As many of you know, we recently announced our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Fellows cohort. Now, it’s their turn to take the floor! We’re excited to hear them share their projects and the topics that drive their research. To welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community, we invite all faculty, students, and staff to join […]
Join TAG for a new screening as part of the TAG Critical Watch Series. This time, participants will be screening Warcraft. As always, the screening will be followed by a discussion. ABOUT THE MOVIE: Warcraft is a 2016 American action fantasy movie based on the video game series of the same name. The film […]
Join the Visual Methods Studio for a workshop led by HUMA Ph.D Candidate Magdalena Hutter. This workshop invites members of the community who work with documentary photography and/or film to come together and ask questions around how we address the violence of visual representation. How can we work with the lives of real people without […]
We invite you to join us in launching our publishing project “Many, Many Machine Agencies”! . This edited collection will be a cookbook for engaging critically with machines, and it gathers hybrid maker-thinkers who dabble in different theories of machinic agency including artificial life, digital games, interaction design, robotics, ubiquitous computing, expert systems, virtual life, […]
Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? Join Textiles & Materiality for their upcoming Texting on Tajima workshop! In this workshop, you will learn design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats, fonts, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own quote using the digital thread placement […]
This workshop introduces an infrastructural mixed method for auditing how health apps embed third-party software development kits (SDKs) and access both personal and health-related data from mobile devices. The method includes: An app selection based on relevant criteria An assisted manifest data audit using a large language model (LLM) A qualitative examination of corresponding privacy […]
We’re excited to announce an upcoming talk from a newcomer to the Abundant Intelligences network! Mathias Becerra Sanchez is a student from Peru currently pursuing a major in Symbolic Systems in the Concentration of Human-Centered AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. His work focuses on using technology to empower Indigenous and other digitally disadvantaged […]
Networked personal media devices construct an animated intimacy, fostering user trust and emotional dependence. Viewing this development through a historical eye, this talk explores examples of object-oriented digital intimacy that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing from Needy Media (recently published by McGill-Queens University Press), it will consider how user-device closeness was […]