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SUMMARY:[OPEN CALL] NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN SYMPOSIUM
DESCRIPTION:TAG is happy to announce the official open call for their upcoming student-led symposium on digital nostalia\, LOSTAGAIN: Explorations of Digital Nostalgia Symposium\, to be held on February 4th\, 2023! \n\n\n\nHow often do you use digital tools to go back and forth in time? Is it only you who is nostalgic\, or is it also the machines that help you get there?What does this NOSTALGIA mean for us\, digital society\, and the world?We are looking to answer these questions as artists\, students\, faculty\, and professionals at the LOSTAGAIN Symposium. \n\n\n\nApplications are now open for panels and workshops. Submit your work up until January 16TH\, 2023! Visit their website for more information and applications.*Please feel free to get in touch with the organizers at projectlostagain@gmail.com
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/open-call-nostalgia-lostagain-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk With Barry Pottle
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents Inuk photographer Barry Pottle\, in the third 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.  \n\n\n\nHow can you participate? Join in person at 4thSpace or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.  \n\n\n\nBarry Pottle is an Inuk artist originally from Nunatsiavut in Labrador\, now living in Ottawa\, Ontario. He has worked with the Indigenous arts community for many years particularly in the city of Ottawa\, which has the largest urban population of Inuit outside the North. Barry has always been interested in photography as a medium of artistic expression and as a way of exploring the world around him. Through the camera’s lens\, Barry showcases the uniqueness of this community. Whether it is at a cultural gathering\, family outings or the solitude of nature that photography allows\, he captures the essence of Inuit life in Ottawa. \n\n\n\nOur programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-with-barry-pottle/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221212T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221212T160000
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SUMMARY:XR Milieux – Future Directions
DESCRIPTION:Are you working on VR/AR/XR research creation projects\, or thinking of integrating immersive technologies into your projects? Join us at the XR Milieux lab for an informal encounter to share projects and research\, connect with the Concordia community working with digital technologies and storytelling\, and learn more about how the XR lab can support your project and ideas. We’ll have coffee & snacks to share! \n\n\n\nThe gathering will be hosted by Marco Luna\, lab coordinator and technologist\, and Shauna Janssen\, Studio Director. \n\n\n\nWhen? Monday\, December 12th \, 1:00-4:00 PMLocation: Post Image Research Cluster\, EV 10.705 \n\n\n\n* The lab is wheelchair accessible** For more information and questions\, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/xr-milieux-future-directions/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221208T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221208T123000
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SUMMARY:Pizza Lunch & Tours (with Guests!)
DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to invite all Milieux members (faculty and students alike!) to meet in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) for the last pizza lunch of the semester. On this occasion we will be welcoming special guests\, as Digital Futures’ students from OCAD University are visiting us all the way from Toronto! \n\n\n\nThis is a great opportunity to connect with fellow members (and visitors!) and have a good time in a relaxed atmosphere as we wrap up the semester. We will also offer tours of the Milieux cluster spaces and labs for our visitors\, open to anyone interested in wandering around the institute with us. Come along to have some pizza and chat – we’re eager to see you!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pizza-lunch-tours-with-guests/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221205T050000Z
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SUMMARY:Ethnography Lab Film Nights|ZAGROS
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to the last film night of the semester\, this Wednesday\, December 7th at 6pm! They will be screening the beautiful film Zagros (2018) by Ariane Lorrain and Shahab Mihandoust. The screening will be followed by a Q+A with the directors.  \n\n\n\nZAGROS follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran\, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the guiding thread that traverses nomadic and sedentary cultures\, revealing the worlds of weavers\, dyers and shepherds through their labour. Carpets weave the social fabric of their lives\, giving it form as well as colour. The work is hard\, and is gradually being devalued by the outside world – but their lives are redeemed through the love they feel for their traditions. \n\n\n\nREAD MORE ABOUT THE FILM HERE \n\n\n\n** The event will take place at Concordia University’s EV Building\, 1515 Sainte-Catherine O\, Montréal\, QC H3G 2W1\, Room 10.625. Once you exit the elevator\, follow the “Milieux Institute” arrows.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnography-lab-film-nightszagros/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:GAMERella 2022 GAME JAM
DESCRIPTION:10 years and over 1000 participants! Join us for our first ever hybrid jam! Free\, learner-friendly and available world-wide!Our longest running game jam organized by TAG’s members is back for a hybrid 10th edition! From December 3rd to 4th\, you can jam with us in-person AND online. As always\, GAMERella invites women (cis/trans)\, trans men\, non-binary/genderqueer folks\, LGBTQIA2S+\, BIPOC\, and any others who feel they haven’t had a chance to make a game\, to join GAMERella in a weekend of fun game-making.There will be workshops\, mentors\, snacks *for those in-person* and an amazing keynote speaker to make sure you are inspired\, supported and safe! \n\n\n\nWe have limited spots available so don’t wait to sign up! SIGN UP HERE \n\n\n\nFor in-person jammers in Montreal\, we will start Saturday at 10am and wrap up at Sunday 5pm. However\, we think sleeping is more important than making games\, so we will all be sending you home to have a good sleep at night’s sleep! \n\n\n\nFor those jamming in-person: we will being Saturday at 10am and wrap up at Sunday 5pm. It’s a go-home-and-sleep jam\, because your health is more important than anything. Bring cozy clothes\, blankets and pillows that will keep you warm. Coffee & food are on us!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamerella-2022-game-jam/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:End Of Semester Disassemble-A-Thon | Milieux Make
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a cathartic disassemble hangout in the MilieuxMake Makerspace. We will start by going over a few techniques and tools for disassembling your electronics\, and learn about what components you’re likely to find and how to repurpose them. Please bring any broken\, out dated\, or unused electronics or mechanical devices you’d like to disassemble. \n\n\n\nRSVP required!* We ask that you register by emailing lee at l.wilkins@concordia.ca with ‘Disassemble-A-Thon’ included in the subject line.** This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research groups and requires no pre-requisites.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/end-of-semester-disassemble-a-thon-milieux-make/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221202T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221202T140000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Performance Jam at LePARC
DESCRIPTION:Do you dance\, perform\, make music\, sound\, plays\, costumes\, scenography\, experiments? LePARC is hosting a little performance jam in which people of different performance practices are invited to meet in the space through improvisation. All disciplines are welcome. You are encouraged to bring instruments or materials into the space to play with.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performance-jam-at-leparc/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221202T140000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Meet Our Labs | Milieux Virtual Open House
DESCRIPTION:Milieux Institute is opening its doors! December 2nd from 11 AM EST\, we’ll be live streaming from our headquarters at Concordia University! This is a fantastic opportunity to experience our studio-lab spaces\, meet our students and researchers (& associated robot friends!)\, and learn about project and program opportunities. \n\n\n\nJoin us to discover our efforts in interactive textiles\, indigenous futures\, game design\, energy justice\, physical computing and performance\, bio-art and material remediation\, VR\, maker culture\, media materiality and more. Members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that the Milieux Institute supports.How can you participate? Watch live on our YouTube channel. Have questions? Send them to ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca \n\n\n\nAGENDA \n\n\n\n11:00 – Opening Words by Dr. Bart Simon (Director)11:05 – Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG)11:20 – Machine Agencies Research Group11:30 – Residual Media Depot11:40 – Speculative Life Research Cluster11:55 – Milieux’s MaSH Lab12:05 – Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster12:20 – Milieux’s BioLab12:30 – Milieux’s Immersive Reality Lab (VR)12:45 – Indigenous Futures Research Cluster13:00 – MilieuxMake MakerSpace13:15 – LeParc\, the Performing Arts Research Cluster (Live performance)13:30 – Solar Media Collective13:45 – Media and Materiality Research Cluster: Digital Intimacy\, Gender & Sexuality Lab (DIGS)13:55 – Closing Remarks \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/meet-our-labs-milieux-virtual-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221129T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221129T163000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221117T050000Z
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SUMMARY:GameBling Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:After the resounding success of last year’s GameBling Game Jam\, TAG\, HERMES\, and the Jeu Responsable à l’Ère Numérique (JREN) team are back for the second edition\, and we need your help! \n\n\n\nWe will be hosting another game jam in the Winter term. During two days\, several teams of students will work together to create video games that reflect on gaming and gambling. \n\n\n\nWe are asking for your input about this edition’s theme. Last year was all about slot machines. You can check out last year’s games here. \n\n\n\nWhat aspects of gaming / gambling do you want to see featured in this year’s edition? \n\n\n\nWe will discuss your ideas for potential themes during a planning meeting\, on November 29th\, from 3-4:30 pm (via Zoom). \n\n\n\n*Please RSVP here. We look forward to your input!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamebling-planning-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:BREATHING AESTHETICS:A Talk with Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Alice Jarry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first installment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by CARG\, CRIE\, and SPAM: Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series\, featuring a talk with Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York) and Dr. Alice Jarry (Concordia). \n\n\n\nDr. Tremblay’s talk previews the monograph Breathing Aesthetics\, in which they argue that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination\, weaponization\, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism\, imperialism\, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration \n\n\n\nDr. Jarry’s presentation will address the material and conceptual aspects of the collaborative research-creation project capture*. Exploring how ‘membranes’ can act as porous interfaces that enable exchanges across systems and transform what is filtered in the process\, capture aims at materializing the microscopic invisibility of air pollution and the macroscopic dimension of its socio-environmental issues. \n\n\n\n// READING GROUP // \n\n\n\nIn preparation for the talk\, the group is hosting a reading group event this Friday\, November 11th\, from 3:00-4:30 PM\, to read Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Breathing Aesthetics‘ first chapter “Breathing against Nature”! If you want to participate email priscilla.jolly@concordia.ca to be added to mailing list and receive pdf. of reading. \n\n\n\nJean-Thomas Tremblay is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at York University. They are the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press\, 2022) and co-editor of Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s (State University of New York Press\, 2021). Jean-Thomas is currently working on two books: The Art of Environmental Inaction and Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction. \n\n\n\nAlice Jarry is an artist-researcher and an assistant professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and is the director of Milieux Institute Speculative Life Biolab. Her research focuses on residual matter\, and responsive biomaterials for the built environment. Specializing in site-specific works\, socio-environmental design\, art-science practices\, and tangible media\, Jarry examines how materiality – engaged in processes of transformation with sites\, technology\, and communities – can provoke the emergence of adaptive forms and resilient socio-environmental relations.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/breathing-aestheticsa-talk-with-jean-thomas-tremblay-and-alice-jarry/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T160000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Soft Switches & Gentle Touch Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second workshop in the Milieux’s Soft SLow Tech series! November 25th at MilieuxMake we will be exploring ‘Soft Switches & Gentle Touch’!This workshop will go over the basics of soft switches and e-textiles. We will learn how to create switches that live in collaboration with the body using conductive fabric and touch-sensitive materials. We’ll learn about using switches to create basic logic and building complex interactions using soft circuits. \n\n\n\nSoft SLow tech is a series about creating electronics that are made out of soft\, squishy\, pliable\, bendable\, or otherwise unconventional materials. With bi-weekly meet-ups\, alternating between workshops and group work sessions\, we will explore soft circuits\, e-textiles\, soft robots and slow / low tech solutions. For those interested in getting more deeply involved\, the ultimate goal will be to collaborate on a project\, to be determined by the group! All participants are invited to take part in both learning through an ongoing workshop series\, and working together on a larger project in bi-weekly sessions\, or exploring individual projects as well! \n\n\n\nRSVP required!* We ask that you register by emailing lee at l.wilkins@concordia.ca with ‘soft switches’ included in the subject line.** This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research groups and requires no pre-requisites. \n\n\n\nAs this is an ongoing series\, even if you cannot make this workshop\, feel free to contact us to register your interest for future events in the Soft SLow Tech series\, so that we can schedule and plan accordingly!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/soft-switches-gentle-touch-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221122T140000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties at LePARC
DESCRIPTION:LePARC invites members across clusters to join this event! \n\n\n\nGet your boogie on with Tornado Trish – aka Tricia Enns – and potential guest appearance of MC Diamond Don for the first of many Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties in the Residency Room (EV 10.785). \n\n\n\nWhat is it?!The event will involve cheesy aerobics meets dance music\, mood lighting\, and optional biodegradable glitter all to help you get into your best wiggly\, giggly\, lunging and prancing self. \n\n\n\nSilly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties (SSADP) invites people to move in whatever way allows them to engage in a playful and expansive way of being. Silliness at these events is about enabling a depth\, joy and connection with one another. Releasing the heavy and seriousness of life to just take a moment to wiggle and laugh together. \n\n\n\nAt the moment future SSADP are planned for Monday evenings\, but we are welcome to other time suggestions.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/silly-sexy-awkward-dance-parties-at-leparc/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T183000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221108T050000Z
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SUMMARY:Video as Intimacy: A Talk With Ishita Tiwary
DESCRIPTION:On November 17th\, join us for the third installment of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, featuring Dr. Ishita Tiwary’s talk Video as Intimacy: Biography of the Straight to Video Erotic Thrillers.  \n\n\n\n“In this presentation\, I present a biography of the video film-making industry in India in the 1980s. I chart its rise to a successful form with the emergence of VHS technology\, and its ultimate marginalization into oblivion. I will track the journey of the video film through a case study of a specific video production house\, Hiba Films. I look at Hiba as an institutional structure that emerged broadly in response to the arrival of video\, and specifically in relation to the rise of the video nasty and straight to video genre across the world. Hiba was the audio-visual sister of India‘s best-selling tabloid film magazine\, Stardust\, which promoted films produced by Hiba in its pages. The production house concentrated on the creation of female stars in order to attract its primarily female audience. The entry of satellite television and piracy led to its decline and the company was ultimately doomed to be forgotten from popular memory. The video-film as a commodity now becomes of academic interest for us. In this lecture\, I tell the story of such an adjacent entertainment industry. The story of a new infrastructure and style located in the heart of Bombay. \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, video attempts to define itself as a medium opposed to celluloid. It is this otherness and attempt to define the medium that the presentation hopes to explore through a case study of Hiba. My biographical excavation of Hiba Films will move through legal regulations\, tabloid journalism\, film equipment\, and the star system. I hope to generate through my method a complicated narrative about the unstable life of the video-film“ \n\n\n\n* Registration is required via the Eventbrite page.** For this session\, we ask you to read Dr. Tiwary’s text What is Video: Video and the Moment of Legal Disruption. \n\n\n\nIshita Tiwary is an Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim school of Cinema\, Concordia University and Canada Research Chair in Media and Migration. Her research interests include video cultures\, media infrastructures\, migration\, contraband media practices\, and media aesthetics. She has published essays in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies\, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities\, Culture Machine\, MARG: Journal of Indian Art\, and in edited collections on topics of media piracy\, video histories\, and streaming platforms.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-as-intimacy-a-talk-with-ishita-tiwary/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T163000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:DRAWING WITH THREADS: MATERIALIZING DATA
DESCRIPTION:Textiles and Materiality invites members across clusters to this workshop with Gen Moisan \n\n\n\nWhat does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, we invite you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be two hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs.  \n\n\n\n*Please register at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca using the subject “Drawing with Threads: Materializing Data”**Activity open to Milieux members
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-with-threads-materializing-data/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221114T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221114T160000
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture by Dr. Francesca Sobande
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, and Sexuality Lab (DIGS) is happy to present Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Experiences\, Archiving\, and Opacity\, a guest lecture by Dr. Francesca Sobande. \n\n\nHow are Black feminist approaches to digital experiences and archiving practices shaping Black history and futures? How do these archival approaches enable Black feminists to play with forms of opacity in ways that subvert the gaze of institutions? Can Black feminist digital archiving efforts result in a redefinition of what it means to archive? Focusing on aspects of Black feminist digital archiving experiences\, and research on Black Scottish history\, this session considers the role and pursuit of forms of opacity as part of such efforts. Moving beyond a focus on questions of visibility and publicness\, this session involves an emphasis on elements of the interiority of Black feminist digital archiving work\, including the generative nature of refusing demands of “transparency”.This online guest lecture is open to all interested students and scholars. Advance registration is required at this link. Please use your institutional email address to register if possible. \n\n\nDr. Francesca Sobande is a senior lecturer\, researcher\, and writer who explores the power and politics of media and the marketplace. Her work focuses on digital remix culture\, Black diaspora and archives\, feminism\, creative work\, pop culture\, branding and crises\, and devolved nations.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-lecture-by-dr-francesca-sobande/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221111T150000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Ethnography Beyond Anthropology: Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to this introductory workshop to ethnography for graduate researchers from all disciplines interested in thinking about ways to change their own research practice\, as well as those wondering how to do ethnography …beyond anthropology? \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Kregg Hetherington (Anthropology)\, Bart Simon (Science and Technology Studies)\, Javiera Araya-Moreno (Sociology)\, Kariuki Kirigia (Development Studies). \n\n\n\nPlease email concordia.ethnography@gmail.com to register
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnography-beyond-anthropology-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221102T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Ethnography Lab Film Nights
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the first screening of our Ethnography Lab Film Nights! One of Quebec’s most iconic films\, this ethno-fiction is an emblem of the Cinéma direct movement.  \n\n\nThe Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to launch a series of film nights starting off this month! With these screenings we are inviting you to see through the ethnographic eyes of the directors and think through cinematic images. There will be three screenings taking place before the holidays on select Wednesday evenings at 6pm in the Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625). \n\n\nThe first event is a screening of Pour la suite du monde (1963) directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault. “Pour la suite du monde is the unrehearsed story of what happened when old-timers from Île-aux-Coudres\, a small island in the St. Lawrence River\, were persuaded to revive a local whale-catching practice” (NFB\, 2006). We chose this Quebec classic to introduce you to the Cinéma direct movement happening in Quebec at the end of the 50s which is characterised by a desire to directly capture reality and the voice of research subjects\, questioning the relationship between cinema and daily life. The film has been called an ethno-fiction\, but we’ll discuss all that together on Nov. 9th!It will be super cozy and we hope to have a nice discussion on the film afterwards!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnography-lab-film-nights/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221102T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221102T183000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20220929T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Nothing with Victoria at LePARC
DESCRIPTION:Members across clusters are welcome to join this activity with Victoria Stanton \n\n\n\nDATE: October 5th & November 2ndLOCATION: Milieux Residency Room (EV 10.785) \n\n\n\nOn Wednesdays\, for the foreseeable future I will attempt to disconnect from all devices. What happens in the space/time that fills this “gap”? Is this another opportunity for/adventure in another kind of “doing nothing”?  \n\n\n\nCome join me to find out… \n\n\n\nVictoria Stanton is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist and researcher/curator/educator working with live action\, human interaction\, video\, film\, photo\, drawing\, and writing. Exploring within diverse media\, while the outward results of her practice manifest in various forms\, performance is the invariable core of her research. Her time-based work includes performance for stage and for the camera\, infiltrating actions in public spaces\, and one-on-one encounters in intimate contexts. Victoria is a part-time Fine Arts professor at the Department of Studio Arts and a PhD student who likes to talk about Nothing and tries to Do Nothing about it.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nothing-with-victoria-at-leparc/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221101T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221101T150000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Luiza Helena Guimarães
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Reality Lab at the Milieux Institute invites you to a talk with artist-researcher Luiza Helena Guimarães on the use of immersive technology on art creation. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For more information and questions\, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca. \n\n\n\nLuiza Helena Guimarães is a Brazilian artist-researcher\, performer\, entrepreneur\, creator\, screenwriter and director of immersive media. Founder and Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Digital Humanities (ABHD) and Founder-Director of the Neuro-Spectral Art Lab (LArtEN). Post-doctorate in Communication and Culture\, State University of Rio\, Brazil. PhD in Clinical Psychology at Center for Subjectivity – Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of São Paulo\, Brazil and Faculty of Visual and Plastic Arts Education and Interactive Media Laboratory at University of Barcelona\, Spain. Master in Communication and Culture\, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Researcher at TransObjeto\, Tecnologias da Inteligência e Design Digital (TIDD) at PUC\, and Laboratory of Conservation and Management of Digital Collections (LABOGAD)\, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nFind more information about the artist here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-luiza-helena-guimaraes/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221029T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Julian Stadon Workshop: 'TeleAgriCulture'
DESCRIPTION:Members across clusters are invited to this workshop with Julian Stadon \n\n\n\nTeleAgriCulture: Developing Crowd/Cloud Approaches to Creative Cultivation and Empathetic Engagement in Post-Natural Ecologies\n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, participants will engage in urban environmental sampling (water\, soil\, air etc.) and will be introduced to the TeleAgriCulture platform. Based on previous and novel projects\, as well as case studies that aim to engage creatives\, farmers\, cooks\, and the general public in food\, urban\, and post-industrial ecologies\, the workshop will offer an overview of how the digital sensor systems operate and are modified\, along with other peripheral sampling methods. Participants will be introduced to the system technics and its data flows\, from sensor/sample to server\, to creative outputs\, along with being introduced to an ideation and rapid-prototyping method for using the platform. Participants will then break into transdisciplinary teams and\, using available samples\, develop a project concept that uses the platform\, with the results to be presented at the end of the session. \n\n\n\nTo participate in this workshop please register here. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality with Hexagram Network\, and happening at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture & Technology\, on Saturday 22nd from 10:00am to 5:00pm in the Speculative Life Research Cluster room (Room EV-10.625) @ Concordia University\, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West\, H3G 2W1. \n\n\n\nJulian Stadon’s practice-based research intersects biocomputational processes\, embodiment\, and food ecologies toward performative art-science interventions. His PhD examines Post-Bio-Digital Identity and Augmentation Aesthetics through the Data Body Trader project and marart.org. Stadon currently teaches at Interface Cultures (Linz)\, Winchester and LUCA Schools of Art\, directs TeleAgriCulture and The Island of the Day Before Projects and is on the steering committees for the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)\, 3erH0F and Donautics.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/julian-stadon-workshop-teleagriculture/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221019T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Timelines at the TML\, an intro to ossia with Jean-Michael Celerier
DESCRIPTION:Scoring systems of all sorts closely followed the development of computers\, starting from the epochal MUSIC I system created by Max Mathews in 1957. Advances in processing power have since then enabled composers and creators to produce artworks with increasing complexity. Real-time processing became viable for the public in the 70s\, allowing composers to create their own virtual instruments\, and more generally art systems\, involving all means of sensors\, and physical or virtual inputs and outputs. \n\n\n\nThis has given rise to issues encountered daily by practitioners of the field: given a whole “orchestra” of virtual and physical instruments\, sensors\, video systems\, etc. How does one write scores for interactive artworks? Can the media art world be liberated from the tyranny of Max/MSP\, TouchDesigner and other proprietary atemporal patching languages? \n\n\n\nCome join us to learn more about it in an informal talk with Jean-Michaël Celerier. This presentation will give an introduction of the free software ecosystem ossia\, which provides novel and fun ways to write scores involving audio\, video\, control data\, and most of what one needs when creating artworks involving interaction and intermedia. \n\n\n\nPresented by Speculative Life and the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality. \n\n\n\nJean-Michael Celerier\, born in France in 1992\, is a freelance researcher\, interested in art\, code\, computer music and interactive show control. He studied software engineering\, computer science & 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 & open-source software used for creative coding\, digital and intermedia art\, which he leverages in various installations and works; in particular\, most of his work is centred on the ossia platform for which he is the main developer. He enjoys organizing events on programming and media art – most recently the Linux Audio Conference\, and a C++ meetup in Bordeaux. He teaches all sorts of creative coding languages (PureData\, Processing\, OpenFrameworks\, etc) to both computer science and graphics design students. \n\n\n\nWebsite.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/timelines-at-the-tml-an-intro-to-ossia-with-jean-michael-celerier/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221026T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221026T163000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:FEMINA CONTROLLATA MACHINA: AN OPERA
DESCRIPTION:This Wednesday\, October 26th\, join LePARC for a presentation and discussion with RISE and visiting artist-scholar Donna Hewitt about Femina Controllata Machina\, a new electronic opera in development exploring the possibilities\, fears and potential threats of AI and emerging technologies. *No registration is required \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\nFemina Controllata Machina is a collaboration between RISE (Concordia University)\, Donna Hewitt (University of New England\, Australia) and The House that Dan Built (Australian female Choir). The project is supported by Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and Australia Council for the Arts.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/femina-controllata-machina-an-opera/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221026T160000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Soft Sound Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The first workshop in Milieux’s Soft SLow Tech series is just around the corner! October 26th at 1pm at MilieuxMake we will be exploring ‘soft sound’! \n\n\n\nJoin co-facilitators\, artist and cyborg lee wilkins and multi-disciplinary artist Ryth Kesselring\, in investigating how can we reimagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates\, by hand-building soft speakers and testing them out with specialized electronic modules. We will look at different textile speaker coil and magnet configurations to interact with sound\, both as audible and tactile events. \n\n\n\nSoft SLow tech is a series about creating electronics that are made out of soft\, squishy\, pliable\, bendable\, or otherwise unconventional materials. With bi-weekly meet-ups\, alternating between workshops and group work sessions\, we will explore soft circuits\, e-textiles\, soft robots and slow / low tech solutions. For those interested in getting more deeply involved\, the ultimate goal will be to collaborate on a project\, to be determined by the group! All participants are invited to take part in both learning through an ongoing workshop series\, and working together on a larger project in bi-weekly sessions\, or exploring individual projects as well! \n\n\n\nRSVP required! * We ask that you register by emailing lee at l.wilkins@concordia.ca with ‘soft sound’ included in the subject line. ** This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research groups and requires no pre-requisites. \n\n\n\nAs this is an ongoing series\, even if you cannot make this workshop\, feel free to contact us to register your interest for future events in the Soft SLow Tech series\, so that we can schedule and plan accordingly! \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/soft-sound-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20220929T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Julian Stadon Talk: 'From Augmentation to Ecological Aesthetics'
DESCRIPTION:Speculative Life is happy to invite you to a talk with Julian Stadon: ‘From Augmentation to Ecological Aesthetics: Artistic Methods for Empathetic Engagement with Post-Nature’. This talk is part of the Speculative Life Research Cluster Symposium 2022\, featuring Julian Stadon as a guest speaker. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will offer an overview of Stadon’s individual and collaborative research in the fields of Augmentation and Ecological Aesthetics. With a specific focus on the recently developed TeleAgriCulture Platform\, and the subsequent projects that were developed using it\, such as The Island of the Day Before Project\, this presentation will address how these practice-based methods for collaboration and public engagement can go beyond art exhibitions\, toward empathy and action and offer means by which to better understand our complex and multi-scalar relationships with ecosystems. \n\n\n\nDATE: Friday 21th from 4:00-5:00 PMLOCATION: Milieux Resource Centre (EV-11.705) \n\n\n\nFor more information about the talk and registration click here. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture & Technology and the Speculative Life Research Cluster \n\n\n\nJulian Stadon is an Australian artist/designer/curator/researcher/educator. His practice-based research intersects biocomputational processes\, embodiment\, and food ecologies toward performative art-science interventions. His PhD examines Post-Bio-Digital Identity and Augmentation Aesthetics through the Data Body Trader project and marart.org. Stadon currently teaches at Interface Cultures (Linz)\, Winchester and LUCA Schools of Art\, directs TeleAgriCulture and The Island of the Day Before Projects and is on the steering committees for the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)\, 3erH0F and Donautics
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/julian-stadon-talk-from-augmentation-to-ecological-aesthetics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Speculative Life Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Members across clusters are invited to the Speculative Life Research Cluster Symposium 2022 with guest speaker Julian Stadon. \n\n\n\nThe Milieux Speculative Life Research cluster is proud to announce its next Symposium. With presentations from the four research groups of the cluster \, this day will gather directors\, faculties and students into interdisciplinary discussions on infrastructures. This full-day Symposium will be followed by a presentation by guest speaker Julian Stadon. \n\n\n\nOFFICIAL PRESENTERS \n\n\n\nJill Didur\, Kregg Hetherington\, Bart Simon\, Fenwick McKelvey\, Alice Jarry\, Robert Hunt\, Student representatives from COMS 642\, Meaghan Wester\, Marek Blottiere\, Maurice Jones\, Michael Iantorno\, Brice Ammar-Khodja\, Jacqueline Beaumont\, Philippe Vandal\, Jean-Michael Celerier\, Priscilla Jolly\, Kasia Van Schaik\, Brennan McCracken\, Maya Lamothe-Katrapani\, John Neufeld\, Melina Campos Ortiz\, Hassan Ragy\, & Julian Stadon \n\n\n\nDOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAM HERE \n\n\n\nFor more information about the talk with Julian Stadon and registration click hereFor more information about the workshop with Julian Stadon and registration click here. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture & Technology\, the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality\, and Hexagram Network\, and will take place on Friday 21th from 10:00pm to 4:00pm in the Speculative Life Research Room (EV-10.625) and from 4:00pm to 5:00pm in the Resource Centre (Room EV-11.705) @ Concordia University\, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West\, H3G 2W1. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221018T180000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground: Greg Staats Talk
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents Greg Staats in the second installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, their new cycle of artist talks and artist residencies. 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. \n\n\n\nThe second gathering of the series with Greg Staats will take place on October 18th in-person AND online! To attend online please register here. Registration for in-person attendance is not required. \n\n\n\nGreg Staats is Skarù:re /Kanien’kehá:ka \, Hodinöhsö:ni’. b. 1963\, Ohsweken\, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. A Toronto based artist whose Hodinöhsö:ni restorative aesthetic employs mnemonics of condolence\, articulated in visual forms that hold body and place including: oral transmission\, text works\, embodied wampum\, photographic\, sculpture\, installation and video. Staats’ practice conceptualizes Land as monument embodied within a continuum of relational placemaking with his on-reserve lived experience\, trauma\, and the explorations of ceremonial orality. Staats’ lens based language documents cycles of return towards a complete Onkwehón:we neha positionality\, reciprocity and worldview. \n\n\n\nThe speakers invited to Moving the Landscape to Find Ground will also provide studio visits to Concordia University graduate students. If you wish to have a studio visit with one of our speakers\, please sign up here. \n\n\n\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-greg-staats-talk/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221003T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Écotones: Urban Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:DATE: From October 14th to October 28thLOCATION: Champ des Possibles\, 5605 Av. de Gaspé\, Montréal \n\n\n\nSpeculative Life members Brice Ammar-Khodja and Philippe Vandal are happy to invite you to Écotones\, an urban laboratory combining artistic interventions and a round table to articulate an aesthetic\, critical and social reflection on soil pollution in Montreal. Through two experimental artistic installations on the Champ des Possibles site\, Écotones explores urban soil pollution as a creative material. Aspiring to concretize new visualizations of pollution\, the artists desire to initiate a dialogue between the citizen\, academic and artistic communities on the issues emerging from urban soil contamination. \n\n\n\nOrganized in partnership with the Association Les Amis du Champ des Possibles\, these interventions will take the form of several activities organized between October 14th and October 28th. Join us in October 14th for the round table at 4 PM (the meeting point will be communicated one day before the event)\, and for the vernissage at 6 PM! To register for the round table and vernissage click here. To register for the side events happening on October 16\, 17\, 22 and 23 please get in contact with brice.ammar-khodja@mail.concordia.ca for more information.Ecotones is supported by the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) on Smart\, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities at Concordia University\, Haute École des Arts du Rhin (France)\, Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, Hexagram\, Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, and Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality. About the artists \n\n\n\nhttps://b-ak.comhttps://philippevandal.github.io \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ecotones-urban-laboratory/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221013T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221013T150000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221006T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Altered Perceptions: An Introduction to Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:Altered Perceptions: An Introduction to MicroscopyDATE: Thursday\, October 13th\, 1:00-3:00 PMLOCATION: Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV-10.835) \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore a variety of tools that can be used for imaging tiny worlds: from DIY/hacked smartphone lenses to live feed video microscopes to a professional lab-grade compound microscope. After an introductory demonstration\, participants will begin with constructing take-away mobile macro lenses (bring your smartphone!).  \n\n\n\nPlease email: Alex Bachmayer (biolab.milieux@concordia.ca) to register for this workshop. (Please include ‘Altered Perceptions’ in the subject line of your email).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/altered-perceptions-an-introduction-to-microscopy/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221012T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221012T160000
DTSTAMP:20260621T141059
CREATED:20221007T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T074134Z
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SUMMARY:Soft SLow-tech Workshop Series & Workgroup Meetups
DESCRIPTION:Milieux continues its tradition of experiential learning workshops into the new academic year! We are happy to invite you to join our Soft SLow tech workshop series & working group meet-ups\, starting off on October 12th from 2:00 – 4:00 PM. \n\n\n\nSoft SLow tech is a series about creating electronics that are made out of soft\, squishy\, pliable\, bendable\, or otherwise unconventional materials. During this working group\, we will explore soft circuits\, e-textiles\, soft robots and slow / low tech solutions to collaborate on a project\, to be determined by the group. Participants are invited to take part in both learning through an ongoing workshop series\, and working together on a larger project in bi-weekly sessions. \n\n\n\nThe first session will be a workgroup session. Come and meet the group and register your interest as we gear up for the first workshop two weeks later exploring ‘soft sound’ on October 26th from 1:00 – 4:00pm.  \n\n\n\nPlease email: lee wilkins (l.wilkins@concordia.ca) to register interest or sign up for the first workshop! (Please include ‘Soft SLow-tech’ in the subject line of your email). \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/soft-slow-tech-workshop-series-workgroup-meetups/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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