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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Pizza Lunch Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9 for Pizza lunch  engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9\, Meghan Moe Beitiks\, Eija Loponen-Stephenson and Gabriel Junqueira will be working on Shipwreck\, attempting to make a home among remnants brought by three UKAI Projects artists. \nLet’s discover together their work while grabbing a slice of pizza! This will be an amazing opportunity to get a sense of the project and think about the potential connections between the installation and your own research/work. Come join us! \n  \n📷 Photo credit: Antoine Simard-Legault \n🗓: April 9\, 2025 |12-2 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/shipwreck-pizza-lunch-meet-greet/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception,Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Social & Networking Event with Milieux and MTL connect!
DESCRIPTION:Milieux is excited to invite you to a social and networking event on October 16\, from 5 to 7 PM\, in collaboration with <MTL> connect. We’re thrilled to welcome a distinguished cohort of international curators\, providing a unique opportunity for our members to reconnect after the summer. \nThis event is not just about networking! Participants will discover the incredible work of Milieux members! Ten talented students will be showcasing their projects in the atrium on the 11th floor\, offering a glimpse into the creativity and innovation within the different research clusters. \n  \nMEET OUR GUESTS: \n\nPat Badani: Independent cultural researcher and producer; former professor of integrated media at Illinois State University.\nLinda Law: Executive Director of the Center for the Holographic Arts.\nLaura Latour: Director of the KIKK Festival.\nGéraldine Bueken: Founder and Director of the XR4heritage program and 3 Plumes.\nKlio Krajewska: Independent curator based in Paris\, collaborator with the WRO Media Art Biennale and leader of ISEA2023 in Paris.\nNils Aziosmanoff: Director of Cube Garges.\nAnna Frants: Director of the Cyland Festival.\nSoh Yeong Roh: Director of the Nabi Center.\nJoon Lee: Director of the Institute for Culture and Art at Seoul National University.\nAnna Shvets: Researcher in generative AI\, PhD in computational musicology\, and composer.\nPascale Cosse: Cultural Attaché for Cinema\, Digital Arts\, and Interactive Creation at the General Delegation of Quebec in Paris.\n\n  \nMEET OUR PRESENTERS: \n\nDestiny Chescappio: Indigenous Futures\, RezPunk\nDorsa Armand: LePARC\, Shadow-synth\nFrançois Lespinasse: Speculative Life\, Mechanical Meanderings\nHei Lam Ng: Textiles & Materiality\, alt text:”Ballade pour Adeline”\nHuman Circle (Pramila Choudhary & Sabina Rak): Textiles & Materiality\, Winter\nIñigo Lasheras: Post Image\, Can’t See the Sunshine Behind\nKamyar Karimi: TAG\, Deconstructed Selfies: Regenerated\nMaxime Perreault: Indigenous Futures\, Glitch Armor\nMyriam A. Rafla: LePARC\, Quilting the Memoir: Stories of Exile (Quilt #1: Mother\, Mother)\nPoki Chan: Indigenous Futures\, Kowloon Walled City Reforge Project\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. Feel free to spread the word within the Milieux community\, we are excited to see you all! \n  \n📅: October 16\, 2024 | 5-7 PM \n📍Milieux Institute\, Atrium 11th Floor \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, please register here \n📖 Digital catalogue of the participants available here \n📸 Photo credits: Ana Isabel Duque \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/social-networking-event-with-milieux-and-connect/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Reception,Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Meet Our Labs | Milieux Virtual Open House
DESCRIPTION:Milieux Institute is opening its doors! December 2nd from 11 AM EST\, we’ll be live streaming from our headquarters at Concordia University! This is a fantastic opportunity to experience our studio-lab spaces\, meet our students and researchers (& associated robot friends!)\, and learn about project and program opportunities. \n\n\n\nJoin us to discover our efforts in interactive textiles\, indigenous futures\, game design\, energy justice\, physical computing and performance\, bio-art and material remediation\, VR\, maker culture\, media materiality and more. Members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that the Milieux Institute supports.How can you participate? Watch live on our YouTube channel. Have questions? Send them to ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca \n\n\n\nAGENDA \n\n\n\n11:00 – Opening Words by Dr. Bart Simon (Director)11:05 – Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG)11:20 – Machine Agencies Research Group11:30 – Residual Media Depot11:40 – Speculative Life Research Cluster11:55 – Milieux’s MaSH Lab12:05 – Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster12:20 – Milieux’s BioLab12:30 – Milieux’s Immersive Reality Lab (VR)12:45 – Indigenous Futures Research Cluster13:00 – MilieuxMake MakerSpace13:15 – LeParc\, the Performing Arts Research Cluster (Live performance)13:30 – Solar Media Collective13:45 – Media and Materiality Research Cluster: Digital Intimacy\, Gender & Sexuality Lab (DIGS)13:55 – Closing Remarks \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/meet-our-labs-milieux-virtual-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Martin Akwiranoron Loft: Artist Talk And Reception
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents the first installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023. The first speaker in the series will be Martin Akwiranoron Loft\, photographer\, printmaker\, and craftsperson from Kahnawá:ke. This speaker series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze.   \n\n\n\nThe first gathering will take place on September 27th at 4PM in-person in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University\, AND online via Zoom. The event will begin with opening words by Elder Kawennotas Sedalia Fazio. \n\n\n\nAfter the talk\, there will be a public reception on the terrace. Registration for in-person attendance is not required. Please sign up if you wish to attend online via Zoom. For more information click here. \n\n\n\nSpeakers invited to the series will also provide studio visits to Concordia University graduate students. If you wish to have a studio visit with one of our speakers\, please sign up here. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio\, the Black Perspectives Office and daphne Arts Centre and with the support of Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture\, the Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Office of the Vice-President\, Research and Graduate Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/martin-akwiranoron-loft-artist-talk-and-reception/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Immersive Reality Lab: Open House Fall 2020
DESCRIPTION:The Milieux Institute’s Immersive Reality Lab has created the first proof of concept for a multiplayer VR research project called: “Documentary Practices: Knowledge sharing and community building using immersive technology during time of social distancing.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe have reproduced an immersive interactive space emulating Technoculture\, Arts and Games\, and we would like to invite Milieux members to explore\, hang around\, chill out\, in a VR open house on Friday\, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. ET. \n\n\n\nTo reach the space please contact us at vr.milieux@concordia.ca and follow the instructions below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstalling Steam: If you haven’t already\, download Steam. Steam can be found here https://store.steampowered.com Click on “Install Steam” and follow the instructions. (You will need to sign up).\nDownloading VRChat: In the Steam Application\, type “vrchat” on the search bar and press enter. Then\, scroll a bit down and select “Play Game”. (It might say “Install” or “Download” for you)\nMaking an Account: Once the game has been installed\, you can put your VR headset on if you have one. You should see three options “VRChat”\, “Steam”\, or “Create Account”. Select “Create Account.” If you have your headset on\, take it off. On your Desktop\, a window should have appeared to register for an account. Enter your information.The final step will be to confirm your email. After confirming your email\, you can put back your VR headset.\nSelect “VRChat”\, and enter your Username\, and your password.\nYou should be able to play the game now!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-reality-lab-open-house-fall-2020/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Milieux Open House
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nPlease join us for an open house throughout our two floors of cluster spaces\, labs and workshops. Members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that our Institute supports.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Milieux Institute\, EV Building 10th and 11th floors. Come to EV 11.705 to get oriented if you’re not familiar with our spaces.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, November 8\, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190924T120000
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SUMMARY:Tenth Floor Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:Graduate students and faculty are invited to check out the facilities available for their research projects as Milieux members. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe labs and studios on the 10th floor of EV offer high-end equipment for sound\, video\, photography\, and textiles. Meet the support staff and find out how your project can be supported. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHosted by the Post Image Cluster\, Textiles and Materiality Cluster\, and Hexagram
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tenth-floor-open-studios/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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