BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Milieux - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Milieux X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Milieux REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260417T075443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260417T075443Z UID:12774-1778076000-1778086800@milieux.concordia.ca 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: 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 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-Kitchen-AIK-EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260506T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260409T162434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T162434Z UID:12749-1778088600-1778095800@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-lancement-EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T120000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260417T100545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T190545Z UID:12789-1778151600-1778155200@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-workshopeco-EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T130000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260417T093417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260417T093624Z UID:12785-1778151600-1778158800@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Untitled-2-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T180000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260428T194416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T195256Z UID:12828-1778157000-1778176800@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-Plastic-air-EN-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T160000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260417T100706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T190420Z UID:12793-1778230800-1778256000@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-workshopeco-EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260508T190000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260428T195650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T195650Z UID:12835-1778256000-1778266800@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-closing-remarks-EN-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T120000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260504T200938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260504T200938Z UID:12869-1779271200-1779278400@milieux.concordia.ca 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 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 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-to-present-yourself-and-your-artistic-practice/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-12.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260428T201654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T201654Z UID:12839-1779289200-1779296400@milieux.concordia.ca 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/ CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-Panel-AZ-IH-EN-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260521T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260428T203123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T203123Z UID:12846-1779368400-1779382800@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Header-Workshop-AZ-EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260603T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260603T153000 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260407T150347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T150347Z UID:12630-1780491600-1780500600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Cookout session #3: Discursivity and Dramatization 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 workshop will support Chantier AI contributors by providing editorial feedback and examining discursive strategies and dramatization methods used in contemporary recipe writing. \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  June 3\, 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                  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cookout-session-3-discursivity-and-dramatization/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Header-Cookout-AI-EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260611 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260612 DTSTAMP:20260504T185834 CREATED:20260305T204626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T205104Z UID:12339-1781136000-1781222399@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:LUDODROME DESCRIPTION:Save the date and join us for the second edition of LUDODROME! \nLast year the event brought together more than 44 local experimental game makers and more than 450 visitors for a day of socializing\, networking and fun! \n  June 11\, 2026 \nParquette \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ludodrome/ LOCATION:Parquette – 1345 Rue de Bellechasse\, Montréal\, QC H2G 1N8 CATEGORIES:Demo ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sans-titre-2-9.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR