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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/
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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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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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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/
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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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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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250217T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250217T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250214T163000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250214T173000
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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
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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:20260613T131140
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Curious about the Jacquard loom and how you can integrate it in your artistic practice? Join Geneviève Moisan for an introduction to the Pointcarré Textile software for the Jacquard Loom. \n\nOnce a vitrine for innovation\, the first Jacquard images were inspired by the popular imagery of the time and produced by different ateliers as a way for them to demonstrate their technical proficiency. In a contemporary context\, we have become over-saturated with images\, leading us to question which images warrant materialization\, and why. \n\nIn this workshop\, you will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art: an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\,  simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \n\n\nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image:\n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 60 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nNote: Only experienced weavers are authorized to operate the Jacquard loom. There is a possibility to have your image woven in the weeks after the workshop in a size of about 12 x 12 inches.\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. ​Limited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nInstruction will be given in the Cluster Commons (EV 10.730)\, followed by independent work on individual computers in separate rooms.\n\n\n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n\n📅:February 7\, 2025 | 1-4 PM\n📍: EV 10.735\n🎟️: Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop-3/
LOCATION:EV 10.735
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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SUMMARY:Working with Ollama: Build AI RAGs on your own Laptop
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies‘s Gen AI Studio for the first of our monthly skill share meetings! \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 our brief workshop\, participants will implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that can do things like answer questions about a pdf etc. \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. \n\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\n📅:February 7\, 2025 | 12-1 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/working-with-ollama-build-ai-rags-on-your-own-laptop/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:LASER 15 – Artificial Intelligence\, Human-Computer Interaction\, and New Approaches to Musical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Co-chairs : Nina Czegledy and Ricardo Dal Farra\n  \nPresented as part of the LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks series and supported by Hexagram\, this event explores how AI and human-computer interaction are reshaping creative practices.  \n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are revolutionizing creative practices\, offering innovative tools and methodologies for artists\, designers\, and technologists. These advancements challenge traditional workflows and open up new possibilities in sound\, music\, and interactive media.  \n\n\n In this session\, Gabriel Vigliensoni\, Assistant Professor in Creative Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University\, and Marcelo M. Wanderley\, Professor\, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)\, and Area Coordinator for Music Technology at McGill University\, will explore cutting-edge research and practices in AI\, HCI\, and musical interfaces.  \n\n\nData- and Interaction-Driven Approaches for Sustained Musical Practice: \n\n\nGabriel Vigliensoni will present his research on the control and steerability of neural audio synthesis models through data- and interaction-driven approaches. His talk will emphasize how small datasets enhance performers’ creative agency and how interactive machine learning techniques improve expressivity and coherence in generative audio models. These concepts will be illustrated with examples from his creative practice\, demonstrating the potential for rich\, sustained musical engagements.  \n\n\nInterdisciplinary Research on New Musical Interfaces: \n\n\nMarcelo M. Wanderley will discuss interdisciplinary research on new interfaces for musical expression (NIME)\, highlighting the interplay between music technology\, HCI\, and engineering. His presentation will include an overview of early NIME designs\, recent advancements from the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University\, and insights into creative AI opportunities within this field.  \n\n\nTogether\, these talks showcase how AI and HCI are transforming music technology and performance\, opening new horizons for creativity and innovation in sound and interactive media.  \n\nMODERATION: \nNina Czegledy\, Adjunct Professor\, OCAD\, and Co-Chair Leonard/ISAST LASER Talks. \nRicardo Dal Farra\, Professor\, Music Department\, Concordia University. \n  \nSPEAKERS: \nGabriel Vigliensoni\, is Assistant Professor in Creative Artificial Intelligences\, Design and Computational Arts at Concordia University. His  work currently explores the creative affordances of the machine learning paradigm in the context of sound- and music-making. His practice merges formal musical training with extensive studies and experience in sound recording\, music production\, music information retrieval\, human-computer interaction\, and machine learning to explore and develop novel approaches to music composition and performance. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarcelo M. Wanderley holds a Ph.D. in acoustics\, signal processing\, and computer science applied to music. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of novel interfaces for music performance. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on new interfaces for musical expression (NIME)\, including the co-edited volume Trends in Gestural Control of Music and the textbook New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard. As the director of the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University\, he leads research in gestural control of sound synthesis\, new instrument design\, and analysis of performer-instrument interaction.  . \n  \n  \n\nLeonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is a program of international gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations\, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities and 5 continents worldwide.  \nHexagram gratefully acknowledges funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture.   \nHexagram is an interdisciplinary network in Montreal dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts\, cultures and technologies. It comprises around forty co-researchers\, forty collaborators\, and a little over 200 students from various artistic disciplines related\, in particular\, to living arts\, visual arts\, design\, and media arts\, while also touching disciplines in the social sciences and humanities or natural sciences and engineering.  \n  \n📅: February 4\, 2025 | 6-8 PM \n📍: Milieux Institute Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Hybrid event: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/lpl0qWm2SSes1g5OHVBb2Q \n\nAfter registering\, participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nThis event will be held in English \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/laser-15-artificial-intelligence-human-computer-interaction-and-new-approaches-to-musical-practice/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Montreal Media History Seminar: ‘Written by Readers’: The 'Sunshine Dividends' of Junior Press Clubs
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media and Materiality Research Cluster for the first Montreal Media History Seminar of 2025. This talk will explore the history and significance of Junior Press Clubs in 20th-century newspapers\, examining how youth-driven media outlets shaped early youth journalism and the varying motivations behind their creation\, drawing insights from Gabriele and Moore’s book The Sunday Paper: A Media History (Illinois\, 2022). \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nBetween 1890 and 1990\, for the entire span of newspapers’ predominance of mass media\, a small but significant number of papers ran “junior press clubs.” These outlets expanded the typical weekend children’s page into fully-fledged more or less self-organized youth organizations. Junior Press Clubs had elected officers trained in the production of a weekly or daily school or youth publication. \nIn their book chapter on tabloid and poster supplements of The Sunday Paper (which we offer as background reading) Gabriele and Moore briefly spotlighted early bannered children’s pages and specially-sized ‘junior” journals as a matter of “fashioning the supplement for little hands” (pp. 71-79). Their new\, preliminary research into junior press clubs’ in later years demonstrates surprising variability and sporadic adoption; they did not become standardized or syndicated on a continental scale. Some were pitched as entertainment\, offering club members picnics\, free movies or trips to ball games. Some were relatively elaborate\, like the Los Angeles “Junior Times” Club’s weekly magazine\, entirely written\, illustrated\, edited and managed by a juvenile staff. The LA Times (1923) promised “sunshine dividends” for youth members\, including their own pressroom and club quarters. \nIn this early exploration of these and other cases\, Gabriele and Moore ask why a newspaper would undertake this extraordinary effort to facilitate entire “junior journals” (Minneapolis Journal 1898) that were “written by readers” (Hamilton Spectator\, 1902)? They will share a range of examples\, inviting Seminar participants’ further insights. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nSandra Gabriele is the Vice-Provost\, Innovation in Teaching & Learning and a Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She has published on changing historical news forms. She is currently researching student fluency in the language of employability and mindful self-compassion in the professional development of university teaching. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPaul Moore is professor of sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. His media histories of cinema exhibition in North America have focused on the relation between audiences and newspaper publicity\, appearing in Film History\, Canadian Journal of Film Studies\, and The Moving Image. He is currently writing an updated history of cinema in Canada. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: January 31\, 2025\n🕒: 3:00 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier\, EV 11.425\, Concordia University \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/montreal-media-history-seminar-written-by-readers-the-sunshine-dividends-of-junior-press-clubs/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series]: Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on January 29th for the return of TAG’s Critical Watch Series! This time we’ll be watching Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series offers an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion and a podcast recording with select members of the audience. \nIf you would like to reserve a spot on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact Marc Lajeunesse at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca \n  \n \n  \n📅 January 29\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-sonic-the-hedgehog-2020/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:2024-25 Undergraduate Fellows Introductory Presentations!
DESCRIPTION:It’s that time of year again!\nWe’ve just announced the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Fellows cohort\, and now it’s their turn to introduce themselves\, share their projects\, and discuss the topics that inspire them. \nTo welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community\, we invite all members (faculty\, students and staff) to join us for a special event on January 29th\, 2025. We are thrilled to foster their creativity and support their endeavours as they begin their research journey at the institute! \nJoin us for an informal gathering and presentations from these outstanding emerging researchers—plus\, enjoy some coffee and snacks! \nThe presentations will be held in-person. \nIn the meantime\, get to know this year’s talented cohort: \nAnnouncing Milieux Institute’s 2024-25 Undergraduate Fellows \n \nWe can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n📅: January 29\, 2025 | 3-5 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2024-25-undergraduate-fellows-introductory-presentations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250124T170000
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SUMMARY:2025 Indigenous Futures Research Centre Annual Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) for their third annual symposium at 4TH SPACE. The 2-day Research Symposium will feature meaningful discussions centred around Indigenous perspectives\, methodologies\, and research practices that actively engage Indigenous knowledge systems and communities. \nJoin us as we spark dialogues between faculty and students from across Concordia University\, shedding light on current challenges and exploring connected and constructive visions for the future. \nPROGRAM:\nDAY 1 : Thursday\, January 23\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM Opening Remarks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOhen:ton Karihwatéhkwen by Prof. Hannah Claus \n1:15 PM Indigenous Art Histories: More than Fluff and Feathers \nRodrigo D’Alcantara\, Dayna Danger\, and Victoria May \nModerated by Dr. Michelle McGeough \nThe title of this panel is based on an exhibition and text written by the late Kanien’kehá:ka scholar Dr. Deborah Doxtator. Doxtator’s exhibition and text Fluffs and Feathers: An Exhibit on the Symbols of Indianness offered a critique of the ways Indigenous people are portrayed in popular culture. While the exhibition occurred in the 1990s\, many of these notions of “Indianness” remain a part of the non-Indigenous imagination. These stereotypes are not benign but reveal the violence of settler colonialism.  This panel presents the work of three emerging scholars whose research and praxis speaks to the impact of settler colonialism but centers Indigenous concerns and ideas regarding possible futurities. \n\n2:30 PM Where the Waters Flow: Networks and Tributaries \n\n\n\nPresented by the Concordia University Research Chair in Onkwehonwené:ha \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJess Teionshontàhthe Beauvais\, Armando Cuspinera\, and Martín Rodríguez \nModerated by Prof. Hannah Claus \nThis panel brings together three of the Research Assistants who are currently working with the panel moderator and visual artist\, Hannah Claus\, on her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council project: where the waters flow. Each will talk about their role in the project and how it connects to their own varied practices in theatre\, ceramics and sound art/performance. Claus frames their contributions within a methodology built out of the Two Row Wampum\, Tékeni Teiohá:te\, within which the relationship between the non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples of this territory is upheld by peace\, respect and friendship. \n3:45 PM Weaving Culturally-Grounded Visual identities \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Roundtable Presented by Abundant Intelligences \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTarcisio Cataldi\, Julia Fortin\, Kimiora Whaanga\, and Renee Waiwiri \nModerated by Prof. Jason Edward Lewis \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Abundant Intelligences research program re-imagines how to conceptualize\, design\, develop and deploy Artificial Intelligence based on Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Brought together to discuss the collaborative and labour-intensive design process behind the creation of the program’s visual identity are AbInt designers Renee Waiwiri\, Tarcisio Cataldi\, Kimiora Whaanga and Julia Fortin.  \n\n\n\n\n  \nDAY 2: Friday\, January 24\n11:00 AM Indigenous Knowledges in Interdisciplinary Design \nIako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers\, Dr. Mel Lefebvre\, Dr. Miranda Smitheram \nModerated by Prof. Jason Edward Lewis \nThis panel brings together Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers\, Dr. Mel Lefebvre\, and Dr. Miranda Smitheram to discuss the integration of Indigenous methodologies into contemporary design practices. Through visual storytelling\, skin marking\, and material innovation\, their respective practices explore how ancestral and contemporary methods can create sustainable and relational futures. \n12:45 PM Wampum as Pedagogy \n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Prof. Nicolas Renaud \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a new course on wampum belts\, the experience that unfolded for both students and professor provided lessons in pedagogical approaches that blend theory and material practice\, and make space for Indigenous ways of knowing. This presentation showcases the students’ final wampum projects and draws questions and observations from the process. It reflects on intercultural exchanges in the classroom; boundaries around a culturally specific tradition; inclusion of a creative component in a non-art class; channeling personal narratives; and realizing that a subject can “teach itself”.  \n\n1:15 PM Ways of Knowing and Un-learning in First Peoples Studies Program \n\n\n\n\nDalia Beaudry\, Lena Palacios\, Bailey Parkinson\, and Zephyriah Roberts \nModerated by Prof. Nicolas Renaud \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStudents in the BA program in First Peoples Studies at Concordia are led to explore Indigenous contemporary realities\, culturally and politically\, and to deconstruct dominant settler epistemologies. Four students will present research they have done in recent FPST courses\, contributing significant insight on a range of topics\, such as language revitalization\, decolonial archival practices in filmmaking\, issues of identity definition\, and recording cultural heritage in communities.  \n2:30 PM Indigenoous Cyberspace and Rez Futures \n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by AbTeC Gallery \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDestiny Chescappio and Morgan Zoe \nModerated by Skawennati \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis two-part panel will begin with a conversation on the development of AbTeC Gallery: an Indigenously determined virtual exhibition space for contemporary art\, located on AbTeC Island in Second Life\, featuring artist and founder Skawennati\, who will discuss the process of transmediating art and exhibition-making in cyberspace.  \nThe second part of this presentation will have Skawennati moderating a conversation between Naskapi artist Destiny Chescappio from Kawawachikamach (QC) and Tłı̨chǫ artist Morgan Zoe from Behchokǫ̀ (NWT) whose recent works consider the imagining Indigenous reservations (Rez) in the future\, addressing concepts of resilience\, sovereignty and technology.  \n4:00 PM Community in the Centre: Indigenous  Ways of Doing Research \n\n\n\n\nPresented by the Office of Community Engagement \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuliet Mackie\, Christine Qillasiq Lussier\, Victoria May\, Véronique Picard\,\nIako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers\, and Harriet Ransom  \nModerated by Geneviève Sioui \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Community-engaged learning fund for Indigenous students (CELFIS) recognizes Indigenous knowledge and methodologies as important contributions to academic knowledge and supports Indigenous students in anchoring their work in Indigenous communities. This panel brings together this year’s recipients: Métis multidisciplinary Artist Juliet Mackie\, Inuk Oral Historian Christine Qillasiq Lussier\, Red-River Métis-Michif Dance Scholar Victoria May\, Wendat PhD candidate Véronique Picard\, Seneca designer\, pedagogue and multi-media artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers and Kanien:keha’ka educator Harriet Tsiawenion Ransom.  \n5:00 PM Reception at SHIFT \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n📅: January 23-24\, 2025 | 1-5 PM \n📍: 4TH SPACE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2025-indigenous-futures-research-centre-annual-symposium/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:Workshop on AI & DH (part 2)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day conference exploring the intersection of AI and Digital Humanities. \nThis event is organized by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) in collaboration with the Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique (GREN) and the Milieux Institute. \n  \nProgram:\nWednesday 15 January 2025:\n\n10am-10.30m — Welcome and coffee\n10.30am-11.15am — Paper #1 — Leonardo Laurence Impett (University of Cambridge): « The visual cultures of AI »\n11.15am-12pm — Paper #2 — Douglas Reside (New York Public Library): « Using Generative AI to Learn from Archival Performance Photography »\nnoon-1.30pm Lunch break\n1.30pm-2.15pm — Paper #3 — Mohamed Cheriet (École de technologie supérieure\, Montréal): « Unlocking the Past: AI-Based Visual Language Processing of Ancient Manuscript Collections »\n2.15pm-3pm — Paper #4 — Umair Rehman (Western University): « Generative AI in Automating Think-Aloud Protocols and Heuristic Evaluations »\n3pm-3.30pm — Coffee break\n3.30pm-4.15pm — Paper #5 — Marianne Reboul (ENS Lyon): « Detecting intertext between Latin and Greek authors through LLMs »\n4.15pm-5pm — Paper #6 — Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University) and Susan Brown(University of Guelph): « Tag Team: AI and TEI in LEAF Commons »\n\n\nThursday 16 January 2025:\n\n9.30am-10am — Welcome and coffee\n10am-10.45am — Paper #7 — Bart Simon (Concordia U): « A Tale of Machine Agencies: AI as a Toy\, not a Tool »\n10.45am-11.30am — Paper #8 — Faith Majekolagbe (University of Alberta): « Copyright Ethics and Artificial Intelligence »\n11.30am-11.45am — Coffee break\n11.45am-12.30pm — Paper #9 — Sil Robert Hamilton (Cornell University): « On Structuring Data for the Digital Humanities »\n\n\n📅: January 15-16\, 2025 | 10-5 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-on-ai-dh-part-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241209T160000
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SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Curious about the Jacquard loom and how you can integrate it in your artistic practice? Join Geneviève Moisan for an introduction to the Pointcarré Textile software for the Jacquard Loom. \n\nOnce a vitrine for innovation\, the first Jacquard images were inspired by the popular imagery of the time and produced by different ateliers as a way for them to demonstrate their technical proficiency. In a contemporary context\, we have become over-saturated with images\, leading us to question which images warrant materialization\, and why. \n\nIn this workshop\, you will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art: an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\,  simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \n\n\nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image:\n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 60 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nNote: Only experienced weavers are authorized to operate the Jacquard loom. There is a possibility to have your image woven in the weeks after the workshop in a size of about 12 x 12 inches.\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. ​Limited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nInstruction will be given in the Cluster Commons (EV 10.730)\, followed by independent work on individual computers in separate rooms.\n\n\n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n\n📅: December 09\, 2024 | 1-4 PM\n📍: EV 10.730\n🎟️: Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241206T150000
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SUMMARY:TAG x Next-Generations Cities Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for its First Collaboration Event with the Next-Generation Cities Institute (NGCI)! \nThe NGCI is seeking talented game scholars and designers for potential collaborations on thesis projects\, internships\, and more. This is a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge urban development strategies and innovative solutions aimed at shaping the cities of tomorrow. \nBy partnering with NGCI\, you’ll have the chance to apply your expertise in interactive design and simulation to real-world urban challenges. Additionally\, this collaboration could lead to impactful projects that contribute to sustainable city planning\, offering you valuable research opportunities\, internships\, and the chance to be at the forefront of next-gen city development. \n  \n📅: December 6\, 2024 | 1-3 PM \n📍: Next-Generations Cities Institute ER-1431.00
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-x-next-generations-cities-institute/
LOCATION:Next-Generations Cities institute ER-1431.00
CATEGORIES:Info Session,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241202T203000
DTSTAMP:20260613T131140
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SUMMARY:Speculations in the PARC
DESCRIPTION:Join The Speculative Life Research Cluster and The Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) for a  their end of semester mixer event on December 2nd from 5pm to 8:30pm. The event is open for all Milieux members and the general public to attend and aims to provide insight into research conducted within these two clusters in a cozy and festive atmosphere. It will also be the perfect moment to decompress and celebrate the last day of class! \n\nCALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: (For Speculative Life and LePARC members only!) \n \n\nMembers who wish to partake in this opportunity to share their research and meet people from other clusters have until November 27th 11.59pm EST to apply. \nTo submit your proposal\, please fill in this form with a presentation title\, short summary of research/creation and how you wish to present it. \nDue to the relatively short duration of the event\, only 10 presentations will be selected\, prioritizing those that explore common themes and overlaps and that haven’t been shown before. Work in progress are also accepted! \nThe presentations should be between 5 to 10 minutes each as more time will be allocated to informal chats! Without this being an elevator pitch thesis competition\, we encourage you to present your work in a concise way and to keep in mind that you will be engaging with folks from various academic disciplines. \nPlease note that these presentations need to remain minimal in terms of tech requirements; there will be a large screen TV and an HDMI cord for presenters that have visual components to show. \n\n\nPresentations will take place in Spec Life (EV.10.625). The Performance Lab (EV 10.865) will also be open for participants and attendees to check out durational performances and installations presented by LePARC members. Light food and non-alcoholic drinks will be served! \n📅 December 2\, 2024 | 5-8:30 PM \n📍 EV 10.625 / EV 10.865
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculations-in-the-parc/
CATEGORIES:Meeting,Performance,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Join us Monday\, December 2\, 2024 for the 4th Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture. Hosted by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) this conference will feature a keynote delivered by Dr. Isabel Pedersen.  \nEntitled “Create Me\, Break Me\, Remember Me: Art and AI in an Age of Reinvention” this talk will focus on embodied computing\, algorithmic culture\, augmented reality\, emergent media\, and AI ethics. \nThe talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell with three graduate students. \n  \nABOUT ISABEL PEDERSEN: \nDr. Isabel Pedersen\, Professor of Communication Studies\, is an expert in the field of emergent embodied technologies. She is the founding Director of the Digital Life Institute (www.digitallife.org) at Ontario Tech University. She investigates emergent and future digital technologies. She concentrates on social\, ethical\, and cultural implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, social implications of extended reality (XR)\, AI ethics\, standards\, and policy related to AI technologies. As an entrepreneur and co-owner\, she has built and sold two successful software start-up companies. \n  \n  \nABOUT GEOFFREY ROCKWELL: \nDr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta\, Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College\, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and worked at the University of Toronto as a Senior Instructional Technology Specialist. From 1994 to 2008 he was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre (1994 – 2004) and he led the development of an undergraduate Multimedia program funded through the Ontario Access To Opportunities Program. He has published and presented papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and ethics\, philosophical dialogue\, textual visualization and analysis\, humanities computing\, instructional technology\, computer games and multimedia. He was the project leader for the CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) funded project TAPoR\, a Text Analysis Portal for Research\, which has developed a text tool discovery portal at tapor.ca. He has published a book Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet with Humanity Books and a book titled Hermeneutica (with Stéfan Sinclair) with MIT Press. This book is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant\, an award winning suite of analytical tools. \n  \n📅: December 2\, 2024 | 9-11 AM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room | EV 11. 705 \n🌐 The event will be streamed here ( advance registration required) \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/fourth-annual-stefan-sinclair-lecture/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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