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SUMMARY:Interview Like a Journalist
DESCRIPTION:Interviews are one of the most valuable and versatile skills you can develop—whether you’re conducting interviews for your thesis\, you’re producing a documentary project\, you want to start a podcast\, or you’re looking to become a better conversationalist. \nDrawing on journalism techniques\, this practical workshop led by Milieux Storyteller Nadia Trudel will teach participants how to write questions\, build trust\, connect with subjects\, and ensure every interview is successful. Together\, the group will also explore best practices and ethical considerations in conducting and using interviews. While touching on a range of contexts\, the workshop approaches interviewing as an art form. \nRegardless of discipline or project\, participants will leave with concrete tools to refine their own interview style. \n  \n  \n May 27\n 10 AM -12 PM\n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n🎟️ Places are limited\, please reserve your spot by emailing Nadia at nadia.trudel@concordia.ca\n\n\n  \nABOUT NADIA TRUDEL: \nNadia Trudel is is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke based writer and editor. She’s written about culture\, music\, art\, fashion\, books\, and LGBTQ2S+ issues for outlets including CBC\, Dazed\, MTV News\, Polyester Magazine\, Xtra\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Milieux Institute\, Clash\, KOCCA Canada\, Cult MTL\, and the Montreal Review of Books. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in Headlights Anthology\, Soliloquies Anthology\, and Pixie Literary. Previously she was an editor at Phidal Publishing\, Yiara Magazine\, Lignes de Fuite\, and Scatterbrain Magazine. She holds a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at UQAM.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interview-like-a-journalist/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Prompt Poetry Against Propriety - Anti-Aesthetic Intelligence (aAI)
DESCRIPTION:A workshop exploring the lexicon of forbidden imagery with Adam Zaretsky. \n  \nThis workshop\, led by Adam Zaretsky\, will engage participants in both individual and collaborative experiments in prompt poetry\, followed by critical exchanges around AI‑generated imagery\, video\, and other media. It will examine the combined effects of data glut and human curation when confronted with an overwhelming stream of algorithmic production. \nThese exercises will be followed by discussions on the impacts of AI in relation to authorship\, kitsch\, algorithmic bias\, platform dependency\, antisocial applications\, search‑driven surveillance society\, and censorship. The group will also debate the role of shock aesthetics more broadly\, as well as AI anti‑aesthetics understood as a form of intelligence—situated somewhere between cultural terror and spectacular technology. \nThe workshop will explore connections between the collective unconscious and engineering‑driven biases\, examining how emotional affects intersect with the mathematics of free association and broader psychoanalytic enigmas. It will also address questions of explicit media\, extreme bodily imagery\, and mediated cultures of violence linked to the military‑industrial entertainment complex. \nThe session will conclude with a reflection on Loop Slop AI and the modelling of long‑term feedback effects. \n  \n⚠️ Disclaimer\nThis is a trigger promise\, not a trigger warning. We seek people desiring to go into the forbidden in the art beyond censorship and propriety. Disgust is a goal here. Disgust is an energy. \n  \nABOUT ADAM ZARETSKY: \nAdam Zaretsky\, Ph.D.\, is a former researcher at MIT’s Department of Biology and an experimental bioartist with over a decade of teaching experience. His art practice critically explores the legal\, ethical\, social\, and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods\, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his engaging\, hands-on bioart labs\, Zaretsky creates dynamic spaces for bioart production. \nHe has led the VivoArts experimental bioart class at institutions including San Francisco State University (SFSU)\, SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia (UWA)\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)\, The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC) at Leiden University\, and the Waag Society. He is the Head of Research at Nadlinc (since 2016) and a Research Consultant at BEAK (since 2022) in New York. Since 2024\, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts at the Ionian University\, where he also serves as the Creative Director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows in the “Rewilding Cultures” project (2022–2026)\, part of the Feral Lab Network\, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. \n  \n  \n  \n                   
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/prompt-poetry-against-propriety-anti-aesthetic-intelligence-aai/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T170000
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SUMMARY:GAIAi: Artificial Infantilism and the Prompt Poetry of Unblocking all Keywords
DESCRIPTION:Focusing on the concept of General Audience Iterations Artificial Infantilism (GAIAi)\, Ian Haig and Adam Zaretsky will examine how contemporary AI systems are shaped by content moderation\, platform governance\, and cultural expectations around safety and accessibility. \nCensorship and AI\, obsolete models\, using AI the wrong way\, ugly AI and the interior body as an antidote to the idealised perfection of exterior bodies on Instagram. AI as haunted images culled from the collective unconscious\, images that don’t belong and are not of this world. AI slop as abject contamination\, algorithmic parasites\, transhumanism gone bad and AI as noise and error in the system of the AI overlords of Palantir and the emerging AI control grid for the Useless eater class. AI as an occult technology invoking  the residue of culture\, the leftovers and the dead. \nFeaturing Ian Haig and Adam Zaretsky\, the discussion will explore how these forces influence both the production and reception of AI-generated media. The speakers will address how algorithmic filtering\, blocked keywords\, and platform policies shape aesthetic outcomes and public discourse. At the same time\, they are considering the unexpected visual forms emerging from AI systems—ranging from polished synthetic imagery to distorted or unsettling outputs that challenge established aesthetic norms. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nIan Haig is a multidisciplinary artist working across video\, sculpture\, drawing\, installation\, technology‑based media\, and mutant AI. His practice challenges the idea that low or base cultural forms lack value\, and has long focused on visceral\, body‑centred themes. Over the past thirty years\, his work has examined the intersections of contemporary media\, technology\, and the human body\, addressing attraction and repulsion\, fanaticism\, transhumanism\, and the degenerative effects of pervasive technologies. Haig has exhibited internationally at major institutions\, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)\, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne)\, ACMI\, GOMA Brisbane\, and Artec Biennale (Nagoya). His video work has screened at over 200 festivals worldwide. He is also an experienced curator\, notably of Unco and Very Unco\, at the Torrance Art Museum\, Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nAdam Zaretsky\, Ph.D.\, is an experimental bioartist and former researcher in MIT’s Department of Biology. His work critically examines the legal\, ethical\, social\, and libidinal dimensions of biotechnology\, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his hands‑on bioart laboratories\, Zaretsky creates participatory spaces for experimental bioart production and discourse. He has taught internationally at institutions including San Francisco State University\, SymbioticA (University of Western Australia)\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Leiden University\, and the Waag Society. Since 2016\, he has served as Head of Research at Nadlinc\, and since 2022 as a Research Consultant at BEAK in New York. Since 2024\, he is a Visiting Professor at Ionian University\, Creative Director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows\, and part of the EU‑funded Rewilding Cultures project.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gaiai-artificial-infantilism-and-the-prompt-poetry-of-unblocking-all-keywords/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Annual General Meeting on May 20th! \nCome enjoy some pizza while we showcase the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2024-2025). \n  \n May 20\, 2026\n12-2 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch-3/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T100000
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SUMMARY:How to Present Yourself and Your Artistic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Join Nadia Trudel for a 2-hour workshop on finding the words for your creative practice. \nCreating art is innate\, but how do you talk about it with committees\, curators\, or even your grandmother? Knowing how to effectively describe your artistic practice is an essential skillset for a professional artist. \nBy drawing on narrative tropes and archetypes\, this workshop will guide participants through the process of writing two key texts for promoting and sharing their work: the artist statement and the artist bio. Through an overview of examples\, group discussion\, and hands-on writing exercises and peer workshopping\, participants will draft accurate and dynamic artist bios and statements that capture their voices. \nPlease bring a variety of physical or digital examples of your work. \n  \n May 20\n 10 AM -12 PM\n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n🎟️ Places are limited\, please reserve your spot by emailing Nadia at nadia.trudel@concordia.ca\n\n\n\n\nABOUT NADIA TRUDEL:\n\nNadia Trudel is is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke based writer and editor. She’s written about culture\, music\, art\, fashion\, books\, and LGBTQ2S+ issues for outlets including CBC\, Dazed\, MTV News\, Polyester Magazine\, Xtra\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Milieux Institute\, Clash\, KOCCA Canada\, Cult MTL\, and the Montreal Review of Books. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in Headlights Anthology\, Soliloquies Anthology\, and Pixie Literary. Previously she was an editor at Phidal Publishing\, Yiara Magazine\, Lignes de Fuite\, and Scatterbrain Magazine. She holds a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at UQAM.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-to-present-yourself-and-your-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260517
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions
DESCRIPTION:Embodied Interventions\, LePARC’s signature event\, is coming back for its 7th edition on May 15 & 16!  \nCurated by Hannah Schallert and Casper Fosman-Sutton this year’s program\, titled (Re)animating Performance\, will focus on the overlapping spaces between labour and performance. The work of animation\, and the animation of work: to animate a space\, to be animated\, animare\, to give movement or life.   \nIn a cultural moment of increased automation and global upheaval\, labour becomes disconnected and disembodied. Experiences of precarity and the realities of global capital touch many more of our lives; shaping the way we perform selfhood\, making\, and relationality.  \n​Work bleeds into life\, love and leisure. Animation speaks to both the moving body as the sign of freedom\, spirit\, and liveliness\, and to the movement of labour needed to put into motion\, to make things happen\, to endow matter with life. To (re)animate in this context might be to return to a politic of embodiment\, to value both labour and labourer.  \n​Through social media and the digital\, our relationships to performance are also changed; we take the invisible for granted and fetishize the performative. The machinations of labour are the undercurrent that animates our lives. The work of the performer becomes the work of the contemporary subject – the production of subjectivity\, sociality and emotion.​ \n​On May 15 and May 16\, public presentations of these processes will be shown around the downtown Concordia University campus. These presentations are free\, and open to the public. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
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SUMMARY:Abundant Imaginaries: Virtual Student Symposium on Indigenous AI Futures
DESCRIPTION:The future of artificial intelligence remains unclear. But one thing is certain: the technology is bound to fail if it’s not shaped by an abundance of knowledges and imaginaries. \nThe Abundant Intelligences research program – which advances methods of developing culturally-grounded AI systems to support Indigenous ways of knowing – aims to contribute to such abundance through its Student Symposium on Indigenous AI Futures! \nJoin us for Abundant Imaginaries\, a student symposium on Indigenous AI Futures\, to learn how artificial intelligence is being imagined – and built – anew through Indigenous Protocols and Knowledge Systems. \nWith six thematic panels spread across two days\, students from around the world will share their research-creation projects and future imaginaries of AI rooted in Indigenous Knowledges\, protocols\, epistemologies\, and arts. \n  \n  \nSCHEDULE:\n  \nDAY 1 – Wednesday May 13\, 2026 \n2 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks. \n2:15 PM: Panel 1: Countering ongoing colonialism and biases in Western technologies and institutions. \n3:30 PM: Break \n3:45 PM: Panel 2: Language Models & Indigenous Knowledges: Rethinking mainstream approaches. \n5 PM: Panel 3: Emerging AI Futures from Aotearoa. \n  \nDAY 2- Thursday May 14\, 2026\n2 PM: Panel 4: Towards epistemic justice in research and creation methodologies. \n3:15 PM: Break \n3:30 PM: Panel 5 Decolonizing the AI Stack: Approaches to Indigenous data and Infrastructural Sovereignty. \n4:45PM: Panel 6: Indigenous Design Futures. \n  \nPresentation Abstract can be found here.\n  \n May 13 & 14\, 2026\n 2 -6:30 PM\n Online\n🌐 Zoom Link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/89025544771\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/abundant-imaginaries-virtual-student-symposium-on-indigenous-ai-futures/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T190000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Closing Remarks
DESCRIPTION:Together with the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Hexagram Chantier Ecotechnologies warmly invites you to join us for the closing remarks of the knowledge mobilization series Environmental Materials and/as Methods. \nThis series has brought together diverse research platforms—the Concordia University Ethnography Lab\, Machine Agencies\, the Critical Anthropocene Research Group\, and the Speculative Life Biolab—to explore shared questions around material practices\, environmental inquiry\, and interdisciplinary collaboration. As the series comes to a close\, we invite you to take part in a moment of reflection\, exchange\, and celebration of the vibrant research cultures that make up our community. \nThe closing remarks will also highlight the work of the Chantier Ecotechnologies\, a group of seven interdisciplinary artists\, writers\, and researchers currently engaged in a collaboration with the Chaire de recherche municipale pour les villes durables of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and SYMBIOSE — Laboratoire intersectoriel en art\, technologie et environnement (UQTR). \nTheir research focuses on ecotechnological approaches that mobilize academic\, industrial\, and municipal communities around pressing environmental challenges facing the Beaudet Reservoir in Victoriaville\, including sediment accumulation and valorization\, and the long-term impacts on access to drinking water. \nPlease join us to learn more about their research outcomes and to conclude this series together. \n  \n                   
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-closing-remarks/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T160000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:How to mediate the banal?\nInspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece\, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air\, this two-day workshop invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together\, we will critically engage with the question of material banality through hands-on investigation and collective creation. \nInspired by Rob Nixon’s seminal concept of slow violence\, Davis switches ‘slow’ for ‘banal’\, to focus the attention not only on the temporality of environmental violence\, as incremental and accretive\, but also on its affective and bodily registers. Toxicity scholars have shown that slow violence is both a direct experience and something needing mediation to be understood. We argue that this hard-to-perceive slow violence is even more difficult to communicate when it is also banal. \nAs part of our commitment to exploring creative strategies for mediating banality\, we invite students\, scholars\, and practitioners to investigate everyday material encounters across Montreal in a workshop. \nParticipants will collaboratively act as gatherers\, employing biomaterial capture methods to identify cues of banal violence across the city. Back at Spec Life\, groups will interpret their collected data using a range of methodologies familiar to different groups in the cluster\, including multimodal ethnography\, CLEAR Lab’s DIY microplastic forensics protocol\, and microscopy/material analysis. Following this\, participants will synthesize their insights through a series of speculative map-making exercises\, attempting to situate their discoveries in relation to time and space. The workshop will culminate in the co-production of speculative analog and digital maps\, making visible some of the manifold forms of banal violence present in the city of Montreal. \n  \n🎟️ Space is limited and requires registration: \n \n  \n  Start-up: May 7 11 AM – 12 PM \n  Workshop: May 8 9 AM – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-2/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T180000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods Keynotes and Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Program:\nChantier Ecotechnologies and Speculative Life Cluster are pleased to welcome interdisciplinary researcher Heather Davis (United States) and independent curator Juliette Bibasse (Belgium). \n\n\n  \n12:30 – 2 PM | Heather Davis Keynote: Producing Plastic Air\nHeather Davis talk will explore how one plastic cup factory produces plastic air\, and the consequences for how we think about waste\, plastic\, air quality\, and bodily knowledge. Highlighting workers’ experiences in plastic production and decentring narratives of individual consumer choice\, her work draw attention to petrocapitalism’s structural violence\, where harmful environmental conditions have been normalized and integrated into what it means to build a life in the image of the American Dream. She will explore this through the concept of “private air\,” showing how air quality is monitored differently in workplaces than in the general environment. \n\n\n  \n3 – 4 PM | Juliette Bibasse Keynote: Creating at Large – Prototyping off the grid & slowing down\nJuliette Bibasse & Joanie Lemercier crossed the Atlantic in March 2026 aboard a sail cargo vessel\, slowly travelling for two weeks from France to New York without flying — a deliberate choice made in response to the environmental cost of air travel. A series of works has been made on board\, in direct response to the physical experience of wind\, waves\, storms and swell\, ever-changing light\, shadows and reflections\, transcribing moments of the ocean into thousands of ink drops and pixels. \nAt sea\, you cannot trust data\, even on a high-tech vessel full of sensors. You must observe reality. This journey was a wonderful context to question our growing tendency to use technology to sense the world rather than experience it directly: all the computing power in the world will never be sufficient to model a single drop of water. \nIn this presentation\, Juliette Bibasse will share some of their recent works\, the motivations behind this journey and the embodied experience they got from it. Through their studio works and the Concordia University Solar Lab\, their goal is to share a critical understanding of technology and to propose desirable alternatives. They believe the future should not rely on robots and datasets\, as these fragile systems feel more like disposable gadgets than a serious roadmap for the future. \n\n\n  \n4:30 – 6 PM | Roundtable Unsettling Sediments: Site-responsive\, collaborative inquiry\, and public engagement\nThis round table explores the material and methodological dimensions of a collective bio-based book-making process at the Speculative Life Biolab. Since fall 2025\, the group has engaged in an art–science collaboration in Victoriaville\, where sediment accumulation in the Réservoir Beaudet is increasingly threatening access to drinking water. The limited-edition artist’s book is being produced using locally collected sediments\, algae\, and plant matter\, and functions both as a research outcome and a site-responsive medium. The discussion will examine how its fabrication and writing operate as a sensory\, collaborative method of inquiry\, as well as an ecotechnological form of engagement and public knowledge production. \n  \n  \n                   
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-keynotes-and-roundtable/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Keynote,Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T130000
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SUMMARY:LePARC Tech Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We will be looking at the light board\, the audio mixer\, and how to use these with some of the software that is accessible on the iMac computer in your work in the Performance Lab. The first section of the workshop introduces participants to the gear and equipment\, and the second half\, we’ll experiment and play around together!\n\nPlease feel free to bring any audio and/or video contents that you would like to experiment with.\nThe same workshop format will be given on both two dates (April 22 &May 7)\n\nNo need for a sign up\, just show up!\n\n\n📅 May 7\n⏱️ 11 AM -1 PM\n📍 Performance lab EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/12785/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T120000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:How to mediate the banal?\nInspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece\, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air\, this two-day workshop invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together\, we will critically engage with the question of material banality through hands-on investigation and collective creation. \nInspired by Rob Nixon’s seminal concept of slow violence\, Davis switches ‘slow’ for ‘banal’\, to focus the attention not only on the temporality of environmental violence\, as incremental and accretive\, but also on its affective and bodily registers. Toxicity scholars have shown that slow violence is both a direct experience and something needing mediation to be understood. We argue that this hard-to-perceive slow violence is even more difficult to communicate when it is also banal. \nAs part of our commitment to exploring creative strategies for mediating banality\, we invite students\, scholars\, and practitioners to investigate everyday material encounters across Montreal in a workshop. \nParticipants will collaboratively act as gatherers\, employing biomaterial capture methods to identify cues of banal violence across the city. Back at Spec Life\, groups will interpret their collected data using a range of methodologies familiar to different groups in the cluster\, including multimodal ethnography\, CLEAR Lab’s DIY microplastic forensics protocol\, and microscopy/material analysis. Following this\, participants will synthesize their insights through a series of speculative map-making exercises\, attempting to situate their discoveries in relation to time and space. The workshop will culminate in the co-production of speculative analog and digital maps\, making visible some of the manifold forms of banal violence present in the city of Montreal. \n  \n🎟️ Space is limited and requires registration: \n \n  \n  Start-up: May 7 11 AM – 12 PM \n  Workshop: May 8 9 AM – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T193000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Encounters Launch Evening
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 6\, 2026\, the Hexagram Network will launch the 4th edition of the Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \nThis will be the opportunity to discover the program\, which will unfold from April 13 to June 12\, 2026\, in a particularly vibrant manner: in total\, it comprises more than 20 activities. \nOrganized under the theme Commonalities\, this edition will highlight cutting-edge research‑creation practices emerging from Québec’s university communities. Grounded in material\, embodied\, and situated methodologies\, research‑creation fosters a rich dialogue between the arts\, cultures\, and technologies. It invites us to rethink the commons as a dynamic space of relationships\, responsibilities\, and collective imaginaries in the face of contemporary crises. \nThe launch evening will open with remarks from Hexagram’s co‑directors\, offering an opportunity to discover the full program of workshops\, talks\, exhibitions\, performances\, and roundtable discussions that will energize our spring. \nJoin us in a warm\, welcoming atmosphere conducive to exchange\, while enjoying a bite to eat and a drink shared with our research community. \n  \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, book a spot here. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interdisciplinary-encounters-launch-evening/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T171500
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:What goes on in the kitchen of creative AI?: A conversation
DESCRIPTION:How does one cook an AI? \nWhat happens in the kitchen when one is preparing ingredients for different kinds of agencies? \nWhat does it mean to move beyond instrumentalism; and what does an interaction look like when its design comes from a place of joy\, curiosity\, and experimentation? \nWe invite the Montreal community of creatives and thinkers who are interested in questions of machine agency\, design process\, and interactivity to join in on this event where they can share the details and experiences of working with machines—in their wonky\, restless\, and still delicious encounters. \nThis event is presented as part of Hexagram Network’s 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \nSchedule:\n2 PM (CANCELLED): The first part takes inspiration from MFK Fisher’s The Art of Eating to explore how cooking with machines engenders life worlds with heterogeneous agencies and sociability. \n  \n4:15 PM: The second part will be a Keynote presentation by Montreal-based artist Erin Gee. \nDrawing on Claude Lévi-Strauss’ notion of the “raw” and the “cooked\,” and its feminist reinterpretation in sound studies by Jonathan Sterne and Tara Rodgers\, Gee examines AI through a sonic lens to argue that when real-world phenomena are recorded as sound or data\, they are never captured in a “raw” state. Grounded in her work on the documentation of musical biofeedback systems\, the talk explores how processes of capture\, selection\, and transformation shape what can be heard and what can be known through technology. She contrasts musical AI systems\, which tend to obscure or abstract these operations\, with classic biofeedback practices that foregrounded them—revealing how different technologies organize\, conceal\, or expose their own forms of “cooking.” \n  \nAfter the Event: \nPlease join us at 5:30 p.m. for the official launch event of the Interdisciplinary Encounters.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/what-goes-on-in-the-kitchen-of-creative-ai-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260324T135356Z
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Ghostly Image\, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \n Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n\nThis workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs\, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice\, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing\, lifting\, folding\, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper\, cardboard\, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood\, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition. \n\nParticipants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film\, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process.\n  \n                                                   \n  \nABOUT CASPER SUTTON-FOSMAN:\n  \n\nCasper Sutton-Fosman is a curator\, artist and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, also known as Montreal. Their work engages with queer and disabled relationships to lens-based art and image capture technology\, moving through complex temporalities and webs of connection. They hold an MFA from OCAD University and are a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University.\n\n  \n  \n\n April 23\, 2026 \n 1 – 4 PM \n MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-the-ghostly-image/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T133000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit\, power\, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \n \nAI is often presented in extremes\, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone\, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs\, democracy\, or even human life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI\, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? \nDrawing on her co-authored book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (open access\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan)\, Regine Paul argues that today’s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt\, but about profit imperatives and political choices. \nAI technologies are developed and deployed within pre-existing economic structures\, largely reinforcing inequalities between industries\, workers\, and countries rather than fundamentally transforming them away. \nThe main focus of this talk is on how long-standing insights from critical and global political economy can help us expose the complex interactions (1) of political institutions and agency\, (2) speculative tech narratives\, (3) the imperative of geopolitical tech races\, and (4) globe-spanning forms of domination and exploitation in shaping articulations of AI transformations\, in the plural\, on the ground as well as what connects these into one more global transformation\, in the singular\, across time and space. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nRegine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway\, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on “Technology and Statehood”. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)\, as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (2026)\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 23\, 2026 \n 12–1:30 PM \n Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend online\, please register here to receive the registration link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-ai-matrix-a-critical-political-economy-reading-of-the-profit-power-and-politics-behind-global-ai-transformations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260422T190000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:Workshop in the Performance Lab
DESCRIPTION:For those of you that have been wanting to learn a bit more about how to work with the tech equipment in the Performance Lab\, this workshop is for you!\n\nWe will be looking at the light board\, the audio mixer\, and how to use these with some of the software that is accessible on the iMac computer in your work in the Performance Lab. The first section of the workshop introduces participants to the gear and equipment\, and the second half\, we’ll experiment and play around together!\n\nPlease feel free to bring any audio and/or video contents that you would like to experiment with.\nThe same workshop format will be given on both two dates (April 22 &May 7)\n\nNo need for a sign up\, just show up!\n\n\n📅 April 22\n⏱️ 5-7 PM\n📍 Performance lab EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-in-the-performance-lab/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T153000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260407T150228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T150228Z
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SUMMARY:Cookout session #1: Recipe Methodology in AI
DESCRIPTION:Many\, many Machine Agencies’ Writing Workshop\n  \nAI Chantier of the Hexagram Network brings together maker-thinkers whose work spans machine learning\, interaction design\, and experience design\, to create a community of practice through a publication process. \nPrompting potential contributors with an unusual format\, Many\, Many Machine Agencies asks for recipes\, instructions\, or games that centre the problem of agency and interaction and the importance of new kinds of encounters with machines. This edited collection is indeed a kind of a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and as such\, we take inspiration from celebrated cookbook authors\, like MFK Fisher\, who provide recipes and instructions for dishes\, while embedding them in a broader biographical and cultural narrative. \nThis cookout session invites contributors to the AI Chantier publication drive to: \n\nLearn more about the recipe methodology and its relevance for engaging with machine agencies and AI\nTo talk about their writing project (share ingredients) and get feedback\nGet a clearer picture about what the publishing process will look like.\n\n  \nWho can participate?\nProspective authors are invited to contribute to this session. We also invite those who are curious about the project. \nThis activity is produced in collaboration with Machine Agencies and Milieux Institute’s Speculative Life Cluster as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \n  April 21\, 2026 \n 1 -3:30 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 \n To register or for any questions\, please contact nicole.debrabandere@gmail.com \n  \n  \n  \n                     \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cookout-session-1-recipe-methodology-in-ai/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260417T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260417T154500
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260402T162253Z
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Climate-Responsive Architecture: Geometries\, Materials & Design Futures
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Zherui Wang. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nZherui (pron. zee-ray) Wang is a designer and building technology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His work focuses on devising architectural methods for cooling and climate-response design for extreme heat while being mindful of material use. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program\, his PhD research explores the design integration of structural form-finding and building thermal mass performance\, informed by architectural geometry\, materials science\, and life cycle thinking. He is a co-author of Hydroculus\, an evaporative and radiative cooling roof prototype that was exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale and received a Holcim Foundation Award for Sustainable Design and Construction. Previously\, Wang was an Academic Professional Researcher at CHAOS Lab in Princeton. He has practiced in design roles at Barkow Leibinger Architects and served on the design faculty at the University of Pennsylvania\, Pratt Institute\, and State University of New York at Buffalo\, where he was named the 2020-21 Reyner Banham Fellow. Wang holds a BArch from Pratt Institute\, a post-professional MArch from Princeton University\, and a graduate certificate in Energy Policy from the Penn Kleinman Center. \n  \n  \n  April 17\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-climate-responsive-architecture-geometries-materials-design-futures/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260416T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260416T153000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260319T171832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T181347Z
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Virtual Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Virtual Gallery\, the second workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE VIRTUAL GALLERY WORKSHOP: \nThis first workshop invites participants to reimagine and transform their images into extrapolated 3-D renderings using local AI\, then install them in a shared virtual gallery built in Blender & Unity. \nThis is a highly introductory workshop designed to explore possibilities and create a fun collaborative shared virtual gallery space\, and to spark discussions regarding authorship\, and is open to all Milieux Cluster members! \n  \n  \nFrom 2D to 3D using AI \n📍 MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825 \n⏱️ 11:30-1:30 PM \nThe first part of the workshop will be facilitated by PhD student François Lespinasse of Machine Agencies\, who will guide participants through the process of rendering 2-D images into 3-D renderings using the local AI computer at Machine Agencies\, and briefly introduce other methods of generating 3D content with AI sources.  \nBe sure to bring your own images of little things to transform into 3-D! \n  \n  \nFrom 3D to Virtual Reality\n📍 Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631 \n⏱️ 1:30 – 3:30 PM \nThe second part of the workshop will be led by Part-time Faculty Marco Luna Barahona\, VR technologist at the Immersive Storytelling Studio\, who will walk participants through the basic processes of creating a virtual space (the gallery)\, formatting the 3-D elements and populating the gallery\, discussing different options for expressing a specific narrative and creating a truly immersive experience. \n  \n👉 Participants are invited to bring their own work in the form of short videos\, existing 3-D renderings & images whose 3-D renderings they are happy to include in a shared VR gallery space. \n  \nSpots are limited!  \nTo book your spot\, RSVP to Marc Beaulieu at marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-virtual-gallery/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260415T144500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260415T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Sustainable Design: Collaborative Practices of Heat\, Energy and Environment-Making
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Iva Rešetar. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nIva Rešetar is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrade and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts’ Department of Digital and Experimental Design. Her dissertation critically examines the relationship between architecture and environmental technologies\, searching out historical and experimental knowledge of thermodynamic processes of phase change in architecture – how they are sensed\, mediated and acted upon in context of the current climate crisis. Her interests lie in fluid materialities\, methods and practices of energy and heat\, and their implications for environmental regeneration and repair of the built environment. \nIva has practiced as an architect\, and has taught and carried out research among others at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart\, Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin\, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam\, and CCA in Montreal. Her recent publications include Breath: Morphological\, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter\, 2022)\, and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (Berlin University of the Arts\, 2025). \n  \n  \n  April 15\, 2026 \n 2:45-4:15 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-sustainable-design-collaborative-practices-of-heat-energy-and-environment-making/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260415T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260415T123000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260314T141750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T164739Z
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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Tarcisio Cataldi
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for their next Research Bites session featuring Tarcisio Cataldi! 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 is a lunchtime series hosted by the IFRC that creates a space for members to share their work in a casual\, conversational setting. Bring your lunch\, meet fellow researchers\, and join us for inspiring exchanges across disciplines! \nTarcisio will share his research on an Afro-Brazilian visual imaginary\, drawing on the concept of Quilombismo as articulated by Abdias do Nascimento. In Tarcisio’s work\, he explores how flags can be a powerful medium for speculation\, reimagining collective symbols and narratives. Through research-creation\, he investigates how national identities are deliberately designed and how they can foster new understandings of resistance and belonging in the Brazilian context.  \n  \n𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶 (he/him) is an Afro-Brazilian designer and artist born in São Paulo and now based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Committed to Black-centred creation through a Quilombista lens\, Tarcisio specializes in speculative design and diverse cultural manifestations across design and art. His work explores the design\, symbolism\, and cultural significance of flags. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Universidade Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University) and a Master’s degree in Design from Concordia University in Montreal. He currently works as a designer for the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 15\, 2026 \n 12:30 PM \nIFRC HQ\, EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-tarcisio-cataldi/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:JenniCam@30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures
DESCRIPTION:April 14th\, 2026\, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley\, then a college student\, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley’s webcam\, known as JenniCam\, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years\, becoming the most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not being recognized as a pioneer during her time\, Jennifer Ringley made Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming. \nThirty years later\, we will commemorate JenniCam’s anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices. \n  \nProgram:\nJenniCam in Context\n⏱️ 10:30 AM (doors open at 10:15 AM) \n📍 4TH SPACE \nKeynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online)\, plus an in-situ conversation. \n  \nPresentations and in-situ conversations at Speculative Life Cluster\n⏱️ 1 PM \n📍 Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625) \nA pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures. \nPresentations and in-situ conversations include: Tommaso Campagna on live streaming as a form of publishing (TheVoid.TV); Geert Lovink on the lives of the online self (online); Seska Lee on camming and the construction of liveness; Lotte de Jong on webcam and art (online). There will also be interventions on moderation and monetization strategies\, as well as live and not-so-live performances of live coding\, object theatre\, and music. \n  \nSnacks and beverages will be provided at both locations.  \n  \n🌐 Further details and online transmissions at: Jennicam-at-30.com
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/jennicam30-thirty-years-of-live-streaming-cultures/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260413T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260413T154500
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260402T145941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T151322Z
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza. Titled Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies\, this lecture will present insights from research projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality in Northern localities. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza is an architect\, researcher\, and educator dedicated to creating sustainable\, carbon-neutral environments that place human well-being at their core. Her work integrates architectural design with environmental performance\, using building parameters\, light quality\, indoor air quality\, and thermal comfort\, as levers for enhancing occupant health and spatial experience\, specifically in Northern climates. Her research advances simulation-based methods\, immersive visualization\, and post-occupancy evaluation to support evidence-based design decision-making. \nShe holds a PhD in Architecture from Université Laval (Québec\, Canada) and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution\, where she examined the effects of light and colour on visual performance and circadian stimulation in Northern and Arctic communities\, employing image-based simulation and immersive capture techniques. \nDr. Espinoza Sanhueza is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University\, where she investigates the challenges of sustainable and resilient housing in Northern Canada and develops post-occupancy evaluation methods grounded in time-series data analysis. Threading design\, research\, pedagogy\, and professional practice together\, her work advances a vision of the built environment that is as responsive to its inhabitants as it is to the climate and context it serves. \n  \n  April 13\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-designing-for-the-north-sustainable-human-centered-spaces-through-light-air-quality-thermal-comfort-and-climate-responsive-strategies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260409T170000
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Bio-Inspired Folding Techniques Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bio-inspired Folding Techniques\, the first workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n  \n \n\n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nHosted by Lucie Leroux (Laboratoire Textile\, Montreal)\, in collaboration with Alice Jarry and Miranda Smitheram\, this four-hour workshop introduces bio-inspired folding as a research-creation methodology at the intersection of design\, engineering\, and living systems. Moving beyond the representation of natural phenomena\, participants will explore folding as a performative\, speculative\, and relational process that translates principles of growth\, locomotion\, deployability\, adaptation\, and responsiveness into material form. Through hands-on experimentation and an introduction to accessible techniques\, participants will prototype paper and fabric structures\, foregrounding folding as a medium for developing soft and adaptive applications. \n  \nPhoto Credits: Lucie Leroux\n  \nABOUT LUCIE LEROUX: \nTrained in design and architecture in France\, Lucie Leroux began her career in architectural lighting before moving to Montreal\, where she discovered textile printing. It was while working on large-scale projects such as the Shanghai World Expo that she began to take an interest in light and patterns. After working on costumes for Cirque du Soleil\, she collaborated on several projects ranging from fashion to documentary\, presented throughout Quebec at venues such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City. In 2012\, she launched Laboratoire Textile\, a creative space where she explores textile design through various research and creative projects. She has also been a lecturer at the Atelier Textile since 2014 and at the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal since 2024. \n\n  \n\n  \n  \nThis workshop is part of the NFRF project Origami-inspired Deployable Sensoriactuator Soft Robots\, co-directed by Hamid Akbarzadeh\, Alice Jarry\, Miranda Smitheram\, Marta Cerruti\, and David Meger. The event is supported by Hexagram: Research-creation network in arts\, culture\, and technology. \n  \n April 9\, 2026 \n 1 – 5 PM \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.455 \n💡Questions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n  \n  \n                           
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-bio-inspired-folding-techniques/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Ten Years of Milieux!
DESCRIPTION:On April 30th\, the Milieux Institute officially turns ten! \nA decade of research-creation is a milestone worth celebrating — and what better way than by returning to where it all began? In this spirit\, we’ve invited each cluster to respond to a list of keywords\, concepts\, names (some very abstract) that came out the early days of naming the institute\, and to answer that provocation in any form they chose. \nWe invite all members (faculty\, students and staff) to join us for an evening of celebration of a decade of research-creation\, as we collectively discover what our clusters have been working on for the past weeks. \n🥂 We’ll have light refreshments and food! \n🎟️ If you haven’t already\, please make sure you RSVP for this event as spots are limited! \n  \nThis event will officially kick off the celebrations as we’re planning a bigger event in the upcoming fall. \n  \n📅 April 2\, 2026 \n⏱️ 5–7 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/celebrating-ten-years-of-milieux/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:Cocooning: Dreaming Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Cocooning is a 3-hour workshop dreaming (climate) adaptation through embodied methods. \n  \n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nIn a time of ecological instability\, climate adaptation is often organized through techno-economic solutions that map protection onto some geographies while leaving others exposed. These approaches frequently reproduce colonial cartographies and patterns of environmental racism. \nThis gathering opens space to question those limits. Together\, we will dream adaptation as a relational\, embodied\, and collective practice — a process of re-membering frayed relations and re-mapping how we live with one another across borders and boundaries\, between human and more-than-human worlds. \n  \n\nWHAT TO BRING: \n\nParticipants are asked to bring one item they are willing to part with\, to be woven into the installation: \n\nA small meaningful object (e.g.\, a shell\, old necklace\, small keepsake)\, or\nAn old natural fibre in neutral tones (fabric scrap\, clothing\, lace\, sheet\, etc.) to contribute to the collective cocoon\n\nObjects will become part of the installation. \n\n\nNo prior artistic experience is required. Light snacks and coffee will be provided. \n\nThis workshop is organized by the Concordia Ethnography Lab in collaboration with the Youth Climate Lab. \n  \n\n  April 2\, 2026 \n 11 -2 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot \n  \n\n               
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ccooning-dreaming-adaptation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T180000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Monteiro: How Tech Got Needy: Episodes in Device Intimacy
DESCRIPTION: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 baked into consumer electronics from 1995 to 2005 through a range of hardware and software cues. These elements collectively tapped psychological vulnerabilities toward affective impact\, situating the device as a lively\, but needy\, presence in the life of users. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nStephen Monteiro is a faculty member in Communication Studies at Concordia University. In addition to Needy Media\, he is the author of The Fabric of Interface (The MIT Press) and Screen Presence (Edinburgh University Press)\, and the editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n March 26\, 2026 \n 4:30 – 6 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stephen-monteiro-how-tech-got-needy-episodes-in-device-intimacy/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260319T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260319T163000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
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SUMMARY:t3rkko Game Collective Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:On March 19th\, TAG will host a networking event with the  t3rkko game collective. \nFounded in 2021\, t3rkko is a local game collective composed of six developers from diverse professional horizons and backgrounds. \nOver the past five years\, the collective has produced five games and is now preparing to work on their most ambitious project to date: a third-person\, rhythm-based Action-RPG. \nTo bring this vision to life\, t3rkko is partnering with TAG\, as they are currently looking to recruit artists\, programmers\, UI and UX devs who would be willing to join their team. \n March 19\, 2025\n 3- 4:30 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/t3rkko-game-collective-networking-event/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T190000
DTSTAMP:20260607T124324
CREATED:20260303T180830Z
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SUMMARY:Video Game Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop with Lídia Pereira
DESCRIPTION:Videogames create worlds. Often\, those worlds mirror our own\, reproducing certain ideals and values as norm through their narrative\, game play\, design\, etc. This session begins with an invitation to the participants to critically consider those worlds\, identifying the key points and elements through which specific videogames circulate political\, cultural and social values. How do the games we play every day vehiculate ideology? Using this knowledge\, participants are then invited to intervene upon these videogame worlds through the writing\, drawing\, collaging\, etc. of fan fictions\, using the original text to re-construct these worlds or reveal crucial aspects they might be hiding in plain sight. At the end of the session\, participants will have begun to create a narrative with their interventions upon these universes and the results may be as diverse as creative writing\, the generation of new games in the form of text-based adventures\, comics\, mini-graphic novels\, etc. \nABOUT LÍDIA PEREIRA: \nLídia Pereira (PT) studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA Media Design and Communication) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (BA Communication Design). Her practice bridges the fields of graphic design\, art\, digital media and infrastructure\, critical theory\, and publishing. In 2015\, she founded the Pervasive Labour Union zine\, a semi-regular publication in which contributors reflect on topics relating to labour on corporate social networks\, algorithmic governance\, and alternative digital infrastructures. Currently\, she is a PhD candidate at the PhDArts programme\, a collaboration between the Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague\, where she is investigating videogames in the context of art education as a site of struggle against hegemonic discourse. \n  \nRequirements: Please choose a videogame you know well ahead of the session. To participate please send an email to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca with the subject line ‘Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop.’ \n\n March 18\, 2025\n 4- 7 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-game-fanfiction-creative-writing-workshop-with-lidia-pereira/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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