LePARC and Textiles & Materiality clusters are hosting an artist talk between interdisciplinary performing artist Erin Brubacher and visual artist Janet Morton, who are in Montreal to share a presentation of the performance piece There Is So Much More to Say at CINARS Biennale. Bringing together Brubacher’s experience in collaborative performance-making and Morton’s work with reclaimed […]
Please join us for an artist’s talk by UK/Benin based artist n:u (melissandre varin) on Tuesday, Nov.10th from 5-7pm. This presentation is part of n:u’s visit to Canada, where they will also be presenting a new performance art work as part of Our Bodies Keeping Scores, a curatorial project by Jess Dobkin at FADO Performance […]
Join Machine Agencies for a conversation and book talk with author and professor Richard Lachman as he presents his latest book, Digital Wisdom: Searching for Agency in the Age of AI. ABOUT THE BOOK: Inviting us to an active role in reshaping technology is at the core of Digital Wisdom: Searching for Agency in […]
Join us on October 2 for the first talk of the Speculative Life Speaker Series 2026/27 featuring alumna Maya Hey. She will talk about her new book and her journey from her doctoral studies at Concordia to publishing a book! There will also be time and space to ask Maya any questions you may have […]
Join LePARC for an informal exchange with visiting scholar from School of Theatre at Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) Tamara Figueroa. She will introduce current research-creation, pedagogical, and institutional initiatives developed at Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, in dialogue with LePARC and Concordia University. The conversation will address the School of Theatre, the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas, […]
Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book, The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics. ABOUT THE TALK: AI is often presented in extremes, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs, democracy, or even human […]
Networked personal media devices construct an animated intimacy, fostering user trust and emotional dependence. Viewing this development through a historical eye, this talk explores examples of object-oriented digital intimacy that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing from Needy Media (recently published by McGill-Queens University Press), it will consider how user-device closeness was […]
Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland, the latest publication by Will Straw. In its time (the 1920s and 1930s), the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison […]
The Media History Research Centre is hosting its first talk of the year as part of the Media History Seminar Series with a presentation by Jennifer Lynn Stoever. ABOUT THE TALK: Quiet as it’s been kept by music media and academia, from its start Hip Hop was never solely or even predominantly a masculine art. For […]
(art)iculating worlds and Machine Agencies welcome Galit Ariel to discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-relatives and surrealities. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Galit Ariel is a TechnoFuturist, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures, behaviours and interactions. […]
Join Media and Materiality Cluster for the second talk of the Montreal Media History Seminar, a series of public talks and discussions on recent media scholarship. ABOUT THE TALK: What is the social significance of a photographic archive with no, or at most a very accidental, external audience? Is it akin to photographs that are […]
Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. The ecological, social, and political challenges of our time require creative, more-than-human, and futures-oriented engagements. However, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative, caring, engaged, or collaborative thinking, making, or doing. […]