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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 Her work grapples with colonialism’s impact\, updating outdated systems with indigenous methodologies.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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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Driving in Palestine" by Rehab Nazzal
DESCRIPTION:Post Image is announcing a Book Launch for “Driving in Palestine” by Rehab Nazzal. This in-person event will take place on April 20th at 4pm at the Milieux Resource Room\, Concordia University (EV 11.725). The event will include live Arabic music\, refreshments\, and copies of the book for sale.Driving in Palestine is a research-creation project by acclaimed artist Rehab Nazzal\, who explores the visible indices of the politics of mobility that she encountered firsthand while traversing the occupied West Bank between 2010 and 2020. This photography book consists of 160 black and white photographs\, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in Arabic and English by Palestinian and Canadian scholars and artists. \nThe photographs were all captured from moving vehicles on the roads of the West Bank. They focus on Israel’s architecture of movement restrictions and surveillance structures that proliferate in the West Bank\, including the Apartheid Wall\, segregation walls surrounding illegal colonies\, gates\, fences\, watchtowers\, roadblocks and military checkpoints among other obstacles to freedom of movement. \nRehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples\, on the land and on other non-human life. Nazzal’s video\, photography and sound works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. Dr. Nazzal was an assistant professor at Dar Al-Kalima University in Bethlehem and has taught at Simon Fraser University\, Western University and Ottawa School of Art. She is the recipient of several awards\, including the Social Justice Award from Toronto Metropolitan University and the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Award in Photography from the University of Ottawa. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-driving-in-palestine-by-rehab-nazzal/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
CATEGORIES:Reception,Talk
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SUMMARY:[AR storytelling workshop] Looking for Concordia Student Participants
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Storytelling Studio is looking forward to hosting a hands-on AR storytelling workshop\, and they are looking for up to three Concordia students who have an interest in immersive storytelling and/or the concept of embodiment in digital space.  \nYou can find more information below and the sign up form here. \nWorkshop title: How do we tell AR stories related to place\, space\, and embodiment?\nWorkshop aims: learn how to create audio-visual content for an existing AR app from A to Z \nDate: April 13th\, 2023 between 1:30pm and 4:00pm \nLocation: Milieux Institute Room: EV 11-705\, Concordia University\, 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W\, Montréal H3G 2W1 \nNumber of available spaces for Concordia students: 3 \nWorkshop delivered by: Reisa Levine (Media Producer and Lecturer\, Cinema and Communications at Dawson) with students from Dawson\, all co-creators of AR Cité: https://arcite.ca/ an AR App which aims to highlight hidden stories from Montréal. \nThe App is available now: AR Cité on the App Store and on Google Play. \nAR Cité screen captures on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10118938 \nOne of these stories is the legacy of former Dawson student and AIDS activist Joe Rose\, which is already present on the App\, created through a series of workshops at Dawson: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/news/dnews/honour-the-life-of-joe-rose-with-augmente \nd-reality/ \nimage captions: AR Cité screen captures\, ©AR Cité creators
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ar-storytelling-workshop/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:EthnoLab Film Nights at Cinéma du Parc
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce that on April 12th the Ethnography Lab is taking their Film Nights to the Cinéma du Parc for a collaborative event! \nThe film will be screened in presence of the protagonist\, Rocco Sait\, who will offer a musical performance. A discussion animated by our coordinator Maya Lamothe-Katrapani with the director\, Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque\, and Dr. Justin Gest\, Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University will follow. \nGreyland is the story of what was the fastest shrinking city in the United States\, Youngstown\, Ohio. Once the booming centre of American steel\, when the bottom fell out of the industry in the 1950s\, 60% of the population moved out. Today\, 37% of those left\, live beneath the poverty line. Like Rocco and Amber. A recovering heroin addict turned urban archeologist\, Rocco hunts through hundreds of abandoned houses. Vintage clothing\, records\, art works\, everything he finds goes to Greyland\, his art gallery come thrift store\, to be converted into cash. Meanwhile Amber is a single mother and the president of the Neighborhood Association of Homeowners\, leading the fight against city hall for their inaction in cleaning up her neighborhood. “We want to believe\,” Amber says\, “that there’s good\, hopeful things coming.”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-film-nights-at-cinema-du-parc/
LOCATION:Cinéma du Parc
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC with Margo Zālīte
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our last Walk in LePARC of the semester with visiting artist Margo Zālīte! Following a residency at LePARC\, she will share her current process and work through informal discussion. \nMargo Zālīte describes her work as “moving pain paintings” that\, in a free flow\, balance between reality and imagination. Numerous opera productions have been created in the director’s interpretations. In Berlin these include G. Verdi’s La traviata\, R. Wagner’s Die Walküre\, B. Britten’s The Turn of the Screw\, W. A. Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte\, etc. She is passionate about architecture\, anthropology\, biology and expanding space-time with the help of music theatre. Rolling through countless mentalities and world-views is her answer to the dismayed Western Europe. \nFestival FAVORITEN is the festival where Margo Zālīte is artistic director. FAVORITEN is the theater\, dance and performance festival of the independent scene in North Rhine-Westphalia – has been held every two years in Dortmund since 1985. It is one of the oldest festivals of the independent performing arts in Germany and is aimed equally at the people of the city and region as well as at a nationwide and international (professional) audience.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-with-margo-zalite/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground with Zinnia Naqvi
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents lens-based artist and Concordia alumni Zinnia Naqvi\, in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. 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. When? April 11th at 4PM \nWhere? In-person at 4th Space and online via Zoom. *Please register to attend onlive here. \n**Registration for in-person attendance is not required.Zinnia Naqvi (she/her) is a lens-based artist working in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work examines issues of colonialism\, cultural translation\, language\, and gender through the use of photography\, video\, the written word\, and archival material. Recent projects have included archival and re-staged images\, experimental documentary films\, video installations\, graphic design\, and elaborate still-lives. Her artworks often invite the viewer to consider the position of the artist and the spectator\, as well as analyze the complex social dynamics that unfold in front of the camera.Naqvi’s work has been shown across Canada and internationally. She is a 2022 Fall Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence and recipient of the 2019 New Generation Photography Award organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Naqvi received a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. She is currently a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University.Our programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office and daphne. This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council\, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Concordia University’s OVPRGS. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-with-zinnia-naqvi/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Call for Art: A Multimedia Exposition on Building Positive Relations Between the Arts and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:LePARC presents a multimedia exposition on building positive relations between the arts and human rights\, in partnershop with the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC)\, Universidad de Sevilla\, and Emergent Art Space (EAS). \nWhen? From May 29-June 10\, 2023 \nWhere? Video Performance Studio (EV-10-760)\, Concordia University\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St West\, Montreal. \nAbout the exposition \nThis multimedia exposition will further explore linkages between the arts and human rights and the manifesto developed through the Arts and Human Rights Project. It will include works from original project participants such as video of dance\, opera\, and statements by participating artists\, academics\, and activists\, as well as visual arts pieces\, and photographs of art. \nThroughout the two weeks of the exposition there will be live events (academic discussions\, artist talks\, socially engaged dance and music performances and art making) to highlight diverse perspectives and approaches to building positive relations between the arts and human rights. \nA special invitation is extended to artists aged 35 or younger to join the conversation by submitting visual art works on the theme of Art and Human Rights. Emergent Art Space will select up to 30 artists’ works to include in a virtual exhibition on their website and in the live exposition in Montreal. \nDeadline to apply is April 1\, 2023! 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-art-a-multimedia-exposition-on-building-positive-relations-between-the-arts-and-human-rights/
LOCATION:Video Performance Studio EV 10.760
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230331T233000
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SUMMARY:[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Call for Proposals: Robot in Residence
DESCRIPTION:The Goethe-Institut is partnering with Milieux\, Hexagram and Eastern Bloc to offer an 8-week residency to work closely with a NAO robot!\nAs part of the ongoing project Robots in Residence the Goethe-Institut Montreal will be hosting a NAO-Robot during six months from February to July. During this time\, the Goethe-Institut offers one residence for artists to work closely with the NAO during a period of 8 consecutive weeks. \nNAO 6 is now the sixth generation of the interactive humanoid robot NAO\, developed by the Japanese French company SoftBank Robotics. It is in use worldwide and serves primarily as a research object for educational institutions. Its 25 degrees of movement make communication with NAO seem particularly natural. The robot has various sensors as well as modules for speech\, object and face recognition and speaks several languages. Since 2020 two of these NAO robots have traveled to various Goethe-Instituts\, mainly in Europe. On-site\, the robots were supervised and further programmed by coders and artists\, taking local issues and circumstances into account. \nRobots in Residence aims to examine and illustrate the relationship between humans and machines with a focus on communication in a variety of cultural contexts. During each residency the robots learn new skills and carry their newly acquired knowledge and skills further afield\, picking up more and more aspects that\, taken together\, can capture and spark a multifaceted debate on artificial intelligence. \nCALL FOR PROPOSALS\nInterdisciplinary students\, researchers\, artists and teams are invited to submit proposals for research-creation projects that broaden the skillset of the NAO\, take local contexts into account\, and inspire a multifaceted debate on artificial intelligence. \nSelected applicants will have 8 weeks to work closely with the NAO robot – from May 1st to June 30th\, 2023 – and will receive between 4\,000 and 6\,000 CAD (depending on network affiliation) in funding to produce an interactive artistic program that broadens the NAOs skillset but also inspires social\, technical-philosophical questions and bring to life visions for future humanmachine interactions \nAll applicants must be members of Milieux and/or Hexagram. \nLocal teams will be able to work with the robots independently\, in their research institution\, at the facilities provided by Milieux Institute\, Hexagram\, Eastern Bloc or at the Goethe-Institut. As part of a research-creation project\, participants will develop an interactive and artistic program/project presentation for and with the NAO that illustrates their questions and/or reasonings about human-machine interactions. \nDeadline extended to submit proposals to March 31st\, 2023.\n→ NAO_Call for proposals Robot in Residence_EN \n→ NAO_Call for proposals Robot in Residence_FR \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-proposals-robot-in-residence/
CATEGORIES:Course - Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230331T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230331T170000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:EthnoLab Film Nights: 'Lost Rivers' by Caroline Bâcle
DESCRIPTION:This Friday\, March 31st\, at 5 PM\, the Ethnography Lab will be screening Lost Rivers\, a documentary by Caroline Bâcle\, in presence of protagonist of the film\, urban speleologist Danielle Plamondon! \nThe lab’s Montreal Waterways research group has been engaging ethnographically with a number of ‘water objects’ over the years examining Montreal’s historical and present relationship with water and place. Past projects have included an examination of the history of the St-Pierre River (central to this film!)\, which was buried and turned into sewage and drainage infrastructure over the past 150 years (a funeral was even organised for it!). We are thus very excited to be continuing this discussion with Danielle Plamondon and Montreal Waterways members! \nWhen? March 31st at 5 PM. \nWhere? Speculative Life Research Cluster\, 10.625 of Concordia’s EV Building. Once you get out of the elevator follow the ‘Milieux Institute’ arrows. \n \n*No registrarion is required
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-film-nights-lost-rivers-by-caroline-bacle/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230331T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230331T133000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Sculpting with Paper Pulp at MaSH LAB
DESCRIPTION:“we are all ‘in this together’ as a shifting set of materials without privilege over each other.” (Attala 2019) \nIn this 2.5-hour workshop\, you will learn the basics of paper-making and how to use pulp to form 3D objects. We will focus on repurposing and using found materials to create imagined creatures. This playful workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on how the first piece of paper was created from recycling materials\, specifically discarded ropes and fishing nets. At the same time it challenges participants to speculate on a future that brings together debris and nature\, in this case through the creation of imagined creatures. \n\nSupplies: Tools and recycled paper pulp will be provided. Participants are invited to bring found objects or items from the recycle bin to build a structure/armature to hold their pulp and construct off of. \n\nAbout us: The workshop will be led by Textile and Materiality members Sara Bertrand-Hamel (Paper making instructor and artist) and Tricia Enns (Design graduate student and artist).\n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, March 31\, 11 am to 1:30 pm \n\n\nLocation: Hosted by MaSH LAB (Matter and Sustainable Hybridity Lab) EV 10.615. \n\nRSVP to tricia.enns@gmail.com\, space is limited.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sculpting-with-paper-pulp-at-mash-lab/
LOCATION:MaSH LAB (Matter and Sustainable Hybridity Lab) EV 10.615
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T133000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Platforms and Cultural Production Author Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:On March 30th at 12PM\, please join us for what promises to be a stirring virtual discussion with the esteemed authors of the celebrated book Platforms and Cultural Production (2021\, Polity Press)! \nBrooke Erin Duffy\, David B. Nieborg\, and Thomas Poell will join us to share how the book came together\, their primary arguments\, and how platform-based cultural production continues to change. \nFor more on the book\, go here. This event is organized by The Platform Lab and co-sponsored by the DIGS Lab. \nThis event is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series. \nWhere? Online via Zoom (Zoom link available upon registration) \nClick here to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/platforms-and-cultural-production-author-roundtable/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230329T193000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Moving The Landscape to Find Groun: Shelley Niro Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents artist Shelley Niro in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. 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. \nWhen? March 29th\, 6pm \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) \n*No registration required. \nAbout the artist \nShelley Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan\, Bay of Quinte Mohawk from the Six Nations Reserve. She holds a degree from Ontario College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Western Ontario. Niro has exhibited across Canada has work in collections of the Canada Council Art Bank\, Canadian Museum of History\, and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her award-winning films have been screened in festivals worldwide\, and she presented work at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Shelley Niro lives in Brantford\, Ontario. \nFor over 30 years\, Shelley Niro has challenged dominant perceptions of Indigenous people throughout her extensive art and filmmaking practice. Often using humour and a flair for storytelling\, Niro addresses stereotypical representations of Indigenous people to expose powerful colonial attitudes. From her unique perspective as a Mohawk artist\, Niro frequently casts herself and family members in her work to harnesses her familial agency. Niro’s work continually stresses the significance of the land within Indigenous worldviews\, languages\, and ways of being.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-groun-shelley-niro-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230328T200000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground - Screening Shelley Niro's “The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw”
DESCRIPTION:Post Image is pleased to present a Screening + Q+A with director Shelley Niro as part of the Moving the Landscape to Find Ground series.  \nWhen? March 28th from 6pm-8pm \nWhere? DeSeve Cinema (1400 de\, Maisonneuve Blvd W\, Montreal\, Quebec H3G 1M8). \nReserve a spot here\n\n\nSynopsis: \nMitzi Bearclaw is an indigenous woman who reluctantly returns to home to help her father care for her bitter mother\, but ends up discovering boys\, drinking\, life and honor. \n// \nArtist Bio: \nShelley Niro is a Bay of Quinte Mohawk\, member of the Six Nations of the Grand River\, Turtle clan. \nNiro attended a graphic arts course for a while at Durham College in Oshawa\, concentrating on photography\, drawing and art history. Years later Niro went to Ontario College of Art in Toronto. She graduated with Honours. In 2019 she was honoured with an honorary doctorate from the Ontario College of Arts and Design University. \nShelley was the inaugural recipient of the Aboriginal Arts Award presented through the Ontario Arts Council in 2012. In 2017 Niro received the Governor General’s Award For The Arts from Canada Council\, the Scotiabank Photography Award and the Hnatsyshyn Foundation Reveal Award. She became an honorary elder in the Indigenous Curatorial Collective. In 2019 Niro was the Laureate of the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Photography. \nNiro has recently completed film production on a film\, CAFE DAUGHTER. Niro’s film work has received support from Telefilm Canada\, the Indigenous Screen Office\, Ontario Creates and The Northern Ontario Film Office. \nRecent Niro exhibitions: A Good Long Look: Branden\, Manitoba at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba; Dunlop Art Gallery\,Regina\, Saskatchewan; Shelley Niro: women\, land\, river: at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Something Cold and Hard Like Winter: The Robert Langen Art Gallery\,Wilfred Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Ontario\, Kitchener and Greater New York: at PS1 MOMA\, New York. Boundless: Art Gallery of Windsor\, Windsor Ontario. \n// \nPost Image – Moving the Landscape to Find Ground Speaker Series: \nMoving the Landscape to Find Ground is a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place from September 2022 until May 2023. 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. \nIf you wish to see the rest of the talks\, please visit our programming section\, sign up to our newsletter at www.postimage.ca or follow us on Instagram @post.image.cluster. \nOur programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office. This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council\, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Concordia University’s OVPRGS (Office of the Vice-President\, Research and Graduate Studies).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-screening-shelley-niros-the-incredible-25th-year-of-mitzi-bearclaw/
LOCATION:DeSeve Cinema\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T160000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:[re]capture: Bio-Materialization of Air Pollution
DESCRIPTION:A one-day workshop hosted by the City of Montreal\, the Milieux Biolab\, and the Concordia Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality \nIn urban settings\, the toxicity of the air\, a milieu that is felt although invisible\, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated by transport and construction activities have significant impacts\, in particular on pulmonary and heart diseases\, rising temperatures\, plant photosynthesis\, and vegetation growth. While air participates in global interchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide at the planetary scale\, more intimate metabolic processes such as breathing also underline the porous and precarious boundaries between the living and its surrounding milieu\, raising social and political questions pertaining to the accessibility to a healthy environment. \nWhile ‘to recapture’ means ‘’to reclaim’’ and ‘’to re-experience’’ something or a situation\, what kind of artistic interventions can make us more attuned to the microscopic invisibility of atmospheric pollution and the macroscopic dimension of their socio-environmental issues? In this workshop\, Ville de Montréal’s Service de l’environnement will introduce participants to issues of air pollution\, its impacts on the urban environment\, and how air is monitored and measured. Participants will then experiment with  bio technologies and bio-filtering materials for materializing air’s particulate matter\, build a DIY monitoring kit\, and visualize indoor and outdoor air pollution using techniques of microscopy. \nWhen? Friday March 24th\, 10 am – 4 pm \nWhere? Speculative Life Cluster\, EV 10.625 \n*Free\, no technical skills needed \nREGISTER HERE\nIf you have questions\, please write to alice.jarry@concordia.ca \nThis workshop\, hosted in Partnership with Ville de Montréal’s Service de l’environnement – Réseau de surveillance de la qualité de l’air\, is part of the research project ‘Membranes souples dynamiques: la filtration de l’air comme processus d’échange matériel\, interdisciplinaire et socio-environnemental agissant’ (FRQ-SC). The activity will be documented by video\, audio\, and photography for research and publication purposes. Upon registration\, participants will be contacted to discuss documents and protocols pertaining to documentation procedures.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/recapture-bio-materialization-of-air-pollution/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T183000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sophie Chao: More-than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth instalment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG)\, Colonialism Race and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE)\, and Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materiality (SPAM). The Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an online talk with Dr. Sophie Chao. \nRecent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological interest in the topic of the plantation–an industrial formation and enduring logic that has been instrumental to the rise of colonial racial capitalism and the construction of modern nations and natures. \nIn this talk\, Chao will draw on long-term fieldwork conducted on the West Papuan oil palm frontier to examine how Indigenous Marind communities experience\, theorize\, and critique the impacts of plantation modernities on their rapidly changing lifeworlds. \nCentral to these experiences and theories\, the talk will illustrate\, are an array of more-than-human actors whose meaning\, mattering\, and morality are shaped by their alternately indexical\, antagonistic\, or ambiguous relationship to Marind themselves. \nSet against the backdrop of West Papua’s regional history of settler-colonial incursion and the plantation’s global history of racializing violence\, the paper will argue that Marind philosophies of more-than-human becoming constitute a form of epistemic resistance to the simplifying\, hierarchizing\, and disciplining logic of plantation regimes past and present. \nAbout the speaker\nSophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity\, ecology\, capitalism\, health\, and justice in the Pacific. \nChao is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua and co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice. She previously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in Indonesia\, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their customary lands\, resources\, and livelihoods. For more information\, please visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-sophie-chao-more-than-human-entanglements-in-the-plantation-nexus/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T160000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Participatory Open Studio: VHS Residence at LePARC
DESCRIPTION:Participatory Open Studio: VHS Residence at LePARC with visiting artist and master’s student Juan Miceli.  \n\nI will be working with 80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave me to construct a temporary collective video installation. I invite people to open those casetes\, share personal archives\, discuss the way vision machines mold us and find antidotes together while we construct the VHS video installation. The idea is to open the process of Inverse Interface\, my master’s thesis in Aesthetics and Technology of Electronic Arts at National University Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). Learn more about my project here: https://issuu.com/juan_miceli/docs/innombrable___unmenthionable \n\nWhen? Thursday March 23\, 2-4pm and Friday March 24\, 1-3pm \nWhere? LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785) \n*No registration is required
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/participatory-open-studio-vhs-residence-at-leparc/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230329T103000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:[March 23rd - 29th] The launch of .able journal: A new free and peer-reviewed image-based journal at the intersection of art\, design\, and sciences
DESCRIPTION:From March 23rd until the 29th\, participate in a week-long series of online and in-person activities to explore new forms of visual publications investigating contemporary sociopolitical\, anthropotechnical\, and environmental issues.\n\n\nHow can we go beyond text in communicating practice-based research? On March 23rd\, .able\, a free image-based multiplatform journal that publishes research at the intersection of art\, design and sciences\, will be inaugurated. To celebrate the launch\, a week-long series of activities is being held to discover the platform and explore radically new forms of publications focused on investigating contemporary sociopolitical\, anthropotechnical\, and environmental issues. Online events and in-person meetings in France and Spain will be offered in French\, English\, and Spanish as a first introduction to .able and its network. \nThe traditional methodologies and formats of journal articles are not always suited to the sensorial and material dimensions of research-creation. As a peer-reviewed journal\, .able responds to this limitation by experimenting with the potential of academic publishing beyond the conventions of traditional text-centric journals. Through visual essays\, the platform explores the many alternatives and opportunities that multimedia and multiple platforms offer as entry points to research in arts\, design\, and sciences. \nA free-of-charge and open-access journal available from March 23\, 2023: https://able-journal.org \nDetailed launch program: https://able-journal.org/able-launch-week \nDOWNLOAD POSTER\nDOWNLOAD PRESSKIT\nQuestions? alice.jarry@concordia.ca \nCreated at the initiative of La Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École Polytechnique\, the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL\, and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso\, .able journal is published by Actar Publishers and supported by some thirty international academic partners\, brought together to publish innovative interdisciplinary research.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-launch-of-able-journal/
LOCATION:Paris\, Barcelona\, and Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230322T163000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Ar Ais Arís (Back Again): A Virtual Reality Experience
DESCRIPTION:Experience a 16-minute Virtual Reality performance at LePARC!\nLePARC is thrilled to be hosting this performance & VR event with Emer O’Toole\, professor in the Irish Studies department and recent new faculty member to the research cluster. The 6-day run launches on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) and ends on March 22\, 2023\, at the Milieux Institute (EV 11.725)! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBased on some of the finest contemporary writing in the Irish language\, Ar Ais Arís combines literature and visual poetry in a Virtual Reality experience. Brú Theatre Company’s artists have created three 180° films\, immersing audiences in a fusion of movement\, text\, music and stunning Connemara landscapes through the use of VR headsets. Described by The Irish Times as “a compelling piece of work that engages with both Irish cultural tradition and with the emerging future of theatre practice.” \nGrab your ticket now for one of the 8 sessions happening on March 22th\, 2023\, from 12-4:3opm\, at the institute! \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ar-ais-aris-back-again-a-virtual-reality-experience/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230318T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230318T160000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:The Spaces We Lost\, and Nostalgia Recalled
DESCRIPTION:Join Nostagain’s path to creative nostalgia with a neuroscientist-artist via guided meditation\, active recollection\, and diorama crafting! \n\n\n\nFollowing the successful LOSTAGAIN symposium last February\, the Nostagain Network continues the exploration of Creative Nostalgia (Boym 2001) in an intimate fashion. Led by neuroscientist-artist\, Dr. Cristian Zaelzer\, participants can expect to: \n\nBring your oldest owned object to the workshop;\nTell stories about the nostalgia relationships we have with our objects;\nRecognize the role of memories in nostalgia;\nEngage in a guided meditation\, realizing passive and active recollection styles;\nLeave the workshop with an informed\, relaxed\, and closer understanding of nostalgia\, our minds\, and the things we attach ourselves to.\n\nWhere? March 18th\, 2023 – Saturday\, 1:00-4:00pm \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, 11th Floor\, EV Building\, Concordia University. \nRESERVE A SPOT 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-spaces-we-lost-and-nostalgia-recalled/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230315T193000
DTSTAMP:20260620T014433
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SUMMARY:Film Night: Suspensión
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the screening of Suspensión (2019) by Simón Uribe\, who will be joining us for a virtual q+a after live from Bogotá. \nDeep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia\, between treacherously steep mountain slopes\, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly. Once intended as a link in the new “bypass” that was supposed to replace the perilous old road from Pasto to Mocoa\, it’s now a bizarre attraction for day trippers taking selfies and kids doing motorcycle stunts. \nWhen? March 15th\, 2023\, 6:oo pm\nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-night-suspension/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions 2023: Call for Participants
DESCRIPTION:“Embodied Interventions” is a student-led platform for interdisciplinary experimentation\, collaboration\, and the sharing of performance-based works. Over two weeks\, Embodied Interventions facilitates a laboratory-type residency incorporating creation time\, shared practice\, workshops\, movement practices\, artistic advising\, production time and performance prep\, culminating in a public showcase. \nSTRUCTURE\nWhether you wish to develop new work with others\, bring forward work to showcase\, or share your performance-based research in the form of a talk or other formats\, EI is an opportunity to participate in a collective platform culminating in a weekend of public performances across an array of spaces: LePARC’s commons\, residency room\, video production studio\, Concordia’s Fine Arts Black Box and other public spaces.​ \nIdeation\nDuring this introductory week\, ideas and bodies converge. Through conversation and improvisation the silhouettes of chimeric creations begin to emerge. From Monday to Friday\, participants will be invited to begin with a movement-based activity each morning followed by a working period in groups in the afternoon and a facilitated feedback session in the evening. Throughout week one and two a resident artistic advisor will regularly circulate the working spaces facilitating conversation and providing feedback where needed. By the closing of this week the site\, scale\, duration\, artists involved\, and technical needs for the work will be finalized proving the skeleton for the week to come. \nProduction\nThis is the week that projects will be concretized. Site-specific works may begin to develop in situ\, performance scripts embodied\, sounds\, movements\, and images will be composed. Participants are invited to participate in a series of workshops facilitated by new media and performance-based artists Emilie Morin and Ryan Clayton as part of their exhibition Le spectre anime nos os/ The spectre animates our bones at the FOFA Gallery which focus on combining digital and physical worlds through movement. \nPresentation\nOver the weekend the works developed over the prior two weeks will be shared in a public showcase. This is an occasion to see each other’s projects in their fullest form\, exchange ideas with the public and document the creations. \nAPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS  \nWe are proposing two roles within Embodied Interventions: \n\n\ncollaborator: put your approach in dialogue with others to explore and create new work together. Collaborating participants will be matched in groups based on interest for the ideation and production laboratories. \n\n\nshowcaser: bring a performance\, talk or other presentation that is already developed. Showcasing participants will join the production week to finalize their work\, and for the public presentations. \n\n\nFILLING THE FORM BELOW is the first step to participating in this incredible whirlwind of a creative residency and public presentations! Please do so by MARCH 15\, 2023. \nMORE INFORMATION\nAPPLY NOW
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions-2023-call-for-participants/
CATEGORIES:Course - Seminar
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground with Michèle Pearson Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents artist Michèle Pearson Clarke\, in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. 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. \nWhen? March 14\, 2023\, at 4:00 PM \nWhere? Join us in person at 4th Space or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \n*No registration needed for in-person participation.\nREGISTER NOW\nMichèle Pearson Clarke is an artist\, writer and educator who works in photography\, film\, video and installation. Using archival\, performative and process-oriented strategies\, her work situates grief as a site of possibility for social engagement and political connection. Born in Trinidad and based in Toronto\, her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal\, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, Royal Ontario Museum\, Lagos Photo Festival\, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Maryland Institute College of Art\, ltd los angeles\, Ryerson Image Centre\, and Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. From 2016-2017\, Clarke was artist-in-residence at Gallery 44\, and she was the inaugural 2020-2021 artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Clarke’s writing has been published in Canadian Art\, Transition Magazine\, Momus\, and The Toronto Star and in 2018\, she was a speaker at the eighth TEDxPortofSpain. Most recently\, Clarke served as the second Photo Laureate for the City of Toronto (2019-2022)\, and her work was added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Clarke holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto\, and in 2015 she received her Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson)\, where she is an Assistant Professor in Photography in the School of Image Arts.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-with-michele-pearson-clarke/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are happy to invite everyone to join us for the first workshop in the Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches series: Fabric pressure sensors and soft switches workshop\, with lee wilkens & Alex Bachmayer. \nWhen? Monday\, March 13th 2:00 – 5:00 pm \nWhere? MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)\nIn this workshop you will learn how to use e-textiles to make soft fabric-based switches and pressure sensors. We will demonstrate techniques on how to layer conductive fabric and velostat to create components that respond to a push\, press\, squish\, or bump using a pre-programmed Gemma microcontroller. \n*No experience required\, but spaces are limited.**Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu (marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca) with ‘Soft Switches Workshop’ in the subject line. Be sure to include your name\, ID and research cluster if applicable.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/soft-squishy-sensing-switches-workshop/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Dr. Marika Cifor on Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marika Cifor will speak about Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry\, as 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 DIGS Lab. \nThe talk will be followed by an audience Q and A. \nThis is a virtual/online event and you need to sign up on eventbrite to get the zoom link (we do this to prevent zoombombing) \n\n\nDr. Marika Cifor is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at University of Washington and an adjunct faculty member in Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. My research investigates how individuals and communities marginalized by gender\, sexuality\, race and ethnicity\, and HIV-status are represented and how they document and represent themselves in archives and digital cultures. This multidisciplinary scholarship uncovers how archives and digital technologies and cultures are shaping identities\, experiences\, and social movements.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-marika-cifor-on-viral-cultures-activist-archiving-in-the-age-of-aids/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Immersive and Augmented Performance practices
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Storytelling Studio (previously the Immersive Reality / VR Lab) invites you to Immersive and Augmented Performance practices\, where our guests Zoey M. Cochran\, Pierre-Henri Barralis and Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin will speak about their individual approaches to immersion and their collaborative process working with the “OpéRA de poche” project. \nWhen? March 6\, from 5-7pm \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, EV.11.725\, Concordia University: 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W\, Montréal. \nZoey Mariniello Cochran is a PhD candidate at McGill University where she is completing her dissertation entitled “Power and Resistance in the Operas of Viceregal Naples (1696–1714).” Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and she was awarded the Proctor prize (MusCan) for her research on the use of Tuscan in Neapolitan comic opera. She currently works at the Université de Montréal as deputy director of research and scientific coordination of the Canada Research Chair in Opera Creation\, held by composer Ana Sokolović\, and as the co-director of “Convergence through rhythm” (cinEXmedia partnership). In this context\, she has developed\, among others\, the research-creation project OpéRA de poche\, involving the creation of short operas for augmented reality in partnership with the Opéra de Montréal\, INEDI\, Normal studio\, the National Theatre School\, Wapikoni mobile and Musique nomade. \nChélanie Beaudin-Quintin (she/her) is a visual artist and filmmaker currently pursuing a research-creation PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. Through her project entitled “Technological animism: thinking the body in relationship with humans and robots through immersive cinedance\,” she works with dance\, cinema\, and anthropology to explore individual and collective bodies\, investigating spaces of exchange and cohabitation. Through dance and film\, she seeks to create a new dramaturgy whose narrative form\, by moving away from classical codes\, seems rather sensory and embodied. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and events in Quebec\, Ontario\, Belgium\, Germany\, Italy and the United States. Amongst other projects\, she currently directs an underwater stereoscopic and ambisonic cinedance choreographed by Caroline Laurin-Beaucage (Art et Essai)\, and collaborates as a cinematographer on the OpéRA de poche project. \nPierre-Henri Barralis is a software engineer who has worked with video game companies Ubisoft and Square-Enix\, and is currently studying music composition at the University of Montreal (UdeM). Exploring the affordances of VR since 2013\, he has helped many VR and AR experiences come to life\, such as the AR module in the mobile game Jurassic World: Alive (Ludia). Within UdeM\, he has contributed to two VR projects involving sound spatialization in collaboration with the Centre des Musiciens du Monde\, and with the Observatoire Interdisciplinaire de Création et de Recherche en Musique (OICRM). He is the technical director of the OpéRA de poche project where he guides the choice and use of technology to serve the creative teams\, including volumetric capture and augmented reality. \nAbout the OpéRA de poche project: \nLe projet OpéRA de poche vise à développer des opéras pour la réalité augmentée et virtuelle par un processus de cocréation interdisciplinaire qui relie recherche académique\, recherche et développement technologique et création artistique. Ces opéras\, qui seront accessibles sur téléphones intelligents et tablettes\, permettront au public d’assister à une représentation opératique à 360° dans leur espace domestique. Ce projet a pour but de renouveler et démocratiser l’opéra.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-and-augmented-performance-practices/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11.725
CATEGORIES:Talk
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