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SUMMARY:If You Don’t Like The Game\, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production: Montreal Launch
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for the Montreal launch of If You Don’t Like The Game\, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production\, co-authored by Michael Iantorno and Marie LeBlanc Flanagan. They will present the white paper and the comic\, followed by a panel discussion research participants Saleem Dabbous (KO_OP)\, Jess Marcotte (Soft Chaos)\, and Carolyn Jong (Game Workers Unite Montréal and Vodeo Games). \nPrinted versions of the white paper and the comin will be available to distribute at the event to coincide with the white paper’s digital launch! \nIf You Don’t Like The Game\, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production explores and documents the possibility space for Canadian game creators who are interested in structuring their labour in new ways. The heightened presence of game developer unions and union-centric organisations\, the recent emergence of worker co-operatives\, and a push toward new labour initiatives\, such as 4-day work weeks\, all suggest that curiosity is slowly transitioning to action for those interested in reconfiguring the game industry. Through long-form interviews with worker co-operative and union members\, conversations with labour experts\, and surveys completed by game developers of all walks\, we have identified numerous structural and attitudinal factors that encourage\, or discourage\, game creators to consider alternative working arrangements. \n  \n \nFull Programming\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/if-you-dont-like-the-game-change-the-rules-alternative-modes-of-videogame-production-white-paper-launch/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Panel on Interdisciplinary Research
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for a discussion on the potentials and challenges of interdisciplinary research and practice! Panel participants will share and discuss a diversity of interdisciplinary case studies with the audience. The discussion will be moderated by Milieux’s Head of Operations Harry Smoak. \n\nAlice Jarry (Concordia Milieux Biolab) and Marta Cerruti (McGill Biointerface lab) will present their collaborative project Reactive Graphene Oxide: New Materials and Collaborative Methods at the Interface of Design and Materials Engineering\, a research-creation project at the interface of Design and Material Science. To learn more about the project: https://milieux.concordia.ca/reactive-graphene-oxide-residency-at-the-commons-exhibition/   \nStefanie Duguay (Concordia Milieux DIGS Lab) and Christopher Dietzel (incoming postdoctoral fellow at DIGS lab) will present a research project they conducted on dating apps’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic\, bringing together perspectives across health\, education\, and science and technology studies.\nJoDee Allen (PhD student and Coordinator of the Milieux Immersive Storytelling Studio) and Bart Simon (Director of Milieux Institute) will discuss interdisciplinarity at the university. \n\nJoin us at 4TH Space and Online: If you are unable to attend in person\, you can join us online through this Zoom link (it’s always the same link!) or tune in to the 4TH Space YouTube channel. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-on-interdisciplinary-research/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T153000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141941
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for a talk with graduate student Elena Rowan about her project “Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet”. \nThe Internet as a Commons is under threat. As the internet becomes increasingly privatised\, the rights of individual users and communities to their data and creations is disappearing. A group of activist archivists are changing this. Archive Team are collecting and tending to massive amounts of cultural and digital history created over the past 40 years. Controversially\, they largely disregard individual ownership and corporate property rights in favour of moving materials into open\, freely accessible internet archives. Their priority is to create a record of the internet\, and in the process\, they provide some of the keys to fighting privatisation of the internet commons. By looking at how Archive Team works\, through both interviews and participant observation\, we can ensure that the Internet as a commons continues to provide information and knowledge to everyone. \nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023\nTime: 3:00 – 3:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-archiving-the-internet-commons-how-activists-are-fighting-the-privatization-of-the-internet/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T120000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141941
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SUMMARY:[Student-led Session] Reactive Graphene Oxide Residency
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for a panel discussion with Concordia and Mcgill students from the residency Reactive Graphene Oxide: New Materials and Collaborative Methods at the Interface of Design and Materials Engineering led by Alice Jarry and Marta Cerruti (Mcgill)\, who will discuss their collaborative project with us. \nParticipants: \nJacqueline Beaumont (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Yiwen Chen (Materials Engineering\, McGill) Jacob Landry (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Philippe Vandal (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Nima Zakeri (Materials Engineering\, McGill) \n\n\n\nSummary of the residency: \n\n\n\nAt the crossroads of Design and Material Science\, this research-creation project brings together scientists and artists to develop reactive membranes and objects using Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is a layered carbon-based nanomaterial derived from the oxidation and exfoliation of graphite\, which can also be synthesized from thermal treatment of organic waste. Spanning multiple spatial\, technical\, artistic\, and philosophical dimensions\, the project addresses crucial questions at the core of current research in materials science and design: up to which point can materials mimic nature and become ‘alive’\, changing themselves based on external stimuli? What happens when materials and humans interact? Can the interaction between materials and the environment help improve our own environment? Envisioned as a new generation of active materials for technological applications\, the built environment and the arts\, the structures developed in this project also aim to develop novel methods for arts and science collaboration and engage publics in a broader reflection on material futures and human’s shifting relationship with its environment in a context of ecological crisis. \nThe co-creation process of this residency involves the presentation of a documentary film\, in-situ prototyping\, and ongoing video documentation of the work. \n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Concordia University 4TH Space and online To learn more about the residency go here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/student-led-session-residency/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:[Panel] Textiles and Materiality Collaborative Project ChainStitch
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin students from the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster for a discussion of their collective project ChainStitch. The project\, programmed by Morris Fox\, combines collective action with individual research-creation to form a multimodal assemblage\, delving into shared and hybrid research threads. This collaboration is an act of speculative community reciprocity\, where tactile and tacit knowledge is braided from the materiality itself\, like how a chain-stitch is decorative and utilitarian. Chainstitch entangles community dialogue and tactile emotional connections as living epistemes\, not only as common cloth\, but fragments of shared imaginations. \nDate: Wednesday\, September 27th\, 2023 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM Location: Concordia 4TH Space and Online! This event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-textiles-and-materiality-collaborative-project-chainstitch/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:Promoting and Protecting Indigenous Arts Website Launch + Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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 of Indigenous practices and arts. \nThe launch will be followed by a panel on Indigenous fashion with NWT born/Toronto-based fashion designer Sage Paul (Denesuline)\, visual artist Nico Williams (Aamjiwnaang First Nation)\, and Kuujjuaq born/Montréal-based fashion designer\, Julie Grenier. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Heather Igloliorte. \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/promoting-and-protecting-indigenous-arts-website-launch-panel-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T140000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Geese\, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nGeese\, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons talk by Bart Simon and Fenwick Mckelvey. \nAbout the talk \nToo 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 for the good of the sheep to the benefit of the humans (the players of these games). Our talk rethinks the commons\, what was and what should be a critical concern for digital cultural studies. The Commons\, we argue\, must be understood as both a specific mode of existence and time (in Ireland for one) lost somewhat to history and with a emphasis on property. Recent investment in an AI commons\, problematic as that may be\, allows us to describe a Commons that must come — a commons built around the shared relations between humans and machines compelled to participate by late capitalism but holding hopes of different ways of being. \nDate: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 1:00 – 2:00 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n  \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel!\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-geese-sheep-and-gp-ai-notes-on-the-coming-commons/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:DIGS + MHRC: Talk and Seminar with Sarah Sharma
DESCRIPTION: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 theory to account for Big Tech and the gendered politics of utility\, exit and repair.  \nFollowing the talk\, a small graduate seminar with Sarah Sharma is scheduled for September 22nd at 10 a.m.\, in which they will discuss the preface and introduction to “Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan.” Please register for this seminar here. Those registered will receive a PDF of the reading by email. \nRegister here for the talk\nRegister here for the seminar\nSarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto. She is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP\, 2014). This book challenges the popular sentiment that the world is “speeding up” and locates instead how temporality operates as a key relation of power structured at the intersection of a range of social differences and technologies. Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022 and retrieves a feminist version of “the medium is the message.” Sarah is currently working on a new book (tentatively titled Broken Machine: Towards a Techno-feminist Refusal) which advances a techno-feminist media theory to account for Big Tech and the gendered politics of utility\, exit and repair.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digs-mhrc-talk-and-seminar-with-sarah-sharma/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:Projecthandstitch
DESCRIPTION:An initative between Pramila Choudhary (PhD\, Geography and Environmental Studies\, Textile Designer and Artist) and Sayali Goyal (Textile Artist\, Editor Cocoa & Jasmine) \n\n\nPramila 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 communities\, the operation of a cultural business\, and the valuable perspectives gained from the interplay between craft and design collaborations. Cocoa & Jasmine is an independent print publication and cultural agency. \nAbout Pramila Choudhary \nPramila serves as both the founder and creative leader of the Projecthandstitch Blog initiative\, which was established in 2017. This initiative began with an open project involving creating 12-month hand-stitched garments\, aiming to delve into the concept of slow fashion and foster a global community. Through this journey\, they have explored 28 distinct handmade crafts and brought together 32 participants\, fostering the exchange of knowledge\, promoting slow fashion\, and advocating textile practices in everyday life. The project’s progress has been documented on Instagram and within a private Facebook group. \nContinuing into the subsequent year\, #projecthandstitch has continued to spotlight diverse global and local handmade practices\, individuals\, and conversations within the community. You can connect with them on Instagram @projecthandstitch \nPramila’s background includes studying textile design at NID (National Institute of Design\, India) and HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts\, Switzerland). Since then\, she has collaborated with various craft communities in India\, engaged in international craft-based initiatives\, and partnered with brands in the US and UK. Additionally\, she practices as a textile artist\, utilizing pre-consumer waste and natural materials. Her expertise extends to teaching design students at NID and NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology)\, where she imparts knowledge on sustainability\, craft studies\, design thinking\, surface development\, fabric construction\, hybrid textile structures\, and material explorations. \nAbout Sayali Goyal \nSayali is the Founder and creative director of Cocoa and Jasmine (www.cocoaandjasmine.com) an independent print publication and cultural agency that focuses on global creative communities and facilitates cross cultural connections. The magazine has researched\, documented and published stories on various craft communities from India and around the world. Apart from the print magazine\, her practice also extends to curating exhibitions\, penels\, residencies\, journalism\,  ethnographic visual research as well as strategy for some of the leading companies in India and Internationally. She studied surface textiles at the University of arts London and since then has created a series of textile art and exhibited her works in Delhi\, Mumbai\, London and San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/projecthandstitch/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T123000
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SUMMARY:TAG Watch Party: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Games Institute ADE Speaker Series Panel: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies Watch Party\n\n\nJoin 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 and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse of the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include Black worldbuilding in and across games (Fletcher)\, perceptions of Black male exceptionalism in gaming cultures (Dashiell)\, and the relationship between avatar representation and Black user experience in social VR (DeVeaux). \nAll are welcome\, and there will be snacks! No registration required for the watch party.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-watch-party-emerging-voices-in-black-game-studies/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230913T193000
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Danielle Boyer on Indigenous Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Ojibwe\, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work\, including the invention of the SkoBot and more! \nOjibwe\, 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 customizable and easily programmable for youth. This virtual event is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum\, and co-hosted by The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). \nRESERVE A SPOT\nDanielle Boyer is a 22-year-old Indigenous (Ojibwe) and Queer robotics inventor and advocate for youth who has been teaching kids since she was ten. Driven by her families own inability to afford science and technology education\, she is passionate about making education accessible and representative for her community so that no child is left behind. Danielle creates equitable and innovative learning solutions for Indigenous youths with robots that she designs\, manufactures\, and gives away for free. In 2019 at age eighteen\, she created The STEAM Connection\, a minority and youth-led charity that has reached hundreds of thousands of children worldwide with technical education with an emphasis on language revitalization. The STEAM Connection focuses on the future: ushering in a new age of education via personal and wearable robotics\, artificial intelligence\, and augmented reality. Informed by the past and present\, The STEAM Connection utilizes traditional knowledge to uplift and protect Indigenous communities with an emphasis on language. Her goal is not necessarily to get youth into STEM careers but rather to equip them with the skills to solve the problems that they see in their communities now. \n*There is no fee required to attend this event. Captions in english will be provided.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/danielle-boyer-on-indigenous-robotics/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230516T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230516T143000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] Dr. Louise Amoore Lecture on Machine Learning Politics
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amoore introduces the concept of machine learning politics. \n\n\nThe 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 the Turing Laureate Yoshua Bengio sets out the guiding principles for unsupervised machine learning\, the ‘good’ model is rendered normatively as having the capacity to exploit the unknown structure in data. Here\, that which is unknown and unencountered is re-cast as a positive force to be harnessed in machine learning. It is a machine learning logic that has simultaneously become pervasive in the contemporary governing of societies – how the unknown structure of health data\, policing data\, pandemic data\, immigration data\, might yield the patterns and features that make interventions possible. The combinatorial possibilities of deep learning models reimagine the contingencies of the world as a field of political possibility. When Bengio proposes that deep learning algorithms “discover good representations” in data distributions\, I propose that this logic powerfully generates a politics of discovering good representations of a social distribution. Thus\, to deploy large language models (LLMs) or transformer models in the social world is never only to instrumentally bring a tool into use\, but rather it brings into being a specific political means of picturing and knowing the world. \n\n\nBiography \nLouise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching focuses on aspects of geopolitics\, technology and security. She is particularly interested in how contemporary forms of data and algorithmic analysis are changing the pursuit of state security and the idea of society. Her most recent book\, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others\, is published by Duke University Press in Spring 2020. Among her other published works on technology\, biometrics\, security\, and society\, her book\, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability (2013)examines the governance of low probability\, high consequence events\, and its far-reaching implications for society and democracy. Louise’s research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust\, ESRC\, EPSRC\, AHRC\, and NWO. She is appointed to the UK independent body responsible for the ethics of biometric and data-driven technologies. Louise is co-editor of the Journal Progress in Human Geography. \n\n\n\n\nMade possible through the support of the School of Graduate Studies\, the Applied AI Institute and the Milieux Institute at Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-louise-amoore-lecture-on-machine-learning-politics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230504
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SUMMARY:More-than-ethnographic probes: Workshop & Round-Table
DESCRIPTION:More-than-ethnographic probes: On scales\, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human with Maxime Le Calvé \n\nThe 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 3rd). This event is designed as a fieldwork and a platform for the development of collaborative sketching\, writing\, and documentation methods. Exploring how to attend to more-than-human collectivities at different scales\, from built environment to cellular activity\, the workshop is envisioned as an inventive anthropological design inquiry within the heavily mediated sense worlds of performative and situated spatial practices\, biodesign\, HCI and Medical Imagery. “More-than-ethnographic Probes” will invite participants to contribute to an account of scientific cultures of microscopy and XR visualization techniques that pays respect to their embodied experience. The making process will be shaped by hands-on conversations through cultural probing: we will concoct\, in short sessions\, playful devices to render and further explore our observations and chats in different labs and residency spaces.  \nThe workshop will conclude with a round-table at the Uncommon Senses IV Conference (May 4th\, 4PM)\, including Alice Jarry\, Shauna Janssen\, Stefan Helmreich\, Maxime Le Calvé\, and Brice Ammar-Khodja.  \n\n\nQuestions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n\n\nMaxime Le Calvé is an anthropologist of art and science\, currently postdoctoral research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activities” (HU Berlin). In his latest ethnographic project\, he is exploring haptic creativities and cartographic practices in neurosurgery. Visual ethnographer\, he is making use of digital drawing as an investigative device. He is also curating virtual reality experiences\, which he frames as collaborative art-science inquiries aiming to stretch the senses of anthropologists and of their publics. He trained in general ethnology in Paris Nanterre and owns a PhD in social anthropology and in theater studies\, from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. He has published on the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances\, 2018)\, on performance art\, on music\, on Berlin\, on brains\, and on ethnographic training. He acted as curator to the exhibitions Field/Works in Lisbon (2020-2021)\, Stretching Materialities (Berlin\, 2021-2022)\, and the ongoing participant exhibition Sketching Brains (Charité\, Berlin). \n\nhttps://www.maximelecalve.com/about
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/more-than-ethnographic-probes-workshop-round-table/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Caroline Monnet - Artist Talk and Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION: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 gaze. \nAfter the talk we will have a closing reception with refreshments! \nWhen? April 25th at 4PM \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room\, Concordia University (EV. 11705) \nCaroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais\, Quebec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and film. Her work has been programmed internationally at the Whitney Biennial (NYC)\, Toronto Biennale of Art\, KØS museum (Copenhagen)\, Museum of Contemporary Art (Montréal)\, the National Art Gallery (Ottawa). Solo exhibitions include Montreal Museum of Fine Arts\, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt\, Arsenal Contemporary (NYC) and Centre d’art international de Vassivière (France). Her films have been programmed at film festivals such as TIFF\, Sundance\, Aesthetica (UK)\, Palm Springs and Cannes. In 2016\, she was selected for the Cinéfondation residency in Paris. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America as well as the permanent UNESCO collection in Paris.  Monnet is recipient of the 2020 Pierre-Ayot award\, the 2020 Sobey Art Award\, the Merata Mita Fellowship\, and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards. She is based in Montreal and represented by Blouin-Division Gallery. \nMonnet uses visual and media arts to demonstrate a keen interest in communicating complex ideas around Indigenous identity and bicultural living through the examination of cultural histories. Her work grapples with colonialism’s impact\, updating outdated systems with indigenous methodologies. Monnet has made a signature for working with industrial materials\, combining the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual-cultures with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms. Monnet is always in the stage of experimentation and invention\, both for herself and for the work. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/caroline-monnet-artist-talk-and-closing-reception/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Reception,Talk
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SUMMARY:TALK: Daniel Vella - The Promise of Being Otherwise: 'Being Someone Else' in Games
DESCRIPTION: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’ . \nPopular discourses around digital games have long made the claim that games can grant the experience of ‘being someone else\,’ letting us step into the shoes of heroes\, adventurers\, rogues and champions. This presentation shall take this apparent promise as its starting point: what does it mean for a game to grant us the possibility of being someone else? How can a game construct us as a different subject? To address this question\, this presentation shall touch upon the link between play and freedom in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Eugen Fink\, before drawing on work in game studies on avatars\, identity\, subjectivity\, agency and game aesthetics to discuss\, in more concrete terms\, how games structure particular ways of being for players to inhabit during their play. Finally\, the presentation will end with an interrogation of the promise itself\, asking: what are the ideological assumptions behind the idea that a game can let us ‘be someone else\,’ and what potentially problematic implications are contained in this promise? \nDr. Daniel Vella is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Digital Games (University of Malta). He is the co-author (with Stefano Gualeni) of Virtual Existentialism (Palgrave Pivot\, 2020) and has published a number of papers and book chapters on subjectivity\, aesthetics and space and place in games. He is also a narrative designer for board games with Mighty Boards\, and his writing credits include Posthuman Saga (2019) and Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan (forthcoming\, 2023).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-daniel-vella-the-promise-of-being-otherwise-being-someone-else-in-games/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230420T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Driving in Palestine" by Rehab Nazzal
DESCRIPTION: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 artist Rehab Nazzal\, who explores the visible indices of the politics of mobility that she encountered firsthand while traversing the occupied West Bank between 2010 and 2020. This photography book consists of 160 black and white photographs\, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in Arabic and English by Palestinian and Canadian scholars and artists. \nThe photographs were all captured from moving vehicles on the roads of the West Bank. They focus on Israel’s architecture of movement restrictions and surveillance structures that proliferate in the West Bank\, including the Apartheid Wall\, segregation walls surrounding illegal colonies\, gates\, fences\, watchtowers\, roadblocks and military checkpoints among other obstacles to freedom of movement. \nRehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples\, on the land and on other non-human life. Nazzal’s video\, photography and sound works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. Dr. Nazzal was an assistant professor at Dar Al-Kalima University in Bethlehem and has taught at Simon Fraser University\, Western University and Ottawa School of Art. She is the recipient of several awards\, including the Social Justice Award from Toronto Metropolitan University and the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Award in Photography from the University of Ottawa. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-driving-in-palestine-by-rehab-nazzal/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
CATEGORIES:Reception,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230411T170000
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground with Zinnia Naqvi
DESCRIPTION: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 through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze. When? April 11th at 4PM \nWhere? In-person at 4th Space and online via Zoom. *Please register to attend onlive here. \n**Registration for in-person attendance is not required.Zinnia Naqvi (she/her) is a lens-based artist working in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work examines issues of colonialism\, cultural translation\, language\, and gender through the use of photography\, video\, the written word\, and archival material. Recent projects have included archival and re-staged images\, experimental documentary films\, video installations\, graphic design\, and elaborate still-lives. Her artworks often invite the viewer to consider the position of the artist and the spectator\, as well as analyze the complex social dynamics that unfold in front of the camera.Naqvi’s work has been shown across Canada and internationally. She is a 2022 Fall Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence and recipient of the 2019 New Generation Photography Award organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Naqvi received a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. She is currently a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University.Our programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office and daphne. This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council\, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Concordia University’s OVPRGS. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-with-zinnia-naqvi/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T133000
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SUMMARY:Platforms and Cultural Production Author Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:On March 30th at 12PM\, please join us for what promises to be a stirring virtual discussion with the esteemed authors of the celebrated book Platforms and Cultural Production (2021\, Polity Press)! \nBrooke Erin Duffy\, David B. Nieborg\, and Thomas Poell will join us to share how the book came together\, their primary arguments\, and how platform-based cultural production continues to change. \nFor more on the book\, go here. This event is organized by The Platform Lab and co-sponsored by the DIGS Lab. \nThis event is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series. \nWhere? Online via Zoom (Zoom link available upon registration) \nClick here to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/platforms-and-cultural-production-author-roundtable/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T183000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sophie Chao: More-than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth instalment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG)\, Colonialism Race and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE)\, and Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materiality (SPAM). The Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an online talk with Dr. Sophie Chao. \nRecent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological interest in the topic of the plantation–an industrial formation and enduring logic that has been instrumental to the rise of colonial racial capitalism and the construction of modern nations and natures. \nIn this talk\, Chao will draw on long-term fieldwork conducted on the West Papuan oil palm frontier to examine how Indigenous Marind communities experience\, theorize\, and critique the impacts of plantation modernities on their rapidly changing lifeworlds. \nCentral to these experiences and theories\, the talk will illustrate\, are an array of more-than-human actors whose meaning\, mattering\, and morality are shaped by their alternately indexical\, antagonistic\, or ambiguous relationship to Marind themselves. \nSet against the backdrop of West Papua’s regional history of settler-colonial incursion and the plantation’s global history of racializing violence\, the paper will argue that Marind philosophies of more-than-human becoming constitute a form of epistemic resistance to the simplifying\, hierarchizing\, and disciplining logic of plantation regimes past and present. \nAbout the speaker\nSophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity\, ecology\, capitalism\, health\, and justice in the Pacific. \nChao is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua and co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice. She previously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in Indonesia\, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their customary lands\, resources\, and livelihoods. For more information\, please visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-sophie-chao-more-than-human-entanglements-in-the-plantation-nexus/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230314T170000
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground with Michèle Pearson Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents artist Michèle Pearson Clarke\, 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 through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze. \nWhen? March 14\, 2023\, at 4:00 PM \nWhere? Join us in person at 4th Space or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \n*No registration needed for in-person participation.\nREGISTER NOW\nMichèle Pearson Clarke is an artist\, writer and educator who works in photography\, film\, video and installation. Using archival\, performative and process-oriented strategies\, her work situates grief as a site of possibility for social engagement and political connection. Born in Trinidad and based in Toronto\, her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal\, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, Royal Ontario Museum\, Lagos Photo Festival\, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Maryland Institute College of Art\, ltd los angeles\, Ryerson Image Centre\, and Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. From 2016-2017\, Clarke was artist-in-residence at Gallery 44\, and she was the inaugural 2020-2021 artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Clarke’s writing has been published in Canadian Art\, Transition Magazine\, Momus\, and The Toronto Star and in 2018\, she was a speaker at the eighth TEDxPortofSpain. Most recently\, Clarke served as the second Photo Laureate for the City of Toronto (2019-2022)\, and her work was added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Clarke holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto\, and in 2015 she received her Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson)\, where she is an Assistant Professor in Photography in the School of Image Arts.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-with-michele-pearson-clarke/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Dr. Marika Cifor on Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marika Cifor will speak about Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry\, as part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum and co-hosted by the DIGS Lab. \nThe talk will be followed by an audience Q and A. \nThis is a virtual/online event and you need to sign up on eventbrite to get the zoom link (we do this to prevent zoombombing) \n\n\nDr. Marika Cifor is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at University of Washington and an adjunct faculty member in Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. My research investigates how individuals and communities marginalized by gender\, sexuality\, race and ethnicity\, and HIV-status are represented and how they document and represent themselves in archives and digital cultures. This multidisciplinary scholarship uncovers how archives and digital technologies and cultures are shaping identities\, experiences\, and social movements.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-marika-cifor-on-viral-cultures-activist-archiving-in-the-age-of-aids/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230306T190000
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SUMMARY:Immersive and Augmented Performance practices
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Storytelling Studio (previously the Immersive Reality / VR Lab) invites you to Immersive and Augmented Performance practices\, where our guests Zoey M. Cochran\, Pierre-Henri Barralis and Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin will speak about their individual approaches to immersion and their collaborative process working with the “OpéRA de poche” project. \nWhen? March 6\, from 5-7pm \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, EV.11.725\, Concordia University: 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W\, Montréal. \nZoey Mariniello Cochran is a PhD candidate at McGill University where she is completing her dissertation entitled “Power and Resistance in the Operas of Viceregal Naples (1696–1714).” Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and she was awarded the Proctor prize (MusCan) for her research on the use of Tuscan in Neapolitan comic opera. She currently works at the Université de Montréal as deputy director of research and scientific coordination of the Canada Research Chair in Opera Creation\, held by composer Ana Sokolović\, and as the co-director of “Convergence through rhythm” (cinEXmedia partnership). In this context\, she has developed\, among others\, the research-creation project OpéRA de poche\, involving the creation of short operas for augmented reality in partnership with the Opéra de Montréal\, INEDI\, Normal studio\, the National Theatre School\, Wapikoni mobile and Musique nomade. \nChélanie Beaudin-Quintin (she/her) is a visual artist and filmmaker currently pursuing a research-creation PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. Through her project entitled “Technological animism: thinking the body in relationship with humans and robots through immersive cinedance\,” she works with dance\, cinema\, and anthropology to explore individual and collective bodies\, investigating spaces of exchange and cohabitation. Through dance and film\, she seeks to create a new dramaturgy whose narrative form\, by moving away from classical codes\, seems rather sensory and embodied. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and events in Quebec\, Ontario\, Belgium\, Germany\, Italy and the United States. Amongst other projects\, she currently directs an underwater stereoscopic and ambisonic cinedance choreographed by Caroline Laurin-Beaucage (Art et Essai)\, and collaborates as a cinematographer on the OpéRA de poche project. \nPierre-Henri Barralis is a software engineer who has worked with video game companies Ubisoft and Square-Enix\, and is currently studying music composition at the University of Montreal (UdeM). Exploring the affordances of VR since 2013\, he has helped many VR and AR experiences come to life\, such as the AR module in the mobile game Jurassic World: Alive (Ludia). Within UdeM\, he has contributed to two VR projects involving sound spatialization in collaboration with the Centre des Musiciens du Monde\, and with the Observatoire Interdisciplinaire de Création et de Recherche en Musique (OICRM). He is the technical director of the OpéRA de poche project where he guides the choice and use of technology to serve the creative teams\, including volumetric capture and augmented reality. \nAbout the OpéRA de poche project: \nLe projet OpéRA de poche vise à développer des opéras pour la réalité augmentée et virtuelle par un processus de cocréation interdisciplinaire qui relie recherche académique\, recherche et développement technologique et création artistique. Ces opéras\, qui seront accessibles sur téléphones intelligents et tablettes\, permettront au public d’assister à une représentation opératique à 360° dans leur espace domestique. Ce projet a pour but de renouveler et démocratiser l’opéra.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-and-augmented-performance-practices/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:The Games Institute Speaker Series 1: Elaine Gomez-Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a live watch party of Elaine Gómez-Sanchez’ talk The Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized Communities in Creative Works. Elaine will speak to how gaming has the power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions and will explain how games can be designed to create social impact in meaningful ways. \nThis is a hybrid event! Join online\, in-person at Waterloo\, or at TAG for a watch party. No registration required for the watch party\, but reserve a spot for online/in-person participation via Eventbrite. \nRESERVE A SPOT\nWhen? Thursday\, February 23\, 2023\, from 1-3pm. \nWhere? Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG) \n*All are welcome. Snacks will be served.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-games-institute-speaker-series-1-elaine-gomez-sanchez/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230220T173000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Communication with ChatGPT: Promises and Perils
DESCRIPTION:Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate\, learn\, and interact with one another. In response\, it’s important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. \nTo this end\, the Digital Intimacies\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute\, is organizing a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick Mckelvey. Join us to hear from experts and participate in discussions about the pedagogical\, ethical\, social\, and political implications of this technology. \nRefreshments and childcare provided! \nWhen? February 20\, 2023\, from 4-5:30 PM \nWhere? 4TH Space and online. \nRegister here\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-future-of-communication-with-chatgpt-promises-and-perils/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T143000
DTSTAMP:20260613T141942
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SUMMARY:Interview with Fiction Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:How can science fiction contribute to doing social sciences otherwise? \nOn February 17th\, 2023\, the Ethnography Lab will be welcoming fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss fiction writing in relation to ethnographic practices. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a world renowned science fiction author\, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards\, who’s work centers mostly on the imagination of distant and proximate futures affected and dealing with what we might now identify as an inevitable climate crisis. KSR’s work on this matter stands out for his combination of uptodate developments in the scientific and social understanding of this crisis\, with fictional situations which more than illustrate an imagined future\, illuminate and map the present. KSR is today a principal figure in ecosocialist debates and an undoubted reference in arguments about the restrictions that the capitalist mode of production imposes on finding effective solutions to this crisis. \nThis event will aim at crafting speculative practices by which to envision experimental ways of performing and writing research through fiction. Beside pushing for innovative research tools\, the event will seek to explore the activist potential of imagining and existing otherwise\, through fiction\, and rendering research and knowledge differently accessible to larger audiences. \nScience fiction\, as a speculative genre\, has for years provided readers with the space to imagine other forms of social relations themselves determined by the existence of imaginary technological developments and scientific advances. In projecting imaginary futures\, particularly in a dystopian form\, science fiction exposes the limitations of existing discourses over economic and technological development and\, more importantly\, draws a thread from the contradictions of the present to imagined catastrophes of the future. Moreover\, in its inability to overcome certain oppressive views\, forms of gender and racial inequality\, even in its utopian imaginations\, science fiction projections allow us to reflect on the deep structural character of many of these social injustices. \nThe speculative method of science fiction provides social research with a critical tool for exposing inherent problems of existing social structures as well as the limitations of current policy in addressing these issues. Furthermore\, as Ruth Levitas suggests when speaking of utopias\, these speculative efforts facilitate “genuinely holistic thinking about possible futures\, combined with reflexivity\, provisionality and democratic engagement with the principles and practices of those futures” (2010). \nThe talk will be animated by Marie Lecuyer and Carlos Velásquez\, Concordia PhD students in Social and Cultural Analysis. \nTo register\, please contact lab coordinator Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at m_amoth@live.concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interview-with-fiction-writer-kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Lunch Time Seminar with Luke Stark
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk “Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making”: \nRegulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. Drawing on Carlo Ginzburg’s distinction between conjectural (abductive/inductive) and empirical (deductive) science\, I argue that ML systems should be assessed for their conceptual assumptions as well as their proposed use cases. This assessment should be grounded both in the forms of inferential reasoning (inductive\, deductive\, and or abductive) involved in a particular automated analysis\, as well as the domain in which the analysis is being performed. In the paper\, I sketch out a matrix of inferential types and use case categories that serves as a first step towards a more granular AI governance regime. Given the shaky epistemological foundations and social toxicity of much automated conjecture about human activities and behavior\, such use cases deserve heightened legal\, technical\, and social scrutiny. \nWhen? Wednesday\, February 15 TH\, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nRESERVE A SPOT HERE\n\n\nLuke Stark is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His work interrogates the historical\, social\, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies\, particularly those mediating social and emotional expression. His scholarship highlights the asymmetries of power\, access and justice that are emerging as these systems are deployed in the world\, and the social and political challenges that technologists\, policymakers\, and the wider public face as a result. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is hosted at the Milieux Institute at Concordia University by the Machine Agencies Research Group.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunch-time-seminar-with-luke-stark/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Digital Text as Data – A Computational Approach
DESCRIPTION:The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting\, analyzing\, and visualizing digital text as data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance\,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars\, proper methodological tools are indispensable if they want to harvest the opportunities while facing up to the challenges of the digital age. In this workshop\, participants will be introduced to a computational approach to collect\, analyze\, and visualize digital text as data. In the first part of the workshop\, they will learn about how computational methods may complement\, advance\, and transcend traditional ways of studying media through cases. In the second part\, they will get a chance to do hands-on exercises and play with R\, a programming language widely used by social scientists\, to collect and/or analyze some social media data. \nWhen? February 15th\, 10:00-12:00 PM EST \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705) \nDr. Zhifan Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. She obtained a doctoral degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Albany\, the U.S. Her research and teaching integrate computer-assisted content analysis with traditional qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the dynamics of power and resistance in the authoritarian and democratic contexts. Her work has appeared in New Media & Society\, Information\, Communication & Society\, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2nd edition)\, and others.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-text-as-data-a-computational-approach/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Tina Campt: “The Afterlives of Images: A Correspondence"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find the Ground\, Post Image’s cycle of artist talks and artist residencies\, featuring a talk with black feminist theorist Tina Campt! \nTina Campt’s lecture reflects on the the afterlives of images re-activated in ways that imagine black life\, bodies\, and spaces across time. This lecture reflects on the fugitive registers of images created by artists who give photographs a second life as part of an active practice of correspondence. Enacting a triangulated set of correspondences between herself\, black feminist theory\, and a series of artworks that connect different time-spaces\, she considers the afterlives which come into view when images are re-activated in ways that imagine black life\, black bodies\, and black spaces in a correspondence that straddles the present and past. \nWhen? February 14th at 5 PM EST (in-person and online)\nWhere? *We are currently sold out of in-person tickets but livestream tickets remain available. \nRegister for the livestream to receive the link before the lecture begins.\n\n\n\n\nTina Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and the founding convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. Her early work theorized gender\, racial\, and diasporic formation in black communities in Europe and southern Africa\, and the role of vernacular photography in historical interpretation. Campt has published five books including: A Black Gaze (MIT Press\, 2021); Listening to Images (Duke University Press\, 2017); Image Matters: Archive\, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press\, 2012); and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race\, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press\, 2004). Her co-edited collection\, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch\, Gil Hochberg\, and Brian Wallis Steidl\, 2020)\, received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tina-campt-the-afterlives-of-images-a-correspondence/
LOCATION:Concordia University – MB-9 Conference Centre\, 1450 Guy Street\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H3H 0A1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Nature with Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia’s talk ‘Postcolonial Nature’.  \n\n\nIn this talk\, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs within their own environments; (2) Arrogant forms of conservation that expel human populations from their ancestral lands; and (3) Destructive extraction of natural resources motivated by seductive but abstract metrics of economic growth that cannot be measured in terms of ecological (or any kind of) well-being of the particular local lifeworld. Engaging directly with nature in postcolonial thought is not possible for it must confront the imperatives of nature’s colonial and imperialist history – a necessary circumlocution that enables us to approach nature as a powerful signifier of being and quotidian experience in the postcolonial context. \nWhen? February 10th\, from 12:00-13:30 PM. \nWhere? Online \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/postcolonial-nature-with-dr-philip-aghoghovwia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Rehab Nazzal
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal\, in the fourth 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 through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze. \nRehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Montreal. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples\, on the land and on other non-human life. Nazzal’s video\, photography and sound works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She was an assistant professor at Dar Al-Kalima University in Bethlehem and has taught at Simon Fraser University\, Western University and Ottawa School of Art. She is the recipient of several awards\, including the Social Justice Award from Ryerson University and the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Award in Photography from the University of Ottawa. \nWhen? Tuesday\, February 7\, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. \nWhere? In-person at 4TH SPACE and online \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-with-rehab-nazzal/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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