagery. In line with Hexagram’s mandate\, the summit itself will constitute an engaging combination of experiments in digital\, material\, textual and technological research-creationThe 15th of September at noon will be the time to take part in the launch of Hexagram’s Interdisciplinary Summit and enter a world of sympoietic research-creation.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/hexagram-sympoietiques-2020-launch/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200529
DTSTAMP:20221217T073130Z
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SUMMARY:New Nature: A Climate Change Exchange
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nOriginally planned as an on-site event in Montreal\, the project is now kicking off online from Monday May 25 through Thursday May 28. The weeklong event will feature public keynotes\, online film screenings\, and artist talks. \n\n\n\nMonday\, May 25 – Opening Keynote by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Moderated by Ian Mauro\, followed by a Q&A session \n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 26 – Artist Talk: Architect Nerea Calvillo in conversation with Environmental Researcher Nick Shapiro \n\n\n\nMore details about events and speakers are available on the Goethe-Institut website: goethe.de/canada/newnature \n\n\n\nNew Nature seeks to open up new perspectives\, by integrating emerging and immersive media — such as public and virtual installations\, projections\, and virtual\, augmented and mixed reality — with future-oriented forms of science and climate storytelling. The exchange brings together leaders from Canada\, Germany\, Mexico\, and the United States by creating an ideal setting for networking\, and forging lasting connections for collaboration and co-production. Through strong partnerships with funders\, exhibitors\, and media outlets\, New Nature encourages co-productions and joint cultural projects between creative professionals in all four countries. \n\n\n\nTHEME: AIR – DESIRABLE & SHARED FUTURES\n\n\n\nThe New Nature project focuses on the shared and yet invisible element of air to address the imminent necessity to reimagine our relationship to nature. New Nature focuses on visions of desirable futures and collective imaginaries of how we might reroute disaster and reinvent our relationship to the natural world. New Nature seeks also to collectively and creatively reflect about the current situation facing the global outbreak of COVID-19: such concepts as global pandemics\, airborne pathogens\, interspecies infections\, correlations of disease and environmental destruction/climate change\, exposure and vulnerable populations\, as well as the emotional and social fallout of the COVID-19 crisis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Nature is a project by the Goethe-Institut\, realized with the support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPROJECT PARTNERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilieux Institute for Art\, Culture and Technology\, an interdisciplinary graduate research institute for research-creation in new media arts\, digital culture and information technology at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nPhi Centre in Montreal\, a multifunctional centre where art can express itself in its various forms of art\, film\, music\, design and technology. \n\n\n\nNational Film Board Digital Studio in Montreal\, one of the world’s leading digital content hubs\, creating groundbreaking interactive documentaries and animation\, mobile content\, installations and participatory experiences. \n\n\n\nRetune – Creative Technology Platform\, a biennial event at the intersection of Art\, Design\, and Technology in Berlin. \n\n\n\nMassive Science\, a content and media company operating worldwide and delivering bleeding-edge scientific research and expertise. \n\n\n\nThe Museum of the Moving Image – Science on Screen in New York City.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/new-nature-a-climate-change-exchange/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200523T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200523T123000
DTSTAMP:20221217T073136Z
CREATED:20200519T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Post-Arduino Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:https://www.facebook.com/CU4thSpace/videos/285238069545469/\n\n\n\n\nEducation 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 digital devices. \n\n\n\nThe event will begin with an expert Q&A with David Cuartielles\, Arduino co-founder\, followed by a talk by Tomas de Camino\, a mathematician\, computer scientist\, musician\, maker and professor at Lead University in Costa Rica. Five-minute presentations and demos of Arduino projects by a community of makers will follow. A full schedule is available below. \n\n\n\nJoin the fun by registering for the Zoom webinar (https://bit.ly/2TlSnGK ) or watching live on Facebook. \n\n\n\nHave questions on this topic that you want to get to our experts and makers ahead of time? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n11:00-11:10: Introduction by Education Makers11:10-11:30: Q&A with David Cuartielles11:30-11:50: A talk by Tomas de Camino11:50-12:20: Presentations and Demos• Rima Abou-Khalil (Rick & Morty Portal Gun)• Nathalie Duponsel (Stars Nightlight Exploration)• Houda Jawhar (Elektroknitting)• Parsa Hariri (Smart Car Assistant)• Ben Douek (Robot In A Can)• The “Ruby” Coders (Ivan Ruby Coding Group)12:20-12:30: Q&A \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/post-arduino-day-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTSTAMP:20221217T072710Z
CREATED:20190925T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Playback: Genealogies of Interactivity Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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 history and across contexts. This includes examinations of both minor and major media forms and formats\, and their specific iterations and uses as content\, event\, institution and apparatus. \n\n\n\nThis symposium brings scholars from Concordia University together with students and faculty from the Institute for Theatre\, Film\, and Media Studies at Goethe University (Frankfurt\, Germany) to explore the complexities of our media and cultural histories. \n\n\n\nSymposium Hosts: \n\n\n\nCommunication Studies\, Faculty of Arts and ScienceFilm Studies\, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema\, Faculty of Fine Arts \n\n\n\nIn association with the Media History Research Centre\, Concordia University and Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film\,” Goethe University \n\n\n\nFor more information on the symposium\, presenters\, and schedule\, please visit our event page at: http://www.concordia.ca/events/genealogies-of-interactivity.html
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/playback-genealogies-of-interactivity-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191003T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191003T160000
DTSTAMP:20221217T072716Z
CREATED:20190926T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Liveness at Play!
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of…\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWhat is liveness? \n\n\n\nHow do we do liveness? \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nLynn Hughes and Bart Simon\, co-founders of TAG\, head up the project with their Concordia collaborator\, Noah Drew (Theatre) along with the main PhD researcher on the project\, JoDee Allen. The international collaborators will be here for the week: Jorge Ramos (ZU Theatre\, London) and Jaakko Sternos (University of Tampere\, Finland). In addition\, for this event\, two special invited guests\, Lawrence Switsky (Theatre\, University of Toronto) and Matteo Uguzzoni (Game Design\, Maryland Institute of Art) will join us.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants \n\n\n\nJoDee Allen is currently pursuing a research/creation PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. Her research\, which looks at videogame control schemes as choreography\, has been presented and performed internationally at conferences and industry events\, including producing an exhibition entitled the Digital Dance Arcade\, in the Santa Monica Art Centre in Barcelona; and being awarded an Artist-in-Residence position at the Flux Laboratories in Geneva\, testing the impact that interface and notation have on players’ learning dance through videogames. \n\n\n\n\n\nNoah Drew is an “all-terrain theatre artist” originally from Vancouver. He has worked across North America\, and in Europe and South America\, as an actor\, composer\, sound designer\, writer/director/dramaturge and teacher.Noah’s research and research-creation focuses on exploring strategies for cultivating and catalyzing heightened states of presence in performers and audiences. Noah’s work draws on aspects of sensory immersion and sensory dramaturgy; (auto)ethnography and a dynamic interplay between true lived experiences and fiction; gamified theatre\, and somatic practices. \n\n\n\n\n\nLynn Hughes is Professor Emeritus in Studio Arts at Concordia University\, where she held the Chair of Interaction Design and Games Innovation from 2004 to 2018. Between 2000 and 2015\, she was instrumental in the founding of three major research centres that radically changed the context for interdisciplinary training in new media art/design and games in Montreal. Her production focuses on collaborative process and the design of ludic hybrid physical/digital experiences. She has exhibited work all over the world and was just awarded the Omosiroi Prize in Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\nJorge Lopez Ramos and Persis-Jadeé Maravala are the directors of the ZU- UK interactive performance company: a highly respected theatre company with years of experience conceiving and realizing ambitious participatory theatre pieces at different scales. ZU-UK sometimes uses technology (e.g binaural sound or VR) to augment the intensity of a dramatic situation\, but is still seeking ways to reduce the burden on actors’ bodies\, through different ways of using technology. They want to produce experiences for large numbers of participants by developing new approaches that make this feasible and sustainable.  \n\n\n\n\n\nBart Simon is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology\, Concordia University. Simon is a sociologist specializing in digital culture and game studies and is the current Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology. He has written extensively on social interaction in digital games and play with previous SSHRC funded projects on the role-play cultures of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (like World of Warcraft)\, gestural and embodied games (focused on the Nintendo Wii \n\n\n\n\n\nJaakko Stenros from the Tampere University\, Finland\, teaches Game Studies at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at Tampere. He has published eight books and over 50 articles and reports\, and received many awards. He has done extensive research on larps and the aesthetics of social play\, often with a focus on unusual games\, game jams\, queer play\, role-playing games and pervasive games. He has worked with experimental theatre companies and is world-expert on how Larping communities develop and self-structure. \n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Switzky is an Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto. He is the incoming editor of the journal Modern Drama and has books forthcoming on Shakespeare and the non-human and on theatre directing and modernist aesthetics as well as a volume of Bernard Shaw’s plays from Oxford World’s Classics. His current research is on the entanglement of modern theatre and performance and the early development of artificial intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatteo Uguzzoni is an architect and a game designer\, his practice focus on creating transformative experience blending real life game and theater. He co-founded Urban Games Factory an Italian collective active in different forms since 2009. He is the host of The Playcast \,a podcast about immersive theater\, real life games and everything in between. He is currently teaching at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art\, Baltimore) and director of the Nomadic Branch of Trust in Play – the European School of Urban Game Design.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/symposium-liveness-at-play/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181120
DTSTAMP:20221217T072623Z
CREATED:20181017T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072623Z
UID:10000568-1542585600-1542671999@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Maker Cultures Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 corporatization of maker culture\, cultural inclusion and exclusion\, making as learning\, critical making and design education\, and maker cultures in everyday life. \n\n\n\nThe conference begins with a public symposium on Sunday November 18th featuring presentations from distinguished maker culture scholars. This will be a full day of public panels and engaged Q&A periods open to students and scholars\, maker culture organizers and professionals\, makers and interested members of the public. Explore our exciting roster of speakers and register now for the Sunday November 18th symposium.  \n\n\n\nThe symposium is followed on Monday November 19th by an academic workshop for invited students\, scholars and professionals. This will be a day of guided discussion and agenda setting as we collectively sketch this new and rich research domain. Students and scholars interested in attending the academic workshop should contact the organizers. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/maker-cultures-conference-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181119
DTSTAMP:20221217T072128Z
CREATED:20181017T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072128Z
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SUMMARY:Maker Cultures Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 corporatization of maker culture\, cultural inclusion and exclusion\, making as learning\, critical making and design education\, and maker cultures in everyday life. \n\n\n\nThe conference begins with a public symposium on Sunday November 18th featuring presentations from distinguished maker culture scholars. This will be a full day of public panels and engaged Q&A periods open to students and scholars\, maker culture organizers and professionals\, makers and interested members of the public. Explore our exciting roster of speakers and register now for the Sunday November 18th symposium.  \n\n\n\nThe symposium is followed on Monday November 19th by an academic workshop for invited students\, scholars and professionals. This will be a day of guided discussion and agenda setting as we collectively sketch this new and rich research domain. Students and scholars interested in attending the academic workshop should contact the organizers. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/maker-cultures-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181118
DTSTAMP:20221217T072644Z
CREATED:20181107T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072644Z
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SUMMARY:Montreal Mini Maker Faire
DESCRIPTION:Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating\, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters\, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies\, experiments\, projects. \n\n\n\nMilieux is co-hosting the Montreal Mini Maker Faire this year — the first time the Faire has been held in Montreal since 2014. Over 70 exhibitors\, speakers\, and performers will be gathered in the EV building atrium and the Black Box Theatre for this free\, all-ages event. Find out more here. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/montreal-mini-maker-faire-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181019T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181019T190000
DTSTAMP:20221217T072110Z
CREATED:20181016T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072110Z
UID:10000561-1539961200-1539975600@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Milieux Expo
DESCRIPTION:Milieux’s first-ever institute-wide Expo will take place on the 10th and 11th floors of the EV building and will feature work by researchers across all clusters. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-expo/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival,Exhibition
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