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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Tour - Visit
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220921T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T020858
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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/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220914T160000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220224T160000
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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/
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/
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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan Talk: 'Spectral Justice: Multispecies Haunting and Accountability in Himalayan India'
DESCRIPTION:The third 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— \n\n\n\nUniversity of Washington Associate Professor Radhika Govindrajan presents Spectral Justice: Multispecies Haunting and Accountability in Himalayan India\, which will explore the topics from her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press\, 2018).  \n\n\n\nRadhika Govindrajan is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography\, environmental anthropology\, the anthropology of religion\, South Asian Studies\, and political anthropology. Her research is motivated by a longstanding interest in understanding how human relationships with nonhumans in South Asia are variously drawn into and shape broader issues of cultural\, political\, and social relevance: religious nationalism; elite projects of environmental conservation and animal-rights; everyday ethical action in a time of environmental decline; and people’s struggle for social and political justice in the face of caste discrimination\, patriarchal domination\, and state violence and neglect.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/radhika-govindrajan-talk-spectral-justice-multispecies-haunting-and-accountability-in-himalayan-india/
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SUMMARY:De-Re-coding International Law Through Art
DESCRIPTION:Online Presentation/Discussion with LePARC member Oonagh Fitzgerald \n\n\n\nThis LePARC presentation and discussion via Zoom will address the challenges in crafting research-creation that critiques existing international law and governance through art and performance while generating new insights about how we decode meaning and recode identity\, solidarity\, resistance\, and resilience in the face of global crises. \n\n\n\nOonagh will share a transdisciplinary approach in which she considers philosophical frameworks (e.g.\, postmodernism\, posthumanism\, colonial legacy\, gender\, new materialism\, speculation)\, methodologies (e.g.\, research-creation\, autoethnography\, case study\, artivism) and examples of artworks that seek to instigate the development of individual\, community\, and planetary codes of values designed to overcome the multiple crises of the Anthropocene. \n\n\n\nClick the Register link to the left to RSVP for the event; you will then be sent the Zoom link before the presentation itself! \n\n\n\nOonagh Fitzgerald B.F.A. (Hon.)\, LL.B.\, LL.M.\, S.J.D.\, M.B.A.\, is an INDI PhD in Fine Arts student at Concordia University\, under the supervision of Professor Eldad Tsabary and a member of LePARC. She brings to her performance and visual research-creation artworks experience as dancer\, choreographer\, and visual artist; senior executive and international lawyer in the federal government; university sessional lecturer; and director of international law research at a think tank. Enthusiastic about exploring international law\, art\, and governance\, Oonagh has interviewed for national and international news media\, written and edited books\, essay series and articles\, and spoken publicly on topics including research-creation and participant-based art projects\, corporate citizenship\, gender equality\, Indigenous people’s rights\, climate change and technological innovation. She is a Senior Fellow at Human Rights Research and Education Centre\, Co-chair of the Canadian Environmental Domestic Advisory Group\, and a Director of International Law Association of Canada.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/de-re-coding-international-law-through-art/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Jill Didur | The Global Urban Wilds (GUW) (App Launch)
DESCRIPTION:October 15th\, at 4:00 PM—Presented as part of MTLConnectThe Global Urban Wilds App launch In person at the Champ des Possibles; meet in the Champ by the benches on the pedestrian walkway between de Gaspé and Henri-Julienhttps://goo.gl/maps/HVHzYGSkhcGLGvAJ8 \n\n\n\nThe Global Urban Wilds (GUW) locative platform curates ruderal landscapes that survive in city spaces and invites the user to explore the entanglement of urban biodiversity\, site remediation\, and settler culture in contexts such as Montreal’s Champ des Possibles. The site-specific\, GPS-enabled locative sound walk and app affords users experiences of “embodied knowing” – learning through encounter\, awareness\, physicality – in urban wilds that represent informal brown/green spaces on the edges of urban development. Users move through the urban wild and interact with app’s haptic\, sound and visual content to gain further insight into the community’s history and commitment to this protected green space.The GUW project is downloadable for remote and in-person testing in Montreal’s Champ des Possibles for this launch event. You can download the app for testing as of RIGHT NOW here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QkXA11FD \n\n\n\nDr. Jill Didur is a Full Professor in English at Concordia University and co-director of the Speculative Life cluster at the Milieux Institute. She is the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Insight Grant\, Greening Narrative (2014-2023)\, that explores how locative and mobile media can enhance our understanding of the relationship between the discourses of natural history\, globalization\, and contemporary perceptions of the environment and sustainability. \n\n\n\nIf you need more information regarding the event\, please contact Jill directly at jill.didur@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/jill-didur-the-global-urban-wilds-guw-app-launch/
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SUMMARY:Andil Gosine | Nature’s Wild: Love\, Sex\, and Law in the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:With discussants Drs. Nalini Mohabir & Jesse ArseneaultThe second 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 \n\n\n\nIn Nature’s Wild\, the Trinidad-born scholar-artist contends with his own animality. The story begins in his classroom at an all-boys Catholic high school in Trinidad\, when a priest points to a row of boys and demands\, “Prove to me that you are not homosexual.” From there\, Gosine takes us on a journey that mixes personal narrative with historical analysis of the ways in which anxieties about humans’ animality have produced various kinds of disciplinary strategies in law and culture. Grappling with how the demarcation of a line between human and non-human nature has been specifically deployed since the beginning of the colonial encounter\, Gosine draws from historical and contemporary visual art representations\, dress code regulations and recent legal challenges to the criminalization of sodomy\, to reach consider the signigicance of embracing one’s “wild nature” in the context of global ecological crisis. \n\n\n\nAndil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University. The companion touring exhibition for his book Nature’s Wild will launch in Port of Spain\, Trinidad\, in January 2022. He is also curator of everything slackens in a wreck-\, which  will open at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York next Spring.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/andil-gosine-natures-wild-love-sex-and-law-in-the-caribbean/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Multi-species production: Economic justice beyond the human
DESCRIPTION:Beck Pearse and Dinesh Wadiwel\n\n\n\nThe first 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 \n\n\n\nAs we move further into the Anthropocene\, questions about how to intervene in the environment have progressed with new purpose and ambition. It’s no longer possible to deny the change afoot and even more urgent that we refuse and replace the ideology of scarcity. In the ongoing discussions about strategies for multi-species flourishing\, Collard et al (2015) made a welcome call for a politics of abundance that deals with historical violence of settler-capitalism\, creating pluriversal solidarities and recognising animal autonomy. The process of creating the political grounds from which we can develop such strategy requires that we think through the political economy of anthropocentric capitalism. In this paper we seek to chart out potential strategy and goals that make abundance possible. Our approach is to elaborate a multi-species production politics in key sites of extraction and violence. Of capitalist food and energy\, we ask: what is the surplus composed of\, who controls is and how it is distributed? How might we differently organise production in order to enable life to flourish? We argue that by recognising that all production is multi-species in nature\, we can begin to develop answers to these questions. We explore possible strategic goals that flow from a multi-species production politics\, focussing in on ending exploitative and coercive labour and property relations. \n\n\n\nThe talk will take place online on September 15th at 7 PM EST via Zoom: please email Rosemary Collard at rcollardsfuca for the link. \n\n\n\nBeck Pearse works at the intersection of social theory and political economy at the Australian National University. Her teaching and research focuses on environmental inequalities\, policy and social change. Beck’s latest book\, Pricing Carbon in Australia (Routledge/Earthscan\, 2018)\, explores the rise and fall of Australia’s short-lived emissions trading scheme. Her research on the political economy of carbon markets\, environmental movements\, gender relations\, and the coloniality of knowledge has been published in Energy Policy\, Environmental Politics\, The Sociological Review\, Feminist Economics\, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nDinesh Wadiwel is Senior Lecturer in human rights and socio-legal studies at University of Sydney. He is author of the monograph The War against Animals (Brill\, 2015) and is co-editor\, with Matthew Chrulew of Foucault and Animals (Brill 2017). He is a member of the Multispecies Justice research group at the University of Sydney\, and Chair of the Australasian Animal Studies Association. He is finalising a book on animals and capitalism.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/multi-species-production-economic-justice-beyond-the-human/
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SUMMARY:Artists' Talk: Virtual Reality exploration at the cross-cluster immersive reality lab
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe immersive reality lab invites you to join artists and graduate students Olivia McGilchrist and Alison Moore as they present their research and discuss their artistic practices in Virtual Reality and Volumetric Videography. This research was facilitated in part by The Research Chair in Interactive Documentary film-making along with the Post-Image Research Cluster at the Milieux Institute\, which enabled access to immersive technology and technical training. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required!Please email: Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca to register.Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOlivia McGilchrist (she / her) is a white French-Jamaican multimedia artist and researcher exploring how colonial legacies extend their reach to Virtual Reality (VR) technology. She has exhibited in Canada\, Jamaica\, the USA\, Brazil\, Germany\, Norway\, Austria\, France\, Switzerland\, and the UK. Building on her experience as a white Euro-Caribbean\, and past research in the portrayal of her hybrid identity within contemporary Jamaican culture\, Olivia explores how this can be represented in VR. Her Individualized Ph.D. research-creation project borrows critical tools from Feminist studies\, Black studies and Postcolonial Caribbean studies in order to offer a framework for the aesthetic experience of VR immersion figuratively and literally. \n\n\n\nAllison Moore is a new media artist based in Montreal\, Canada.  She has crafted an independent practice participating in residencies\, workshops\, and exhibitions internationally. Her series of multi-screen animated video panoramas depict surrealist landscapes referencing scenic dioramas. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts\, video-mapping landscapes and architecture\, site-specific public art and performance. Moore’s works reinterpret and rebuild the world as a metaphoric landscape in which sensitive beings are in synergy with their allegorical macrocosm. Allison Moore’s projects are supported by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec\, SODEC and the Canada Council of the Arts. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artists-talk-virtual-reality-exploration-at-the-cross-cluster-immersive-reality-lab/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210325T130000
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SUMMARY:Exploring immersive narratives in VR
DESCRIPTION:Exploring immersive narratives in VR: A Case study of collaboration and co-creation at the Research Chair in Interactive Documentary film-making\, with presenters: Daniel Cross and Marco Luna\n\n\n\nThis Zoom presentation reflects on the experimentation in immersion and storytelling applied to the VR documentary project LAST OF THE BLUES DEVILS. Developed at the Concordia University Research Chair in Interactive Documentary Film-making\, this project started as a Documentary film where we recorded an extensive catalogue of images and sounds. The film documented the last remaining blues musicians who when young learned the blues while working in the cotton fields. Mainly in their 80’s and still living in Louisiana and Mississippi\, these musicians have a world of experience etched on their beautiful faces. The sparkle in their eyes is as rich and beautiful as the music they play\, and as documentary filmmakers that’s where we find immersion. But\, what happens when we change the medium? The documentary film went through various interactive pieces created afterwards. Specifically\, researching the question\, can 2D images be effective in 3D immersive environments? \n\n\n\nCURC principal investigator and Associate Professor Daniel Cross together with Research Associate Marco Luna will introduce the creative processes and technical decisions made by In I AM THE BLUES. They will present the unique challenges faced and their resulting workflows\, including both the successes and failures. Including the ever-evolving and ongoing curriculum and pedagogical discussions regarding the teaching of immersive narratives and technologies at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required! Please email: Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca to register.Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDaniel Cross: Founder of EyeSteelFilm in Montreal\, listed by Real Screen Magazine as a top 100 non-fiction production companies in the world. Daniel is a multi-disciplined award winning documentary filmmaker with a long history of directing and producing theatrical documentaries while exploring new media documentary approaches. He made his mark directing feature length films concerning issues of homelessness\, THE STREET: a film with the homeless\, S.P.I.T: Squeegee Punks In Traffic and the interactive documentary www.HomelessNation.Org. His latest documentary I AM THE BLUES received two Canadian Screen Awards in 2017 for Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography; the film also won two Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director and Best Film. Daniel is an Associate Professor at the Mel Hoppeinheim School of Cinema and the principal investigator for the Concordia Research Chair in Interactive Film-making. \n\n\n\nMarco Luna: Born in Lima\, Peru\, Marco is a socially engaged documentary filmmaker who believes in the power of filmmaking as a tool for social change. He participated in the first editions of the Peruvian Documentary Caravan as well as the Independent Documentary Film Exhibitions\, venues that promote human rights and social engagement of documentary films in the Peruvian culture. In 2007 he moved to Montreal to pursue a MFA in film production at Concordia University. From 2008 to 2010 he trained homeless people in the use of new media tools for the project HOMELESSNATION.org\, the first site by and for the street community. In 2011 he joined the WAPIKONI MOBILE team and traveled to several First Nation communities teaching filmmaking as a form of self expression to at-risk youth. He currently works at EyeSteelFilm\, a film and interactive media company\, and is the lead research associate at the Concordia University Research Chair in Interactive Documentary.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/exploring-immersive-narratives-in-vr/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T020858
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Lisa Jackson
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe PI Custer in collaboration with the CURC in Interactive Documentary and the cross cluster Immersive reality lab would like to invite all interested to an artist talk Zoom Showcase with award winning Film/VR/Installation artist Lisa Jackson. \n\n\n\nThis event will be hosted by Daniel Cross who in discussion with Lisa will explore her active and extremely diverse artistic trajectories in these oddest of times while celebrating her unique voice.  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP for ZOOM link: vr.milieux@concordia.ca and be sure to include ‘Lisa Jackson talk’ in the subject line of your email. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLisa Jackson’s work has screened at SXSW\, Berlinale\, Hotdocs\, Tribeca and London BFI\, and aired widely on television. Her experimental short Lichen premiered at Sundance in 2020 and she’s made works ranging from IMAX to VR\, animation to a residential school musical. Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier won the 2017 imagineNATIVE Best Doc award and is one of the top watched docs on CBC. \n\n\n\nHer Webby-nominated VR Biidaaban: First Light premiered at Tribeca\, exhibited internationally to 25\,000+ people\, and won a Canadian Screen Award\, the second time she’s received this honour. In 2016\, she directed the VR HIGHWAY OF TEARS for CBC Radio’s The Current which was nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award. In 2015 she was drama director for the APTN/ZDF docudrama series 1491: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS\, based on the bestselling book by Charles C. Mann\, which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. She’s made more than 20 films\, including CTV doc RESERVATION SOLDIERS\, 1-hour doc HOW A PEOPLE LIVE\, and shorts SAVAGE\, SUCKERFISH and SNARE. \n\n\n\nShe is currently at work on a range of projects spanning genres including Hot Docs Citizen Minutes short docs on civic engagement\, the hybrid feature doc Wilfred Buck and a feature animation Mush Hole.  \n\n\n\nShe is mixed Anishinaabe (Aamjiwnaang) and settler descent\, earned a BFA in Film from Simon Fraser University\, an MFA in Film Production from York University\, and lives in Toronto. She’s an alumna of TIFF Talent and Writers Labs\, IDFA Summer School\, and CFC Directors Lab. Playback Magazine named her one of Ten to Watch.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-lisa-jackson/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Streams of Resistance: Black Bodies in Space-Time
DESCRIPTION:Deanna Bowen (Concordia University) and Kara Keeling (University of Chicago)  \n\n\n\nThe Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) and Milieux Institute invite artist scholars Deanna Bowen and Kara Keeling to a conversation using different languages to articulate blackness\, the (de)construction of narratives around black bodies\, identity and its shifts in space and time. Join us for a dialogue at the intersections of media and queer theory\, photography and gallery systems strategies\, double consciousness\, anti-racist operational systems\, black feminist intervention\, technology and culture politics. \n\n\n\nDeanna Bowen is a descendant of two Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie\, Alberta. Bowen’s family history has been the central pivot of her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works since the early 1990s. She makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time. She is a recipient of a 2020 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts\, and a 2018 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant. Her writing\, interviews and art works have been published in Canadian Art\, The Capilano Review\, The Black Prairie Archives\, and Transition Magazine. Bowen is the editor of the 2019 publication Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada. \n\n\n\nKara Keeling is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Keeling is the author of Queer Times\, Black Futures (New York University Press 2019) and The Witch’s Fight: The Cinematic\, the Black Femme\, and the Image of Common Sense (Duke University Press 2008). Keeling is also coeditor (with Josh Kun) of a selection of writings about sound and American Studies entitled Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012) and (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) a selection of writings by the late James A. Snead entitled European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Racist Traces and Other Writing (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2003). \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/streams-of-resistance-black-bodies-in-space-time/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:PechaKucha for Undergrad Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Milieux Institute in welcoming the undergraduate fellows of 2020-21 at our annual Pecha-Kucha event! \n\n\n\nThis year\, we are hosting two separate sessions during which fellows will give short and snappy presentations about their latest research interests and obsessions.  \n\n\n\nSession 1: Tuesday\, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. ET – See Event on Facebook \n\n\n\nSession 2: Monday\, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m. ET – See Event on Facebook \n\n\n\nThis year’s cohort hails from more than five academic departments and is representative of the creative diversity and critical social engagement that bring the Institute to life. With students engaging in topics ranging from accessible medical design to textile exploration of astrophysical concepts\, each fellow is enriching the work of both their cluster\, and Milieux at large. We are proud to welcome them as the next generation of critical and creative researchers.  \n\n\n\nSee the full list of fellows here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pechakucha-for-undergrad-fellows/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201208T120000
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SUMMARY:Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: Data Reuse in AI
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nDr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup theoretical framework to understand the material\, ethical and political implications of data reuse in AI. \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nDr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup presents from the ‘AI Reuse’ project\, a collaboration with co-PIs Mikkel Flyverbom (MSC) and Louise Amoore (Durham University). The project’s purpose is two-fold: firstly\, it will develop a much-needed theoretical framework for understanding the material\, ethical and political implications of data reuse in machine learning technologies. Secondly\, and on the basis of this\, the project will develop strategies and recommendations that can help the Danish public sector transition into the age of datafication without violating restrictions. \n\n\n\nDr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is an Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Copenhagen Business School. Teheir writing and teaching focus on knowledge infrastructures; infrastructures of ignorance; environmental media; and digital epistemologies. More specifically\, Dr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is interested in how media theory\, cultural theory and critical theory can unpack and unfold issues related to datafication and digitization. Their most recent book is The Politics of Mass Digitization published by MIT Press (2019).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nanna-bonde-thylstrup-data-reuse-in-ai/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T180000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Cannupa Hanska Luger
DESCRIPTION:Making Things Work Across Material | Digital Realms\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required and attendance is capped. After the live presentation\, the recording will be available online. \nRegistration: Please e-mail: textiles.materiality@concordia.ca \nCannupa Hanska Luger speaks of his practice combining social collaboration and craft in an evolving tradition of making things work. Moving between the realms of contemporary art and Indigenous culture\, amidst academia and the front lines\, he uses materials such as clay\, textiles\, steel and digital media. Clay signifies our connection to place\, literally the ground on which we stand. We create textiles from plants\, reflecting our truly embodied relationship between fiber and flesh. Steel has allowed humans to develop\, build and dominate; it provides the physical structures for control and capital. And technology now provides an opportunity to question our civility and our connectedness through durational and situational media. He mobilizes social media to create short call-to-action videos requesting objects to be created on massive scale. One such video resulted in communities building hundreds of mirrored shields as a tactic for front lines demonstration. Another involved disparate groups in the making of thousands of clay beads to commemorate lost lives. These engagement techniques combine technology and handwork to mobilize and even heal the communities who are facing immeasurable trauma from colonization. \nCannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota\, he is of Mandan\, Hidatsa\, Arikara\, Lakota and European descent. A winner of many awards and with numerous national and international exhibitions to his credit\, most recently Luger has been named a 2020 Creative Capital Fellow\, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow\, the recipient the 2020 A Blade Of Grass Artist Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art and the recipient of the Center For Crafts inaugural Craft\nResearch Fund Artist Fellowship for 2020. \nwww.cannupahanska.com<http://www.cannupahanska.com> \nThis event is hosted by the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster and the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology. Concordia University is located in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal\, on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of these lands and waters\, which many diverse peoples use today.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-cannupa-hanska-luger/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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