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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: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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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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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
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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
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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:20260619T183656
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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:20260619T183656
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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:20260619T183656
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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:20260619T183656
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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:20260619T183656
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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:20260619T183656
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230523T170000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260619T183656
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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
DTSTAMP:20260619T183656
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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
DTSTAMP:20260619T183656
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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
DTSTAMP:20260619T183656
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230505T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260619T183656
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SUMMARY:Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism
DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning how to do data activism?  \nJoin our free workshop from May 5-7th on Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism\, at Concordia University and online! “Mobilizing Data for Justice” is a three-day skills development workshop where activists and critical researchers can learn methods for making sense of and engaging with data in social struggles. \n\n\n\nWe have invited activists from around the world to share their experiences doing data activism. The workshops will focus on three areas: \n\n\n\n\nVisualizing: how can activists and critical researchers deploy techniques\, such as mapping and countermapping\, to visualize social justice issues in new ways?\nArchiving: how can activists and critical researchers effectively engage with archives in getting access to data and curate their own community-based archives in thinking about data differently? \nSurveillance: how can activists and critical researchers identify and negotiate surveillance infrastructures in organizing their work?\n\nThe event will be interactive\, emphasizing dialogue\, with the aim of creating opportunities for activists and researchers to troubleshoot ideas together. Please send along any specific questions or data needs you would like us to explore during the workshop. How can I register?  \n\nTo join us in-person register here. \nTo join us online register here.\n\n\n\nPlease note that we will need to limit in-person attendance for some sessions. We will prioritize attendance for community activists working in these areas\, though we will seek to accommodate other participants as best we can.We know that community groups are often under-resourced and overworked\, so we are offering a small bursary for activists of up to $250 in recognition of your time\, energy\, and resources required to attend. You can apply for it before March 31st by filling out the form here and directly from the registration form. If you have any questions\, comments\, or concerns\, please don’t hesitate to email chris.hurl@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mobilizing-data-for-justice-a-skills-development-workshop-in-data-activism/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230507
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SUMMARY:Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies\, Economies & Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies invites everyone to the international multidisciplinary conference Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies\, Economies & Aesthetics\, happening from May 3rd to May 6th at Concordia University and on-line!\nThe senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However\, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the focus on the “prereflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception\, and the emphasis on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience. The collision of the senses is inherent to Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the “collideroscope” of the sensorium. With this conference\, we seek to explore the potentialities of the latter concept. \nIn the same spirit\, the conference will welcome contributions relying on differing disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives may complement one another (multidisciplinary research) or they may coalesce (interdisciplinary research). “Cross-disciplinary research” is the expression we prefer — “crossing” in the sense of blending\, but also of confronting. \nThe overarching aim of the conference is to highlight the relevance of the emergent understanding of the collision of the senses to thinking about some burning issues of our times: the ecological crisis\, the commodification of the senses under capitalism\, and “the new aesthetics” as framed by the late Gernot Böhme. \nWhen? From May 3rd to May 6th \nWhere? Concordia University – in-person and on-line \nFeaturing over 150 papers grouped in 50 sessions and 12 panels\, 6 roundtables\, 9 workshops and a multisensory and virtual art gallery\, as well as a reception on the Friday evening entitled “A Feast for the Senses.” The four keynotes are free and open to the public. For all other sessions\, participants are required to register.  \nKeynote Speakers:\nConstance Classen\nHsuan Hsu\nKathleen Sitter\nCharles Spence \nConference website\nFor more information please contact senses@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/uncommon-senses-iv-sensory-ecologies-economies-aesthetics/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230702
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SUMMARY:Call For Submissions: 'The commons' Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, located in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual members’ exhibition\, which will take place from September 25 – 29\, 2023\, at Concordia’s 4th Space. \nMilieux is seeking submissions from active student and faculty members that engage with this year’s theme: The Commons. Members are invited to submit an individual or collective proposal to feature their creative work\, including (but not limited to): visual art\, audio projects\, performance\, presentations\, written or text-based work\, workshops\, panel discussions\, and more.  \nDeadline to apply: July 1st\, 2023.\nTheme: \nFor this year’s exhibition\, Milieux invites its members to submit interdisciplinary projects and activities that relate to the concept of “The Commons”. \nThe Commons refers to shared resources and spaces that are accessible to all members of a community or society. This exhibition seeks to explore the many facets of The Commons and showcase the ways in which it can be a source of creativity\, collaboration\, and social change.  \nThe concept of  Commons can be interpreted through different means\, including the natural commons\, such as land\, water\, air\, and the ways in which they are managed and protected; the cultural commons\, such as knowledge\, art\, and literature\, and the ways they are created. The concept of the commons can also be thought of as a shared space for innovative approaches to research and art-making\, including open-source software\, commonalities\, and collaborative and community-based practices. The Commons can also explore the challenges and opportunities of creating and maintaining a commons\, including issues of governance\, inclusivity\, and collective action. \nWe encourage all participants to explore the theme through their respective research and creative practices. \nConsiderations of the theme ask many questions\, including:  \n\n-As artists and researchers\, how do our activities reflect an ethos of tending to\, experimenting with\, and cultivating a commons? \n-How can such “commons” be constructed\, negotiated\, or provoked in the co-presence of others?\n-What is the role of art in creating and sustaining commons\, and how do these practices challenge dominant norms and power structures?\n-What are the fruits of our common fields?\n\nKeywords: \nKeywords may include\, but are not limited to: \nshared spaces; alternative futures; sustainability; speculative fiction; community-based research; climate change; counterarchives; alternative temporalities; land back; digital spaces; care and community; open access; collective action; undercommons; community art; social practices; creative commons; maker culture; co-creation; collaboration; craft; translation; participatory or interactive objects; material knowledges; place-based knowledge; scores; sustainable fashion; circular economy; visual storytelling; collective memory; player communities; philosophical gardens; \nDetails: \nDue to spatial limitations\, we are encouraging the submission of works with a small-to-medium physical footprint. For larger sculptural objects\, consider proposing a mode of display or documentation that can translate the work into the context of 4th Space while respecting our physical constraints. In the spirit of common resources\, digital submissions such as video or audio works may be compiled into a sequence in one or more central viewing stations. \nPlease outline technical requirements and requests in advance.  \nWe are excited to offer a $250 honorarium to each selected project for exhibiting artwork or performing at the event. This honorarium is per project and not per participant\, and we’ll pay the honorarium at the end of the event. Groups should nominate one eligible student member to receive the honorarium; faculty members are not eligible. This honorarium aims to recognize and support student research/creation and professionalization. To verify your eligibility\, please contact Ariana Seferiades\, Head of Communications at Milieux Institute at ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca. \nTo Apply please fill out the submission form: \nTHE COMMONS | EXHIBITION CALL
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-submissions-the-commons-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230430T180000
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions 2023: Performance Showcase
DESCRIPTION:This 2-day performative showcase by the Performing Arts Research Cluster’s student membership is the culmination of two lively weeks of collaborative research-creation laboratories in which ideas and bodies converged. Join us as we travel from space to space to discover what form the projects have taken\, learn about the artists and experience these embodied interventions! \nArtists  \nHeather Anderson\, Tricia Enns\, Peng Hsu\, Sasha Kleinplatz\nChloe Lüm\, Juan Miceli\, Malika Pam.am\, Sue Proctor\nPatricia Ragazzon\, Hannah Schallert\, Marcela Szwarc \nCurators \nEija Loponen-Stephenson\nMargaret Lapp \nFull program and additional information: \nhttps://www.leparcmilieux.com/embodied-interventions
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions-2023-performance-showcase/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230504
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SUMMARY:More-than-ethnographic probes: Workshop & Round-Table
DESCRIPTION:More-than-ethnographic probes: On scales\, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human with Maxime Le Calvé \n\nThe CURC in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Milieux Biolab are happy to host anthropologist of art and science Maxime Le Calvé (Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence\, U. Humboldt) for a four-day workshop (April 28th to May 3rd). This event is designed as a fieldwork and a platform for the development of collaborative sketching\, writing\, and documentation methods. Exploring how to attend to more-than-human collectivities at different scales\, from built environment to cellular activity\, the workshop is envisioned as an inventive anthropological design inquiry within the heavily mediated sense worlds of performative and situated spatial practices\, biodesign\, HCI and Medical Imagery. “More-than-ethnographic Probes” will invite participants to contribute to an account of scientific cultures of microscopy and XR visualization techniques that pays respect to their embodied experience. The making process will be shaped by hands-on conversations through cultural probing: we will concoct\, in short sessions\, playful devices to render and further explore our observations and chats in different labs and residency spaces.  \nThe workshop will conclude with a round-table at the Uncommon Senses IV Conference (May 4th\, 4PM)\, including Alice Jarry\, Shauna Janssen\, Stefan Helmreich\, Maxime Le Calvé\, and Brice Ammar-Khodja.  \n\n\nQuestions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n\n\nMaxime Le Calvé is an anthropologist of art and science\, currently postdoctoral research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activities” (HU Berlin). In his latest ethnographic project\, he is exploring haptic creativities and cartographic practices in neurosurgery. Visual ethnographer\, he is making use of digital drawing as an investigative device. He is also curating virtual reality experiences\, which he frames as collaborative art-science inquiries aiming to stretch the senses of anthropologists and of their publics. He trained in general ethnology in Paris Nanterre and owns a PhD in social anthropology and in theater studies\, from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. He has published on the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances\, 2018)\, on performance art\, on music\, on Berlin\, on brains\, and on ethnographic training. He acted as curator to the exhibitions Field/Works in Lisbon (2020-2021)\, Stretching Materialities (Berlin\, 2021-2022)\, and the ongoing participant exhibition Sketching Brains (Charité\, Berlin). \n\nhttps://www.maximelecalve.com/about
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/more-than-ethnographic-probes-workshop-round-table/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230426T190000
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SUMMARY:EthnoLab Film Nights: 'Occupied' by Albina Kovalyova - Screening and Talk
DESCRIPTION:On April 26th at 6 PM\, The Ethnography lab presents the screening of ‘Occupied’ in the last Film Nights of the semester. The documentary follows Dmytro Bahnenko\, a journalist in Kherson\, southern Ukraine\, as he spent three months secretly recording his city’s resistance to the Russian occupation. In an extraordinary and personal film\, Dmytro chronicles the harsh reality of life under occupation\, as food and medicines become scarce\, people flee\, and others begin to disappear. Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shield their four-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war\, and make the difficult decision to try to escape. ‘Occupied’ was released on the BBC World Service on 20th October 2022. Just two weeks later Kherson was liberated by Ukrainian armed forces. Despite a momentary glimpse of hope for the people of Kherson\, the city has been under heavy bombardment and shelling from Russian military forces since. The documentary stands as a powerful chronicle of the occupation as it is anchored in the human story of one family. \nThe screening will be accompanied by a pre-recorded interview with its producer and director\, Albina Kovalyova\, as well as some updated clips from Dmytro taken after the release of the documentary. \n*No registration is required \nOccupied\, (2022) BBC Eye for BBC World Service.\nDmytro Bahnenko (reporter)\nAlbina Kobalyova (Producer and Director)\nMichael Simkin and Kateryna Khinkulova (Executive Producers)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-film-night-screening-of-occupied/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Caroline Monnet - Artist Talk and Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:On April 25th\, Post Image presents visual and media artist Caroline Monnet in the last installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze. \nAfter the talk we will have a closing reception with refreshments! \nWhen? April 25th at 4PM \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room\, Concordia University (EV. 11705) \nCaroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais\, Quebec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and film. Her work has been programmed internationally at the Whitney Biennial (NYC)\, Toronto Biennale of Art\, KØS museum (Copenhagen)\, Museum of Contemporary Art (Montréal)\, the National Art Gallery (Ottawa). Solo exhibitions include Montreal Museum of Fine Arts\, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt\, Arsenal Contemporary (NYC) and Centre d’art international de Vassivière (France). Her films have been programmed at film festivals such as TIFF\, Sundance\, Aesthetica (UK)\, Palm Springs and Cannes. In 2016\, she was selected for the Cinéfondation residency in Paris. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America as well as the permanent UNESCO collection in Paris.  Monnet is recipient of the 2020 Pierre-Ayot award\, the 2020 Sobey Art Award\, the Merata Mita Fellowship\, and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards. She is based in Montreal and represented by Blouin-Division Gallery. \nMonnet uses visual and media arts to demonstrate a keen interest in communicating complex ideas around Indigenous identity and bicultural living through the examination of cultural histories. Her work grapples with colonialism’s impact\, updating outdated systems with indigenous methodologies. Monnet has made a signature for working with industrial materials\, combining the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual-cultures with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms. Monnet is always in the stage of experimentation and invention\, both for herself and for the work. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/caroline-monnet-artist-talk-and-closing-reception/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Reception,Talk
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SUMMARY:Le spectre anime nos os // The Spectre Animates our Bones
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Performing Arts Research Cluster\, Emilie Morin and Ryan Clayton are organizing a series of events around their currently exhibited work Le spectre anime nos os // The Spectre Animates our Bones\, in the Fofa Gallery’s Black Box until June 2nd. Happening throughout the week of April 24th\, all events are free and independent. You may participate in one\, two or all of them! \nGallery Visit & Discussion\nDuring this gallery visit and discussion\, participants will experience the motion captured animation in Fofa’s Black Box. This is also an opportunity to see the other exhibitions happening at the same time at Fofa. \nThe visit will be followed by an informal discussion in which Emilie Morin (in person) and Ryan Clayton (streaming live from Winnipeg!) will share their process and their interests while creating The Spectre Animates our Bones. The discussion is considered a time of exchange between artists and audience: questions\, comments and discussion are more than welcome! \nVisit at 5pm | Fofa Gallery (515 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest EV 1-715)\nDiscussion at 6pm | Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nUsing Blender to create virtual sets\nInterested in 3D modeling to create virtual sets?  \nTuesday\, April 25\, 7-10pm\nOnline (Zoom link upon rsvp: leparc.milieux@gmail.com)\nLed by Ryan Clayton \nMovement and dance workshop\nThursday April 27 & Friday April 28\, 2-5pm\nFine Arts Black Box | EV Building\, sub basement S3.845-855\nLed by Emilie Morin\n__ \nAbout the Exhibition\nThe Spectre Animates our Bones is a work of braided dance. Emilie and Ryan choreographed a movement piece which each of them performed individually and recorded through motion capture technology. Each of their individual captures has been mapped onto the same virtual object\, animating its virtual body through space. Presented as a dual-channel video\, viewers can stand within an undulating 3D scan of the performer’s kitchen and watch the performance from multiple perspectives. Although the artists’ performances for motion capture are not directly visible in the animation\, the human quality of movement injected into the virtual form generates a distinct experience of performance for the viewers. It is a braided performance in that each movement strand is limited to its own characteristics\, but braided together\, they create a whole that superimposes itself to produce new meanings while still maintaining the characteristic movements of each individual. Motion capture technology is deployed in this piece to question human agency and movement: can performers possess qualities that make them undeniably recognizable? Can virtual movement act as a stand- in for these unique human agents? The choreography was built with these main questions in mind\, finding ways to confuse the viewers’ eyes into a blurred vision of virtual and “real” movement. With Emilie’s professional experience as a dance performer and Ryan’s background in solo and collective performance art\, the duo also examines how to position the dancing body in a traditional gallery space. Dance and performance are often associated with the ephemeral\, compared to the groundedness of the art object. Our virtual forms become an archive\, rooting a dance performance in the gallery space\, and suggesting that what contemporary artist Brendan Fernandes calls the “footmade” is as valuable as the “handmade”. \nAbout the artists\nSince 2017\, Ryan Clayton (contemporary artist) and Emilie Morin (dance and new media artist) have maintained a collaborative performance practice focusing primarily on the subject of consumer telecommunication technologies such as Skype\, Twitch and Zoom. Through their practice\, they have noticed that the world’s telecommunication networks have turned ubiquitous almost to the point of invisibility. These networks seamlessly integrate their way into humanity’s lives\, deeply impacting the ways in which humans communicate and relate to one another. Without prioritizing a particular form\, the artists deploy various technologies in their performances\, phone calls\, text messaging\, VR conversations\, and motion capture software to manipulate immersive and digitally created worlds. Their collaboration is specifically interested in telecommunication’s capacity for meaning making\, and its ability to transfer the indiscernible. \nMore info on the exhibition: https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/facilities/fofa-gallery/exhibitions/2023/ryan-clayton-emilie-morin.html
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/le-spectre-anime-nos-os-the-spectre-animates-our-bones/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:The Other Market Game and The Loot Garden Art Market
DESCRIPTION:Check out The OTHER Market this Saturday April 22nd. The OTHER Market is a mini-larp locative media treasure hunt exquisite corpse gamey experience – designed over many months by the Liveness Research group at TAG.  \nThe OTHER Market is part of a SSHRC project looking at ways to design what are now often called immersive experiences\, so that they are truly participatory. This results in a structure which does not rely on a lot of actors (or other trained staff) to run a production and makes these kinds of projects more sustainable for small teams and companies with modest budgets. \nThematically\, The OTHER Market explores meaning-making around objects and collections of objects. What can objects mean when they are untethered from consumption and/or status? \nSign up for the game. \nAND…The game takes place within a real art market called The Loot Garden. This art market has been especially organized to complement the game but you can come to the market without participating in the game. \nInfo on The Loot Garden art market. \nAt the wonderful public venue : ANTEISM!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-other-market-game-and-the-loot-garden-art-market/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:TALK: Daniel Vella - The Promise of Being Otherwise: 'Being Someone Else' in Games
DESCRIPTION:TAG is happy to invite everyone to a talk with Dr. Daniel Vella (University of Malta) on video game subjectivity and The Promise of Being Otherwise: ‘Being Someone Else’ . \nPopular discourses around digital games have long made the claim that games can grant the experience of ‘being someone else\,’ letting us step into the shoes of heroes\, adventurers\, rogues and champions. This presentation shall take this apparent promise as its starting point: what does it mean for a game to grant us the possibility of being someone else? How can a game construct us as a different subject? To address this question\, this presentation shall touch upon the link between play and freedom in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Eugen Fink\, before drawing on work in game studies on avatars\, identity\, subjectivity\, agency and game aesthetics to discuss\, in more concrete terms\, how games structure particular ways of being for players to inhabit during their play. Finally\, the presentation will end with an interrogation of the promise itself\, asking: what are the ideological assumptions behind the idea that a game can let us ‘be someone else\,’ and what potentially problematic implications are contained in this promise? \nDr. Daniel Vella is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Digital Games (University of Malta). He is the co-author (with Stefano Gualeni) of Virtual Existentialism (Palgrave Pivot\, 2020) and has published a number of papers and book chapters on subjectivity\, aesthetics and space and place in games. He is also a narrative designer for board games with Mighty Boards\, and his writing credits include Posthuman Saga (2019) and Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan (forthcoming\, 2023).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-daniel-vella-the-promise-of-being-otherwise-being-someone-else-in-games/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[Performance] Make-Up Artist and Shaman
DESCRIPTION:TAG is happy to invite everyone to this live interactive performance by the award-winning theatre and digital arts company ZU-UK!  \nThe talent is about to go on air for a live televised interview. But a change encounter with a Make-up artist is about to change the course of their lives forever. This is a 20min live experience for 2 people. An audio-led instruction based experience exploring chance encounters through a light-hearted (slightly-surreal) role-play scenario\, and bone conduction headphones. \nWhen? Friday\, April 21st\, 2-3:15PM \nWhere? TAG Lab (EV 11.435) \nDuration: 20-25 minutes \nReserve your spot at TAG.COORDINATOR@CONCORDIA.CA  \nAbout the organizer \nZU-UK is an award-winning theatre and digital arts company based in Liverpool and East London. Founded by immigrant working-class artists Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos\, ZU are recognised as pioneers of immersive and interactive theatre creating experiences using performance\, games and technology. Jadé is ethnically Persian\, born in Yemen\, raised in East London. Jorge was born within one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas to a Polish-Romanian family. In a world where mainstream narratives normalise hate and fear\, Jadé and Jorge believe in the need for shared rituals\, new narratives and experiences that empower the most vulnerable to experience culture and to make excellent art.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performance-make-up-artist-and-shaman/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:[Performance] Deceleration: An Experiment in Slowing Down
DESCRIPTION:TAG is happy invite everyone to a live interaction performance organized by the award-winning theatre and digital arts company ZU-UK!  \nDeceleration: an experiment in slowing down is a journey through a familiar landscape\, whether rural or urban. Recorded soundscape and narration combine to guide mind and body through a structured interaction with rhythm and speed.\n\n\nThe audio-track – and you – progress from a frenetic pace through a stage-by-stage process of deceleration\, ending in a complete stop and stillness. \nThe narration anchors your perceptions in two complementary directions – your external environment\, and the sensations of your body – and focuses attention on the ways in which these two universes impact each other. \nThe mover receives compassion and humour from the narration throughout\,  alongside prompts to reflect on how the rhythms of your body and emotions\, in conversation with the rhythms of the outside world\, are products of and contributors to the social and political systems that frame your experience of space and body. \nThe mover feels the literal slowing towards a stop acting as an embodied metaphor for a psychological or spiritual process of taking stock\, allowing time for response\, listening\, and noticing oneself. \nThe soundscape explicitly progresses through decelerating bpm stages\, to tap into the body’s innate responses to music and rhythm\, sonically enriching the self-reflective and social commentary of the narration. \n***** \nAbout the Organizers \nZU-UK is an award-winning theatre and digital arts company based in Liverpool and East London. Founded by immigrant working-class artists Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos\, ZU are recognised as pioneers of immersive and interactive theatre creating experiences using performance\, games and technology. Jadé is ethnically Persian\, born in Yemen\, raised in East London. Jorge was born within one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas to a Polish-Romanian family. In a world where mainstream narratives normalise hate and fear\, Jadé and Jorge believe in the need for shared rituals\, new narratives and experiences that empower the most vulnerable to experience culture and to make excellent art. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performance-deceleration-an-experiment-in-slowing-down/
LOCATION:EV Atrium (1515 St Catherine W\, ground floor)
CATEGORIES:Performance
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