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SUMMARY:[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit\, power\, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \n \nAI 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 life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI\, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? \nDrawing on her co-authored book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (open access\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan)\, Regine Paul argues that today’s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt\, but about profit imperatives and political choices. \nAI technologies are developed and deployed within pre-existing economic structures\, largely reinforcing inequalities between industries\, workers\, and countries rather than fundamentally transforming them away. \nThe main focus of this talk is on how long-standing insights from critical and global political economy can help us expose the complex interactions (1) of political institutions and agency\, (2) speculative tech narratives\, (3) the imperative of geopolitical tech races\, and (4) globe-spanning forms of domination and exploitation in shaping articulations of AI transformations\, in the plural\, on the ground as well as what connects these into one more global transformation\, in the singular\, across time and space. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nRegine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway\, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on “Technology and Statehood”. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)\, as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (2026)\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 23\, 2026 \n 12–1:30 PM \n Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend online\, please register here to receive the registration link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-ai-matrix-a-critical-political-economy-reading-of-the-profit-power-and-politics-behind-global-ai-transformations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Stephen Monteiro: How Tech Got Needy: Episodes in Device Intimacy
DESCRIPTION: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 baked into consumer electronics from 1995 to 2005 through a range of hardware and software cues. These elements collectively tapped psychological vulnerabilities toward affective impact\, situating the device as a lively\, but needy\, presence in the life of users. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nStephen Monteiro is a faculty member in Communication Studies at Concordia University. In addition to Needy Media\, he is the author of The Fabric of Interface (The MIT Press) and Screen Presence (Edinburgh University Press)\, and the editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n March 26\, 2026 \n 4:30 – 6 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stephen-monteiro-how-tech-got-needy-episodes-in-device-intimacy/
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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland\, the latest publication by Will Straw. \nIn 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 in 1925. In recent years\, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. \nThe fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan\, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives. This talk will deal with the historical usefulness of these accounts\, and with the problem of researching magazines which were rarely preserved in libraries and\, until very recently\, ignored by historians. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nWill Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery\, 2006) and the new Nights in Fairyland: Gossip\, Blackmail\, and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities. Will Straw is also the co-editor of numerous books\, including Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin\, 2014)\, Night Studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli\, 2020) and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Night Time Economy(with Jess Reia and Alessio Koliulis). Dr. Straw has published more than 200 articles on cinema\, music popular culture and the urban night. \n  \n  \n  \nFebruary 13\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure your register for this event \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-and-book-launch-nights-in-fairland-by-will-straw/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Living Room Revolutions: Black Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and '70s
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nQuiet 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 so many of hip hop’s originators in 1970s New York City\, it was the women in their lives who loved music\, collected vinyl records\, selected music to play at home and at house parties\, and taught their children how to listen widely across genres and deeply into the new musical worlds being spun around them. Through the revolutions of their living room turntables\, Bronx women used vinyl records as a form of sonic archiving\, worldmaking\, and radical mothering in the 1970s\, bringing revolutionary selves into being along with life-sustaining visions of Black and Brown-centered worlds for their children. The way they curated\, played\, and talked about music in everyday life taught their children to hear cultural connections and family history within the grooves of vinyl records; without question this deeply impacted hip hop’s emergence as a DJ art. In turn\, Black women left a still-audible material imprint on the sound itself: samples from their records have been used and re-used in hip hop songs\, a traceable sonic lineage. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Jennifer Lynn Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and founding Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press\, 2016).  She has published in Social Text\, Social Identities\, Sound Effects\, Modernist Cultures\, American Quarterly\, and Radical History Review among others\, including Oxford Handbooks in both Sound Art and Hip Hop Studies.  Stoever’s  book-in-progress\, Living Room Revolutions: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s\, is supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard Foundation fellowships. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMedia History Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre engaging with the historical development of media change and communication. The centre focuses on nascent\, yet robust subfields such as media archaeology\, variantology\, new materialism\, circulation theory\, and technology writing. Through their research projects and publications\, MHRC members have been celebrated for their innovative studies of many aspects of media history. \n  \n  January 22\, 2026 \n 4 -6 PM \nEV 2.776 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/living-room-revolutions-black-women-collecting-and-selecting-records-in-the-1960s-and-70s/
LOCATION:EV 2.776
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SUMMARY:Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel
DESCRIPTION:(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. \n  \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nGalit 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. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency\, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity\, Experience and Reality’ which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture\, body\, space and agency. \nHer academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology\, culture and body politics and imaginaries. She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology\, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program\, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists\, artists\, social scientists\, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning)\, and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog-150 principles for a new direction in tech). \nGalit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences\, agencies and institutions\, such as tD\, Bell Labs\, SXSW\, The European Union\, The Next Web\, Slush\, Fifteen Seconds\, FITC\, Pause Fest\, VRARA Global Summit\, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more. \n  \n\nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  January 22\, 2026 \n 2-3:30 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Reserve a spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-spacemaking-unrealities-of-imperfect-worlding-by-galit-ariel/
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SUMMARY:Extra-curricular:Photography\, race and citizenship in Toronto's University Settlement House\, 1946-56
DESCRIPTION: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. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nWhat 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 taken but never printed\, filed away as negatives in a basement or library? For a social historian of photography\, interested in where photographs circulated and how viewers understood them\, how can we begin to understand what these images meant to their authors and subjects? \nThis talk examines these questions through the photographic archives of Toronto’s University Settlement House: a radical experiment in social work that foregrounded extra-curricular activities—art and music classes\, theatre productions\, recreational sports clubs\, Sunday evening dances\, and summer camps\, but also language classes\, library facilities\, medical clinics and lunchrooms—as vital means for providing “lessons in citizenship and cooperative organization” (James 2001). Located in Toronto’s Ward neighbourhood—a site of an influx of non-European immigration that middle class residents worried would disrupt the moral fabric of the city—the University Settlement House’s activities were fastidiously documented by amateur photographers and now reside in the City of Toronto Archives. \nAs part of Moser’s wider project examining the history of photography and citizenship in Canada after 1947\, this paper examines the ways photography\, race\, and extra-curricular activities came together as technologies of assimilation and settlement in the University Settlement House archive. But it equally asks how community members used these same technologies for acts of resistance\, de-segregation and transnational alliance. Paying an inordinate amount of attention to these everyday images of extra-curricular activities that rarely circulated outside the walls of the settlement house\, Gabrielle Moser argues that these photographs impart lessons of their own about the precarities of belonging in multicultural Canada. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nGabrielle Moser is an art historian\, writer\, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press\, 2019) and\, with Adrienne Huard\, co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation (2022). Moser is currently at work on her second book\, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA\, Moser is Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art\, and Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University in Montréal. \n  \n  \n\n November 28\, 2025\n3:30-5 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure you register here to participate! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/extra-curricularphotography-race-and-citizenship-in-torontos-university-settlement-house-1946-56/
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SUMMARY:[BOOK TALK] Critical Design Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. \nThe 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. How can the field of communications address this challenge? \nThis talk will explore the power of community engaged design processes to create space for embedded\, embodied\, and emergent thinking. This approach and its results will be illustrated with projects about data literacy\, environmental education\, and digital sovereignty. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nData increasingly forms the backbone of systems and processes that shape how we do things and how we relate to each other. Datafication – the uptake of data to reorganize social processes – is reshaping everything from loyalty programs and digital identification systems to credit card payments and rental pricing platforms. Artificial intelligence accelerates these processes. \nMaking sense of what these changes mean for our everyday lives is no easy task. Datafied systems are highly technical and designed to be convenient and seamless; we tend to encounter them in brief moments of individualized transaction\, which makes them difficult to see\, let alone read\, and their illegibility makes them very challenging to respond to. Communing Data Literacy offers a novel set of concepts and tools to help people make sense of how technology is altering their communities and their social interactions. Building on three years of design research by digital rights organizations in Chile\, Colombia\, Paraguay\, Peru\, and Uruguay\, the volume analyzes people’s everyday experiences with datafication\, rethinking data from the perspective of community and offering practical techniques for community engagement. \nCommuning Data Literacy pushes back against the individualism and technocentrism of Western data literacy practice and scholarship\, providing English readers the opportunity to engage with Latin American perspectives. \n  \nABOUT KATERINE REILLY: \nKatherine Reilly is the lead author on Communing Data Literacy: Tools and Concepts for Social Engagement (MQUP\, 2025)\, “Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-Than-Human Worlds” (Somatechnics\, 2025)\, and Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro Sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (Tierra Común\, 2025). She is a member of the Latin American data colonialism network Tierra Común\, as well as Simon Fraser University’s Imaginative Methods Lab\, and Scholarly Communications Lab. She is an Associate Professor in SFU’s School of Communication. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n🗓 November 20\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-critical-design-research-methods/
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Guest Talk: Sara Grimes - Parasocial Gameworlds: Play with Friends\, Influencers\, and AI NPCs.
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 19 for a talk on children’s digital play with Sara M. Grimes. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the Director and Founder of the Kids Play Tech Lab\, and Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded Children and Age-Appropriate Game Design Project. Her research and teaching are centered in the areas of children’s digital media culture(s) and children’s rights in the digital environment\, with a focus on games. Her award-winning book\, Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces\, Virtual Worlds\, and Connected Games\, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new book\, Kidfluenced\, under contract with the University of California Press\, about children as creators of digital games\, media and other content. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓November  19\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-sara-grimes-parasocial-gameworlds-play-with-friends-influencers-and-ai-npcs/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Talk by Samantha Lance: "Stitching Ancestral Histories and Diasporic Stories: New Reflections on Curating Textiles"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster for a special virtual talk with curator and writer Samantha Lance as she shares reflections on curating textile practices. This session will explore ancestral\, diasporic\, and contemporary contexts\, and will be especially relevant for anyone interested in material culture\, embodied histories\, and textiles as vessels of memory and community. \nSamantha will give an in-depth walkthrough of her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains\, which was on display at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She’ll also discuss her experience at the Textile Society of America’s 2024 symposium\, “Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles”. \nAs the current Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington\, Samantha will also touch on the exhibition To Our Reunited Future by Moroccan-Canadian artist Rihab Essayh. \nAfter the talk\, you’re invited to participate in a story-sharing circle to reflect on textile practices as expressions of love\, ancestral rituals\, and intergenerational connection. \n  \nABOUT SAMANTHA LANCE: \nSamantha Lance is a Canadian curator and writer whose work fosters meaningful connections between artists and communities. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. She is currently Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington. \nLance has worked with institutions including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, C Magazine\, the Art Gallery of Algoma\, Onsite Gallery\, and Latitude Gallery New York. Her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains (Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, 2024)\, brought together Toronto-based artists whose textile practices recover matrilineal histories of displacement and belonging. She continues to research and collaborate with artists and curators advocating for women’s labour\, textile practices\, and ancestral techniques\, with a particular interest in experimental\, multisensory exhibition strategies that expand accessibility and dialogue. \n  \n📅 September 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5-7 PM \n📍 Online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/curatorial-talk-by-samantha-lance-stitching-ancestral-histories-and-diasporic-stories-new-reflections-on-curating-textiles/
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Marco Armiero : Guerrilla Narrative in the Wasteocene
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. \nWhile the concept of the geological Anthropocene may have diminished in prominence\, it remains vital to scrutinize the narratives it has generated and to foster counter-hegemonic storytelling. Although humanity collectively inhabits the Anthropocene\, its effects are far from uniformly distributed. Instead of seeking its evidence solely in the geosphere\, what if researchers shifted their focus to the organosphere — exploring the intertwined ecologies of humans and their environments? \nToxic layers have not only settled into physical landscapes but have also infiltrated human and more-than-human bodies. Recent epigenetic studies suggest that these toxic imprints are now embedded in genetic memory. By investigating this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity\, we confront not the Anthropocene but the Wasteocene—an era defined by waste. However\, the Wasteocene extends beyond the mere generation of waste; it is fundamentally about the systematic production of wasted lives and degraded places. The enforcement of wasting relationships upon marginalized human and more-than-human communities constructs a toxic ecology made of contaminants and narratives. \nThis talk will examine the “Toxic Narrative Infrastructure” — a framework which invisibilizes\, normalizes\, and naturalizes injustices — and explore how guerrilla narratives seek to disrupt and dismantle it. \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\nMarco Armiero is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science\, Autonomous University of Barcelona & Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. A global leader in environmental humanities\, he has held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Yale\, Stanford\, Berkeley\, and Coimvra\, and directed the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, establishing it as a hub for socioecological research and activism. \nHis groundbreaking book\, Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump (Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, has been widely recognized\, translated into several languages\, and inspired both academic symposia and media coverage. In 2022\, he co-authored the first environmental history of Italian fascism\, published by Einaudi\, translated by MIT Press\, and forthcoming in Spanish. \nA pioneer in his field\, Prof. Armiero is a founding figure in European environmental history and has advanced research on migration\, socioecological crises\, and justice. His influential concepts\, such as the “Wasteocene” and “toxic narrative infrastructure\,” have shaped contemporary scholarship\, blending academic excellence with advocacy for environmental and social equity. \n  \n  \n🗓: March 31\, 2025\n🕒: 2 – 4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n      
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-marco-armiero-guerrilla-narrative-in-the-wasteocene/
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Joni Adamson: Beyond Climate Fiction: Visionary Fictions\, Futures Thinking\, and a Cosmovisionary Archive
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives\, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn Fall of 2024\, the United Nations hosted hundreds of global delegates at The Summit of the Future\, a monumental effort to forge a new international consensus on how to safeguard the future.  For the first time\, humanists\, including me\, were an officially-invited part of the delegation\, and at the table for consideration of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ challenge to take specific steps to “make a tangible difference in people’s lives and account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations.” \nIn this lecture\, I will explain the role of climate fiction in the lead-up to my invitation (as a humanist) to come to the United Nations. Then\, I’ll dive into a discussion of Day After Tomorrow (2004)\, the most celebrated “cli-fi” film to date\, and bring Solar Storms (1994)\, an indigenous-authored novel that has only recently been considered part of an emerging climate fiction canon into the discussion.  I connect these two seemingly unrelated pieces because they can both be connected in interesting ways to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)\, the massive Atlantic Ocean current system which affects climate\, sea levels and global weather system. \nMy discussion explores how both film and novel create characters that draw attention to the value of “futures thinking\,” a practice foregrounded at the Summit of the Future and\, for over 20 years\, by environmental humanists interested in impowering individuals\, students\, governments\, societies\, and organizations to imagine and shape alternative\, desirable futures\, particularly in the face of accelerating ecosystemic disruptions associated with climate change (like AMOC).  With Solar Storms as an example not of “cli-fi” per se\, but as an example of a genre Black Studies professor and spoken word artist Walida Imarisha calls ‘visionary fiction\,’ I explore why we might want to go beyond futures thinking to ‘cosmos thinking\,’ a concept linked to cosmovisions\, cosmopolitics and the indigenous-authored Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change (2012). \nBuilding on my previous work around indigenous cosmopolitics and the environmental humanities (Adamson and Davis 2017\, Adamson and Monani 2016)\, I propose a ‘cosmovisionary archive’ that would facilitate cosmos-thinking by gathering together unruly\, mixed genres (ancient oral tradition\, almanacs\, visionary fictions\, blockbuster films) that “account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations” and acknowledge Earth systems (like AMOC) as ‘persons’ with rights ‘to regenerate biocapacity and continue vital cycles’ (Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change 2012). \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nJoni Adamson is President’s Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Distinguished Global Futures Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL). She is Founding Director of the Flagship Hub of UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition\, the first humanities-led science platform in the world. She is also Director of Humanities for the Environment North America (HFE)\, based in the Global Institute for Sustainability and Innovation at ASU’s Walton Center for Planetary Heath.\n \nAdamson is the author and/or co-editor of nine books and special issues and 90 articles\, chapters\, reviews and blog posts which have been widely cited\, reprinted\, and translated into Mandarin and Spanish. She writes on environmental justice\, the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences\, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies\, the rights of nature movement\, and the food justice movement.  Her research has been supported by many awards and grants\, including the 2019 Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. She has delivered 90+ keynote and plenary lectures throughout the US and in Australia\, China\, England\, Italy\, France\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, the Netherlands\, Scotland\, South Africa\, Spain\, Sweden\, and Taiwan. \n  \n🗓: March 28\, 2025 |2-4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n       
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-joni-adamson-beyond-climate-fiction-visionary-fictions-futures-thinking-and-a-cosmovisionary-archive/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Guest Talk: Extreme Design with Evgeni Puzankov
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on March 14th for a talk on extreme design and game narrative with Evgeni Puzankov. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nExtreme Design Spaces are wonderful. These are design contexts and tools\, not necessarily physical environments. This practice is an exercise in failure to approach every interactive project as its own medium in an industry that’s constantly in chaos. Playing with explorations of extremes is useful for your game development practice\, general creativity\, and it’s simply so much fun. It’s a wonderful response to an industry that loves telling you “you can’t do it” or “you have to do it this way”. The talk will cover creative constraints\, semantics\, dead genres\,  and artificial exceptionality. It will also include quite a bit of spite\, ideological and not. The talk will feature practical advice as well as a general overview. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nEvgeni “Zhenia” Puzankov is an award-winning narrative designer and game developer (as All Worms) with 17+ years of experience in the industry and 70+ released titles.  He is also a teacher\, curator of a microfund Briefs\, and a PhD candidate at York University.\n \nhttps://linktr.ee/all_worms \n  \n  \n  \n📅:March 14\, 2025 | 3-4 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-extreme-design-with-evgeni-puzankov/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Alison Donnell: Mapping missing Caribbean women narratives in Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives\, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. \nIn this first event\, Alison Donnell\, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol\, will present a seminar based on her upcoming book Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean. She will focus on the life and work of Barbara Althea Jones\, a Trinidadian poet and physicist at McGill\, author of Among the Potatoes. \nParticularly relevant for undergraduate and graduate students\, (and mandatory for students enrolled in GEOG 418 (Postcolonial Geographies)  the seminar will encourage reflection on the Caribbean diaspora within Montreal’s localized context\, as well as the broader postcolonial dynamics shaping the community today. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nAlison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature\, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture\, recovery research of women authors\, and Caribbean literary archives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nLost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region’s rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers – such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson – whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others – Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete\, for example – whose work has never been properly recognised. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these ‘lost’ writers\, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: March 5\, 2025 | 1:15 – 3:15 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n📖 A reading will be circulated in advance of the seminar. \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n  \n                            \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-alison-donnell-mapping-missing-caribbean-women-narratives-in-montreal/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:LASER 15 – Artificial Intelligence\, Human-Computer Interaction\, and New Approaches to Musical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Co-chairs : Nina Czegledy and Ricardo Dal Farra\n  \nPresented as part of the LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks series and supported by Hexagram\, this event explores how AI and human-computer interaction are reshaping creative practices.  \n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are revolutionizing creative practices\, offering innovative tools and methodologies for artists\, designers\, and technologists. These advancements challenge traditional workflows and open up new possibilities in sound\, music\, and interactive media.  \n\n\n In this session\, Gabriel Vigliensoni\, Assistant Professor in Creative Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University\, and Marcelo M. Wanderley\, Professor\, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)\, and Area Coordinator for Music Technology at McGill University\, will explore cutting-edge research and practices in AI\, HCI\, and musical interfaces.  \n\n\nData- and Interaction-Driven Approaches for Sustained Musical Practice: \n\n\nGabriel Vigliensoni will present his research on the control and steerability of neural audio synthesis models through data- and interaction-driven approaches. His talk will emphasize how small datasets enhance performers’ creative agency and how interactive machine learning techniques improve expressivity and coherence in generative audio models. These concepts will be illustrated with examples from his creative practice\, demonstrating the potential for rich\, sustained musical engagements.  \n\n\nInterdisciplinary Research on New Musical Interfaces: \n\n\nMarcelo M. Wanderley will discuss interdisciplinary research on new interfaces for musical expression (NIME)\, highlighting the interplay between music technology\, HCI\, and engineering. His presentation will include an overview of early NIME designs\, recent advancements from the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University\, and insights into creative AI opportunities within this field.  \n\n\nTogether\, these talks showcase how AI and HCI are transforming music technology and performance\, opening new horizons for creativity and innovation in sound and interactive media.  \n\nMODERATION: \nNina Czegledy\, Adjunct Professor\, OCAD\, and Co-Chair Leonard/ISAST LASER Talks. \nRicardo Dal Farra\, Professor\, Music Department\, Concordia University. \n  \nSPEAKERS: \nGabriel Vigliensoni\, is Assistant Professor in Creative Artificial Intelligences\, Design and Computational Arts at Concordia University. His  work currently explores the creative affordances of the machine learning paradigm in the context of sound- and music-making. His practice merges formal musical training with extensive studies and experience in sound recording\, music production\, music information retrieval\, human-computer interaction\, and machine learning to explore and develop novel approaches to music composition and performance. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarcelo M. Wanderley holds a Ph.D. in acoustics\, signal processing\, and computer science applied to music. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of novel interfaces for music performance. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on new interfaces for musical expression (NIME)\, including the co-edited volume Trends in Gestural Control of Music and the textbook New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard. As the director of the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University\, he leads research in gestural control of sound synthesis\, new instrument design\, and analysis of performer-instrument interaction.  . \n  \n  \n\nLeonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is a program of international gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations\, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities and 5 continents worldwide.  \nHexagram gratefully acknowledges funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture.   \nHexagram is an interdisciplinary network in Montreal dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts\, cultures and technologies. It comprises around forty co-researchers\, forty collaborators\, and a little over 200 students from various artistic disciplines related\, in particular\, to living arts\, visual arts\, design\, and media arts\, while also touching disciplines in the social sciences and humanities or natural sciences and engineering.  \n  \n📅: February 4\, 2025 | 6-8 PM \n📍: Milieux Institute Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Hybrid event: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/lpl0qWm2SSes1g5OHVBb2Q \n\nAfter registering\, participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nThis event will be held in English \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/laser-15-artificial-intelligence-human-computer-interaction-and-new-approaches-to-musical-practice/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Montreal Media History Seminar: ‘Written by Readers’: The 'Sunshine Dividends' of Junior Press Clubs
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media and Materiality Research Cluster for the first Montreal Media History Seminar of 2025. This talk will explore the history and significance of Junior Press Clubs in 20th-century newspapers\, examining how youth-driven media outlets shaped early youth journalism and the varying motivations behind their creation\, drawing insights from Gabriele and Moore’s book The Sunday Paper: A Media History (Illinois\, 2022). \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nBetween 1890 and 1990\, for the entire span of newspapers’ predominance of mass media\, a small but significant number of papers ran “junior press clubs.” These outlets expanded the typical weekend children’s page into fully-fledged more or less self-organized youth organizations. Junior Press Clubs had elected officers trained in the production of a weekly or daily school or youth publication. \nIn their book chapter on tabloid and poster supplements of The Sunday Paper (which we offer as background reading) Gabriele and Moore briefly spotlighted early bannered children’s pages and specially-sized ‘junior” journals as a matter of “fashioning the supplement for little hands” (pp. 71-79). Their new\, preliminary research into junior press clubs’ in later years demonstrates surprising variability and sporadic adoption; they did not become standardized or syndicated on a continental scale. Some were pitched as entertainment\, offering club members picnics\, free movies or trips to ball games. Some were relatively elaborate\, like the Los Angeles “Junior Times” Club’s weekly magazine\, entirely written\, illustrated\, edited and managed by a juvenile staff. The LA Times (1923) promised “sunshine dividends” for youth members\, including their own pressroom and club quarters. \nIn this early exploration of these and other cases\, Gabriele and Moore ask why a newspaper would undertake this extraordinary effort to facilitate entire “junior journals” (Minneapolis Journal 1898) that were “written by readers” (Hamilton Spectator\, 1902)? They will share a range of examples\, inviting Seminar participants’ further insights. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nSandra Gabriele is the Vice-Provost\, Innovation in Teaching & Learning and a Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She has published on changing historical news forms. She is currently researching student fluency in the language of employability and mindful self-compassion in the professional development of university teaching. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPaul Moore is professor of sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. His media histories of cinema exhibition in North America have focused on the relation between audiences and newspaper publicity\, appearing in Film History\, Canadian Journal of Film Studies\, and The Moving Image. He is currently writing an updated history of cinema in Canada. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: January 31\, 2025\n🕒: 3:00 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier\, EV 11.425\, Concordia University \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/montreal-media-history-seminar-written-by-readers-the-sunshine-dividends-of-junior-press-clubs/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Workshop on AI & DH (part 2)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day conference exploring the intersection of AI and Digital Humanities. \nThis event is organized by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) in collaboration with the Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique (GREN) and the Milieux Institute. \n  \nProgram:\nWednesday 15 January 2025:\n\n10am-10.30m — Welcome and coffee\n10.30am-11.15am — Paper #1 — Leonardo Laurence Impett (University of Cambridge): « The visual cultures of AI »\n11.15am-12pm — Paper #2 — Douglas Reside (New York Public Library): « Using Generative AI to Learn from Archival Performance Photography »\nnoon-1.30pm Lunch break\n1.30pm-2.15pm — Paper #3 — Mohamed Cheriet (École de technologie supérieure\, Montréal): « Unlocking the Past: AI-Based Visual Language Processing of Ancient Manuscript Collections »\n2.15pm-3pm — Paper #4 — Umair Rehman (Western University): « Generative AI in Automating Think-Aloud Protocols and Heuristic Evaluations »\n3pm-3.30pm — Coffee break\n3.30pm-4.15pm — Paper #5 — Marianne Reboul (ENS Lyon): « Detecting intertext between Latin and Greek authors through LLMs »\n4.15pm-5pm — Paper #6 — Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University) and Susan Brown(University of Guelph): « Tag Team: AI and TEI in LEAF Commons »\n\n\nThursday 16 January 2025:\n\n9.30am-10am — Welcome and coffee\n10am-10.45am — Paper #7 — Bart Simon (Concordia U): « A Tale of Machine Agencies: AI as a Toy\, not a Tool »\n10.45am-11.30am — Paper #8 — Faith Majekolagbe (University of Alberta): « Copyright Ethics and Artificial Intelligence »\n11.30am-11.45am — Coffee break\n11.45am-12.30pm — Paper #9 — Sil Robert Hamilton (Cornell University): « On Structuring Data for the Digital Humanities »\n\n\n📅: January 15-16\, 2025 | 10-5 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-on-ai-dh-part-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:[Book Talk] The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture\, Video Games\, and the Politics of Perception with Toni Pape
DESCRIPTION:Join LePARC Research Cluster for a book talk with Toni Pape about his new book The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture\, Video Games\, and the Politics of Perception. \nIn this book\, Pape explores how performances of tactical imperceptibility – or “stealth” – have emerged as a crucial mode of cultural expression and political action in the face of digital surveillance technologies. In his talk\, Pape will introduce the media aesthetics of stealth through examples from video art\, television and video games. During the discussion\, we will connect stealth to its related political concerns\, including queerness\, whiteness\, surveillance and warfare. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \n \n  \n  \n  \nToni Pape is a cultural theorist and media scholar at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption (Duke University Press\, 2019). He is a member of the editorial boards of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and the Immediations book series at Punctum Press. Toni’s current research project “The Aesthetics of Stealth” focuses on performances of disappearance and imperceptibility in contemporary. \n  \n📅 November 27\, 2024 | 5-6:30 PM \n📍 EV 10.785 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-aesthetics-of-stealth-digital-culture-video-games-and-the-politics-of-perception-with-toni-pape/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Engagement and Emotions in Game Data Work
DESCRIPTION:On October 24th\, join TAG for a talk about the emotional landscape of data-driven decision-making in game development with guest speaker Olli Sotamaa. \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nApplication of data analytics and other data-driven working methods creates new processes and work cultures in game studios. While data analytics tools are often promised to support rational\, calm and emotion-free decision-making and to reduce developers’ reliance on intuition\, hunch and gut feeling\, recent empirical data indicates that working with game data provokes a large spectrum of emotions. The presentation introduces the idea of ‘game data work’\, explores its affective side\, and discusses how it potentially changes our overall understanding of game production. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Olli Sotamaa is a professor of Game Culture Studies and leads the Tampere University Game Research Lab with professor Frans Mäyrä. He also serves as team leader in The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.  He has studied various game cultural phenomena related to online communities\, fandom and game modding\, and has also critically examined the game industry and different forms and contexts of game production. \n \n  \n: October 24\, 2024 | 3-4 PM \n: TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/engagement-and-emotions-in-game-data-work/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240925T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:An introduction to "Voter_Machine_World" with Fenwick McKelvey
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Cluster for the first talk of a series of public talks and discussion on recent media history. On September 26\, Fenwick McKelvey will discuss his forthcoming book “Voter_Machine_World” (under contract with MIT Press). \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nVoter_Machine_World explores America’s long history to solve political problems with computers. Focusing on the early intersection of domestic and world politics\, the book offers a genealogy of political machines\, ways to imagine technologies to model\, simulate and effect political systems as if they were computer systems. The rich history draws from archival research and interviews to follow efforts to build voter and world machines for the early 1960s to the early 1990s – a period that helps us ask the critical questions to understand the new political machines being built today with AI and big data. In this informal presentation\, McKelvey will introduce the project in its final stages. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nFenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is co-director of the Applied AI Institute and leads Machine Agencies at the Milieux Institute. He studies digital politics and policy. He is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (University of Minnesota Press\, 2018) winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media\, New Politics (Peter Lang\, 2012) with Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅 September 25\, 2024 \n📍EV 2.776 \n🔗 Register here for the event
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-introduction-to-voter_machine_world-with-fenwick-mckelvey/
LOCATION:EV 2.776
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240822T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240822T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:Pinball Power: How an old coin operated arcade persevered for a century
DESCRIPTION:Join Visiting Scholar Robert Glashüttner and TAG member Dr. Martin French for a discussion around Pinball. \nPinball is an archaic arcade game for some\, a technical marvel for others\, and a favorite pastime for more and more dedicated players. Little is commonly known about pinball except that it’s made up of big sturdy amusement machines where you shoot steel marbles with flippers up a tilted playfield. Both game culture communities as well as scholars tend to underestimate the finesse of playing and the design decisions behind developing physical pinball devices. Most importantly\, it is a game of hybridization in different aspects: Pinball is physical and digital\, retro and contemporary\, mechanical and electronic\, skill-based and chance-induced. Therefore it should be worth more attention. This talk gives an overview on why pinball research could be more than a side note within game studies. \n  \n📅 August 22\, 2024 \n📍TAG Lab\, EV 11.435 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pinball-power-how-an-old-coin-operated-arcade-persevered-for-a-decade/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240531T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T093129Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux X CCA : "Propositions: Designing through Land"
DESCRIPTION:To conclude the 2024 edition of Milieux May Madness\, the Milieux Institute will host a conversation titled “Propositions: Designing through Land” on May 31st. Co-organized with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)\, the event will convene nine scholars to reflect on how design disciplines and their associated practices can better align with the concept of land. Following the presentations\, Speculative Life members Brennan McCracken\, Priscilla Jolly\, and Sarah Yems will share brief\, questioning responses to the propositions. \n“Propositions: Designing through Land” will bring together nine researchers who are embarking on an eighteen-month collective project: “In the Hurricane\, On the Land.” Funded by the Mellon Foundation and organized by the CCA\, “In the Hurricane\, On the Land.” aims to explore land-dependent design as a collaborative approach to addressing the tangible effects of the climate crisis\, indigenous land revitalization\, and related concerns\, including developing methods to document and engage with land-driven sites\, histories\, and communities. Through their research\, these scholars will examine and redefine the societal and professional boundaries of architecture and landscape architecture\, working towards a collective strategy for navigating the aftermath of natural and human-made disasters. \nAt this upcoming event\, the nine scholars will present brief propositions that address the themes of navigating\, coexisting with\, and experiencing land to enhance design practices. These propositions will provide insight into the scope\, concerns\, lands\, and peoples the project will engage with over the coming months. \nAll are welcome! \n📅 May 31st | 4-6 p.m \n📍Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n📸 Lee Friedlander\, Mount Royal\, Montréal\, Québec\, 1993. PH1994:0242\, CCA Collection\, © Lee Friedlander”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-x-cca-propositions-designing-through-land/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240418T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:A SOLARPUNK Lab: Eco-anarchism and micro-power to the people & PicoPower and Energy Transition Residency demo and discussion.
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, April 18th\, between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm\, at the Milieux Speculative Life Cluster for TeZ’s artist talk – SOLARPUNK Lab: eco-anarchism and pico-power to the people – and the Pico Power and Energy Transition residency demo and discussion. \n\n\nFrom April 3rd until April 19th\, transdisciplinary artist and independent researcher TeZ will work with Milieux Biolab researchers and students on the next phase of the Pico Power and Energy Transition project (with Alice Jarry\, Bart Simon\, Mike Cassidy\, Audrey Coulombe\, Sarah Al Mamoun\, and Matt Halpenny). They will develop biomaterials\, composites\, and technologies for alternative energy futures\, such as biophotovoltaic cells\, crystal or graphene batteries\, and conductive bioplastics toward wearables and site-specific interventions. \n\nABOUT THE TALK: \nThe talk will first introduce TeZ’s personal perspective on the Solarpunk movement\, particularly examined under the lens of creative DIY practices that he initiated in 2021 with his SOLAR PUNK Lab project. The presentation will conclude with a demo and group discussion around the experiments conducted as part of his residency at the BioLab. SOLARPUNK Lab is a project aimed at promoting the practical side of Solarpunk philosophy\, exploring and experimenting with methods that enable citizens to social and sustainable resistance\, against an ever growing sense of dystopian impotence\, agonizing capitalism and ecological catastrophe. The series of events organised with and by SOLARPUNK Lab\, are aimed at promoting “fluid” DIY strategies and at educating\, informing and enabling the general public to simple\, affordable and practical actions that put together renewable energy sources (solar\, eolic\, geothermal)\, physical computing\, digital fabrication\, eco-passive and morpho-eco-logical architecture\, natural and artificial photosynthesis\, bacterial fermentation\, mycelium culturing and other interdisciplinary practices to re-invent the present and re-design the future. \n  \n\n\nABOUT TeZ:\n\n\nTeZ (aka Maurizio Martinucci) is an interdisciplinary artist\, musician and independent researcher\, living and working in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. Guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty in Den Haag\, Minerva Academy in Groningen\, Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok\, TeZ is regularly showing his work and giving lectures at both academic and artistic contexts. His installations and performances have been featured at major venues and festivals worldwide including Ars Electronica Linz\, BIAN Montreal\, Gropius Bau Berlin\, Chronus Art Center Shanghai among many others. He’s been running the ‘Optofonica’ Lab for Synesthetic ArtScience in Amsterdam since 2006. \nTeZ explores the boundaries between human perception and all physical phenomena associated to vibrations. He crafts custom generative software and instruments for sound and light propagation\, as well as specific architectural structures where subtle oscillations can reach the body and stimulate  \n  \n: April 18\, 2024 | 3-5 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n🔗: solarpunklab.org | speculativebiolab.com | materials-materiality.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-solarpunk-lab-eco-anarchism-and-micro-power-to-the-people-picopower-and-energy-transition-residency-demo-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240416T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240416T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:17 Stations: An Interactive Exhibition and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by United Nations Member States outlines a collective vision for global peace and prosperity. Its core consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\, urging both developed and developing nations to collaborate in addressing poverty\, enhancing health and education\, reducing inequality\, fostering economic growth\, combating climate change\, and conserving natural resources like oceans and forests. \n1 – No Poverty \n2 – Zero Hunger \n3 – Good Health and Well-Being \n4 – Quality Education \n5 – Gender Equality \n6 – Clean Water and Sanitation \n7 – Affordable and Clean Energy \n8 – Decent work and Economic Growth \n9 – Industry\, Innovation and Infrastructure \n10 – Reduced Inequalities \n11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities \n12 – Responsible Consumption and Production \n13 – Climate Action \n14 – Life Below Water \n15 – Life on Land \n16 – Peace\, Justice and Strong Institutions \n17 – Partnerships for the goals \n  \nWhat if those SDGs were turned into a sensorial experience?\nThat’s what the 17 Stations project is all about! \nThe 17 Stations is an experimental audio-visual experience that presents the SDGs through music\, commentary\, photography\, local stories and cutting-edge science. \n\nInitiated by Professor Baron Tymas\, member of the Next-Generation Cities Institute\, the project brought together more than 30 Concordia University creatives minds across various disciplines\, including the Milieux Institute and\, more specifically\, the Storytelling Studio. \n\nJoin us for the launch of this unique and innovative experience followed by a roundtable discussion with members of the team at 4 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n  \n  \n: April 16\, 2024 | 10 – 6 p.m \n: 4TH Space\, 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W \n🌐 The discussion will also be available online via Zoom.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/17-stations-an-interactive-exhibition-and-discussion/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T140000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:Materialist Ecomodding and Picopower Logics: The Case of SunBlock One\, a solar Minecraft server
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging presentation of the SunBlock One solar Minecraft server project\, part of the Pico Power residency with TeZ. \nBart Simon\, Director of Milieux Institute will share with us the research-creation journey of the SunBlock project. This innovative project tackles two crucial challenges in energy transition research: \n\nThe significant contribution of personal computing and especially gaming to the global carbon footprint.\nThe role of popular and moddable sandbox games in fostering shared alternative energy imaginaries.\n\nWHAT IS SUNBLOCK ONE? \nSunBlock One operates on a special setup with solar panels and batteries. It’s a Forge-modded Minecraft 1.20.2 Server running on an Intel NUC computer powered by a 12v LiON battery connected to a 100W solar panel. Players can monitor their energy consumption in real-time while playing! \nThe talk will present various stages of the project\, showcasing the work that has been accomplished and discussing how the project might progress over the summer. \nBart will also introduce the idea of picopower logic\, a simple yet powerful approach to utilize energy on small\, local scale to combat climate change. \n  \n: April 9\, 2024 | 2 p.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \nALL ARE WELCOME!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/materialist-ecomodding-and-picopower-logics-the-case-of-sunblock-one-a-solar-minecraft-server/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240327T133000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
CREATED:20240322T185456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T135427Z
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SUMMARY:Writing urban life: stories of waste and cities
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab for a thought-provoking exploration of urban life with Durham University professor Colin Mcfarlane\, as he challenges conventional narratives and invites us to reimagine the cityscape! \nIn this presentation\, Colin Mcfarlane will delve into his recent research on urban fragments and waste\, asking: “how do we write differently about urban life?”. Mcfarlane will explore various conceptual frameworks\, writing techniques\, and ideological stances that could influence our perception and portrayal of urban existence. The discussion will highlight both the opportunities and obstacles\, as well as the unresolved inquiries and overlooked aspects\, within this discourse. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nColin Mc Farlane is a professor at Durham University. His work focusses on the experience and politics of the city. He explores how cities are known\, lived and politicised. This includes research on urban living\, densities\, fragments\, and learning across different cities\, focussing in particular on the economic margins. \n  \n  \n: March 27\, 2024 | 12-1:30 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n: Make sure to register HERE ! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/writing-urban-life-stories-of-waste-and-cities/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240322T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240322T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:Rendering Desired Spaces: Crafting Methods for New Digital Geographies
DESCRIPTION:On March 22nd\, The DIGS lab is hosting a research talk to explore the work of Lotte de Jong and Antonia Hernández. This will be followed by the screening of Fantasy Lane at 5 p.m. \n\n  \nAbout the talk: \nThis research talk will explore the work of Lotte de Jong and Antonia Hernández addressing the spatial construction of desire on sex webcam platforms and real estate role-playing pornography. \nThrough an overview of different artworks created between 2018-2024\, the authors highlight how these digital spaces serve as unique sites for investigating issues related to housing anxiety and desire\, the governance of visibility\, and the representation and inhabitation of virtual environments. They will also address the benefits and challenges of using arts-based methods and interdisciplinary collaboration to explore rapidly changing phenomena. \nThe talk will be followed by a screening of Jong’s and Hernández’s Fantasy Lane (work in progress) at the Vizualization Studio (Webster Library\, LB-314.00). See you there! \n  \nAbout the speakers:  \nLotte Louise de Jong is a Rotterdam-based multidisciplinary artist with a film and lens-based media background. Through website-based works\, VR\, and video installations\, she explores identity\, intimacy\, economy\, and sexuality in the digital realm. Lotte’s research-driven approach combines humor with critical reflection to shed light on our hidden online lives and societal impact. \nAntonia Hernández is an artist and assistant professor in the Communication department at Concordia University\, Montréal. Her work explores the poetic dimensions of governance and the domestic aspects of platforms. Currently\, she is developing a video opera addressing the financialization of water in Chile. \nThis talk is presented in partnership with Concordia University’s DIGS Lab. \n  \nWHEN: March 22\, 2024 \nWHERE: Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rendering-desired-spaces-crafting-methods-for-new-digital-geographies/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
CREATED:20240212T192419Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Juan Miceli
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 22\, 2024\, from 5-7 PM\, at the Performance Lab (EV 10.785)\, for an exciting talk with artist Juan Miceli\, hosted by LePARC.\nCome learn about Juan’s experience following six months as a research intern at Milieux in this performance lecture. He will share artworks and creative concepts – such as Inverse Interface\, Artecnic\, Apology of the Remaining\, and Black Milk – that came out of his research-creation process.\nJuan Miceli is an audiovisual artist based out of Buenos Aires and Montreal\, who has studied both Fashion Design and Electronic Art. In 2022\, Juan received an ELAP Scholarship which has supported his Research Internship at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts\, where he has conducted a research project titled Inverse Interface under the tutelage of Ricardo Dal Farra. This internship research fed into Juan’s Master’s thesis in the Aesthetics and Technology of Electronic Arts\, which he is pursuing at the National University Tres de Febrero (UNTreF) under the direction of Mariela Yeregui (PhD) and Andres Rodriguez (PhD). \nThe materiality of the Inverse Interface research creation project consists of the development of collaborative video installations\, a genealogical work in relation to technological practices like vision machines\, and experimentation with immersive environments\, bodies and interfaces. Juan’s work stems from a Latin American perspective that is in a permanent stage of construction. Working with a fusion of media including sculpture\, video\, installation\, generative video\, digital modelling and performance\, Juan develops exhibitions and research projects that investigate the relationship between art\, the body and technology. \nJuan’s work has been supported by such institutions as Milieux Institute\, Concordia Fine Arts\, National Fund for the Arts (Arg)\, San Martin University (UNSAM)\, CCGSM\, and the National Contemporary Dance Company and Expressions Cultural Center (US)\, among others. His video installations have been exhibited at the Concordia Black Box\, Fourth Space\, C3 Science Center\, the National Center of Music and Dance\, B. Rivadavia Museum of Natural Sciences\, ThisIsNotAGallery\, the MACA Junín Museum\, Expressions Cultural Center\, the University of Cordoba\, the Spanish Cooperation Center in Buenos Aires\, and the Recoleta Cultural Center\, to name a few.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-juan-miceli/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Lília Mestre & Laura Pante 
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 7th\, 2023\, from 5-7 PM\, at the Performance Lab (EV 10.785)\, for an artist talk hosted by LePARC with one of the cluster’s new co-directors Lilia\, and visiting doctoral student Laura Pante who is here until the end of December. \nLília Mestre (she\, her) is a performing artist\, dramaturge and researcher working in collaborative formats mainly in the fields of contemporary dance and choreography. Mestre works with scores\, inter-subjective set-ups and other chance-induced processes as emancipatory artistic and pedagogical tools\, which have been documented in various publications. She is interested in forms of organization created by and for artistic practice as alternative study processes for social-political reflection. For the past 8 years\, 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. Mestre has worked as mentor\, project curator and artistic coordinator of the postgraduate program a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels\, Belgium since 2012. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and Co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) at Concordia University. \nLaura Pante (Italy\, 1983) is a dancer and artistic researcher of dance theories and practices. She graduated in Visual Arts at IUAV University of Venice. Since October 2020 she has been a PhD student at the same university\, where she conducts research titled Soil\, Landscape\, Habitat – three ways of the relationship between presence\, body and the virtual under the supervision of Prof. Annalisa Sacchi. In 2019\, she completed a period of study at APASS (Advanced Performance and Scenographic Studies) in Brussels. Her research focuses on the analysis of the political articulation of thought and movement in the context of the relationship between body techniques and technologies of the self. Pante is currently a visiting researcher at the Performing Arts Research Cluster.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-lilia-mestre-laura-pante/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
CREATED:20231106T161042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T182327Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Geographies of Solitude by Jacquelyn Mills + Master Class (Co-organized with the McGill Critical Media Club)
DESCRIPTION:Through a common interest in the environment and creative storytelling\, the Concordia Ethnography Lab has partnered with McGill’s Critical Media Club to host Jacquelyn Mills who will present her stunningly beautiful film Geographies of Solitude\, part nature film\, part biographical portrait. The screening will be followed by a master class on the making of the film. The event is open to all! \nWhen? December 4\, 2023\, 6-9pm \nWhere? McGill’s Peterson Hall\, Room 108 \nAn immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island\, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques\, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world. Much like a field book\, the film tracks its protagonist’s labor to collect\, clean and document marine litter that persistently washes up on the island shores. Jacquelyn Mills is a filmmaker based in Montreal. Her works are immersive and sensorial\, often exploring an intimate and healing connection to the natural world. The screening will be followed by a Master class with Jacquelyn Mills.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-geographies-of-solitude-by-jacquelyn-mills-master-class-co-organized-with-the-mcgill-critical-media-club/
LOCATION:McGill’s Peterson Hall\, Room 108\, 3460 Rue McTavish\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260613T112801
CREATED:20231128T163723Z
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SUMMARY:[Open Lab Presentation] Pico Power and Energy Transition — TeZ in residency at the BioLab
DESCRIPTION:Join us Monday December 4th\, between 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm\, at the Speculative Life Biolab for the Pico Power and Energy Transition Residency Open Lab. Since November 20th\, interdisciplinary Amsterdam-based artist Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) works in collaboration with Alice Jarry\, Bart Simon\, and students to develop biomaterials\, composites\, and technologies for alternative energy futures. Come say hello\, and attend demos of photobiovoltaic cells (algae and berries)\, crystal or graphene batteries\, and conductive bioplastic in action. \nAbout TeZ \nTeZ (aka Maurizio Martinucci) is an interdisciplinary artist\, musician and independent researcher\, living and working in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. Guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty in Den Haag\, Minerva Academy in Groningen\, Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok\, TeZ is regularly showing his work and giving lectures at both academic and artistic contexts. His installations and performances have been featured at major venues and festivals worldwide including Ars Electronica Linz\, BIAN Montreal\, Gropius Bau Berlin\, Chronus Art Center Shanghai among many others. He’s been running the ‘Optofonica’ Lab for Synesthetic ArtScience in Amsterdam since 2006. \n\nTeZ explores the boundaries between human perception and all physical phenomena associated to vibrations. He crafts custom generative software and instruments for sound and light propagation\, as well as specific architectural structures where subtle oscillations can reach the body and stimulate meditative and immersive experiences. TeZ is also active member of HACKTERIA International Society involved in BioArt\, Open Hardware and DIY Lab Equipment. His latest work in collaboration with Sofian Audry from Hexagram/Concordia (Montreal) explores the relationship between living microorganisms and Artificial Intelligence systems. With his SOLARPUNK LAB project/platform TeZ is promoting the practical philosophy of Solarpunk to explore and experiment methods that enable citizens to autonomy\, resistance and resilience. TeZ’s holistic paradigm aims at encompassing many of the disciplines related to art and science\, together with technology\, ecology and mindfulness. \nFurther info \nhttps://speculativelifebiolab.com/\nhttp://solarpunklab.org\nhttps://www.tez.it\n  \n\nQuestions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/open-lab-presentation-pico-power-and-energy-transition-tez-in-residency-at-the-biolab/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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