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 Looking forward to seeing you there! Femina Controllata Machina is a collaboration […]
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'! Join 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 […]
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. This presentation will offer an overview of Stadon’s individual and collaborative […]
Members across clusters are invited to the Speculative Life Research Cluster Symposium 2022 with guest speaker Julian Stadon. The 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. […]
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 […]
DATE: From October 14th to October 28thLOCATION: Champ des Possibles, 5605 Av. de Gaspé, Montréal Speculative 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 […]
Altered Perceptions: An Introduction to MicroscopyDATE: Thursday, October 13th, 1:00-3:00 PMLOCATION: Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV-10.835) In 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 […]
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. Soft SLow tech is a series about creating electronics that are made out of […]
An introductory workshop for people who wish to learn the basics of character animation in Unreal Engine. DATE: Thursday, October 6th, 3:00-6:00 PMLOCATION: Milieux Resource Centre (EV11.705) Join TAG for an introductory workshop on character animation in Unreal Engine. A basic understanding of what rigging & skinning is is assumed but not required. Beginner-level experience […]
The Ethnography Lab invite you all to their launch for the upcoming year! As they do every fall, they will be hosting an open house where they will present the exciting things they have been working on during the past year and introduce the new members they picked up along the way. But, most of […]
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 our first pizza lunch since COVID happened. This will be a great opportunity for current and new members to reunite and (re)connect. Come along to have some pizza and chat - we're […]
Post Image presents the first installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023. The first speaker in the series will be Martin Akwiranoron Loft, photographer, printmaker, and craftsperson from Kahnawá:ke. This speaker series is built from a shared ambition […]