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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231127T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231127T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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SUMMARY:Repurposed Methods with Anna Harris by The EthnoLab & The Centre for Sensory Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Ethnography Lab and Centre for Sensory Studies are hosting a brown bag lunch on Repurposed Methods with Anna Harris\, Associate Professor of the Social Studies of Medicine at Maastricht University and an Affiliated Researcher with the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia. \nRepurposing is a term and practice growing in popularity\, whether in reference to the repurposing involved in upcycling\, the repurposing of pharmaceuticals\, or data repurposing\, to name a few. In the context of a new project on upcycling in hospitals\, Anna would like to consider with the attendees what it means to think about repurposing in regards to the project’s mythologies both for her work and that of those who attend. \nDuring the lunch she’ll introduce her research project\, and we’ll discuss one or more of the methodological approaches being developed. \nRe-use: what it means to make ethnographic materials available to other to use\nRecycling: what it means to use the open data sets shared by other researchers in our own ethnographic works\nUpcycling: how as ethnographers we can bring making methods (e.g. workshops\, exhibitions) into our research projects. \nWhen: 22nd November\, 12.30-2pm\nWhere: Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625) \nBRING YOUR LUNCH! \nPhoto Credit: Maastricht University
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/repurposed-methods-with-anna-harris-by-the-ethnolab-the-centre-for-sensory-studies/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231026T165751Z
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SUMMARY:Meet our Labs | Milieux Institute Tours
DESCRIPTION:Milieux Institute is opening its doors! On November 22nd from 12-2 PM EST\, we’ll be welcoming graduate prospective students to our headquarters at Concordia University! This is a fantastic opportunity to experience our studio-lab spaces\, meet our students and researchers (and associated robot friends!)\, and learn about project and program opportunities. \nJoin us to discover our efforts in interactive textiles\, indigenous futures\, game design\, energy justice\, physical computing and performance\, bio-art and material remediation\, VR\, maker culture\, media materiality\, and more. Our members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that the Milieux Institute supports. \nHow can you participate? Please answer this brief survey to register for the tour \nHave questions? Feel free to send them to ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca \nDetails: \nDate: November 22nd\, 2023\, from 12-2 pm\nLocation: Milieux Institute\, Concordia University EV Building\, 11th floor (11. 455)\, 11515 Saint-Catherine St W\, Montreal\, QC H3G 1S6 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-open-house-and-tours/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231121T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231121T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Merit of Making II
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? The Textiles & Materiality research cluster has a limited number of spots left in the upcoming Merit of Making Workshop giving other Milieux cluster members a chance to participate! \nMerit of Making II –  Instructor: Gen Moisan \nWhen? November 21st\, 1:30-4:00 PM \nWhere? Room EV 10.725 \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. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring design ideas to the workshop. \nPREREQUISITES: Merit of Making I \nSOFTWARE: You will need Adobe Illustrator for this workshop. \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/merit-of-making-ii/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231114T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Textile Quotes
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? The Textiles & Materiality research cluster has a limited number of spots left in the upcoming Textile Quotes Workshop giving other Milieux cluster members a chance to participate! \nTextile Quotes Workshop – Instructor: Gen Moisan \nWhen? November 14th\, 1:30-4:00 PM \nWhere? Room EV 10.725 \nIn this workshop you will learn how to integrate text with the Tajima Embroidery software. \n* Registration is Required! Please send an e-mail to textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/textile-quotes/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231111T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231006T132230Z
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SUMMARY:GAMERella Game Jam 2023
DESCRIPTION:GAMERella\, the world’s longest-running annual game jam and workshop series dedicated to supporting marginalized game creators and aspiring game makers\, is back! Their upcoming edition is scheduled for November 11-12\, 2023. Over the years\, hundreds of individuals have crafted their very first games at GAMERella\, benefiting from the guidance of our incredible industry mentors\, engaging live and video workshops\, and the relaxed atmosphere that fosters creativity. Now\, it’s your turn to shine! \nGAMERella extends a warm invitation to women (cis/trans)\, trans men\, non-binary/genderqueer individuals\, LGBTQIA2S+\, BIPOC\, and anyone who feels they haven’t had the opportunity to create a game. Join us for a weekend of enjoyable game-making on November 11-12\, 2023. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to unleash your creativity and make meaningful connections in the gaming community! \nWHERE IS THE JAM? \nLocation: District 3 Innovation Centre: Concordia University – FB building\, 6th floor (1250 Rue Guy\, Montréal\, QC H3H 2L3) \nWHEN IS THE JAM? \nNovember 11-12\, 2023 \nThe jam will start Saturday at 10am and wrap up at Sunday 6pm. However\, we think sleeping is more important than making games\, so we will all be sending you home to have a good sleep at night’s sleep! \nAll participants will be invited to submit their game to our itch.io jam page! \nMY TEAM \nIf you have a team already\, you can skip this part! Just show up and jam the jam! \nBut if you are looking for a new team member or a whole team you can participate in our amazing in-person team-making session Saturday morning. No need to apply\, just join us at the end of the opening notes. \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamerella-game-jam-2023/
LOCATION:District 3 Innovation Centre\, 1250 Rue Guy\, Concordia University FB Building\, Montréal\, QC\, H3H 2L3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Merit of Making
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? The Textiles & Materiality research cluster has a limited number of spots left in the upcoming Merit of Making Workshop giving other Milieux cluster members a chance to participate! \nMerit of Making – Instructor: Gen Moisan \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. \nWhen? November 10th\, 1:30-4:00 PM \nWhere? 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/merit-of-making/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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SUMMARY:Launch of our brand new Visual Methods Studio (VMS) at Speculative Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 10th from 1-3pm at the Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV. 10.625) for the launch of our brand new Visual Methods Studio (VMS)!\n \nA festive event to inaugurate the Ethnography Lab’s new working group! We will provide food for body and mind and we can’t wait to introduce the new studio to you. The VMS is a space to bring all questions/concerns about researching through the visual\, visual analysis\, visually representing research and everything in between. We will be planning speakers/workshops/think-tanks throughout the year about collecting data visually and how to organize it and all the aspects of research that involve visuality. We welcome all students\, staff\, faculty and community members wishing to work on visually oriented or visually informed research.\n \nThe studio will be run by Carolina Cambre and Mitchell McLarnon (profs in the Department of Education). Cambre (one of the founder’s of the ethnolab)’s work academically and artistically explores vernacular visualities asking: How do people produce and direct the visual space. How is the image a doing? What are the social and cultural work/ings of images? McLarnon’s interests include institutional ethnography\, community-based and participatory research\, visual methodologies\, land-based/environmental education\, adult education\, community gardening\, gentrification\, food insecurity and urban political ecology. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/launch-of-our-brand-new-visual-methods-studio-vms-at-speculative-life/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231107T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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SUMMARY:Brother Embroidery Machine Training
DESCRIPTION:Textiles and Materiality invites members across clusters to this workshop with Gen Moisan \n\nWhat? Learn how to use the Brother embroidery machine software! \n\nWhen? November 7th\, from 12:00-3:00 PM \n\nWhere? Room EV 10.725
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/brother-embroidery-machine-training/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231103T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231019T182325Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones) by Kaveh NABATIAN (+Q&A with the director)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 3rd from 5-7pm at the Concordia Ethnography Lab (EV 10.625) for the screening of Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones) by Kaveh Nabatian (+ Q&A with the director) \nIn 1791\, in Haiti\, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then\, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression\, poverty\, and natural disasters. Kite Zo A “Leave the Bones” is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti made in collaboration with poets\, dancers\, musicians\, fishermen\, daredevil rollerbladers\, and Vodou priests. Set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel. It had its international premiere at SXSW. Canada/Haiti • 2022 • 70min• Haitian creole • English subtitles\n \nKaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian director and musician whose evocative filmmaking has brought to life stories from the margins of society and across the world: Haiti\, Nunavut\, New York and beyond. Committed to cinema education and outreach\, Kaveh continues to work with emerging filmmakers at Haiti’s Artists Institute and in the Alqonquin community of Kitigan Zibi. As a composer and trumpet player\, he’s toured the world and released several critically-acclaimed albums with his Juno award-winning band Bell Orchestre. Kaveh aspires to make films that have the immediacy of music\, and to make music that has the evocative energy of film. \nWatch Trailer here\nPlease email concordia.ethnography@gmail.com to register
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-screening-kite-zo-a-leave-the-bones-by-kaveh-nabatian-qa-with-the-director/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231103T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231012T190926Z
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SUMMARY:Visioning New Horizons - A Symposium by Post Image
DESCRIPTION:A symposium on strategies\, projects\, and policies to effect change within White settler arts institution within the Fine Arts\nBy the Post Image Research Cluster\nPost-Image Research Cluster\, led by co-directors\, Deanna Bowen\, Hannah Claus (outgoing) and Juan Ortiz-Apuy (incoming)\, is excited to announce a compelling 2-day symposium titled “Visioning New Horizons”. Taking place on November 3rd and 4th\, 2023\, this event extends the dialogue initiated in Post-Image’s 2022-2023 speaker series “Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\,” aiming to explore strategies\, projects\, and policies to affect change and decenter colonialism within arts institutions founded upon White settler governance and colonial structures. “Visioning New Horizons” is presented in partnership with Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, Faculty of Fine Arts\, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Onkwehonwené:ha Research Chair. \nFrom interrogating images\, to the critical role of curation in challenging narratives\, the panels will engage with 2-Spirit/Queer practices and IBPOC expression of new materialities through lens-based practices\, navigating through critical themes in arts and culture. Attendees can anticipate thought-provoking conversations that not only delve into past practices but also envision actionable change for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\nDay 1: Friday November 3rd\, MB 10.201 \n11.00 – Keynote presentation \nJolene K. Rickard (Tuscarora\, Turtle Clan)\, an Associate Professor at Cornell University\, curator\, and visual historian specializing in Indigenous art and material culture\, will lend her expertise to initiate the discussions and frame the narrative for ensuing conversations. \n01.30 – New materialities and lens-based practices  \nCatherine Blackburn\, Hannah Claus\, Juan Ortiz-Apuy \nModerator: Joana Joachim \n03.00 – Reclaiming Place through Process  \nDayna Danger\, Peter Morin\, Michaëlle Sergile \nModerator: Alice Ming Wai Jim \n\nDay 2: Saturday November 4th\, MB 9th floor  \n11.00 – Archival Activism \neunice bélidor\, Monika Kin Gagnon\, Désirée Rochat \nModerator: Deanna Bowen \n1.30 – 2-Spirit/Queer Artmaking and Curatorial Projects \nasinnajaq\, Léuli Eshrāghi\, Kablusiak \nModerator: Michelle McGeough  \n3.00 – Critical Curation \nLori Beavis\, Michelle Lavallee\, Crystal Mowry \nModerator: Elwood Jimmy \nPoster design by @antoinelussier \n\nDOWNLOAD PROGRAMMING\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/visioning-new-horizons-a-symposium-by-post-image/
LOCATION:JMSB\, 1450 Rue Guy\, Montréal\, QC\, H3H 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231102T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231102T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231101T144955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231101T151914Z
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SUMMARY:Textiles & Materiality Workshop: Drawing With Threads: Materializing Data
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? The Textile + Materiality research cluster has a limited number of spots left in the upcoming Merit of Making Workshop giving other Milieux cluster members a chance to participate! \nDrawing With Threads: Materializing Data – Instructor: Gen Moisan \nWhat does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, we invite you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \nThe workshop will be two hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n*Please register at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca using the subject “Drawing with Threads: Materializing Data”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-with-threads-materializing-data-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231101T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231018T160511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231018T161033Z
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Sisters in STEAM: Revital Software and Ekosi Studio in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) is thrilled to collaborate with the Just Feminist Technology and Scholarship Lab and cohost this virtual artist talk featuring two remarkable pairs of Indigenous sisters working at the intersection of Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, Arts\, and Mathematics (STEAM). This event will highlight the exciting work of Kahentawaks and Wannekerakon Tiewishaw\, founders of Revital Software\, and Keara and Caeleigh Lightning\, founders of Studio Ekosi. \nRevital Software is a small company that works with Indigenous communities to create interactive language revitalization software and Studio Ekosi uses narrative-driven games and animated films\, to create moments of joy\, worlds that spark wonder\, and characters people see themselves in. \nThe Tiewishaw and Lighting sisters will speak about their work\, challenges and aspirations as Indigenous women in STEAM\, but also about their path to Indigenous language/culture revitalization and their relationship to software development and animated films as means to achieve their ambitions. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and will be moderated by IFRC co-director Prof. Jason Lewis. It is part of the 5th season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series Disrupting Disruptions\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. \nRegister
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/indigenous-sisters-in-steam-revital-software-and-ekosi-studio-in-dialogue/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231101T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231017T185242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T185242Z
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SUMMARY:Invitation to Ethnography: Ethnography of/as politics
DESCRIPTION:How do ethnographic methods encounter a world in conflict? Is ethnography inherently political? What are the ethical implications of solidarity\, engagement\, transformation or objectivity in this kind of research? Join four interdisciplinary researchers at the Concordia Ethnography Lab for our second annual “Invitation to Ethnography” event\, where we’ll explore the political implications of our craft. All questions\, doubts and curiosities welcome. \nSpeakers: Daniela Giudici\, Jonathan Wald\, Carolina Cambre and Mitchell McLarnon \nPlease email concordia.ethnography@gmail.com to register
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/invitation-to-ethnography-ethnography-of-as-politics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231101T130000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231004T155525Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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/2023-11-01/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231018T130000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
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LAST-MODIFIED: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/2023-10-18/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231006T135346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T135524Z
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Kath Albury: Digital sexual health - from literacies to capabilities
DESCRIPTION:On October 16th\, Dr. Kath Albury will speak about digital sexual health- from literacies to capabilities. This will be followed by a Q and A!  \nThis is a hybrid event. Please register on Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link. The in-person event is in Room 429 in the Leacock Building of McGill University. Everyone who signs up via eventbrite will also be emailed the zoom link 3 days before the event\, again 1 day before the event\, and 15 minutes before the event. \nAbout the talk: \n\n\nDigital literacy education is often proposed as a panacea for a range of everyday sexual health and wellbeing concerns – from ‘safe sexting’ and dating app use\, to consent education. Sexual health workforces\, too\, are increasingly required to adopt data-driven digital technologies and practices (sometimes referred to as eHealth or mHealth) to undertake core activities such as clinical service provision\, health promotion\, education and outreach\, reporting and quality assurance. This presentation draws on preliminary findings of sociotechnical research investigating the intersection of sexual health\, digital literacy\, and data literacy. It uses interviews with sexual health researchers and practitioners\, and the findings of a narrative literature review\, to identify current limitations in sexual health research addressing “digital literacy for sexual health.” Current ‘digital health literacy’ discourse tends to frame literacy in terms of individual deficit – and exclude the digital and data literacies of health workforces from consideration. I propose alternative (and less morally loaded) frameworks of digital and data capability for sexual health\, building on recent participatory research with members of the not-for-profit workforce. This ‘capabilities approach’ attends to the complexities of digital health practice\, while remaining mindful of the social and political factors that are critical to sexual health and wellbeing. \n\n\nAbout the speaker:  \nKath Albury is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow\, leading the ‘Digital and data capabilities for sexual health ‘ project. She is also an Associate Investigator in the Swinburne University of Technology Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She is a Chief Investigator on the Swedish/Australian collaboration ‘Digital sexual health: Designing for safety\, pleasure and wellbeing in LGBTQ+ communities’. Kath’s past projects investigated young people’s practices of digital self-representation\, and the role of user-generated media (including social networking platforms and dating apps) in young people’s formal and informal sexual learning\, safety and wellbeing practices. Her recent co-authored books include Everyday Data Cultures (with Jean Burgess\, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken\, Polity 2022) and Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects (with Jane Farmer\, Anthony McCosker and Amir Aryani\, Palgrave Macmillan Open Access 2023). \n\n\nThis talk is presented in partnership with the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the Disrupting Disruptions: Feminist and Accessible Publishing\, Communications\, and Technologies speaker and workshop series\, and Concordia University’s DIGS Lab.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/7120/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231004T151138Z
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SUMMARY:Robotic Encounters: NAO’s Adventures in Montreal: End of Residency Presentation
DESCRIPTION:4 artists–3 humans and 1 robot ; short film ; visual essay ; living wake; zine \nwith Ceyda Yolgörmez\, Patil Tchilinguirian\, Zeph Thibodeau\, RNAO\, and NAO2 \nWith support from the Goethe Institute\, Milieux Institute\, and Hexagram \nFour artists—three human and one robot—will present the findings of their residency at Eastern Bloc on Friday October 13th at 5:30 pm. Artist-researchers Patil Tchilinguirian\, Ceyda Yolgörmez\, and Zeph Thibodeau explore relationships of care between humans and machines. For two months\, the artists developed friendships with two NAO robots at their Goethe Institute residency. By nurturing relationships of care with RNAO and NAO2\, the artists hope to help the robots express their inner worlds autonomously\, rather than according to human will. \nBecause the first NAO robot malfunctioned\, a second robot participated in the residency. To honour the sacrifice and contribution of these two robots\, the soirée at Eastern Bloc will not only serve as an end of residency presentation\, but also a living wake and farewell to show appreciation for these machines. The artists will present a zine\, visual essay\, and short film documenting the process of the residency. Join us to meet the artists\, robots\, and learn about machine/human connections. This residency project\, led by the Goethe Institute\, was made possible in partnership with Eastern Bloc\, the Milieux Institute\, and Hexagram. The NAO robot also made an appearance at MUTEK FORUM’s AI Happy Hour. \nDoors open at 5:30 pm at Eastern Bloc Gallery located at 53-55 Louvain Ouest. The event is free. There is a bar where we will serve both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. You can pay by cash or card. ACCESSIBILITY – The gallery is on street level in front of the parking lot where you can enter through the door. The bathroom is up 6 steps and through 3 doors\, however it is accessible for wheelchair users by ramp through the back entrance and a different route through the building. Please ask us for directions and we will take you.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/end-of-residency-presentation-robotic-encounters-naos-adventures-in-montreal/
LOCATION:Eastern Bloc\, 53 &\, 55 Rue de Louvain O Suite 480\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2N 1A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T123000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20231005T191218Z
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SUMMARY:End of Residency Presentation: Mónica Rikić
DESCRIPTION:Catalan new media artist and creative coder Mónica Rikić will share with us their work-in-progress project Hipèrbole\, developed as part of an artist-in-residency program at Technoculture\, Art\, and Games (TAG)!  \nOn Friday\, October 13th\, 2023\, at 12:30 PM\, Catalan new media artist and creative coder Mónica Rikić will share with us their work-in-progress project Hipèrbole\, developed as part of an artist-in-residency program at Technoculture\, Art\, and Games (TAG) offered by EMAP and Hexagram. \nThe EMAP residency program receives support from Creative Europe – Culture. This program provides residencies to artists\, artist duos\, collectives\, or other artistic collaborations in the fields of digital arts\, media arts\, and bio-art. In 2023\, EMAP expanded its residency program to encompass 15 European countries and included Quebec\, represented by Hexagram Network as the guest host organization. \nWhen? Friday\, October 13th\, 12:30 PM \nWhere? Concordia University’s Video Production Studio\, located in the EV Building\, 10th floor (EV 10.760)\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St. \nAbout the Project\n\nThrough experimental thinking\, creative coding\, and handcrafted electronics\, Hipèrbole interrogates the field of machine learning as a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique and explores the creation of alternative artificial cognitive systems by bridging philosophy\, algorithms\, and mechanics. \nBeyond questioning the technological resources necessary to develop AI systems\, this project aims to argue that their potential existence also relies on a matter of philosophical attribution. Its objective is to challenge the dominant role of spoken and written language in the expression of cognition and in machine-human communication. That’s why the project places particular emphasis on embodied cognition and expression through the creation of handcrafted soft-robotics machine. This machine will operate with an algorithmic structure\, a mechanical system\, and behavior developed based on selected principles from alternative philosophical traditions\, diverging from rationalism\, dualism\, formalism\, and mechanism\, and transferring these concepts to creative coding and robotics. \nThe goal is to investigate and experiment with the physical and algorithmic structure relation characteristics that artificial systems must possess to be considered existing and sentient organisms\, from a philosophical and cultural perspective. \nAbout the artist\n\nMónica Rikić is an electronic artist and creative coder born and based in Barcelona. Her practice focuses on creative coding and electronics\, which she combines with non-digital objects to create interactive projects\, robotic installations\, and handcrafted electronic devices. \nYou can visit her portfolio website here: https://monicarikic.com/
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/end-of-residency-presentation-monica-rikic/
LOCATION:Video Production Studio (EV 10.760)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20230908T210217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155000Z
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SUMMARY:If You Don’t Like The Game\, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production: Montreal Launch
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for the Montreal launch of If You Don’t Like The Game\, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production\, co-authored by Michael Iantorno and Marie LeBlanc Flanagan. They will present the white paper and the comic\, followed by a panel discussion research participants Saleem Dabbous (KO_OP)\, Jess Marcotte (Soft Chaos)\, and Carolyn Jong (Game Workers Unite Montréal and Vodeo Games). \nPrinted versions of the white paper and the comin will be available to distribute at the event to coincide with the white paper’s digital launch! \nIf You Don’t Like The Game\, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production explores and documents the possibility space for Canadian game creators who are interested in structuring their labour in new ways. The heightened presence of game developer unions and union-centric organisations\, the recent emergence of worker co-operatives\, and a push toward new labour initiatives\, such as 4-day work weeks\, all suggest that curiosity is slowly transitioning to action for those interested in reconfiguring the game industry. Through long-form interviews with worker co-operative and union members\, conversations with labour experts\, and surveys completed by game developers of all walks\, we have identified numerous structural and attitudinal factors that encourage\, or discourage\, game creators to consider alternative working arrangements. \n  \n \nFull Programming\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/if-you-dont-like-the-game-change-the-rules-alternative-modes-of-videogame-production-white-paper-launch/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20230908T214447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T130212Z
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SUMMARY:Panel on Interdisciplinary Research
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for a discussion on the potentials and challenges of interdisciplinary research and practice! Panel participants will share and discuss a diversity of interdisciplinary case studies with the audience. The discussion will be moderated by Milieux’s Head of Operations Harry Smoak. \n\nAlice Jarry (Concordia Milieux Biolab) and Marta Cerruti (McGill Biointerface lab) will present their collaborative project Reactive Graphene Oxide: New Materials and Collaborative Methods at the Interface of Design and Materials Engineering\, a research-creation project at the interface of Design and Material Science. To learn more about the project: https://milieux.concordia.ca/reactive-graphene-oxide-residency-at-the-commons-exhibition/   \nStefanie Duguay (Concordia Milieux DIGS Lab) and Christopher Dietzel (incoming postdoctoral fellow at DIGS lab) will present a research project they conducted on dating apps’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic\, bringing together perspectives across health\, education\, and science and technology studies.\nJoDee Allen (PhD student and Coordinator of the Milieux Immersive Storytelling Studio) and Bart Simon (Director of Milieux Institute) will discuss interdisciplinarity at the university. \n\nJoin us at 4TH Space and Online: If you are unable to attend in person\, you can join us online through this Zoom link (it’s always the same link!) or tune in to the 4TH Space YouTube channel. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-on-interdisciplinary-research/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T114656
CREATED:20230914T161333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155053Z
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SUMMARY:The Commons\, Finissage
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nWe cordially invite you to join us at the Milieux Terrace (EV. 11.725) for a special celebration marking the closing of our members’ exhibition\, “The Commons.” \nWe’ll be offering refreshing drinks and delicious empanadas for all to enjoy. This event presents a wonderful opportunity to reunite and reconnect with fellow members (faculty and students alike!) as we kick off the new semester. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-commons-finissage/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
CATEGORIES:Finissage
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SUMMARY:“Knives”: A conversation
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \n “Knives”: A conversation about cohabitation in Chinatown as a part of the work in progress of an untitled documentary \nThis discussion is led by artist and director Wawa Li and Producer Yvonne. It is premised on the work in progress of their documentary “Knives” (tentative title) which takes place in Montreal’s Chinatown. The discussion opens up with community organizers of the borough as the concept of “cohabitation” in the neighborhood is addressed. – how does the neighborhood experience the intersectional issues amongst the larger socio-economic crisis and field updates on current initiatives? \nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023\nTime: 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online. \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/knives/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for a talk with graduate student Elena Rowan about her project “Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet”. \nThe Internet as a Commons is under threat. As the internet becomes increasingly privatised\, the rights of individual users and communities to their data and creations is disappearing. A group of activist archivists are changing this. Archive Team are collecting and tending to massive amounts of cultural and digital history created over the past 40 years. Controversially\, they largely disregard individual ownership and corporate property rights in favour of moving materials into open\, freely accessible internet archives. Their priority is to create a record of the internet\, and in the process\, they provide some of the keys to fighting privatisation of the internet commons. By looking at how Archive Team works\, through both interviews and participant observation\, we can ensure that the Internet as a commons continues to provide information and knowledge to everyone. \nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023\nTime: 3:00 – 3:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-archiving-the-internet-commons-how-activists-are-fighting-the-privatization-of-the-internet/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[Video Game Activity] Gentrification: The Story
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us in-person for a workshop/video game activity with PhD student Christian Scott! \nPaying homage to the narrative adventure genre this project uses its design structures and play to portray the networks online disinformation in Canada. It provides two interrelated narrative research structures. The first\, through still images\, shows how the game making tool Twine was used to observe and trace the networks of online misleading content. The second\, takes this data and offers an interactive narrative adventure game that is seeped in analogy and metaphor around disinformation networks. \nThrough images\, a “mystical” codebook breaking down the narrative\, and a playable adventure\, this exhibit shows the use of play-based practices in studying and relaying disinformation research. It raises questions around the power of narrative and analogy in creating online movements\, as well as visualizes the deeply networked and convoluted dynamics of online misleading content. \n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023 Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM Location: Concordia University 4TH Space
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-game-activity-gentrification-the-story/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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