The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) is launching an exciting new website on the promotion and protection of Indigenous arts (PPIA-PPAA.CA). This website will consist of articles, resources, and other information from a wide range of scholars, Indigenous artists, and community members on issues regarding the cultural expressions of Indigenous peoples and the cultural appropriation […]
⟵ Back to programming Geese, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons talk by Bart Simon and Fenwick Mckelvey. About the talk Too often discussions of the Commons seen like a game of Settlers of Catan. All the talk centers on an idealization of the land as a resource to own or not own seemingly […]
The Digital Intimacy, Gender, & Sexuality Lab (DIGS) and the Media History Research Centre (MHRC) invite everyone to a talk and seminar featuring Sarah Sharma! The talk, titled "Broken Machines: Towards a Techno-Feminist Refusal" will be held on September 21st at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705). During the talk, Sarah will delve into the subject of her upcoming book, which advances a techno-feminist media […]
An initative between Pramila Choudhary (PhD, Geography and Environmental Studies, Textile Designer and Artist) and Sayali Goyal (Textile Artist, Editor Cocoa & Jasmine) Pramila Choudhary has arranged a presentation for the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster of Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University. Inviting Sayali Goyal from Cocoa & Jasmine the purpose of this talk is to foster discussions about worldwide artisan […]
The Games Institute ADE Speaker Series Panel: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies Watch Party Join us at TAG to watch the first of the Games Intitute ADE Speaker Series featuring Dr. Akil Fletcher, Cyan DeVeaux and Dr. Steven Dashiell, in a panel that highlights emerging scholars in Black game studies. Panelists will present recent […]
Ojibwe, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work, including the invention of the SkoBot and more! Ojibwe, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work, including the invention of the SkoBot, a robot that teaches the Indigenous languages Navajo, Ojibwemowin, and Taino. The robot, aimed at middle school children, is […]
Dr. Amoore introduces the concept of machine learning politics. The idea that a ‘good’ machine learning model is one that can generalise to new situations has a long history. Even Turing’s 1950s accounts of machine intelligence referred to what he called a “spring of action” that exceeded the programming of explicit rules. By 2012, when […]
More-than-ethnographic probes: On scales, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human with Maxime Le Calvé The CURC in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Milieux Biolab are happy to host anthropologist of art and science Maxime Le Calvé (Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence, U. Humboldt) for a four-day workshop (April 28th to May […]
On April 25th, Post Image presents visual and media artist Caroline Monnet in the last installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial […]
TAG is happy to invite everyone to a talk with Dr. Daniel Vella (University of Malta) on video game subjectivity and The Promise of Being Otherwise: 'Being Someone Else' . Popular discourses around digital games have long made the claim that games can grant the experience of 'being someone else,' letting us step into the […]
Post Image is announcing a Book Launch for "Driving in Palestine" by Rehab Nazzal. This in-person event will take place on April 20th at 4pm at the Milieux Resource Room, Concordia University (EV 11.725). The event will include live Arabic music, refreshments, and copies of the book for sale.Driving in Palestine is a research-creation project by acclaimed […]
Post Image presents lens-based artist and Concordia alumni Zinnia Naqvi, in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism […]
