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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods Keynotes and Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Program:\nChantier Ecotechnologies and Speculative Life Cluster are pleased to welcome interdisciplinary researcher Heather Davis (United States) and independent curator Juliette Bibasse (Belgium). \n\n\n  \n12:30 – 2 PM | Heather Davis Keynote: Producing Plastic Air\nHeather Davis talk will explore how one plastic cup factory produces plastic air\, and the consequences for how we think about waste\, plastic\, air quality\, and bodily knowledge. Highlighting workers’ experiences in plastic production and decentring narratives of individual consumer choice\, her work draw attention to petrocapitalism’s structural violence\, where harmful environmental conditions have been normalized and integrated into what it means to build a life in the image of the American Dream. She will explore this through the concept of “private air\,” showing how air quality is monitored differently in workplaces than in the general environment. \n\n\n  \n3 – 4 PM | Juliette Bibasse Keynote: Creating at Large – Prototyping off the grid & slowing down\nJuliette Bibasse & Joanie Lemercier crossed the Atlantic in March 2026 aboard a sail cargo vessel\, slowly travelling for two weeks from France to New York without flying — a deliberate choice made in response to the environmental cost of air travel. A series of works has been made on board\, in direct response to the physical experience of wind\, waves\, storms and swell\, ever-changing light\, shadows and reflections\, transcribing moments of the ocean into thousands of ink drops and pixels. \nAt sea\, you cannot trust data\, even on a high-tech vessel full of sensors. You must observe reality. This journey was a wonderful context to question our growing tendency to use technology to sense the world rather than experience it directly: all the computing power in the world will never be sufficient to model a single drop of water. \nIn this presentation\, Juliette Bibasse will share some of their recent works\, the motivations behind this journey and the embodied experience they got from it. Through their studio works and the Concordia University Solar Lab\, their goal is to share a critical understanding of technology and to propose desirable alternatives. They believe the future should not rely on robots and datasets\, as these fragile systems feel more like disposable gadgets than a serious roadmap for the future. \n\n\n  \n4:30 – 6 PM | Roundtable Unsettling Sediments: Site-responsive\, collaborative inquiry\, and public engagement\nThis round table explores the material and methodological dimensions of a collective bio-based book-making process at the Speculative Life Biolab. Since fall 2025\, the group has engaged in an art–science collaboration in Victoriaville\, where sediment accumulation in the Réservoir Beaudet is increasingly threatening access to drinking water. The limited-edition artist’s book is being produced using locally collected sediments\, algae\, and plant matter\, and functions both as a research outcome and a site-responsive medium. The discussion will examine how its fabrication and writing operate as a sensory\, collaborative method of inquiry\, as well as an ecotechnological form of engagement and public knowledge production. \n  \n  \n                   
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-keynotes-and-roundtable/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:The Disco Elysium Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on May 9th for a roundtable discussion on Disco Elysium with Dr. Carl Therrien\, Dr. Mia Consalvo\, Nathanaël Roussy\, and Elizabeth Eraña. Dark play\, detective stories\, and the inner reaches and turmoils of the human mind are all on the table for this discussion! Attendees are encouraged to play Disco Elysium ahead of time and are welcome to contribute to the QA/Open Discussion portion of the event following the main roundtable. \n  \n🗓 May 9 \, 2025 \n⏱️ 3 – 4:30 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-disco-elysium-roundtable/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
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SUMMARY:Woven Futures: In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Armando Perla\, acting Co-Director and Chief Curator of the Textile Museum of Canada\, along with artist and independent curator Michaëlle Sergile and associate professor Miranda Smitheram\, in a conversation around textiles\, art\, fashion and cultural institutions. \nTextiles contain many stories. This session looks at the many stories and histories untold and misrepresented through colonial narratives\, as well as current practices that are actively rewriting histories and collaboratively imagining futures. \nThis event is organized as part of the Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Canada until March 2nd.  This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past seventy years. \nBefore the main event\, Textiles & Materiality cluster invites you to joinsWoven Stories\,  a panel discussion between led by PhD student Morris Fox. This session\, featuring members\, artists\, and PhD scholars will take place in the Milieux Learning Atelier prior to the main conversation. \nMore about Woven Stories\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nArmando Perla is a non-binary queer mestizo curator currently acting as Co-Director and Chief Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Previously\, Perla was Chief Curator for the City of Toronto\, and Vice-President of the Canadian Museums Association. \nThey also worked as an Assistant Professor on Decolonization and Race in the iSchool at the University of Toronto\, and served as International Advisor on Museums for the City of Medellin\, Colombia. In addition\, they were part of the founding team for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights\, and Project Leader for the Swedish Museum of Migration and Democracy. In 2021\, they were awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Fellowship. \n  \n  \nMichaëlle Sergile is an artist and independent curator working mainly on archives including texts and works from the postcolonial period from 1950 to today. Her artistic work aims to understand and rewrite the history of Black communities\, and more specifically of women\, or communities living in diverse intersections\, through weaving. Often perceived as a medium of craftsmanship and categorized as feminine\, the artist uses the lexicon of weaving to question the relationships of gender and race. \nShe has exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec\, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Off Biennale de Dakar. Her name was also on the long list of the prestigious Sobey Award for the Arts in 2022. In 2023\, she won Visual Artist of the Year at the Gala Dynastie and began a residency at the Darling Foundry. She exhibited her work at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the McCord Stewart Museum in 2024. \n  \nAssociate Professor Miranda Smitheram is an artist\, design researcher and educator. Miranda was raised within a bicultural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand\, and draws upon her Māori and settler-colonial heritage in her work. \nDeveloping new hybrid materials to contribute to sustainable\, relational and postcolonial futures\, she centres her approach on crafting with the environment. This is explored through digital\, physical and hybrid materialities. Miranda’s current research investigates ontologies of kinship\, contested places\, and decolonizing matter through research-creation\, by rematerializing invasive plant species and contaminants into soft surface\, biocomposite and textile applications. \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 6-7:30 PM \n📍: National Gallery of Canada\, Auditorium / Live-broadcasted into Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \n🔗 Zoom registration \nThe event will be held in English with simultaneous French interpretation. \n  \nOrganized in partnership with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology and the National Gallery of Canada. \n               \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/woven-futures-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
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SUMMARY:#Gamergate\, Extremism\, and Disinformation in Games
DESCRIPTION:Join us at TAG Lab on October 25th for a Panel discussion with David Wollinsky\, Rachel Kowert and Mia Consalvo. \nPrompted by David Wolinsky’s new book The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate\, the Aftermath\, and the Quest for a Safer Internet\, this panel discusses developments\, disasters\, and stagnations within games culture in the ten years since #Gamergate began. David Wolinsky is joined by psychologist Dr. Rachel Kowert and game studies scholar Dr. Mia Consalvo\, who will share their recent work on extremism and disinformation within gaming spaces to discuss how various spheres of games culture have (or have not) developed over the last decade\, and how we continue to deal with the aftermath of #Gamergate.   \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nDavid Wolinsky is a Chicago-based oral historian and documentary researcher. Since 2014\, he’s been unraveling complex questions about online culture wars\, fandom\, and entertainment labor issues through his independent interview series\, Don’t Die. Using videogames as a Trojan horse\, the series examines how these conflicts resonate across industries like TV\, film\, VFX\, architecture criticism\, and even supply-chain activism. His work reveals the broader societal impact of these digital tensions and offers a living archive of over 500 interviews on the evolving relationship between technology and society. \n  \nThis archive\, preserved by Stanford\, has informed exhibits at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture\, case studies by Cornell Worker Institute\, and reporting by the Wall Street Journal. His interviews also led to his first book\, The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate\, The Aftermath\, and the Quest for a Safer Internet (Beacon\, August 2024). \n  \nIn addition to collaborations with the University of Washington’s Information School\, Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute\, and Northeastern University\, David’s earlier journalism career includes award-winning work for The Onion A.V. Club and NBC\, as well as receiving the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s journalism award in 2017. His interviews continue to bridge industries\, creating a comprehensive resource to understand early 21st-century digital life. \n  \nRachel Kowert\, Ph.D is a research psychologist\, award winning author\, and globally recognized leader facilitating global policy and product development with non-profit\, governmental\, and non-governmental agencies for more than 15 years through data-driven research focused on mental health and trust and safety in digital games. She has spoken about her work to thousands of people across the globe\, including the United Nations and the United States Congress. She has published a variety of books and scientific articles relating to the psychology of games and\, more recently\, the relationship between games and mental health specifically. \nRachel is also the founder of Psychgeist®\, a multimedia content production studio for the science of games and pop culture. \n \nIn addition to holding a research chair at Concordia University in Digital Game Studies and Design\, Mia Consalvo is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies\, and is the current director for the Technoculture\, Art & Games Research Centre (TAG). She is the author of several key game studies texts\, including Atari to Zelda and Cheating.  \n \n  \n  \n: October 25\, 2024 | 3 PM \n: TAG Lab EV 10.625 \n🔗 Register here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamergate-extremism-and-disinformation-in-games/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:Working with Friendship Round Table
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 25th for Working with friendship\, a round table discussion about ceramics and the power of artistic collaboration. This event takes place as part of the 5th Virginia McClure Ceramic Biennale and the Ceramic Friends exhibition (October 25 – November 30). This discussion will bring together 5 artist duos to discuss their experiences and methods working collaboratively\, particularly through the medium of clay. \nParticipating artists :  \n\nEmii Alrai / Eve Tagny\nMarie-Michelle Deschamps / Celia Perrin Sidarous\nHeather Goodchild / Margaux Smith\nAugust Klintberg / Benny Nemer\nMeredith Carruthers / Susannah Wesley\n\nCeramics Friends highlights community building\, friendship and creative interrelation through clay. This edition of the biennale expands the notion of ceramics beyond produced objects to present the works of five artist duos who work in friendship\, engaging with clay as a shared conceptual material to bring forward communal aspects of ceramics work within a studio setting\, and the care\, resilience\, and collaboration this generates. The McClure Gallery thanks the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for their support of this project. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nEmii Alrai (Leeds\, UK) and Eve Tagny (Montreal) worked collaboratively for two years developing the concept\, conversation and framework for Sutures (2022). Alrai is an artist and trained museum registrar whose practice subverts the traditional visual language of museum displays. Tagny’s multidisciplinary practice explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency in correlation with nature’s rhythms and materiality. \nMeredith Carruthers (Montreal) and Susannah Wesley (Montreal) have worked together under the name ‘Leisure’ since 2004. Their research-based art project The Ceremony (2021) is inspired by a document entitled “The Ceremony\,” found in the personal papers of local ceramicist Wanda Rozynska Staniszewka (1929-2007)\, which describes a series of objects\, costumes\, gestures and forms intended as “symbols for the renewal and healing of friends\,” between herself\, her husband Stanley Rozynski\, and her friend Gail Lamarche. This project was developed as part of the Foreman Art Gallery’s ArtLab residency and further supported by the Rozynski Art Centre\, the artist’s former home and studio. \nMarie-Michelle Deschamps (Montreal) and Celia Perrin Sidarous (Montreal) began working together in 2020 when they shared a studio. Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ practice focuses on language as an inhabitable space where aesthetic forms reside. Celia Perrin Sidarous is an image-based artist indebted to sStill lLife\, whose artworks present assemblages following an internal and associative logic. Both artists have featured in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad. \nHeather Goodchild (Toronto) and Margaux Smith (Toronto) have been collaborating informally for two years. Goodchild is a multidisciplinary artist exhibiting internationally and throughout Canada since 2001. Recurring themes in her work include symbolism\, rituals\, personal development\, and the collapse of the hierarchy of artistic disciplines. Smith uses layers of paint\, drawing\, and collage to convey the body’s state of constant transformation. She is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery\, Toronto. \nAugust Klintberg (Calgary) and Benny Nemer‘s (Paris\, FR) collaborative work articulates itself through participatory gestures involving acts of hospitality\, floral gift giving\, and paper wrapping\, alongside artistic research into the œuvre and legacy of Montreal potter Rosalie Namer (1925-2006). Their projects have been presented in galleries\, flower shops\, and community gardens in Canada\, the United States\, Germany\, and Scotland. \nLeisure is a conceptual collaborative art practice between Montreal-based artists Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley. Working together under the name “Leisure” since 2004\, they engage with cultural historical narratives through research\, conversation\, published texts\, curatorial projects and art production.   \nThe Milieux Institute is a leading graduate research center for arts\, culture and technology.  Established in 2016\, it houses several research clusters across various disciplines\, and serves as a platform for creative experimentation and collaboration. \n  \n📅: October 25\, 2024 | 1-2:30 p.m \n📍EV 10.625
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