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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/
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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/
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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/
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201114
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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/
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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/
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200319T180000
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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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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
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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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
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Consequences of the Anthropocene for Social Scientific Theory and Method
DESCRIPTION:This public session is a discussion between four scholars of the consequences of the Anthropocene for how we understand the role of theory and method in the social sciences. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nKregg Hetherington will present some thoughts related to a recent edited volume\, Infrastructure\, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene\, about how the experience of working with the authors it contains has changed his approach to the ethnography of Anthropocenic infrastructures\, and has guided the growth of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHe will be joined by four PhD students from Concordia and McGill\, Aryana Soliz\, Jonathan Wald and Kariuki Kirigia who will offer responses before opening up to discussion. \n\n\n\nKregg Hetherington is an Environmental Anthropologist at Concordia\, co-director of the Speculative Life research cluster at Milieux\, and director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. He has written extensively about monocrops\, peasant movements and bureaucracy in Latin America\, as well as Montreal’s water infrastructure. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.\, in the Speculative Life Commons
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/discussion-consequences-of-the-anthropocene-for-social-scientific-theory-and-method/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T171500
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SUMMARY:The Inverse Power of Wavelengths\, a performative talk by Alessandro Carboni
DESCRIPTION:Inverse power of wavelengths – performative lecture is a cross-sectional survey on Alessandro Carboni’s performance practice methodology based on the relationship between body and the city. The performance illustrates a practice that has been developed over a long period of research in several European and Asian cities and mega-cities\, such as Hong Kong\, Singapore\, Kuala Lumpur\, Taipei\, Hanoi\, Ho Chi Min City\, through a “molecular” process\, a spatial frame of the transformations occurring within the urban space. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe research created an hybrid/cross-disciplinary testing ground where observation and documentation of urban events become a getaway for visual interpretations and performance actions. Tensions and flows that animate urban spaces are recreated on stage by buttons\, stings and modular elements that are continuously manipulated and rearranged by the performer. Inverse power of wavelengths aims to rethink the city not as something given\, but rather as a place where the body and its specific features becomes the key element of discussion and a driving force for change. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis performative talk is presented by LePARC as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival\, and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-inverse-power-of-wavelengths-a-performative-talk-by-alessandro-carboni/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion: Dance\, Space\, and Women in the Bauhaus
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Julie Richard\, Alison Peacock\, and Hilary Bergen\n\n\n\n\nAlison Peacock presents: Space Dance: A lecture demonstration in 100 years of ‘space’ \n\n\n\n\nThe masks of Oskar Schlemmer’s Space Dance are emblematic of the Bauhaus’s theatre workshop’s proposal to emphasize mathematical approaches to human movement by obscuring the emotional content of performing bodies\, foregrounding dance’s formal and spatial qualities. Dance scholar Gabriele Brandsetter points to ‘three criteria – “metamorphosis”\, “body-space relationship” and “abstraction.” – (which became) paradigms for Schlemmer’s exploration of kinetics as an experimental artistic process.’ (54) This lecture demonstration will emphasize and imaginatively reconfigure the experimental dimension of Schlemmer’s kinetic approach to movement and space\, while considering multiple meanings of ‘space’ in the context of 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n2. Julie Richard présente: Créatrices avant tout! Le contexte d’apprentissage des femmes au Bauhaus et quelques réalisations majeures (en francais) \n\n\n\nLe Bauhaus de Weimar\, dès sa conception par Walter Gropius\, est imaginé non seulement comme une institution propice au développement des expérimentations des concepteurs d’avant-garde et à la production en industrie de leurs prototypes\, mais aussi comme un haut lieu d’apprentissage émancipateur et paritaire. Bien que le travail des femmes soit valorisé dès les premières années de fonctionnement du Bauhaus\, certaines normes de division entre les sexes demeurent palpables dans sa structure\, contribuant à minorer l’apport des femmes au sein de l’école. À la lueur des études féministes sur les genres\, cette communication traitera des conditions d’apprentissage des femmes au Bauhaus ainsi que des apports esthétiques et techniques de certains travaux. \n\n\n\n\n\n3. Hilary Bergen presents\, “Why Humans at All?”: Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet as Precursor to Digital Mo-Cap Choreographies \n\n\n\nA 1923 review of Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet critiques Schlemmer’s material enhancement of his dancers’ bodies through the use of costumes\, stating that in concealing (or congealing) it under grotesque garments\, the body is “deprived of its best in dance…making it into a soulless machine.” \n\n\n\nMy presentation imagines Schlemmer’s fantasy of body extension and the dancing puppet as a precursor to today’s computer choreographies\, where motion capture technology is used to mine lively movement from the human body in order to animate avatar dancers and their CGI-prosthetic bodies and digital “costumes.” In putting Bauhaus-era representations of the body in conversation with digital-era embodiments\, where “life” is often contingent upon mediation\, I explore the historical link between the practice of dance and the concept of “soul” to consider how dance might articulate cultural ideas about agency\, control and embodiment. \n\n\n\nWHEN? Thursday\, November 7\, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenters:\n\n\n\nAllison Peacock has developed an artistic practice committed to expanding the possibilities of dance and choreography\, experimenting with forms of presentation\, representation\, potentiality\, and imagination. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies\, is a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Dance Training Program\, and completed her MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the UdK/HZT Berlin. She has trained\, taught\, and performed internationally\, most recently performing at Documenta 14 for artists William Pope L and Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Her solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Canada Dance Festival\, Dancemakers\, Fabrica de Pensule\, Movement Research at the Judson Church\, National Dance Centre Bucharest (CNDB)\, Salonul de Proiecte\, Uferstudios\, FOFA gallery\, and numerous non-traditional performance spaces. From 2006-11\, Allison worked professionally as a gardener in Toronto\, with a speciality in topiary\, hedge\, and knot garden clipping. She is currently a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University\, researching performance and contemporary physicality through local gardens and gardening practices.\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Richard est doctorante en histoire de l’art à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle est également membre de l’Institut de recherche en Études Féministes de l’UQAM (IREF)\, du CÉLAT-UQAM et du Centre Figura.  Son projet bénéficie du soutien financier du Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). Elle s’intéresse aux démarches interdisciplinaires des femmes européennes et américaines de l’entre-deux-guerres caractérisées par la pluralité des médiums utilisés\, tels que la production de poupées\, l’art d’infiltration\, la performance\, les pratiques furtives ou performatives ainsi que la photographie. Ses recherches doctorales portent sur les relations entre le corps\, l’espace et l’architecture et procèdent à l’étude de performances artistiques réalisées dans l’espace public\, tant en art moderne que dans les années 2000. En avril 2018\, Julie Richard donnait une conférence sur les performances de la baronne Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven à l’Université Oxford (Royaume-Uni) dans le cadre du colloque Queer Modernisms. À l’automne 2019\, elle publiera un article portant sur la production de poupée-portraits et de marionnettes de Marie Vassilieff dans la revue scientifique anglaise Sculpture Journal (Liverpool University Press).\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bergen is a trained dancer and PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal\, where she studies screendance\, posthumanism and feminist media history. Her work has been published with Screening the Past\, Culture Machine\, PUBLIC (forthcoming) and Word and Text.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-discussion-dance-space-and-women-in-the-bauhaus/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime talk: Dietmar Lupfer\, Artistic Director of Muffathalle\, discusses SenseFactory
DESCRIPTION:Dietmar Lupfer is co-founder and artistic director of the International Art and Culture Center Muffatwerk in Munich. He is responsible for an urban\, future-oriented interdisciplinary program that brings together dance\, performance\, hybrid art and media art as well as work at the interface of art\, technology and science. He conceives and curates art actions in public space\, designs media art spaces and is interested in formats that have a performative and as well an installation-based context – what he calls “Moving Installations” as a kind of social sculpture.   \n\n\n\n\n\nLupfer will discuss the recent production of SenseFactory\, a spectacular large-scale performative installation combining architecture\, sound\, smell\, light and AI technology into a immersive multisensorial experience. As one of only 23 projects supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (the German government federal cultural funding) to explore the repercussions of the Bauhaus in 2019\, SenseFactory tries to imagine what role Bauhaus thinking can play in the 21st century.   \n\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, November 7\, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunchtime-talk-dietmar-lupfer-artistic-director-of-muffathalle-discusses-sensefactory/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T193000
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SUMMARY:Synthetic Forever: The Afterlife of Clothing and Textiles
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Kirsty Robertson\n\n\n\nThis talk considers the moment where a once-loved item of clothing is discarded. Part meditation on the shedding of identity that goes along with turning clothing into waste\, and part research into what actually happens to clothing once it is discarded\, this presentation investigates the afterlife of clothing as it unfolds into futures unknown. Concentrating primarily on synthetic clothing (or clothing made at least partially from plastics)\, I uncover the exceedingly long life of “petrotextiles” before they break down to their molecular compounds. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to create textiles and clothing that cannot be “unraveled” and that exact great demands upon the environments from which their component parts have been extracted? Are such textiles a potential resource for or a weight on future generations? Using the 1951 film The Man in the White Suit \, which imagines the outfall from the invention of an indestructible synthetic fabric\, as a kind of guiding voice from the past\, I address the full life cycle of clothing\, concentrating on what happens when exhausted fashions are out of sight and out of mind. \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/synthetic-forever-the-afterlife-of-clothing-and-textiles/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Structure Born Music: Performing in the Publicness-less City
DESCRIPTION:In Tkarón:to/Toronto\, Bauhaus is a corporate libertarian slogan––appropriated by the city’s most infamous condo developer (bauhaustoronto.com). \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, the local music community is in a venue crisis as a consequence of this and other gentrification techniques. So what might the latent radicality of the Bauhaus\, and subsequent 20th century collectivist movements\, tell us about art and “public space”today? \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artist and dramaturge Christopher Willes for a presentation and discussion of his recent work as part of the Toronto-based artist collective Public Recordings. Christopher will speak about a project that convened an amateur orchestra to stage music by radical composer Pauline Oliveros in the Council Chambers of Toronto City Hall; and his curatorial work presenting experimental music in the Toronto Public Library system. \n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Willes is an interdisciplinary artist\, composer/musician\, dramaturge and facilitator based in both Tkarón:to/Toronto and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. His practice moves between experimental music\, performance\, and visual art forms–with a particular interest in music/sound\, listening\, and collective practices. He is an associate-artist with the Toronto based collective Public Recordings\, and regularly works as a sound-maker and dramaturge within contemporary dance. He studied music at the University of Toronto and received an MFA from Bard College (NY\, USA). \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be immediately followed by THE POWER OF THE SPILL\, a performance by Csenge Kolozsvari and Rodrigo Velsaco. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/structure-born-music-performing-in-the-publicness-less-city/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T170000
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SUMMARY:Algorithmic Warfare as an Apparatus of Recognition: Talk by Lucy Suchman
DESCRIPTION:In June of 2018\, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company\, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven\, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. \n\n\n\nDefendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations\, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and\, by implication\, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations\, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Machine Agencies group.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/algorithmic-warfare-as-an-apparatus-of-recognition-talk-by-lucy-suchman/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T173000
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072800Z
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SUMMARY:The Port of Santo Domingo: Tidal Debris\, Metal Pollution\, and the Perils of Where the Caribbean Meets the Ozama
DESCRIPTION:A Keynote for the ECOTONES Conference by Dr. Lisa Paravisini-Gebert\, Vassar College\, USA\n\n\n\nOf all Caribbean port cities\, Santo Domingo is perhaps the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Its port\, the site of the New World’s first European capital\, is formed by the broad mouth of the Ozama\, a tidal river subject to frequent flooding and coastal erosion from storm surges growing ever stronger due to climate change. The city’s poorest\, most marginalized populations\, about 400\,000 people pushed by rapid urbanization to the most vulnerable riverside land\, live in substandard housing in overcrowded neighborhoods like La Ciénaga\, La Barquita\, and Guachupita\, precariously built just above port facilities undergoing deep transformations to allow for cruise-ship docking. Persistent flooding threatens lives and property and brings residents into dangerous contact with the rivers’ highly polluted waters\, bearing harmful bacteria and toxic concentrations of metals like thallium. \n\n\n\nThe Dominican poor living along the Ozama are—the World Bank has concluded—among the world’s most at risk of being affected by climate change. Highly threatened by rising sea levels and expected to undergo far-reaching transformations by 2050 due to climate change\, the quandaries of the port of Santo Domingo can serve as a point of entry into the limits of environmental equality under current regional legislation and market forces—and can highlight the role of writers\, artists and scholars in addressing climate change and environmental justice concerns that have often been ignored or neglected by government.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis analysis\, which builds upon Bernardo Vega’s 2011 history\, Me lo contó el Ozama (As the Ozama Told Me\, Santo Domingo: Fundación AES\, 2011)\, uses a multidisciplinary lens that incorporates science\, sociology\, anthropology\, political ecology\, cultural geography\, literature\, and the arts to examine the environmental quandary of the extremely vulnerable population of a port area confronting the impacts of climate change in the 21st century. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis event will take place from 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-port-of-santo-domingo-tidal-debris-metal-pollution-and-the-perils-of-where-the-caribbean-meets-the-ozama/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T104500
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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SUMMARY:Cruise Ships and Containers: Towards a Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
DESCRIPTION:ECOTONES Conference Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Noxolo\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n\n\n\nIn this Keynote\, Dr. Patricia Noxolo takes concepts from two aspects of geographical work – tourism and transport geographies – and applies them to a range of Caribbean literature.  The goal is not simply to appreciate whether and how concepts such as capacity and captive demand\, transshipment\, hubs\, gateways and feeders appear in and elucidate the presence (and absence) of ports in Caribbean literary works\, but also to explore how such concepts might be deployed to deepen understanding of the spatialities\, openings and connections within and between Caribbean literary works.  Ultimately the paper pushes towards a refreshing of the genre of the literary geography\, by harnessing it to more insistently to materially-focused aspects of geographical work. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis keynote will take place from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, Room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cruise-ships-and-containers-towards-a-literary-geography-of-the-caribbean-port/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T104500
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
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SUMMARY:Cruise Ships and Containers: Towards a Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
DESCRIPTION:ECOTONES Conference Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Noxolo\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n\n\n\nIn this Keynote\, Dr. Patricia Noxolo takes concepts from two aspects of geographical work – tourism and transport geographies – and applies them to a range of Caribbean literature.  The goal is not simply to appreciate whether and how concepts such as capacity and captive demand\, transshipment\, hubs\, gateways and feeders appear in and elucidate the presence (and absence) of ports in Caribbean literary works\, but also to explore how such concepts might be deployed to deepen understanding of the spatialities\, openings and connections within and between Caribbean literary works.  Ultimately the paper pushes towards a refreshing of the genre of the literary geography\, by harnessing it to more insistently to materially-focused aspects of geographical work. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis keynote will take place from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, Room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cruise-ships-and-containers-towards-a-literary-geography-of-the-caribbean-port-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191017T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
CREATED:20191009T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072749Z
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SUMMARY:Get-together for Critical Materiality and Biolab folks
DESCRIPTION:It’s a new year at the Speculative Life biolab\, and our new lab technician\, Alice Jarry\, invites all critical materiality and BioLab researchers to join for a series of Pecha-Kucha presentations\, and discussion of future research and orientations of the lab. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also be chatting with Amelie Brindamour\, the current Milieux/CQAM artist/researcher-in-residence. \n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in presenting your material\, critical\, speculative\, technological or bio research as part of the Pecha Kucha\, write to alice.jarry@concordia.ca before Wednesday\, October 15.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/get-together-for-critical-materiality-and-biolab-folks/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191016T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T093659
CREATED:20191009T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072743Z
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SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC: Hanna Pajala-Assefa
DESCRIPTION:LePARC’s A Walk in LePARC series showcases cluster member research through performances and talks. This is the first Walk in LePARC of the 2019-2020 academic year! \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHana Pajala-Assefa is a Helsinki-based choreographer with an extensive history of interdisciplinary work sourcing from the body both as a practitioner and artistic researcher. In recent years she has focused on embodied experience in digital and virtual environments as an artist\, programme curator\, and producer\, leading her towards media- and digital-art practices. \n\n\n\nShe is lead designer on the project Skeleton Conductor (SC)\, an interactive real time\, movement-based extended reality (XR) experience with the objective to design an interactive digital interface displayed in HMD for musical and visual expression. The project aims to create an immersive\, interactive art experience of the phenomenon of kinetic musicality and kinesonic composition\, emphasizing users’ multi-sensorial presence and full immersion through motion-based interaction and inter-reflectivity in the virtual environment.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-hanna-pajala-assefa/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk
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