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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 06
DESCRIPTION:Epistemological Foundations returns this Winter to continue the conversation around knowledge practices and their implications. EF06 will bring together Kari Noe\, Jason Leigh\, and Sara Diamond to reflect on their approaches to knowledge-making and elaborate on the implications of data visualization for community governance\, science communication\, and archiving. The session will be moderated by our co-director Hēmi Whaanga\, and hosted by Abundant Intelligences postdoctoral researcher Ceyda Yolgörmez. \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team sharing how the knowledge frameworks in their field are constructed\, validated\, and employed. This session will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into what it means to bring together Data Visualization to Indigenous Knowledges and AI. \nThis will be a hybrid event. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nKari Noe is a PhD research assistant at Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa\, and co-leads the emerging media lab\, Create(x)\, at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaiʻi at West Oʻahu. \nHer research includes: Human Computer Interaction\, Extended Reality Technologies\, and video game development for both serious and entertainment games. More specifically\, she is interested in the ways emerging media can support learning. As a mixed Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholar\, she focuses on projects that involve Hawaiian cultural heritage. \nHer research has been published in numerous conferences such as ACM CHI and ACM SIGGRAPH\, and her work has been featured in both local and international venues such as the Bishop Museum on Oʻahu or the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) in Montreal. \n  \nJason Leigh is the Director of LAVA: the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & applications\, Co-Director of the Hawaii Data Science Institute\, Director of Create(x) at University of Hawaii at West Oahu\, and Professor of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. \nHe is also Director Emeritus of the Electronic Visualization Lab and the Software Technologies Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, where he was previously Professor of Computer Science and Affiliated Professor of Communications. \nIn addition he was a Fellow of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and has held research appointments at Argonne National Laboratory\, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. \nHis research expertise includes: Big data visualization; virtual reality; high performance networking; and video game design. \nHe is co-inventor of the CAVE2 Hybrid Reality Environment\, and SAGE: Scalable Amplified Group Environment software\, which is the most widely used platform for information-intensive collaboration. \nIn 2010 he initiated a new multi-disciplinary area of research called Human Augmentics – which refers to the study of technologies for expanding the capabilities and characteristics of humans. \nHis research has also received numerous press from News media including: the AP News\, New York Times\, Popular Science’s Future Of\, Nova ScienceNow\, NSF Science Now\, PBS\, and Forbes. \nLeigh also teaches classes in Software Design\, Virtual Reality\, Data Visualization and Video Game Design. In 2010 his video game design class enabled the University of Illinois at Chicago to be ranked among the top 50 video game programs in US and Canada. \nJason Leigh explores the intersections between big data visualization\, virtual reality\, and high-performance networked computing. A UH computer scientist\, he founded LAVA: Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications and Create(x)\, a lab exploring how to harness advanced computational technology to advance Hawaiian cultural practices. He will contribute to harnessing ancestral knowledge-driven AI for immersive visualization. \n  \nDr. Sara Diamond\, President Emerita of OCAD University has led institutional transformation within arts\, digital media/ICT\, and post-secondary institutions for over 30 years. Diamond was President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University from 2005-2020\, leading its transformation to full university status. She was founding director of the Banff New Media Institute (1995 — 2005). As a historian\, media artist and computer scientist\, Diamond brings a deep interest in the relationships of human practices\, culture\, and technologies and a profound commitment to equity and Indigenous rights. She has been co-PI on major research networks such as Am-I-Able (wearable technologies and IoT) and the Centre for Information Visualization and Data Driven Design. She has undertaken NSERC\, SSHRC\, Ontario Research Excellent Fund\, Mitacs\, and foundation funded research in data analytics and visualization\, urban and transportation planning\, public art\, cultural analytics\, and wearable technology to support seniors’ wellbeing. Current funded scholarship includes acting as co-PI for the iCity2.0 project (ORF-E)\, applying AI tools such as generative design to complete community planning (ORF-E\, Mitacs); developing a Machine Learning qualitative analytics framework to understand the impact of screen media on audiences (Mitacs); creating mobile affective computing solutions to support mood analysis and mental health in the workplace (Mitacs); reassessing archives through visualization and metadata analysis (SSHRC)\, and ongoing considerations of human\, animal and machine agency. True to her early training as a social historian she continues to write about the history of media arts and technologies. \nRecognitions include the Order of Canada\, Order of Ontario\, Doctor of Science\, honoris causa\, Simon Fraser University\, 2020; the 2020 Exceptional Women of Excellence from the Women’s Economic Forum and two New Media “Pioneer” awards. She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College and Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin and UCLA. Diamond acted as a reviewer for the 2021 mid-term CFREF assessments and for the NFREF competition. \nShe is co-chair of Toronto’s ArtworxTO\, the Year of Public Art and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche; is the chair for the Toronto Arts Foundation and of the new Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. Diamond is an Expert Panelist with the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation and a Thought Leader with Lord Cultural Resources. \n(OC OO RCSA)\, President Emerita OCAD University\, has led collaborative efforts to strengthen equity and diversity and to support Indigenous cultures\, research\, and decolonization in the academy. She contributes expertise in data visualization and wearable technology\, research-creation methodologies\, and integration of Indigenous research methodologies into academic contexts. \n  \nCeyda Yolgormez is a Postdoc at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster\, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies\, such as large machine learning models or social robots\, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities\, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Hēmi Whaanga is a Professor and Head of Massey University’s School of Te Pūtahi-a-Toi – School of Māori Knowledge. He has worked as a project leader and researcher on a range of projects centred on the revitalization and protection of Māori language and knowledge (including Mātauranga Māori\, digitization of indigenous knowledge\, ICT and indigenous knowledge\, ethics\, traditional ecological knowledge\, language revitalisation\, Māori astronomy\, and linguistics). He affiliates to Ngāti Kahungunu through his father\, and Ngāi Tahu\, Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha through his mother. \nProfessor Whaanga is recognized as a leading scholar researching the revitalization\, protection\, distribution\, and development of Māori knowledge and language\, and incorporating mixed-method approaches\, processes\, and technologies to analyze\, develop\, present\, and protect new and sacred knowledge in different linguistic\, cultural\, ethical\, and digital contexts. His leadership in Māori digital initiatives earned him an invitation from the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge to lead and develop the conceptual framework for ‘Ātea’\, a multi-million-dollar spearhead project to conduct and share impactful research with experts in AI\, VR and AR\, NLP\, ML\, Indigenous and Māori data sovereignty\, and digital repositories \n  \n  \n🗓: March 6\, 2025\n🕒: 5:30- 7 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 : Zoom link \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend this event in-person\, please make sure you RSVP by emailing: abint-activities@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-2/
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SUMMARY:[PANEL] Woven Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Textiles and Materiality Cluster at the Milieux Institute invites you to a 30-minute panel discussion and Q&A session exploring key themes from the National Gallery of Canada’s Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition. Join PhD scholars Victoria MacBeath\, Geneviève Moisan\, Fernanda Suarez\, and Morris Fox for a captivating conversation that will touch on: \n\nTextiles as material\, technique\, and subject\nUsing textiles to address socio-political change\nTextiles as communal acts of care\n\nThis discussion will not only delve into these themes through the panelists’ creative research practices but will also serve as a lead-in to the Woven Futures: In Conversation panel\, which will take place later in the evening.\nThis second panel\, hosted at the National Gallery of Canada and live-broadcasted into our space\, will feature a Q&A where members will have the opportunity to ask questions first to panelists\, Dr. Miranda Smitheram\, Armando Perla\, and Michaëlle Sergile. \n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nVictoria MacBeath is a PhD candidate in the department of art history at Concordia University in Montréal\, Canada. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research considers the intersections of care ethics and craft-making practices in 20th-century New Brunswick. In doing so\, it takes up questions of language politics\, settler and indigenous relations\, notions of folklore and heritage\, and the rural and urban divide. Her research interests include material culture\, craft\, Atlantic history\, gender and feminist studies\, and heritage.  \n  \n  \nGeneviève Moisan is a skilled Jacquard weaver with a strong technical background in textile construction\, printing\, and dyeing. As a PhD student in Art Education at Concordia University\, her research explores the transfer of textile knowledge in informal learning settings\, particularly in support groups for caregivers. She actively participates in diverse collaborative research projects\, including creating textile antennas for video communication\, Jacquard weaving\, soft circuit textiles\, and cultivating bacteria to develop sustainable fibre dyeing protocols. Genevieve works as an equipment support specialist at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, where she also teaches workshops on weaving and digital embroidery.   \nShe holds a BFA from UQAM\, an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University\, and a diploma in Higher Education Pedagogy. Since 2019\, she has been a part-time instructor in the Fibres and Material Practices program at Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in various venues\, including the Centre d’action culturelle de la MRC de Papineau\, as well as in Montreal\, Toronto\, Venice\, Paris\, and Oaxaca\, Mexico.  \n  \nFernanda Suarez is a visual artist with an MA in Communication and Social Change and a BFA\, currently a PhD candidate in the  Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD student at Concordia University. Her artistic practice is transdisciplinary\, deploying a situated approach to drawing\, textile\, text\, and craft techniques to address issues of gender\, subjectivity\, and collaboration. With an interest in the material implications of textile production from a feminist decolonial approach\, her practice explores memory and knowledge. Environment and technique are central to her processes as open forms of knowledge that come into meaning through relations.   \nHer research-creation project explores the experience of weaving together with Nahua indigenous and Mestiza women in the Nahua community of Cuacuila\, located in the Sierra Norte de Puebla in Mexico. By working together\, they have learned and retaken almost extinct techniques in this territory. Although having a complex relationship influenced by colonial legacies\, learning and creating together has allowed us to recognize each other and forge different bonds.  \n  \nMorris Fox is a settler-Canadian interdisciplinary visual artist and poet whose work explores the hauntings of our ecological and socio-political atmospheres through a queer and gothic ecological lens. Fox integrates writing and ecological motifs into poetry\, chainmaille soft sculptures\, crafted queer ephemera\, and digital video\, asking what it means to make worlds and conditions of liveability\, as queer possibility\, within ecological end times?  \nBased in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal)\, Morris is currently pursuing a PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University. He has exhibited artworks and programmed workshops and talks internationally\, including Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal)\, Tkaronto (Toronto)\, where he grew up\, the United States and Iceland. His work has notably been featured in various exhibitions such as Spring Awaits (Wick Gallery\, Minneapolis\, 2025)\, Cruise-ading (Webster Library\, Montréal\, 2024)\, Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic (Stoveworks\, Chattanooga TS\, 2023)\, My Gay Mediaeval Times (Spacemaker ii\, Toronto\, 2022)\, and Vestiges and Remains (Artcite Inc.\, Windsor\, 2022). He holds a BFA (Concordia U\, 2010) and a Low Residency MFA (School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, 2018).  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 5-5:30 PM \n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \nMore information about Woven Futures: In conversation \n  \n               \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-woven-stories/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] WarGames
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 20th for the second session of the Critical Watch Series! This month we’ll watch WarGames. \n  \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series offers an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion and a podcast recording with select members of the audience. \nIf you would like to reserve a spot on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact Marc Lajeunesse at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca \n  \n \n📅 November 20\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ WarGames (1983) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-wargames/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:Low-Quality in collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ethnography Lab for the 2nd screening of the season! This session will feature the screening of four short films by Jared Epp\, Leo Stillinger\, Melina Campos and Marie Lecuyer. \nThis event will explore an experimental modality of ethnographic filmmaking that anthropologist Jared Epp calls the ‘ethnographic B movie’\, a novel approach to collaborative multimodal research. This approach – which encourages unprofessionalism\, low quality\, absurdity and caprice – provides an opportunity to centre research contexts\, ontologies and epistemologies on the fringes or margins of conventional anthropological content\, thought and context. Through situating the approach within ideas of arts-based research or research-creation the ethnographic B movie becomes a way to take the process of filmmaking as ethnography for the sake of an open and co-imaginative world. In the ethnographic B movie as filmic approach and representational frame\, communicable meaning and narrative coherence are substituted for the spirit of co-creation\, and interlocutor-driven content (Epp\, 2023). \nMusic Sound Noise by Jared Epp\, 16min \nMusic Sound Noise is a cautionary tale on the endless entangling of information sharing\, social media\, meaning and daily life\, and as well\, a satire on the anthropologist as colonizer of knowledge.  \nDr. Carlos Popper\, a positivist ethnographer arrives in the neighbourhood of Parkdale\, Toronto\, to study the growing concern of people vanishing into total virtual reality (the film was shot during the summer of 2020). On his journey he encounters Mr. Noise\, who embodies the desire for the virtual and tries to lure Popper to join him. Representing the liminality between the virtual and physical\, Mr. Sound\, another resident of the neighbourhood\, tries to save Popper.  \nJared Epp is a PhD Candidate in social anthropology from Carleton University in Ottawa\, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of place\, imagination and precarity in a Canadian urban context. He is currently based in Edmonton\, Canada\, finishing his dissertation and working as a community arts facilitator with individuals living unhoused and/or with a concurrence of mental health barriers and addictions \n  \nGrandmother by Melina Campos Ortiz\, Heather Dirckze and Charanpreet Khaira\, 6min \nIn presence of Melina Campos Ortiz \nGrandmother tells the story of migration through the faces that you might not associate with the anger and hatred that fuels British news and politics: the faces of Granny\, Naniji and Baba – three ordinary grandmothers. \nMelina Campos Ortiz is a PhD student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. She uses Feminist Science and Technology Studies to explore human-soil relations in organic farming in Quebec\, paying particular attention to Central American migrant workers’ experiences. She currently coordinates an SHRCC-funded project that seeks to strengthen the ties between ethnography labs in North America. \n  \nGwo Ging by Marie Lécuyer\, 25min \nGwo Ging (meaning « to transit through the border ») is an experiential ethnographic video that explores the perception of disappearance of the dead from the realm of the living in Hong Kong’S saturated archipelago. The pressure from urbanization along with new government policies promoting green and “oceanic” burials have been reconfiguring ways of caring for and re-membering the dead. Once immersed in water\, and without a stable resting place to call home\, the dead are removed from the « liquid ecology » that flows between the environment\, the deceased and their descendants by way of paper offerings\, simulacra of banknotes and gold or silver ingots. The film aims to offer a counter-gesture to the perception of disappearance of this spectral ecology by rendering visible the gestures by which undertakers take care of the dead through pyrotechnic rituals feeding a vital breath that animates the living and the dead alike. \nMarie Lecuyer is a postdoctoral fellow and the co-lead of the Critical Media Club in the department of anthropology at McGill University. Her doctoral thesis focused on the oceanic turn in funeral rites in the Hong Kong archipelago and explored the way in which an oceanic environment dissolves traces of past lives and reconfigures ways of commemorating the dead. At the crossroads between environmental anthropology\, death studies and media studies\, her research is interested in modes of infraperceptible presence and uses multisite and multimedia methods. Her current research focuses on ways of anticipating and remediating flooding phenomena in Hong Kong and Ottawa. \n  \nTrail Days by Leo Stillinger\, 15 min \nTrail Days is an ethnographic reverie depicting a festival of hikers in Damascus\, Virginia\, along the Appalachian Trail. The film was shot on GoPro and iPhone during fieldwork with thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail\, which stretches more than 3\,500 kilometers from Georgia to Maine in the eastern United States. Those who attempt to hike the entire trail end up forming a sub-culture of their own\, hidden in the woods of the Appalachian mountains\, but emerging occasionally to produce a unique and dreamlike atmosphere in the small towns they pass through—most notably in the annual Trail Days festival in Damascus\, where every year in late May twenty thousand people\, hikers past and present\, descend on a town with a population of less than eight hundred. \nLeo Stillinger is a writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His first film\, An Urban Wild\, was screened at the Festival International de Film Éthnographique de Quebec (FIFEQ) in 2023. He recently completed a Master’s in Anthropology at McGill University\, focusing on the experience of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. \n  \n: November 7\, 2024 | 5 PM \n: Screening Room EV 10.525 \n Register here to reserve your spot. Seats are limited.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/low-quality-in-collaborative-ethnographic-filmmaking/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] The Super Mario Bros. Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on October 30th for TAG’s new Critical Watch Series! The first edition of the screening will feature The Super Mario Bros. Movie. \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series offers an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion and a podcast recording with select members of the audience. \nIf you would like to reserve a spot on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact Marc Lajeunesse at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca \n  \n \n  \n📅 October 30\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-super-mario-bros-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation #5
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for the fifth Epistemological Foundations Conversation\, focusing on the theme of Research-Creation and AI. EF05 will bring together Archer Pechawis\, Scott Benesiinaabandan\, and Bryan Kuwada to reflect on their approaches to knowledge-making through research and creation. This Conversation will be moderated by Dr. Sara Diamond. \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team sharing how the knowledge frameworks in their field are constructed\, validated\, and employed. This session will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into the intersection of Research-Creation and AI. \nIn the last 20 years\, research-creation methodologies have emerged and been increasingly recognized within the academic research community. That being said\, Indigenous Knowledge Systems have drawn on research-creation for millennia – and many artists from diverse cultures have long engaged in research as well as creation.\n\nAcademic interest into research-creation has opened the door to deeper and wider forms of knowledge exploration and sharing.  This has meant the institutionalization and expansion of research-creation PhDs and grants in the UK\, Australia\, Canada\, and some other territories. In some instances\, this was not necessarily out of a genuine commitment to these practices but to help institutions achieve their research funding allocation. While such contradictions are in the background\, our discussion will start out by defining what research-creation is for our panelists and will then move on to exploring the ways that they use research-creation to engage with AI.\nThis is a hybrid event. In-person attendance requires RSVP confirmation by email at abint-activities@concordia.ca. \nTo join the conversation online: Zoom link \n September 18\, 2024 | 5:30 p.m\nAgora Coeur des Sciences\, 175 Av. du Président-Kennedy\, Montreal
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-5/
LOCATION:UQAM | Agora du coeur des sciences\, 175\, Av. du Président-Kennedy\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2X3P2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Re-Imagining Landscapes in Times of Ecological Crisis with Andrea Bordoli
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: Re-Imagining Landscapes in Time of Ecological Crisis \n  \nJoin the Visual Methods Studio of the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the first screening of the year! This session will explore the intersections between anthropology and filmmaking through the screening of three short audiovisual works by Andrea Bordoli\, each of them proposing a formal and conceptual encounter with a specific territory.  \n By considering human-nonhuman entanglements\, by tracking flows and transformations of matter\, and by imagining speculative scenarios that blur past\, present and future tenses\, each of these films proposes a filmic encounter to “think with” and “think through” some key elements of the contemporary ecological crisis. \n  \nABOUT THE FILMS: \nThe Depth Beneath\, The Height Above (2018) is a 18-minute documentary film exploring the high alpine region of Robiei\, Southern Switzerland. Through a juxtaposition between the aesthetics and activities taking place above – the continuous stream of water\, the movement of animals\, the processes of production of cheese – and respectively below the ground level – the mechanisms and technologies involved in the hydroelectric production\, as well as the humans interacting with them –\, the film conveys a sensory ethnography of this peculiar landscape. \nDiVisi Di Pietra Memorie (2021) is a 9-minute docu-fiction essay that develops a poetic reflection around the issues of water exploitation and rock mining in the Swiss Alps. By juxtaposing contemporary images to archives\, and by proposing a storytelling mix of documentary and fictional elements\, the work is an invitation to engage with the geological and human memories that shape and haunt current extractive environments. \nPer Voi Oggi la Luce del Sol non Splenderà (2021) is a post-apocalyptic\, eco-fiction short film portrying two construction workers wandering in a “zone” where inner and outer territories intertwine. In a constant search for traces\, they are increasingly confronted with a universe that over days and nights becomes overwhelming.  \n  \nABOUT THE DIRECTOR: \nAndrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA\, University of Manchester)\, Visual Arts – Cinema (HEAD – Genève)\, and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA\, Neuchâtel University). His research and practice lies at the intersection between anthropological theory\, film and visual art. He is currently based between Switzerland and Québec\, and he is pursuing a practice-led PhD in Media Anthropology at the University of Bern as part of the interdisciplinary project “Mediating the Ecological Imperative” (https://ecological-imperative.ch/). Since January 2022 he is a visiting artist-researcher at the anthropology department of McGill University.\nHis works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally\, such as Cinéma du Réel Paris\, Festival dei Popoli Florence\, Vancouver International Film Festival\, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival\, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück\, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival\, and others. \nIn parallel to his personal research he collaborated with various research groups and institutions such as EASA CH\, Université de Neuchâtel\, Université de Berne\, Locarno Film Festival and Cinémathèque Suisse. \n  \n📅: September 13 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m \n📍: VA-114 Cinema \nNo registration\, no fee\, all are welcome!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-conversation-re-imagining-landscapes-in-times-of-ecological-crisis-with-andrea-bordoli/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for the fourth Epistemological Foundations Conversation\, delving into the fusion of Neuroscience\, AI\, and Indigenous Knowledges. EF04 invites you to join Dr. Karim Jerbi (Université de Montréal)\, Dr. ‘Ōiwi Parker Jones (University of Oxford)\, and Dr. Melanie Cheung (Cheung Consultancy Ltd) as they share their perspectives on knowledge creation within this intersection. \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations\, feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team to explore the construction\, validation\, and utilization of knowledge frameworks within various fields. The conversations offer an in-depth exploration of the integration of Neuroscience\, AI\, and Indigenous Knowledges. \nThis is a hybrid event. In-person attendance requires RSVP confirmation by email at abint-coordinator@concordia.ca. \nTo join the conversation online: Zoom link  \n🗓️ July 10\, 2024\n📍Speculative Life Research Cluster\, EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Performance as research - A conversation with André Lepecki and Lília Mestre
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 12th\, 2024\, from 5-7 PM\, at the Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625)\, for conversation between Lília Mestre and André Lepecki hosted by LePARC. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nThis conversation will focus on the relationships between performance practice and academic research. Participants will be invited to discuss how performance-based actions shape alternative academic processes and outcomes\, offering insights into envisioning and crafting sustainable futures. \nProposed questions include: What is the range of practices and strategies that challenge prevalent norms of how artists and academics approach research? How do these other strategies relate to issues of collectivity\, embodiment\, and process? What kinds of practices of co-imagination are resisting authorial individuality as privileged figure of knowledge in the humanities and the arts? And how can performance as practice of research generate anticolonial\, inclusive\, multiverse\, and unpredictable material and immaterial manifestations of relationality? \nThe conversation will be based on an example of performance to encourage interactions. Participants are invited to read two texts prior the event to have a common departure point. \n\n📖 Chapman\, Owen and Kim Sawchuk. 2012. “Research-Creation: Intervention\, Analysis and “Family Resemblances”” Canadian Journal of Communication 37: 5-26 \n\n\n\n📖 Desideri\, Valentina\, and Denise Ferreira da Silva. 2022. “Another Image of Existence.” Performance Philosophy 7(1): 132-145 \n  \n\n\n\n \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nAndré Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies\, curatorial practice\, performance theory\, contemporary dance\, and visual arts performance. He is a Professor and the chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He has published widely and edited several anthologies. He has also curated numerous festivals and exhibitions including the award-winning re-staging of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts. In 2010 he co-curated the Archive on Dance and Visual Arts since the 1960s for the exhibition Move: Choreographing You at the Hayward Gallery\, London. He is the author of the books Exhausting Dance (2006) and Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016) and the editor\nof Dance (2013)\, Planes of Composition (with Jenn Joy\, 2009)\, The Senses in Performance (with Sally Banes\, 2007)\, and Of the Presence of the Body (2004). \nLília Mestre (she\, her) is a performing artist\, dramaturge and researcher working in collaborative formats mainly in the fields of contemporary dance and choreography. She is interested in forms of organisation created by and for artistic practice as alternative study processes for social-political reflection. She has been working on the concept of ‘artificial friendship’ which has been the source for the creation of methodological structures (scores) for exchange and collaboration in artistic research settings\, which have been documented in various publications. She was artistic coordinator of a.pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels and is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and Co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She was granted the The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2023 for her research on expanded choreography “Through Materialities\, Movement and Description”. \n  \n\n\n\n\n: April 12\, 2024 | 5-7 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performance-as-research-a-conversation-with-andre-lepecki-and-lilia-mestre/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:A Montreal Game Studies Conversation with Dr. Carl Therrien and Dr. Darren Wershler
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 12th\, TAG Research Cluster is organizing an engaging and candid conversation on game history and immersion within the context of Montreal Game Studies\, featuring Dr. Carl Therrien from Université de Montréal and Dr. Darren Wershler from Concordia University. This open and freeform discussion will delve into unconventional and exploratory approaches to researching and understanding video game history and immersion. Through these discussions\, reflections on the influence of the Montreal game research scene on work and within the broader field of game studies and associated fields will be explored\, examining the challenges and opportunities of past and future collaborations between local research groups in Montreal\, across linguistic\, institutional\, and cultural boundaries. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:  \n \nCarl Therrien is a professor in games and film studies at the Université de Montréal. In The Media Snatcher (Platform studies\, MIT Press\, 2019)\, he proposes a critical view of videogame historiography through a comparative study of the PC Engine platform\, confronting American and Japanese perspectives of this technology. He has written numerous papers on immersion and on the history of popular genres (such as adventure games and first-person shooters). His research projects seek to integrate more video games into the canon\, hoping to assist archivists and historians in their efforts to engage with the diversity and complexity of this culture. \n  \n  \n  \nDarren Wershler specializes in media history and media archaeology\, with a particular interest in the material culture of analog and early digital technologies. His current research occurs at the Residual Media Depot (RMD)\, a research and teaching collection associated with the Media History Research Centre (MHRC) in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University. With Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson\, he is the author of THE LAB BOOK: SITUATED PRACTICES IN MEDIA STUDIES (2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n: April 12\, 2024 | 11 a.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-montreal-game-studies-conversation-with-dr-carl-therrien-and-dr-darren-wershler/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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