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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191002T150000
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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
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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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