Update: Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled along with all other events at Milieux facilities through March 30, 2020 due to COVID-19. Milieux Speculative Life Biolab Artists Talk Series Presents: Samuel Bianchini Dr. Samuel Bianchini, an artist and associate professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD, PSL Research University, Paris). His work addresses the […]
The Post Image Cluster invites you to join for an artist talk by Canadian filmmaker Mia Donovan. Mia Donovan is a socially engaged documentary filmmaker. She is best known for telling stories that provide counter-narratives about people who have been negatively mislabeled or dehumanized by mainstream media. Her work is driven by a preoccupation with […]
A Walk in LePARC with matralab: Misha Penton Join soprano and performance creator Misha Penton for a multi-day performance workshop. Create voice and text-based experimental solo, and collaborative works with (or without!) media. March 10-12, 20202 to 4 p.m.EV 4.502 The workshop will explore the development of original text, investigations into improvisational practices and semi-structured […]
Yann Seznec, Game Designer in Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art Game Lab in Baltimore, is visiting the Technoculture, Art and Games cluster at Milieux. Yann is an artist and musician whose work focuses on sound, music, physical interaction, games, and building new instruments. On Friday, March 6th at 1pm, Yann will be […]
The Technoculture, Art and Games cluster is hosting another session of MICROTALKS featuring new cluster members. Speakers will share their work in super fast pecha-kucha style presentations. The speakers featured in this first session will talk about a wide variety of topics including, but not exclusive to: ethical game design, gender in games, procedural choreography, […]
with Geneviève Moisan & Marc Beaulieu This workshop is a introductory crash-course in wearable interactive-textile creation. We will build basic circuits and learn basic coding strategies to program the Adafruit Gemma microcontroller. We will explore possible behaviours that we might integrate into a wearable fabric (such as playfulness, irrationality, vengefulness...), using one input sensor and […]
TAG is hosting Global Game Jam (GGJ) again in 2020. GGJ is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a 48 hour long game making marathon. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world, we could come together, be […]
with Alexandra Bachmayer & Marc Beaulieu DAY 1 - Monday, January 27th, 1:00pm - 5:00pmIntroduction to bacterial culture activities & stencil creation from portraits:Pre-prepared liquid bacterial cultures will be used to streak petri-dish plates that have stencils applied to them, and to create petri dish shibori samples on fabric.DAY 2 - Wednesday, January 29th, 1:00pm […]
with Théo Chauvirey & Amélie Brindamour DAY 1 – Friday, January 24th, 1:00pm – 4:00pmIntroduction to Mycelium; natural properties, current research & methods for working with the material. Using natural fibers and structural elements make a small sculpture scaffold.DAY 2 – Friday, January 31st, 1:00pm – 4:00pmDecontamination & inoculating the sculpture scaffold with Mycelium.DAY 3 – Mid […]
Amélie Brindamour (Montréal) is an artist and educator exploring issues pertaining to the natural and urban environment. Her research includes electronic art, biomaterials, installation, and participatory performances. Awarded by the Conseil Quebecois des Arts Médiatiques (CQAM), she recently completed a residency at Milieux’ Speculative Life Biolab, and developed a new body of work exploring bioluminescence […]
The Immersive Realities VR group invites all Milieux members to join a public meeting, their final of the term, where they will present their in-progress work, Liquid Perceptions, for a round of feedback and discussion. Liquid Perceptions is an interactive VR experience about the interconnections between the goals we set and the balance of […]
Hosted at Machine Agencies, Milieux Institute, Concordia University How can artificial intelligence be oriented toward the common good? The belief in AI for good has widespread acceptance in the industry and among governments. Declarations from around the globe—Canada, China, South Korea, France, and more—call for the development of AI to have a social purpose. But […]
