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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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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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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
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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
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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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
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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
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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
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T183000
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221101T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221101T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221018T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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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/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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SUMMARY:Martin Akwiranoron Loft: Artist Talk And Reception
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents the first installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023. The first speaker in the series will be Martin Akwiranoron Loft\, photographer\, printmaker\, and craftsperson from Kahnawá:ke. This speaker 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 first gathering will take place on September 27th at 4PM in-person in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University\, AND online via Zoom. The event will begin with opening words by Elder Kawennotas Sedalia Fazio. \n\n\n\nAfter the talk\, there will be a public reception on the terrace. Registration for in-person attendance is not required. Please sign up if you wish to attend online via Zoom. For more information click here. \n\n\n\nSpeakers invited to the series 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\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio\, the Black Perspectives Office and daphne Arts Centre and with the support of Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture\, the Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Office of the Vice-President\, Research and Graduate Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/martin-akwiranoron-loft-artist-talk-and-reception/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk,Tour - Visit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220922T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220922T193000
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SUMMARY:MHRC Book Salon and talk by Armond R. Towns
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe Media History Research Centre is running a Book Salon on September 22nd\, showcasing and celebrating recent local publications. There has been a considerable amount of local scholarly output over the last couple of years but pandemic conditions have prevented some of our more traditional ways of honouring those contributions. We invite you to gather in person for a ceremonial toast and to peruse our teeming book table!Dr. Armond R. Towns will open the event with his talk “The Medium is the Message\, Revisited: Media and Black Epistemologies\,” which examines the political-economic context that informed the theoretical position of mid-twentieth century Canadian media theory\, particularly the work of Marshall McLuhan. It will open up new ways to think about this context in relation to not just media\, but also race\, humanity\, and radical politics.Dr. Towns is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Carleton University and is the author of On Black Media Philosophy (U of California Press\, 2022).This evening also marks the first edition of the new Montreal Media History Seminar: a series of public talks on recent media historical scholarship that will run throughout 2022-23. For the full schedule click here.Come join us on Sept 22.For more information\, contact MHRC co-ordinator Laura Pannekoek.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mhrc-book-salon-and-talk-by-armond-r-towns/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220921T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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SUMMARY:Solarities – Thinking with the Sun
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe Solar Media research group is excited to invite you to join them on September 21st\, 2022 for a critical engagement with the possibilities and potentials of solar energy. \n\n\n\n“What might a world look like if our societies\, communications technologies\, and economies were organized around energy from the sun rather than from fossil fuels? What new infrastructures\, institutions\, and power structures would such a transition require? What forms of creativity\, collectivity\, and social organizing might we need?” \n\n\n\nCome and join them for an informal discussion about all these questions and more. Our conversation will be anchored in the work of two collectives who have been grappling with these questions: \n\n\n\n\nThe Solar Media Collective is a group of researchers and makers interested in the question of how to reimagine energy and communications infrastructure for a low-carbon world. Among other things\, they have been building a solar-powered server which will be used to host collaboratively developed art\, games\, and other material. The server will be on display at the event for participants to learn more and interact with. \nThe After Oil Collective is an interdisciplinary group of international scholars\, students\, artists\, activists\, and practitioners who came together in 2019 for a summer school focused on imagining a world powered by solar energy. The collective recently published a short book entitled Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice (read it free online at https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/solarities).  \n\n\n\n\nThe conversation will involve a roundtable discussion with members of the Solar Media Collective about solar energy and its promises\, possibilities\, and potential problems. We will then invite participants\, contributors\, and audience members for an open discussion relating to the themes raised by the roundtable.  \n\n\n\nThe discussion will be followed by refreshments. Please RSVP here. \n\n\n\n*Please note that this is an in-person event that will not be streamed anywhere online. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/solarities-thinking-with-the-sun/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220914T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220914T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Michael Century
DESCRIPTION:Milieux presents: \n\n\n\nAn Afternoon with Michael Century \n\n\n\nCome spend an afternoon with Michael Century\, in conversation about his new book Northern Sparks: Innovation\, Technology Policy\, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age.   \n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 14\, 1:30 – 4:00 pm in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University. The event will be followed by a reception on the terrace.  \n\n\n\nThere will be a short presentation by Michael followed by a discussion of the book with participants moderated by three Milieux faculty: Lynn Hughes\, Darren Wershler and Fenwick McKelvey.  Folks coming to the session are invited to read chapter 1 and either one of chapters 3 or 7.  The whole book is available as open access here. \n\n\n\nWe hope you can join us for what will be an excellent afternoon of discussion of this important book that speaks to the heart of Milieux’s history and future. Please RSVP on the eventbrite if you are coming so we can plan for the reception. For more information or questions about this event please contact Harry Smoak. \n\n\n\nMichael Century \n\n\n\nMichael Century\, a musician and media arts historian\, is Professor of Music and New Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He founded the Media Arts program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nNorthern Sparks \n\n\n\nUnderstanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks\, Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention\, starting in the 1960s with the energies unleashed by Expo 67. Debunking conventional wisdom\, Century reclaims innovation from both its present-day devotees and detractors by revealing how experimental artists critically challenge as well as discover and extend the capacities of new technologies.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-afternoon-with-michael-century/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220912T200000
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SUMMARY:Samuel Bianchini: 'Attempts at explementation' Talk at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:Attempts at explementation:Combining material and symbolic operations in art and design research \n\n\n\nIn computer science\, implementation designates that human activity which consists in translating a set of specifications initially expressed in “natural” language into a program a computer can execute. Predicated on the notion that verbalization exercises control over the material world\, implementation and its increasingly widespread application exemplify a form of triumphalist anthropocentrism. Confronted by novel forms of materialism necessitated by the ecological crisis\, this performative turn today needs to seen in perspective. Instead of viewing our relationship with the environment through the prism of how we are to control it with words\, now the need is to develop novel modalities of cooperation with the material world. How can we reverse the process of implementation by listening to what matter says to us—or\, rather\, what it “makes us say”—and thus envisage a form “explementation”? \n\n\n\nBased on a very recent publication (in P. Ribault\, Design\, Gestaltung\, Formatività. Philosophies of Making\, Ed. Birkhäuser\, Basel\, 2022)\, Samuel Bianchini will develop this notion and approach of “explementation” through different case studies of research-creation – in particular in the field of robotics and active materials -\, different examples where the art practice is the main condition to cooperate and to reflect. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality with Hexagram Network\, and happening at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture & Technology\, on Monday\, September 12th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Resource Centre (Room EV-11.705) @ Concordia University\, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West\, H3G 2W1.BIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nSamuel Bianchini is an artist and professor at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD\, PSL University\, Paris). \n\n\n\nHis creations involve physical as well as symbolic operations\, in context\, in public and in real time\, stimulating us to contemplate\, to think as much as to act. Supporting the principle of an “operational aesthetic”\, Samuel Bianchini works on the relationship between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”\, modes of representation\, new forms of aesthetic experiences\, sociopolitical organizations and ecological issues. To this end\, he collaborates with scientists and engineering research laboratories. \n\n\n\nHe lives and works in Paris. With more than 100 collective and 20 solo exhibitions\, his works are regularly presented in Europe and around the world. In close relation to his research and artistic practice\, Samuel Bianchini has undertaken theoretical work\, which has led to numerous publications including the collective book Practicable. From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art\, MIT Press\, 2016 (co-directed with Erik Verhagen). \n\n\n\nHe studied art and design through different approaches and defended his PhD thesis at Palais de Tokyo with a solo exhibition and\, more recently\, his accreditation to supervise research (HDR). As a teacher-researcher at EnsAD\, he is also the head of the Reflective Interaction group of EnsadLab (EnsAD’s laboratory) and the co-head of La Chaire arts & sciences set up in 2017 with École polytechnique and the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation. He is also member of the network Hexagram and associate member of the Cluster of excellence Matters of Activity\, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. \n\n\n\nWebsites: \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ndispotheque.org \n\n\n\nmitpress.mit.edu/books/practicable \n\n\n\nmitpress.mit.edu/books/behavioral-objects-i \n\n\n\nbirkhauser.com/books/9783035622447 \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/samuel-bianchini-attempts-at-explementation-talk-at-milieux/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220325T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220325T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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SUMMARY:Michelle Murphy Talk: What is Chemical Violence?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the sixth in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM\, CARG\, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World\, with Michelle Murphy presenting What is Chemical Violence? \n\n\n\nIs a chemical pollutant a molecule\, or something else? This talk considers the ways chemical pollution contributes to land and atmosphere disruption\, enacts colonialism and racism\, as well as distributes mortality to beings and their relationships. Thus\, it suggests that chemical pollution might better be understand as part of land/body relations.  Through Indigenous feminist approaches that activate responsibilities to Indigenous jurisdiction\, land\, and intergenerational being on the lower Great Lakes\, this talk reconsiders what makes up chemical violence. \n\n\n\nMichelle Murphy is a science and technology studies scholar whose research concerns feminist and decolonial approaches to environment\, reproduction and data. Their  current research focuses on the relationships between pollution\, colonialism\, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes.  At the University of Toronto\, Murphy is Professor of History and Women & Gender Studies\, a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice\, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit\, which hosts an Indigenous led Environmental Data Justice lab. They are Métis from Winnipeg. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/michelle-murphy-talk-what-is-chemical-violence/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220315T130000
DTSTAMP:20260614T002213
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sophie Bishop discusses Influencer Culture
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sophie Bishop will discuss her research on influencer culture in the UK. Dr. Bishop researches how creative work and promotional cultures are increasingly shaped by social media platforms\, and the implications for labour\, representation and discrimination. \n\n\n\nShe is the Specialist Advisor for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into influencer culture. On 21 March 2021\, The United Kingdom Parliament Digital\, Culture\, Media and Sport Committee has launched an inquiry examining “the power of influencers on social media\, how influencer culture operates\, and will consider the absence of regulation on the promotion of products or services\, aside from the existing policies of individual platforms.” The ‘Influencer culture’ inquiry is a major investigation into contemporary cultural policy in the UK and globally. Dr. Bishop will present her own research relevant to influencer culture in the UK\, but she will not speaking on behalf of parliament or the inquiry \n\n\n\nDr. Sophie Bishop is a Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at Sheffield University Management School . Her current projects include studying the experiences of creative workers\, who labour within rapidly changing digital industries (particularly alongside understandings of ‘algorithms’). In addition to beauty influencers\, she researches how platformisation affects other creative practioners like artists\, actors and tattoo artists. She also co-runs ‘Algorithmic Autobiographies and Fictions’ a project that encourages participants to use their ad data as a creative prompt for fiction writing and artistic interpretation.”  \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Machine Agencies working group of the Speculative Life cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-sophie-bishop-discusses-influencer-culture/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Neel Ahuja Talk: Animal Death as National Debility
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the latest talk in the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World\, with Neel Ahuja\, presenting Animal Death as National Debility: Climate\, Agriculture\, and Syrian War Narrative. This talk is co-sponsored by Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materialities (SPAM)\, the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG)\, and the Colonial\, Racial\, Indigenous Ecologies Working (CRIE) Working Group.Neel Ahuja is a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland with appointments in the American Studies Department and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. At the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, he is Professor of Feminist Studies and a core faculty member of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program\, where he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Racial Justice. Neel’s research explores the relationship of the body to the geopolitical\, environmental\, and public health contexts of colonial governance\, warfare\, and security.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/neel-ahuja-talk-animal-death-as-national-debility/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Rafico Ruiz Talk: 'Slow Disturbance: Infrastructure and Ice'
DESCRIPTION:In this talk presented by the Speculative Life cluster\, Rafico Ruiz will share his work on ‘slow disturbance’ as a research method that can capture the lasting effects of settler colonialism on land and the built environment. He will also make connections to his current book project on post-global warming ice and the creation of a ‘drift path theory’ to apprehend environmental phenomena through their dissolution. \n\n\n\nFrom the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century\, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador\, Canada\, created a network of hospitals\, schools\, orphanages\, stores\, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador’s coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds\, subjectivities\, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents\, maps\, interviews with municipal officials\, teachers\, and residents\, as well as his field photography\, Ruiz shows how the mission’s infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the coastline—responded to the colony’s environmental conditions in ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing the mission’s history and the mechanisms that enabled its functioning\, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler colonialism and extractive capitalism. \n\n\n\nRafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (DUP\, 2021)\, and the co-editor\, with Melody Jue\, of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (DUP\, 2021). He is completing a manuscript\, Phase State Earth: The End Media of Ice\, on the disrupted phase transitions of ice under the conditions of global warming.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rafico-ruiz-talk-slow-disturbance-infrastructure-and-ice/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:The Undergraduate Fellows' Introductory Presentations!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you already know\, we have recently announced this years’ Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now that we have made our introductions\, it’s time for the fellows to speak about themselves\, their research\, what they like or dislike\, and anything in between and around! The ‘PechaKucha-style’ presentations will be taking place online via Zoom (link accessible via the button in the left-hand column) on Monday\, February 21st at 11:00 AM EST\, and Wednesday\, February 23rd at 3:00 PM EST. The presenters are as follows (if you’d like to know a bit more about them before their presentations\, please consult our preliminary announcement!): \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMONDAY:Alanna Mitchell | Genevieve Lamarche | Nadine Abdel LatifWEDNESDAY:Malte Leander | Sophie Dummett | Christine White | Maxime Gordon \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you in attendance\, and to hearing more about our Fellows’ projects\, interests\, and about themselves!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-undergraduate-fellows-introductory-presentations/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:The new year is already flying by at a rapid pace! The Speculative Life Cluster has already begun an incredibly compelling online project\, the Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series. Read on to find out about the final three events\, following the first that happened on January 21st\, and click here for the full post on the Speculative Life website! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n2. Friday\, February 4\, 2:00 PM ESTWorkshop — Alia Nurmohamed\, Futureproofing: Real Options as a Conceptual Tool in the Financialization of Everyday LifeZoom Link \n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted uncertainty in people’s lives and a desire to “futureproof”: anticipate\, plan\, and mitigate unexpected future shocks. Originating in financial derivatives modelling\, real options have gained traction over the last two decades as a decision-making tool that captures the flexibility embedded in projects across various industries such as real estate\, pharmaceutical R&D\, and natural resources. This workshop aims to start a conversation about mobilizing real options – options that are not traded on financial markets – as a conceptual tool to understanding how financialized thinking seeps into everyday life. \n\n\n\nAlia Nurmohamed is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. Alia’s research focuses on how conflicting and intersecting responsibilities can lead to feelings of grief in motherhood. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology & Anthropology\, Alia worked for 10 years in real estate private equity and consulting. She holds a B.Com in Finance from McGill University\, an MBA from the University of Warwick\, and BA in Sociology from Concordia University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n3. Friday\, February 18\, 1:00 PM ESTKathryn Furlong\, Trickle-down debt: Infrastructure\, development\, and financialisation\, Medellín 1960-2013Zoom Link \n\n\n\nIn many Latin American cities\, infrastructure was largely financed through development lending over the second half of the 20th century. Exacerbated by debt crises and currency devaluations\, public utilities became holders of significant levels of negative value. This encouraged public debt financialisation in order to mitigate the effects of shifting interest rates and devaluation. For David Harvey\, negative value is the hallmark of contemporary capitalism whereby one must produce\, not for profit\, but to retire debt. This paper examines these issues through a case study of urban infrastructure financing\, debt\, and tariffs in Medellín\, Colombia from 1960 to 2013. \n\n\n\nKathryn Furlong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal and former Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. She holds a doctorate in human geography (UBC). Her research focuses on the social and environmental consequences of political-economic restructuring for water management and governance\, particularly in the context of cities. Her research  brings together the disciplines of economic and urban geography and political ecology while addressing  issues related to the provision of municipal services\, socio-technical networks\, consumption and the links between practice and ethics. Her book Leaky Governance: Alternative service delivery and the myth of water utility independence (UBC\, 2016) addresses these issues in the Canadian Context. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n4. Friday\, March 18\, 1:00 PM ESTHannah Appel (UCLA)\, From Debtors Prisons to Debtors UnionsZoom Link \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need.  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/financializing-infrastructures-winter-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Dr. André Brock Talk: Distributed Blackness
DESCRIPTION:In this online/virtual event with English live captions\, Distributed Blackness author Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities— \n\n\n\nFREE\, registration required (via link in the left-hand column)— \n\n\n\nAuthor of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\, Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities. Brock’s book asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western technoculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis\, Afro-optimism\, and libidinal economic theory\, Brock will employ Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic. This critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as- technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things.” Hence\, Black technoculture. \n\n\n\nDr. André L. Brock joined the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication as an associate professor. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with an M.A. in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames\, black women and weblogs\, whiteness\, blackness\, and digital technoculture\, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His article “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation” challenged social science and communication research to confront the ways in which the field preserved “a color-blind perspective on online endeavors by normalizing Whiteness and othering everyone else” and sparked a conversation that continues\, as Twitter\, in particular\, continues to evolve. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the 4th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. It is co-hosted by the DIGS Lab of Concordia (under the direction of Dr. Stefanie Duguay).  \n\n\n\nOur series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, the Milieux Institute\, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, and more.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-andre-brock-talk-distributed-blackness/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Talk
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