The Concordia University’s Disinformation and Games Research Project invites all members to join their upcoming analog game jam, DisinfoGames! Event Description This is a 2-day event taking place on Friday May 19th and Friday May 26th from 9-4pm. Participants will work in teams to create analog games around the theme of media disinformation. Through this […]
Dr. Amoore introduces the concept of machine learning politics. The idea that a ‘good’ machine learning model is one that can generalise to new situations has a long history. Even Turing’s 1950s accounts of machine intelligence referred to what he called a “spring of action” that exceeded the programming of explicit rules. By 2012, when […]
The Solar Media Collective is organizing a symposium on the multiscalar dimensions of sustainable, just, and hopeful energy transitions. Join academics, artists, and community members for round table discussions and a workshop exploring sustainability at different scales. Situated Solar Relations: rethinking scale for the renewable energy age will convene academics, artists, students, and community members for […]
The Textiles and Materiality Cluster is happy to invite everyone to the Home/Making Research-Creation Showcase, co-hosted with 4 TH Space! Join us for a weeklong workshop series, research creation showcase and symposium drawing interdisciplinary scholars and makers into an ongoing conversation at the intersection of craft and home. The Home/Making Research-Creation Showcase will present material inquiries with work […]
Interested in learning how to do data activism? Join our free workshop from May 5-7th on Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism, at Concordia University and online! “Mobilizing Data for Justice” is a three-day skills development workshop where activists and critical researchers can learn methods for making sense of and engaging with data in social struggles. […]
The Concordia University's Centre for Sensory Studies invites everyone to the international multidisciplinary conference Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies & Aesthetics, happening from May 3rd to May 6th at Concordia University and on-line! The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the focus […]
The Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology, located in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual members’ exhibition, which will take place from September 25 - 29, 2023, at Concordia’s 4th Space. Milieux is seeking submissions from active student and faculty members that engage with this year’s theme: The […]
This 2-day performative showcase by the Performing Arts Research Cluster’s student membership is the culmination of two lively weeks of collaborative research-creation laboratories in which ideas and bodies converged. Join us as we travel from space to space to discover what form the projects have taken, learn about the artists and experience these embodied interventions! […]
More-than-ethnographic probes: On scales, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human with Maxime Le Calvé The CURC in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Milieux Biolab are happy to host anthropologist of art and science Maxime Le Calvé (Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence, U. Humboldt) for a four-day workshop (April 28th to May […]
On April 26th at 6 PM, The Ethnography lab presents the screening of ‘Occupied’ in the last Film Nights of the semester. The documentary follows Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, as he spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation. In an extraordinary and personal film, Dmytro chronicles […]
On April 25th, Post Image presents visual and media artist Caroline Monnet in the last installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial […]
In collaboration with the Performing Arts Research Cluster, Emilie Morin and Ryan Clayton are organizing a series of events around their currently exhibited work Le spectre anime nos os // The Spectre Animates our Bones, in the Fofa Gallery’s Black Box until June 2nd. Happening throughout the week of April 24th, all events are free […]
