A talk by Vinzenz Hediger, Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Across the political spectrum and ranging from professionally produced campaign ads to grass-roots style activist videos, the movie trailer has become a template for political advertising. Based on an historical analysis of movie trailers, this presentation will discuss a number of current examples of […]
A series of talks and works exploring methodologies for encoding storytelling in digital spaces -Vegetarian lunch will be provided-Wheelchair accessible
Use, re-use, engagement, creation, distraction, immersion, seduction, play, critique—media and culture consist of practices that shape experience, meaning, and communities. The basic dynamism of media present and past, though, is not always accommodated in our critical, theoretical, and scholarly approaches. We need critical explorations that recognize and assess media and their full cultural complexities in […]
This 10-hour workshop is designed for artists who want to expand their practice using VR. Students will learn UNITY and develop their first VR project for the HTC VIVE headset. No prior coding experience is required. What we will cover: Introduction to Unity (Hierarchy and game objects, physics, lighting and textures) Animation and timelime controller- 360 degrees video mapping -Introduction […]
A discussion of... What is liveness? How do we do liveness? This event is part of the weeklong planning session for the new SSHRC project “Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences” which looks at "liveness" across three different but neighboring practices: participatory theatre, larps (live action role playing games) and digital-physical games. Lynn Hughes and […]
The Machine Agencies group presents a workshop on designing creative voice bots. ** If you're planning to attend, please RSVP at machineagencies.milieux@gmail.com ** Location: TAG, EV 11th floor, Room 11.435 In this workshop, we’ll discuss the history of speech recognition and speech synthesis, learn the basics of conversational design, and then create our own creative […]
The Machine Agencies Research Group presents YELLING AT COMPUTERS with Nicole He. Location: Milieux Resource Room, EV 11th floor room 11.705 Time: Wednesday, October 2 from 3-4 p.m. Computers are able to understand human speech better than ever before, but voice technology is still mostly used for practical (and boring!) purposes, like playing music, smart […]
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as wel las a creature of fiction.” -Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-.Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" In her landmark essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto", Donna Haraway speaks of the cyborg as a being that […]
Graduate students and faculty are invited to check out the facilities available for their research projects as Milieux members. The labs and studios on the 10th floor of EV offer high-end equipment for sound, video, photography, and textiles. Meet the support staff and find out how your project can be supported. Hosted by […]
Join the Toronto based collective Public Recordings for a facilitated reading and reflection on Jo Freeman’s influential essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”. Originally published in 1970, Freeman’s text reflects on her experiences in the 1960’s Women's Liberation movement, as it sought to move from criticizing society to changing it. The essay examines the structural challenges […]
Education Makers hosts bi-weekly maker jams open to anyone interested in learning about making or working on a maker project. The jams take place at MilieuxMake, our makerspace equipped with 3D printers, soldering and sewing stations, and much more. Education Makers are currently working on several projects. Some people come just to tag along and […]
Milieux is excited to host the inaugural Conference on Maker Cultures. For the very first time, this event will bring top international scholars studying maker culture together with active maker faire participants, scholars and students and the general public. Together, we turn our gaze on the maker movement itself though insight and discussion around five crucial themes: the […]
