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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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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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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241127T183000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241127T140000
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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:20260613T185851
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241119T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T130000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T150000
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SUMMARY:#Gamergate\, Extremism\, and Disinformation in Games
DESCRIPTION:Join us at TAG Lab on October 25th for a Panel discussion with David Wollinsky\, Rachel Kowert and Mia Consalvo. \nPrompted by David Wolinsky’s new book The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate\, the Aftermath\, and the Quest for a Safer Internet\, this panel discusses developments\, disasters\, and stagnations within games culture in the ten years since #Gamergate began. David Wolinsky is joined by psychologist Dr. Rachel Kowert and game studies scholar Dr. Mia Consalvo\, who will share their recent work on extremism and disinformation within gaming spaces to discuss how various spheres of games culture have (or have not) developed over the last decade\, and how we continue to deal with the aftermath of #Gamergate.   \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nDavid Wolinsky is a Chicago-based oral historian and documentary researcher. Since 2014\, he’s been unraveling complex questions about online culture wars\, fandom\, and entertainment labor issues through his independent interview series\, Don’t Die. Using videogames as a Trojan horse\, the series examines how these conflicts resonate across industries like TV\, film\, VFX\, architecture criticism\, and even supply-chain activism. His work reveals the broader societal impact of these digital tensions and offers a living archive of over 500 interviews on the evolving relationship between technology and society. \n  \nThis archive\, preserved by Stanford\, has informed exhibits at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture\, case studies by Cornell Worker Institute\, and reporting by the Wall Street Journal. His interviews also led to his first book\, The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate\, The Aftermath\, and the Quest for a Safer Internet (Beacon\, August 2024). \n  \nIn addition to collaborations with the University of Washington’s Information School\, Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute\, and Northeastern University\, David’s earlier journalism career includes award-winning work for The Onion A.V. Club and NBC\, as well as receiving the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s journalism award in 2017. His interviews continue to bridge industries\, creating a comprehensive resource to understand early 21st-century digital life. \n  \nRachel Kowert\, Ph.D is a research psychologist\, award winning author\, and globally recognized leader facilitating global policy and product development with non-profit\, governmental\, and non-governmental agencies for more than 15 years through data-driven research focused on mental health and trust and safety in digital games. She has spoken about her work to thousands of people across the globe\, including the United Nations and the United States Congress. She has published a variety of books and scientific articles relating to the psychology of games and\, more recently\, the relationship between games and mental health specifically. \nRachel is also the founder of Psychgeist®\, a multimedia content production studio for the science of games and pop culture. \n \nIn addition to holding a research chair at Concordia University in Digital Game Studies and Design\, Mia Consalvo is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies\, and is the current director for the Technoculture\, Art & Games Research Centre (TAG). She is the author of several key game studies texts\, including Atari to Zelda and Cheating.  \n \n  \n  \n: October 25\, 2024 | 3 PM \n: TAG Lab EV 10.625 \n🔗 Register here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamergate-extremism-and-disinformation-in-games/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T143000
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SUMMARY:Working with Friendship Round Table
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 25th for Working with friendship\, a round table discussion about ceramics and the power of artistic collaboration. This event takes place as part of the 5th Virginia McClure Ceramic Biennale and the Ceramic Friends exhibition (October 25 – November 30). This discussion will bring together 5 artist duos to discuss their experiences and methods working collaboratively\, particularly through the medium of clay. \nParticipating artists :  \n\nEmii Alrai / Eve Tagny\nMarie-Michelle Deschamps / Celia Perrin Sidarous\nHeather Goodchild / Margaux Smith\nAugust Klintberg / Benny Nemer\nMeredith Carruthers / Susannah Wesley\n\nCeramics Friends highlights community building\, friendship and creative interrelation through clay. This edition of the biennale expands the notion of ceramics beyond produced objects to present the works of five artist duos who work in friendship\, engaging with clay as a shared conceptual material to bring forward communal aspects of ceramics work within a studio setting\, and the care\, resilience\, and collaboration this generates. The McClure Gallery thanks the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for their support of this project. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nEmii Alrai (Leeds\, UK) and Eve Tagny (Montreal) worked collaboratively for two years developing the concept\, conversation and framework for Sutures (2022). Alrai is an artist and trained museum registrar whose practice subverts the traditional visual language of museum displays. Tagny’s multidisciplinary practice explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency in correlation with nature’s rhythms and materiality. \nMeredith Carruthers (Montreal) and Susannah Wesley (Montreal) have worked together under the name ‘Leisure’ since 2004. Their research-based art project The Ceremony (2021) is inspired by a document entitled “The Ceremony\,” found in the personal papers of local ceramicist Wanda Rozynska Staniszewka (1929-2007)\, which describes a series of objects\, costumes\, gestures and forms intended as “symbols for the renewal and healing of friends\,” between herself\, her husband Stanley Rozynski\, and her friend Gail Lamarche. This project was developed as part of the Foreman Art Gallery’s ArtLab residency and further supported by the Rozynski Art Centre\, the artist’s former home and studio. \nMarie-Michelle Deschamps (Montreal) and Celia Perrin Sidarous (Montreal) began working together in 2020 when they shared a studio. Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ practice focuses on language as an inhabitable space where aesthetic forms reside. Celia Perrin Sidarous is an image-based artist indebted to sStill lLife\, whose artworks present assemblages following an internal and associative logic. Both artists have featured in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad. \nHeather Goodchild (Toronto) and Margaux Smith (Toronto) have been collaborating informally for two years. Goodchild is a multidisciplinary artist exhibiting internationally and throughout Canada since 2001. Recurring themes in her work include symbolism\, rituals\, personal development\, and the collapse of the hierarchy of artistic disciplines. Smith uses layers of paint\, drawing\, and collage to convey the body’s state of constant transformation. She is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery\, Toronto. \nAugust Klintberg (Calgary) and Benny Nemer‘s (Paris\, FR) collaborative work articulates itself through participatory gestures involving acts of hospitality\, floral gift giving\, and paper wrapping\, alongside artistic research into the œuvre and legacy of Montreal potter Rosalie Namer (1925-2006). Their projects have been presented in galleries\, flower shops\, and community gardens in Canada\, the United States\, Germany\, and Scotland. \nLeisure is a conceptual collaborative art practice between Montreal-based artists Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley. Working together under the name “Leisure” since 2004\, they engage with cultural historical narratives through research\, conversation\, published texts\, curatorial projects and art production.   \nThe Milieux Institute is a leading graduate research center for arts\, culture and technology.  Established in 2016\, it houses several research clusters across various disciplines\, and serves as a platform for creative experimentation and collaboration. \n  \n📅: October 25\, 2024 | 1-2:30 p.m \n📍EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/working-with-friendship-round-table/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Roundtable
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SUMMARY:Engagement and Emotions in Game Data Work
DESCRIPTION:On October 24th\, join TAG for a talk about the emotional landscape of data-driven decision-making in game development with guest speaker Olli Sotamaa. \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nApplication of data analytics and other data-driven working methods creates new processes and work cultures in game studios. While data analytics tools are often promised to support rational\, calm and emotion-free decision-making and to reduce developers’ reliance on intuition\, hunch and gut feeling\, recent empirical data indicates that working with game data provokes a large spectrum of emotions. The presentation introduces the idea of ‘game data work’\, explores its affective side\, and discusses how it potentially changes our overall understanding of game production. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Olli Sotamaa is a professor of Game Culture Studies and leads the Tampere University Game Research Lab with professor Frans Mäyrä. He also serves as team leader in The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.  He has studied various game cultural phenomena related to online communities\, fandom and game modding\, and has also critically examined the game industry and different forms and contexts of game production. \n \n  \n: October 24\, 2024 | 3-4 PM \n: TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/engagement-and-emotions-in-game-data-work/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241021T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241021T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Merit of Making
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? Join the Textiles & Materiality research cluster for the Merit of Making Workshop. Led by Gen Moisan\, this workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own unique embroidered patches while exploring its rich history and cultural significance. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP:  \nYou will learn to produce an embroidered patch on the Tajima Embroidery Machine\, including how to integrate different textures and embroidery stitches within your design. \nEmbroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally\, functioning as symbols of status\, achievement\, and identity within communities. In this workshop\, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible\, unseen\, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge? \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics\, required to embroider different shapes\, textures\, and images\, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \n: October 21\, 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/textiles-materiality-workshop-merit-of-making/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241016T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241016T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
CREATED:20241008T210135Z
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SUMMARY:Social & Networking Event with Milieux and MTL connect!
DESCRIPTION:Milieux is excited to invite you to a social and networking event on October 16\, from 5 to 7 PM\, in collaboration with <MTL> connect. We’re thrilled to welcome a distinguished cohort of international curators\, providing a unique opportunity for our members to reconnect after the summer. \nThis event is not just about networking! Participants will discover the incredible work of Milieux members! Ten talented students will be showcasing their projects in the atrium on the 11th floor\, offering a glimpse into the creativity and innovation within the different research clusters. \n  \nMEET OUR GUESTS: \n\nPat Badani: Independent cultural researcher and producer; former professor of integrated media at Illinois State University.\nLinda Law: Executive Director of the Center for the Holographic Arts.\nLaura Latour: Director of the KIKK Festival.\nGéraldine Bueken: Founder and Director of the XR4heritage program and 3 Plumes.\nKlio Krajewska: Independent curator based in Paris\, collaborator with the WRO Media Art Biennale and leader of ISEA2023 in Paris.\nNils Aziosmanoff: Director of Cube Garges.\nAnna Frants: Director of the Cyland Festival.\nSoh Yeong Roh: Director of the Nabi Center.\nJoon Lee: Director of the Institute for Culture and Art at Seoul National University.\nAnna Shvets: Researcher in generative AI\, PhD in computational musicology\, and composer.\nPascale Cosse: Cultural Attaché for Cinema\, Digital Arts\, and Interactive Creation at the General Delegation of Quebec in Paris.\n\n  \nMEET OUR PRESENTERS: \n\nDestiny Chescappio: Indigenous Futures\, RezPunk\nDorsa Armand: LePARC\, Shadow-synth\nFrançois Lespinasse: Speculative Life\, Mechanical Meanderings\nHei Lam Ng: Textiles & Materiality\, alt text:”Ballade pour Adeline”\nHuman Circle (Pramila Choudhary & Sabina Rak): Textiles & Materiality\, Winter\nIñigo Lasheras: Post Image\, Can’t See the Sunshine Behind\nKamyar Karimi: TAG\, Deconstructed Selfies: Regenerated\nMaxime Perreault: Indigenous Futures\, Glitch Armor\nMyriam A. Rafla: LePARC\, Quilting the Memoir: Stories of Exile (Quilt #1: Mother\, Mother)\nPoki Chan: Indigenous Futures\, Kowloon Walled City Reforge Project\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. Feel free to spread the word within the Milieux community\, we are excited to see you all! \n  \n📅: October 16\, 2024 | 5-7 PM \n📍Milieux Institute\, Atrium 11th Floor \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, please register here \n📖 Digital catalogue of the participants available here \n📸 Photo credits: Ana Isabel Duque \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/social-networking-event-with-milieux-and-connect/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Reception,Tour - Visit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241011T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241011T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
CREATED:20241003T170112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T170747Z
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Merit of Making
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? Join the Textiles & Materiality research cluster for the Merit of Making Workshop. Led by Gen Moisan\, this workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own unique embroidered patches while exploring its rich history and cultural significance. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP:  \nYou will learn to produce an embroidered patch on the Tajima Embroidery Machine\, including how to integrate different textures and embroidery stitches within your design. \nEmbroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally\, functioning as symbols of status\, achievement\, and identity within communities. In this workshop\, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible\, unseen\, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge? \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics\, required to embroider different shapes\, textures\, and images\, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \n: October 11\, 2024 | 1:30 – 4 PM \n: 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/8622/
LOCATION:Tajima Room EV 10.725
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241009T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241012T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
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SUMMARY:Sensorium Colaboratory: A series of transdisciplinary workshops
DESCRIPTION:Milieux in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute and the Center for Sensory Studies\, presents The Sensorium Collaboratory—a series of workshops designed to foster transdisciplinary collaboration and critical experimentation with AI and neurotechnologies. \nFrom creative coding with Python and Arduino boards to experimenting with biofeedback interfaces and AI-generated art\, these workshops offer a hands-on opportunity to explore cutting-edge technologies in a creative context. Students\, faculty\, and researchers are all welcome to join in co-creating and reimagining the future throughout this four-day event. On the final day\, participants will showcase their work during the Open Doors event on October 12th\, where you can share your experiences and interactive installations with family and friends. \n  \n📅 October 9th to 12th | EV Building\, 10th Floor \nGeek Workshop:Python\, Ableton\, Touchdesigner :\n October 9th\, 1-5 pm | SpecLife Room (EV 10.625)\n\nPerformance Workshop : Laboratory theatre\n October 10th\, 1-5 pm | Video Production Studio(EV 10.760)\n\nCo-design studio : Setup interactive installations\n October 11th\, 1-5 pm | Video Production Studio (EV 10.760)\n\nOpen-door event : Have fun with family and friends\nOctober 12th\, 3-7 pm | Video Production Studio (EV 10.760)\n❓ For more information and to register: https://forms.gle/xoWUW1uW74DbPTkc6  \n📩  Contact: meteomythosophy@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sensorium-colaboratory-a-series-of-transdisciplinary-workshops/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241003T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241003T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
CREATED:20240918T143421Z
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SUMMARY:Alternative Medicine and Infernal Alternatives: On the Modern Fear of Being Duped
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 3rd for a captivating lecture about of complexities of alternative medicine where belief and skepticism often clash. This discussion invites us to critically examines the implications of alternative therapeutic practices and explore the consequences of navigating a world filled with misinformation and inadequate knowledge. \n\nABOUT THE EVENT: \n\nWhen it comes to alternative medicine\, we are called upon to make clear decisions: Either you believe (in them)\, or you know (better). Either you adhere to evidence-based science or you let yourself be seduced by the mere placebo effects of quackery. This talk starts from the hypothesis that such alternatives must be taken for what they are: infernal\, in the sense that they are all too often unable to inform good practices. Going back to the debates around charlatanism in the USA around the end of the 19th century\, Solhdju will re-examine legal efforts to restrict therapeutic practices to those holding medical degrees\, focusing especially on testimony provided by the psychologist and philosopher\, William James. Following in James’ footsteps\, Katrin Solhdju will explore some of the contexts in which the “horror of being duped” is able\, not only to produce ignorance\, inaccurate knowledge\, or inadequate therapeutic practices but worse\, to generate a “thinning out” of reality itself. The question then is the following: What might the antidote to this multilayered modernist nightmare look like and what might it be made of? \n  \n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n\n\nKatrin Solhdju is a Senior Researcher at the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) and a professor at the Institute for Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mons in Belgium. She is a member of the Groupe d’études constructivistes (GeCo) at Université Libre de Bruxelles\, as well as a co-founder of the collective Dingdingdong. Institute for the co-production of knowledge on Huntington’s Disease. She is the author of two monographs: Testing Knowledge. Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis (2021) and Selbstexperimente. Die Suche nach der Innenperspektive und ihre epistemologischen Folgen (2011). \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Concordia’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)\, the Media History Research Centre\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, and McGill University’s Department of Social Studies of Medicine. \n  \n\n: October 3\, 2024 \n: Speculative Life Cluster Research EV 10.625 \n For inquires\, please contact: jeremy.stolow@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/alternative-medicine-and-infernal-alternatives-on-the-modern-fear-of-being-duped/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240925T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
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SUMMARY:An introduction to "Voter_Machine_World" with Fenwick McKelvey
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Cluster for the first talk of a series of public talks and discussion on recent media history. On September 26\, Fenwick McKelvey will discuss his forthcoming book “Voter_Machine_World” (under contract with MIT Press). \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nVoter_Machine_World explores America’s long history to solve political problems with computers. Focusing on the early intersection of domestic and world politics\, the book offers a genealogy of political machines\, ways to imagine technologies to model\, simulate and effect political systems as if they were computer systems. The rich history draws from archival research and interviews to follow efforts to build voter and world machines for the early 1960s to the early 1990s – a period that helps us ask the critical questions to understand the new political machines being built today with AI and big data. In this informal presentation\, McKelvey will introduce the project in its final stages. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nFenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is co-director of the Applied AI Institute and leads Machine Agencies at the Milieux Institute. He studies digital politics and policy. He is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (University of Minnesota Press\, 2018) winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media\, New Politics (Peter Lang\, 2012) with Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅 September 25\, 2024 \n📍EV 2.776 \n🔗 Register here for the event
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-introduction-to-voter_machine_world-with-fenwick-mckelvey/
LOCATION:EV 2.776
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
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SUMMARY:Disrupting Computing History with Dr. Mar Hicks
DESCRIPTION:Join the DIGS Lab (Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, and Sexuality Lab) on September 18 for an online lecture by Dr. Mar Hicks. The DIGS Lab is co-hosting the talk as part of the 7th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. \nDr. Hicks will discuss about Disrupting Computing History to Align Technology’s Past and Present.  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nMar Hicks is an author\, historian\, and professor doing research on hidden histories of computing\, as well as the history of labor and technology. Hicks is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Virginia’s School of Data Science\, in Charlottesville\, teaching courses on the history of technology\, computing and society\, and the larger implications of powerful and widespread digital infrastructures. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light\, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks’s multiple award-winning book\, Programmed Inequality\, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers\, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. Their new work looks at resistance and queerness in the history of technology. Hicks is also co-editor of the book Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press\, 2021)\, a volume of essays about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures. \n  \nOther writing and more information can be found at: marhicks.com. \n  \n: September 18\, 2024 | 6-7:30 pm \n: Online \n🌐: Sign up for the event here to receive the zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disrupting-computing-history-with-dr-mar-hicks/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240918T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240918T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation #5
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for the fifth Epistemological Foundations Conversation\, focusing on the theme of Research-Creation and AI. EF05 will bring together Archer Pechawis\, Scott Benesiinaabandan\, and Bryan Kuwada to reflect on their approaches to knowledge-making through research and creation. This Conversation will be moderated by Dr. Sara Diamond. \nABOUT THE EVENT: \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 the intersection of Research-Creation and AI. \nIn the last 20 years\, research-creation methodologies have emerged and been increasingly recognized within the academic research community. That being said\, Indigenous Knowledge Systems have drawn on research-creation for millennia – and many artists from diverse cultures have long engaged in research as well as creation.\n\nAcademic interest into research-creation has opened the door to deeper and wider forms of knowledge exploration and sharing.  This has meant the institutionalization and expansion of research-creation PhDs and grants in the UK\, Australia\, Canada\, and some other territories. In some instances\, this was not necessarily out of a genuine commitment to these practices but to help institutions achieve their research funding allocation. While such contradictions are in the background\, our discussion will start out by defining what research-creation is for our panelists and will then move on to exploring the ways that they use research-creation to engage with AI.\nThis is a hybrid event. In-person attendance requires RSVP confirmation by email at abint-activities@concordia.ca. \nTo join the conversation online: Zoom link \n September 18\, 2024 | 5:30 p.m\nAgora Coeur des Sciences\, 175 Av. du Président-Kennedy\, Montreal
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-5/
LOCATION:UQAM | Agora du coeur des sciences\, 175\, Av. du Président-Kennedy\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2X3P2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240916T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240916T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T185851
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SUMMARY:ROBODADA
DESCRIPTION:A practice-based approach towards human-robot interaction\n \n  \nJoin us on September 16 for an innovative workshop\, ROBODADA: A practice-based Approach Towards Human-Robot Interaction led by Prof. Andreas Muxel from the Hybrid Things Lab. \nPlease confirm your attendance with Zeph Tibodeau as spots are limited! \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nThrough hands-on activities using the ROBODADA kit\, this workshop will challenge traditional perspective on technology. \nWe have always been developing tools as extensions of ourselves to become “more efficient” and “better.” But with the rise of autonomous and robotic systems\, technology is also perceived as something “other” and as a proactive counterpart. Instead of controlling\, we start to “co-operate” with technology. In our coexistence\, we ascribe almost human qualities\, emotions\, and liveliness to our technical counterparts\, but the rational machine is something else. How might these things be designed if they evolve from passive tools to proactive and even social beings? How can we shape their “thingness” beyond naïve human imitation to overcome an anthropomorphic design approach? \n  \n \n  \nParticipants will: \n\nEngage in Creative Design: Use everyday materials like cardboard\, fabric\, straws\, sticks\, rubber bands\, and adhesive tape to create unique robotic forms.\nExplore Interactive Dynamics: Utilize a web-based interface to map facial expressions to robotic body language\, enabling a richer understanding of robot-human interaction.\nDiscuss Future Implications: Explore and discuss the future possibilities of human-robot interaction through experimental and playful approaches.\n\n  \nMaterials Needed: \n\nLaptop or Tablet: Each ROBODADA Kit requires a device with a built-in webcam.\nChrome Browser: Ensure that Google Chrome is pre-installed on your device (download it here).\nCraft Materials: Bring basic supplies such as scissors\, cardboard\, fabric\, straws\, sticks\, rubber bands\, and adhesive tape.\nPower Supply: Multiple plugs will be required for powering the ROBODADA Kits.\n\n  \n \n  \nABOUT ANDREAS MUXEL: \n \nAndreas Muxel is Professor for “Physical Human-Machine Interfaces” at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg\, Faculty of Design where he founded and is directing the Hybrid Things Lab. In his design practice and research he is always looking for a poetical and engaging way of interaction with things\, regardless of whether they are hardware or software. His projects have been internationally published\, exhibited and awarded (p.ex. ACM DIS Eindhoven\, Ars Electronica Festival Linz\, FILE Festival São Paulo\, TodaysArt Festival Brussels\, VIDA Award Madrid\, Share Prize Torino). \n  \n: September 16\, 2024 \n: TBC \n📩 To register contact Zeph Tibodeau at zeph.thibodeau@gmail.com \n More info: Hybrid Things Lab | andreasmuxel.com
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-robodada/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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