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SUMMARY:Talk: Documentary filmmaker Mia Donovan
DESCRIPTION:The Post Image Cluster invites you to join for an artist talk by Canadian filmmaker Mia Donovan. \n\n\n\nMia 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 empathy and how storytelling can both nurture and exploit it. She has made three feature documentaries\, Inside Lara Roxx\, Deprogrammed\, and Dope Is Death and one virtual reality experience called Deprogrammed VR. \n\n\n\nMia’s work has been presented worldwide at film festivals\, on TV broadcasts\, theatrically and on digital platforms including Netflix. She was awarded the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking in 2012 at Hot Docs. In 2016 Deprogrammed VR won the coveted IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling. She recently produced and directed her first music video for Rufus Wainrwright’s song Trouble In Paradise. \n\n\n\nHer most recent film Dope Is Death (2020) will have it’s World Premiere at True/False Film Fest in March 2020\, followed by it’s International Premiere at CPH:DOX. Mia is currently developing her first narrative feature film\, The Touch of her Flesh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility:The talk is located on the 11th floor of the EV Building at Concordia University\, accessible by two sets of elevators near the Mackay street entrance or in-between St. Catherine and Guy street entrance. \n\n\n\nTerritorial Acknowledgement:We would like to acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-documentary-filmmaker-mia-donovan/
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SUMMARY:Technoculture\, Art and Games: MICROTALKS
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThe 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\, conversing with NPCs and narrative AIs. Join us and get up to date on the research TAG members have been conducting this year. \n\n\n\nFEATURING\n\n\n\n\nSteven Sych: T-POSE: Dancing With One’s Hands\n Hazel Thexton: Sliders and Pronouns: Gender Choice in Games\n Aurélie Petit: Becoming Political: Anime Imagery in Alt-right Online Discourses\n Cyrus LK: 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET\n Elise Trinh: Tales of disruptive plays and rhapsody games\n Hanieh Jahanshahi: Conversational Landscapes\n Arian Saffarizadeh: Quick history of proc-gen narrative and murder mystery approach\n Yann Seznec: The Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices\n\n\n\n\nFor more information about this and other TAG events\, please visit the cluster’s website.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/technoculture-art-and-games-microtalks/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200123T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200123T180000
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SUMMARY:Speculative Life BioLab artist talk: Amélie Brindamour and Brice Ammar-Khodja
DESCRIPTION: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 and communication. Her works have been exhibited at the McCarthy Art Center\, Eastern Bloc\, Avatar\, the Caetani Cultural Centre\, Murmur Land Studio\, Great Island Arts Co-op\, and White Rabbit.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja (Paris) is an artist and designer working at the intersection of digital arts\, material science\, and anthropology. His research problematizes the relation between form\, matter\, and function. Affiliated with EnsadLab (Paris) and the Reflective Interaction research group (dir. Samuel Bianchini)\, he combines responsive materials\, video\, and softrobotics to question the symbolic\, spatial\, and sensory relations pertaining to materiality and visual information. His works have been exhibited at Biennale internationale du Design\, la Cité internationale des arts\, V2_Institute for Unstable Media\, Musée historique de la ville de Strasbourg\, and Modulab.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-biolab-artist-talk-amelie-brindamour-and-brice-ammar-khodja/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T000000
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SUMMARY:Milieux Undergraduate Fellows Pecha-Kucha
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, Milieux’s Undergraduate Fellows take part in a pecha-kucha presentation that is open to the public. \n\n\n\nFellows 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. \n\n\n\nRead more about the 2019-2020 Undergraduate Fellows here. \n\n\n\nSnacks will be served.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-undergraduate-fellows-pecha-kucha/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T120000
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SUMMARY:From Creator to Curator: How Creative AI Changes the Relationship With the Machine
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIn this talk we’ll explore the possibilities of creative AI. Through examples of students and professionals we’ll discuss how machines can aid the creative process and what happens if things go wrong. \n\n\n\nAbout Frederick De Bleser\n\n\n\nFrederik De Bleser is a PhD researcher and professor at the Saint Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp\, Belgium. His research focuses on the link between art and technology\, developing free software tools for generative design and data visualisation. He co-founded the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG) in 2004. He coordinates and teaches in the technology labs in the bachelor and master programmes. \n\n\n\nHe has organised data visualisation workshops in France\, Italy\, Finland\, Poland\, Lithuania and Canada. His open-source work is included in tools and applications reaching millions of people.  \n\n\n\nHe works commercially creating visualisations and interactive art installations for government and media organisations. In his free time he is a coach for Hack Your Future\, organizing and teaching web development to refugees. He lives with his wife and two children near Antwerp.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/from-creator-to-curator-how-creative-ai-changes-the-relationship-with-the-machine/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Talk: Open Codes\, with Livia Nolasco Rozsas\, Curator of ZKM
DESCRIPTION: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.”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nCurator 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 through the exhibition of three Hexagram researcher and student projects. The exhibition and educational project Open Codes reflects on the world we live in today; a world that is created and controlled by codes. The project brought together computing and art together in various ways. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIt was a new form of assembly\, combining practical knowledge of computer code and critical artistic approaches in a single venue. The project sought to empower its participants to regain access to reality through instruments of thought and to reflect on the genealogy and current social impact of digital code\, computer programing\, and software.  Open Codes was based on a concept by Peter Weibel and was shown at ZKM | Karlsruhe from October 20\, 2017 to June 2\, 2019.   \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, November 8\, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunchtime-talk-open-codes-with-livia-nolasco-rozsas-curator-of-zkm/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Consequences of the Anthropocene for Social Scientific Theory and Method
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nKregg Hetherington will present some thoughts related to a recent edited volume\, Infrastructure\, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene\, about how the experience of working with the authors it contains has changed his approach to the ethnography of Anthropocenic infrastructures\, and has guided the growth of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHe will be joined by four PhD students from Concordia and McGill\, Aryana Soliz\, Jonathan Wald and Kariuki Kirigia who will offer responses before opening up to discussion. \n\n\n\nKregg Hetherington is an Environmental Anthropologist at Concordia\, co-director of the Speculative Life research cluster at Milieux\, and director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. He has written extensively about monocrops\, peasant movements and bureaucracy in Latin America\, as well as Montreal’s water infrastructure. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.\, in the Speculative Life Commons
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/discussion-consequences-of-the-anthropocene-for-social-scientific-theory-and-method/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T163000
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SUMMARY:The Inverse Power of Wavelengths\, a performative talk by Alessandro Carboni
DESCRIPTION: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 Lumpur\, Taipei\, Hanoi\, Ho Chi Min City\, through a “molecular” process\, a spatial frame of the transformations occurring within the urban space. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe research created an hybrid/cross-disciplinary testing ground where observation and documentation of urban events become a getaway for visual interpretations and performance actions. Tensions and flows that animate urban spaces are recreated on stage by buttons\, stings and modular elements that are continuously manipulated and rearranged by the performer. Inverse power of wavelengths aims to rethink the city not as something given\, but rather as a place where the body and its specific features becomes the key element of discussion and a driving force for change. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis performative talk is presented by LePARC as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival\, and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-inverse-power-of-wavelengths-a-performative-talk-by-alessandro-carboni/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion: Dance\, Space\, and Women in the Bauhaus
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Julie Richard\, Alison Peacock\, and Hilary Bergen\n\n\n\n\nAlison Peacock presents: Space Dance: A lecture demonstration in 100 years of ‘space’ \n\n\n\n\nThe 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 scholar Gabriele Brandsetter points to ‘three criteria – “metamorphosis”\, “body-space relationship” and “abstraction.” – (which became) paradigms for Schlemmer’s exploration of kinetics as an experimental artistic process.’ (54) This lecture demonstration will emphasize and imaginatively reconfigure the experimental dimension of Schlemmer’s kinetic approach to movement and space\, while considering multiple meanings of ‘space’ in the context of 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n2. Julie Richard présente: Créatrices avant tout! Le contexte d’apprentissage des femmes au Bauhaus et quelques réalisations majeures (en francais) \n\n\n\nLe Bauhaus de Weimar\, dès sa conception par Walter Gropius\, est imaginé non seulement comme une institution propice au développement des expérimentations des concepteurs d’avant-garde et à la production en industrie de leurs prototypes\, mais aussi comme un haut lieu d’apprentissage émancipateur et paritaire. Bien que le travail des femmes soit valorisé dès les premières années de fonctionnement du Bauhaus\, certaines normes de division entre les sexes demeurent palpables dans sa structure\, contribuant à minorer l’apport des femmes au sein de l’école. À la lueur des études féministes sur les genres\, cette communication traitera des conditions d’apprentissage des femmes au Bauhaus ainsi que des apports esthétiques et techniques de certains travaux. \n\n\n\n\n\n3. Hilary Bergen presents\, “Why Humans at All?”: Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet as Precursor to Digital Mo-Cap Choreographies \n\n\n\nA 1923 review of Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet critiques Schlemmer’s material enhancement of his dancers’ bodies through the use of costumes\, stating that in concealing (or congealing) it under grotesque garments\, the body is “deprived of its best in dance…making it into a soulless machine.” \n\n\n\nMy presentation imagines Schlemmer’s fantasy of body extension and the dancing puppet as a precursor to today’s computer choreographies\, where motion capture technology is used to mine lively movement from the human body in order to animate avatar dancers and their CGI-prosthetic bodies and digital “costumes.” In putting Bauhaus-era representations of the body in conversation with digital-era embodiments\, where “life” is often contingent upon mediation\, I explore the historical link between the practice of dance and the concept of “soul” to consider how dance might articulate cultural ideas about agency\, control and embodiment. \n\n\n\nWHEN? Thursday\, November 7\, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenters:\n\n\n\nAllison Peacock has developed an artistic practice committed to expanding the possibilities of dance and choreography\, experimenting with forms of presentation\, representation\, potentiality\, and imagination. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies\, is a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Dance Training Program\, and completed her MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the UdK/HZT Berlin. She has trained\, taught\, and performed internationally\, most recently performing at Documenta 14 for artists William Pope L and Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Her solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Canada Dance Festival\, Dancemakers\, Fabrica de Pensule\, Movement Research at the Judson Church\, National Dance Centre Bucharest (CNDB)\, Salonul de Proiecte\, Uferstudios\, FOFA gallery\, and numerous non-traditional performance spaces. From 2006-11\, Allison worked professionally as a gardener in Toronto\, with a speciality in topiary\, hedge\, and knot garden clipping. She is currently a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University\, researching performance and contemporary physicality through local gardens and gardening practices.\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Richard est doctorante en histoire de l’art à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle est également membre de l’Institut de recherche en Études Féministes de l’UQAM (IREF)\, du CÉLAT-UQAM et du Centre Figura.  Son projet bénéficie du soutien financier du Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). Elle s’intéresse aux démarches interdisciplinaires des femmes européennes et américaines de l’entre-deux-guerres caractérisées par la pluralité des médiums utilisés\, tels que la production de poupées\, l’art d’infiltration\, la performance\, les pratiques furtives ou performatives ainsi que la photographie. Ses recherches doctorales portent sur les relations entre le corps\, l’espace et l’architecture et procèdent à l’étude de performances artistiques réalisées dans l’espace public\, tant en art moderne que dans les années 2000. En avril 2018\, Julie Richard donnait une conférence sur les performances de la baronne Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven à l’Université Oxford (Royaume-Uni) dans le cadre du colloque Queer Modernisms. À l’automne 2019\, elle publiera un article portant sur la production de poupée-portraits et de marionnettes de Marie Vassilieff dans la revue scientifique anglaise Sculpture Journal (Liverpool University Press).\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bergen is a trained dancer and PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal\, where she studies screendance\, posthumanism and feminist media history. Her work has been published with Screening the Past\, Culture Machine\, PUBLIC (forthcoming) and Word and Text.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-discussion-dance-space-and-women-in-the-bauhaus/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime talk: Dietmar Lupfer\, Artistic Director of Muffathalle\, discusses SenseFactory
DESCRIPTION: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 and is interested in formats that have a performative and as well an installation-based context – what he calls “Moving Installations” as a kind of social sculpture.   \n\n\n\n\n\nLupfer will discuss the recent production of SenseFactory\, a spectacular large-scale performative installation combining architecture\, sound\, smell\, light and AI technology into a immersive multisensorial experience. As one of only 23 projects supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (the German government federal cultural funding) to explore the repercussions of the Bauhaus in 2019\, SenseFactory tries to imagine what role Bauhaus thinking can play in the 21st century.   \n\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, November 7\, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunchtime-talk-dietmar-lupfer-artistic-director-of-muffathalle-discusses-sensefactory/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T193000
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SUMMARY:Synthetic Forever: The Afterlife of Clothing and Textiles
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Kirsty Robertson\n\n\n\nThis 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 unfolds into futures unknown. Concentrating primarily on synthetic clothing (or clothing made at least partially from plastics)\, I uncover the exceedingly long life of “petrotextiles” before they break down to their molecular compounds. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to create textiles and clothing that cannot be “unraveled” and that exact great demands upon the environments from which their component parts have been extracted? Are such textiles a potential resource for or a weight on future generations? Using the 1951 film The Man in the White Suit \, which imagines the outfall from the invention of an indestructible synthetic fabric\, as a kind of guiding voice from the past\, I address the full life cycle of clothing\, concentrating on what happens when exhausted fashions are out of sight and out of mind. \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/synthetic-forever-the-afterlife-of-clothing-and-textiles/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T170000
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SUMMARY:Structure Born Music: Performing in the Publicness-less City
DESCRIPTION:In Tkarón:to/Toronto\, Bauhaus is a corporate libertarian slogan––appropriated by the city’s most infamous condo developer (bauhaustoronto.com). \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, 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 and “public space”today? \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artist and dramaturge Christopher Willes for a presentation and discussion of his recent work as part of the Toronto-based artist collective Public Recordings. Christopher will speak about a project that convened an amateur orchestra to stage music by radical composer Pauline Oliveros in the Council Chambers of Toronto City Hall; and his curatorial work presenting experimental music in the Toronto Public Library system. \n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Willes is an interdisciplinary artist\, composer/musician\, dramaturge and facilitator based in both Tkarón:to/Toronto and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. His practice moves between experimental music\, performance\, and visual art forms–with a particular interest in music/sound\, listening\, and collective practices. He is an associate-artist with the Toronto based collective Public Recordings\, and regularly works as a sound-maker and dramaturge within contemporary dance. He studied music at the University of Toronto and received an MFA from Bard College (NY\, USA). \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be immediately followed by THE POWER OF THE SPILL\, a performance by Csenge Kolozsvari and Rodrigo Velsaco. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/structure-born-music-performing-in-the-publicness-less-city/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191008T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072738Z
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SUMMARY:Algorithmic Warfare as an Apparatus of Recognition: Talk by Lucy Suchman
DESCRIPTION:In June of 2018\, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company\, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven\, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. \n\n\n\nDefendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations\, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and\, by implication\, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations\, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Machine Agencies group.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/algorithmic-warfare-as-an-apparatus-of-recognition-talk-by-lucy-suchman/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T173000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072800Z
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SUMMARY:The Port of Santo Domingo: Tidal Debris\, Metal Pollution\, and the Perils of Where the Caribbean Meets the Ozama
DESCRIPTION:A Keynote for the ECOTONES Conference by Dr. Lisa Paravisini-Gebert\, Vassar College\, USA\n\n\n\nOf all Caribbean port cities\, Santo Domingo is perhaps the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Its port\, the site of the New World’s first European capital\, is formed by the broad mouth of the Ozama\, a tidal river subject to frequent flooding and coastal erosion from storm surges growing ever stronger due to climate change. The city’s poorest\, most marginalized populations\, about 400\,000 people pushed by rapid urbanization to the most vulnerable riverside land\, live in substandard housing in overcrowded neighborhoods like La Ciénaga\, La Barquita\, and Guachupita\, precariously built just above port facilities undergoing deep transformations to allow for cruise-ship docking. Persistent flooding threatens lives and property and brings residents into dangerous contact with the rivers’ highly polluted waters\, bearing harmful bacteria and toxic concentrations of metals like thallium. \n\n\n\nThe Dominican poor living along the Ozama are—the World Bank has concluded—among the world’s most at risk of being affected by climate change. Highly threatened by rising sea levels and expected to undergo far-reaching transformations by 2050 due to climate change\, the quandaries of the port of Santo Domingo can serve as a point of entry into the limits of environmental equality under current regional legislation and market forces—and can highlight the role of writers\, artists and scholars in addressing climate change and environmental justice concerns that have often been ignored or neglected by government.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis analysis\, which builds upon Bernardo Vega’s 2011 history\, Me lo contó el Ozama (As the Ozama Told Me\, Santo Domingo: Fundación AES\, 2011)\, uses a multidisciplinary lens that incorporates science\, sociology\, anthropology\, political ecology\, cultural geography\, literature\, and the arts to examine the environmental quandary of the extremely vulnerable population of a port area confronting the impacts of climate change in the 21st century. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis event will take place from 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-port-of-santo-domingo-tidal-debris-metal-pollution-and-the-perils-of-where-the-caribbean-meets-the-ozama/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T104500
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072755Z
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SUMMARY:Cruise Ships and Containers: Towards a Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
DESCRIPTION:ECOTONES Conference Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Noxolo\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n\n\n\nIn this Keynote\, Dr. Patricia Noxolo takes concepts from two aspects of geographical work – tourism and transport geographies – and applies them to a range of Caribbean literature.  The goal is not simply to appreciate whether and how concepts such as capacity and captive demand\, transshipment\, hubs\, gateways and feeders appear in and elucidate the presence (and absence) of ports in Caribbean literary works\, but also to explore how such concepts might be deployed to deepen understanding of the spatialities\, openings and connections within and between Caribbean literary works.  Ultimately the paper pushes towards a refreshing of the genre of the literary geography\, by harnessing it to more insistently to materially-focused aspects of geographical work. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis keynote will take place from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, Room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cruise-ships-and-containers-towards-a-literary-geography-of-the-caribbean-port/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T104500
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072810Z
UID:10000768-1571910300-1571913900@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Cruise Ships and Containers: Towards a Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
DESCRIPTION:ECOTONES Conference Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Noxolo\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n\n\n\nIn this Keynote\, Dr. Patricia Noxolo takes concepts from two aspects of geographical work – tourism and transport geographies – and applies them to a range of Caribbean literature.  The goal is not simply to appreciate whether and how concepts such as capacity and captive demand\, transshipment\, hubs\, gateways and feeders appear in and elucidate the presence (and absence) of ports in Caribbean literary works\, but also to explore how such concepts might be deployed to deepen understanding of the spatialities\, openings and connections within and between Caribbean literary works.  Ultimately the paper pushes towards a refreshing of the genre of the literary geography\, by harnessing it to more insistently to materially-focused aspects of geographical work. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis keynote will take place from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, Room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cruise-ships-and-containers-towards-a-literary-geography-of-the-caribbean-port-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191017T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191009T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072749Z
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SUMMARY:Get-together for Critical Materiality and Biolab folks
DESCRIPTION:It’s a new year at the Speculative Life biolab\, and our new lab technician\, Alice Jarry\, invites all critical materiality and BioLab researchers to join for a series of Pecha-Kucha presentations\, and discussion of future research and orientations of the lab. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also be chatting with Amelie Brindamour\, the current Milieux/CQAM artist/researcher-in-residence. \n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in presenting your material\, critical\, speculative\, technological or bio research as part of the Pecha Kucha\, write to alice.jarry@concordia.ca before Wednesday\, October 15.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/get-together-for-critical-materiality-and-biolab-folks/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191016T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191009T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072743Z
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SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC: Hanna Pajala-Assefa
DESCRIPTION:LePARC’s A Walk in LePARC series showcases cluster member research through performances and talks. This is the first Walk in LePARC of the 2019-2020 academic year! \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHana Pajala-Assefa is a Helsinki-based choreographer with an extensive history of interdisciplinary work sourcing from the body both as a practitioner and artistic researcher. In recent years she has focused on embodied experience in digital and virtual environments as an artist\, programme curator\, and producer\, leading her towards media- and digital-art practices. \n\n\n\nShe is lead designer on the project Skeleton Conductor (SC)\, an interactive real time\, movement-based extended reality (XR) experience with the objective to design an interactive digital interface displayed in HMD for musical and visual expression. The project aims to create an immersive\, interactive art experience of the phenomenon of kinetic musicality and kinesonic composition\, emphasizing users’ multi-sensorial presence and full immersion through motion-based interaction and inter-reflectivity in the virtual environment.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-hanna-pajala-assefa/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20191001T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072732Z
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SUMMARY:Supercut Politics: Movie Trailers as Templates for Political Advertising
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Vinzenz Hediger\, Professor\, Goethe University\, Frankfurt\, Germany\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAcross the political spectrum and ranging from professionally produced campaign ads to grass-roots style activist videos\, the movie trailer has become a template for political advertising. Based on an historical analysis of movie trailers\, this presentation will discuss a number of current examples of political ads using the trailer template. The presentation will raise questions about the cultural salience of the trailer format and address what we may call its bi-partisan political affordances. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Vinzenz Hediger\n\n\n\nVinzenz Hediger is professor of Cinema Studies at Goethe Universität Frankfurt\, where he directs the Graduiertenkolleg/Graduate Research Training Program Configurations of Film. His publications include Films That Work. Industrial Cinema and the Productivity of Media (with Patrick Vomderau\, Amsterdam UP 2009)\, Nostalgia for the Coming Attraction. American Movie Trailers and the Culture of FilmConsumption (Columbia University Press\, forthcoming) and Films That Work Harder. The Circulations of Industrial Cinema (with Florian Hoof and Yvonne Zimmermann\, forthcoming from Amsterdam UP). He is a co-founder of NECS – European Network of Cinema and Media Studies (www.necs.org)\, a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders and a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature. \n\n\n\nThis talk is organized in conjunction with the Media History Research Centre\, and in dialogue with the symposium Playback: Genealogies of Interactivity.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/supercut-politics-movie-trailers-as-templates-for-political-advertising/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20190930T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072727Z
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SUMMARY:Lost in Pixelation: Conversations on Narratives\, Research Creation\, and Digital Spaces
DESCRIPTION:A series of talks and works exploring methodologies for encoding storytelling in digital spaces \n\n\n\n-Vegetarian lunch will be provided-Wheelchair accessible \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lost-in-pixelation-conversations-on-narratives-research-creation-and-digital-spaces/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191002T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191002T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20190920T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072650Z
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SUMMARY:Yelling at Computers: A Talk by Nicole He
DESCRIPTION:The Machine Agencies Research Group presents YELLING AT COMPUTERS with Nicole He. \n\n\n\nLocation: Milieux Resource Room\, EV 11th floor room 11.705 \n\n\n\nTime: Wednesday\, October 2 from 3-4 p.m. \n\n\n\nComputers are able to understand human speech better than ever before\, but voice technology is still mostly used for practical (and boring!) purposes\, like playing music\, smart home control\, or customer service phone trees. What else can we experience in the very weird\, yet intuitive act of talking out loud to machines? In this talk\, Nicole will talk about her work making art and games using voice technology. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nNicole He is a programmer and artist based in Brooklyn\, New York\, currently making videogames\, including an upcoming sci-fi voice-controlled game with the National Film Board of Canada. She has worked as a creative technologist at Google Creative Lab\, an outreach lead at Kickstarter\, and an adjunct faculty member at ITP at NYU\, where she received her Master’s degree. Nicole’s work has been featured in places such as Wired\, BBC\, The Outline\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/yelling-at-computers-a-talk-by-nicole-he/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181112
DTSTAMP:20260614T152552
CREATED:20181017T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072115Z
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SUMMARY:GAMERella Game Jam at TAG
DESCRIPTION:Mark November 10-11th in your calendars\, because TAG’s GAMERella is happening again this year! This is our 5th year and as always\, GAMERella is inviting self-identified women\, gender non conforming game makers\, people with different abilities as well as anyone who feels they haven’t had a chance to make a (video or board) game. \n\n\n\nAs always\, there will be workshops\, mentors\, snacks and an amazing keynote speaker to make sure you are inspired\, supported and safe! \n\n\n\nSIGN UP AT https://gamerella2018.eventbrite.ca \n\n\n\nBegins at 9:30am Saturday\, ends at 7pm SundayIt’s a go-home-and-sleep jam\, because your health is more important than anything. Bring cozy clothes\, blankets and pillows that will keep you warm. Coffee & food are on us!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamerella-game-jam-at-tag/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam,Talk,Workshop
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