After the resounding success of last year’s GameBling Game Jam, TAG, HERMES, and the Jeu Responsable à l’Ère Numérique (JREN) team are back for the second edition, and we need your help! We will be hosting another game jam in the Winter term. During two days, several teams of students will work together to create video games that reflect […]
Summer is a time for writing for many of us, but not everyone has an easy time finding a stable functional space where they can concentrate. Some write at home, at cafés, in the library or in other workspaces but we want to try (again!) something else: a graduate writing residency at Milieux! This summer, starting June 20th, […]
It is finally happening! We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members (faculty and students alike!) to meet IN PERSON at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) AND Online (see left-hand column for link) for our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING! We will be presenting our Annual Report (2020-2021) for you to peruse, palpate, etc., […]
In the Middle, a Chimera is the end-of-year exhibition/symposium for the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. Multi-headed as its title indicates, the project will span two weeks, from May 5th to the 18th, 2022, and will take place in numerous locations above and beyond the physical and conceptual limits of Concordia University. Though theoretically an exhibition, […]
Every Wednesday, join LePARC members and beyond for their weekly Writing Wednesdays: "A focused three hours every week: write with people in the same boat as you and with a structure that includes stretching/dancing breaks. Bring whatever it is you need to do, be it writing your thesis, a literature review, a proposal or application, […]
The Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG) is hosting a reading group event this Friday, November 5th in partnership with CRIE (Colonialism, Race and Indigenous Ecologies) and SPAM (Society, Politics, Animals and Materiality) to read Radhika Govindrajan's chapter "The Goat who Died for Family Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship" from her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central […]
Learn more about this event on the Textiles & Materiality website Hosts: Miranda Smitheram, Camelia Layachi, Etta Sandry When: Wednesdays from 6pm-7:30pm, Sept 23, Oct 7 & 21, Nov 4 & 18, Dec 2 Where: Zoom (e-mail the Research Coordinator at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca for the recurring link). Access the full bibliography here.
The Immersive Realities VR group invites all Milieux members to join a public meeting, their final of the term, where they will present their in-progress work, Liquid Perceptions, for a round of feedback and discussion. Liquid Perceptions is an interactive VR experience about the interconnections between the goals we set and the balance of […]
The Hungarian artist/photographer/researcher/writer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ranks as one of the key visionaries of the 20th century. A central figure with the Bauhaus in Germany and then founder of the New Bauhaus in Chicago during the Second World War, Moholy-Nagy was a strong supporter of art and technology as factors of social progress. He deeply explored and experimented with the fundamental elements […]
Project wrap-up, discussion and screening Seven intrepid Milieux faculty and students set out to modernize aMinecraft village in just 30 days. Along the way they discover theprinciples of Bauhaus architecture and the international style,discuss the relationship between logistics, rationalism and modernism, build a new conception of functionalist aesthetics, and develop a deep fear of the “creepers” […]
All Milieux members are invited for lunch and a chat on TUESDAY, OCT 22 from 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. We will discuss the upcoming milieuXbauhaus festival, congratulate the new Milieux Undergraduate Fellows, and we will also be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report. Please RSVP on Facebook if possible, so […]
Join the Toronto based collective Public Recordings for a facilitated reading and reflection on Jo Freeman’s influential essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”. Originally published in 1970, Freeman’s text reflects on her experiences in the 1960’s Women's Liberation movement, as it sought to move from criticizing society to changing it. The essay examines the structural challenges […]