The Post Image Cluster invites you to join for an artist talk by Canadian filmmaker Mia Donovan. Mia Donovan is a socially engaged documentary filmmaker. She is best known for telling stories that provide counter-narratives about people who have been negatively mislabeled or dehumanized by mainstream media. Her work is driven by a preoccupation with […]
The Technoculture, Art and Games cluster is hosting another session of MICROTALKS featuring new cluster members. Speakers will share their work in super fast pecha-kucha style presentations. The speakers featured in this first session will talk about a wide variety of topics including, but not exclusive to: ethical game design, gender in games, procedural choreography, […]
Amélie Brindamour (Montréal) is an artist and educator exploring issues pertaining to the natural and urban environment. Her research includes electronic art, biomaterials, installation, and participatory performances. Awarded by the Conseil Quebecois des Arts Médiatiques (CQAM), she recently completed a residency at Milieux’ Speculative Life Biolab, and developed a new body of work exploring bioluminescence […]
Each year, Milieux's Undergraduate Fellows take part in a pecha-kucha presentation that is open to the public. Fellows are invited to present on any topic that is of current interest to them. Join us for an hour of snappy, fascinating presentations from a group of standout emerging researchers. Read more about the 2019-2020 Undergraduate Fellows […]
Throughout history, humans have used tools and technology to express creativity, not as a goal in itself, but as a means of production. With the advent of creative AI, it is time to rethink our relationship with technology and embrace the computer as a creative partner. In this talk we'll explore the possibilities of creative […]
The ZKM, one of the largest centres in the world for the exhibition of media art and technology, has long been called the "digital Bauhaus." Curator Livia Rozsas will discuss her curatorial work and approach on the large scale exhibition ZKM exhibition Open Codes, which ran from October 20,2017-June 2, 2019 in which the Hexagram network was also featured […]
This public session is a discussion between four scholars of the consequences of the Anthropocene for how we understand the role of theory and method in the social sciences. Kregg Hetherington will present some thoughts related to a recent edited volume, Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene, about how the experience of working […]
Inverse power of wavelengths - performative lecture is a cross-sectional survey on Alessandro Carboni’s performance practice methodology based on the relationship between body and the city. The performance illustrates a practice that has been developed over a long period of research in several European and Asian cities and mega-cities, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala […]
Panelists: Julie Richard, Alison Peacock, and Hilary Bergen Alison Peacock presents: Space Dance: A lecture demonstration in 100 years of ‘space’ The masks of Oskar Schlemmer’s Space Dance are emblematic of the Bauhaus’s theatre workshop’s proposal to emphasize mathematical approaches to human movement by obscuring the emotional content of performing bodies, foregrounding dance’s formal and spatial qualities. Dance […]
Dietmar Lupfer is co-founder and artistic director of the International Art and Culture Center Muffatwerk in Munich. He is responsible for an urban, future-oriented interdisciplinary program that brings together dance, performance, hybrid art and media art as well as work at the interface of art, technology and science. He conceives and curates art actions in public space, designs media art spaces […]
A talk by Kirsty Robertson This talk considers the moment where a once-loved item of clothing is discarded. Part meditation on the shedding of identity that goes along with turning clothing into waste, and part research into what actually happens to clothing once it is discarded, this presentation investigates the afterlife of clothing as it […]
In Tkarón:to/Toronto, Bauhaus is a corporate libertarian slogan––appropriated by the city's most infamous condo developer (bauhaustoronto.com). Meanwhile, the local music community is in a venue crisis as a consequence of this and other gentrification techniques. So what might the latent radicality of the Bauhaus, and subsequent 20th century collectivist movements, tell us about art […]