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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/
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T120000
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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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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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/
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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/
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230214T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230214T180000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T173433
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T173000
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SUMMARY:How to Stay a Human When You Dance With a Machine
DESCRIPTION:When we use a computer\, do we have to think in the language of the computer? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with digital interactive artist Tim Murray-Browne. \nI’ll talk about my artistic practice of building embodied interactive systems. Particularly with dancers\, I’ve found code introduces abstractions of the body\, which can be more limiting than enabling. Recently\, I’ve been using unsupervised AI to devise rather than design interaction between human and system. I’ve found the results refreshing and captivating\, but it requires a rethink of how we relate to machines: a shift away from the instrumental back towards that of belonging. \nWhen? February 7 TH\, 4:00-5:30 PM \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705) \nAbout Tim \nI am a digital interactive artist. My work explores the parts of being human that get left behind when we interact with technology. I create interactive installations and performances that connect the moving body\, image\, sound and light but my primary medium is the interaction itself. My work aims to tap into the non-intellectual\, yet intelligent\, embodied mind. I graduated with a first in Maths and Computer Science from Oxford University and completed a PhD on interactive art and music at Queen Mary University of London. I code bespoke software for much of my work. \nTim is currently artist-in-residence at LePARC and Speculative Life.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-to-stay-a-human-when-you-dance-with-a-machine/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T153000
DTSTAMP:20260613T173433
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SUMMARY:Seminar on anime games by CyberConnect2 Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there were anime games made in Montreal? Come meet CyberConnect2 (Naruto STORM\, Demon Slayer) VP Taichiro Miyazaki and art director Yohei Ishibashi at an event co-hosted by TAG and the Concordia Game Development Club! CyberConnect2 will introduce their studio\, the artistic ins and outs of anime game development in Japan and Montreal\, and their experience with indie publishing. \nWHAT: Seminar on anime games by CyberConnect2 Montreal\nWHEN: Monday\, January 30th\, 1:45-3:45pm\nWHERE: Milieux Resource Room\, EV11.705 \n*If you have question please email TAG’s coordinator Kalervo Sinervo at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/seminar-on-anime-games-by-cyberconnect2-montreal/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230127T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230127T120000
DTSTAMP:20260613T173433
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SUMMARY:Book Launch by Dr. Heather Igloliorte
DESCRIPTION:This event is presented in conjunction with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre’s inaugural research symposium.  \nJoin editors Dr. Heather Igloliorte and Dr. Carla Tauntion along with local contributing authors for the launch of an exciting publication: The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in The United States and Canada. \nLight refreshments will be served. Come celebrate with us! \nAbout the book: The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America.\n\nThis book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts\, professional curatorial practice\, graduate-level curriculum development\, and academic research. The contributors expand\, create\, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production\, discussion\, and writing of Indigenous art histories.\n\nBringing together scholars\, curators\, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history\, critical museology\, cultural studies\, and curatorial practice\, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based\, embodied\, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration\, consultation\, and mentorship.\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-by-dr-heather-igloliorte/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230120T160000
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SUMMARY:Biocharmed: A Talk with Dr. Anne Pasek
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second 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). \nThe Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an in-person and online talk with Dr. Anne Pasek: “Biocharmed: (Affective) Value Forms in Emerging Carbon Removal Markets”\, in which Dr. Pasek will be speaking about her work in Low Carbon Research Methods. Dr. Pasek is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of climate communication\, the environmental humanities\, and science and technology studies. She studies how carbon becomes communicable in different communities and media forms\, to different political and material effects. \nDr. Pasek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment at Trent University\, as well as the Canada Research Chair in Media\, Culture and the Environment. \nRegister for the talk here. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/biocharmed-a-talk-with-dr-anne-pasek/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230110T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T173433
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk With Barry Pottle
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents Inuk photographer Barry Pottle\, in the third 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.  \n\n\n\nHow can you participate? Join in person at 4thSpace or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.  \n\n\n\nBarry Pottle is an Inuk artist originally from Nunatsiavut in Labrador\, now living in Ottawa\, Ontario. He has worked with the Indigenous arts community for many years particularly in the city of Ottawa\, which has the largest urban population of Inuit outside the North. Barry has always been interested in photography as a medium of artistic expression and as a way of exploring the world around him. Through the camera’s lens\, Barry showcases the uniqueness of this community. Whether it is at a cultural gathering\, family outings or the solitude of nature that photography allows\, he captures the essence of Inuit life in Ottawa. \n\n\n\nOur programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-with-barry-pottle/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T170000
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SUMMARY:BREATHING AESTHETICS:A Talk with Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Alice Jarry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first installment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by CARG\, CRIE\, and SPAM: Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series\, featuring a talk with Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York) and Dr. Alice Jarry (Concordia). \n\n\n\nDr. Tremblay’s talk previews the monograph Breathing Aesthetics\, in which they argue that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination\, weaponization\, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism\, imperialism\, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration \n\n\n\nDr. Jarry’s presentation will address the material and conceptual aspects of the collaborative research-creation project capture*. Exploring how ‘membranes’ can act as porous interfaces that enable exchanges across systems and transform what is filtered in the process\, capture aims at materializing the microscopic invisibility of air pollution and the macroscopic dimension of its socio-environmental issues. \n\n\n\n// READING GROUP // \n\n\n\nIn preparation for the talk\, the group is hosting a reading group event this Friday\, November 11th\, from 3:00-4:30 PM\, to read Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Breathing Aesthetics‘ first chapter “Breathing against Nature”! If you want to participate email priscilla.jolly@concordia.ca to be added to mailing list and receive pdf. of reading. \n\n\n\nJean-Thomas Tremblay is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at York University. They are the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press\, 2022) and co-editor of Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s (State University of New York Press\, 2021). Jean-Thomas is currently working on two books: The Art of Environmental Inaction and Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction. \n\n\n\nAlice Jarry is an artist-researcher and an assistant professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and is the director of Milieux Institute Speculative Life Biolab. Her research focuses on residual matter\, and responsive biomaterials for the built environment. Specializing in site-specific works\, socio-environmental design\, art-science practices\, and tangible media\, Jarry examines how materiality – engaged in processes of transformation with sites\, technology\, and communities – can provoke the emergence of adaptive forms and resilient socio-environmental relations.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/breathing-aestheticsa-talk-with-jean-thomas-tremblay-and-alice-jarry/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T173433
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SUMMARY:Video as Intimacy: A Talk With Ishita Tiwary
DESCRIPTION:On November 17th\, join us for the third installment of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, featuring Dr. Ishita Tiwary’s talk Video as Intimacy: Biography of the Straight to Video Erotic Thrillers.  \n\n\n\n“In this presentation\, I present a biography of the video film-making industry in India in the 1980s. I chart its rise to a successful form with the emergence of VHS technology\, and its ultimate marginalization into oblivion. I will track the journey of the video film through a case study of a specific video production house\, Hiba Films. I look at Hiba as an institutional structure that emerged broadly in response to the arrival of video\, and specifically in relation to the rise of the video nasty and straight to video genre across the world. Hiba was the audio-visual sister of India‘s best-selling tabloid film magazine\, Stardust\, which promoted films produced by Hiba in its pages. The production house concentrated on the creation of female stars in order to attract its primarily female audience. The entry of satellite television and piracy led to its decline and the company was ultimately doomed to be forgotten from popular memory. The video-film as a commodity now becomes of academic interest for us. In this lecture\, I tell the story of such an adjacent entertainment industry. The story of a new infrastructure and style located in the heart of Bombay. \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, video attempts to define itself as a medium opposed to celluloid. It is this otherness and attempt to define the medium that the presentation hopes to explore through a case study of Hiba. My biographical excavation of Hiba Films will move through legal regulations\, tabloid journalism\, film equipment\, and the star system. I hope to generate through my method a complicated narrative about the unstable life of the video-film“ \n\n\n\n* Registration is required via the Eventbrite page.** For this session\, we ask you to read Dr. Tiwary’s text What is Video: Video and the Moment of Legal Disruption. \n\n\n\nIshita Tiwary is an Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim school of Cinema\, Concordia University and Canada Research Chair in Media and Migration. Her research interests include video cultures\, media infrastructures\, migration\, contraband media practices\, and media aesthetics. She has published essays in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies\, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities\, Culture Machine\, MARG: Journal of Indian Art\, and in edited collections on topics of media piracy\, video histories\, and streaming platforms.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-as-intimacy-a-talk-with-ishita-tiwary/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture by Dr. Francesca Sobande
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, and Sexuality Lab (DIGS) is happy to present Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Experiences\, Archiving\, and Opacity\, a guest lecture by Dr. Francesca Sobande. \n\n\nHow are Black feminist approaches to digital experiences and archiving practices shaping Black history and futures? How do these archival approaches enable Black feminists to play with forms of opacity in ways that subvert the gaze of institutions? Can Black feminist digital archiving efforts result in a redefinition of what it means to archive? Focusing on aspects of Black feminist digital archiving experiences\, and research on Black Scottish history\, this session considers the role and pursuit of forms of opacity as part of such efforts. Moving beyond a focus on questions of visibility and publicness\, this session involves an emphasis on elements of the interiority of Black feminist digital archiving work\, including the generative nature of refusing demands of “transparency”.This online guest lecture is open to all interested students and scholars. Advance registration is required at this link. Please use your institutional email address to register if possible. \n\n\nDr. Francesca Sobande is a senior lecturer\, researcher\, and writer who explores the power and politics of media and the marketplace. Her work focuses on digital remix culture\, Black diaspora and archives\, feminism\, creative work\, pop culture\, branding and crises\, and devolved nations.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-lecture-by-dr-francesca-sobande/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Luiza Helena Guimarães
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Reality Lab at the Milieux Institute invites you to a talk with artist-researcher Luiza Helena Guimarães on the use of immersive technology on art creation. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For more information and questions\, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca. \n\n\n\nLuiza Helena Guimarães is a Brazilian artist-researcher\, performer\, entrepreneur\, creator\, screenwriter and director of immersive media. Founder and Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Digital Humanities (ABHD) and Founder-Director of the Neuro-Spectral Art Lab (LArtEN). Post-doctorate in Communication and Culture\, State University of Rio\, Brazil. PhD in Clinical Psychology at Center for Subjectivity – Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of São Paulo\, Brazil and Faculty of Visual and Plastic Arts Education and Interactive Media Laboratory at University of Barcelona\, Spain. Master in Communication and Culture\, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Researcher at TransObjeto\, Tecnologias da Inteligência e Design Digital (TIDD) at PUC\, and Laboratory of Conservation and Management of Digital Collections (LABOGAD)\, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nFind more information about the artist here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-luiza-helena-guimaraes/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T170000
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SUMMARY:Julian Stadon Talk: 'From Augmentation to Ecological Aesthetics'
DESCRIPTION:Speculative Life is happy to invite you to a talk with Julian Stadon: ‘From Augmentation to Ecological Aesthetics: Artistic Methods for Empathetic Engagement with Post-Nature’. This talk is part of the Speculative Life Research Cluster Symposium 2022\, featuring Julian Stadon as a guest speaker. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will offer an overview of Stadon’s individual and collaborative research in the fields of Augmentation and Ecological Aesthetics. With a specific focus on the recently developed TeleAgriCulture Platform\, and the subsequent projects that were developed using it\, such as The Island of the Day Before Project\, this presentation will address how these practice-based methods for collaboration and public engagement can go beyond art exhibitions\, toward empathy and action and offer means by which to better understand our complex and multi-scalar relationships with ecosystems. \n\n\n\nDATE: Friday 21th from 4:00-5:00 PMLOCATION: Milieux Resource Centre (EV-11.705) \n\n\n\nFor more information about the talk and registration click here. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture & Technology and the Speculative Life Research Cluster \n\n\n\nJulian Stadon is an Australian artist/designer/curator/researcher/educator. His practice-based research intersects biocomputational processes\, embodiment\, and food ecologies toward performative art-science interventions. His PhD examines Post-Bio-Digital Identity and Augmentation Aesthetics through the Data Body Trader project and marart.org. Stadon currently teaches at Interface Cultures (Linz)\, Winchester and LUCA Schools of Art\, directs TeleAgriCulture and The Island of the Day Before Projects and is on the steering committees for the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)\, 3erH0F and Donautics
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/julian-stadon-talk-from-augmentation-to-ecological-aesthetics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221018T180000
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground: Greg Staats Talk
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents Greg Staats in the second installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, their new cycle of artist talks and artist residencies. 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. \n\n\n\nThe second gathering of the series with Greg Staats will take place on October 18th in-person AND online! To attend online please register here. Registration for in-person attendance is not required. \n\n\n\nGreg Staats is Skarù:re /Kanien’kehá:ka \, Hodinöhsö:ni’. b. 1963\, Ohsweken\, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. A Toronto based artist whose Hodinöhsö:ni restorative aesthetic employs mnemonics of condolence\, articulated in visual forms that hold body and place including: oral transmission\, text works\, embodied wampum\, photographic\, sculpture\, installation and video. Staats’ practice conceptualizes Land as monument embodied within a continuum of relational placemaking with his on-reserve lived experience\, trauma\, and the explorations of ceremonial orality. Staats’ lens based language documents cycles of return towards a complete Onkwehón:we neha positionality\, reciprocity and worldview. \n\n\n\nThe speakers invited to Moving the Landscape to Find Ground will also provide studio visits to Concordia University graduate students. If you wish to have a studio visit with one of our speakers\, please sign up here. \n\n\n\nOur programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office. This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council\, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Concordia University’s OVPRGS (Office of the Vice-President\, Research and Graduate Studies).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-greg-staats-talk/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T160000
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SUMMARY:Écotones: Urban Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:DATE: From October 14th to October 28thLOCATION: Champ des Possibles\, 5605 Av. de Gaspé\, Montréal \n\n\n\nSpeculative Life members Brice Ammar-Khodja and Philippe Vandal are happy to invite you to Écotones\, an urban laboratory combining artistic interventions and a round table to articulate an aesthetic\, critical and social reflection on soil pollution in Montreal. Through two experimental artistic installations on the Champ des Possibles site\, Écotones explores urban soil pollution as a creative material. Aspiring to concretize new visualizations of pollution\, the artists desire to initiate a dialogue between the citizen\, academic and artistic communities on the issues emerging from urban soil contamination. \n\n\n\nOrganized in partnership with the Association Les Amis du Champ des Possibles\, these interventions will take the form of several activities organized between October 14th and October 28th. Join us in October 14th for the round table at 4 PM (the meeting point will be communicated one day before the event)\, and for the vernissage at 6 PM! To register for the round table and vernissage click here. To register for the side events happening on October 16\, 17\, 22 and 23 please get in contact with brice.ammar-khodja@mail.concordia.ca for more information.Ecotones is supported by the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) on Smart\, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities at Concordia University\, Haute École des Arts du Rhin (France)\, Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, Hexagram\, Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, and Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality. About the artists \n\n\n\nhttps://b-ak.comhttps://philippevandal.github.io \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ecotones-urban-laboratory/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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