A one-day workshop hosted by the City of Montreal, the Milieux Biolab, and the Concordia Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality In urban settings, the toxicity of the air, a milieu that is felt although invisible, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated by transport and construction activities have significant […]
Join us for the fourth instalment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG), Colonialism Race and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE), and Society, Politics, Animals and Materiality (SPAM). The Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an online talk with Dr. Sophie Chao. Recent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological […]
Participatory Open Studio: VHS Residence at LePARC with visiting artist and master's student Juan Miceli. I will be working with 80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave me to construct a temporary collective video installation. I invite people to open those casetes, share personal archives, discuss the way vision machines mold us and find antidotes […]
From March 23rd until the 29th, participate in a week-long series of online and in-person activities to explore new forms of visual publications investigating contemporary sociopolitical, anthropotechnical, and environmental issues. How can we go beyond text in communicating practice-based research? On March 23rd, .able, a free image-based multiplatform journal that publishes research at the intersection […]
Experience a 16-minute Virtual Reality performance at LePARC! LePARC is thrilled to be hosting this performance & VR event with Emer O'Toole, professor in the Irish Studies department and recent new faculty member to the research cluster. The 6-day run launches on St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) and ends on March 22, 2023, at the Milieux […]
Join Nostagain's path to creative nostalgia with a neuroscientist-artist via guided meditation, active recollection, and diorama crafting! Following the successful LOSTAGAIN symposium last February, the Nostagain Network continues the exploration of Creative Nostalgia (Boym 2001) in an intimate fashion. Led by neuroscientist-artist, Dr. Cristian Zaelzer, participants can expect to: Bring your oldest owned object to the workshop; Tell […]
Join us at the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the screening of Suspensión (2019) by Simón Uribe, who will be joining us for a virtual q+a after live from Bogotá. Deep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia, between treacherously steep mountain slopes, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly. Once […]
"Embodied Interventions" is a student-led platform for interdisciplinary experimentation, collaboration, and the sharing of performance-based works. Over two weeks, Embodied Interventions facilitates a laboratory-type residency incorporating creation time, shared practice, workshops, movement practices, artistic advising, production time and performance prep, culminating in a public showcase. STRUCTURE Whether you wish to develop new work with others, […]
Post Image presents artist Michèle Pearson Clarke, in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography […]
We are happy to invite everyone to join us for the first workshop in the Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches series: Fabric pressure sensors and soft switches workshop, with lee wilkens & Alex Bachmayer. When? Monday, March 13th 2:00 – 5:00 pm Where? MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825) In this workshop you will learn how to use e-textiles to […]
Dr. Marika Cifor will speak about Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry, as part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum and co-hosted by the DIGS Lab. The talk will […]
The Immersive Storytelling Studio (previously the Immersive Reality / VR Lab) invites you to Immersive and Augmented Performance practices, where our guests Zoey M. Cochran, Pierre-Henri Barralis and Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin will speak about their individual approaches to immersion and their collaborative process working with the “OpéRA de poche” project. When? March 6, from 5-7pm Where? […]
