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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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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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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:20260614T231837
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T210217Z
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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:20260614T231837
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:20260614T231837
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T213041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230921T171725Z
UID:10001050-1695916800-1695924000@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T153000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230914T162949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155159Z
UID:10001054-1695913200-1695915000@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T150000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T215159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155221Z
UID:10001052-1695909600-1695913200@milieux.concordia.ca
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T204511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155401Z
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SUMMARY:[Student-led Session] Reactive Graphene Oxide Residency
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us for a panel discussion with Concordia and Mcgill students from the residency Reactive Graphene Oxide: New Materials and Collaborative Methods at the Interface of Design and Materials Engineering led by Alice Jarry and Marta Cerruti (Mcgill)\, who will discuss their collaborative project with us. \nParticipants: \nJacqueline Beaumont (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Yiwen Chen (Materials Engineering\, McGill) Jacob Landry (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Philippe Vandal (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Nima Zakeri (Materials Engineering\, McGill) \n\n\n\nSummary of the residency: \n\n\n\nAt the crossroads of Design and Material Science\, this research-creation project brings together scientists and artists to develop reactive membranes and objects using Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is a layered carbon-based nanomaterial derived from the oxidation and exfoliation of graphite\, which can also be synthesized from thermal treatment of organic waste. Spanning multiple spatial\, technical\, artistic\, and philosophical dimensions\, the project addresses crucial questions at the core of current research in materials science and design: up to which point can materials mimic nature and become ‘alive’\, changing themselves based on external stimuli? What happens when materials and humans interact? Can the interaction between materials and the environment help improve our own environment? Envisioned as a new generation of active materials for technological applications\, the built environment and the arts\, the structures developed in this project also aim to develop novel methods for arts and science collaboration and engage publics in a broader reflection on material futures and human’s shifting relationship with its environment in a context of ecological crisis. \nThe co-creation process of this residency involves the presentation of a documentary film\, in-situ prototyping\, and ongoing video documentation of the work. \n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Concordia University 4TH Space and online To learn more about the residency go here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/student-led-session-residency/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T202859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155256Z
UID:10001047-1695826800-1695830400@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:[Panel] Textiles and Materiality Collaborative Project ChainStitch
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin students from the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster for a discussion of their collective project ChainStitch. The project\, programmed by Morris Fox\, combines collective action with individual research-creation to form a multimodal assemblage\, delving into shared and hybrid research threads. This collaboration is an act of speculative community reciprocity\, where tactile and tacit knowledge is braided from the materiality itself\, like how a chain-stitch is decorative and utilitarian. Chainstitch entangles community dialogue and tactile emotional connections as living epistemes\, not only as common cloth\, but fragments of shared imaginations. \nDate: Wednesday\, September 27th\, 2023 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM Location: Concordia 4TH Space and Online! This event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-textiles-and-materiality-collaborative-project-chainstitch/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T133000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T202430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155416Z
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SUMMARY:IFRC x daphne beads: perler/parler
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nAs part of the Promoting and Protecting Arts web project (PPIA)\, the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) and the Indigenous artist-run centre daphne will host a conversation and open beading session in the style of daphne beads: perler/parler on Indigenous beading and cultural appropriation and appreciation of Indigenous arts. Moderated by PPIA Project Manager Linda Grussani\, this conversation with members of daphne aims at bringing together Indigenous scholars and art practitioners to discuss pressing issues around questions surrounding the promotion and protection of Indigenous arts. \ndaphne beads: perler/parler is a weekly virtual beading night held in the great tradition of gathering around a kitchen table to bead and talk with other daphne members. \nIn-person guests are invited to bring their beading projects and join the table for discussion. \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-x-daphne-beads-perler-parler/
LOCATION:4th Space
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T193750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T193906Z
UID:10001044-1695736800-1695744000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Promoting and Protecting Indigenous Arts Website Launch + Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) is launching an exciting new website on the promotion and protection of Indigenous arts (PPIA-PPAA.CA). This website will consist of articles\, resources\, and other information from a wide range of scholars\, Indigenous artists\, and community members on issues regarding the cultural expressions of Indigenous peoples and the cultural appropriation of Indigenous practices and arts. \nThe launch will be followed by a panel on Indigenous fashion with NWT born/Toronto-based fashion designer Sage Paul (Denesuline)\, visual artist Nico Williams (Aamjiwnaang First Nation)\, and Kuujjuaq born/Montréal-based fashion designer\, Julie Grenier. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Heather Igloliorte. \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/promoting-and-protecting-indigenous-arts-website-launch-panel-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T143000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230915T210957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T211016Z
UID:10001056-1695735000-1695738600@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Pizza Lunch and Website Launch at Speculative Life Research Cluster
DESCRIPTION:The Speculative Life Research Cluster of the Milieux Institute is thrilled to invite you for a slice of pizza to celebrate the launch of their brand new website with content focused on their latest projects and diverse breadth of research interests! After launching the site\, the directors and coordinators of the various research groups will be available to discuss their work in a fair-like style to curious students and faculty visiting the space. Spread the word! \nAbout Speculative Life: Based out of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, we place emphasis on science and technology studies\, ecology and environment\, scale and networks\, and have a commitment to futurity and imagination as being critical to design\, art\, and scholarship. This cluster of artists\, designers and scholars engages with multiple technical ecologies\, from bio-media to urban planning\, in order to foster creative ways to think about the future of the planetary scale transformations currently occurring as a result of human action and technical developments. \n*No registration is required
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pizza-lunch-and-website-launch-at-speculative-life-research-cluster/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Info Session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T133000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T193334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T193619Z
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SUMMARY:[Talk] An Island is more than a Park: Stories on the eve of an eviction
DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021 mayors from the Greater Montreal area officially announced a plan to develop île-Sainte-Thérèse (Sainte-Thérèse Island) into an Eco-Park. But the new park project comes at a cost of 50 family cottages that will be evicted from the island. While the proposed eco-park and impending eviction is reminiscent of a troubling history concerning National or Provincial Parks as a form of conservation\, Île-Sainte-Thérèse offers its own story\, albeit a fragmented one involving multiple actors\, each with a claim to the island’s landscape and heritage. \nFor this presentation\, graduate students affiliated with Montreal waterways and the Concordia Ethnography Lab Maya Lamothe Katrapani\, Melina Campos Ortiz\, and Amrita Gurung\, will share and engage with ethnographic methods and imagery\, along with the collective process of bringing these fragmented pieces together\, not in a way that is definitive\, fixed\, or complete\, but rather to demonstrate how these fragments move\, and move us\, when telling the story of an island. \nDate: Tuesday\, September 26th\, 2023\nTime: 12:00 – 13:00 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n\nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-an-island-is-more-than-a-park-stories-on-the-eve-of-an-eviction/
LOCATION:4th Space
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T110000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T200937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T143053Z
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SUMMARY:Dwell Time: Virtual/Augmented Reality activation with Puneet Jain
DESCRIPTION:Come join PhD student Puneet Jain to experience his virtual reality piece Dwell Time.  \nDrawing on my close interventions with people with disabilities as a non-disabled Human-Computer Interaction researcher\, building assistive technologies with (and for) disabled people\, this work is a VR experience of a self-reflection (a scrapbook) on my morphing artistic and scientific practice.\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 10:00 – 11:00 AM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space\n \nThe experience lasts between 10 and 12 minutes. To reserve your place\, send us an email to ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dwell-time-virtual-augmented-reality-activation/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T173000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T191150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T191601Z
UID:10001042-1695652200-1695663000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:[Gaming Session] Activating Games
DESCRIPTION:Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG) students Scott De Jong\, Hanine El Mir\, and Owen Hellum will be presenting their games and hosting a participatory gaming session at The Commons exhibition. \nDate: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space.\nThe Rabbit Hole – Scott de Jong (2:30 – 3:30 pm) Online disinformation has been likened to a game\, and this project did so by turning research on Canadian disinformation into a playable fantasy game. Paying homage to the narrative adventure genre\, this project uses its design structures and play to portray the research networks studied and provides an analogy and metaphor to the academic work conducted. Titled\, The Rabbit Hole this project uses play to study and discuss how disinformation creates networks online. With a “mystical” codebook to break down the narrative\, 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 ways to visualize the deeply networked and convoluted dynamics of online misleading content. \nIn Our Garden – Hanine El Mir (3:30 – 4:30 pm) In Our Garden is a collaborative and cooperative board game in which players plant crops and maintain their gardens in order to feed their communities over the span of one year. Once a year has passed\, the players may decide to expand on their individual soil plots\, start a community garden\, get a fridge\, or participate in a farmers’ market. In Our Garden‘s playtime is based on growing times in seasonal farming calendars but scaled down for game optimisation. Players get an individual soil bed in which they plant seed cards\, water them\, and give them energy to help them grow. The main goal of the game is for players to achieve food security in their community. There are goal/quest cards to achieve that\, such as “plant seasonally-available fruits\,” “plant 3 heads of garlic” and “plant only root vegetables for the next 3 turns.” \nUNDERSCORE – Owen Hellum (4:30 – 5:30 pm) UNDERSCORE is an experimental narrative game project that utilises environmental exploration\, advanced non-linear dialogue\, and multimedia to reflect on ideas of both alienation and kinship. Through engagement with many entities across three different acts\, the player has the chance to explore concepts of shared suffering\, understanding\, and joy. UNDERSCORE is an emotional work\, pulling on personal experiences and thoughts in regards to shared feelings and shared hopes. The work was created in an attempt to explore concepts of choice and narrative through various academic definitions and classifications of game design. Through these novel approaches to classic narrative and game design scenarios (e.g. false choice\, dilemma\, delayed effect\, etc.)\, a new approach is taken to the concepts of collective emotion and individual catharsis. This dense intertwining of both puzzle and story allow the game to effectively communicate its concepts of collectiveness. The game was developed over the course of 3 weeks\, and has undergone playtesting refinement. This event is open to all. Join us in-person at 4th Space!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gaming-session-activating-games-with-scott-de-jong-hanine-el-mir-and-owen-hellum/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230908T185625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155328Z
UID:10001041-1695646800-1695650400@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:[Talk] Geese\, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nGeese\, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons talk by Bart Simon and Fenwick Mckelvey. \nAbout the talk \nToo often discussions of the Commons seen like a game of Settlers of Catan. All the talk centers on an idealization of the land as a resource to own or not own seemingly for the good of the sheep to the benefit of the humans (the players of these games). Our talk rethinks the commons\, what was and what should be a critical concern for digital cultural studies. The Commons\, we argue\, must be understood as both a specific mode of existence and time (in Ireland for one) lost somewhat to history and with a emphasis on property. Recent investment in an AI commons\, problematic as that may be\, allows us to describe a Commons that must come — a commons built around the shared relations between humans and machines compelled to participate by late capitalism but holding hopes of different ways of being. \nDate: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 1:00 – 2:00 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n  \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel!\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-geese-sheep-and-gp-ai-notes-on-the-coming-commons/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T123000
DTSTAMP:20260614T231837
CREATED:20230905T174125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T155308Z
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SUMMARY:The Commons\, Opening
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nYou are cordially invited to join us for The Commons opening ceremony\, featuring a welcome by Indigenous Edler (TBC)\, and remarks by Concordia’s President and Vice-Chancellor\, Graham Carr\, VP Research and Graduate Studies\, Dominique Bérubé\, Director of Milieux\, Bart Simon\, and the graduate student curators behind this remarkable exhibition Hanss Lujan Torres\, Cecilia Mckinnon\, and Puneet Jain. \nCoffee and treats will be offered. Come celebrate with us as we inaugurate this week-long exhibition! \n\nOpening Date: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n\nAbout The Commons\n \nThe Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology is proud to announce its end-of-year exhibition\, The Commons\, to take place from September 25th to the 29th at Concordia University 4TH Space and Concordia’s Video Production Studio (EV 10.760). \nThough named an exhibition\, The Commons will embody the essence of a forum. A week of dynamic programming invites visitors to discover the projects of Milieux artists and researchers and to engage in communal activities and interdisciplinary experiments\, reflecting the shared ethos of the theme. This exhibition will run concurrently with a residency of scientists and artists from Concordia and McGill university working on research-creation at the interface of Design and Material Science. \nThe exhibition/forum/residency represents the latest in a series of major shows organized by the Institute\, following the 2022’s show In the Middle\, a Chimera. By partnering with Concordia University 4TH Space\, The Commons aspires to create a public platform\, engaging audiences with the richness of the Institute while sparking critical dialogues and collaborations at the juncture of arts and technology. Curated by a team of graduate students from various disciplines\, The Commons’ curatorial approach mirrors the Institute’s spirit of interdisciplinarity and horizontal collaboration\, cultivating a space where both emerging and established voices can converse meaningfully around the concept of the commons. \nThe Commons centers on an exploration of shared resources and spaces\, accessible to all members of a community or society. The exhibition aims to explore the many aspects of The Commons\, demonstrating its potential as a source of creativity\, collaboration\, and social change. Through various lenses\, including the natural commons (land\, water\, air) and the ways they are conserved; the cultural commons (knowledge\, art\, literature) and how they are fostered; as well as innovative shared spaces for research and art-making (open-source software\, emerging technologies\,  and collaborative practices)\, the exhibition will explore challenges and opportunities in constructing and sustaining a commons\, with an emphasis on governance\, inclusivity\, and collective action. \n\nCheck out the Programming to get an overview of the engaging events and experiences that The Commons exhibition will offer and discover the featured artists and researchers.  \nWe hope you can join us in celebrating the inauguration of The Commons and discover the remarkable work of our student and faculty members!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-commons-opening/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Vernissage
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SUMMARY:"The Commons" Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang is delighted to invite you to our annual members’ exhibition. This event will unfold from September 25 – 29\, 2023\, at Concordia’s 4th Space. This year\, our diverse community of students and faculty members will present their research and research-creation works through the thematic lens of “The Commons”. \nThe theme “The Commons” encourages exploration of shared resources and spaces that are accessible to all members of a community or society. This concept has been interpreted through a range of creative and research practices by our contributors. The exhibition hopes to delve into the many facets of The Commons\, illustrating its potential as a catalyst for creativity\, collaboration and social change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey themes woven throughout the exhibition’s works include our relationship with machines\, the intersections of technology\, ecology\, and human existence\, recent developments in artificial intelligence and collective creation\, a critical examination of the internet as a digital commons\, and the dynamics of access to public spaces. Additional themes encompass the use of craft as a tool for commoning\, sustainable crafts\, embodied virtual experiences\, exploration of urban narratives and systemic issues\, and inquiries regarding inclusion and accessibility. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe mediums used in these projects are diverse\, encompassing digital and analog games\, interactive installations\, multimedia and multi-channel video installations\, sound installations\, textile art\, VR experiences\, photography\, and documentary film. \nMark your calendars and join us to celebrate the year-end exhibition “The Commons” at the 4th Concordia Space from September 25-29\, 2023. Stay tuned for upcoming details on featured artists and researchers!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-commons-exhibition/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:DIGS + MHRC: Talk and Seminar with Sarah Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, & Sexuality Lab (DIGS) and the Media History Research Centre (MHRC) invite everyone to a talk and seminar featuring Sarah Sharma! The talk\, titled “Broken Machines: Towards a Techno-Feminist Refusal” will be held on September 21st at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705). During the talk\, Sarah will delve into the subject of her upcoming book\, which advances a techno-feminist media theory to account for Big Tech and the gendered politics of utility\, exit and repair.  \nFollowing the talk\, a small graduate seminar with Sarah Sharma is scheduled for September 22nd at 10 a.m.\, in which they will discuss the preface and introduction to “Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan.” Please register for this seminar here. Those registered will receive a PDF of the reading by email. \nRegister here for the talk\nRegister here for the seminar\nSarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto. She is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP\, 2014). This book challenges the popular sentiment that the world is “speeding up” and locates instead how temporality operates as a key relation of power structured at the intersection of a range of social differences and technologies. Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022 and retrieves a feminist version of “the medium is the message.” Sarah is currently working on a new book (tentatively titled Broken Machine: Towards a Techno-feminist Refusal) which advances a techno-feminist media theory to account for Big Tech and the gendered politics of utility\, exit and repair.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digs-mhrc-talk-and-seminar-with-sarah-sharma/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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