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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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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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SUMMARY:Visualizing Oral History in the Ruins of Industry
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media & Materiality Cluster for the second-to-last talk in our series of public talks and discussions on recent media history. In this presentation\, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia\, Steven High\, will reflect on how visual approaches have shaped his oral history practice over the past 35 years. Focusing on his ongoing research into the structural violence of deindustrialization\, High will explore the profound impact on working-class communities since the 1970s\, and how industrial ruins are often aestheticized during gentrification. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSteven High is an award-winning historian whose research on the structural violence of deindustrialization has put Canada at the centre of important global conversations about what a “just transition” might look like after past failures. His use of oral history ensures that his interpretation is grounded in the lives of working people. He has published many books and articles on this topic\, including Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class (2022) and Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003). His next book\, The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class\, to be released in February 2025\, considers how social democrats responded to the unfolding industrial crisis. He is currently leading a large transnational project investigating the politics of deindustrialization (see the website: deindustrialization.org). \n  \n🗓: February 14\, 2025\n🕒: 3 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Register here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/visualizing-oral-history-in-the-ruins-of-industry/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:LOVE & LOSS - Nostalgia Symposium and Research Creation Showcase
DESCRIPTION:🗓: February 4\, 2025\n🕒: 10:00 – 5:30 PM\n📍: 4TH SPACE \n🎟️: In-person tickets (Spots are limited) \n🔗 Join online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \n  \nJoin us on February 14th for NOSTAGAIN NETWORK third symposium: “LOVE & LOSS”\, a day-long symposium and research creation showcase featuring works by students\, scholars\, and artists! \nCome to feel\, explore and reimagine nostalgia not as mere reminiscence\, but as a powerful tool for understanding our collective past and reimagining our future. Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s concept of “creative nostalgia”(2021)\, this event brings together students\, scholars\, and artists to probe the complex emotional landscapes of remembering and forgetting. \nThe NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN symposium is a student-led symposium that explores creative nostalgia through panel discussions and workshops from experts in the arts and sciences. \n  \nPROGRAM:\n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nHere is a recap of last year’s edition : Time in a Bottle” \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/love-loss-nostalgia-symposium-and-research-creation-showcase/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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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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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250129T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250129T170000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250116T123000
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241209T130000
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
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
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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:20260613T191635
CREATED:20241121T190618Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241202T110000
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
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SUMMARY:Anthropocene: The Human Epoch screening with Director Jennifer Baichwal
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the screening of ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch\, a film by Jennifer Baichwal\, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier. The vent is co-organized with the McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Director Jennifer Baichwal.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet\, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal\, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky. Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013)\, the film follows the research of an international body of scientists\, the Anthropocene Working Group who\, after nearly 10 years of research\, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century\, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth. From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast\, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany\, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains\, to metal festivals in the closed city of Norilsk\, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert\, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using high end production values and state of the art camera techniques to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.\nAt the intersection of art and science\, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch witnesses in an experiential and non-didactic sense a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species’ breadth and impact.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n📅 November 28\, 2024 | 6 pm\n📍 VA-114\n🔗 Please register here for the event as spots are limited!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/anthropocene-the-human-epoch-screening-with-director-jennifer-baichwal/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241127T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
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SUMMARY:[Book Talk] The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture\, Video Games\, and the Politics of Perception with Toni Pape
DESCRIPTION:Join LePARC Research Cluster for a book talk with Toni Pape about his new book The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture\, Video Games\, and the Politics of Perception. \nIn this book\, Pape explores how performances of tactical imperceptibility – or “stealth” – have emerged as a crucial mode of cultural expression and political action in the face of digital surveillance technologies. In his talk\, Pape will introduce the media aesthetics of stealth through examples from video art\, television and video games. During the discussion\, we will connect stealth to its related political concerns\, including queerness\, whiteness\, surveillance and warfare. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \n \n  \n  \n  \nToni Pape is a cultural theorist and media scholar at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption (Duke University Press\, 2019). He is a member of the editorial boards of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and the Immediations book series at Punctum Press. Toni’s current research project “The Aesthetics of Stealth” focuses on performances of disappearance and imperceptibility in contemporary. \n  \n📅 November 27\, 2024 | 5-6:30 PM \n📍 EV 10.785 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-aesthetics-of-stealth-digital-culture-video-games-and-the-politics-of-perception-with-toni-pape/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241127T140000
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
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SUMMARY:Pizza Lunch and Milieux Podcast Launch!
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to invite ALL Milieux members—faculty and students alike—to join us for a slice of pizza to celebrate the launch of the Milieux Podcast! This is a fantastic opportunity to (re)connect with fellow members\, meet new faces\, and share in the excitement of this new project. \nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pizza-lunch-and-milieux-podcast-launch/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241122T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T191635
CREATED:20241112T160336Z
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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📅: November 22\, 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/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] WarGames
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 20th for the second session of the Critical Watch Series! This month we’ll watch WarGames. \n  \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📅 November 20\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ WarGames (1983) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-wargames/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:Drawing and Ethnography Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio for an engaging workshop on November 19th\, where we will explore the intersection of drawing and ethnographic research\, examining how the act of visual representation can deepen our understanding of observation\, detail\, and meaning-making in anthropological practice. \nThe process of visual recreation from memory or observation has been a part of our sense-making from a very young age. Drawing is one of the first things many of us learned how to do\, even before forming full sentences. \nHow does the practice of drawing mingle with our practices as researchers? Kuschiner (2016\,105) says: “Both anthropology and drawing are ways of seeing and also ways of knowing the world. Placing these two universes in dialogue helps shed light on some of the important issues faced by anthropological practice today.” \nDuring our workshop\, we will be doing various exercises and get a chance to reflect and share back on our experience with the guidance of the following questions: \n\nWhat are some ethnographic insights in paying attention to the technique of drawing as a practice?\nWhat is a structure\, what is a detail?\nWhat is in the background and foreground of a scene or encounter?\nHow can these distinctions inform our observation\, representation and research?\n\nThe workshop will be co-facilitated by Irmak Taner and Pelin Karaaslan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to mask for the duration of the workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n📅: November 19 | 3:30 – 5:30 PM \n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n🎟️: Make sure to register here. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-and-ethnography-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241115T160000
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Textile Quotes
DESCRIPTION:If you are curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice join the Textiles & Materiality research cluster for the upcoming Textile Quotes Workshop! \nLed by Gen Moisan\, this workshop will introduce you design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats\, fonts\, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own block of text using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \nThe workshop will be 3 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text. \nPREREQUISITES: Drawing with Threads workshop is an asset. \n📅 November 15\, 2024 | 1-4 PM \n📍 Tajima Room EV 10.725 \n📩 Registration is Required! Please send an e-mail to textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/textiles-materiality-workshop-textile-quotes/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T160000
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SUMMARY:Lay the Loop: Introduction to Soft Circuits Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join Textiles & Materiality research cluster for a 3-hour workshop where participants will be introduced to the exciting world of soft circuits using sewable LEDs\, photoresistors\, and power supplies. In this workshop\, attendees will explore fundamental analog circuit principles\, such as parallel and series configurations\, and will create a basic circuit featuring an LED and a soft switch using the Tajima embroidery machine. \nPREREQUISITES: Drawing with Threads and/or The Merit of Making workshop \n: November 8\, 2024 | 1-4 PM \n: Tajima Room EV 10.725 \n Registration is Required! Please send an e-mail to textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lay-the-loop-introduction-to-soft-circuits-workshop/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T140000
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SUMMARY:Community Engaged Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:On November 8\, the Concordia Ethnography Lab will be hosting a workshop on Community Engaged Ethnography with special guests Jennifer Cardinal and Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE EVENT:\n\n\nThis workshop invites scholars\, teachers\, and community members to share experiences with community engagement\, both in their research and in the classroom. Bringing together experiences from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Science and Technology Studies\, where community engagement has been increasingly included as part of undergraduate education\, and the Concordia Ethnography Lab\, who have conducted a number of engaged ethnographic projects since its foundation\, this workshop will provide a space to exchange experiences\, problems\, and expertise. Participants will discuss how to conduct community engagement ethically and responsibly\, how “non-academic” work can be recognized within the university\, and other related questions from the participants. We welcome community members to join the conversation. No experience or preparation is necessary to participate.\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE GUESTS:\n\nJennifer Cardinal is a cultural anthropologist who studies community-led sustainable development and climate justice. Her ethnographic research extends a political ecology approach to questions about the precarious relationships\, practices\, and discourse at the intersection of community and sustainability. She teaches methodological and conceptual tools to understand local meanings and practices in the context of global systems. This attention to the local within the global frame includes a commitment to support inclusive sustainability initiatives.\nJennifer’s recent publications examine the relationship between consumption-driven migration\, environmental conservation\, agriculture\, nonprofit organizations\, and community development in small town on the southern Jalisco\, Mexico coast. This stretch of coast is experiencing a transition as much of the beach-front land is being privatized for luxury resort development with claims of environmental sustainability. In the community Jennifer worked with\, on the other hand\, the concept of sustainability is materializing in an alternative locally-directed community development. This research explores how different environmental ideologies converge and produce frictions in divergent sustainable development practices.\nThe local and international collaborative research projects Jennifer has designed in the US\, Iceland\, and the UK bring a commitment to inclusive community engagement that integrates teaching with research on human/environment relationships. At Earlham College in Richmond\, Indiana\, Jennifer’s multidisciplinary student/faculty collaborative research team assessed local needs and assets\, and designed an interactive resource guide in a project funded through the Earlham Center for Social Justice. Student researchers took the leading role in directing the project to ensure that it would be inclusive\, accessible\, and useful to community residents. This project built on research into local sustainability initiatives in the UK and using a model team members explored in London\, resulted in a proposal to open a free Library of Things in collaboration with the municipal library in Richmond.\nJennifer’s current research interests in Troy\, NY include care\, community\, precarity\, and disaster. She is studying viable community networks for maneuvering climate insecurity with a focus on water and food. This local research also includes questions about how well-resourced institutions can better support local needs\, and the role of community-engaged work and learning in building mutually supportive networks including transitory student populations and rooted community organizations. This local ethnographic research will build on a larger comparative project integrating research on grassroots sustainable development in sites in Mexico\, the United Kingdom\, and the United States.\n\n\n\n\nBrandon Costelloa-Kuehn is an anthropologically-oriented STS scholar working at the intersection of community engagement\, design research\, pedagogy\, and environmental justice. \nHis scholarly work on the contexts that enable effective collaboration\, communication\, and engagement is rooted in interdisciplinary research that centers both STS and non-academic perspectives. \nFor the past decade\, building on his early ethnographic research on how environmental scientists at the EPA approach communication as a task of “context production\,” he has designed and developed contexts for collaborative data analysis (the Platform for Collaborative Experimental Ethnography)\, public data sharing (the Jefferson Project Data Dashboard)\, and community-engaged pedagogy (Volunteer Troy and Vasudha Living & Learning). \nHis most recent research\, while rooted in local community-engaged methods\, aims to impact national policy and practices around nuclear waste\, leading to more just and equitable processes and outcomes. \n\n\n\n📅: November 8\, 2024 | 12-2 p.m\n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/community-engaged-ethnography/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Low-Quality in collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ethnography Lab for the 2nd screening of the season! This session will feature the screening of four short films by Jared Epp\, Leo Stillinger\, Melina Campos and Marie Lecuyer. \nThis event will explore an experimental modality of ethnographic filmmaking that anthropologist Jared Epp calls the ‘ethnographic B movie’\, a novel approach to collaborative multimodal research. This approach – which encourages unprofessionalism\, low quality\, absurdity and caprice – provides an opportunity to centre research contexts\, ontologies and epistemologies on the fringes or margins of conventional anthropological content\, thought and context. Through situating the approach within ideas of arts-based research or research-creation the ethnographic B movie becomes a way to take the process of filmmaking as ethnography for the sake of an open and co-imaginative world. In the ethnographic B movie as filmic approach and representational frame\, communicable meaning and narrative coherence are substituted for the spirit of co-creation\, and interlocutor-driven content (Epp\, 2023). \nMusic Sound Noise by Jared Epp\, 16min \nMusic Sound Noise is a cautionary tale on the endless entangling of information sharing\, social media\, meaning and daily life\, and as well\, a satire on the anthropologist as colonizer of knowledge.  \nDr. Carlos Popper\, a positivist ethnographer arrives in the neighbourhood of Parkdale\, Toronto\, to study the growing concern of people vanishing into total virtual reality (the film was shot during the summer of 2020). On his journey he encounters Mr. Noise\, who embodies the desire for the virtual and tries to lure Popper to join him. Representing the liminality between the virtual and physical\, Mr. Sound\, another resident of the neighbourhood\, tries to save Popper.  \nJared Epp is a PhD Candidate in social anthropology from Carleton University in Ottawa\, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of place\, imagination and precarity in a Canadian urban context. He is currently based in Edmonton\, Canada\, finishing his dissertation and working as a community arts facilitator with individuals living unhoused and/or with a concurrence of mental health barriers and addictions \n  \nGrandmother by Melina Campos Ortiz\, Heather Dirckze and Charanpreet Khaira\, 6min \nIn presence of Melina Campos Ortiz \nGrandmother tells the story of migration through the faces that you might not associate with the anger and hatred that fuels British news and politics: the faces of Granny\, Naniji and Baba – three ordinary grandmothers. \nMelina Campos Ortiz is a PhD student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. She uses Feminist Science and Technology Studies to explore human-soil relations in organic farming in Quebec\, paying particular attention to Central American migrant workers’ experiences. She currently coordinates an SHRCC-funded project that seeks to strengthen the ties between ethnography labs in North America. \n  \nGwo Ging by Marie Lécuyer\, 25min \nGwo Ging (meaning « to transit through the border ») is an experiential ethnographic video that explores the perception of disappearance of the dead from the realm of the living in Hong Kong’S saturated archipelago. The pressure from urbanization along with new government policies promoting green and “oceanic” burials have been reconfiguring ways of caring for and re-membering the dead. Once immersed in water\, and without a stable resting place to call home\, the dead are removed from the « liquid ecology » that flows between the environment\, the deceased and their descendants by way of paper offerings\, simulacra of banknotes and gold or silver ingots. The film aims to offer a counter-gesture to the perception of disappearance of this spectral ecology by rendering visible the gestures by which undertakers take care of the dead through pyrotechnic rituals feeding a vital breath that animates the living and the dead alike. \nMarie Lecuyer is a postdoctoral fellow and the co-lead of the Critical Media Club in the department of anthropology at McGill University. Her doctoral thesis focused on the oceanic turn in funeral rites in the Hong Kong archipelago and explored the way in which an oceanic environment dissolves traces of past lives and reconfigures ways of commemorating the dead. At the crossroads between environmental anthropology\, death studies and media studies\, her research is interested in modes of infraperceptible presence and uses multisite and multimedia methods. Her current research focuses on ways of anticipating and remediating flooding phenomena in Hong Kong and Ottawa. \n  \nTrail Days by Leo Stillinger\, 15 min \nTrail Days is an ethnographic reverie depicting a festival of hikers in Damascus\, Virginia\, along the Appalachian Trail. The film was shot on GoPro and iPhone during fieldwork with thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail\, which stretches more than 3\,500 kilometers from Georgia to Maine in the eastern United States. Those who attempt to hike the entire trail end up forming a sub-culture of their own\, hidden in the woods of the Appalachian mountains\, but emerging occasionally to produce a unique and dreamlike atmosphere in the small towns they pass through—most notably in the annual Trail Days festival in Damascus\, where every year in late May twenty thousand people\, hikers past and present\, descend on a town with a population of less than eight hundred. \nLeo Stillinger is a writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His first film\, An Urban Wild\, was screened at the Festival International de Film Éthnographique de Quebec (FIFEQ) in 2023. He recently completed a Master’s in Anthropology at McGill University\, focusing on the experience of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. \n  \n: November 7\, 2024 | 5 PM \n: Screening Room EV 10.525 \n Register here to reserve your spot. Seats are limited.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/low-quality-in-collaborative-ethnographic-filmmaking/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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SUMMARY:The Crip/Mad Archive Dances: Embodied Histories
DESCRIPTION:How do disabled and mad people survive\, dance\, insert their differences in a world full of stigma? How do we live through bodymindspirit experiences of alienation and pain? \nThis experimental documentary charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of survival and creative expression. It draws on community with human and non-human others: media clips as performance gifts\, archival footage from dance archives\, environmental embedment and grounding in trees\, water\, desert and lakes. Together\, we dance\, and spring our binds. Petra’s Q&A opens up using various creative methods to approach archival finds. \nPlease note: This experimental documentary shares instances of medical incarceration including insulin violence. It offers survivor testimonies of artful and agency-full reclamation. The film is fully subtitled in English. The documentary uses ‘crip’ and ‘mad’ as in-group signifiers\, aware of stigma and histories. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She grounds herself in disability culture methods\, and uses somatics\, performance\, media work\, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is the award-winning Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (UoMinnesota Press\, 2022\, open access). Her fourth poetry collection\, Diver Beneath the Street\, uses a psychogeographic lens to investigate true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil\, bringing together life and death (Wayne State University Press\, 2024). \nShe teaches at the University of Michigan\, was a 2022 Dance/USA Fellow\, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently at work on Planting Disabled Futures\, a virtual reality/community performance project\, as a Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellow (2024-2026). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: November 4\, 2024 | 10:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m \n📍: 4TH Space \n🔗 To participate online you can register on Zoom or watch live on YouTube. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-crip-mad-archive-dances-embodied-histories/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241030T193000
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] The Super Mario Bros. Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on October 30th for TAG’s new Critical Watch Series! The first edition of the screening will feature The Super Mario Bros. Movie. \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📅 October 30\, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-super-mario-bros-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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