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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Encounters Launch Evening
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 6\, 2026\, the Hexagram Network will launch the 4th edition of the Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \nThis will be the opportunity to discover the program\, which will unfold from April 13 to June 12\, 2026\, in a particularly vibrant manner: in total\, it comprises more than 20 activities. \nOrganized under the theme Commonalities\, this edition will highlight cutting-edge research‑creation practices emerging from Québec’s university communities. Grounded in material\, embodied\, and situated methodologies\, research‑creation fosters a rich dialogue between the arts\, cultures\, and technologies. It invites us to rethink the commons as a dynamic space of relationships\, responsibilities\, and collective imaginaries in the face of contemporary crises. \nThe launch evening will open with remarks from Hexagram’s co‑directors\, offering an opportunity to discover the full program of workshops\, talks\, exhibitions\, performances\, and roundtable discussions that will energize our spring. \nJoin us in a warm\, welcoming atmosphere conducive to exchange\, while enjoying a bite to eat and a drink shared with our research community. \n  \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, book a spot here. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interdisciplinary-encounters-launch-evening/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:What goes on in the kitchen of creative AI?: A conversation
DESCRIPTION:How does one cook an AI? \nWhat happens in the kitchen when one is preparing ingredients for different kinds of agencies? \nWhat does it mean to move beyond instrumentalism; and what does an interaction look like when its design comes from a place of joy\, curiosity\, and experimentation? \nWe invite the Montreal community of creatives and thinkers who are interested in questions of machine agency\, design process\, and interactivity to join in on this event where they can share the details and experiences of working with machines—in their wonky\, restless\, and still delicious encounters. \nThis event is presented as part of Hexagram Network’s 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \nSchedule:\n2 PM (CANCELLED): The first part takes inspiration from MFK Fisher’s The Art of Eating to explore how cooking with machines engenders life worlds with heterogeneous agencies and sociability. \n  \n4:15 PM: The second part will be a Keynote presentation by Montreal-based artist Erin Gee. \nDrawing on Claude Lévi-Strauss’ notion of the “raw” and the “cooked\,” and its feminist reinterpretation in sound studies by Jonathan Sterne and Tara Rodgers\, Gee examines AI through a sonic lens to argue that when real-world phenomena are recorded as sound or data\, they are never captured in a “raw” state. Grounded in her work on the documentation of musical biofeedback systems\, the talk explores how processes of capture\, selection\, and transformation shape what can be heard and what can be known through technology. She contrasts musical AI systems\, which tend to obscure or abstract these operations\, with classic biofeedback practices that foregrounded them—revealing how different technologies organize\, conceal\, or expose their own forms of “cooking.” \n  \nAfter the Event: \nPlease join us at 5:30 p.m. for the official launch event of the Interdisciplinary Encounters.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/what-goes-on-in-the-kitchen-of-creative-ai-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T160000
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Ghostly Image\, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \n Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n\nThis workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs\, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice\, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing\, lifting\, folding\, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper\, cardboard\, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood\, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition. \n\nParticipants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film\, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process.\n  \n                                                   \n  \nABOUT CASPER SUTTON-FOSMAN:\n  \n\nCasper Sutton-Fosman is a curator\, artist and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, also known as Montreal. Their work engages with queer and disabled relationships to lens-based art and image capture technology\, moving through complex temporalities and webs of connection. They hold an MFA from OCAD University and are a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University.\n\n  \n  \n\n April 23\, 2026 \n 1 – 4 PM \n MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-the-ghostly-image/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit\, power\, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \n \nAI is often presented in extremes\, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone\, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs\, democracy\, or even human life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI\, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? \nDrawing on her co-authored book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (open access\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan)\, Regine Paul argues that today’s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt\, but about profit imperatives and political choices. \nAI technologies are developed and deployed within pre-existing economic structures\, largely reinforcing inequalities between industries\, workers\, and countries rather than fundamentally transforming them away. \nThe main focus of this talk is on how long-standing insights from critical and global political economy can help us expose the complex interactions (1) of political institutions and agency\, (2) speculative tech narratives\, (3) the imperative of geopolitical tech races\, and (4) globe-spanning forms of domination and exploitation in shaping articulations of AI transformations\, in the plural\, on the ground as well as what connects these into one more global transformation\, in the singular\, across time and space. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nRegine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway\, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on “Technology and Statehood”. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)\, as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (2026)\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 23\, 2026 \n 12–1:30 PM \n Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend online\, please register here to receive the registration link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-ai-matrix-a-critical-political-economy-reading-of-the-profit-power-and-politics-behind-global-ai-transformations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260422T190000
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SUMMARY:Workshop in the Performance Lab
DESCRIPTION:For those of you that have been wanting to learn a bit more about how to work with the tech equipment in the Performance Lab\, this workshop is for you!\n\nWe will be looking at the light board\, the audio mixer\, and how to use these with some of the software that is accessible on the iMac computer in your work in the Performance Lab. The first section of the workshop introduces participants to the gear and equipment\, and the second half\, we’ll experiment and play around together!\n\nPlease feel free to bring any audio and/or video contents that you would like to experiment with.\nThe same workshop format will be given on both two dates (April 22 &May 7)\n\nNo need for a sign up\, just show up!\n\n\n📅 April 22\n⏱️ 5-7 PM\n📍 Performance lab EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-in-the-performance-lab/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T153000
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SUMMARY:Cookout session #1: Recipe Methodology in AI
DESCRIPTION:Many\, many Machine Agencies’ Writing Workshop\n  \nAI Chantier of the Hexagram Network brings together maker-thinkers whose work spans machine learning\, interaction design\, and experience design\, to create a community of practice through a publication process. \nPrompting potential contributors with an unusual format\, Many\, Many Machine Agencies asks for recipes\, instructions\, or games that centre the problem of agency and interaction and the importance of new kinds of encounters with machines. This edited collection is indeed a kind of a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and as such\, we take inspiration from celebrated cookbook authors\, like MFK Fisher\, who provide recipes and instructions for dishes\, while embedding them in a broader biographical and cultural narrative. \nThis cookout session invites contributors to the AI Chantier publication drive to: \n\nLearn more about the recipe methodology and its relevance for engaging with machine agencies and AI\nTo talk about their writing project (share ingredients) and get feedback\nGet a clearer picture about what the publishing process will look like.\n\n  \nWho can participate?\nProspective authors are invited to contribute to this session. We also invite those who are curious about the project. \nThis activity is produced in collaboration with Machine Agencies and Milieux Institute’s Speculative Life Cluster as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \n  April 21\, 2026 \n 1 -3:30 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 \n To register or for any questions\, please contact nicole.debrabandere@gmail.com \n  \n  \n  \n                     \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cookout-session-1-recipe-methodology-in-ai/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260417T154500
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Climate-Responsive Architecture: Geometries\, Materials & Design Futures
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Zherui Wang. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nZherui (pron. zee-ray) Wang is a designer and building technology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His work focuses on devising architectural methods for cooling and climate-response design for extreme heat while being mindful of material use. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program\, his PhD research explores the design integration of structural form-finding and building thermal mass performance\, informed by architectural geometry\, materials science\, and life cycle thinking. He is a co-author of Hydroculus\, an evaporative and radiative cooling roof prototype that was exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale and received a Holcim Foundation Award for Sustainable Design and Construction. Previously\, Wang was an Academic Professional Researcher at CHAOS Lab in Princeton. He has practiced in design roles at Barkow Leibinger Architects and served on the design faculty at the University of Pennsylvania\, Pratt Institute\, and State University of New York at Buffalo\, where he was named the 2020-21 Reyner Banham Fellow. Wang holds a BArch from Pratt Institute\, a post-professional MArch from Princeton University\, and a graduate certificate in Energy Policy from the Penn Kleinman Center. \n  \n  \n  April 17\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-climate-responsive-architecture-geometries-materials-design-futures/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260416T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260416T153000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Virtual Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Virtual Gallery\, the second workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE VIRTUAL GALLERY WORKSHOP: \nThis first workshop invites participants to reimagine and transform their images into extrapolated 3-D renderings using local AI\, then install them in a shared virtual gallery built in Blender & Unity. \nThis is a highly introductory workshop designed to explore possibilities and create a fun collaborative shared virtual gallery space\, and to spark discussions regarding authorship\, and is open to all Milieux Cluster members! \n  \n  \nFrom 2D to 3D using AI \n📍 MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825 \n⏱️ 11:30-1:30 PM \nThe first part of the workshop will be facilitated by PhD student François Lespinasse of Machine Agencies\, who will guide participants through the process of rendering 2-D images into 3-D renderings using the local AI computer at Machine Agencies\, and briefly introduce other methods of generating 3D content with AI sources.  \nBe sure to bring your own images of little things to transform into 3-D! \n  \n  \nFrom 3D to Virtual Reality\n📍 Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631 \n⏱️ 1:30 – 3:30 PM \nThe second part of the workshop will be led by Part-time Faculty Marco Luna Barahona\, VR technologist at the Immersive Storytelling Studio\, who will walk participants through the basic processes of creating a virtual space (the gallery)\, formatting the 3-D elements and populating the gallery\, discussing different options for expressing a specific narrative and creating a truly immersive experience. \n  \n👉 Participants are invited to bring their own work in the form of short videos\, existing 3-D renderings & images whose 3-D renderings they are happy to include in a shared VR gallery space. \n  \nSpots are limited!  \nTo book your spot\, RSVP to Marc Beaulieu at marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-virtual-gallery/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Sustainable Design: Collaborative Practices of Heat\, Energy and Environment-Making
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Iva Rešetar. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nIva Rešetar is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrade and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts’ Department of Digital and Experimental Design. Her dissertation critically examines the relationship between architecture and environmental technologies\, searching out historical and experimental knowledge of thermodynamic processes of phase change in architecture – how they are sensed\, mediated and acted upon in context of the current climate crisis. Her interests lie in fluid materialities\, methods and practices of energy and heat\, and their implications for environmental regeneration and repair of the built environment. \nIva has practiced as an architect\, and has taught and carried out research among others at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart\, Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin\, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam\, and CCA in Montreal. Her recent publications include Breath: Morphological\, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter\, 2022)\, and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (Berlin University of the Arts\, 2025). \n  \n  \n  April 15\, 2026 \n 2:45-4:15 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-sustainable-design-collaborative-practices-of-heat-energy-and-environment-making/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260415T123000
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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Tarcisio Cataldi
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for their next Research Bites session featuring Tarcisio Cataldi! 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 is a lunchtime series hosted by the IFRC that creates a space for members to share their work in a casual\, conversational setting. Bring your lunch\, meet fellow researchers\, and join us for inspiring exchanges across disciplines! \nTarcisio will share his research on an Afro-Brazilian visual imaginary\, drawing on the concept of Quilombismo as articulated by Abdias do Nascimento. In Tarcisio’s work\, he explores how flags can be a powerful medium for speculation\, reimagining collective symbols and narratives. Through research-creation\, he investigates how national identities are deliberately designed and how they can foster new understandings of resistance and belonging in the Brazilian context.  \n  \n𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶 (he/him) is an Afro-Brazilian designer and artist born in São Paulo and now based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Committed to Black-centred creation through a Quilombista lens\, Tarcisio specializes in speculative design and diverse cultural manifestations across design and art. His work explores the design\, symbolism\, and cultural significance of flags. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Universidade Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University) and a Master’s degree in Design from Concordia University in Montreal. He currently works as a designer for the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 15\, 2026 \n 12:30 PM \nIFRC HQ\, EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-tarcisio-cataldi/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:JenniCam@30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures
DESCRIPTION:April 14th\, 2026\, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley\, then a college student\, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley’s webcam\, known as JenniCam\, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years\, becoming the most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not being recognized as a pioneer during her time\, Jennifer Ringley made Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming. \nThirty years later\, we will commemorate JenniCam’s anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices. \n  \nProgram:\nJenniCam in Context\n⏱️ 10:30 AM (doors open at 10:15 AM) \n📍 4TH SPACE \nKeynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online)\, plus an in-situ conversation. \n  \nPresentations and in-situ conversations at Speculative Life Cluster\n⏱️ 1 PM \n📍 Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625) \nA pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures. \nPresentations and in-situ conversations include: Tommaso Campagna on live streaming as a form of publishing (TheVoid.TV); Geert Lovink on the lives of the online self (online); Seska Lee on camming and the construction of liveness; Lotte de Jong on webcam and art (online). There will also be interventions on moderation and monetization strategies\, as well as live and not-so-live performances of live coding\, object theatre\, and music. \n  \nSnacks and beverages will be provided at both locations.  \n  \n🌐 Further details and online transmissions at: Jennicam-at-30.com
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/jennicam30-thirty-years-of-live-streaming-cultures/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza. Titled Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies\, this lecture will present insights from research projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality in Northern localities. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza is an architect\, researcher\, and educator dedicated to creating sustainable\, carbon-neutral environments that place human well-being at their core. Her work integrates architectural design with environmental performance\, using building parameters\, light quality\, indoor air quality\, and thermal comfort\, as levers for enhancing occupant health and spatial experience\, specifically in Northern climates. Her research advances simulation-based methods\, immersive visualization\, and post-occupancy evaluation to support evidence-based design decision-making. \nShe holds a PhD in Architecture from Université Laval (Québec\, Canada) and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution\, where she examined the effects of light and colour on visual performance and circadian stimulation in Northern and Arctic communities\, employing image-based simulation and immersive capture techniques. \nDr. Espinoza Sanhueza is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University\, where she investigates the challenges of sustainable and resilient housing in Northern Canada and develops post-occupancy evaluation methods grounded in time-series data analysis. Threading design\, research\, pedagogy\, and professional practice together\, her work advances a vision of the built environment that is as responsive to its inhabitants as it is to the climate and context it serves. \n  \n  April 13\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-designing-for-the-north-sustainable-human-centered-spaces-through-light-air-quality-thermal-comfort-and-climate-responsive-strategies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260409T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Bio-Inspired Folding Techniques Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bio-inspired Folding Techniques\, the first workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n  \n \n\n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nHosted by Lucie Leroux (Laboratoire Textile\, Montreal)\, in collaboration with Alice Jarry and Miranda Smitheram\, this four-hour workshop introduces bio-inspired folding as a research-creation methodology at the intersection of design\, engineering\, and living systems. Moving beyond the representation of natural phenomena\, participants will explore folding as a performative\, speculative\, and relational process that translates principles of growth\, locomotion\, deployability\, adaptation\, and responsiveness into material form. Through hands-on experimentation and an introduction to accessible techniques\, participants will prototype paper and fabric structures\, foregrounding folding as a medium for developing soft and adaptive applications. \n  \nPhoto Credits: Lucie Leroux\n  \nABOUT LUCIE LEROUX: \nTrained in design and architecture in France\, Lucie Leroux began her career in architectural lighting before moving to Montreal\, where she discovered textile printing. It was while working on large-scale projects such as the Shanghai World Expo that she began to take an interest in light and patterns. After working on costumes for Cirque du Soleil\, she collaborated on several projects ranging from fashion to documentary\, presented throughout Quebec at venues such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City. In 2012\, she launched Laboratoire Textile\, a creative space where she explores textile design through various research and creative projects. She has also been a lecturer at the Atelier Textile since 2014 and at the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal since 2024. \n\n  \n\n  \n  \nThis workshop is part of the NFRF project Origami-inspired Deployable Sensoriactuator Soft Robots\, co-directed by Hamid Akbarzadeh\, Alice Jarry\, Miranda Smitheram\, Marta Cerruti\, and David Meger. The event is supported by Hexagram: Research-creation network in arts\, culture\, and technology. \n  \n April 9\, 2026 \n 1 – 5 PM \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.455 \n💡Questions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n  \n  \n                           
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-bio-inspired-folding-techniques/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Ten Years of Milieux!
DESCRIPTION:On April 30th\, the Milieux Institute officially turns ten! \nA decade of research-creation is a milestone worth celebrating — and what better way than by returning to where it all began? In this spirit\, we’ve invited each cluster to respond to a list of keywords\, concepts\, names (some very abstract) that came out the early days of naming the institute\, and to answer that provocation in any form they chose. \nWe invite all members (faculty\, students and staff) to join us for an evening of celebration of a decade of research-creation\, as we collectively discover what our clusters have been working on for the past weeks. \n🥂 We’ll have light refreshments and food! \n🎟️ If you haven’t already\, please make sure you RSVP for this event as spots are limited! \n  \nThis event will officially kick off the celebrations as we’re planning a bigger event in the upcoming fall. \n  \n📅 April 2\, 2026 \n⏱️ 5–7 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/celebrating-ten-years-of-milieux/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
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SUMMARY:Cocooning: Dreaming Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Cocooning is a 3-hour workshop dreaming (climate) adaptation through embodied methods. \n  \n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nIn a time of ecological instability\, climate adaptation is often organized through techno-economic solutions that map protection onto some geographies while leaving others exposed. These approaches frequently reproduce colonial cartographies and patterns of environmental racism. \nThis gathering opens space to question those limits. Together\, we will dream adaptation as a relational\, embodied\, and collective practice — a process of re-membering frayed relations and re-mapping how we live with one another across borders and boundaries\, between human and more-than-human worlds. \n  \n\nWHAT TO BRING: \n\nParticipants are asked to bring one item they are willing to part with\, to be woven into the installation: \n\nA small meaningful object (e.g.\, a shell\, old necklace\, small keepsake)\, or\nAn old natural fibre in neutral tones (fabric scrap\, clothing\, lace\, sheet\, etc.) to contribute to the collective cocoon\n\nObjects will become part of the installation. \n\n\nNo prior artistic experience is required. Light snacks and coffee will be provided. \n\nThis workshop is organized by the Concordia Ethnography Lab in collaboration with the Youth Climate Lab. \n  \n\n  April 2\, 2026 \n 11 -2 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot \n  \n\n               
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ccooning-dreaming-adaptation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260203T195103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T195103Z
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SUMMARY:Stephen Monteiro: How Tech Got Needy: Episodes in Device Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:Networked personal media devices construct an animated intimacy\, fostering user trust and emotional dependence. Viewing this development through a historical eye\, this talk explores examples of object-oriented digital intimacy that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing from Needy Media (recently published by McGill-Queens University Press)\, it will consider how user-device closeness was baked into consumer electronics from 1995 to 2005 through a range of hardware and software cues. These elements collectively tapped psychological vulnerabilities toward affective impact\, situating the device as a lively\, but needy\, presence in the life of users. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nStephen Monteiro is a faculty member in Communication Studies at Concordia University. In addition to Needy Media\, he is the author of The Fabric of Interface (The MIT Press) and Screen Presence (Edinburgh University Press)\, and the editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n March 26\, 2026 \n 4:30 – 6 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stephen-monteiro-how-tech-got-needy-episodes-in-device-intimacy/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260319T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260319T163000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260303T173956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T155635Z
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SUMMARY:t3rkko Game Collective Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:On March 19th\, TAG will host a networking event with the  t3rkko game collective. \nFounded in 2021\, t3rkko is a local game collective composed of six developers from diverse professional horizons and backgrounds. \nOver the past five years\, the collective has produced five games and is now preparing to work on their most ambitious project to date: a third-person\, rhythm-based Action-RPG. \nTo bring this vision to life\, t3rkko is partnering with TAG\, as they are currently looking to recruit artists\, programmers\, UI and UX devs who would be willing to join their team. \n March 19\, 2025\n 3- 4:30 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/t3rkko-game-collective-networking-event/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260303T180830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T180830Z
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SUMMARY:Video Game Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop with Lídia Pereira
DESCRIPTION:Videogames create worlds. Often\, those worlds mirror our own\, reproducing certain ideals and values as norm through their narrative\, game play\, design\, etc. This session begins with an invitation to the participants to critically consider those worlds\, identifying the key points and elements through which specific videogames circulate political\, cultural and social values. How do the games we play every day vehiculate ideology? Using this knowledge\, participants are then invited to intervene upon these videogame worlds through the writing\, drawing\, collaging\, etc. of fan fictions\, using the original text to re-construct these worlds or reveal crucial aspects they might be hiding in plain sight. At the end of the session\, participants will have begun to create a narrative with their interventions upon these universes and the results may be as diverse as creative writing\, the generation of new games in the form of text-based adventures\, comics\, mini-graphic novels\, etc. \nABOUT LÍDIA PEREIRA: \nLídia Pereira (PT) studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA Media Design and Communication) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (BA Communication Design). Her practice bridges the fields of graphic design\, art\, digital media and infrastructure\, critical theory\, and publishing. In 2015\, she founded the Pervasive Labour Union zine\, a semi-regular publication in which contributors reflect on topics relating to labour on corporate social networks\, algorithmic governance\, and alternative digital infrastructures. Currently\, she is a PhD candidate at the PhDArts programme\, a collaboration between the Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague\, where she is investigating videogames in the context of art education as a site of struggle against hegemonic discourse. \n  \nRequirements: Please choose a videogame you know well ahead of the session. To participate please send an email to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca with the subject line ‘Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop.’ \n\n March 18\, 2025\n 4- 7 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-game-fanfiction-creative-writing-workshop-with-lidia-pereira/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
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SUMMARY:Weird Words Day at Milieux!
DESCRIPTION:Weird Words Day! Join us for a fun community project in celebration of Milieux Institute’s 10-year anniversary! \nFor the occasion\, we decided to have some fun with a list of  keywords\, concepts\, names (some very abstract) that came out the early days of naming the institute (and most of them are weird!) \nOn March 18\, Marc will drop by the clusters spaces to ask members to record a few words from that list. The recording will be played during our celebratory event. \nIf you are only passing by that day\, just swing by the nerve centre to get your voice recorded! \n  \n🎟️ If you haven’t already\, please make sure you RSVP for this event as spots are limited! \n  \n📅 March 18\, 2026 \n⏱️ All Day \n📍 Milieux Institute \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/weird-words-day-at-milieux/
LOCATION:milieux institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260316T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260316T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260303T193644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T193644Z
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SUMMARY:Merit of Making
DESCRIPTION:Embroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally\, functioning as symbols of status\, achievement\, and identity within communities. In this workshop\, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible\, unseen\, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge? \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics\, required to embroider different shapes\, textures\, and images\, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \nParticipants are encouraged to bring design ideas to the workshop. \nLimited space available. Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. \n  \n March 16\, 2025\n 1- 4 PM\nTextiles and Materiality Cluster Room EV 10.730
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/merit-of-making-2/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260303T160731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T160731Z
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SUMMARY:“Mass” Media: Cinematic Narratives and Archaeological Presents in Federal Indian Politics
DESCRIPTION:Join the MHRC for their last Montreal Media History Seminar of the year. Assistant Professor Sowparnika Balaswaminathan will talk about how the Tamil Nadu government uses archaeology to create a counter-narrative to Hindu nationalism. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn January 2025\, M.K. Stalin\, the Chief Minister of the south Indian state of Tamilnadu\, made a dramatic announcement befitting his cinema-industry lineage: the Iron Age\, hitherto dated to the Fertile Crescent\, in fact\, had its earliest beginnings “on Tamil soil.” This temporal recalibration\, crafted into a “news event” (Cody 2023)\, carries profound implications for contemporary Indian political discourse. Modern statist archaeology in India navigates between neoliberal rationalism and romantic patriotism\, seeking to maintain scientific rigor while constructing narratives of an enchanted past. This tension is further complicated by India’s current Hindu nationalist regime\, which seeks to establish a direct correlation between territory and religion\, such as in the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC)—South Asia’s oldest known state-level society— which needs to be Hindu\, Sanskritic\, and continuous with the Indo-Aryan identity claimed by contemporary (caste) Hindus. Stalin’s announcement directly challenges this narrative by foregrounding southern archaeological sites that suggest a non-Hindu proto-Dravidian history\, with potential links to the IVC itself. \nThis paper examines the orchestration of media events related to archaeology by the Tamilnadu state apparatus in recent years and analyzes the cinematic stylizations used in their construction. Balaswaminathan argues that the deployment of melodramatic excess in support of the government as a “mass” hero must be read against the coimbricated histories of cinema\, oration\, and politics in Tamilnadu . \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSowparnika Balaswaminathan is an Assistant Professor in Religions and Cultures at Concordia University\, Montreal. She researches the politics of art and craft\, artisanal identity and labor\, and the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. Her methods include ethnography\, collections and archival research\, and arts and media analysis. She is currently working on her monograph based on her dissertation research\, Casting Craft: Ethics\, Aesthetics\, and Sensible Labor in South Indian Bronzecasting. She was the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021) at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History\, Washington DC\, where she researched the role of Smithsonian museums as diplomatic agents during the Cold war and the politics of culture-area representation of newly independent Asian nations. She is currently starting a new project on the mediascape and political mobilization around archaeology and antiquities in India. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  March 13\, 2026 \n 3:30 -5 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Make sure to reserve your spot\, seating is limited!  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mass-media-cinematic-narratives-and-archaeological-presents-in-federal-indian-politics/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260303T190239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T190239Z
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SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, you will be introduced to the Pointcarré Textile CAD software for the Jacquard loom. You will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art\, an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\, hence simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image: \n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 40 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. \nLimited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nPlease e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register! \n  \n March 13\, 2025\n 1- 4 PM\nTextiles and Materiality \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop-4/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260312T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260312T203000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
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SUMMARY:Speculations in the PARC
DESCRIPTION:Following the success of its first edition\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster and the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) are teaming up once again to host a second mixer event\, Speculations in the PARC on March 12th\, from 5pm to 8:30pm\, in Spec Life (EV. 10.625) and LePARC Performance Lab (EV. 10.785).  \nOpen to Milieux members and the wider public\, this gathering offers an opportunity to discover ongoing research from both clusters. \n  \n  March 12\, 2026 \n 5 -8:30 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 / Performance Lab EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculations-in-the-parc-2/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260310T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260310T163000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260303T164538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T211157Z
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Jones in conversation with Gabrielle Moser
DESCRIPTION:In the context of her exhibition at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery on view until April\, 25\, Milieux is hosting a conversation between curator and creative director Ingrid Jones and Associate Professor Gabrielle Moser\, in collaboration with the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. \nIn this lecture\, Ingrid Jones reflects on the conceptualization of the exhibition “Labour” and the challenge of rendering visible that which is routinely unseen. Drawing on both professional and lived experience\, she considers the necessity of naming our labour; the cumulative toll of microaggressions and their embodied consequences; the persistent misreadings of Black rage; and the increasingly politicized terrain of rest as practice. In doing so\, Jones situates her curatorial approach alongside that of Tina Campt\, advancing discomfort not as a byproduct but as a deliberate and necessary condition of her praxis. Jones’s presentation will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Gabby Moser\, Research Chair and Director of the Jarislowsky Institute.\n\nThis event will be followed by a reception at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery to celebrate the opening of her curated exhibition “Labour” and the launch of its accompanying publication.\n\n\nABOUT INGRID JONES:\nToronto-based curator and creative director\, Ingrid Jones examines the intersections of decolonial curatorial practice\, transnational solidarities\, and the politics of museum representation. Her research engages themes of marginalization and refusal through installation\, media\, and collaborative projects. Recent initiatives address liberatory practices of the African diaspora (“Liberation in Four Movements\,” 2024)\, the unseen labour of BIPOC artists and cultural workers (“Labour\,” 2024-25)\, and nostalgia for racialized communities framed through white supremacy (“Nostalgia Interrupted\,” 2022). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  March 10\, 2026 \n 3 -4:30 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ingrid-jones-en-conversation-avec-gabrielle-moser/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260226T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260226T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260205T153147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T153147Z
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SUMMARY:Redefining Digital Inclusion from Peru to the World
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce an upcoming talk from a newcomer to the Abundant Intelligences network! \nMathias Becerra Sanchez is a student from Peru currently pursuing a major in Symbolic Systems in the Concentration of Human-Centered AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. His work focuses on using technology to empower Indigenous and other digitally disadvantaged languages both in Peru and Latin America. In this talk\, he’ll be presenting his research on STEM education\, linguistics\, and policy in globally disadvantaged language communities. \nThis presentation will be moderated by Hanss Lujan Torres\, Research Coordinator at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). Hanss is a writer\, curator\, and researcher from Cusco\, Peru\, whose work focuses on collective time-making\, alternative understandings of time\, and dissident futures. \n  \nThis event is fully virtual\, please register here \n  \n February 26\, 2026 \n 6-7 PM \nOnline \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/redefining-digital-inclusion-from-peru-to-the-world/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T024114
CREATED:20260203T193635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T193635Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jennifer Pybus: Auditing Extractive Infrastructures of Datafication in Mobile Applications
DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces an infrastructural mixed method for auditing how health apps embed third-party software development kits (SDKs) and access both personal and health-related data from mobile devices. \nThe method includes: \n\nAn app selection based on relevant criteria\nAn assisted manifest data audit using a large language model (LLM)\nA qualitative examination of corresponding privacy policies and data safety agreements\nA walkthrough method\, established by Light et al. (2018)\, to account for the different kinds of health and personal data that can be input in the apps’ interface.\n\nRather than focusing primarily on user behaviour or consent\, the method centres on qualitative analysis of Android manifest files\, since any personal data an application seeks to access from a user’s device\, or share with third parties\, should be declared there. Participants will also be introduced to the role app events play in personal data tracking\, and to how health-related data are structured in manifest files in ways that make them legible and reusable across a range of actors\, including large platforms. \nBy the end of the session\, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to conduct a static audit of mobile tracking infrastructures and compare back-end findings with front-end privacy policies in order to better infer how personal and health data are extracted\, shared\, and monetised through third-party SDKs\, and how these practices are\, or are not\, communicated to end users. \n  \n🚨 Important: Participants must pre-install software tools in advance of the workshop. Please register early to obtain the installation instructions and recommended pre-reading. Places are limited. \n🎟️ Register for the workshop by sending an email to digslab@concordia.ca with your name\, department\, and level of study. \n  \nABOUT JENNIFER PYBUS: \nJennifer Pybus is a globally recognized scholar whose interdisciplinary research intersects digital and algorithmic cultures and explores the capture and processing of personal data. Her work focuses on the political economy of social media platforms\, display ad economies\, and the rise of third parties embedded in the mobile ecosystem which are facilitating algorithmic profiling\, monetisation\, polarization and bias. Her research contributes to an emerging field\, mapping out datafication\, a process that is rendering our social\, cultural and political lives into productive data for machine learning and algorithmic decision-making. Pybus has cultivated strong European links with public organizations and will use her chair to engage Canadians with innovative tools\, resources and pedagogy for increasing critical data literacy and democratic debate about artificial intelligence. \n  \nThis event is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Data\, Democracy and AI\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, and the Speculative Life cluster at Milieux. \n  \n  \nFebruary 25\, 2026 \n 2:30 – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-jennifer-pybus-auditing-extractive-infrastructures-of-datafication-in-mobile-applications/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:Texting on Tajima
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? \nJoin Textiles & Materiality for their upcoming Texting on Tajima workshop! \nIn this workshop\, you will learn design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats\, fonts\, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own quote using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.  The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text. \n  \n February 20\, 2026\n 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\n🎟️ Register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/texting-on-tajima/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Many\, many Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us in launching our publishing project “Many\, Many Machine Agencies”!\n.\nThis edited collection will be a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and it gathers hybrid maker-thinkers who dabble in different theories of machinic agency including artificial life\, digital games\, interaction design\, robotics\, ubiquitous computing\, expert systems\, virtual life\, simulation\, and neural networks.\n.\nCome along to learn more about our book project\, and connect with others!\n\n.\nThis project is supported by Hexagram’s AI Chantier.\n\n.\n.\n\n February 19\, 2026 \n 3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n\n  \n  \n\n                                                                                                                                           \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/many-many-machine-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:'Making art with other people's live': a workshop on the violence of visual representation
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio for a workshop led by HUMA Ph.D Candidate Magdalena Hutter. \nThis workshop invites members of the community who work with documentary photography and/or film to come together and ask questions around how we address the violence of visual representation. How can we work with the lives of real people without being extractive or exposing our protagonists to harm\, particularly when working with groups who have historically been victimized – either in the name of science or art – by film and other visual media? How can we work with visual methods in ways that break down hierarchies\, rather than reinforce colonialist structures that equate seeing with knowing? What can protocols of ongoing consent look like? And what artistic approaches can help us to make our work more relational and accountable? \nAn experiment in thinking together\, this is a space to bring our own work and experiences\, ask some uncomfortable questions\, and support each other in committing to intentional\, responsible uses of visual documentary forms. \nMasking is encouraged at this event. Please do not attend if you are feeling poorly or have cold symptoms. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nVMS coordinator and HUMA PhD candidate Magdalena Hutter has been making documentary films for 20 years\, both as a director and a camera woman. In her research-creation dissertation project she uses oral history and documentary film to explore fatness as method in dance and movement art. \n  \n  \n February 18\, 2026\n 5:30-7:30 PM\n Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/making-art-with-other-peoples-live-a-workshop-on-the-violence-of-visual-representation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series: The Warcraft Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a new screening as part of the TAG Critical Watch Series. This time\, participants will be screening Warcraft. As always\, the screening will be followed by a discussion. \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nWarcraft is a 2016 American action fantasy movie based on the video game series of the same name. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war\, as the warlock Gul’dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together\, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace. \n  \n  February 18\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-warcraft-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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