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Performative Compositions: How to create an umbrella

LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)

Are you coming with me under my umbrella? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with multidisciplinary artist Patricia Ragazzon, on February 16, 2023, from 2-5 PM. In her doctoral research on embodied learning as a pedagogical process, Patricia Ragazzon develops the concept of “performative compositions” as modes of creation with […]

Lunch Time Seminar with Luke Stark

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk "Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making": Regulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. […]

Digital Text as Data – A Computational Approach

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting, analyzing, and visualizing digital text as data. A deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars, proper methodological […]

A Talk with Tina Campt: “The Afterlives of Images: A Correspondence”

Concordia University - MB-9 Conference Centre 1450 Guy Street, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Join us for the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find the Ground, Post Image's cycle of artist talks and artist residencies, featuring a talk with black feminist theorist Tina Campt! Tina Campt's lecture reflects on the the afterlives of images re-activated in ways that imagine black life, bodies, and spaces across time. This lecture […]

GameBling Game Jam Second Edition

The GameBling Game Jam is back for a second edition and it is all about luck this time (Feb 11-12, 2023)! The outcome of some gambling games relies on pure probability (i.e., slot machines, lotteries), while others involve a bit of skill (e.g., poker, mahjong). But for many gamblers, the odds of winning are also […]

How We Live with Data Workshop

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

The Aging in Data project is hosting the workshop How We Live with Data - in a collaboration with the Atwater Library - with researchers Nicole Dalmer, Cal Biruk, and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis. The workshop will be happening on February 10th, from 1:00-5:00 PM, at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) The aim of this interactive […]

Postcolonial Nature with Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia

Online

Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia's talk 'Postcolonial Nature'.  In this talk, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs […]

Handle with Care: Values in Our Hearts – A Micro Opera

Video Production Studio (EV 10.760)

Come join us for this massive collaborative improvisational micro-opera that explores relations between identity, independence, and our yearning for belonging, and collaborative creation. When? February 8th, 6:00 PM Where? Video Production Studio (EV 10.760) Our identities are partially constructed of rules internalized through our upbringing, which provide us with a lifeline and a noose. Some need […]

Artist Talk with Rehab Nazzal

Post Image presents Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal, in the fourth installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting […]

How to Stay a Human When You Dance With a Machine

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

When we use a computer, do we have to think in the language of the computer? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with digital interactive artist Tim Murray-Browne. I’ll talk about my artistic practice of building embodied interactive systems. Particularly with dancers, I’ve found code introduces abstractions of the body, […]

UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza!

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

As many of you already know, we have recently announced this years’ Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now it’s time for the fellows to introduce themselves and their research, or any other topic they care about. Join us for two hours of snappy, fascinating presentations from a group of standout emerging researchers while indulging in some pizza!  The […]

NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN Symposium

Milieux Institute, EV 11. 705 1515 Saint-Catherine St W

Come to feel and explore nostalgia with us at the NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN symposium - a student-led symposium that explores creative nostalgia through panel discussions and workshops from experts in the arts and sciences.  When? February 4th, from 10:00-4:00 PM EST. Where? Milieux Institute (EV 11.705) and online Nostalgia reminds us of a past that was and could […]