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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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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
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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/
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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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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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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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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/
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241016T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200236
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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:20260613T200237
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:20260613T200237
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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:20260613T200237
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:20260613T200237
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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:20260613T200237
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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:20260613T200237
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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:20260613T200237
CREATED:20240826T171502Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240913T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240913T183000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Re-Imagining Landscapes in Times of Ecological Crisis with Andrea Bordoli
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: Re-Imagining Landscapes in Time of Ecological Crisis \n  \nJoin the Visual Methods Studio of the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the first screening of the year! This session will explore the intersections between anthropology and filmmaking through the screening of three short audiovisual works by Andrea Bordoli\, each of them proposing a formal and conceptual encounter with a specific territory.  \n By considering human-nonhuman entanglements\, by tracking flows and transformations of matter\, and by imagining speculative scenarios that blur past\, present and future tenses\, each of these films proposes a filmic encounter to “think with” and “think through” some key elements of the contemporary ecological crisis. \n  \nABOUT THE FILMS: \nThe Depth Beneath\, The Height Above (2018) is a 18-minute documentary film exploring the high alpine region of Robiei\, Southern Switzerland. Through a juxtaposition between the aesthetics and activities taking place above – the continuous stream of water\, the movement of animals\, the processes of production of cheese – and respectively below the ground level – the mechanisms and technologies involved in the hydroelectric production\, as well as the humans interacting with them –\, the film conveys a sensory ethnography of this peculiar landscape. \nDiVisi Di Pietra Memorie (2021) is a 9-minute docu-fiction essay that develops a poetic reflection around the issues of water exploitation and rock mining in the Swiss Alps. By juxtaposing contemporary images to archives\, and by proposing a storytelling mix of documentary and fictional elements\, the work is an invitation to engage with the geological and human memories that shape and haunt current extractive environments. \nPer Voi Oggi la Luce del Sol non Splenderà (2021) is a post-apocalyptic\, eco-fiction short film portrying two construction workers wandering in a “zone” where inner and outer territories intertwine. In a constant search for traces\, they are increasingly confronted with a universe that over days and nights becomes overwhelming.  \n  \nABOUT THE DIRECTOR: \nAndrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA\, University of Manchester)\, Visual Arts – Cinema (HEAD – Genève)\, and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA\, Neuchâtel University). His research and practice lies at the intersection between anthropological theory\, film and visual art. He is currently based between Switzerland and Québec\, and he is pursuing a practice-led PhD in Media Anthropology at the University of Bern as part of the interdisciplinary project “Mediating the Ecological Imperative” (https://ecological-imperative.ch/). Since January 2022 he is a visiting artist-researcher at the anthropology department of McGill University.\nHis works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally\, such as Cinéma du Réel Paris\, Festival dei Popoli Florence\, Vancouver International Film Festival\, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival\, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück\, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival\, and others. \nIn parallel to his personal research he collaborated with various research groups and institutions such as EASA CH\, Université de Neuchâtel\, Université de Berne\, Locarno Film Festival and Cinémathèque Suisse. \n  \n📅: September 13 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m \n📍: VA-114 Cinema \nNo registration\, no fee\, all are welcome!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-conversation-re-imagining-landscapes-in-times-of-ecological-crisis-with-andrea-bordoli/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T193000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:The Crit Club with Abbas Akhavan
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, Post Image cluster will launch the first edition of The Crit Club! \nWHAT IS THE CRIT CLUB? \nThis initiative aims to foster a supportive environment where you can present your work\, receive constructive feedback\, and find motivation to advance your practice beyond the classroom setting. Every Crit Club edition will feature a different guest artist who will lead each session. \nThe Crit Club will take place every two months\, and we will be selecting three participants to present their work each session. This intimate format ensures that each student receives focused and meaningful feedback.  Submissions from participants\, from any Concordia University Studio Arts Master Program (Photo\, Sculpture\, Print Media\, etc.) will be accepted on a first-come\, first-served basis\, so we encourage you to act quickly once the call for submissions is announced. \nThe ethos of the Crit Club is to be experimental\, multidisciplinary\, and supportive. Each session will be paired with a short reading that explores the idea and practice of art critiques critically. What does it mean to speak verbally about the visual? What are the different approaches one can take? \nWhether you are exploring new techniques\, developing a body of work\, or seeking guidance on a project\, the Crit Club is the perfect venue to share your progress and engage with your peers and faculty members. \n  \nABOUT ABBAS AKHAVAN: \nBorn 1977 in Tehran (Iran)\, lives and works in Montreal (Canada). \nThe work of Abbas Akhavan ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing\, video\, sculpture and performance. The direction of his research has been deeply influenced by the specificity of the sites where he works: the architectures that house them\, the economies that surround them\, and the people that frequent them. \nAbbas Akhavan is represented by the galleries Catriona Jeffries (Vancouver) and The Third Line (Dubai). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: September 11 | 6:30 p.m \n: VA Building – Room 109 \nTo attend The Crit Club fill up this form (max. 12 participants) \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-crit-club-with-abbas-akhavan/
LOCATION:VA Building Room 109
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240822T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240822T160000
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SUMMARY:Pinball Power: How an old coin operated arcade persevered for a century
DESCRIPTION:Join Visiting Scholar Robert Glashüttner and TAG member Dr. Martin French for a discussion around Pinball. \nPinball is an archaic arcade game for some\, a technical marvel for others\, and a favorite pastime for more and more dedicated players. Little is commonly known about pinball except that it’s made up of big sturdy amusement machines where you shoot steel marbles with flippers up a tilted playfield. Both game culture communities as well as scholars tend to underestimate the finesse of playing and the design decisions behind developing physical pinball devices. Most importantly\, it is a game of hybridization in different aspects: Pinball is physical and digital\, retro and contemporary\, mechanical and electronic\, skill-based and chance-induced. Therefore it should be worth more attention. This talk gives an overview on why pinball research could be more than a side note within game studies. \n  \n📅 August 22\, 2024 \n📍TAG Lab\, EV 11.435 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pinball-power-how-an-old-coin-operated-arcade-persevered-for-a-decade/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240710T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240710T170000
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for the fourth Epistemological Foundations Conversation\, delving into the fusion of Neuroscience\, AI\, and Indigenous Knowledges. EF04 invites you to join Dr. Karim Jerbi (Université de Montréal)\, Dr. ‘Ōiwi Parker Jones (University of Oxford)\, and Dr. Melanie Cheung (Cheung Consultancy Ltd) as they share their perspectives on knowledge creation within this intersection. \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations\, feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team to explore the construction\, validation\, and utilization of knowledge frameworks within various fields. The conversations offer an in-depth exploration of the integration of Neuroscience\, AI\, and Indigenous Knowledges. \nThis is a hybrid event. In-person attendance requires RSVP confirmation by email at abint-coordinator@concordia.ca. \nTo join the conversation online: Zoom link  \n🗓️ July 10\, 2024\n📍Speculative Life Research Cluster\, EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240614T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240614T160000
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SUMMARY:[Online lecture] Dr. Carlo Handy Charles: Queer Transnational Space
DESCRIPTION:How Dating Apps Shape Romantic Connections and Intimate Cross-border Relationships among Haitian Queer Migrants and Nonmigrants?\nJoin us on June 14th (2-4 pm)\, for a lecture followed by a Q&A featuring Dr. Carlo Handy Charles. Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy Gender and Sexuality Lab (DIGS Lab)\, will discuss the intersection of LGBTQ+ migration and digital intimacy. More specifically\, the talk will aim to show how dating apps like Grindr\, Tinder\, and Facebook Dating influence the romantic connections and intimate relationships of LGBTQ+ migrants and non-migrants across borders. Drawing on his research and book project\, Dr. Charles will explain how these digital platforms play a pivotal role in shaping transnational connections and fostering same-sex relationships among individuals from similar ethnic or national backgrounds. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carlo Handy Charles (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor and a Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy Gender and Sexuality Lab at Concordia University. He is also a former Vanier Scholar Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and a Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations at the CNRS and Collège de France in Paris. His current book project with the University of Chicago Press examines how socio-economic inequalities sexuality and space shape transnational same-sex intimate relationships among Haitian men in Haiti the United States Canada France Brazil Chile and the Dominican Republic. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology at McMaster University and a Ph.D. in Geography at the Université des Antilles in 2023. Prior to joining the University of Windsor he taught Sociology at McMaster University and French at L’Alliance Française de Toronto and L’Alliance Française de Caracas (Venezuela). Beyond academia he is an award-winning essayist and the co-author of the critically acclaimed Kap O Mond a play focusing on Haitian migration in France. He is also a public policy advisor currently working on the Toronto Francophone Affairs Advisory Committee. His publications have appeared in over two dozen academic journals and news media in Canada and internationally. \nFor more information about him and his research please visit: www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/CarloCharles. \n📅: June 14\, 2024 | 2-4 pm \n📍: Online \n🎟️: Register here! If you decide to attend online you’ll receive an email with a zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-carlo-handy-charles-queer-transnational-space/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240531T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Milieux X CCA : "Propositions: Designing through Land"
DESCRIPTION:To conclude the 2024 edition of Milieux May Madness\, the Milieux Institute will host a conversation titled “Propositions: Designing through Land” on May 31st. Co-organized with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)\, the event will convene nine scholars to reflect on how design disciplines and their associated practices can better align with the concept of land. Following the presentations\, Speculative Life members Brennan McCracken\, Priscilla Jolly\, and Sarah Yems will share brief\, questioning responses to the propositions. \n“Propositions: Designing through Land” will bring together nine researchers who are embarking on an eighteen-month collective project: “In the Hurricane\, On the Land.” Funded by the Mellon Foundation and organized by the CCA\, “In the Hurricane\, On the Land.” aims to explore land-dependent design as a collaborative approach to addressing the tangible effects of the climate crisis\, indigenous land revitalization\, and related concerns\, including developing methods to document and engage with land-driven sites\, histories\, and communities. Through their research\, these scholars will examine and redefine the societal and professional boundaries of architecture and landscape architecture\, working towards a collective strategy for navigating the aftermath of natural and human-made disasters. \nAt this upcoming event\, the nine scholars will present brief propositions that address the themes of navigating\, coexisting with\, and experiencing land to enhance design practices. These propositions will provide insight into the scope\, concerns\, lands\, and peoples the project will engage with over the coming months. \nAll are welcome! \n📅 May 31st | 4-6 p.m \n📍Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n📸 Lee Friedlander\, Mount Royal\, Montréal\, Québec\, 1993. PH1994:0242\, CCA Collection\, © Lee Friedlander”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-x-cca-propositions-designing-through-land/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240529T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240529T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Milieux Summer Coffee & Chat!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday 29th from 2 to 4 p.m on the 11th floor terrace!  \nWe are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members for the last gathering before summer! As we all know\, May is a busy month at the institute and this year is no exception! This event will be a great opportunity to meet and chat with the community about what you are up to! \nJoin us on terrace\, coffee and treats will be offered. \nLooking forward to seeing you! \n📅 Wednesday 29\, 2024 | 2-4 p.m \n📍Milieux Terrace (11th floor)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-summer-coffee-chat/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240517T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240517T190000
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SUMMARY:Morphoses: Post Residency Open Studio Visit
DESCRIPTION:Join Sofian Audry and Rosalie D. Gagné on Friday\, May 17 from 5 to 7 p.m for an open studio visit! \nSofian and Rosalie have spent 10 days at Milieux\, working on their project Morphoses initiated in 2017. \n“Morphoses” is a research-creation project involving artificial life forms featuring three autonomous spheroid robots. The installation proposes a poetic experience of machine learning centered on the establishment of an intimate relationship between human and non-human life forms. \n📅 May 17\, 2024 | 5-7 p.m \n📍Video Performance Studio EV 10.760
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/morphoses-post-residency-open-studio-visit/
LOCATION:Video Performance Studio EV 10.760
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240504T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions 2024: Performance showcase
DESCRIPTION:On May 4th and 5th\, join us for the 5th edition of the renowned Embodied Interventions! Organized by the LePARC Research Cluster in collaboration with student members and various clusters within the vibrant Milieux community\, this year’s event promises to offer an unparalleled exploration of performative research-creation. Spanning two days\, Embodied Interventions serves as the culmination of intensive collaborative research-creation laboratories conducted over a period of two weeks. If you’re curious about last year’s edition you can read the recap here. \nIn collaboration with the HTMLles festival\, this edition aims to expand the boundaries\, delving deeper into the intersections of technology\, art\, and performance. Through a diverse array of projects\, attendees will be invited to ponder the fundamental question: “What is performative inquiry?” Each performance presents a unique perspective\, challenging conventional notions and fostering dialogue on the nature of artistic expression and knowledge production. \nSave the date and get ready for 2 days of creativity and artistic innovation at the heart of performative research-creation. \nCurators \nSeyed Hamidreza Hosseini \nMargaret Lapp \nMore information about the program to come soon: \nhttps://www.leparcmilieux.com/embodied-interventions
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions-2024-performance-showcase/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240502T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Coded Biophilia
DESCRIPTION:Special Edition Thursday Experiential Working Workshop at Milieux to start off May! \n\nThis special end-of-term session is ‘Coded Biophilia’ taught by special guest gi!\nThursday May 2nd 2024 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm.\nwith gi (Giulia Tomasello) & Alexandra Bachmayer. \nCoded Biophilia is a workshop designed to learn basics of soft wearables and the exploration of biological textiles. A space where participants will explore the potential of bacterial cellulose for textile futures in terms of growing living materials and creating speculative scenarios for second skins\, sensors\, and adaptive responsive structures. Learning new methods of making sensory surfaces for wearables and to envision how biotechnology and new materials will shape our environment. At the end of the workshop\, participants will be able to identify state-of-the-art soft wearable and bio-textiles applications and produce e-textile and bio-textile samples and if there is time a small prototype. \nCan soft technology expands the ways our bodies sense and interact with the environment? \n*Please email to reserve a space as slots are limited. Contact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Coded Biophilia’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days. \n_____ \n\nGiulia Tomasello is an interaction designer and educator committed to female intimate care and its innovation. \nFounder of ALMA Futura\, a research and consulting studio where design\, science and anthropology combine to co-create tools for a cultural and radical change in womxn’s bodies. In 2018 with the project Future Flora\, she won the STARTS Prize\, a European award assigned to projects representing “innovative alliances between technology and artistic practices”. Her multidisciplinary work has also received other awards at European and international levels such as the World Omosiroi Japanese Award in 2020. \nGiulia offers a new deeper understanding in female’s wellbeing and prevention\, developing innovative tools at the intersection of medical and social sciences. She is co-founder of the Bruixes-Lab collective [nomadic lab of bio-hacking\, sx-tech and witchcraft rituals]\, Hogar [cultural association focused on gender health and performance] and Tides project [sexual wellness brand for women in mid-life]. Coded Bodies is her teaching platform designed to learn the basics of wearable technology\, materials innovation and the exploration of biological textiles. Since 2017\, she has been teaching in several Italian and European universities such as Politecnico di Milano\, Royal College of Arts in London and Head in Geneva. She currently lectures at the Domus Academy in Milan\, the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and the Kunstuniversität in Linz. \n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-coded-biophilia/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240426T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Intro to Bookbinding Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Textile and Materiality Research cluster is excited to announce an upcoming event where participants will learn the art of bookbinding. In this engaging workshop\, attendees will have the opportunity to explore fundamental bookbinding techniques applicable to both paper and textile materials.  \nThe session will commence with an overview of various techniques through samples and references\, followed by hands-on creation of personalized books. Depending on group size and interest\, participants will be introduced to 3-4 binding methods including saddle stitch\, pamphlet stitch\, Japanese stab binding\, interlocking\, x-stitch\, and variations of one-page zines. \nWhile materials and tools will be provided\, attendees are encouraged to bring their own supplies from the suggested list below. It’s worth noting that materials offered are primarily repurposed\, sourced from CUCCR. At the end of the workshop\, each participant will take home their crafted samples. \nNo prior experience is necessary to participate! \nMaterial and tools (if you would like to bring your own): \n– Pencil\, ruler\, scissors\, xacto knife \n– Needle and thread (regular sewing needles are suitable) \n– Paper or other sheet material (preferably two different stocks/types) \n– Bonefolder \n– Bookbinding awl (for punching holes) \n– Scrap piece of corrugated cardboard for hole punching (height approx. 6 inches\, width 2 inches or more) \n– Cutting mat \n– Bulldog clips/binder clips (optional) \n  \n: April 26\, 2024 | 2-5 p.m \n: Cluster Commons E.V 10.730 \n✉️: To secure your spot\, kindly register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/intro-to-bookbinding-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240425T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260613T200237
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SUMMARY:Nazan Üstündağ : The mother\, the politician and the guerrilla
DESCRIPTION:On April 25\, the Concordia Ethnography Lab will host a discussion with author Dr. Nazan Üstündağ at the Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625).   \nNazan Üstündağ will discuss her recent book Mother\, Politician and Guerrilla. The book intervenes in debates on feminist political theory\, political imaginaries\, gendered subjectivities\, and state violence in Kurdistan with a focus on the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. \n  \n \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nNazan Üstündağ received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University Bloomington in 2005. Following this\, she held the position of Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University’s Department of Sociology from 2005 to 2018. Since 2018\, Üstündağ has been affiliated with various institutions\, including the Transregionale Studien in Berlin\, the Gerda Henkel Foundation\, and Alice Solomon Hochschule. Additionally\, she is a founding member of Women for Peace and Academics for Peace in Turkey. She actively participates in organizations such as the Global Prison Abolitionist Network and Women Weaving the Future\, and contributes to worldwide news broadcasts on women’s issues through Jin TV. \nRefreshments will be provided! \n: April 25\, 2024 | 5:30 p.m \n: EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nazan-ustundag-the-mother-the-politician-and-the-guerrilla/
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