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SUMMARY:A Montreal Game Studies Conversation with Dr. Carl Therrien and Dr. Darren Wershler
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 12th\, TAG Research Cluster is organizing an engaging and candid conversation on game history and immersion within the context of Montreal Game Studies\, featuring Dr. Carl Therrien from Université de Montréal and Dr. Darren Wershler from Concordia University. This open and freeform discussion will delve into unconventional and exploratory approaches to researching and understanding video game history and immersion. Through these discussions\, reflections on the influence of the Montreal game research scene on work and within the broader field of game studies and associated fields will be explored\, examining the challenges and opportunities of past and future collaborations between local research groups in Montreal\, across linguistic\, institutional\, and cultural boundaries. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:  \n \nCarl Therrien is a professor in games and film studies at the Université de Montréal. In The Media Snatcher (Platform studies\, MIT Press\, 2019)\, he proposes a critical view of videogame historiography through a comparative study of the PC Engine platform\, confronting American and Japanese perspectives of this technology. He has written numerous papers on immersion and on the history of popular genres (such as adventure games and first-person shooters). His research projects seek to integrate more video games into the canon\, hoping to assist archivists and historians in their efforts to engage with the diversity and complexity of this culture. \n  \n  \n  \nDarren Wershler specializes in media history and media archaeology\, with a particular interest in the material culture of analog and early digital technologies. His current research occurs at the Residual Media Depot (RMD)\, a research and teaching collection associated with the Media History Research Centre (MHRC) in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University. With Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson\, he is the author of THE LAB BOOK: SITUATED PRACTICES IN MEDIA STUDIES (2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n: April 12\, 2024 | 11 a.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-montreal-game-studies-conversation-with-dr-carl-therrien-and-dr-darren-wershler/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to invite all Milieux members for a gathering at the Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 next Wednesday! Join us for lunch and conversation for our Annual General Meeting! \nWe will be sharing the latest proofs of the Milieux Annual Report (2022-2023). We warmly encourage everyone to join us\, regardless of your interest in the report\, we are simply eager to connect with you\, hear about latest projects\, and simply enjoy each other’s company! \n  \n: April 10\, 2024 | 2 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
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SUMMARY:The Hologram: Towards an Anti-capitalist Care Practice
DESCRIPTION:On April 9th\, Machine Agencies of Speculative Life Cluster is hosting a 4-hour hands-on workshop on The Hologram\, a viral distribution system for non-expert healthcare\, led by Cassie Thornton. \n  \nWHAT IS THE HOLOGRAM? \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hologram serves as a mythoreal viral distribution system for accessible healthcare\, operating across the globe. Its concept is straightforward: 3 individuals\, known as the ‘Triangle\,’ convene regularly\, either online or in person\, to prioritize the physical\, mental\, and social well-being of a fourth person\, referred to as the ‘Hologram.’ In turn\, the Hologram imparts knowledge on both offering and receiving care to these participants. As they become proficient\, the Hologram guides them in establishing their own triads\, thereby perpetuating the system’s growth. \nThis social innovation draws inspiration from the experimental care models pioneered in the Social Solidarity Clinics in Greece during the peak of the financial and migration crises. The outcome of  The Hologram process is the establishment of a resilient multidimensional health network\, community-focused social rituals\, and a sense of trust capable of enduring beyond the era of capitalism. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP:  \nThis workshop introduces “incomers” to The Hologram practice with an introduction to its history and underlying principles\, along with a chance to actively engage in its methods. Originating from moments of crisis and designed for navigating them\, The Hologram combines personal reflection\, collective action\, and anti-capitalist strategies. The workshop consists of one-third presentation and two-thirds interactive participation led by two facilitators\, supplemented by experienced practitioners as necessary. Participants can expect support\, stimulating challenges\, and an invitation to join the broader global community of Hologram practitioners! \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nCassie Thornton (b. 1981 US) is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown\, for disobedience\, and for unanticipated collectivity. She uses social practices including institutional critique\, insurgent architecture\, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay\, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario\, Canada. \n  \n  \n  \n: April 9\, 2024 | 2-6 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n🔗: Make sure to register HERE as there are only 16 spots available!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-hologram-towards-an-anti-capitalist-care-practice/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Materialist Ecomodding and Picopower Logics: The Case of SunBlock One\, a solar Minecraft server
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging presentation of the SunBlock One solar Minecraft server project\, part of the Pico Power residency with TeZ. \nBart Simon\, Director of Milieux Institute will share with us the research-creation journey of the SunBlock project. This innovative project tackles two crucial challenges in energy transition research: \n\nThe significant contribution of personal computing and especially gaming to the global carbon footprint.\nThe role of popular and moddable sandbox games in fostering shared alternative energy imaginaries.\n\nWHAT IS SUNBLOCK ONE? \nSunBlock One operates on a special setup with solar panels and batteries. It’s a Forge-modded Minecraft 1.20.2 Server running on an Intel NUC computer powered by a 12v LiON battery connected to a 100W solar panel. Players can monitor their energy consumption in real-time while playing! \nThe talk will present various stages of the project\, showcasing the work that has been accomplished and discussing how the project might progress over the summer. \nBart will also introduce the idea of picopower logic\, a simple yet powerful approach to utilize energy on small\, local scale to combat climate change. \n  \n: April 9\, 2024 | 2 p.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \nALL ARE WELCOME!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/materialist-ecomodding-and-picopower-logics-the-case-of-sunblock-one-a-solar-minecraft-server/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Writing urban life: stories of waste and cities
DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab for a thought-provoking exploration of urban life with Durham University professor Colin Mcfarlane\, as he challenges conventional narratives and invites us to reimagine the cityscape! \nIn this presentation\, Colin Mcfarlane will delve into his recent research on urban fragments and waste\, asking: “how do we write differently about urban life?”. Mcfarlane will explore various conceptual frameworks\, writing techniques\, and ideological stances that could influence our perception and portrayal of urban existence. The discussion will highlight both the opportunities and obstacles\, as well as the unresolved inquiries and overlooked aspects\, within this discourse. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nColin Mc Farlane is a professor at Durham University. His work focusses on the experience and politics of the city. He explores how cities are known\, lived and politicised. This includes research on urban living\, densities\, fragments\, and learning across different cities\, focussing in particular on the economic margins. \n  \n  \n: March 27\, 2024 | 12-1:30 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n: Make sure to register HERE ! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/writing-urban-life-stories-of-waste-and-cities/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Milieux at Rencontres Interdisciplinaires 2024!
DESCRIPTION:The Milieux Institute is proud to announce the participation of several of its members in Rencontres Interdisciplinaires. Organized by Hexagram\, Rencontres Interdisciplinaires tackles current research-creation discussions through the prism of a specific theme. For this 3rd edition\, discussions will focus on the theme of agency·ies.   \nAfter the recent discoveries in the fields of biotechnology\, AI\, robotics and environmental sciences\, among others\, new questions about interactions between human and more-than-humans have emerged.   \nThose new interactions highlight new forms of agency that raise questions not only about our relationship with the world\, but also challenge artists and researchers’ anthropocentric posture. In this context\, participants will reflect on how research-creation offers new modes of engagement with agents\, materials and objects that oscillate between art and science?  \nDuring those 4 days\, Milieux’s members will take part in round tables\, conferences\, demonstrations and workshops to put forward singular research-creation approaches that highlight the capacities of objects\, whether human or non-human.  \n  \nLearn more about the event here.  \nImage credit: Jean-Ambroise Vesac\, modifié avec autorisation de l’artiste. \n  \nWHEN: March 25-28\, 2024  \nWHERE: UQÀM | Agora du Coeur des Sciences (behind the President-Kennedy Pavilion)  \n                175\, Av. Du Président-Kennedy  \n                Tiohtià:ke | Moonyiyang | Montréal H2X 3P2  \n                Metro Place-des-arts\, Bus 55\, 80 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-at-rencontres-interdisciplinaires-2024/
LOCATION:UQAM | Agora du coeur des sciences\, 175\, Av. du Président-Kennedy\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2X3P2\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240322T150000
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SUMMARY:Rendering Desired Spaces: Crafting Methods for New Digital Geographies
DESCRIPTION:On March 22nd\, The DIGS lab is hosting a research talk to explore the work of Lotte de Jong and Antonia Hernández. This will be followed by the screening of Fantasy Lane at 5 p.m. \n\n  \nAbout the talk: \nThis research talk will explore the work of Lotte de Jong and Antonia Hernández addressing the spatial construction of desire on sex webcam platforms and real estate role-playing pornography. \nThrough an overview of different artworks created between 2018-2024\, the authors highlight how these digital spaces serve as unique sites for investigating issues related to housing anxiety and desire\, the governance of visibility\, and the representation and inhabitation of virtual environments. They will also address the benefits and challenges of using arts-based methods and interdisciplinary collaboration to explore rapidly changing phenomena. \nThe talk will be followed by a screening of Jong’s and Hernández’s Fantasy Lane (work in progress) at the Vizualization Studio (Webster Library\, LB-314.00). See you there! \n  \nAbout the speakers:  \nLotte Louise de Jong is a Rotterdam-based multidisciplinary artist with a film and lens-based media background. Through website-based works\, VR\, and video installations\, she explores identity\, intimacy\, economy\, and sexuality in the digital realm. Lotte’s research-driven approach combines humor with critical reflection to shed light on our hidden online lives and societal impact. \nAntonia Hernández is an artist and assistant professor in the Communication department at Concordia University\, Montréal. Her work explores the poetic dimensions of governance and the domestic aspects of platforms. Currently\, she is developing a video opera addressing the financialization of water in Chile. \nThis talk is presented in partnership with Concordia University’s DIGS Lab. \n  \nWHEN: March 22\, 2024 \nWHERE: Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rendering-desired-spaces-crafting-methods-for-new-digital-geographies/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240318T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240318T200000
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SUMMARY:The Killing Movie + Goodbye (again) Juan
DESCRIPTION:Juan Miceli invites you to The Killing Movie which is all at once a screening\, a performance and another farewell. You can either drop-in for a few minutes or stay for the entire time. Juan claims that this is the perfect excuse to consider the scope of research-creation as movement while we share time together. It is also a chance to reflect and speculate on the tecno fossils and the declassification of some embedded control matrices. \n\n📅: March 18\, 2024 | 4-8 p.m \n📍: Performance Lab E.V 10.785 \n📸: Martin Cedres
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-killing-movie-goodbye-again-juan/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240315T183000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Evicted City by Laurence Turcotte-Fraser & Priscillia Piccoli +Q&A (co-presented by the Concordia Ethnography Lab + with the McGill Critical Media Club)
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab has once again teamed up with McGill’s Critical Media Club\, this time to host Laurence Turcotte-Fraser & Priscillia Piccoli who will present their powerful film Evicted City (2023). The screening and talk is happening March 15th\, 2024 at 6:30 pm at the VA-114 Cinema of Concordia. Free! No registration! All are invited! \nAbout the film: Montreal — one of the few remaining affordable cities in North America — is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. An intimate portrait of socio-political resistance\, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.\n \nAbout the directors: Laurence Turcotte-Fraser is an emerging filmmaker first known for her short film Domino (Regards 2018)\, as well as her director of photography work (L’étrange province\, Les Jaunes\, Blast Beat). Her first feature-length documentary\, The End of Wonderland (2021)\, was released theatrically in Canada and travelled internationally (IDFA\, RIDM\, OUTFEST LA\, BFI FLARE). This eccentric portrait of erotic artist Tara Emory allowed her to explore her love for direct cinema and to find a human approach both in front of and behind the camera. With her second feature film Evicted City\, co-directed with Priscillia Piccoli\, she continues her documentary artistic approach by scrutinizing the housing crisis in her home city\, Montreal. \nPriscillia Piccoli is an emerging filmmaker known for her short film Mathieu (Bell Fund Prize\, Fantasia International Film Festival) and her short documentary As Hard As Ice (Prix d’Unis TV et Réalisatrices Équitables at the 2020 Regions Race). Committed to direct cinema\, Priscillia uses the 7th art to find the silver lining in social-political dilemmas. During the first year of the pandemic\, while training as a social worker in a homeless day center\, she questioned the storm to come in her hometown\, Montreal. With her first feature film Evicted City\, co-directed with Laurence Turcotte-Fraser\, Priscillia launches a cry from the heart by granting the right to speak to the evicted people of a metropolis in full change. \nThis event is supported by the Concordia Ethnography Lab’s Visual Methods Studio (VMS) and the McGill Critical Media Club.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-evicted-city-by-laurence-turcotte-fraser-priscillia-piccoli-qa-co-presented-by-the-concordia-ethnography-lab-with-the-mcgill-critical-media-club/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Tactile Sound
DESCRIPTION:Friday Workshops at Milieux continues after Reading Week! \n\nThe third session will be: ‘Tactile Sound’\nFriday March 8th 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.\nwith Ryth Kesselring & Geneviève Moisan. \nThis workshop aims to explore the senses\, by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? We will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textiles and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \nMulti-disciplinary artist and recent MFA graduate Ryth Kesselring will discuss her research and recent projects\, along with other work in this field. She will then demonstrate the use and capabilities of several components that can facilitate the inclusion of sound into a textile wearable / artwork. We will also look at different textile speaker coils and magnet configurations in relation to the body to experience the sound in different ways. \nPlease email to reserve a space as slots are limited.\nContact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Tactile Sound’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days. \n  \n\nPart of Milieux’s Winter experiential learning workshop series\, exploring themes relating to AI & microbial agency\, issues of sustainable practices\, and intimacy and alternate senses\, splicing traditional craft techniques with creative new ways of working. This season’s workshop series in development include: AI Poetry Embroidery\, Exploring Archiving with Bio-Plastics & Resins\, Bacterial Portraiture\, Alternative Pigments (Algae\, Rust & Plant Matter) and Tactile Sound! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-tactile-sound/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240307T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240307T140000
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SUMMARY:Enhancing Immersive Art Through Auditory Perception: a workshop with Austin Tecks-Bleuer
DESCRIPTION:Come join Immersive Storytelling Studio member Austin Tecks-Bleuer for an introductory workshop on immersive audio on March 7th from 1-2pm in EV 10.705! \nThis workshop sets out to demystify the science behind auditory perception to create more captivating immersive experiences. Open to all experience levels\, Austin will cover basic concepts primarily relating to spatialization. Learn how physiological and perceptual mechanisms shape our response to sound\, and gain practical techniques for leveraging auditory stimuli to elevate your artistic creations. \nPart 1: A light overview of the different mechanisms that allow humans to localize a sound (primarily head related transfer function and inter-aural time difference). \nPart 2: How reverb and high frequency attenuation determine our perception of a physical space. \nPart 3: Some practical examples in a game engine. \nAustin Tecks-Bleuer is a composer\, pop music producer/songwriter\, and immersive installation artist currently pursuing Electroacoustic Studies at Concordia University. Transitioning from a background in music production\, Austin’s focus has shifted to creating immersive installations using tools like the Unreal Engine and TouchDesigner. His work blurs the line between physical and digital spaces\, inviting viewers into captivating experiences that merge art and technology. \nWhen? March 7th\, from 1-2pm \nWhere? EV 10.705 \nNo previous knowledge or registration is required to participate in this event! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/enhancing-immersive-art-through-auditory-perception-a-workshop-with-austin-tecks-bleuer/
LOCATION:EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240227T133000
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SUMMARY:Mime as Non-Verbal Communication
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a workshop on Tuesday\, February 27th\, with LePARC’s Sue Proctor to explore mime as non-verbal communication. \nFrom basic physical techniques to emotional expression\, we will play with concepts of body awareness\, self-expression and clown communication. Through fun and laughter\, movement and use of sound\, we will explore a vocabulary for non-verbal relationships and performance. \nPeople of all levels of movement or performance experience are welcome. Please wear clothes that are comfortable to move in. \nSue Proctor has been clowning\, performing and teaching in the arts for over thirty years. Creator of six original Fringe theatre shows\, Sue was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Therapeutic Clowns and uses clowning to inform her work as a dramaturg\, and in teaching drama to all ages and abilities. Sue is Co-Director of the ‘Arts Inclusion Network’ in Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, Canada. \nHer Master’s thesis\, “The Archetypal Role of the Clown as a Catalyst for Individual and Societal Transformation\,” can be found online. \nTo register for the workshop\, click here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mime-as-non-verbal-communication/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240223T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240223T160000
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Embroiderverse: Interfacing AI Text and Textile
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Workshop season continues! \nThis winter we are hosting an experiential learning workshop series\, exploring themes relating to AI & microbial agency\, issues of sustainable practices\, and intimacy and alternate senses\, splicing traditional craft techniques with creative new ways of working. This season’s workshop series in development include: AI Poetry Embroidery\, Exploring Archiving with Bio-Plastics & Resins\, Bacterial Portraiture\, Alternative Pigments (Algae\, Rust & Plant Matter) and Tactile Sound! \n  \nThe second session will be: ‘Embroiderverse: Interfacing AI Text and Textile’\nFriday February 23rd 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.\nwith Morris Fox & Geneviève Moisan and guest Zeph Thibodeau.\nCome create with bots (& other people)!\n \n‘Fusing traditional and machine embroidery methods to stitch decorative poem slogans\, we explore language as code through textile and text’s shared Latin root texere (to weave). Noting the long entwinement of computational and textile histories and techno-cultures\, we will engage chat-bot models to play with material and experiential text and decorative threads. Using the Tajima industrial embroidery machine’s design software database of typefaces as data inputs\, we generate textured poem words. How is AI both a threat and a thread of narrative language? How can poetry hack language-based chat AI’s\, and produce playful failure? This peer-guided experiential learning workshop shares these questions and through tactile processes\, we speculate on what it means to collaborate with AI?’ \nPlease email to reserve a space as slots are limited. Contact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Embroiderverse’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-embroiderverse-interfacing-ai-text-and-textile/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Juan Miceli
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 22\, 2024\, from 5-7 PM\, at the Performance Lab (EV 10.785)\, for an exciting talk with artist Juan Miceli\, hosted by LePARC.\nCome learn about Juan’s experience following six months as a research intern at Milieux in this performance lecture. He will share artworks and creative concepts – such as Inverse Interface\, Artecnic\, Apology of the Remaining\, and Black Milk – that came out of his research-creation process.\nJuan Miceli is an audiovisual artist based out of Buenos Aires and Montreal\, who has studied both Fashion Design and Electronic Art. In 2022\, Juan received an ELAP Scholarship which has supported his Research Internship at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts\, where he has conducted a research project titled Inverse Interface under the tutelage of Ricardo Dal Farra. This internship research fed into Juan’s Master’s thesis in the Aesthetics and Technology of Electronic Arts\, which he is pursuing at the National University Tres de Febrero (UNTreF) under the direction of Mariela Yeregui (PhD) and Andres Rodriguez (PhD). \nThe materiality of the Inverse Interface research creation project consists of the development of collaborative video installations\, a genealogical work in relation to technological practices like vision machines\, and experimentation with immersive environments\, bodies and interfaces. Juan’s work stems from a Latin American perspective that is in a permanent stage of construction. Working with a fusion of media including sculpture\, video\, installation\, generative video\, digital modelling and performance\, Juan develops exhibitions and research projects that investigate the relationship between art\, the body and technology. \nJuan’s work has been supported by such institutions as Milieux Institute\, Concordia Fine Arts\, National Fund for the Arts (Arg)\, San Martin University (UNSAM)\, CCGSM\, and the National Contemporary Dance Company and Expressions Cultural Center (US)\, among others. His video installations have been exhibited at the Concordia Black Box\, Fourth Space\, C3 Science Center\, the National Center of Music and Dance\, B. Rivadavia Museum of Natural Sciences\, ThisIsNotAGallery\, the MACA Junín Museum\, Expressions Cultural Center\, the University of Cordoba\, the Spanish Cooperation Center in Buenos Aires\, and the Recoleta Cultural Center\, to name a few.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-juan-miceli/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20240129T203145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T204146Z
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SUMMARY:Playing with AI Ethics: Networking\, Directions\, Ideas\, and Approaches
DESCRIPTION:How do we ethically engage with AI? \nJoin Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson in 4th Space on February 6 (12pm – 3pm) and February 16 (2pm – 5pm) for a networking event series that explores this question. \nFrom policies to personal preferences\, we have seen AI take hold in the lives of educators and their students\, with varying support systems to deal with it. We’re inviting you to a networking event focused on sharing and discussing how people are ethically using AI in our own practice and the practice of learners. Drop in over the course of three hours and listen to live interviews with stakeholders\, play a game teaching about it\, and share your thoughts and approaches. Together\, through play and conversation\, we can see the practices of others and consider what steps need to be taken. \nSupported with funds from OBVIA and led by Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson. \nRegister for one of the two events by following the links below: \nFebruary 6\, 2024 12pm – 3pm (Register here) \nFebruary 16\, 2024 2pm to 5pm (Register here)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/playing-with-ai-ethics-networking-directions-ideas-and-approaches/2024-02-16/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240214T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20240207T161802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T155733Z
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SUMMARY:2023-2024 UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza
DESCRIPTION: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!  \nThe presentations will be taking place in-person at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) on February 14th\, 2024\, from 12:00-2:00 PM.  \nCome have lunch with us and meet the fellows! In the meantime\, click here to read more about the 2024 cohort. \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2024-ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20240119T190835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T041101Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Meezan (Scale) by Shahab Mihandoust + Q&A (presented by the Concordia Ethnography Lab)
DESCRIPTION:The first Concordia Ethnography Lab film night of the semester is coming up on February 9th\, 2024\, at 6:30 pm\, this time at the VA-114 Cinema. We will be screening Meezan (2023) by Shahab Mihandoust followed by a Q&A with the director. Free! No registration! All are invited! \n \nSet in south-western Iran\, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq\, Meezan (Scale) is an observational and immersive experience\, a journey from the sea to the land\, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. \nDeparting from the shore of Abadan\, the first oil company-town in the Middle East\, it follows a group of Arab fisherman who exemplify the realities of maintaining intergenerational ways of living and working on the sea. The men lead us to Bahrakan harbor where they barter for their share of the catch. What is contemporaneously a meeting place for fishmongering was a site of arduous migration for refugees fleeing Abadan after the mass destruction of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980’s. Meezan concludes in a secluded shrimp processing plant on the outskirts of Abadan where women who are shuttled in from surrounding villages furiously peel and devein shrimps in their own race for wages. \nDespite the massive industrialization of the region\, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are most intimately connected to these embattled landscapes\, and Meezan is a reflection on the relation between bodies and scales to acknowledge the weight of the past and its consequences in the present.  \nShahab was born and raised in Tehran before he moved to Tio’tia:ke/Montreal in 2004. Inspired by ethnographic approaches to research and creation\, his documentary practice stands at the intersection between cinema and anthropology\, and his work often approaches the entanglement of identity and labor in everyday life practices; and as they relate to natural and built environments to understand the impacts of social\, cultural and political processes on people and places.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-meezan-scale/
LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240206T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20240129T203145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T204146Z
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SUMMARY:Playing with AI Ethics: Networking\, Directions\, Ideas\, and Approaches
DESCRIPTION:How do we ethically engage with AI? \nJoin Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson in 4th Space on February 6 (12pm – 3pm) and February 16 (2pm – 5pm) for a networking event series that explores this question. \nFrom policies to personal preferences\, we have seen AI take hold in the lives of educators and their students\, with varying support systems to deal with it. We’re inviting you to a networking event focused on sharing and discussing how people are ethically using AI in our own practice and the practice of learners. Drop in over the course of three hours and listen to live interviews with stakeholders\, play a game teaching about it\, and share your thoughts and approaches. Together\, through play and conversation\, we can see the practices of others and consider what steps need to be taken. \nSupported with funds from OBVIA and led by Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson. \nRegister for one of the two events by following the links below: \nFebruary 6\, 2024 12pm – 3pm (Register here) \nFebruary 16\, 2024 2pm to 5pm (Register here)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/playing-with-ai-ethics-networking-directions-ideas-and-approaches/2024-02-06/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240202T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Bacterial Portraiture
DESCRIPTION:2024 Workshop season is upon us! \nThis winter we will be hosting an experiential learning workshop series\, exploring themes relating to AI & microbial agency\, issues of sustainable practices\, and intimacy and alternate senses\, splicing traditional craft techniques with creative new ways of working. This season’s workshop series in development include: AI Poetry Embroidery\, Exploring Archiving with Bio-Plastics & Resins\, Bacterial Portraiture\, Alternative Pigments (Algae\, Rust & Plant Matter) and Tactile Sound! \nThe first session will be ‘Bacterial Portraiture’ on Friday February 2nd 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.\nCome explore the microbiome & create small-scale portraits with bacteria! \nPlease email to reserve a space as slots are limited. Contact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Bacterial Portraiture’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-bacterial-portraiture/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231129T181042Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Lília Mestre & Laura Pante 
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 7th\, 2023\, from 5-7 PM\, at the Performance Lab (EV 10.785)\, for an artist talk hosted by LePARC with one of the cluster’s new co-directors Lilia\, and visiting doctoral student Laura Pante who is here until the end of December. \nLília Mestre (she\, her) is a performing artist\, dramaturge and researcher working in collaborative formats mainly in the fields of contemporary dance and choreography. Mestre works with scores\, inter-subjective set-ups and other chance-induced processes as emancipatory artistic and pedagogical tools\, which have been documented in various publications. She is interested in forms of organization created by and for artistic practice as alternative study processes for social-political reflection. For the past 8 years\, she has been working on the concept of ‘artificial friendship’ which has been the source for the creation of methodological structures (scores) for exchange and collaboration in artistic research settings. Mestre has worked as mentor\, project curator and artistic coordinator of the postgraduate program a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels\, Belgium since 2012. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and Co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) at Concordia University. \nLaura Pante (Italy\, 1983) is a dancer and artistic researcher of dance theories and practices. She graduated in Visual Arts at IUAV University of Venice. Since October 2020 she has been a PhD student at the same university\, where she conducts research titled Soil\, Landscape\, Habitat – three ways of the relationship between presence\, body and the virtual under the supervision of Prof. Annalisa Sacchi. In 2019\, she completed a period of study at APASS (Advanced Performance and Scenographic Studies) in Brussels. Her research focuses on the analysis of the political articulation of thought and movement in the context of the relationship between body techniques and technologies of the self. Pante is currently a visiting researcher at the Performing Arts Research Cluster.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-lilia-mestre-laura-pante/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231101T161954Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Launch 
DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members (faculty and students alike!) to meet in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) for our last pizza lunch of the semester! This will be a great opportunity for current and new members to reunite and (re)connect. Come along to have some pizza and chat – we’re eager to see you and hear what you’re up to! \nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pizza-launch/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231106T161042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T182327Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Geographies of Solitude by Jacquelyn Mills + Master Class (Co-organized with the McGill Critical Media Club)
DESCRIPTION:Through a common interest in the environment and creative storytelling\, the Concordia Ethnography Lab has partnered with McGill’s Critical Media Club to host Jacquelyn Mills who will present her stunningly beautiful film Geographies of Solitude\, part nature film\, part biographical portrait. The screening will be followed by a master class on the making of the film. The event is open to all! \nWhen? December 4\, 2023\, 6-9pm \nWhere? McGill’s Peterson Hall\, Room 108 \nAn immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island\, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques\, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world. Much like a field book\, the film tracks its protagonist’s labor to collect\, clean and document marine litter that persistently washes up on the island shores. Jacquelyn Mills is a filmmaker based in Montreal. Her works are immersive and sensorial\, often exploring an intimate and healing connection to the natural world. The screening will be followed by a Master class with Jacquelyn Mills.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-geographies-of-solitude-by-jacquelyn-mills-master-class-co-organized-with-the-mcgill-critical-media-club/
LOCATION:McGill’s Peterson Hall\, Room 108\, 3460 Rue McTavish\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231128T163723Z
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SUMMARY:[Open Lab Presentation] Pico Power and Energy Transition — TeZ in residency at the BioLab
DESCRIPTION:Join us Monday December 4th\, between 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm\, at the Speculative Life Biolab for the Pico Power and Energy Transition Residency Open Lab. Since November 20th\, interdisciplinary Amsterdam-based artist Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) works in collaboration with Alice Jarry\, Bart Simon\, and students to develop biomaterials\, composites\, and technologies for alternative energy futures. Come say hello\, and attend demos of photobiovoltaic cells (algae and berries)\, crystal or graphene batteries\, and conductive bioplastic in action. \nAbout TeZ \nTeZ (aka Maurizio Martinucci) is an interdisciplinary artist\, musician and independent researcher\, living and working in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. Guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty in Den Haag\, Minerva Academy in Groningen\, Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok\, TeZ is regularly showing his work and giving lectures at both academic and artistic contexts. His installations and performances have been featured at major venues and festivals worldwide including Ars Electronica Linz\, BIAN Montreal\, Gropius Bau Berlin\, Chronus Art Center Shanghai among many others. He’s been running the ‘Optofonica’ Lab for Synesthetic ArtScience in Amsterdam since 2006. \n\nTeZ explores the boundaries between human perception and all physical phenomena associated to vibrations. He crafts custom generative software and instruments for sound and light propagation\, as well as specific architectural structures where subtle oscillations can reach the body and stimulate meditative and immersive experiences. TeZ is also active member of HACKTERIA International Society involved in BioArt\, Open Hardware and DIY Lab Equipment. His latest work in collaboration with Sofian Audry from Hexagram/Concordia (Montreal) explores the relationship between living microorganisms and Artificial Intelligence systems. With his SOLARPUNK LAB project/platform TeZ is promoting the practical philosophy of Solarpunk to explore and experiment methods that enable citizens to autonomy\, resistance and resilience. TeZ’s holistic paradigm aims at encompassing many of the disciplines related to art and science\, together with technology\, ecology and mindfulness. \nFurther info \nhttps://speculativelifebiolab.com/\nhttp://solarpunklab.org\nhttps://www.tez.it\n  \n\nQuestions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/open-lab-presentation-pico-power-and-energy-transition-tez-in-residency-at-the-biolab/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231004T155525Z
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SUMMARY:The Future is Wool: Community Research Project
DESCRIPTION:Love wool? Longing to learn more about it AND join a new knit along project? Then cast on with us! \nThe Future is Wool is a continuing community research project based at Concordia University\, exploring the personal and planetary benefits of wool as a beautiful and sustainable material for making in arts\, crafts\, and design. \nTFiW returned this September 27th\, 2023\, with the first of a series of hybrid (Zoom/in person) activities throughout this fall 2023. Special focus: valorizing Canadian wool! \nUpcoming events\nOctober 18th\, 2023\, from 12-1 PM EST: British artist and author (On Mending: Stories of Damage and Repair) Celia Pym joins us to speak about looking after our woollens. Since 2007 her work has involved collecting stories from the people whose clothing she has repaired\, and considers why repair matters more today than ever before. *drop-in mending circle with local artists Selina Latour and Mea Bissett. Bring your woolens and learn how to mend and/or sit and stitch \nNovember 1st\, 2023\, from 12-1 PM EST: The true costs and joys of producing wool yarn with farm/mill owner and author of Sheep\, Shepherd & Land: Stories of Sheep Farmers Reinvigorating Canadian Wool\, Anna Hunter. Anna joins us from Long Way Homestead in Manitoba to discuss her love of wool and and the actual cost of producing each skein. \nNovember 29th\, 2023\, from 12-2 PM EST: Casting off! Sit and knit with us and celebrate the finale of our fall activities. Help finishing will be available. We’ll collect any handknit donations and deliver them to local shelters! Light refreshment served! We launch our end of project survey\, too! \nFor more informaton\, contact principal investigator Kathleen Vaughan at kathleen.vaughan@concordia.ca. \nLocation for in-person attendance: EV11.705 (Milieux Resource Room)\, EV Building\, 1515 Ste-Catherine Ouest\, Montreal\, QC H3G 2W1 \nZoom link for online attendance: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/84682939489 \nHope to see you in person or on line! Bring your knitting!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-future-is-wool-community-research-project/2023-11-29/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231116T170055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T170149Z
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SUMMARY:Angles of Consequence: Lab Report - LePARC
DESCRIPTION:Come learn about the Angles of Consequence team’s early research since September! \nLePARC co-director Meghan Moe Beitiks and their research team will present their project and early research in a Lab Report on November 28th\, from 12:00 – 13:30\, at the Performance Lab (10. 785). \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/angles-of-consequence-lab-report/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231127T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231127T193000
DTSTAMP:20260614T021454
CREATED:20231120T211058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T211116Z
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SUMMARY:Icelandic Field School Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Vaughan will give an information session about the Icelandic Field school and courses!\nReturning June 1-30\, 2024\, The Iceland Field School is a 3-credit mixed level (BFA to PhD – ARTE 398/660/850 Imagining Iceland) artist’s residency in north Iceland\, with a fibre arts inflection! \nOpen to current Concordia students. \nThe Iceland Field School (IFS) is sited at the Icelandic Textile Centre\, an academic research centre and artistic residency in Blönduós\, Iceland\, during the endless daylight of June. Students create individualized\, interdisciplinary artistic projects in media including textiles\, photography\, video\, performance\, drawing\, environmental art\, graphic novels\, book arts\, writing\, or academic work on themes of museum studies\, community development\, tourism\, and hospitality studies. We learn using a place-based\, post-humanist lens\, and consider environmental issues important to Iceland\, Canada\, and the world. We aim to give back to our host community as well as to receive. \nCoursework includes workshops with Icelandic experts in tapestry weaving\, spinning wool\, and natural dyeing with locally foraged plants\, plus a talk by a notable Iceland-based artist. Students learn with place as they focus on their independent creative work. Students have double occupancy accommodation in two buildings (the heritage Kvennaskólinn or Women’s School) and House 35\, and share kitchen\, laundry\, and bathroom facilities. The Centre provides a large\, shared studio\, weaving loft and looms (experienced weavers only)\, natural dye shed\, and a digitally-enabled classroom. Not suitable for those with mobility challenges. Non-toxic processes only. \nThe Iceland Field School is designed and led by Kathleen Vaughan\, Concordia University Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures and Professor of Art Education. kathleen.vaughan@concordia.ca. Find out more at information sessions with Kathleen (mandatory prior to application): \n• Tues\, Nov 21 2 to 4 p.m. (EV2.645)\n• Mon\, Nov 27 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (EV10.730)\n• Thurs Dec 7\, 1 to 3 p.m. (EV5.825)\n• Tues\, Jan 16 2:30 p.m. by Zoom (will be recorded and available on the Concordia International website) \nhttps://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/86567964479?pwd=Y2Yrc1JIQlJFU0NyTTJKdUdldDdOQT09 \nApplication period is online\, January 18 to February 8\, 2024\, at Concordia International: \nhttps://www.concordia.ca/students/exchanges/field-schools.html \nApplications must include a letter of intent\, portfolio\, transcript\, and may include an interview. \nProgram cost is CAD$3650 (accommodation and workshops) PLUS the cost of a 3-credit course\, which varies depending on level of study and place of home residency. You may be eligible for financial aid in the form of a Quebec Mobility Bursary ($1500TBC) and/or a Thomson Family Field School Bursary ($1300). You must also pay your own travel costs\, food\, medical insurance\, art supplies\, and incidental costs. \nCome and find out more about this transformational opportunity to study\, make\, and live under June’s midnight sun in northwest Iceland!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/icelandic-field-school-information-session/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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SUMMARY:Residency Visit: Dance Artist Sara Hanley
DESCRIPTION:As part of her residency in the Performance Lab this November\, dance artist and Art Ed. master’s Sara Hanley is inviting people to visit her in the studio for select time periods and come into dialogue with her project.  \nQue constitue la rencontre entre \nL’asclépiade \nLe pistage \nLe.s territoire.s \nLe désir / besoin d’attachement \nLe mouvement des corps humain.e.s et végétaux \nQu’est-ce que l’imbrication de ces éléments révèlent sur une manière de concevoir des pratiques artistiques et citoyennes pérennes?
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/residency-visit-dance-artist-sara-hanley/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T150000
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SUMMARY:Drawing and Ethnography Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Ethnographic methodologies include a wide range of approaches\, many explored in the book A Different Kind of Ethnography (2016). One that has been neglected\, while having been a tool for expression and documentation for ever\, is drawing. Kuschnir (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\, such as the need to express both the “inner and outer worlds” that intersect in our research”. \nFor this workshop we’ll be going on a walk together to explore the city (location tbd) accompanied with our pencils and paper and invite you to reflect on the following questions together: \nHow is our gaze shifting when the practice of drawing is introduced in our observations/experience? \nHow is imitation\, reproduction and interpretation present in our observation? \nWhat does it reveal about our conscious and unconscious assumptions? \nWhat are some ethnographic insights in paying attention to the technique of drawing as a practice? \nThe workshop will be co-facilitated by Pelin Karaaslan\, a visual artist based in Montreal and Irmak Taner\, ethnolab alumnus. \nPlease email concordia.ethnography@gmail.com to register and to stay updated about the chosen location for the event.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-and-ethnography-workshop/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:AI and Music: Public Recording (Concert)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert of music generated by Artificial Intelligence! \nArtificial Intelligence in Music research is a new step in algorithmic and generative music that started in the 1950s with a Computer Assisted Composition tools. This ongoing project is supervised by Eldad Tsabary\, Sabine Bergler and Yong Zeng. The main research assistant for the project\, and composer\, is Philon Nguyen. The concert (perhaps the word public recording would be more exact) will take place on November 23rd from 19-20h at the Concordia’s Black Box (1515 St. Catherine W. Room OS3-845).  \nThe public recording “Artificial Intelligence and Music” was made possible through a grant by the Gina-Cody School of Engineering and the Milieux Institute. The concert addresses the question: What can AI-generated music look like? \nFollowing the concert\, an analysis of the recording and the musicians’ experience of performing AI composition will lead to a paper on natural and unnatural renderings of New Music. Learn more about this project in this article. \nString Quartet No. 1: A Study in Deconstruction \nAndara Quartet\nViolon/Violin: Jeanne Côté\nViolon/Violin: Marie-Claire Vaillancourt\nAlto/Viola: Vincent Delorme\nVioloncelle/Cello: Émilie Girard-Charest \nVariations on a Theme by Handel  \nFlûte/Flute: Nadia Sparrow\nClarinette/Clarinet: Rébecca Gagnon\nPiano: Gabrielle Gagnon-Picard\nViolon/Violin: Jeanne Côté \nMorphogenesis: Hommage to Gilles Deleuze\n\nFlûte/Flute: Nadia Sparrow Clarinette\nBasse/Bass Clarinet: Rébecca Gagnon\nTrombone/Trombone: Simon Jolicoeur-Côté\nPiano: Gabrielle Gagnon-Picard\nViolon/Violin: Marie-Claire Vaillancourt\nVioloncelle/Cello: Émilie Girard-Charest \nChercheurs principaux/Principal Investigators:\nDr Eldad Tsabary\,\nDre Sabine Bergler\nDr Yong Zeng \nIngénieur vidéo/video engineer: Malte Leander\nIngénieur de son/sound engineer: Maximus Delmar \nChef d’orchestre/conductor: Charles-Eric Fontaine\nCompositeur/composer: Dr. Philon Nguyen
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ai-and-music-public-recording-concert/
LOCATION:Black Box
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Huahua's Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations (2022) by Daphne Xu + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 22nd\, 2023\, at 6 pm at the Concordia Ethnography Lab (EV 10. 625) for the screening of “Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations (2022)” & Q&A with the director! \nHuahua\, an eccentric and exuberant woman from Xiongan New Area\, a government-planned city just south of Beijing\, livestreams herself dancing\, singing\, and chatting with fans for a living. Cell phone screens\, beauty filters\, and digital soundscapes reveal a world that Huahua creates with her own image. \nDaphne Xu is a Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker exploring the politics and poetics of place. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director. \n\nCanada/U.S. • 2022 • 82min• Mandarin• English subtitles \n\nThis project is funded by The Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-huahuas-dazzling-world-and-its-myriad-temptations-2022-by-daphne-xu-qa/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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