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SUMMARY:[CALL OUT TO THE CONCORDIA & MILIEUX COMMUNITY] Participate in the UKAI Projects Shipwreck Residency
DESCRIPTION: If you found yourself shipwrecked and washed ashore\, what three things would you most wish to have with you? How would you make a new home where you beached?  \n  \nJoin us on April 9 and April 10 and engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9 three Montreal-based artists (see their profiles below) invited by UKAI Projects will be tasked to make a home among remnants brought by their team. Now\, it’s your turn to engage with the work. We call all Milieux members and the broader Concordia community to join us and explore how we can rebuild a future collectively. As the three artists finalize their intervention\, we invite  you all to walkthrough the installation and interact with their work. You’ll have until the next day\, April 10\, 5 PM to intervene. \n  \n \n  \nSHIPWRECK CONCEPTS & THEMES: \nShipwreck refuses nostalgia and embraces the aesthetics of impossibility—an acknowledgment that some ecological realities defy full representation or comprehension. This project borrows from mutual aid\, commoning\, and craft as a survival practice\, understanding that culture is built not in ideal conditions but in adaptive\, emergent responses to crisis.   \nMaking Culture from Ruins  \nShipwreck does not mourn the past or rebuild the future—it works in the already-present\, in the detritus of histories\, technologies\, and ecologies. It takes inspiration from the Already-AI Commons\, the entanglement of human and non-human agencies\, and the latent potential in what has been cast aside. Participants are invited to work with materials that have been displaced or discarded\, to engage with emergent properties rather than fixed intentions.   \nTemporal Collapse  \nThe project layers deep time with contemporary crises. Just as cave drawings in the distant past gesture toward a way of being that is now illegible to us\, Shipwreck asks artists to gesture forward—to create conditions that a future observer might find equally opaque yet strangely compelling.   \nPlay as Agency  \nRather than imposing narratives\, artists will work within constraints\, treating materials and artifacts as quasi-agents in their own right. The work will evolve not as simulation\, but as participation—as an open-ended engagement with a shared cultural and ecological crisis.   \nProcess  \nThree artists from UKAI Projects will collaborate with three Montreal-based artists to create evolving\, participatory scenarios that blur the boundary between creator and audience. The public will be invited to engage with and alter the space\, shaping it in ways that resist the idea of authorship as fixed and complete.  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nMeghan Moe Beitiks (she/they) is an artist and designer working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site\, history\, emotions\, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. \nThey were a Fulbright Student Fellow\, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists\, a MacDowell Colony fellow\, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada\, among other resources. They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, and their MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \nCredit: Riley Mydansky\nEija Loponen-Stephenson‘s work predominantly concerns the relationship between human movement and urban architectural spaces. Through practice-based artistic inquiry and experimental pedagogy\, she examines how body-building interactions can reveal hidden power structures programmed into the built environment. She holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and a MA in Art Education at Concordia University. \n  \n  \n \nGabriel Junqueira (Fortaleza\, Brazil / 1992) is a multimedia artist who explores relations between body\, technology and materiality in media such as digital images\, sculptures and installations. His recent research revolves around the relation between built spaces and nature through the creation of landscapes in 3D architectural visualization software\, commonly used in the real estate development market to simulate structures to be built. Seeking inspiration from corporate architecture and landscaping concepts\, the artist creates impossible locations\, where figurative elements are rearranged to the point of abstraction. As an extension of his visual arts research\, since 2018 he has been dedicated to the musical project “Naves Cilíndricas”. In 2020\, he released two albums: “Imagens de Desastres Em High Resolution” on the Meia Vida label and “Névoa” via the Domina Label. \n  \n                      
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-out-to-the-concordia-milieux-community-participate-in-the-ukai-project-shipwreck-residency/
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CATEGORIES:Residency
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Pizza Lunch Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9 for Pizza lunch  engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9\, Meghan Moe Beitiks\, Eija Loponen-Stephenson and Gabriel Junqueira will be working on Shipwreck\, attempting to make a home among remnants brought by three UKAI Projects artists. \nLet’s discover together their work while grabbing a slice of pizza! This will be an amazing opportunity to get a sense of the project and think about the potential connections between the installation and your own research/work. Come join us! \n  \n📷 Photo credit: Antoine Simard-Legault \n🗓: April 9\, 2025 |12-2 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/shipwreck-pizza-lunch-meet-greet/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception,Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Ethnolab Manuscript Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab on April 9th for the second edition of the Manuscript Workshops.\nThe purpose of each workshop is to help the author with a portion of the manuscript for a book they’re working on. The text will be shared two weeks beforehand so that attendees have time to read it and can come to the workshop ready for a constructive and generative discussion of the text. If If you’d like to learn more about writing\, editing and publishing this workshop series is for you! \nThis workshop will focus on Knut Gunnar Nustad‘s latest book: Trout in the post-colony: landscapes\, property and conservation in South Africa. Kregg Hetherington\, Jesse Arsenault\, and Blair Rutherford will lead the discussion. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nIn the late 19th century\, British settlers released trout into South Africa’s rivers\, seeking to recreate their homeland’s streams and sporting traditions. What seemed a small act of ecological import would ripple across landscapes\, conservation practices\, and cultural imaginations for over a century. Through this seemingly innocuous species\, this book explores how colonial legacies continue to shape environments\, politics\, and landscapes in South Africa and beyond. Trout were spread from their North American and European homes throughout the British Empire in a couple of decades from the mid-1860s. Unlike many other colonial species\, trout were introduced first and foremost for sport and were protected through conservation efforts by colonial authorities. With the turn to biodiversity and concerns over alien species in the 1980s\, many now argue for their eradication. Today\, trout occupy a place in the postcolonial landscape that troubles many of the categories that we use to think about landscapes\, including the distinction between the wild and the domestic\, between science and coloniality\, between politics and nature. The book sets out to critically rethink these categories through a case study of the colonial British transfer of trout to South Africa and what happened to them there. It argues that the story of trout in South Africa offers critical insights into the broader challenges of postcolonial natures. Rather than making an argument for or against trout\, the book shows that to understand how colonial relations continue to shape landscapes in South Africa and elsewhere\, we must take the world-shaping effects of trout seriously. \n  \n📅 April  9\, 2025 | 12-2 PM \n📍: Speculative Life room EV 10.625 \n🎟️ To sign up\, please email the Concordia Ethnography Lab by April 1st. \nAttendance is limited in order to ensure a good discussion.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-manuscript-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Screening of Wind\, Tide & Oar followed by a discussion with Huw Wahl
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and Maya Lamothe-Katrapani for another ethnographic film screening\, on April 8th. This time\, we’ll watch \nWind\, Tide & Oar: Encounters With Engineless Sailing (2024\, 84 min) by British cineast Huw Wahl.\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director moderated by Polina Shubina\, member of the Montreal Waterways boating research group.\n\nABOUT THE FILM: \nWind\, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing\, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone\, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation. \nJourneying through rivers\, coastlines\, and open seas\, spanning the UK\, the Netherlands\, and France\, Wind\,Tide & Oar creates a contemplative space\, addressing themes of ecology\, heritage\, traditional skills\, and maritime history. Using a 1960s hand-wound camera\, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft\, upended by the invention of mechanised power. \nThrough the film’s reveries\, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with and responsibility to the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature\, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability\, and our care for the world around us. \n  \nABOUT  THE FILMMAKER: \nWahl‘s work has been screened internationally at film festivals such as CPH:DOX\, Festival du nouveau cinéma and Open City Docs\, in art galleries and museums like Centre Pompidou Metz\, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Whitworth\, as well as in universities like NYU\, documentary art centres like Union Docs\, and by sea onboard an engineless Thamses sailing barge touring the South East coast of England. \nHe has won several international awards with his films\, and they’ve featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire\, and received funding from organisations such as Arts Council England\, The Henry Moore Foundation\, and the Royal Photographic Society. \nHis writing has been published in magazines\, academic journals and books. He has also curated film programmes\, been part of international film festival juries\, taught film & photography courses in university and community settings in the UK and abroad\, and worked as an AHRC funded research associate for the University of Manchester. \nWind\, Tide & Oar\, his film about the art of engineless sailing\, is distributed by Tull Stories\, and will be released into UK cinemas in spring 2025. \n  \n🗓 April 8\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍Screening Room VA-114\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n\n.\n.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-of-wind-tide-oar-wind-tide-oar-encounters-with-engineless-sailing-and-discussion-with-huw-wahl/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Marco Armiero : Guerrilla Narrative in the Wasteocene
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. \nWhile the concept of the geological Anthropocene may have diminished in prominence\, it remains vital to scrutinize the narratives it has generated and to foster counter-hegemonic storytelling. Although humanity collectively inhabits the Anthropocene\, its effects are far from uniformly distributed. Instead of seeking its evidence solely in the geosphere\, what if researchers shifted their focus to the organosphere — exploring the intertwined ecologies of humans and their environments? \nToxic layers have not only settled into physical landscapes but have also infiltrated human and more-than-human bodies. Recent epigenetic studies suggest that these toxic imprints are now embedded in genetic memory. By investigating this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity\, we confront not the Anthropocene but the Wasteocene—an era defined by waste. However\, the Wasteocene extends beyond the mere generation of waste; it is fundamentally about the systematic production of wasted lives and degraded places. The enforcement of wasting relationships upon marginalized human and more-than-human communities constructs a toxic ecology made of contaminants and narratives. \nThis talk will examine the “Toxic Narrative Infrastructure” — a framework which invisibilizes\, normalizes\, and naturalizes injustices — and explore how guerrilla narratives seek to disrupt and dismantle it. \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\nMarco Armiero is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science\, Autonomous University of Barcelona & Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. A global leader in environmental humanities\, he has held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Yale\, Stanford\, Berkeley\, and Coimvra\, and directed the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, establishing it as a hub for socioecological research and activism. \nHis groundbreaking book\, Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump (Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, has been widely recognized\, translated into several languages\, and inspired both academic symposia and media coverage. In 2022\, he co-authored the first environmental history of Italian fascism\, published by Einaudi\, translated by MIT Press\, and forthcoming in Spanish. \nA pioneer in his field\, Prof. Armiero is a founding figure in European environmental history and has advanced research on migration\, socioecological crises\, and justice. His influential concepts\, such as the “Wasteocene” and “toxic narrative infrastructure\,” have shaped contemporary scholarship\, blending academic excellence with advocacy for environmental and social equity. \n  \n  \n🗓: March 31\, 2025\n🕒: 2 – 4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n      
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-marco-armiero-guerrilla-narrative-in-the-wasteocene/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Joni Adamson: Beyond Climate Fiction: Visionary Fictions\, Futures Thinking\, and a Cosmovisionary Archive
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives\, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn Fall of 2024\, the United Nations hosted hundreds of global delegates at The Summit of the Future\, a monumental effort to forge a new international consensus on how to safeguard the future.  For the first time\, humanists\, including me\, were an officially-invited part of the delegation\, and at the table for consideration of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ challenge to take specific steps to “make a tangible difference in people’s lives and account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations.” \nIn this lecture\, I will explain the role of climate fiction in the lead-up to my invitation (as a humanist) to come to the United Nations. Then\, I’ll dive into a discussion of Day After Tomorrow (2004)\, the most celebrated “cli-fi” film to date\, and bring Solar Storms (1994)\, an indigenous-authored novel that has only recently been considered part of an emerging climate fiction canon into the discussion.  I connect these two seemingly unrelated pieces because they can both be connected in interesting ways to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)\, the massive Atlantic Ocean current system which affects climate\, sea levels and global weather system. \nMy discussion explores how both film and novel create characters that draw attention to the value of “futures thinking\,” a practice foregrounded at the Summit of the Future and\, for over 20 years\, by environmental humanists interested in impowering individuals\, students\, governments\, societies\, and organizations to imagine and shape alternative\, desirable futures\, particularly in the face of accelerating ecosystemic disruptions associated with climate change (like AMOC).  With Solar Storms as an example not of “cli-fi” per se\, but as an example of a genre Black Studies professor and spoken word artist Walida Imarisha calls ‘visionary fiction\,’ I explore why we might want to go beyond futures thinking to ‘cosmos thinking\,’ a concept linked to cosmovisions\, cosmopolitics and the indigenous-authored Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change (2012). \nBuilding on my previous work around indigenous cosmopolitics and the environmental humanities (Adamson and Davis 2017\, Adamson and Monani 2016)\, I propose a ‘cosmovisionary archive’ that would facilitate cosmos-thinking by gathering together unruly\, mixed genres (ancient oral tradition\, almanacs\, visionary fictions\, blockbuster films) that “account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations” and acknowledge Earth systems (like AMOC) as ‘persons’ with rights ‘to regenerate biocapacity and continue vital cycles’ (Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change 2012). \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nJoni Adamson is President’s Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Distinguished Global Futures Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL). She is Founding Director of the Flagship Hub of UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition\, the first humanities-led science platform in the world. She is also Director of Humanities for the Environment North America (HFE)\, based in the Global Institute for Sustainability and Innovation at ASU’s Walton Center for Planetary Heath.\n \nAdamson is the author and/or co-editor of nine books and special issues and 90 articles\, chapters\, reviews and blog posts which have been widely cited\, reprinted\, and translated into Mandarin and Spanish. She writes on environmental justice\, the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences\, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies\, the rights of nature movement\, and the food justice movement.  Her research has been supported by many awards and grants\, including the 2019 Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. She has delivered 90+ keynote and plenary lectures throughout the US and in Australia\, China\, England\, Italy\, France\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, the Netherlands\, Scotland\, South Africa\, Spain\, Sweden\, and Taiwan. \n  \n🗓: March 28\, 2025 |2-4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n       
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-joni-adamson-beyond-climate-fiction-visionary-fictions-futures-thinking-and-a-cosmovisionary-archive/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] Jumanji (1995)
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a screening and discussion of 1995’s Jumanji\, featuring Robin Williams\, roll to move mechanics\, and CGI jungle animals. \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion\, which is then followed by a podcast recording with select members of the audience and/or our guests. March’s film is the original Jumanji (1995). \nIf you would like to reserve a place on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact the TAG coordinator at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca. \n  \n📅 March 26\, 2024 | 5:30-8:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Jumanji (1995) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-jumanji-1995/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
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SUMMARY:Ethnolab Manuscript Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab on March 21st for the second edition of the Manuscript Workshops.\nThe purpose of each workshop is to help the author with a portion of the manuscript for a book they’re working on. The text will be shared two weeks beforehand so that attendees have time to read it and can come to the workshop ready for a constructive and generative discussion of the text. If If you’d like to learn more about writing\, editing and publishing this workshop series is for you! \nThis session will focus on Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum’s upcoming book\, The Art of Political Imagination: Shaping Palestinian Epistemologies Amidst Political Uncertainty. \nThis work examines the world of contemporary Palestinian visual artists living in the central cities of the West Bank. It focuses on their utilization of art as a tool for liberation and a craft of insurgent political imagination against settler colonialism. A central argument of the book is that art forms a vital thread within a wider web of Palestinian epistemology. \nThrough their work\, artists create\, retell\, and archive knowledge and shape Palestinian ontology and worldmaking—past\, present and future. They are creators of images and imaginaries that gather communities and contribute to national and political discourses. By highlighting the resilience of Palestinian creativity in the face of colonial oppression and erasure\, the book underscores the importance of rearticulating the role of art in the Palestinian struggle\, by focusing on artists who came of age politically and artistically after the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000. \nSowparnika Balasingham\, Balbir Singh\, and Lisa Stevenson will lead the discussion. This is a brown bag lunch format\, so please bring something to eat if you would like to. \n  \n📅:March 21\, 2025 | 12-2 PM \n📍: Speculative Life room EV 10.625 \n🎟️ To sign up\, please email the Concordia Ethnography Lab by March 7. \nAttendance is limited in order to ensure a good discussion.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-manuscript-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Sampling with AudioStellar: New Frontiers in Music and Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies and Kamyar Karimi for an Introduction to AudioStellar workshop to discover how this AI-powered experimental sampler transforms your audio samples into an interactive\, real-time visual and sonic experience. Learn to load your own dataset and extract the features/turn to samples\, navigate the latent space\, and integrate machine learning concepts into live performance and sequencing. \n🚨 To participate\, make sure you come with : \n\nYour own laptop\nA sample pack with at least 20 minutes of sound\nAudioStellar installed from audiostellar.xyz\n\n  \nABOUT KAMYAR KARIMI: \nKamyar ‘Noak’ Karimi is a digital storyteller who believes that within the dynamic human global network\, the interwebs of human stories are recursively retold within different media. His perspective on storytelling is reflected in his diverse career\, which spans roles as a programmer\, game designer\, and sound designer. In his work\, Karimi primarily uses code and sound to explore and expand the possibilities of storytelling in the realm of new media. This multi-disciplinary approach enables him to weave intricate narratives that resonate across various platforms\, underpinning his philosophy that stories are a universal medium\, continually evolving and reshaping themselves in the digital age. \n  \n  \n📅 March 21\, 2025 | 12-1:30 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sampling-with-audiostellar-new-frontiers-in-music-and-machine-learning/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series]: Reading Joni Adamson & Marco Armiero
DESCRIPTION:As Speculative Life research cluster prepares for its upcoming lectures\, be sure to join the reading group this Friday\, March 21st! \nOn March 28\, Joni Adamson will give a talk about the role of climate fiction in shaping environmental discourse followed by Marco Armiero on March 31st who will introduce participants to the “Toxic Narrative Infrastructure”\, a framework which invisibilizes\, normalizes and naturalizes environmental injustices. \nDuring this session\, participants will be invited to read and discuss selected texts by both Joni Adamson and Marco Armiero: \nAdamson\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \n🗓: March 21\, 2025 |10-11:30 PM\n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-reading-joni-adamson-marco-armiero/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250317T180000
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Output with Nick Montfort
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 17 for a reading and panel discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953-2023 edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. \nWe’re thrilled to welcome authors Sofian Audry\, Bill Kennedy\, Erín Moure\, and Darren Wershler for a conversation about the book and the fascinating world of computer-generated writing. \nCopies of OUTPUT will be available for purchase\, and there will be free giveaways of other books featuring computer-generated writing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNick Montfort uses computation to develop literary art. His work includes ten computer-generated books (in print from seven presses)\, the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between\, and Memory Slam: Batch-Era Text Generation. Among his MIT Press books are The Future and two co-edited volumes\, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023. He’s professor of digital media at MIT and principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. Montfort directs a lab/studio\, The Trope Tank\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nAn anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems\, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. \nThe discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation\, as it happens\, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology\, Output\, thoughtfully selected\, introduced\, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort\, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include text generated by research systems\, along with reports and utilitarian texts\, representing many general advances and experiments in text generation. \nOutput is first and foremost a collection of outputs to be encountered by readers. In addition to an overall introduction\, each of the excerpts is introduced individually and organized by fine-grain genre including conversations\, humor\, letters\, poetry\, prose\, and sentences. Bibliographic references allow readers to learn more about outputs and systems that intrigue them. Although Output could serve as a reference book\, it is designed to be readable and to be read. Purposefully excluded are human–computer collaborations that were conceptually defined but not implemented as a computer system. \n🔗 More about the book here \n  \nThis event is supported by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) https://www.crihn.org/ \n  \n🗓 March 17\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 6 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-evening-of-output-with-nick-montfort/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250314T160000
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SUMMARY:Guest Talk: Extreme Design with Evgeni Puzankov
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on March 14th for a talk on extreme design and game narrative with Evgeni Puzankov. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nExtreme Design Spaces are wonderful. These are design contexts and tools\, not necessarily physical environments. This practice is an exercise in failure to approach every interactive project as its own medium in an industry that’s constantly in chaos. Playing with explorations of extremes is useful for your game development practice\, general creativity\, and it’s simply so much fun. It’s a wonderful response to an industry that loves telling you “you can’t do it” or “you have to do it this way”. The talk will cover creative constraints\, semantics\, dead genres\,  and artificial exceptionality. It will also include quite a bit of spite\, ideological and not. The talk will feature practical advice as well as a general overview. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nEvgeni “Zhenia” Puzankov is an award-winning narrative designer and game developer (as All Worms) with 17+ years of experience in the industry and 70+ released titles.  He is also a teacher\, curator of a microfund Briefs\, and a PhD candidate at York University.\n \nhttps://linktr.ee/all_worms \n  \n  \n  \n📅:March 14\, 2025 | 3-4 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-extreme-design-with-evgeni-puzankov/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250314T133000
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SUMMARY:Chatting with Ollama - Build your own AI Bot
DESCRIPTION:join Machine Agencies‘s Gen AI Studio for a creative workshop: Chatting with Ollama – Build your own AI Bot!\n\nFrançois Lespinasse will be showing us how to implement RAGs using Ollama\, a tool designed to simplify the process of running open-source large language models (LLMs) like Deepseek and Llama directly on your laptop.\nDuring this  brief workshop\, participants will implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that can do things like answer questions about a pdf etc.\n\n\n\nABOUT FRANÇOIS LESPINASSE:\n\nFrançois Lespinasse\, a transdisciplinary artist based in Montréal\, integrates his expertise in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) into his creative practice. He crafts human-computer interfaces (HCI) that blend procedurally generated musical\, visual\, and textual compositions\, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven creativity. His artistic endeavors are deeply informed by his research into the somatic states underpinning emotions and intersubjectivity. By incorporating biosignals into his work\, he creates immersive experiences that explore the convergence of brain-body dynamics and phenomenology\, offering a rich sensory symphony of visual\, auditory\, poetic\, and tactile stimuli. \nLespinasse develops immersive interfaces that weave intricate narratives of consciousness\, offering retrospectives on its evolution as a cultural construct and forecasting potential transhumanistic progressions. These artistic explorations serve as a medium for communicating complex ideas about the interplay between technology and consciousness\, inviting audiences to engage with these concepts on a visceral and experiential level. \nHis commitment to open-source learning and collaboration extends to his artistic practice\, as he shares his creative processes and insights through his Github portfolio\, fostering a community of artists and researchers working at the intersection of art\, science\, and technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n📅 March 14 \, 2025 | 12-1:30 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425\n🚨 To participate bring your own laptop and please download Ollama beforehand 👉 https://ollama.com/download
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/9809/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250313T200000
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SUMMARY:Screening and discussion with Sarra El Abed
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and Maya Lamothe-Katrapani for another ethnographic film screening\, on March 13th. This time\, the screening is organized with fellow anthropology graduate student Clare Walker. Sarra El Abed’s Ain’t No Time For Women (2021\, 19 minutes) will be followed by the screening of Uncle Yanco\, a short film by Agnès Varda\, a seminal filmmaker within the French New Wave. \nA virtual Q&A with Sarra El Abed will follow to discuss both her work and Varda’s influence on her creative practice.\n\n \n\nABOUT THE FILMS: \n \nAin’t No Time For Women: Tunis\, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s\, the hairdresser\, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square\, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary\, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy.\n\n\n \nUncle Yanco: Agnès Varda travels to a Californian houseboat community to meet Jean Varda (known affectionately as Uncle Yanco)\, a Greek emigrant relative whom Varda has never met. In her characteristic cinematic style\, Varda brings herself into the countercultural beat scene of 1960s San Francisco\, finding resonances with Uncle Yanco in conversations of dreams\, art\, and living.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER: \n\nSarra El Abed\, born in Tunisia and raised in Montreal\, explores the intersection of both cultures in her work. Her short documentary AIN’T NO TIME FOR WOMEN (filmed in Tunisia\, available on The New Yorker) screened at Clermont-Ferrand\, Dok Leipzig\, and Slamdance\, earning nominations and awards\, including Best Canadian Short at Hot Docs. This success led to LES COLLECTIONNEURS\, filmed in Cairo and available on Tou.Tv. Blending fiction and documentary\, she highlights the beauty of the mundane with flamboyant\, often feminine characters and a touch of humor. She is currently developing two feature films\, ADIEU MINETTE\, GOODBYE PARTY and GENS QUI RIENT\, GENS QUI PLEURENT. With ADIEU MINETTE\, she participated in the TIFF Filmmaker Lab\, TIFF Talent Accelerator\, and won the FNC X Netflix Pitch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n🗓 March 13\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍Screening Room EV 10.525\n🎟️ Make sure to reserve your spot\, If you can’t make it anymore please let Maya know so she can give your seat to someone else.\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n.\n.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-and-discussion-with-sarra-el-abed/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250310T130000
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SUMMARY:A Byte-Sized Welcome with Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Byte-Sized Welcome\, the exciting kick-off event for the new semester with Machine Agencies! \nCome on down\, grab some lunch\, and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations.  \n This is your chance to learn about our ongoing projects and hear about the upcoming activities and events we’re hosting! \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. We encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \nMachine Agencies is part of the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Machine Agencies draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-byte-sized-welcome-with-machine-agencies-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Info Session
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250307T153000
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series/Workshop] Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impact
DESCRIPTION:Alison Donnell\, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol\, will give a workshop for graduate students titled “Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impact.” This workshop coincides with a graduate course (HUMA 889 – Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies) but is open to all graduate students. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nThe workshop will use Donnell’s Caribbean Literary Heritage and the A-Z project (which started on Facebook) as prompts for greater reflection. To prepare for the workshop\, an annotated bibliography of resources in the public humanities will be shared with participants. In addition\, students will be given a question guide ahead of time to consider their particular projects\, research methods\, and key audiences\, and to share and learn in an interactive format. \n \n  \nABOUT ALISON DONNELL: \nAlison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature\, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture\, recovery research of women authors\, and Caribbean literary archives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: March 7\, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n       
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-workshop-who-cares-public-humanities-methods-and-building-impact/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250306T190000
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 06
DESCRIPTION:Epistemological Foundations returns this Winter to continue the conversation around knowledge practices and their implications. EF06 will bring together Kari Noe\, Jason Leigh\, and Sara Diamond to reflect on their approaches to knowledge-making and elaborate on the implications of data visualization for community governance\, science communication\, and archiving. The session will be moderated by our co-director Hēmi Whaanga\, and hosted by Abundant Intelligences postdoctoral researcher Ceyda Yolgörmez. \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team sharing how the knowledge frameworks in their field are constructed\, validated\, and employed. This session will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into what it means to bring together Data Visualization to Indigenous Knowledges and AI. \nThis will be a hybrid event. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nKari Noe is a PhD research assistant at Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa\, and co-leads the emerging media lab\, Create(x)\, at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaiʻi at West Oʻahu. \nHer research includes: Human Computer Interaction\, Extended Reality Technologies\, and video game development for both serious and entertainment games. More specifically\, she is interested in the ways emerging media can support learning. As a mixed Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholar\, she focuses on projects that involve Hawaiian cultural heritage. \nHer research has been published in numerous conferences such as ACM CHI and ACM SIGGRAPH\, and her work has been featured in both local and international venues such as the Bishop Museum on Oʻahu or the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) in Montreal. \n  \nJason Leigh is the Director of LAVA: the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & applications\, Co-Director of the Hawaii Data Science Institute\, Director of Create(x) at University of Hawaii at West Oahu\, and Professor of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. \nHe is also Director Emeritus of the Electronic Visualization Lab and the Software Technologies Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, where he was previously Professor of Computer Science and Affiliated Professor of Communications. \nIn addition he was a Fellow of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and has held research appointments at Argonne National Laboratory\, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. \nHis research expertise includes: Big data visualization; virtual reality; high performance networking; and video game design. \nHe is co-inventor of the CAVE2 Hybrid Reality Environment\, and SAGE: Scalable Amplified Group Environment software\, which is the most widely used platform for information-intensive collaboration. \nIn 2010 he initiated a new multi-disciplinary area of research called Human Augmentics – which refers to the study of technologies for expanding the capabilities and characteristics of humans. \nHis research has also received numerous press from News media including: the AP News\, New York Times\, Popular Science’s Future Of\, Nova ScienceNow\, NSF Science Now\, PBS\, and Forbes. \nLeigh also teaches classes in Software Design\, Virtual Reality\, Data Visualization and Video Game Design. In 2010 his video game design class enabled the University of Illinois at Chicago to be ranked among the top 50 video game programs in US and Canada. \nJason Leigh explores the intersections between big data visualization\, virtual reality\, and high-performance networked computing. A UH computer scientist\, he founded LAVA: Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications and Create(x)\, a lab exploring how to harness advanced computational technology to advance Hawaiian cultural practices. He will contribute to harnessing ancestral knowledge-driven AI for immersive visualization. \n  \nDr. Sara Diamond\, President Emerita of OCAD University has led institutional transformation within arts\, digital media/ICT\, and post-secondary institutions for over 30 years. Diamond was President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University from 2005-2020\, leading its transformation to full university status. She was founding director of the Banff New Media Institute (1995 — 2005). As a historian\, media artist and computer scientist\, Diamond brings a deep interest in the relationships of human practices\, culture\, and technologies and a profound commitment to equity and Indigenous rights. She has been co-PI on major research networks such as Am-I-Able (wearable technologies and IoT) and the Centre for Information Visualization and Data Driven Design. She has undertaken NSERC\, SSHRC\, Ontario Research Excellent Fund\, Mitacs\, and foundation funded research in data analytics and visualization\, urban and transportation planning\, public art\, cultural analytics\, and wearable technology to support seniors’ wellbeing. Current funded scholarship includes acting as co-PI for the iCity2.0 project (ORF-E)\, applying AI tools such as generative design to complete community planning (ORF-E\, Mitacs); developing a Machine Learning qualitative analytics framework to understand the impact of screen media on audiences (Mitacs); creating mobile affective computing solutions to support mood analysis and mental health in the workplace (Mitacs); reassessing archives through visualization and metadata analysis (SSHRC)\, and ongoing considerations of human\, animal and machine agency. True to her early training as a social historian she continues to write about the history of media arts and technologies. \nRecognitions include the Order of Canada\, Order of Ontario\, Doctor of Science\, honoris causa\, Simon Fraser University\, 2020; the 2020 Exceptional Women of Excellence from the Women’s Economic Forum and two New Media “Pioneer” awards. She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College and Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin and UCLA. Diamond acted as a reviewer for the 2021 mid-term CFREF assessments and for the NFREF competition. \nShe is co-chair of Toronto’s ArtworxTO\, the Year of Public Art and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche; is the chair for the Toronto Arts Foundation and of the new Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. Diamond is an Expert Panelist with the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation and a Thought Leader with Lord Cultural Resources. \n(OC OO RCSA)\, President Emerita OCAD University\, has led collaborative efforts to strengthen equity and diversity and to support Indigenous cultures\, research\, and decolonization in the academy. She contributes expertise in data visualization and wearable technology\, research-creation methodologies\, and integration of Indigenous research methodologies into academic contexts. \n  \nCeyda Yolgormez is a Postdoc at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster\, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies\, such as large machine learning models or social robots\, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities\, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Hēmi Whaanga is a Professor and Head of Massey University’s School of Te Pūtahi-a-Toi – School of Māori Knowledge. He has worked as a project leader and researcher on a range of projects centred on the revitalization and protection of Māori language and knowledge (including Mātauranga Māori\, digitization of indigenous knowledge\, ICT and indigenous knowledge\, ethics\, traditional ecological knowledge\, language revitalisation\, Māori astronomy\, and linguistics). He affiliates to Ngāti Kahungunu through his father\, and Ngāi Tahu\, Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha through his mother. \nProfessor Whaanga is recognized as a leading scholar researching the revitalization\, protection\, distribution\, and development of Māori knowledge and language\, and incorporating mixed-method approaches\, processes\, and technologies to analyze\, develop\, present\, and protect new and sacred knowledge in different linguistic\, cultural\, ethical\, and digital contexts. His leadership in Māori digital initiatives earned him an invitation from the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge to lead and develop the conceptual framework for ‘Ātea’\, a multi-million-dollar spearhead project to conduct and share impactful research with experts in AI\, VR and AR\, NLP\, ML\, Indigenous and Māori data sovereignty\, and digital repositories \n  \n  \n🗓: March 6\, 2025\n🕒: 5:30- 7 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 : Zoom link \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend this event in-person\, please make sure you RSVP by emailing: abint-activities@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:[TAG critical Watch Series] Assassin's Creed (2016)
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a screening and discussion of 2016’s Assassin’s Creed. No amount of hay can hide this film from our critical eyes! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion\, which is then followed by a podcast recording with select members of the audience and/or our guests. February’s film (which is being screened in March to account for the break!) is Assassin’s Creed (2016). \n If you would like to reserve a place on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact the TAG coordinator at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca. \n  \n📅 March 5\, 2024 | 5:30-8:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Assassin’s Creed (2016) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-assassins-creed-2016/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250305T151500
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Alison Donnell: Mapping missing Caribbean women narratives in Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives\, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. \nIn this first event\, Alison Donnell\, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol\, will present a seminar based on her upcoming book Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean. She will focus on the life and work of Barbara Althea Jones\, a Trinidadian poet and physicist at McGill\, author of Among the Potatoes. \nParticularly relevant for undergraduate and graduate students\, (and mandatory for students enrolled in GEOG 418 (Postcolonial Geographies)  the seminar will encourage reflection on the Caribbean diaspora within Montreal’s localized context\, as well as the broader postcolonial dynamics shaping the community today. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nAlison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature\, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture\, recovery research of women authors\, and Caribbean literary archives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nLost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region’s rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers – such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson – whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others – Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete\, for example – whose work has never been properly recognised. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these ‘lost’ writers\, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: March 5\, 2025 | 1:15 – 3:15 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n📖 A reading will be circulated in advance of the seminar. \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n  \n                            \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-alison-donnell-mapping-missing-caribbean-women-narratives-in-montreal/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Exploring Audiovisual Narratives in Virtual Reality with Point Line Piano
DESCRIPTION:Join Post Image and the Immersive Storytelling Studio for an immersive workshop led by intermedia composer and pianist Jarosław Kapuściński. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nIn this workshop participants will delve into the VR project\, Point Line Piano. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore 18 different immersive environments\, each designed to redefine your experience of music\, visuals and gestural interaction. As participants create their own audiovisual flows\, we will discuss the principles behind the interactive architecture of each environment and their unique pathways. The focus will be on understanding the music-like narrativity of the project\, moving beyond traditional text-based frameworks to explore how audiovisual elements come together to tell a different kind of story. \nPoint Line Piano is a VR project that reimagines the composition\, performance\, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating\, playing\, and listening. As you interact with it\, your ears\, eyes\, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you\, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate\, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms\, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables a spatial and full-body experience of abstraction not found in any other medium. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument. \nMore about Point Line Piano. \n  \nABOUT JAROSŁAW KAPUŚCIŃSKI: \nJarosław Kapuściński is a Polish-born intermedia composer and pianist. He presented his works at numerous art and music venues worldwide\, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, the National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid\, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris\, National Arts Centre in Canada\, EMPAC\, ZKM\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has received awards at the UNESCO Film sur l’Art Festival in Paris\, the VideoArt Festival in Locarno\, and the International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in Montréal. Kapuściński has lectured internationally and is currently Associate Professor at Stanford University. \nhttps://jaroslawkapuscinski.com/ \n  \nCoauthors and collaborators on the project: \nMarc Downie and Paul Kaiser have collaborated as OpenEndedGroup since 2001. Working in a broad variety of media and venues:\, they make art for façade\, gallery\, dance\, stage\, 3D cinema\, print\, and virtual reality. Their works respond to a wide range of materials — drawing\, film\, motion capture\, photography\, music\, and architecture.  They frequently combine three signature elements: non-photorealistic 3D rendering; the incorporation of body movement by motion-capture and other means; and the autonomy of artworks directed or assisted by artificial intelligence. \nOpenEndedGroup’s films\, installations\, stage works\, and VR pieces have premiered in such venues as MoMA\, Lincoln Center\, the Barbican\, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, the Hayward Gallery\, Sadler’s Wells\, and the Berlin\, New York\, and Rome film festivals. Eight of their 3D digital films were the first of their kind to enter MoMA’s permanent collection. \nhttps://openendedgroup.com/ \n  \n🗓: March 3\, 2025\n🕒:  1-4 PM\n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \n🔗 Make sure to reserve your spot as capacity is limited!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/exploring-audiovisual-narratives-in-virtual-reality-with-point-line-piano/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Sequencing with Sequins (SOS)
DESCRIPTION:Sequins & Stitching: Design and Create with the Tajima Embroidery Machine \nDive into the world of sequins and discover how to design and craft stunning\, light-reflecting patterns on the Tajima embroidery machine! \nJoin us and explore how sequins can transform your designs. \n  \n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n\n📅:February 21\, 2025 | 1-4 PM\n📍: EV 10.725\n🎟️: Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sequencing-with-sequins-sos/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T193000
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SUMMARY:Woven Futures: In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Armando Perla\, acting Co-Director and Chief Curator of the Textile Museum of Canada\, along with artist and independent curator Michaëlle Sergile and associate professor Miranda Smitheram\, in a conversation around textiles\, art\, fashion and cultural institutions. \nTextiles contain many stories. This session looks at the many stories and histories untold and misrepresented through colonial narratives\, as well as current practices that are actively rewriting histories and collaboratively imagining futures. \nThis event is organized as part of the Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Canada until March 2nd.  This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past seventy years. \nBefore the main event\, Textiles & Materiality cluster invites you to joinsWoven Stories\,  a panel discussion between led by PhD student Morris Fox. This session\, featuring members\, artists\, and PhD scholars will take place in the Milieux Learning Atelier prior to the main conversation. \nMore about Woven Stories\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nArmando Perla is a non-binary queer mestizo curator currently acting as Co-Director and Chief Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Previously\, Perla was Chief Curator for the City of Toronto\, and Vice-President of the Canadian Museums Association. \nThey also worked as an Assistant Professor on Decolonization and Race in the iSchool at the University of Toronto\, and served as International Advisor on Museums for the City of Medellin\, Colombia. In addition\, they were part of the founding team for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights\, and Project Leader for the Swedish Museum of Migration and Democracy. In 2021\, they were awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Fellowship. \n  \n  \nMichaëlle Sergile is an artist and independent curator working mainly on archives including texts and works from the postcolonial period from 1950 to today. Her artistic work aims to understand and rewrite the history of Black communities\, and more specifically of women\, or communities living in diverse intersections\, through weaving. Often perceived as a medium of craftsmanship and categorized as feminine\, the artist uses the lexicon of weaving to question the relationships of gender and race. \nShe has exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec\, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Off Biennale de Dakar. Her name was also on the long list of the prestigious Sobey Award for the Arts in 2022. In 2023\, she won Visual Artist of the Year at the Gala Dynastie and began a residency at the Darling Foundry. She exhibited her work at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the McCord Stewart Museum in 2024. \n  \nAssociate Professor Miranda Smitheram is an artist\, design researcher and educator. Miranda was raised within a bicultural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand\, and draws upon her Māori and settler-colonial heritage in her work. \nDeveloping new hybrid materials to contribute to sustainable\, relational and postcolonial futures\, she centres her approach on crafting with the environment. This is explored through digital\, physical and hybrid materialities. Miranda’s current research investigates ontologies of kinship\, contested places\, and decolonizing matter through research-creation\, by rematerializing invasive plant species and contaminants into soft surface\, biocomposite and textile applications. \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 6-7:30 PM \n📍: National Gallery of Canada\, Auditorium / Live-broadcasted into Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \n🔗 Zoom registration \nThe event will be held in English with simultaneous French interpretation. \n  \nOrganized in partnership with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology and the National Gallery of Canada. \n               \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/woven-futures-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Roundtable
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SUMMARY:[PANEL] Woven Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Textiles and Materiality Cluster at the Milieux Institute invites you to a 30-minute panel discussion and Q&A session exploring key themes from the National Gallery of Canada’s Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition. Join PhD scholars Victoria MacBeath\, Geneviève Moisan\, Fernanda Suarez\, and Morris Fox for a captivating conversation that will touch on: \n\nTextiles as material\, technique\, and subject\nUsing textiles to address socio-political change\nTextiles as communal acts of care\n\nThis discussion will not only delve into these themes through the panelists’ creative research practices but will also serve as a lead-in to the Woven Futures: In Conversation panel\, which will take place later in the evening.\nThis second panel\, hosted at the National Gallery of Canada and live-broadcasted into our space\, will feature a Q&A where members will have the opportunity to ask questions first to panelists\, Dr. Miranda Smitheram\, Armando Perla\, and Michaëlle Sergile. \n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nVictoria MacBeath is a PhD candidate in the department of art history at Concordia University in Montréal\, Canada. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research considers the intersections of care ethics and craft-making practices in 20th-century New Brunswick. In doing so\, it takes up questions of language politics\, settler and indigenous relations\, notions of folklore and heritage\, and the rural and urban divide. Her research interests include material culture\, craft\, Atlantic history\, gender and feminist studies\, and heritage.  \n  \n  \nGeneviève Moisan is a skilled Jacquard weaver with a strong technical background in textile construction\, printing\, and dyeing. As a PhD student in Art Education at Concordia University\, her research explores the transfer of textile knowledge in informal learning settings\, particularly in support groups for caregivers. She actively participates in diverse collaborative research projects\, including creating textile antennas for video communication\, Jacquard weaving\, soft circuit textiles\, and cultivating bacteria to develop sustainable fibre dyeing protocols. Genevieve works as an equipment support specialist at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, where she also teaches workshops on weaving and digital embroidery.   \nShe holds a BFA from UQAM\, an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University\, and a diploma in Higher Education Pedagogy. Since 2019\, she has been a part-time instructor in the Fibres and Material Practices program at Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in various venues\, including the Centre d’action culturelle de la MRC de Papineau\, as well as in Montreal\, Toronto\, Venice\, Paris\, and Oaxaca\, Mexico.  \n  \nFernanda Suarez is a visual artist with an MA in Communication and Social Change and a BFA\, currently a PhD candidate in the  Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD student at Concordia University. Her artistic practice is transdisciplinary\, deploying a situated approach to drawing\, textile\, text\, and craft techniques to address issues of gender\, subjectivity\, and collaboration. With an interest in the material implications of textile production from a feminist decolonial approach\, her practice explores memory and knowledge. Environment and technique are central to her processes as open forms of knowledge that come into meaning through relations.   \nHer research-creation project explores the experience of weaving together with Nahua indigenous and Mestiza women in the Nahua community of Cuacuila\, located in the Sierra Norte de Puebla in Mexico. By working together\, they have learned and retaken almost extinct techniques in this territory. Although having a complex relationship influenced by colonial legacies\, learning and creating together has allowed us to recognize each other and forge different bonds.  \n  \nMorris Fox is a settler-Canadian interdisciplinary visual artist and poet whose work explores the hauntings of our ecological and socio-political atmospheres through a queer and gothic ecological lens. Fox integrates writing and ecological motifs into poetry\, chainmaille soft sculptures\, crafted queer ephemera\, and digital video\, asking what it means to make worlds and conditions of liveability\, as queer possibility\, within ecological end times?  \nBased in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal)\, Morris is currently pursuing a PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University. He has exhibited artworks and programmed workshops and talks internationally\, including Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal)\, Tkaronto (Toronto)\, where he grew up\, the United States and Iceland. His work has notably been featured in various exhibitions such as Spring Awaits (Wick Gallery\, Minneapolis\, 2025)\, Cruise-ading (Webster Library\, Montréal\, 2024)\, Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic (Stoveworks\, Chattanooga TS\, 2023)\, My Gay Mediaeval Times (Spacemaker ii\, Toronto\, 2022)\, and Vestiges and Remains (Artcite Inc.\, Windsor\, 2022). He holds a BFA (Concordia U\, 2010) and a Low Residency MFA (School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, 2018).  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 5-5:30 PM \n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \nMore information about Woven Futures: In conversation \n  \n               \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-woven-stories/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch
DESCRIPTION: Technoculture\, Art & Games Research Centre (TAG)  is excited to announce the launch of Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch\, a new book by Mia Consalvo\, Marc Lajeunesse\, and Andrei Zanescu. The event will feature a discussion with the authors\, moderated by TAG co-director Rilla Khaled. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\n\nAn in-depth investigation of the Twitch streamers who make up the largest population on the platform: those streaming to small audiences or even no one. \nThe vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us\, Mia Consalvo\, Marc Lajeunesse\, and Andrei Zanescu investigate who they are\, why they do so\, and why this form of leisure activity is important to understand. Unlike the esports athletes and streaming superstars who receive the lion’s share of journalistic and academic attention\, microstreamers are not in it for the money and barely have an audience. In this\, the first book dedicated to the latter group\, the authors gather interviews from dozens of microstreamers from 2017 to 2019 to discuss their lives\, struggles\, hopes\, and goals. \nFor readers interested in livestreaming\, and Twitch in particular\, the book rethinks the medium’s history through accounts of the everyday uses of webcams\, with particular attention to notions of liveness and authenticity. These two concepts have become calling cards for the videogame livestreaming platform and underlie streamer motivations\, the construction of their practices (whether casual\, serious\, or anywhere in between)\, and the complex “metas” that take shape over time. The book also looks at the authors’ own practices of livestreaming\, focusing on what can be gained through experiencing the lived reality of the practice. Finally\, the authors explain how Twitch’s platform (studied from 2017–2023) informs how streamers structure their every day and how corporate ideologies bleed into real-world spaces like TwitchCon. \n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\n\nMia Consalvo is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University. She is the co-author of Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames (2019) and Players and their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset (2015). She is also co-editor of Sports Videogames (2013) and the Handbook of Internet Studies (2011)\, and is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (2007) as well as Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context (2016). \nMia runs the mLab\, a space dedicated to developing innovative methods for studying games and game players. She’s a member of the Centre for Technoculture\, Art & Games (TAG)\, she has presented her work at industry as well as academic conferences including regular presentations at the Game Developers Conference. She is the Past President of the Digital Games Research Association\, and has held positions at MIT\, Ohio University\, Chubu University in Japan and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \n\nMarc Lajeunesse is a research associate\, course instructor\, and the coordinator of TAG\, the Technoculture\, Arts\, and Games Research Centre. His recent work examines toxicity in online game spaces\, with an emphasis on player-led strategies for in-game toxicity mitigation. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrei Zanescu is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University\, specializing in the intersection of Hollywood film\, prestige television\, and blockbuster video games. His research explores the cultural resonance of blockbuster games\, the processes of legitimizing these works at trade shows and award ceremonies\, and the impact of AAA game-making on global gaming culture. \n  \n🗓: February 20\, 2025\n🕒: 3:00 PM\n📍: TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-streaming-by-the-rest-of-us/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250217T160000
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SUMMARY:Drawing with Threads
DESCRIPTION:This hands-on workshop introduce participants to the essentials of using embroidery software with the Tajima embroidery machine. Learn how to create\, design\, and format your own embroidery files\, ready to be uploaded to the machine. \nYou will have an opportunity to see your threaded drawings come to life in real time on the embroidery machine. \n  \n  \n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n\n📅:February 17\, 2025 | 1-4 PM\n📍: EV 10.725\n🎟️: Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-with-threads/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250217T130000
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SUMMARY:A byte-Sized Welcome with Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Byte-Sized Welcome\, the exciting kick-off event for the new semester with Machine Agencies! \nCome on down\, grab some lunch\, and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations.  \n This is your chance to learn about our ongoing projects and hear about the upcoming activities and events we’re hosting! \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. Our research group encourages cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. We engage with posthumanism\, experience design\, and public policy to find new formats\, methods\, and commons to sustain just\, fair\, and better worlds. \nPractically\, that means Machine Agencies is a collection of researchers investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \nMachine Agencies is part of the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Machine Agencies draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: February 17\, 2025\n🕒: 12 – 1 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 More about Machine Agencies \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-byte-sized-welcome-with-machine-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250214T163000
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Oral History in the Ruins of Industry
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media & Materiality Cluster for the second-to-last talk in our series of public talks and discussions on recent media history. In this presentation\, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia\, Steven High\, will reflect on how visual approaches have shaped his oral history practice over the past 35 years. Focusing on his ongoing research into the structural violence of deindustrialization\, High will explore the profound impact on working-class communities since the 1970s\, and how industrial ruins are often aestheticized during gentrification. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSteven High is an award-winning historian whose research on the structural violence of deindustrialization has put Canada at the centre of important global conversations about what a “just transition” might look like after past failures. His use of oral history ensures that his interpretation is grounded in the lives of working people. He has published many books and articles on this topic\, including Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class (2022) and Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003). His next book\, The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class\, to be released in February 2025\, considers how social democrats responded to the unfolding industrial crisis. He is currently leading a large transnational project investigating the politics of deindustrialization (see the website: deindustrialization.org). \n  \n🗓: February 14\, 2025\n🕒: 3 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Register here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/visualizing-oral-history-in-the-ruins-of-industry/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:LOVE & LOSS - Nostalgia Symposium and Research Creation Showcase
DESCRIPTION:🗓: February 4\, 2025\n🕒: 10:00 – 5:30 PM\n📍: 4TH SPACE \n🎟️: In-person tickets (Spots are limited) \n🔗 Join online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \n  \nJoin us on February 14th for NOSTAGAIN NETWORK third symposium: “LOVE & LOSS”\, a day-long symposium and research creation showcase featuring works by students\, scholars\, and artists! \nCome to feel\, explore and reimagine nostalgia not as mere reminiscence\, but as a powerful tool for understanding our collective past and reimagining our future. Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s concept of “creative nostalgia”(2021)\, this event brings together students\, scholars\, and artists to probe the complex emotional landscapes of remembering and forgetting. \nThe NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN symposium is a student-led symposium that explores creative nostalgia through panel discussions and workshops from experts in the arts and sciences. \n  \nPROGRAM:\n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nHere is a recap of last year’s edition : Time in a Bottle” \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/love-loss-nostalgia-symposium-and-research-creation-showcase/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260609T134934
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T190536Z
UID:10001175-1739374200-1739379600@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Safflower Dyeing Demo
DESCRIPTION:A love letter to safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)\nThis Wednesday\, come to the Speculative Life BioLab for a brief introduction to the chemistry\, history\, and unique process of dyeing with one of safflower’s vibrant pigments: carthamin. \nThere will be hidden reds! There will be dramatic pH shifts! There will be tales of fermented plums and forbidden colours! Come for the flowers ✿ stay for the secrets \n  \n🚨 Spots are limited! \nEmail biolab.milieux@concordia.ca with the subject SAFFLOVER to reserve your spot.\n\n🗓: February 12\, 2025\n🕒: 3:30 – 5:00 PM\n📍: EV 10.835
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/safflower-dyeing-demo/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Demo
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250210T160000
DTSTAMP:20260609T134934
CREATED:20250131T190710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T195413Z
UID:10001167-1739192400-1739203200@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Brodering on the Brother Workshop (BOB)
DESCRIPTION:On February 10\, the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster is hosting a 3-hour training session for cluster members interested  in the art of embroidery. Whether you’re a beginner ready to explore a new creative avenues or an experienced embroiderer looking to brush up on your skills\, this is the perfect opportunity! \nGenevieve Moisan will lead the session\, offering a detailed\, hands-on guide to using the Brother PR600 electronic embroidery machine (6-colour). \n  \n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n🗓: February 10\, 2025\n🕒: 1:00 – 4:00 PM\n📍: EV 10.725 \n🔗 Please register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to secure your spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/brodering-on-the-brother-workshop-bob/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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