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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230227T170000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T130000
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
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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:20260620T182049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230214T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230213
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SUMMARY:GameBling Game Jam Second Edition
DESCRIPTION:The GameBling Game Jam is back for a second edition and it is all about luck this time (Feb 11-12\, 2023)! \nThe outcome of some gambling games relies on pure probability (i.e.\, slot machines\, lotteries)\, while others involve a bit of skill (e.g.\, poker\, mahjong). But for many gamblers\, the odds of winning are also up to luck. \nLuck is the magic that takes gambling from a question of probabilities to the perception of something that can be controlled. Perceived this way\, luck can be influenced through ritualistic behaviors (think of superstitions like touching a ‘lucky’ four-leaf clover). \nLuck is an intangible force\, but also something that is perceived to be inherent in people\, objects\, and practices. Given these qualities\, how do game designers play with luck? \nRegister here\nView previous edition entries for inspiration on our previous itch.io page. \nThis event is presented with the support of JREN\, TAG\, HERMES\, the research chair on gambling\, and Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamebling-game-jam-second-edition/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:How We Live with Data Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Aging in Data project is hosting the workshop How We Live with Data – in a collaboration with the Atwater Library – with researchers Nicole Dalmer\, Cal Biruk\, and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis. The workshop will be happening on February 10th\, from 1:00-5:00 PM\, at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nThe aim of this interactive workshop is to explore and challenge understandings of the relationship between older people\, data\, and digital technologies. Participants are encouraged to bring a data-object (e.g.\, Fitbit\, journal\, smartphone) that is important to them and engage in data mapping activities and critical reflection to collaboratively work out what data are\, and how\, why\, and where we interact with them. \nAt this event we will: \n\nStart a conversation about data\, which often seem too big or overwhelming to wrap our heads around\nDemystify the word ‘data’ and come away with a better sense of what data are and why\, where\, and how we interact with them \nThink critically about data and appreciate both the pleasurable and the strange aspects of data \nUnderstand how we live with data (where they are  coming from and going to\, how we use data to tell stories about ourselves\, and what anxieties we have about data) by mapping out forms of data that circulate around us\nChallenge common stereotypes and media representations of older adults and their interactions with digital technologies and data \nHave a chance to meet other people and work together with other people /community building \n\nFor more info and to register and get the Zoom link: eric@atwaterlibrary.ca. \nPart of the Atwater Library’s Safe Online Engagement Project funded by the New Horizons for Seniors Program\, in collaboration with Concordia University’s Aging in Data project funded by SSHRC.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-we-live-with-data/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T133000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Nature with Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia’s talk ‘Postcolonial Nature’.  \n\n\nIn this talk\, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs within their own environments; (2) Arrogant forms of conservation that expel human populations from their ancestral lands; and (3) Destructive extraction of natural resources motivated by seductive but abstract metrics of economic growth that cannot be measured in terms of ecological (or any kind of) well-being of the particular local lifeworld. Engaging directly with nature in postcolonial thought is not possible for it must confront the imperatives of nature’s colonial and imperialist history – a necessary circumlocution that enables us to approach nature as a powerful signifier of being and quotidian experience in the postcolonial context. \nWhen? February 10th\, from 12:00-13:30 PM. \nWhere? Online \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/postcolonial-nature-with-dr-philip-aghoghovwia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:Handle with Care: Values in Our Hearts - A Micro Opera
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for this massive collaborative improvisational micro-opera that explores relations between identity\, independence\, and our yearning for belonging\, and collaborative creation. \nWhen? February 8th\, 6:00 PM \nWhere? Video Production Studio (EV 10.760) \nOur identities are partially constructed of rules internalized through our upbringing\, which provide us with a lifeline and a noose. Some need rules to guide or motivate\, some need them only to resist and break\, some see them as songs or poems yet to be written. \nWe are like starlings in their murmuration: individuals\, we naturally share\, mimic\, and flow\, out of the corners of our eyes\, our ears\, our bodies\, all our senses. We mimic to learn and survive but\, reflecting\, we know we have potential beyond mirroring\, to reach out on our own lines of flight. \nWe slow – even stop – time to reflect\, recycle\, reuse\, and replay experience\, creating fluctuations of harmony\, community\, rupture\, separation\, identity\, solitude\, discord\, multiplicity\, complementarity\, solidarity. \nThis is performance with no limits and rules\, other than that we respect each other’s limitations. Consent\, no consent\, yes\, no\, maybe\, are activated within us as questions and invitations\, emerging to shape our actions and conversations\, articulating possible rules of individual and collective responsibility. \nWhat is in our hearts as our most cherished values? How do we make laws to free us from servitude and serve us better? What would we want laws to say or not say\, do or not do? Could our deepest values be expressed in law\, or are there ways beyond words in which to express them? \nUnder the direction of Professor Eldad Tsabary\, Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) is a Le PARC based 5-year (2020-2025) research-creation project designed to enact and investigate cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas and funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Inspired by the RISE research team’s recent collective exercises\, experiences and reflections\, this micro-opera developed from a proposition by Oonagh Fitzgerald\, INDI PhD student in the Fine Arts Program.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/handle-with-care-values-in-our-hearts-a-micro-opera/
LOCATION:Video Production Studio (EV 10.760)
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Rehab Nazzal
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal\, in the fourth 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. \nRehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Montreal. 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. She 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 Ryerson University and the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Award in Photography from the University of Ottawa. \nWhen? Tuesday\, February 7\, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. \nWhere? In-person at 4TH SPACE and online \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-with-rehab-nazzal/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230207T173000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:How to Stay a Human When You Dance With a Machine
DESCRIPTION:When we use a computer\, do we have to think in the language of the computer? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with digital interactive artist Tim Murray-Browne. \nI’ll talk about my artistic practice of building embodied interactive systems. Particularly with dancers\, I’ve found code introduces abstractions of the body\, which can be more limiting than enabling. Recently\, I’ve been using unsupervised AI to devise rather than design interaction between human and system. I’ve found the results refreshing and captivating\, but it requires a rethink of how we relate to machines: a shift away from the instrumental back towards that of belonging. \nWhen? February 7 TH\, 4:00-5:30 PM \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705) \nAbout Tim \nI am a digital interactive artist. My work explores the parts of being human that get left behind when we interact with technology. I create interactive installations and performances that connect the moving body\, image\, sound and light but my primary medium is the interaction itself. My work aims to tap into the non-intellectual\, yet intelligent\, embodied mind. I graduated with a first in Maths and Computer Science from Oxford University and completed a PhD on interactive art and music at Queen Mary University of London. I code bespoke software for much of my work. \nTim is currently artist-in-residence at LePARC and Speculative Life.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-to-stay-a-human-when-you-dance-with-a-machine/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230206T140000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you already know\, we have recently announced this years’ Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now it’s time for the fellows to introduce themselves and their research\, or any other topic they care about. Join us for two hours of snappy\, fascinating presentations from a group of standout emerging researchers while indulging in some pizza!  \nThe presentations will be taking place in-person at the Milieux Resource Room on February 6 TH from 12:00-1:00 PM. Come to have lunch with us and meet the fellows! (in the meantime\, if you wish to learn more about the 2022-2023 UG Fellows click here). \nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
CREATED:20230126T163316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T163928Z
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SUMMARY:NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Come to feel and explore nostalgia with us at the NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN symposium – a student-led symposium that explores creative nostalgia through panel discussions and workshops from experts in the arts and sciences.  \nWhen? February 4th\, from 10:00-4:00 PM EST. \nWhere? Milieux Institute (EV 11.705) and online \nNostalgia reminds us of a past that was and could have been (Boym 2001). In a place of lost possibilities\, of those we’ve lost touch\, and memories of losses… What do we also lose or throw away in the present in order to be nostalgic? What if we could use these tools of forgetting the losses of a past to help us remember how to prevent more of them in the future? Digital tools can evoke a certain feeling of loss; a past that is gone. But given a message of hope\, of possibility\, this loss may inspire us to work towards a future without repeating the same losses of the past. This symposium centres around the use of CREATIVE NOSTALGIA: a kind described by Svetlana Boym (2001) as being able to reveal the “fantasies of an age” – our desires to get away from losses\, regrets\, and pain – but it is in these emotional tools capable of change and hope where “the future is born”. \nYou can check their website for the whole programming here. \nRESERVE A SPOT 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nostalgia-lostagain/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T160000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:this space is for you/ cet espace est pour toi work-in-progress presentation
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Storytelling Studio (previously the Immersive Reality / VR Lab)\, located within Milieux’s Post-Image cluster\, will host a work-in-progress presentation of this space is for you/ cet espace est pour toi\, a research-creation XR project co-created by Shauna Janssen and Kevin Pinvidic.  \nthis space is for you/ cet espace est pour toi is a conceptual place and mixed reality experience for considering how virtuality performs ‘refugia’ (meaning renewal)\, and institutional reorientations for thinking and practicing performance design and architecture in a post-pandemic future. The creative team will share details about their creative process\, the concept\, context and methods by which they are working\, which includes the use of volumetric video capture\, 3D scanning\, and the game engine Unity 3D. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhen? January 30th\, from 2:00-4:00 PM. \nWhere? Post Image Cluster (EV 10.715)\n\n* This event is open to all. No registration is required. \n\n\n
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/this-space-is-for-you-cet-espace-est-pour-toi-work-in-progress-presentation/
LOCATION:Post Image Cluster (EV 10.715)\, 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W\, Montréal\, H3G 2W1\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T150000
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SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC with Adriana Minu
DESCRIPTION:LePARC is happy to invite you all to join A Walk in LePARC with Adriana Minu! \nAfter three years of researching affective approaches to music making\, Adriana has been reclaiming her body from deep enrapturing tensions and learning what qualities can be nurtured in spaces that welcome alterity. She is now taking a look back at the processes and artworks that have stemmed from her artistic and vocal practice. Expect an experimental format with vocal solutions\, digressions and improvisations to perceived intensities. \nWhen? January 30 th\, 2023\, 2-3pm \nWhere? Residency Room EV 10.785 \nAdriana Minu is an artist\, researcher\, and intense vocal performer. She lives hyper aware of her constant relation with the environment. Her mission is to create artworks that help herself and others escape bodily oppressions. She doesn’t always succeed. Her own dislocated body guides her in this process that vibrates victoriously outside categories.  \nAdriana is finishing her PhD in experimental music co-supervised at two prestigious British universities. She is a visiting doctoral scholar at lePARC until July 2023. In the UK she co-runs the research creation podcast Essential Blends with Kevin Leomo and the artistic experimentation platform ‘The way we blend’. At Concordia she runs a monthly series for cross-disciplinary performative encounters ‘there is space to […]’ and a sound improvisation series with Kathy Kennedy called ‘Improv-X’.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-with-adriana-minu/
LOCATION:LePARC Residency Room (EV 10.785)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T153000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:Seminar on anime games by CyberConnect2 Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there were anime games made in Montreal? Come meet CyberConnect2 (Naruto STORM\, Demon Slayer) VP Taichiro Miyazaki and art director Yohei Ishibashi at an event co-hosted by TAG and the Concordia Game Development Club! CyberConnect2 will introduce their studio\, the artistic ins and outs of anime game development in Japan and Montreal\, and their experience with indie publishing. \nWHAT: Seminar on anime games by CyberConnect2 Montreal\nWHEN: Monday\, January 30th\, 1:45-3:45pm\nWHERE: Milieux Resource Room\, EV11.705 \n*If you have question please email TAG’s coordinator Kalervo Sinervo at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/seminar-on-anime-games-by-cyberconnect2-montreal/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260620T182049
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SUMMARY:Workshop with Dr. Kristina Lyons
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to a workshop with Kristina Lyons (UPenn) on January 27 th at 1:00 pm: Rivers and Reconciliation: Elaborating the Sociological Memory of War Through Science and Arts-based practices.  \nDuring this workshop\, Dr. Lyons will present an ethnographic and participatory action research project to reconstruct the “socioecological memory” of the Mandur River watershed in the Colombian Amazon. The objective of this project was to create conditions for community dialogues over the territorial ordering\, recovery\, and conservation of the watershed in the midst of ongoing socio-environmental conflicts. Dr. Lyons will discuss the proposal to engage in what grassroots organizations call “profound reconciliation” along with the ethical stakes of reconciliatory processes that tend to human and more-than-human relations damaged by the interconnected dynamics of structural violence and decades of war. She will also share the environmental humanities-based methodologies that emerged in our collective process to elaborate the memory of the Mandur\, as well as facilitate a cosmopolitical exercise to highlight the importance of fostering spaces for bettering (rather than transcending) conflict. We will also converse about the challenges posed for public engaged scholarship during times of transition that may shift toward the perpetuation of violence\, injustice\, and militarized forms of conservation. \n*For more information and questions please email EthnoLab Coordinator Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at mlamothekatrapani@gmail.com \nKristina Lyons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds affiliations with the Center for Experimental Ethnography and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.  Kristina’s research is situated at the interfaces of socio-ecological conflicts and science and legal studies in Latin America.  Her manuscript\, Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics\, was published by Duke University Press in 2020 and the Spanish translation in 2021 with the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá\, Colombia. It was awarded honorable mention by the Bryce Wood Book Award by the Latin American Studies Association. Kristina has also worked on the creation of soundscapes\, street performances\, photographic essays\, graphic novels\, community radio programs\, digital storytelling platforms\, and various forms of literary and journalistic writing. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-with-dr-kristina-lyons/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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