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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T190000
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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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SUMMARY:Projecthandstitch
DESCRIPTION:An initative between Pramila Choudhary (PhD\, Geography and Environmental Studies\, Textile Designer and Artist) and Sayali Goyal (Textile Artist\, Editor Cocoa & Jasmine) \n\n\nPramila Choudhary has arranged a presentation for the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster of Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology at Concordia University. Inviting Sayali Goyal from Cocoa & Jasmine the purpose of this talk is to foster discussions about worldwide artisan communities\, the operation of a cultural business\, and the valuable perspectives gained from the interplay between craft and design collaborations. Cocoa & Jasmine is an independent print publication and cultural agency. \nAbout Pramila Choudhary \nPramila serves as both the founder and creative leader of the Projecthandstitch Blog initiative\, which was established in 2017. This initiative began with an open project involving creating 12-month hand-stitched garments\, aiming to delve into the concept of slow fashion and foster a global community. Through this journey\, they have explored 28 distinct handmade crafts and brought together 32 participants\, fostering the exchange of knowledge\, promoting slow fashion\, and advocating textile practices in everyday life. The project’s progress has been documented on Instagram and within a private Facebook group. \nContinuing into the subsequent year\, #projecthandstitch has continued to spotlight diverse global and local handmade practices\, individuals\, and conversations within the community. You can connect with them on Instagram @projecthandstitch \nPramila’s background includes studying textile design at NID (National Institute of Design\, India) and HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts\, Switzerland). Since then\, she has collaborated with various craft communities in India\, engaged in international craft-based initiatives\, and partnered with brands in the US and UK. Additionally\, she practices as a textile artist\, utilizing pre-consumer waste and natural materials. Her expertise extends to teaching design students at NID and NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology)\, where she imparts knowledge on sustainability\, craft studies\, design thinking\, surface development\, fabric construction\, hybrid textile structures\, and material explorations. \nAbout Sayali Goyal \nSayali is the Founder and creative director of Cocoa and Jasmine (www.cocoaandjasmine.com) an independent print publication and cultural agency that focuses on global creative communities and facilitates cross cultural connections. The magazine has researched\, documented and published stories on various craft communities from India and around the world. Apart from the print magazine\, her practice also extends to curating exhibitions\, penels\, residencies\, journalism\,  ethnographic visual research as well as strategy for some of the leading companies in India and Internationally. She studied surface textiles at the University of arts London and since then has created a series of textile art and exhibited her works in Delhi\, Mumbai\, London and San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/projecthandstitch/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:TAG Watch Party: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Games Institute ADE Speaker Series Panel: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies Watch Party\n\n\nJoin us at TAG to watch the first of the Games Intitute ADE Speaker Series featuring Dr. Akil Fletcher\, Cyan DeVeaux and Dr. Steven Dashiell\, in a panel that highlights emerging scholars in Black game studies. Panelists will present recent and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse of the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include Black worldbuilding in and across games (Fletcher)\, perceptions of Black male exceptionalism in gaming cultures (Dashiell)\, and the relationship between avatar representation and Black user experience in social VR (DeVeaux). \nAll are welcome\, and there will be snacks! No registration required for the watch party.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-watch-party-emerging-voices-in-black-game-studies/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230914T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:Back to Basics: Make Your First Website Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Starting from nothing but a text editor and a web browser\, we will code our way to HTML/CSS basics and make a first website! This workshop will help you get started with creating websites from scratch\, without using any framework. \nBeginners welcome! — no need to know how to code. The workshop is open to Concordia students and the general public (max number of participants: 15). Facilitator: Edith Viau \n*Bring your own laptop and charger. \n**We also encourage the wearing of masks. \nWHERE: Concordia University\, EV building\, Resource Room EV 11.705\nWHEN: Thursday Sep 14\, 2-5pm \nLearn more on the Solar Media Collective website here. \nREGISTER HERE \nOrganized by the Solar Media Collective supported by funding from the Milieux Institute
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/back-to-basics-make-your-first-website-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230913T193000
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Danielle Boyer on Indigenous Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Ojibwe\, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work\, including the invention of the SkoBot and more! \nOjibwe\, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work\, including the invention of the SkoBot\, a robot that teaches the Indigenous languages Navajo\, Ojibwemowin\, and Taino. The robot\, aimed at middle school children\, is customizable and easily programmable for youth. This virtual event is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum\, and co-hosted by The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). \nRESERVE A SPOT\nDanielle Boyer is a 22-year-old Indigenous (Ojibwe) and Queer robotics inventor and advocate for youth who has been teaching kids since she was ten. Driven by her families own inability to afford science and technology education\, she is passionate about making education accessible and representative for her community so that no child is left behind. Danielle creates equitable and innovative learning solutions for Indigenous youths with robots that she designs\, manufactures\, and gives away for free. In 2019 at age eighteen\, she created The STEAM Connection\, a minority and youth-led charity that has reached hundreds of thousands of children worldwide with technical education with an emphasis on language revitalization. The STEAM Connection focuses on the future: ushering in a new age of education via personal and wearable robotics\, artificial intelligence\, and augmented reality. Informed by the past and present\, The STEAM Connection utilizes traditional knowledge to uplift and protect Indigenous communities with an emphasis on language. Her goal is not necessarily to get youth into STEM careers but rather to equip them with the skills to solve the problems that they see in their communities now. \n*There is no fee required to attend this event. Captions in english will be provided.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/danielle-boyer-on-indigenous-robotics/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online,Talk
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SUMMARY:Screening + Discussion with the Robot in Residence Team
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an outdoor video art and short film projection presented by the Goethe-Institut and Eastern Bloc August 29\, 2023\, starting at 8:15 p.m. (sunset) at Esplanade Louvain\, the ephemeral District Central venue initiated by SDC District Central (DCMTL Blog). \n\n\n\n\n\nThe animation film series AVA – Artificial V Art puts a special focus on artificial intelligence. Art and artificiality seem to be mutually dependent and open up a new approach to questions of authorship and the definition of art. – more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/2632599980223844 \n\n\n\n\nRight after the screening you are invited to stay for a discussion with artists-in-residence Patil Tchilinguirian\, Zeph Thibodeau and Cayda Yolgormez and converse about topics related to artificial intelligence! The discussion will be moderated by PhD student member Priscilla Jolly! \n\nPresented by Goethe-Institut\, in cooperation with Eastern Bloc\, Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia and Hexagram
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-discussion-with-the-robot-in-residence-team/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230818T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T170000
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participation] Chainstitch Collaborative Art Project
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to participate in Chainstitch\, a collaborative art project presented by Textiles & Materiality Cluster\, as part of the Milieux Institute’s Expo The Commons\, September 25-29th. This project\, programmed by Morris Fox\, seeks to intertwine craft\, community\, and speculative futures through a fusion of individual expression and collective creation. \nPlease find the project description as well as work session schedule below. Kindly note that the work sessions are to help expand possibilities of experimentation and collaboration and are not mandatory for participation in this project. \nIf you are interested in participating\, please email Morris Fox (T&M Coordinator) at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca \nProject Statement: \nChainstitch is an exploration of collective and individual research-creation within the context of the Textiles & Materiality Cluster. This participatory initiative envisions a multimodal assemblage that weaves together shared research threads through hybrid approaches\, echoing the decorative and utilitarian qualities of a chainstitch. It’s a speculative endeavor rooted in community reciprocity\, drawing tactile and tacit knowledge from the materiality itself. \nCollaborators will receive a base cloth as a canvas for experimentation\, incorporating elements such as natural dyes reminiscent of a pharmacopoeia or physic garden. Through collaborative discussions across multiple labs\, including the Speculative Life BioLab\, and Matter and Sustainable Hybridity Lab\, individual contributions will coalesce\, resulting in an assemblage of visual storytelling\, a chain letter. \nThis soft sculptural project engages multisensory experiences that connect humans and more-than-human entities as co-contributors. As we navigate the complex emotions of eco-grief\, we embrace the act of crafting as a response-ability to interspecies memory. “Chainstitch” envisions alternative futures as acts of community care\, entangling dialogue and emotional connections as living epistemes\, woven from shared imaginings. \n\n\nReference image for 12×12 base cloth with grommets\, which will be “chained” together to create the final assemblage. \nArtist Statement: \nMorris Fox\, a queer interdisciplinary artist and new gothic writer\, drives the narrative of “Chainstitch.” Through explorations of queer heterotopic alliances\, materials\, performance\, and words\, their practice delves into the intersections of craft\, memory\, and exchanges of alternative spaces within shared ecologies. Fox’s research-creation connects queer identity\, memory\, and the hauntings of nature and time.  \nWorkshop Timeline:  \n\nFriday\, August 18\, 2 PM – 5:00 PM\, Milieux Speculative Life BioLab: Sillatia bacteria dyeing demo and work session\, featuring shibori and stencil techniques\, led by Alex Bachmayer\, with Marc Beaulieu\, and Morris Fox.\n\nBase cloths for home experimentation will be available to pick up (12×12 white cotton sergered squares). \n\nMonday\, August 21:\n\nMilieux Speculative Life BioLab (EV 10.835) 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM: This day will mark the final stages of bacteria dyeing\, see your dye grow! (stamp stenciling on cloth\, autoclave treatment). There will be an hour and a half lunch break during the autoclave process. \nMaSH Lab (EV 10.615) 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Rust-dyeing session led by Dr. Miranda Smitheram. Explore dyeing techniques with rusted steel \nPlease note that closed toed shoes\, pants\, and something to tie your hair back if you have long hair are necessary safety precautions while in the Labs. \nParticipants can bring home their base cloth by the end of the day or arrange to pick them up with Morris Fox afterwards. \n\nFriday\, September 8th\, 2:30-5:00 PM: TandM Cluster Commons (EV 10.730)\n\nCollaborative work session and skill share with Morris Fox\, tea will be provided. \n\nThursday\, September 14th\, 3:00-6:00 PM: TandM Cluster Commons (EV 10.730)\n\nCollaborative work session and skill share with Morris Fox\, tea will be provided. \n\nFriday September 18th\, 6:00 PM: Submission Deadline. TandM Commons (EV 10.730)\n\nCompleted works are to be dropped off and ready for installation in the 4th Space by the end of the week. \n\nSeptember 25-29th: Milieux Exhibition\, The Commons\, @ 4th Space.\n\nYour participation in “Chainstitch” contributes to a unique and collaborative exploration of shared imaginings\, community care\, and the interplay between the tactile and the speculative. Join us as we intertwine common threads. \nFor inquiries and to express your interest\, please contact Morris Fox at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca  \n\n*If you would like to contribute to the project but have your own materials rather than using the cotton base cloth we are providing\, please message Morris Fox to accommodate your own work processes and contribution. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participation-chainstitch/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
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SUMMARY:test
DESCRIPTION:test
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/test/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230711T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230713T180000
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SUMMARY:Digital Intimacies Pop-up Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Research-Creation Collective (RCC) is a collaborative project involving members of the DIGS lab and Feminist Media Studio\, Concordia University. This year the RCC has co-curated Digital Intimacies\, an exhibition exploring the impacts of digitization on our understanding of intimacy through diverse research creation projects. \n\nInspired by Lauren Berlant’s attestation that “the kinds of connections that impact people\, and on which they depend for living (if not ‘a life’)\, do not always respect the predictable forms\,” Digital Intimacies seeks to understand how intimacy could be conceptualized and creatively explored differently than “predictable forms” (Berlant 1998\, 284). \nWhen? July 11-13\, 2023 (10am – 6pm daily) \nWhere? 4th Space\, SGW Campus (Room LB-103 @ 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-intimacies-pop-up-exhibition/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230705T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230705T160000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
CREATED:20230814T224927Z
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SUMMARY:Summertime fun with motion capture in VR!
DESCRIPTION:New workshop by the Immersive Storytelling Studio coming Wednesday\, July 5th. Marco Luna will lead an introductory workshop using HTC VIVE trackers for motion capture in VR. In this 4-hour workshop\, you will learn how to set up a Unity project using SteamVR assets in a VR scene. No previous knowledge of Unity or VR required! \n\n\nJoin us July 5th from 12 – 4 pm in EV 10.715. \n*Spaces are limited!\n**To reserve\, please email immersivestorytelling@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/summertime-fun-with-motion-capture-in-vr/
LOCATION:Post Image Cluster (EV 10.715)\, 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W\, Montréal\, H3G 2W1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230629T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230629T190000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP!\nWhat? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations \nWhen? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \nWe are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO\, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative approach to understand and imagine human-machine relations\, and takes the event of NAO’s visit to Montreal as an occasion to grasp this machinic being through their everyday rituals.  \nAs part of our residency we are hosting a workshop series focused on social imagination and (re)defining the relationships we humans have with machines. In these workshops we will search for alternatives to the typical human-machine narratives of consumption of exploitation\, and find ways to make them real. To guide this search we will be centering the notion of the ritual not only as a method for understanding the day-by-day reinforcement of existing relationships\, but also as a way of making space for (re)conceiving new relations/interactions\, a way of inhabiting a liminal space in which we can be creatively (and critically) thinking through ‘things’. \nAs a participant you will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the robot\, and design interactions\, moments\, and experiences with NAO. Furthermore you will engage with broader questions that NAO personifies—about robots\, machines and social imaginaries—with a set of hands-on making/doing activities. Throughout the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘zine that documents our discussions and creations. \nThe workshop is designed to take you on a journey through human-machine relations. The plan is to meet three times in the last week of June\, and explore these questions through multiple approaches. We strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions if possible\, so that you can participate at every stage of research-creation. However\, if you can’t come to all three we still welcome you to join us for whichever sessions you are able to attend! \nTentative Schedule\nDay 1 : theoretical intro; introducing NAO \nDay 2 : conceptual development; brainstorming; interactions \nDay 3 : making session; co-producing zine \nYou do not need to have technical skills in order to participate in this workshop. Ultimately this is an exercise in imagination and creativity. \n>>>REGISTRATION LINK<<<\n \nSee you there! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participants-workshop-ritualizing-human-nao-relations/2023-06-29/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230628T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230628T190000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP!\nWhat? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations \nWhen? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \nWe are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO\, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative approach to understand and imagine human-machine relations\, and takes the event of NAO’s visit to Montreal as an occasion to grasp this machinic being through their everyday rituals.  \nAs part of our residency we are hosting a workshop series focused on social imagination and (re)defining the relationships we humans have with machines. In these workshops we will search for alternatives to the typical human-machine narratives of consumption of exploitation\, and find ways to make them real. To guide this search we will be centering the notion of the ritual not only as a method for understanding the day-by-day reinforcement of existing relationships\, but also as a way of making space for (re)conceiving new relations/interactions\, a way of inhabiting a liminal space in which we can be creatively (and critically) thinking through ‘things’. \nAs a participant you will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the robot\, and design interactions\, moments\, and experiences with NAO. Furthermore you will engage with broader questions that NAO personifies—about robots\, machines and social imaginaries—with a set of hands-on making/doing activities. Throughout the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘zine that documents our discussions and creations. \nThe workshop is designed to take you on a journey through human-machine relations. The plan is to meet three times in the last week of June\, and explore these questions through multiple approaches. We strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions if possible\, so that you can participate at every stage of research-creation. However\, if you can’t come to all three we still welcome you to join us for whichever sessions you are able to attend! \nTentative Schedule\nDay 1 : theoretical intro; introducing NAO \nDay 2 : conceptual development; brainstorming; interactions \nDay 3 : making session; co-producing zine \nYou do not need to have technical skills in order to participate in this workshop. Ultimately this is an exercise in imagination and creativity. \n>>>REGISTRATION LINK<<<\n \nSee you there! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participants-workshop-ritualizing-human-nao-relations/2023-06-28/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230626T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230626T203000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP!\nWhat? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations \nWhen? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \nWe are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO\, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative approach to understand and imagine human-machine relations\, and takes the event of NAO’s visit to Montreal as an occasion to grasp this machinic being through their everyday rituals.  \nAs part of our residency we are hosting a workshop series focused on social imagination and (re)defining the relationships we humans have with machines. In these workshops we will search for alternatives to the typical human-machine narratives of consumption of exploitation\, and find ways to make them real. To guide this search we will be centering the notion of the ritual not only as a method for understanding the day-by-day reinforcement of existing relationships\, but also as a way of making space for (re)conceiving new relations/interactions\, a way of inhabiting a liminal space in which we can be creatively (and critically) thinking through ‘things’. \nAs a participant you will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the robot\, and design interactions\, moments\, and experiences with NAO. Furthermore you will engage with broader questions that NAO personifies—about robots\, machines and social imaginaries—with a set of hands-on making/doing activities. Throughout the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘zine that documents our discussions and creations. \nThe workshop is designed to take you on a journey through human-machine relations. The plan is to meet three times in the last week of June\, and explore these questions through multiple approaches. We strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions if possible\, so that you can participate at every stage of research-creation. However\, if you can’t come to all three we still welcome you to join us for whichever sessions you are able to attend! \nTentative Schedule\nDay 1 : theoretical intro; introducing NAO \nDay 2 : conceptual development; brainstorming; interactions \nDay 3 : making session; co-producing zine \nYou do not need to have technical skills in order to participate in this workshop. Ultimately this is an exercise in imagination and creativity. \n>>>REGISTRATION LINK<<<\n \nSee you there! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participants-workshop-ritualizing-human-nao-relations/2023-06-26/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230615T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230615T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:[Info Session] Milieux Expo: The Commons
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to invite all members (faculty and students alike!) to an online info session dedicated to our upcoming annual exhibition\, which will be held from September 25 to 29\, 2023\, at Concordia’s 4th Space! This session will serve as an open platform to discuss and clarify the theme\, guidelines\, submission processes\, and any other queries you might have about the exhibition. \nGood news for those working on their submissions! We have extended the deadline for submitting your research and research-creation work until July 1st\, 2023. We hope this gives you additional time to develop your individual or collective proposals. Remember that we’re open to all kinds of submissions\, whether you’re into visual art\, audio projects\, performances\, presentations\, text-based work\, or even something entirely different! We hope to see you there! \nGET THE ZOOM LINK \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/info-session-milieux-expo-the-commons/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230615T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230618T160000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T190929Z
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SUMMARY:The River’s Threads | Au fil du Saint-Laurent
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thurday\, June 15 to Sunday\, June 18\, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM outside the Maison Nivard-De Saint-Dizier archaeological museum for our community stitch research and creation project – family friendly\, fun\, and free!\n\n\nThe River’s Threads | Au fil du Saint-Laurent is a community stitch project that integrates cyanotype\, eco-printing\, and natural dye in a large River-inspired textile into which people are invited to embroider their engagement with our magnificent waterway. A person can sit and contribute to the project for as little or as long as they like\, converse or not\, and embroider either sketched-out motifs or words that relate to the River life or free form elements of the their own choosing. \nOriented to sustainability\, upcycling\, and biodegradability\, The River’s Threads uses only natural materials (linen\, cotton\, silk)\, much of it upcycled\, and integrates plants as collaborators: their bodies create imprints and offer chemistry that beautifully tints plant-based cloth. We hope the artwork will be impressive when it is complete; we are delighted that eventually it will fully rot back into the landscape with no chemical residue or plastic remainders. \nA second aspect of this collaborative work is a short audio-recorded interview\, which gives participants the opportunity to discuss their experience of stitching and their connection to and wishes for the St. Lawrence. \nA third aspect is some interactive water science – demos from our collaborators of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières offering things to touch\, colours to consider\, and an overview of the work they do to determine water quality. \nFor more information: kathleen.vaughan@Concordia.ca \nProject website: https://learningwiththestlawrence.ca/projects/rivers-threads/ \nFacebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/231574176176282/231576192842747/?active_tab=about
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-rivers-threads-au-fil-du-saint-laurent/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230602T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230602T120000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:Data Justice Hub Skills Development Webinar With Imani Jacqueline Brown
DESCRIPTION:The Data Justice Hub invites you to a webinar with artist\, activist\, and architechtural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown: Unraveling Industry: Mapping Oil and Gas Infrastructure to Demand Reparations \nUnraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by company\, supporting local and global demands for corporate accountability and “ecological reparations”. It maps and archives the corporate-colonial guidelines along the continuum of extractivism\, which spans from colonialism and slavery to fossil fuel production\, coastal erosion and climate change. The platform uses a methodology that Brown calls “cartographic unraveling” to disentangle and analyze cartographic lines and points representing antebellum property lines\, as well as permits for oil and gas pipelines\, canals\, and wells––terrestrial inscriptions that make geographies\, unmake communities\, and break Earth’s geologies. Brown notes that\, since 1926\, oil and gas companies have dredged 10\,000 linear miles of canals to drill and access over 90\,000 wells throughout the Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. These wells connect to a region known to industry as the “Petrochemical Corridor\,” formerlly called “Plantation Country\,” and nicknamed “Cancer Alley” by its residents. There\, the nation’s most polluting petrochemical plants and refineries occupy the footprints of former plantations alongside majority-Black communities descended from people historically enslaved on those same grounds. Ultimately\, maps\, data\, histories\, mythologies\, and geographies are archived in an interactive platform that reveals the corporate authors of extractivism and points toward a horizon of justice.\nRegister here\nImani Jacqueline Brown is an artist\, activist\, and architectural researcher from New Orleans\, USA\, based in London. Her work investigates extractive environmental and economic systems to expose the layers of violence and resistance that comprise the foundations of settler-colonial society and imagine paths to ecological reparations. Brown is currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary\, University of London\, a research fellow with Forensic Architecture\, and an associate lecturer in MA Architecture at the Royal College of Art. She received her MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths\, University of London in 2019.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/data-justice-hub-skills-development-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T133000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members to meet in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) for lunch and a chat for our Annual General Meeting! \nWe will be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2021-2022). We encourage everyone to attend—even if you have no interest in reports or questions\, we’re interested in seeing you and hearing what you’re up to! \nWhen? Friday\, May 26th\, 2023\, from 12:00 to 13:30 \nWhere? Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nMark your calendars\, and see you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T160000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T192656Z
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SUMMARY:DisinfoGames: Analog Game Jam
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia University’s Disinformation and Games Research Project invites all members to join their upcoming analog game jam\, DisinfoGames!\nEvent Description\nThis is a 2-day event taking place on Friday May 19th and Friday May 26th from 9-4pm. Participants will work in teams to create analog games around the theme of media disinformation. Through this creation process\, we will identify current issues around the subject and reflect on the particularities of games as a site for–or tool against–false content. \nOur game jam focuses on making analog\, tabletop games (card\, board\, role playing games). Even if you’ve never made a game before\, no worries! We’ll walk you through the process\, the idea is to have fun\, get creative and learn by making. We will provide all necessary supplies (crafting material\, dice\, tokens\, etc.) and food and drinks will also be provided. \n→ This is a free event and open to participants of absolutely all levels. \n→ To sign up\, email disinfogames@gmail.com. \nEvent location: Concordia University\, ER Building\, 6th floor\, 2155 Rue Guy\, Montreal \nEvent Schedule:\nMay 19th  \n9-10: Research presentation\n10-12: Making teams\, brainstorming in groups\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Conceptualizing and prototyping games \nMay 26th  \n9-12: Working on games\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Playtesting games
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disinfogames-analog-game-jam/2023-05-26/
LOCATION:Concordia University – ER Building\, 2155 Rue Guy\, 6th floor\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230524T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230524T170000
DTSTAMP:20260619T155406
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SUMMARY:(un)Stable Diffusions Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is happy to invite everyone to join this two-day international symposium on AI’s publics\, publicities\, and publicizations\, happening from May 23-24 online and in-person at the Milieux Institute. \nAbout (un)Stable Diffusions\n21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled\, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists\, startup founders and global companies to policy makers\, journalists\, and civil society. For some\, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems\, which in turn will change how we live\, communicate\, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality\, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes\, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible\, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. \nOur symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom and Canada\, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s  media representations\, policy framings\, and scientific debates. Crucially\, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI\, including practice-based research or research-creation. \nCheck the full programming here\nRegister for in-person and online attendance here\nWhen? May 23-24\, 9am to 5 pm. \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11705)\, Concordia University. \n*Free to the public \nLocal organizers include Meaghan Wester\, Sophie Toupin\, Jonathan Roberge\, Fenwick McKelvey\, Maurice Jones\, and Guillaume Dandurand. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/unstable-diffusions-symposium/2023-05-24/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:(un)Stable Diffusions Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is happy to invite everyone to join this two-day international symposium on AI’s publics\, publicities\, and publicizations\, happening from May 23-24 online and in-person at the Milieux Institute. \nAbout (un)Stable Diffusions\n21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled\, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists\, startup founders and global companies to policy makers\, journalists\, and civil society. For some\, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems\, which in turn will change how we live\, communicate\, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality\, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes\, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible\, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. \nOur symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom and Canada\, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s  media representations\, policy framings\, and scientific debates. Crucially\, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI\, including practice-based research or research-creation. \nCheck the full programming here\nRegister for in-person and online attendance here\nWhen? May 23-24\, 9am to 5 pm. \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11705)\, Concordia University. \n*Free to the public \nLocal organizers include Meaghan Wester\, Sophie Toupin\, Jonathan Roberge\, Fenwick McKelvey\, Maurice Jones\, and Guillaume Dandurand. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/unstable-diffusions-symposium/2023-05-23/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230519T160000
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SUMMARY:DisinfoGames: Analog Game Jam
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia University’s Disinformation and Games Research Project invites all members to join their upcoming analog game jam\, DisinfoGames!\nEvent Description\nThis is a 2-day event taking place on Friday May 19th and Friday May 26th from 9-4pm. Participants will work in teams to create analog games around the theme of media disinformation. Through this creation process\, we will identify current issues around the subject and reflect on the particularities of games as a site for–or tool against–false content. \nOur game jam focuses on making analog\, tabletop games (card\, board\, role playing games). Even if you’ve never made a game before\, no worries! We’ll walk you through the process\, the idea is to have fun\, get creative and learn by making. We will provide all necessary supplies (crafting material\, dice\, tokens\, etc.) and food and drinks will also be provided. \n→ This is a free event and open to participants of absolutely all levels. \n→ To sign up\, email disinfogames@gmail.com. \nEvent location: Concordia University\, ER Building\, 6th floor\, 2155 Rue Guy\, Montreal \nEvent Schedule:\nMay 19th  \n9-10: Research presentation\n10-12: Making teams\, brainstorming in groups\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Conceptualizing and prototyping games \nMay 26th  \n9-12: Working on games\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Playtesting games
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disinfogames-analog-game-jam/2023-05-19/
LOCATION:Concordia University – ER Building\, 2155 Rue Guy\, 6th floor\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230516T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230516T143000
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SUMMARY:[Postponed] Dr. Louise Amoore Lecture on Machine Learning Politics
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amoore introduces the concept of machine learning politics. \n\n\nThe idea that a ‘good’ machine learning model is one that can generalise to new situations has a long history. Even Turing’s 1950s accounts of machine intelligence referred to what he called a “spring of action” that exceeded the programming of explicit rules. By 2012\, when the Turing Laureate Yoshua Bengio sets out the guiding principles for unsupervised machine learning\, the ‘good’ model is rendered normatively as having the capacity to exploit the unknown structure in data. Here\, that which is unknown and unencountered is re-cast as a positive force to be harnessed in machine learning. It is a machine learning logic that has simultaneously become pervasive in the contemporary governing of societies – how the unknown structure of health data\, policing data\, pandemic data\, immigration data\, might yield the patterns and features that make interventions possible. The combinatorial possibilities of deep learning models reimagine the contingencies of the world as a field of political possibility. When Bengio proposes that deep learning algorithms “discover good representations” in data distributions\, I propose that this logic powerfully generates a politics of discovering good representations of a social distribution. Thus\, to deploy large language models (LLMs) or transformer models in the social world is never only to instrumentally bring a tool into use\, but rather it brings into being a specific political means of picturing and knowing the world. \n\n\nBiography \nLouise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching focuses on aspects of geopolitics\, technology and security. She is particularly interested in how contemporary forms of data and algorithmic analysis are changing the pursuit of state security and the idea of society. Her most recent book\, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others\, is published by Duke University Press in Spring 2020. Among her other published works on technology\, biometrics\, security\, and society\, her book\, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability (2013)examines the governance of low probability\, high consequence events\, and its far-reaching implications for society and democracy. Louise’s research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust\, ESRC\, EPSRC\, AHRC\, and NWO. She is appointed to the UK independent body responsible for the ethics of biometric and data-driven technologies. Louise is co-editor of the Journal Progress in Human Geography. \n\n\n\n\nMade possible through the support of the School of Graduate Studies\, the Applied AI Institute and the Milieux Institute at Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-louise-amoore-lecture-on-machine-learning-politics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230511T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230511T170000
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SUMMARY:Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age - Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Solar Media Collective is organizing a symposium on the multiscalar dimensions of sustainable\, just\, and hopeful energy transitions. Join academics\, artists\, and community members for round table discussions and a workshop exploring sustainability at different scales.\nSituated Solar Relations: rethinking scale for the renewable energy age will convene academics\, artists\, students\, and community members for a day of roundtable discussions and workshops stimulating us to question and imagine what forms of social organization and tech design are possible—even ludic and enjoyable—when we abandon the fossil-fuel-powered assumption of energy abundance and work within the affordances and limits of the sun’s energy. \nHow can we imagine the social\, technical\, and political norms and protocols that are offered by solar (or alternative) energy and solar-powered media? In what ways can we stimulate diverse and democratized technical design and caring principles that are useful\, rewarding\, and enduring for specific groups and communities of users? What strategies of scalability (or non-scalability) could help us find pleasurable and rewarding ways to transition away from our carbon-powered lifestyles and towards more sustainable paths? \nWhen? May 11th\, 2023 \nWhere? Concordia’s Next-Generation Cities Institute (2155 rue Guy\, ER Building\, Room 1431) or remote participation possible via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the event on Eventbrite.\nFor more information on the event and to consult the day’s program\, please visit the symposium page. \nLocal organizers include: Isabelle Boucher\, Alex Custodio\, Janna Frenzel\, Michael Iantorno\, Malte Leander\, Robert Marinov\, Christine White\, Lee Wilkins
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/situated-solar-relations-rethinking-scale-for-the-renewable-energy-age-symposium/
LOCATION:Next-Generation Cities Institute\, 2155 rue Guy\, ER Building\, Room 1431
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230508T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230512T170000
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SUMMARY:Home/Making Research Creation Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Textiles and Materiality Cluster is happy to invite everyone to the Home/Making Research-Creation Showcase\, co-hosted with 4 TH Space! \nJoin us for a weeklong workshop series\, research creation showcase and symposium drawing interdisciplinary scholars and makers into an ongoing conversation at the intersection of craft and home. The Home/Making Research-Creation Showcase will present material inquiries with work that interrogates issues such as domesticity and gender\, placemaking through craft\, and the reinvention of regional craft traditions. \nDuring the week of May 8\, research-creation work – including physical work\, images\, and video – will be displayed in 4TH Space\, which is open to the Concordia community and the general public from 10-6 daily. \nParticipants \n\nCilia Sawadogo\, Reihan Ebrahimi and Pots Uniques\nSelina Latour and Meaghan Bissett\nJosé Cortes\nSharmistha Kar\nNicole Miles\nPatrick Moskwa\nKerri-Lynn Reeves\nSabina Rak\nShaney Herrmann\nRebecca Strzelec\nFiona Harrington\nPragya Sharma\nRosa Borrás\nKathleen Vaughan\nSkot Deeming\nMichelle Wilson\nHeather Kohlmeier\nYesha Subotincic West\n\nHosted in partnership with the Textiles and Materiality Cluster\, Milieux Institute\, Concordia University. \n\n\n\n\nHow can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \nHave questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote speaker\n\n\n\n\nDr. Juliette MacDonald (Edinburgh College of Art) \n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of:\nHome/Making Project
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/home-making-research-creation-showcase/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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