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[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP! What? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations When? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) Where? Milieux Institute, Concordia University We are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative […]

[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP! What? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations When? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) Where? Milieux Institute, Concordia University We are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative […]

[Info Session] Milieux Expo: The Commons

We're thrilled to invite all members (faculty and students alike!) to an online info session dedicated to our upcoming annual exhibition, which will be held from September 25 to 29, 2023, at Concordia’s 4th Space! This session will serve as an open platform to discuss and clarify the theme, guidelines, submission processes, and any other […]

The River’s Threads | Au fil du Saint-Laurent

Join us Thurday, June 15 to Sunday, June 18, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM outside the Maison Nivard-De Saint-Dizier archaeological museum for our community stitch research and creation project - family friendly, fun, and free! The River’s Threads | Au fil du Saint-Laurent is a community stitch project that integrates cyanotype, eco-printing, and natural dye […]

Data Justice Hub Skills Development Webinar With Imani Jacqueline Brown

Online

The Data Justice Hub invites you to a webinar with artist, activist, and architechtural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown: Unraveling Industry: Mapping Oil and Gas Infrastructure to Demand Reparations Unraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by company, supporting local and global demands for corporate accountability and "ecological reparations". It maps […]

Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch

We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members to meet in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) for lunch and a chat for our Annual General Meeting! We will be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2021-2022). We encourage everyone to attend—even if you have no interest in […]

DisinfoGames: Analog Game Jam

Concordia University - ER Building 2155 Rue Guy, 6th floor, Montreal

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 […]

(un)Stable Diffusions Symposium

Machine Agencies is happy to invite everyone to join this two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations, happening from May 23-24 online and in-person at the Milieux Institute. About (un)Stable Diffusions 21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by […]

(un)Stable Diffusions Symposium

Machine Agencies is happy to invite everyone to join this two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations, happening from May 23-24 online and in-person at the Milieux Institute. About (un)Stable Diffusions 21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by […]

DisinfoGames: Analog Game Jam

Concordia University - ER Building 2155 Rue Guy, 6th floor, Montreal

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 […]

[Postponed] Dr. Louise Amoore Lecture on Machine Learning Politics

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 […]

Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age – Symposium

Next-Generation Cities Institute 2155 rue Guy, ER Building, Room 1431

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 […]