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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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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T133000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230329T193000
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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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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T160000
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230314T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230313T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230313T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230308T193000
DTSTAMP:20260620T053645
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230306T190000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230302T200000
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SUMMARY:Workshop Ossia by Jean-Michaël Celerier
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will give an overview and teach the participants how to use the free\, open-source\, cross-platform software ossia score\, starting from the ground up\, and with the goal to enable them to create installation work\, displays\, interactive music. The workshop will be given by the software’s principal author\, Concordia postdoc Jean-Michaël Celerier. \nDubbed “interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts”\, ossia score is a system which combines both the non-linear time-lines and the data-flow paradigms to allow artists to create rich evolving multimedia artworks\, musical pieces\, museum installations\, etc. At its core a sequencer with support for many communication protocols such as OSC\, Web Sockets\, DMX\, MIDI or serial protocols\, it supports real-time audio and video pipeline\, live-coding for Javascript\, GLSL\, C++\, support for tempo\, musical metrics\, hierarchical polyrythms\, distributed and collaborative edition and execution and interactive & looping features inits timeline\, along with an expanding set of interactive processes and library of effects and presets. The workshops will also cover how one can create artworks that leverage for instance embedded platforms (Raspberry Pi\, Arduino) or web pages. Learn more about the software here. \n* Jean-Michaël will also present a short demo of OSSIA on Wednesday\, March 1\, 2023\, at Art & Code meetup at SAT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE REGISTER BY CONFIRMING YOUR PARTICIPATION AT: PRODUCTION.HEXAGRAM@GMAIL.COM\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS\n– Users must bring their own computers and check beforehand that the latest version of ossia score runs on their machine. The software is free and available for recent versions of Windows\, macOS and Linux. Download it here.\n– Be motivated and ready to learn a completely new way to work on media art installations / performances / shows ! \nTARGET AUDIENCE\nMedia artists who use software such as Max/MSP\, PureData\, Unity3D\, TouchDesigner\, etc. and are interested in discovering a new free software system which allows to create interactive timelines for their works and learn how to introduce more time-based elements in media artworks. \nPRESENTER BIOGRAPHY\nJean-Michaël Celerier\, born in France in 1992\, is interested in art\, code\, computer music and interactive show control. He studied software engineering\, computer science and multimedia technologies at Bordeaux\, and obtained his doctorate on the topic of authoring temporal media in 2018. He develops and maintains a range of free and open-source software used for creative coding and intermedia art. Most of his work is centered on the ossia platform forwhich he is the lead developer. He enjoys organizing events on programming and media art. He teaches all sorts of creative coding languages (PureData\, Processing\, OpenFrameworks\,etc).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-ossia-by-jean-michael-celerier/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230227T190000
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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL: Liveness Art Market
DESCRIPTION:Be part of an unusual art market! \nThe Liveness Group is looking for creators/artists who want to show and/or sell exciting objects of all sorts. The art market will also serve as a context for a game called The OTHER Market\, about objects and collecting that will take place within it. \nSelected participants will receive a $100 symbolic honorarium. Interested applicants are invited to fill out this google form. \nDate: Saturday\, April 22nd\, 2023\, from 10-6 PM.\nLocation: the ANTEISM space (435 Rue Beaubien) \nApplications are due Monday\, February 27th\, 2023. \nPlease contact helloadammbowe@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. \nThis art market is brought to you by the Liveness group. The Liveness group is made up of researchers and artists based at Concordia through TAG games and Milieux \, with collaborators in London (UK) and Finland. Our London-based collaborators are the well-known participatory theatre group ZU-UK. In Finland we work with the Finnish larp theorist (and larper) Jaakko Stenros
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/open-call-liveness-art-market/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T190000
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SUMMARY:there is space to flow with Adriana Minu
DESCRIPTION:This month there is space to flow. This Thursday\, February 23rd at 5pm\, LePARC invites you to an improvisation session with experimental sound/music maker Adriana Minu. \n\n\nThe proposed framework is pretty simple: 3x20minute moments of improvisation with conversations in between. I make openings for the voice and body but you can improvise with whatever works for you. We discover what we need together and we shift the fabric as we need to.\n\n\n\n\nFor me flow is a state of abandon\, a generative state of newness\, of surprises\, of peak truths. But wanting to be in flow or trying to be in flow doesn’t get one in flow. The willpower to find flow has to be sprinkled in a room like a perfume then forgotten\, oversensed into normalcy. Play\, curiosity\, generative tension\, observation\, reaction without comprehention\, abandon\, a certain trust in the universe\, trust that no harm will happen\, trust that the magic that’s there and is being accessed is beyond what I can consciously concoct anyway so the best way to befriend it is to glide alongside it – these are things that help. For me\, connecting with this deeper fabric of the universe is what flow is. This month I want to find ways into it and out of it.\n\n\n*This event is free and open to all. No registration is required
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/there-is-space-to-flow/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T150000
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SUMMARY:The Games Institute Speaker Series 1: Elaine Gomez-Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a live watch party of Elaine Gómez-Sanchez’ talk The Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized Communities in Creative Works. Elaine will speak to how gaming has the power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions and will explain how games can be designed to create social impact in meaningful ways. \nThis is a hybrid event! Join online\, in-person at Waterloo\, or at TAG for a watch party. No registration required for the watch party\, but reserve a spot for online/in-person participation via Eventbrite. \nRESERVE A SPOT\nWhen? Thursday\, February 23\, 2023\, from 1-3pm. \nWhere? Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG) \n*All are welcome. Snacks will be served.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-games-institute-speaker-series-1-elaine-gomez-sanchez/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T170000
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SUMMARY:Heart Tethers: a co-laboratory performance tending to co-sensing and attuning within difference
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to a performance collaboration between the RISE project\, Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk)\, Danielle Garrison\, Ryan McCullough and community dancers. The idea of the week-long residency and performance is to co-compose and create resonant feedbacks via a live heartbeat and its phases\, sensing the tension\, release and rest within three movements. The heartbeat will be the source of composition/interprretation within an ecology of a 20-person digital orchestra\, RISE singers/artists\, and dancers considering: How to sense one’s inner rhythms in relation to exterior rhythms? How to attune within diverse rhythms? How does relational composition co-compose\, relate\, shift experiences? What are the sensations\, feelings\, thoughts\, reflections of the ethics of composing with the heartbeat? How do we create and tend to a space to feel and perhaps transform our hearts through interdisciplinary creation with each other and the public? \nWhat to expect if attending in person: \nWe are working on creating care in inviting you into our tender process. In this intention\, there will be fluidity in experiencing the performance\, inviting you to enter\, dwell\, linger and exit the performance as you need/desire\, consider your heart in the process\, enjoy light snacks and tea\, and the option to create responses to the event. Also\, you will get to encounter some LeParc folx dancing such as Lucy Fandel\, Erin Manning\, VK Preston\, Sarah Hanley and Sasha Kleinplatz! \nWHEN? Thursday\, February 23\, 2023 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. \nWHERE? Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC)\, EV 10.760. \n*This event is free and open to all
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/heart-tethers-a-co-laboratory-performance-tending-to-co-sensing-and-attuning-within-difference/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260620T053645
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SUMMARY:The Future of Communication with ChatGPT: Promises and Perils
DESCRIPTION:Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate\, learn\, and interact with one another. In response\, it’s important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. \nTo this end\, the Digital Intimacies\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute\, is organizing a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick Mckelvey. Join us to hear from experts and participate in discussions about the pedagogical\, ethical\, social\, and political implications of this technology. \nRefreshments and childcare provided! \nWhen? February 20\, 2023\, from 4-5:30 PM \nWhere? 4TH Space and online. \nRegister here\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-future-of-communication-with-chatgpt-promises-and-perils/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T143000
DTSTAMP:20260620T053645
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SUMMARY:Interview with Fiction Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:How can science fiction contribute to doing social sciences otherwise? \nOn February 17th\, 2023\, the Ethnography Lab will be welcoming fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss fiction writing in relation to ethnographic practices. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a world renowned science fiction author\, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards\, who’s work centers mostly on the imagination of distant and proximate futures affected and dealing with what we might now identify as an inevitable climate crisis. KSR’s work on this matter stands out for his combination of uptodate developments in the scientific and social understanding of this crisis\, with fictional situations which more than illustrate an imagined future\, illuminate and map the present. KSR is today a principal figure in ecosocialist debates and an undoubted reference in arguments about the restrictions that the capitalist mode of production imposes on finding effective solutions to this crisis. \nThis event will aim at crafting speculative practices by which to envision experimental ways of performing and writing research through fiction. Beside pushing for innovative research tools\, the event will seek to explore the activist potential of imagining and existing otherwise\, through fiction\, and rendering research and knowledge differently accessible to larger audiences. \nScience fiction\, as a speculative genre\, has for years provided readers with the space to imagine other forms of social relations themselves determined by the existence of imaginary technological developments and scientific advances. In projecting imaginary futures\, particularly in a dystopian form\, science fiction exposes the limitations of existing discourses over economic and technological development and\, more importantly\, draws a thread from the contradictions of the present to imagined catastrophes of the future. Moreover\, in its inability to overcome certain oppressive views\, forms of gender and racial inequality\, even in its utopian imaginations\, science fiction projections allow us to reflect on the deep structural character of many of these social injustices. \nThe speculative method of science fiction provides social research with a critical tool for exposing inherent problems of existing social structures as well as the limitations of current policy in addressing these issues. Furthermore\, as Ruth Levitas suggests when speaking of utopias\, these speculative efforts facilitate “genuinely holistic thinking about possible futures\, combined with reflexivity\, provisionality and democratic engagement with the principles and practices of those futures” (2010). \nThe talk will be animated by Marie Lecuyer and Carlos Velásquez\, Concordia PhD students in Social and Cultural Analysis. \nTo register\, please contact lab coordinator Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at m_amoth@live.concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interview-with-fiction-writer-kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T170000
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SUMMARY:CRIHN Digital Humanities Showcase 2023
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 8th edition of the CRIHN Digital Humanities Showcase\, co-organized by Darren Wershler and Anton Boudreau Ninkov\, this Friday\, February 17\, 2023\, from 9am at the Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11. 705). \nDH showcase gives both participants and the public an overview of the most recent digital humanities research\, and creates stimulating discussions around tools\, good practices\, and research trajectories. \nMichael Sinatra\, Professor of English at the Université de Montréal and CRIHN Director\, will be giving the opening remarks along with the institute’s interim director Darren Wershler. \nCheck the whole programming here\nCoffee and pastries will be served. The event is co-sponsored by Milieux and the Residual Media Depot.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-humanities-showcase-2023/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:Performative Compositions: How to create an umbrella
DESCRIPTION:Are you coming with me under my umbrella?\nJoin us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with multidisciplinary artist Patricia Ragazzon\, on February 16\, 2023\, from 2-5 PM. \nIn her doctoral research on embodied learning as a pedagogical process\, Patricia Ragazzon develops the concept of “performative compositions” as modes of creation with different groups\, bodies and perception. This hands-on workshop is an invitation to rally and construct knowledge together with other modes of existence and (neuro)diversities. From personal experience teaching various groups in theater workshops\, Ragazzon has formed performative compositions for sensitive experience\, processuality and relational practice. She proposes an environment for improvisation from principles of movement\, materialities and space\, listening and embodiment–a space-between the invention of self and the creation of other possible worlds. All are welcome. Come with comfortable clothes. If possible\, bring fabrics\, threads\, scissors and old or damaged umbrellas.  \nPatricia Ragazzon is an actress\, performer\, director\, researcher and theater teacher. She is an Academic visitor at Concordia University and a Doutoranda of the Performing Arts Program of the University of Bahia – BRAZIL.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performative-compositions-how-to-create-an-umbrella/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Lunch Time Seminar with Luke Stark
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk “Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making”: \nRegulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. Drawing on Carlo Ginzburg’s distinction between conjectural (abductive/inductive) and empirical (deductive) science\, I argue that ML systems should be assessed for their conceptual assumptions as well as their proposed use cases. This assessment should be grounded both in the forms of inferential reasoning (inductive\, deductive\, and or abductive) involved in a particular automated analysis\, as well as the domain in which the analysis is being performed. In the paper\, I sketch out a matrix of inferential types and use case categories that serves as a first step towards a more granular AI governance regime. Given the shaky epistemological foundations and social toxicity of much automated conjecture about human activities and behavior\, such use cases deserve heightened legal\, technical\, and social scrutiny. \nWhen? Wednesday\, February 15 TH\, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nRESERVE A SPOT HERE\n\n\nLuke Stark is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His work interrogates the historical\, social\, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies\, particularly those mediating social and emotional expression. His scholarship highlights the asymmetries of power\, access and justice that are emerging as these systems are deployed in the world\, and the social and political challenges that technologists\, policymakers\, and the wider public face as a result. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is hosted at the Milieux Institute at Concordia University by the Machine Agencies Research Group.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunch-time-seminar-with-luke-stark/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Digital Text as Data – A Computational Approach
DESCRIPTION:The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting\, analyzing\, and visualizing digital text as data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance\,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars\, proper methodological tools are indispensable if they want to harvest the opportunities while facing up to the challenges of the digital age. In this workshop\, participants will be introduced to a computational approach to collect\, analyze\, and visualize digital text as data. In the first part of the workshop\, they will learn about how computational methods may complement\, advance\, and transcend traditional ways of studying media through cases. In the second part\, they will get a chance to do hands-on exercises and play with R\, a programming language widely used by social scientists\, to collect and/or analyze some social media data. \nWhen? February 15th\, 10:00-12:00 PM EST \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705) \nDr. Zhifan Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. She obtained a doctoral degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Albany\, the U.S. Her research and teaching integrate computer-assisted content analysis with traditional qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the dynamics of power and resistance in the authoritarian and democratic contexts. Her work has appeared in New Media & Society\, Information\, Communication & Society\, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2nd edition)\, and others.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-text-as-data-a-computational-approach/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Tina Campt: “The Afterlives of Images: A Correspondence"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find the Ground\, Post Image’s cycle of artist talks and artist residencies\, featuring a talk with black feminist theorist Tina Campt! \nTina Campt’s lecture reflects on the the afterlives of images re-activated in ways that imagine black life\, bodies\, and spaces across time. This lecture reflects on the fugitive registers of images created by artists who give photographs a second life as part of an active practice of correspondence. Enacting a triangulated set of correspondences between herself\, black feminist theory\, and a series of artworks that connect different time-spaces\, she considers the afterlives which come into view when images are re-activated in ways that imagine black life\, black bodies\, and black spaces in a correspondence that straddles the present and past. \nWhen? February 14th at 5 PM EST (in-person and online)\nWhere? *We are currently sold out of in-person tickets but livestream tickets remain available. \nRegister for the livestream to receive the link before the lecture begins.\n\n\n\n\nTina Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and the founding convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. Her early work theorized gender\, racial\, and diasporic formation in black communities in Europe and southern Africa\, and the role of vernacular photography in historical interpretation. Campt has published five books including: A Black Gaze (MIT Press\, 2021); Listening to Images (Duke University Press\, 2017); Image Matters: Archive\, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press\, 2012); and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race\, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press\, 2004). Her co-edited collection\, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch\, Gil Hochberg\, and Brian Wallis Steidl\, 2020)\, received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tina-campt-the-afterlives-of-images-a-correspondence/
LOCATION:Concordia University – MB-9 Conference Centre\, 1450 Guy Street\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H3H 0A1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talk
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