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. "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 […]
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. How 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 […]
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. This event is free and open to the public. For more information and questions, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca. Luiza Helena Guimarães is a Brazilian artist-researcher, performer, […]
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. This presentation will offer an overview of Stadon’s individual and collaborative […]
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 […]
DATE: From October 14th to October 28thLOCATION: Champ des Possibles, 5605 Av. de Gaspé, Montréal Speculative 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 […]
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 […]
The 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 […]
The 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. "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 […]
Milieux presents: An Afternoon with Michael Century Come 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. Wednesday, September 14, 1:30 - 4:00 pm in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University. […]
Attempts at explementation:Combining material and symbolic operations in art and design research In 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 […]
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? Is a chemical pollutant a molecule, or something else? This talk considers the ways chemical pollution contributes to land and atmosphere […]