The Goethe-Institut is partnering with Milieux, Hexagram and Eastern Bloc to offer an 8-week residency to work closely with a NAO robot! As part of the ongoing project Robots in Residence the Goethe-Institut Montreal will be hosting a NAO-Robot during six months from February to July. During this time, the Goethe-Institut offers one residence for […]
This Friday, March 31st, at 5 PM, the Ethnography Lab will be screening Lost Rivers, a documentary by Caroline Bâcle, in presence of protagonist of the film, urban speleologist Danielle Plamondon! The lab's Montreal Waterways research group has been engaging ethnographically with a number of ‘water objects’ over the years examining Montreal’s historical and present […]
"we are all 'in this together' as a shifting set of materials without privilege over each other." (Attala 2019) In this 2.5-hour workshop, you will learn the basics of paper-making and how to use pulp to form 3D objects. We will focus on repurposing and using found materials to create imagined creatures. This playful workshop […]
On March 30th at 12PM, please join us for what promises to be a stirring virtual discussion with the esteemed authors of the celebrated book Platforms and Cultural Production (2021, Polity Press)! Brooke Erin Duffy, David B. Nieborg, and Thomas Poell will join us to share how the book came together, their primary arguments, and […]
Post Image presents artist Shelley Niro in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. 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. […]
Post Image is pleased to present a Screening + Q+A with director Shelley Niro as part of the Moving the Landscape to Find Ground series. When? March 28th from 6pm-8pm Where? DeSeve Cinema (1400 de, Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8). Reserve a spot here Synopsis: Mitzi Bearclaw is an indigenous woman who reluctantly […]
A one-day workshop hosted by the City of Montreal, the Milieux Biolab, and the Concordia Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality In urban settings, the toxicity of the air, a milieu that is felt although invisible, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated by transport and construction activities have significant […]
Join us for the fourth instalment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG), Colonialism Race and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE), and Society, Politics, Animals and Materiality (SPAM). The Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an online talk with Dr. Sophie Chao. Recent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological […]
Participatory Open Studio: VHS Residence at LePARC with visiting artist and master's student Juan Miceli. I will be working with 80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave me to construct a temporary collective video installation. I invite people to open those casetes, share personal archives, discuss the way vision machines mold us and find antidotes […]
From March 23rd until the 29th, participate in a week-long series of online and in-person activities to explore new forms of visual publications investigating contemporary sociopolitical, anthropotechnical, and environmental issues. How can we go beyond text in communicating practice-based research? On March 23rd, .able, a free image-based multiplatform journal that publishes research at the intersection […]
Experience a 16-minute Virtual Reality performance at LePARC! LePARC is thrilled to be hosting this performance & VR event with Emer O'Toole, professor in the Irish Studies department and recent new faculty member to the research cluster. The 6-day run launches on St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) and ends on March 22, 2023, at the Milieux […]
Join Nostagain's path to creative nostalgia with a neuroscientist-artist via guided meditation, active recollection, and diorama crafting! Following the successful LOSTAGAIN symposium last February, the Nostagain Network continues the exploration of Creative Nostalgia (Boym 2001) in an intimate fashion. Led by neuroscientist-artist, Dr. Cristian Zaelzer, participants can expect to: Bring your oldest owned object to the workshop; Tell […]
