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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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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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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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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
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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/
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SUMMARY:Kishonna L. Gray: GAMERella 2020 Keynote
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE\nGAMERella is a game jam and workshop series that caters to women and marginalized people who haven’t had a chance to make a game before.\nMany people still feel intimidated by the gaming scene and find it difficult to participate in events like game jams. In 2013\, GAMERella was conceived at the Montreal based TAG Lab to welcome people who are often marginalized in game-related spaces\, and to prove that game jams can be a safe and exciting environment for creating small\, innovative games in a short period of time. Everyone\, including first-time game makers\, is experimenting\, learning\, and sharing skills with others. We believe that GAMERella is a place to improve a skill\, try risky and unconventional game design ideas\, meet other developers\, and above all\, have fun. \nThis year\, the keynote speaker is Dr. Kishonna L. Gray\, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago.\nShe is an interdisciplinary\, intersectional\, digital media scholar whose areas of research include identity\, performance and online environments\, embodied deviance\, cultural production\, video games\, and Black Cyberfeminism. Dr. Gray is the author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press\, 2020). She is also the author of Race\, Gender\, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge\, 2014)\, and the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming: Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press\, 2018). Dr. Gray has published in a variety of outlets across disciplines and has also featured in public outlets such as The Guardian\, The Telegraph\, and The New York Times. \nEvery year\, GAMERella creates opportunities to meet all types of people (including those who support minorities in the industry) who are interested in game development.\n\n\n\n\nDissatisfied with the game spaces and opportunities provided for women in Montreal’s game scene\, Gina Hara and Charlotte Fisher created GAMERella in 2013. Led by Concordia University’s game research centre TAG\, industry mentors\, support staff and researchers\, GAMERella welcomes participants in a low stress\, learner-friendly environment\, with the aim to change the way people jam\, as well as the way people think about gaming. \n\n\n\n\nLearn more at https://tag.hexagram.ca/gamerella/.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/kishonna-l-gray-gamerella-2020-keynote/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Louise Amoore: Cloud Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nDr. Louise Amoore presents their new book\, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nIn Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Conceptualizing algorithms as ethicopolitical entities that are entangled with the data attributes of people\, Amoore outlines how algorithms give incomplete accounts of themselves\, learn through relationships with human practices\, and exist in the world in ways that exceed their source code. In these ways\, algorithms and their relations to people cannot be understood by simply examining their code\, nor can ethics be encoded into algorithms. Instead\, Amoore locates the ethical responsibility of algorithms in the conditions of partiality and opacity that haunt both human and algorithmic decisions. To this end\, she proposes what she calls cloud ethics—an approach to holding algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate. \n\n\n\nDr. Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching focuses on aspects of geopolitics\, technology and security. She is particularly interested in how contemporary forms of data and algorithmic analysis are changing the pursuit of state security and the idea of society.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/louise-amoore-cloud-ethics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Sun-ha Hong: Technologies of Speculation
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nDr. Sun-ha Hong presents their new book\, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society \n\n\n\nAn inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms \n\n\n\nKnitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader\, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge\, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep\, our voluminous social media activity and location data\, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new technologies of state and self-surveillance promise to re-enlighten the black boxes of our bodies and minds. But Sun-ha Hong suggests that the burden to know and to digest this information at alarming rates is stripping away the liberal subject that ‘knows for themselves’\, and risks undermining the pursuit of a rational public. What we choose to track\, and what kind of data is extracted from us\, shapes a society in which my own experience and sensation is increasingly overruled by data-driven systems. \n\n\n\nFrom the rapidly growing Quantified Self community to large-scale dragnet data collection in the name of counter-terrorism and drone warfare\, Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation. In his analysis of the Snowden affair\, Hong demonstrates an entirely new way of thinking through what we could know\, and the political and philosophical stakes of the belief that data equates to knowledge. When we simply cannot process all the data at our fingertips\, he argues\, we look past the inconvenient and the complicated to favor the comprehensible. In the process\, racial stereotypes and other longstanding prejudices re-enter our newest technologies by the back door. Hong reveals the moral and philosophical equations embedded into the algorithmic eye that now follows us all. \n\n\n\nDr. Sun-ha Hong is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Their work asks how new media and its data become invested with ideals of precision\, objectivity and truth – especially through aesthetic\, speculative\, and otherwise apparently non-rational means. Dr. Sun-ha Hong analyses the contemporary faith in “raw” data\, sensing machines\, and algorithmic decision-making\, and of their public promotion as the next great leap towards objective knowledge.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sun-ha-hong-technologies-of-speculation/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:My first VR socially distanced exploration!
DESCRIPTION:To kickstart the fall 2020 semester\, the cross-cluster Immersive Reality Lab at the Milieux Institute is organizing a lecture titled: Exploring Virtual Reality: My first VR socially distanced exploration! \n\n\n\nThis 2-hour lecture is designed for artists looking to explore virtual reality for the first time. We will look at technology\, creative tools and workflows available to start designing VR experiences at the Immersive Reality Lab. \n\n\n\nLecturer: Marco Luna\, Technologist and Coordinator of the Milieux Immersive Reality Lab \n\n\n\nLimited Capacity: 15 students \n\n\n\nTo participate\, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/my-first-vr-socially-distanced-exploration/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Christian Katzenbach: Public Controversies and the Future of AI
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nFacial recognition\, digital contact tracing and content moderation have all been major controversies involving AI in 2020. How do these controversies shape the global governance of AI? A leading global scholar on platform and AI governance\, Dr. Katzenbach will introduce a framework for the contested\, informal governances processes of AI unfolding across research\, policy and media in Canada\, France\, the UK\, and Germany. These controversies shape understanding of what kind of AI comes into being\, which problems and challenges are to be addressed\, and our expertise to shape its future developments for the public good. As scandal and outrage give way to public debate and regulation\, Dr. Katzenbach will outline a way to understand a dominant concern for the future of media\, social and technology policy. \n\n\n\nDr. Katzenbach is a Senior Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin\, Germany). He directs the interdisciplinary research program “The Evolving Digital Society”. He is Chair of the Section Digital Communication of the German Association for Media and Communication ResearchIn the past and has acted as interim professor for communication policy and media economics at the Institute for Media and Communication Research at Freie Universität Berlin. His research addresses the intersection of technology\, communication\, and governance. He is a co-initiator of the open access journal Internet Policy Review and co-editor of the open access book series Digital Communication Research.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/christian-katzenbach-public-controversies-and-the-future-of-ai/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200319T163000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Talk: From operation to cooperational aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:Update: Unfortunately\, this event has been cancelled along with all other events at Milieux facilities through March 30\, 2020 due to COVID-19.\n\n\n\nMilieux Speculative Life Biolab Artists Talk Series Presents: Samuel Bianchini\n\n\n\nDr. Samuel Bianchini\, an artist and associate professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD\, PSL Research University\, Paris). His work addresses the relationship between technological “dispositifs\,” new modes of representation\, aesthetic experiences\, and sociopolitical organizations.Bianchini is head of the “Reflective Interaction” research group at EnsadLab and Co- Director of the Arts & Sciences Chair (with École Polytechnique and Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation). He is a member of the SACRe Laboratory (Sciences Arts Création Recherche\, PSL)\, and a member of Hexagram.  \n\n\n\nBianchini has co-edited books such as “Practicable: From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art” (2016\, MIT Press\, with Erik Verhagen) and “Behavioral Objects 1 – A Case Study: Céleste Boursier Mougenot” (2016\, Sternberg Press\, with Emanuele Quinz). Other works were published by Éditions du Centre Pompidou\, Analogues\, Media-N – Journal of the New Media Caucus\, Hermes\, and Les Presses du Réel. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about the Speculative Life BioLab\, visit their website.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cancelled-talk-from-operation-to-cooperational-aesthetics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200311T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200311T140000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Documentary filmmaker Mia Donovan
DESCRIPTION:The Post Image Cluster invites you to join for an artist talk by Canadian filmmaker Mia Donovan. \n\n\n\nMia Donovan is a socially engaged documentary filmmaker. She is best known for telling stories that provide counter-narratives about people who have been negatively mislabeled or dehumanized by mainstream media. Her work is driven by a preoccupation with empathy and how storytelling can both nurture and exploit it. She has made three feature documentaries\, Inside Lara Roxx\, Deprogrammed\, and Dope Is Death and one virtual reality experience called Deprogrammed VR. \n\n\n\nMia’s work has been presented worldwide at film festivals\, on TV broadcasts\, theatrically and on digital platforms including Netflix. She was awarded the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking in 2012 at Hot Docs. In 2016 Deprogrammed VR won the coveted IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling. She recently produced and directed her first music video for Rufus Wainrwright’s song Trouble In Paradise. \n\n\n\nHer most recent film Dope Is Death (2020) will have it’s World Premiere at True/False Film Fest in March 2020\, followed by it’s International Premiere at CPH:DOX. Mia is currently developing her first narrative feature film\, The Touch of her Flesh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility:The talk is located on the 11th floor of the EV Building at Concordia University\, accessible by two sets of elevators near the Mackay street entrance or in-between St. Catherine and Guy street entrance. \n\n\n\nTerritorial Acknowledgement:We would like to acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-documentary-filmmaker-mia-donovan/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200304T180000
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SUMMARY:Technoculture\, Art and Games: MICROTALKS
DESCRIPTION:The Technoculture\, Art and Games cluster is hosting another session of MICROTALKS featuring new cluster members. Speakers will share their work in super fast pecha-kucha style presentations. \n\n\n\nThe speakers featured in this first session will talk about a wide variety of topics including\, but not exclusive to: ethical game design\, gender in games\, procedural choreography\, conversing with NPCs and narrative AIs. Join us and get up to date on the research TAG members have been conducting this year. \n\n\n\nFEATURING\n\n\n\n\nSteven Sych: T-POSE: Dancing With One’s Hands\n Hazel Thexton: Sliders and Pronouns: Gender Choice in Games\n Aurélie Petit: Becoming Political: Anime Imagery in Alt-right Online Discourses\n Cyrus LK: 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET\n Elise Trinh: Tales of disruptive plays and rhapsody games\n Hanieh Jahanshahi: Conversational Landscapes\n Arian Saffarizadeh: Quick history of proc-gen narrative and murder mystery approach\n Yann Seznec: The Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices\n\n\n\n\nFor more information about this and other TAG events\, please visit the cluster’s website.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/technoculture-art-and-games-microtalks/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200123T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200123T180000
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SUMMARY:Speculative Life BioLab artist talk: Amélie Brindamour and Brice Ammar-Khodja
DESCRIPTION:Amélie Brindamour (Montréal) is an artist and educator exploring issues pertaining to the natural and urban environment. Her research includes electronic art\, biomaterials\, installation\, and participatory performances. Awarded by the Conseil Quebecois des Arts Médiatiques (CQAM)\, she recently completed a residency at Milieux’ Speculative Life Biolab\, and developed a new body of work exploring bioluminescence and communication. Her works have been exhibited at the McCarthy Art Center\, Eastern Bloc\, Avatar\, the Caetani Cultural Centre\, Murmur Land Studio\, Great Island Arts Co-op\, and White Rabbit.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja (Paris) is an artist and designer working at the intersection of digital arts\, material science\, and anthropology. His research problematizes the relation between form\, matter\, and function. Affiliated with EnsadLab (Paris) and the Reflective Interaction research group (dir. Samuel Bianchini)\, he combines responsive materials\, video\, and softrobotics to question the symbolic\, spatial\, and sensory relations pertaining to materiality and visual information. His works have been exhibited at Biennale internationale du Design\, la Cité internationale des arts\, V2_Institute for Unstable Media\, Musée historique de la ville de Strasbourg\, and Modulab.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-biolab-artist-talk-amelie-brindamour-and-brice-ammar-khodja/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T160000
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SUMMARY:Milieux Undergraduate Fellows Pecha-Kucha
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, Milieux’s Undergraduate Fellows take part in a pecha-kucha presentation that is open to the public. \n\n\n\nFellows are invited to present on any topic that is of current interest to them. Join us for an hour of snappy\, fascinating presentations from a group of standout emerging researchers. \n\n\n\nRead more about the 2019-2020 Undergraduate Fellows here. \n\n\n\nSnacks will be served.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-undergraduate-fellows-pecha-kucha/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T120000
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SUMMARY:From Creator to Curator: How Creative AI Changes the Relationship With the Machine
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, humans have used tools and technology to express creativity\, not as a goal in itself\, but as a means of production. With the advent of creative AI\, it is time to rethink our relationship with technology and embrace the computer as a creative partner. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIn this talk we’ll explore the possibilities of creative AI. Through examples of students and professionals we’ll discuss how machines can aid the creative process and what happens if things go wrong. \n\n\n\nAbout Frederick De Bleser\n\n\n\nFrederik De Bleser is a PhD researcher and professor at the Saint Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp\, Belgium. His research focuses on the link between art and technology\, developing free software tools for generative design and data visualisation. He co-founded the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG) in 2004. He coordinates and teaches in the technology labs in the bachelor and master programmes. \n\n\n\nHe has organised data visualisation workshops in France\, Italy\, Finland\, Poland\, Lithuania and Canada. His open-source work is included in tools and applications reaching millions of people.  \n\n\n\nHe works commercially creating visualisations and interactive art installations for government and media organisations. In his free time he is a coach for Hack Your Future\, organizing and teaching web development to refugees. He lives with his wife and two children near Antwerp.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/from-creator-to-curator-how-creative-ai-changes-the-relationship-with-the-machine/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Talk: Open Codes\, with Livia Nolasco Rozsas\, Curator of ZKM
DESCRIPTION:The ZKM\, one of the largest centres in the world for the exhibition of media art and technology\, has long been called the “digital Bauhaus.”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nCurator Livia Rozsas will discuss her curatorial work and approach on the large scale exhibition ZKM exhibition Open Codes\, which ran from October 20\,2017-June 2\, 2019 in which the Hexagram network was also featured through the exhibition of three Hexagram researcher and student projects. The exhibition and educational project Open Codes reflects on the world we live in today; a world that is created and controlled by codes. The project brought together computing and art together in various ways. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIt was a new form of assembly\, combining practical knowledge of computer code and critical artistic approaches in a single venue. The project sought to empower its participants to regain access to reality through instruments of thought and to reflect on the genealogy and current social impact of digital code\, computer programing\, and software.  Open Codes was based on a concept by Peter Weibel and was shown at ZKM | Karlsruhe from October 20\, 2017 to June 2\, 2019.   \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, November 8\, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunchtime-talk-open-codes-with-livia-nolasco-rozsas-curator-of-zkm/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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