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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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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
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221013T150000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221012T160000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221006T180000
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SUMMARY:Animation in Unreal Engine Workshop
DESCRIPTION:An introductory workshop for people who wish to learn the basics of character animation in Unreal Engine. \n\n\n\nDATE: Thursday\, October 6th\, 3:00-6:00 PMLOCATION: Milieux Resource Centre (EV11.705) \n\n\n\nJoin 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 with Unreal Engine is highly recommended. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we we will cover importing a provided skinned character into Unreal\, some of the basics of Unreal’s control rig\, how to add the character to a level sequencer and play animation on it. We will take the Unreal default third person project and replace the mannequin within it with our new character. We will briefly explain what animation state-flow and runtime animation systems are on a theoretical level. The exercise should serve as a good primer for beginners to research animation topics more in depth on their own. \n\n\n\nTo register or ask any question\, please reach out to the workshop organizer Leo Morales (kishongus@gmail.com) or TAG coordinator Kalervo Sinervo (tag.coordinator@concordia.ca). \n\n\n\nSascha Kavanagh-Sommerer is a technical animator working in the Games and VFX industry. He has worked as a developer in the animation department on a range of AAA games at Electronic Arts including Mass Effect: Andromeda\, Star Wars: Battlefront 2\, Star Wars: Squadrons\, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf\, and Dead Space Remake. More recently Sascha has been at Method/Company 3 working with game engines to produce linear media content. He loves movies\, science fiction\, fantasy\, food and running.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/animation-in-unreal-engine-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T133000
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SUMMARY:The Ethnography Lab Launch
DESCRIPTION: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 all\, the event will be a moment to stir up new ideas with anyone who wants to get involved with the lab this year! This event will take place on Friday\, September 30th\, at 1:30 pm at their headquarters at the Milieux Institute (E.V. 10.625). At the open house\, they will present you some of their current projects and pitch several ideas for how we might co-create a collaborative ethnographic ethos. They are looking for anyone who wants to be part of their ongoing projects — such as Infrastructures of Ethnography (their new SHRCC-funded project) & Montreal Waterways — and anyone with fresh ideas! You can check out their past activities on their website here.About the Lab The Concordia Ethnography Lab (now in its sixth year!) is part of the Speculative Life research cluster at the Milieux Institute. The Lab was created as a place for different research groups cross-disciplines to meet\, collaborate\, practice ethnography\, and generally ponder what thatmeans. Feel free to contact them ahead of time if you’ve got an idea you want to get on the agenda. If you can’t make it\, but would like to join the lab or get further information\, please contact their new lab coordinator\, Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at mlamothekatrapani@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n“Let’s continue to experiment with new ways of thinking and doing ethnography together this year!”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-ethnography-lab-launch/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220928T120000
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SUMMARY:Milieux Institute: Pizza Lunch and Tours
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 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 eager to see you and hear what you’re up to!  \n\n\n\nWe will also offer tours of the Milieux spaces for new folks and for those not-so-new ones who\, confined to the virtual realm\, did not have the chance to wander around the institute. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there! 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-institute-pizza-lunch-and-tours/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260622T155202
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SUMMARY:Martin Akwiranoron Loft: Artist Talk And Reception
DESCRIPTION: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 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 first gathering will take place on September 27th at 4PM in-person in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University\, AND online via Zoom. The event will begin with opening words by Elder Kawennotas Sedalia Fazio. \n\n\n\nAfter the talk\, there will be a public reception on the terrace. Registration for in-person attendance is not required. Please sign up if you wish to attend online via Zoom. For more information click here. \n\n\n\nSpeakers invited to the series 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\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio\, the Black Perspectives Office and daphne Arts Centre and with the support of Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture\, the Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Office of the Vice-President\, Research and Graduate Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/martin-akwiranoron-loft-artist-talk-and-reception/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Tour - Visit
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220927T140000
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SUMMARY:LePARC Lunch: Welcome!
DESCRIPTION:LePARC invite you all to their first Lunch of the semestre! This will be an informal gathering to celebrate your arrival or return\, share ideas\, a and questions. This event is for new and returning members\, as well as folks curious to learn more about their cluster. Bring your lunch\, drop when you can and stay as long as you like! \n\n\n\nAbout LePARC \n\n\n\nLePARC is a community of interdisciplinary performance practitioners made up of faculty\, students\, artists and affiliate researchers united by the desire to collaborate. Their research-creation areas include participatory performance\, collaborative creation\, sound and music\, oral history performance\, intermedia performance\, technologies\, dramaturgy\, contemporary circus\, amongst many more. \n\n\n\nFor more information see their website here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/leparc-lunch-welcome/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220923T160000
DTSTAMP:20260622T155202
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SUMMARY:People’s History of the Internet: Workshop with Caroline Sinders
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders will be offering an in-person workshop as part of People’s History of the Internet\, a research project which aims at producing a decentralized and global narrative of the network’s presence and impact in our daily lives. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will use design thinking strategies as an artistic method to document\, map\, and explore collaborative ways to build and remember web community histories. More specifically\, it looks to broaden\, shift or remediate accepted narratives or representations of the Internet\, and to highlight key figures (some of them women-identified\, or BIPOC) and moments which have largely been erased from canonical histories of the Internet. Participants will be invited to contribute data which brings forth our intimate\, personal\, subjective or countercultural experiences of (and entanglements with) the web. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will happen in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Centre (EV-11.705) from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm\, with a one-hour lunch break from Noon to 1:00 pm. \n\n\n\nParticipation is free\, but places are limited; please book by contacting Daniel Fiset at dfiset@phi.ca. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is offered in partnership with the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art.This workshop will be offered in English. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCaroline SindersCaroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years\, she has been examining the intersections of  technology’s impact in society\, interface design\, artificial intelligence\, abuse\, and politics in digital\, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research\, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning\, user research\, designing for public good\, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher\, she has worked with Amnesty International\, Intel\, IBM Watson\, the Wikimedia Foundation\, and others. \n\n\n\n*Photo courtesy of the artist
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/peoples-history-of-the-internet-workshop-with-caroline-sinders/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220922T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220922T193000
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SUMMARY:MHRC Book Salon and talk by Armond R. Towns
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe Media History Research Centre is running a Book Salon on September 22nd\, showcasing and celebrating recent local publications. There has been a considerable amount of local scholarly output over the last couple of years but pandemic conditions have prevented some of our more traditional ways of honouring those contributions. We invite you to gather in person for a ceremonial toast and to peruse our teeming book table!Dr. Armond R. Towns will open the event with his talk “The Medium is the Message\, Revisited: Media and Black Epistemologies\,” which examines the political-economic context that informed the theoretical position of mid-twentieth century Canadian media theory\, particularly the work of Marshall McLuhan. It will open up new ways to think about this context in relation to not just media\, but also race\, humanity\, and radical politics.Dr. Towns is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Carleton University and is the author of On Black Media Philosophy (U of California Press\, 2022).This evening also marks the first edition of the new Montreal Media History Seminar: a series of public talks on recent media historical scholarship that will run throughout 2022-23. For the full schedule click here.Come join us on Sept 22.For more information\, contact MHRC co-ordinator Laura Pannekoek.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mhrc-book-salon-and-talk-by-armond-r-towns/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220921T190000
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SUMMARY:Solarities – Thinking with the Sun
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe Solar Media research group is excited to invite you to join them on September 21st\, 2022 for a critical engagement with the possibilities and potentials of solar energy. \n\n\n\n“What might a world look like if our societies\, communications technologies\, and economies were organized around energy from the sun rather than from fossil fuels? What new infrastructures\, institutions\, and power structures would such a transition require? What forms of creativity\, collectivity\, and social organizing might we need?” \n\n\n\nCome and join them for an informal discussion about all these questions and more. Our conversation will be anchored in the work of two collectives who have been grappling with these questions: \n\n\n\n\nThe Solar Media Collective is a group of researchers and makers interested in the question of how to reimagine energy and communications infrastructure for a low-carbon world. Among other things\, they have been building a solar-powered server which will be used to host collaboratively developed art\, games\, and other material. The server will be on display at the event for participants to learn more and interact with. \nThe After Oil Collective is an interdisciplinary group of international scholars\, students\, artists\, activists\, and practitioners who came together in 2019 for a summer school focused on imagining a world powered by solar energy. The collective recently published a short book entitled Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice (read it free online at https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/solarities).  \n\n\n\n\nThe conversation will involve a roundtable discussion with members of the Solar Media Collective about solar energy and its promises\, possibilities\, and potential problems. We will then invite participants\, contributors\, and audience members for an open discussion relating to the themes raised by the roundtable.  \n\n\n\nThe discussion will be followed by refreshments. Please RSVP here. \n\n\n\n*Please note that this is an in-person event that will not be streamed anywhere online. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/solarities-thinking-with-the-sun/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Michael Century
DESCRIPTION:Milieux presents: \n\n\n\nAn Afternoon with Michael Century \n\n\n\nCome spend an afternoon with Michael Century\, in conversation about his new book Northern Sparks: Innovation\, Technology Policy\, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age.   \n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 14\, 1:30 – 4:00 pm in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University. The event will be followed by a reception on the terrace.  \n\n\n\nThere will be a short presentation by Michael followed by a discussion of the book with participants moderated by three Milieux faculty: Lynn Hughes\, Darren Wershler and Fenwick McKelvey.  Folks coming to the session are invited to read chapter 1 and either one of chapters 3 or 7.  The whole book is available as open access here. \n\n\n\nWe hope you can join us for what will be an excellent afternoon of discussion of this important book that speaks to the heart of Milieux’s history and future. Please RSVP on the eventbrite if you are coming so we can plan for the reception. For more information or questions about this event please contact Harry Smoak. \n\n\n\nMichael Century \n\n\n\nMichael Century\, a musician and media arts historian\, is Professor of Music and New Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He founded the Media Arts program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nNorthern Sparks \n\n\n\nUnderstanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks\, Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention\, starting in the 1960s with the energies unleashed by Expo 67. Debunking conventional wisdom\, Century reclaims innovation from both its present-day devotees and detractors by revealing how experimental artists critically challenge as well as discover and extend the capacities of new technologies.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-afternoon-with-michael-century/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220912T200000
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SUMMARY:Samuel Bianchini: 'Attempts at explementation' Talk at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:Attempts at explementation:Combining material and symbolic operations in art and design research \n\n\n\nIn computer science\, implementation designates that human activity which consists in translating a set of specifications initially expressed in “natural” language into a program a computer can execute. Predicated on the notion that verbalization exercises control over the material world\, implementation and its increasingly widespread application exemplify a form of triumphalist anthropocentrism. Confronted by novel forms of materialism necessitated by the ecological crisis\, this performative turn today needs to seen in perspective. Instead of viewing our relationship with the environment through the prism of how we are to control it with words\, now the need is to develop novel modalities of cooperation with the material world. How can we reverse the process of implementation by listening to what matter says to us—or\, rather\, what it “makes us say”—and thus envisage a form “explementation”? \n\n\n\nBased on a very recent publication (in P. Ribault\, Design\, Gestaltung\, Formatività. Philosophies of Making\, Ed. Birkhäuser\, Basel\, 2022)\, Samuel Bianchini will develop this notion and approach of “explementation” through different case studies of research-creation – in particular in the field of robotics and active materials -\, different examples where the art practice is the main condition to cooperate and to reflect. \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 Monday\, September 12th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Resource Centre (Room EV-11.705) @ Concordia University\, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West\, H3G 2W1.BIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nSamuel Bianchini is an artist and professor at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD\, PSL University\, Paris). \n\n\n\nHis creations involve physical as well as symbolic operations\, in context\, in public and in real time\, stimulating us to contemplate\, to think as much as to act. Supporting the principle of an “operational aesthetic”\, Samuel Bianchini works on the relationship between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”\, modes of representation\, new forms of aesthetic experiences\, sociopolitical organizations and ecological issues. To this end\, he collaborates with scientists and engineering research laboratories. \n\n\n\nHe lives and works in Paris. With more than 100 collective and 20 solo exhibitions\, his works are regularly presented in Europe and around the world. In close relation to his research and artistic practice\, Samuel Bianchini has undertaken theoretical work\, which has led to numerous publications including the collective book Practicable. From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art\, MIT Press\, 2016 (co-directed with Erik Verhagen). \n\n\n\nHe studied art and design through different approaches and defended his PhD thesis at Palais de Tokyo with a solo exhibition and\, more recently\, his accreditation to supervise research (HDR). As a teacher-researcher at EnsAD\, he is also the head of the Reflective Interaction group of EnsadLab (EnsAD’s laboratory) and the co-head of La Chaire arts & sciences set up in 2017 with École polytechnique and the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation. He is also member of the network Hexagram and associate member of the Cluster of excellence Matters of Activity\, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. \n\n\n\nWebsites: \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ndispotheque.org \n\n\n\nmitpress.mit.edu/books/practicable \n\n\n\nmitpress.mit.edu/books/behavioral-objects-i \n\n\n\nbirkhauser.com/books/9783035622447 \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/samuel-bianchini-attempts-at-explementation-talk-at-milieux/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:VR Brunch: Showcase of Brazilian VR Projects
DESCRIPTION:In the context of a Quebec-Brazil cooperation project around VR and co-creation funded by the Ministère des relations internationales du Québec and the Université de Montréal\, the Immersive Reality Lab at the Milieux Institute would like to invite you to a VR projects showcase. \n\n\n\nTwo Brazilian colleagues working with immersive media will be presenting to us their work and approach: Professor André Paz and\, producer and curator Ana Cunha. They will be presenting immersive Brazilian projects and are looking forward to meeting creators\, researchers\, curators and professionals in the fields of VR\, immersive audio and metaverse. This event will be hosted at Milieux Resource Centre: 1515 Saint-Catherine St. West (EV Building)\, 11.705. \n\n\n\nNo sign-up is required\, and the event is open to all! \n\n\n\nAndré Paz is Professor at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and at the Creative Media Graduate Program (PPGMC) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is the coordinator of the Knowledge-Action Network Bug404 (bug404.net) \n\n\n\nAna Cunha is s the cultural manager of MUSEU.XYZ. and a Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Creative Media\, at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGMC | ECO | UFRJ).  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-brunch-showcase-of-brazilian-vr-projects/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220621
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SUMMARY:Applications for the 2022 Summer Writing Residency are open!
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nSummer is a time for writing for many of us\, but not everyone has an easy time finding a stable functional space where they can concentrate. Some write at home\, at cafés\, in the library or in other workspaces but we want to try (again!) something else: a graduate writing residency at Milieux! \n\n\n\nThis summer\, starting June 20th\, we are once again reconfiguring the Milieux Atelier space as a writer’s space specifically designed for students requiring a stable\, quiet and convivial space to write. Upon admission to the program for the summer\, you will have a desk space in a beautiful and bright air conditioned room\, access to the kitchen and other Milieux facilities\, and the support of peers. \n\n\n\nThe only requirements are that you be a Milieux graduate student member writing for a thesis or comprehensive exams\, you can commit to using your desk for at least 3 days a week and you help to keep the space (and kitchen) clean and tidy. Some desk sharing may be required but you will be able to leave books and other materials. The program will run from June 20th through Sept 2nd and all interested applicants should contact Marc Beaulieu at marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca. In your application email\, specify what degree program you are in\, what year of the program\, the kind of writing you will be doing (thesis\, exam\, other)\, any pertinent deadlines for the writing\, and your projected time commitment for using the space (let us know as much as possible what your schedule is\, any vacations and so on\, so we can maximize the use of the space). There are a limited number of desk spaces so we cannot promise to give everyone a spot but we will do our best to accommodate as many students as possible. Application remains open as long as there are unfilled desk spaces!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/applications-for-the-2022-summer-writing-residency-are-open-2/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220618
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SUMMARY:Hype\, Hyper or Over-Hyped: a Student Symposium on Critical AI Studies in Canada
DESCRIPTION:A Student Symposium on Critical AI Studies in CanadaHosted by Machines Agencies of Speculative Life \n\n\n\nJune 16 from 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM and June 17 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PMOnline and In Person at Milieux Institute EV Building\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W \n\n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite to Participate \n\n\n\nAbout UsWe are excited about using this event to build community and care across the student of AI in Canada. Our objective is to accept all submissions and develop a form that ensures fair\, supportive participation. We encourage work-in-progress\, research at all levels\, and all stages. As host\, we will share guidelines for moderation before the event and facilitate constructive discussion. The world can feel a little stressful and we hope this conference might be something different. \n\n\n\nWe Are Guided by a Desire To: \n\n\n\n\nconvene critical researchers studying in Canada;\nsupport graduate research in-progress and imperfect; and\ndevelop a community of care and support for this research.\n\n\n\n\nWe are committed to equity\, humility\, and good relations in our research and among each other. \n\n\n\nDownload the tentative schedule (PDF) \n\n\n\nEthos \n\n\n\nWe are only a few organizers with no professional support. Please mindful of the gendered division of labor. When you arrive at the symposium\, ask how you can help. Take initiatives that benefit the community of critical AI researchers we are creating.  \n\n\n\nBe mindful of and reflexive of your own behavior. Support others to accomplish their full potential\, don’t dominate the conversation and don’t interrupt others.   \n\n\n\nWe encourage all to engage with and uplift the scholarship and voices of Black\, Indigenous\, Global South and other equity deserving groups. AI remains a white EurAmerican male ethnocentric field of research which needs to be enriched and troubled.   \n\n\n\nDuring the period of the conference\, we have appointed “Angels”consisting of two individuals who serve as contact persons for the purpose of receiving and addressing confidentiality issues that might arise at the conference. We are committed to feminist\, anti-racist and intersectional values in both the content of our research and the way we enteract with each other.  \n\n\n\nModeration Guidelines During the conference\, we will use the progressive stack to solicit comments and feedback after each presentation. Moderators will maintain a speakers queue\, giving priority to new and marginalized voices.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/hype-hyper-or-over-hyped-a-student-symposium-on-critical-ai-studies-in-canada/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220518T210000
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera Finissage
DESCRIPTION:Please join on on WEDNESDAY\, MAY 18TH\, at 6:00 PM EST at The Milieux Institute (11th Floor\, EV 11.725) for the official closing party for In the Middle\, a Chimera\, as well as the closing for the exhibition element at the Milieux Institute. The evening will feature live demonstrations of games and installations\, as well as a live performance by Alexandre Saunier and Marc-André Cossette happening at 7 PM EST in the Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625)! \n\n\n\nMilieux cofounder Chris Salter and his partner Anke Burger will also use the opportunity to say farewell to dear colleagues and friends before their move to Switzerland. Everybody is welcome! \n\n\n\nMask wearing will be mandatory\, and social distancing will be maintained during the event.The exhibition will be open as of May 5th (some artist exceptions) from Monday to Saturday\, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST. \n\n\n\nIn the Middle\, a Chimera considers how new\, breakthrough technology developed under the veil of capitalism inevitably bends to its whirling\, maelstrom pull (sometimes despite more communitarian originary intentions): the goal of this exhibition/project is to envision and develop community-oriented futures where this pull is redirected towards mutually beneficial relationships\, and ways in which we might undermine or re-conceptualize these technologies to not only nurture ourselves but our surrounding ecosystems and environments.  \n\n\n\nFEATURED ARTISTS \n\n\n\n10TH FLOOR (Floor maps will be available on site) \n\n\n\nTricia Enns | Narrative Debris: Mapping with pulp\, debris\, electronics\, and many hands \n\n\n\nMegan Stein | The Yellow Wallpaper – Sensory Implications \n\n\n\nAndrew Rabyniuk | A representational disassembly of the practical machinery for a conditional technicity in material relations (Leclerc Artistat 36” four-shaft jack loom I\, II\, and III) \n\n\n\nThe Solar Media Project: Isabelle Boucher Alex Custodio Janna Frenzel Michael Iantorno Idun Isdrake Malte Leander Fenwick McKelvey Robert Marinov Bart Simon Don Undeen Edith Viau Christine White Lee Wilkins \n\n\n\nPatrick Seemann-Ricard | Exposed Façades \n\n\n\nMelina Campos Ortiz | Abolissons les tropiques: An ethnography of snow in three blog entries \n\n\n\nVIDEO PRODUCTION STUDIO (10.760)(On view as of May 9TH) \n\n\n\nlee wilkins | void \n\n\n\nNatalia Balska\, Brice Ammar-Khodja\, Maurice Jones\, & Idun Idrake | Sensing field. \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja | The Cycles of Attraction \n\n\n\nSteven Sych | Oceanic Theremin\, a Triptych \n\n\n\nMinecraft and Modernity Student Research Cabal \n\n\n\nScott DeJong | Lizards & Lies \n\n\n\n11TH FLOOR \n\n\n\nOra4Art (Debora Alanna & Bora Bodur) | Poetics as Psychogeography \n\n\n\nPuneet Jain | Umwelten: Shifting agencies among the human\, non-human and a machine learning algorithm.  \n\n\n\nIdun Isdrake | Ravens Ice \n\n\n\nMarie-Christine Larivière\, Anne Boutet\, & Audrey Coulombe | Moving Boundaries \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian | Residual Textile Dye Spectrum \n\n\n\nMalte Leander | When in Shade \n\n\n\nEtta Sandry | Pathways
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-finissage/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220524T130000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Vigliensoni Workshop: Introduction to Machine Learning for Creative Practice
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n Gabriel Vigliensoni: Introduction to machine learning for creative practice with sound and musicMay 17th & 24th\, 2022\, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTMilieux Resource Room (EV 11/705) \n\n\n\nTo register\, please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca with subject line ‘VIGLIENSONI WORKSHOP’— \n\n\n\nThis two-day workshop aims at developing technical and personal skillsin users and potential users of machine learning in creative contextsin general\, and sound and music in particular. The sessions willinclude an introduction to the machine learning (ML) paradigm andhuman agency in creative AI; supervised\, unsupervised\, and generativeML approaches; and music research-creation projects using machinelearning tools. Some of the tools that will be covered in the sessionsare: Wekinator\, AudioStellar\, R-VAE\, and RAVE.The workshop is designed to appeal to any artist\, student\, or creatorusing music or sound as a plastic material for (part of) their workand creative practice. This group includes sound and electronic musicartists\, and also intermedia and mixed media artists. \n\n\n\nvigliensoni\, aka Gabriel Vigliensoni\, is an electronic music artist\,performer\, and researcher whose work interrogates the various stagesof contemporary music production’s workflow\, always transforming theprocess of making a record into a playing field for experimentationand learning.   Having studied music technology in Santiago andMontréal\, and carried out research on machine learning for creativepractices in London\, vigliensoni is equally grounded in the electronicmusic subcultures surrounding house and techno as well as onstate-of-the-art and experimental techniques for music-making.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gabriel-vigliensoni-workshop-introduction-to-machine-learning-for-creative-practice/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220515T130000
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SUMMARY:-- POSTPONED -- Caroline Sinders Workshop: People's History of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED | STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULED DATE \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders: People’s History of the InternetMay 15th\, 2022\, 11:00 AM ESTHYBRID: Fondation PHI Education Room (451 rue Saint-Jean) AND OnlineIn collaboration with the Fondation PHI \n\n\n\nFor online attendance\, please click the link in the left-hand column. To register for in-person attendance (space is limited to 10 people!)\, please send an email to dfiset@phi.ca with the subject Caroline Sinders WORKSHOP. \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders will be offering a workshop as part of People’s History of the Internet (working title)\, a research project which aims at producing a decentralized and global narrative of the network’s presence and impact in our daily lives. Using Miro to build a collaborative framework with participants with differing levels of professional or personal engagement with Internet\, the project looks to broaden\, shift or remediate accepted narratives or representations of the Internet\, and to highlight key figures (some of them women-identified\, or BIPOC) and moments which have largely been erased from canonical histories of the Internet. Participants will be invited to contribute data which brings forth our intimate\, personal\, subjective or countercultural experiences of (and entanglements with) the web. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be of a duration of two (2) hours\, and the location is to be determined shortly. This workshop is the first in a longer-term collaboration with the PHI and Sinders around this global project. \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years\, she has been examining the intersections of  technology’s impact in society\, interface design\, artificial intelligence\, abuse\, and politics in digital\, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research\, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning\, user research\, designing for public good\, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher\, she has worked with Amnesty International\, Intel\, IBM Watson\, the Wikimedia Foundation\, and others. \n\n\n\nSinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School\, the Mozilla Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Eyebeam\, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry\, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, Omidyar Network\, the Open Technology Fund and the Knight Foundation. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern\, Victoria and Albert Museum\, MoMA PS1\, LABoral\, Ars Electronica\, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft\, Slate\, Quartz\, Wired\, as well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/postponed-caroline-sinders-workshop-peoples-history-of-the-internet/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220513T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220513T150000
DTSTAMP:20260622T155202
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera Symposium
DESCRIPTION:About midway through the exhibition portion\, we present to you the Symposium segment\, where you’ll be able to hear presentations about exciting research-creation projects and participate in a Gameboy workshop led by Alex Custodio and Michael Iantorno! What a variety! It’s all happening May 13th\, from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM\, at the Milieux Resource Room and MakerSpace\, AND online (for the morning presentations)! \n\n\n\nModerating the symposium will be Mona Hedayati\, an artist-researcher and a joint PhD student in the research-creation stream of Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University and the digital arts doctorate program at Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts at University of Antwerp\, Belgium. \n\n\n\nOFFICIAL PRESENTERS \n\n\n\nAlex Custodio & Michael Iantorno\, Ali Kenefick\, Hanine El Mir\, Melina Campos\, Kregg Hetherington\, jacqueline beaumont\, Rythâ Kesselring\, Miranda Smitheram\, Laurent Simon (HEC Montreal)\, Helen Brunet (Vestechpro)\,  Alicia Turgeon (Eastern Bloc)\, Chris Salter & the Animate Team\, the Solar Media Project team\, & the Minecraft and Modernity Student Research Cabal. \n\n\n\nWORKSHOP DETAILS1:30 PM EST—Milieux MakerSpace (10.825)BRING YOUR BROKEN GAMEBOYS! \n\n\n\nOur proposed intervention interrogates the black boxing of technology and empowers users to repair their own hardware to extend the lifespan of their consumer electronics. We begin with a brief presentation to situate videogames within the narrative of planned obsolescence and challenge assumptions around the legality or authenticity of altering proprietary hardware. We then demonstrate how to perform a simple act of repair: replacing a CR1616\, CR2025\, or CR2032 battery in a Game Boy\, Game Boy Color\, or Game Boy Advance cartridge. We spend the remainder of the time supporting participants as they repair their own hardware. \n\n\n\nWe ask interested participants to please register via email directly to Alex at alexandra.custodio@concordia.ca so that the coordinators have a general sense of how many people will be there! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220512T133000
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SUMMARY:Milieux Institute Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:It is finally happening! 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) AND Online (see left-hand column for link) for our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING! We will be presenting our Annual Report (2020-2021) for you to peruse\, palpate\, etc.\, and we will be present to answer any and all of your questions! We encourage everyone to attend—even if you have no interest in reports or questions\, we’re interested in seeing you and hearing what you’re up to! \n\n\n\nWhile past annual meetings have famously featured pizza\, given the current circumstances we will not be able to provide such sustenance. It is our hope\, however\, that our presence and discussions will prove to be nourishing! The meeting should last no longer than an hour and a half. \n\n\n\nMark your calendars\, and see you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-institute-annual-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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SUMMARY:In The Middle\, a Chimera Vernissage
DESCRIPTION:Please join on on THURSDAY\, MAY 5TH\, at 6:00 PM EST at Eastern Bloc for the official opening party for In the Middle\, a Chimera\, as well as the opening for the exhibition element at Eastern Bloc. No reservation is required; mask wearing will be mandatory\, and social distancing will be maintained during the event.The exhibition will be open at Eastern Bloc up until and including May 18th from Tuesday to Saturday\, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST. \n\n\n\nIn the Middle\, a Chimera considers how new\, breakthrough technology developed under the veil of capitalism inevitably bends to its whirling\, maelstrom pull (sometimes despite more communitarian originary intentions): the goal of this exhibition/project is to envision and develop community-oriented futures where this pull is redirected towards mutually beneficial relationships\, and ways in which we might undermine or re-conceptualize these technologies to not only nurture ourselves but our surrounding ecosystems and environments.  \n\n\n\nFEATURED ARTISTS \n\n\n\njacqueline beaumont | post-binary genetic sequencesjacqueline beaumont is a bio-material architect\, artist and researcher. Her research weaves together Queer Ecology\, Artificial Reproductive technologies\, Transgender studies and Material engineering. She has been exhibited\, lectured and recognized internationally including a gold medal from IGEM (MIT 2019)\, Concordia university undergraduate fellowship(2020)\, presented work at MUTEK (2021)\, Culture² (2021)\, Center Pompidou (behavioral matter 2019)\, and FoFa Gallery (2020). She graduated with a BFA in Fibers and Material practices at Concordia University. Currently she works as a research affiliate of the Milieux institute under Dr.Alice Jarry (Concordia University research chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality) as well as the Biointerface lab at Mcgill. \n\n\n\nDiyar Mayil | BroomDiyar Mayil is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture\, installation and performance. Her work explores the public life of marginalized bodies. Comfort\, discomfort\, adaptation\, and the acceptance of different bodies in both public and private are recurring subjects in her practice. Her work has recently been shown at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse\, Printemps numérique and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Upcoming commitments include residency at the Banff Center in Alberta and NARS Foundation in NYC. She holds a BFA from Concordia University\, where she has recently completed her MFA. Originally from Istanbul\, she now lives and works in Montreal. \n\n\n\nOjo Agi | There Is Space For You Here \n\n\n\n“There is space for you here” is a series of drawings exploring self-care and empowerment. The common feminist response to sexist and racist representation is to look back\, reclaiming the gaze as a site of resistance. But what if\, instead\, we opted to look away\, making space for ourselves to rest\, recover and restore?In “Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery”\, feminist writer bell hooks insists that Black people “are so well socialized to push ourselves past healthy boundaries that we often do not know how to set protective boundaries that would eliminate certain forms of stress in our lives… Since society rewards us most\, indicates that we are valuable\, when we are willing to push ourselves to the limit and beyond\, we need a life-affirming practice\, a counter-system of valuation in order to resist this agenda.”While self-care practices are diverse and suited to each individual’s needs\, they all begin with setting boundaries and disengaging from the things that we no longer want. Inspired by the practice of refusal\, these drawings suggest that making space for ourselves begins with saying no. \n\n\n\nTimothy Thomasson | I’m Feeling Lucky \n\n\n\nMy work primarily is created with computer animation\, and utilizes real-time technologies to create continually generative environments and systems. I am questioning the ways moving images are produced and consumed within both historic and contemporary contexts\, particularly examining the affects computer generated images have on society\, culture\, and perception. \n\n\n\nMark Igloliorte | Makpilitak UKalagalâk (Tile Talk) \n\n\n\nMark Igloliorte (Inuk\, Nunatsiavut) is an artist\, essayist and educator. He is an associate professor of Frameworks and Interventions in Indigenous Art Practices\, Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University. As a scholar and artist his work investigates relating to indigenous futures through a grounding in the embodied practices and language. His use of the kayak\, kamutik (Inuit sled) and skateboard speak to relating to the land how it is traversed and with specific ties to a pre-colional past and an indigenized future. Igloliorte’s artistic work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada as well as internationally. Including including New Zealand and The Netherlands. Igloliorte has a new Immersive Video Production Project as one of 6 mid-career Indigenous exploring the power of 360-degree video and augmented reality for digital storytelling which will be featured in an eight meter high Lavuu as the Nordic Pavilion in the 59th Venice Biennale contemporary art international exhibition between April and November 2022. \n\n\n\nPhilippe Vandal | saturation by accumulation \n\n\n\nAt the intersection of technological\, ecological\, and artistic preoccupations\, Philippe’s work bridges bio-inspired critical design\, environmental chemistry\, and site-specific tangible media interventions. He has been interested in prototyping and exploring small-scale devices as both scientific tools and sensitive frameworks for intervening\, visualizing\, remediating\, and thinking with different local sites impacted by the mismanagement of landfill and construction waste\, snow removal\, and industrial leachates. Addressing issues of socio-environmental justice\, his work seeks to align with critical landscape studies\, waste and discard studies\, and environmental realism to examine the practical\, sociocultural and political capabilities and limits of remediation framework to engage with at-risk materials\, sites\, and communities. Philippe’s work has been presented at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2020: What is Sentience?)\, VAV Gallery\, Art Mûr\, and collaborative work at Centre Pompidou\, Ars Electronica\, les Rencontres Hexagram\, Ada X\, and Mutek. Philippe is currently completing a BFA Major in Intermedia Cyber Arts.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-vernissage/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Listening to Radio Waves (I) with Zeph Thibodeau
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake Workshops PresentsLISTENING TO RADIO WAVES (CHAPTER 1)Part of the In the Middle\, a Chimera Warm-Up ProgrammingBy Zeph Thibodeau \n\n\n\nDATE: Tuesday April 26th\, 1:00 – 4:00 PMLOCATION: MilieuxMake\, EV-10.825In this workshop\, we will be exploring the fascinating world of electromagnetic listening. Using AM radios we can listen to human radio broadcasts\, but we can also listen to the countless voices of the natural and built environment. Taking things a step further\, we can attach two radios to a pair of headphones\, constructing immersive radio-listening machines. Together\, we will make\, think and talk our way through the experience of connecting to the electromagnetic world in a different way. We will collaborate in recording the process and our findings\, which will form the basis for subsequent workshops. This is a do-it-together workshop—no technical expertise is necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend and to contribute in whatever way they can.Registration is required for this onsite workshop as spaces are limited. Please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register and include ‘Listening to Radio Waves’ in the subject line of your email.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-listening-to-radio-waves-i-with-zeph-thibodeau/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Inertia: Speculative Fossils Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nFrom April 22 to June 13\, 2022Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan de Montréal4801 Pierre-De Coubertin Avenue \n\n\n\nGuillaume Pascale and the research group led by Alice Jarry (Concordia University): Brice Ammar-Khodja\, Jacqueline Beaumont\, Asa Perlman and Philippe Vandal\, in collaboration with Ariane Plante. With the participation of Jean Dubois (UQAM). \n\n\n\nA speculative work that crosses the disappearance of the Earth in the eye of the Voyager probes with the atmospheric and ecological situation in the east of Montreal. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n1977. The two Voyager probes are launched into space to study the planets in our Solar System. Symbolically\, each one carries a gold-plated copper disk bearing a message intended to represent humanity. It contains images\, music and drawings meant for a hypothetical intelligent extra-terrestrial life form. \n\n\n\nInertia revisits this approach on Earth using artifacts created to reflect today’s environmental challenges — they’re made of biomaterials\, that is\, renewable organic plant or animal matter. The work centres around a bioplastic disk that displays a binary representation of a daytime air quality status near petrochemical plants east of Montreal. This becomes the score for the first piece of music in a sequence of four composed using these data as well as the calculated distance of the Voyager probes from our planet. A series of laser-engraved biomaterial membranes and a film bear witness to this process\, which suggests that in the same way that Earth is disappearing from the eye of the Voyager probes\, the living conditions of the planet’s inhabitants are becoming increasingly precarious. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nApril 22\, 2022\, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PMDebris\, space\, and meaning around the exhibition ‘Inertia: Speculative Fossils’ — The waste cycle of planetary vision infrastructuresDemos + Round Table \n\n\n\nAs Voyager’s scientific instruments are gradually being shut down due to a lack of available electrical energy\, this public activity organized within the context of Earth Day 2022 proposes\, from a vertical perspective\, to compare the issues related to space debris with those generated by our ways of life on Earth. Drawing on engagement in their practice with residual\, geo-inspired\, reactive\, intelligent or sustainable materials\, the invited artists\, designers\, media theorists and scientists will take an interdisciplinary look at how these artifacts allow us to envision new scenarios and relationships for the waste – material and technological – produced on Earth\, but also left adrift in space. \n\n\n\nThe event is free and will be hosted in both French and English. \n\n\n\nDemos 1:00 PM to 2:30 PMRound Table 2:30 PM to 4:00 PMFor participants\, please consult the Planétarium’s website here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nApril 28\, 2022\, 6 PMInertia Exhibition Vernissage + Performance \n\n\n\nGuillaume Pascale will offer a sound performance\, improvising in real-time with the distance between the Voyager probes and the Earth. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/inertia-speculative-fossils-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera | Warm-Up Segment
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIt is (once again!) with great enthusiasm that we introduce to you another segment/announcement/development for In the Middle\, a Chimera\, the Milieux Institute’s Year-End Exhibition and Symposium! This time we are announcing the official programming for the warm-up segment\, happening from April 21st to May 3rd. This segment encompasses three diverse\, incisive and vivifying events—a (double) book launch\, a work presentation and a (series of) performance(s). Read on to find out more— \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 21: DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH + ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONArt in the Age of Machine Learning | Sofian Audry + Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life | Chris SalterAnteism Books—435 Rue Beaubien Ouest\, #1003 PM EST \n\n\n\nJoin us for the kick-off warm up event (featured in Hexagram’s EMERGENCE/Y programming): the Chris Salter/Sofian Audry double book launch and round table discussion at Anteism! The event begins at 3 PM EST\, and artworks related to topics discussed will be installed in the exhibition space. You can access the Facebook event via the above image.Authors Christopher Salter and Sofian Audry will get together to discuss their recent publications\, respectively\, “Art in the Age of Machine Learning” (MIT Press\, 2021) and “Sensing machines: How sensors shape our everyday life” (MIT Press\, 2022). The live-streamed roundtable will be followed by a book launch and signature session. Both authors entangle art\, culture and social-cultural responses to technology. More info via the above image! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilieuxMake Workshops PresentsLISTENING TO RADIO WAVES (CHAPTER 1)By Zeph Thibodeau \n\n\n\nDATE: Tuesday April 26th\, 1:00 – 4:00 PMLOCATION: MilieuxMake\, EV-10.825In this workshop\, we will be exploring the fascinating world of electromagnetic listening. Using AM radios we can listen to human radio broadcasts\, but we can also listen to the countless voices of the natural and built environment. Taking things a step further\, we can attach two radios to a pair of headphones\, constructing immersive radio-listening machines. Together\, we will make\, think and talk our way through the experience of connecting to the electromagnetic world in a different way. We will collaborate in recording the process and our findings\, which will form the basis for subsequent workshops. This is a do-it-together workshop—no technical expertise is necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend and to contribute in whatever way they can.Registration is required for this onsite workshop as spaces are limited. Please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register and include ‘Listening to Radio Waves’ in the subject line of your email. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIsa Arriola\, Beyond the “Crossfire”: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islands\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 27: BEYOND THE CROSSFIRE | THERESA ARRIOLALive presentation of Beyond the “Crossfire”: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islandsdaphne—5842 rue St Hubert6 PM EST \n\n\n\nProfessor Theresa Arriola will be presenting her project\, Beyond the “Crossfire“: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islands\, on Wednesday\, April 27th at daphne at 6 PM. The presentation will take approximately one hour\, including a Q&A with the artist and researcher following the presentation. The work will be on view prior to and following the presentation. \n\n\n\nWhen militarization becomes commonplace\, how does one denaturalize this reality? As the hypermilitarization of Oceania continues to accelerate\, I want to offer alternative ways of imagining Indigenous futures that are not tied to the whims of military goals\, but privilege Indigenous sovereignty instead. One way to approach this task is through the hard work of denaturalizing what have become commonplace notions of territory and environment under U.S. imperialism and militarism. These imaginings work to unsettle the taken for granted ways in which the Marianas is framed by military planners in both its violent vocabulary and stagnant cartographic renderings of land\, water and air. \n\n\n\nTheresa “Isa” Arriola was born and raised on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in sociocultural anthropology. Her research focuses on the socio-political implications of contemporary militarization throughout the Marianas archipelago and Oceania more broadly. She is currently an assistant professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Concordia University where she teaches about militarism\, Indigeneity and Oceania. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMAY 3: TATIANA KOROLEVA | BODY ARCHEOLOGY: ANCESTRAL MEMORY IN THE CONTEXT OF (IM)MIGRATIONPerformance presentation following Koroleva’s workshop by participating artists Anissa Boukili\, Danielle Douez\, Tricia Enns\, Somaye Farhan\, Goldjian/Anne Goldenberg\, Myro Le Ber Assiani\, Eliza Mcfarlane\, & c t pIntermedia/Cyberarts Video Production Studio—Concordia EV Building\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W\, 6. 6356 PM EST \n\n\n\nTatiana Koroleva and the participating artists from the Body Archeology: Ancestral Memory in the Context of (Im)Migration workshop series welcome you for a presentation of their findings and developed projects. The presentation will take place at the Intermedia/Cyberarts Production Studio and will last approximately two hours. The following are the featured participating artists: \n\n\n\nAnissa Boukili El Hassani \n\n\n\nAnissa Boukili El Hassani draws on her experience as an immigrant\, perpetually torn between opposite cultures. Her artistic practice revolves around the notions of decolonization\, reappropriation\, self-criticism and repair. The plurality of identities and fragmentation are her main sources of inspiration\, hence her goal: the democratization of conceptual art through an intersectional perspective. Thus\, she seeks to combine the extremes to paint a picture of the complexity of the social\, economic\, cultural and historical relations existing within the capitalist system. \n\n\n\nDanielle Douez \n\n\n\nDanielle Douez (she/her) is a writer and creator based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) with Colombian\, African American\, and French ancestry. She loves projects that involve community building and transformative justice work\, and that explore migrations\, borders\, decolonization\, and beyond-human kinship. \n\n\n\nTricia Enns \n\n\n\nTricia Enns is a masters of design student at Concordia University who explores our relationship with public space through participatory\, sensory\, materially engaged methods. Her work challenges preconceived value hierarchies held within public space by engaging with debris and directing the senses towards the unheard narratives. Enns uses paper making\, illustration\, electronics\, performance\, photography\, audio walks\, and the postal system in her work. Sign-up at her website to have her send you a package in the mail! \n\n\n\nSomaye Farhan \n\n\n\nSomaye Farhan (born in Tehran\, Iran) is a multi-disciplinary artist is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and sculpture. An undergraduate student of Studio Arts program\, Concordia University (Montréal). Farhan explores the theme of perception\, mind\, body\, identity\, nature and women. Most of her artworks are influenced by her two and a half journey on bicycle\, her meditation experiences\, and women. \n\n\n\nHer works are exhibited in the VAV Gallery and Art Matters Festival at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nanne goldenberg/goldjian \n\n\n\nGoldjian is a transdisciplinary artist interested in relational practices between human beings\, ecologies and technologies. Their work creates intimate spaces dedicated to mutual learning and slowing processes. goldjian embraces performance art\, media arts\, land art\, installation and video dance. They facilitate collaborative\, collective and restorative practices. They were born in fRance from rural french and romanian jewish ancestors and crossed the ocean in 2004 to grow roots on an island traditionally named Tiohtia:ke and colonially known as Montreal. To connect to this world\, goldjian practices reliance\, to oneself\, to spaces\, to other human beings and non-humans\, and questions the conditions needed to activate this quality of presence. \n\n\n\nMyro Le Ber Assiani \n\n\n\nQueer and non-binary artist\, Myro Le Ber Assiani lives on the unceded territory of Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. They graduated with the B.A. in Theatre Studies from UQÀM and has been refining their practice in workshops. As a daredevil bush performer\, Myro Le Ber Assiani is interested in risk and transformation as engines of existence and resistance. Their approach is site specific and reflects collective space as a political ecosystem where structuring boundaries lead them to rethink notions of “power\,” “trauma\,” and “consent.” Their work has been presented in solo and collaborative performances at various festivals and venues:  Dare-Dare\, Fonderie Darling\, Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts\, Théâtre des Écuries\, Festival d’arts performatifs de Trois-Rivières\, Festival La plage des Six pompes (Switzerland) and Festival Chalon dans la rue (France). Their work has been distributed by La Serre and Vidéographe in Canada\, the United States and Europe. \n\n\n\nEliza McFarlane \n\n\n\nEliza McFarlane is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Toronto\, ON. She is currently completing her BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. Her current focus is in print making and performance art. She also is active as a vocalist\, organizing and participating community music events in Montreal. Since 2017\, Eliza has lived and worked in Montreal QC. She roots her work and life in economic\, environmental\, and community sustainability. She plans to continue centering community solidarity\, creative experimentation\, emotional resilience\, and interconnectivity in her life and work. Eliza’s instagram account acts as her website at present – It is fitting for the hybridity of private and public life. For the indecisive value of daily\, mundane\, or minute existence\, vs\, isolated\, intentional\, artwork.” \n\n\n\nc t p  \n\n\n\nchantal t paris · my doctoral research-creation project (études et pratiques des arts\, uqam) pulses in the relations between listenings\, situated knowledges and changing climates\, through different moving explorations and within a more than human sympoietic perspective. \n\n\n\nMask wearing for attendees is required\, and we will observe social distancing measures to the best of our ability. \n\n\n\nON THE WORKSHOP: \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore a variety of ways our genetic memory can be activated in the process of performance creation with the purpose of reviewing and connecting to the history of our ancestors. Focusing specifically on the experiences of migration\, immigration\, displacement and relocation as a part of global history\, the workshop proposes to activate the invisible link between our cultures of origin and our present moment. Opening the space for connecting to our roots while also acknowledging the hybridity of (im)migrant’s experiences and identities\, we will focus on creating individual and group projects to venerate our ancestral past and to give voices to the parts of our identities that often remain silenced in a new cultural context. Using the framework of ritual and a variety of performance art methodologies\, this workshop brings forward the concepts of empathetic presence\, collaboration\, dialogic witnessing\, and awareness of belonging to a larger community as fundamental principles of performance art creation. This workshop is suitable for international students and faculty\, immigrants\, travellers\, and/or anyone interested in exploring ancestral memory and the multiplicity of ways it continuously affects our present.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop is organised and facilitated by Tatiana Koroleva\, a multi-disciplinary artist\, poet\, educator\, and researcher who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and creative writing. Currently\, Tatiana teaches at the Department of Studio Arts\, Concordia University (Montreal\, QC). Her work is grounded in the subjects of ancestral memory\, migration\, intergenerational trauma and search for personal and collective healing. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-warm-up-segment/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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SUMMARY:Open Scores Workshop with Lo Bil
DESCRIPTION:In this Walk in LePARC workshop\, we will be finding ways to be together in our not knowing. Through short embodied prompts\, setting shared parameters and asking questions\, we will hold space for one another individually and collectively without having to use the specificity of language and without having to describe what we’re working on. It is less about looking\, and more about asking yourself: how does the energy in the space propel me into my own interests?  What is the effect of being in a co-working space that invites movement?  \n\n\n\nLatecomers will be admitted until 6pm\, that said\, the warm up will assist you in your travels. You don’t need to have a movement practice to join\, this is a cross-disciplinary proposal in which people are welcome to bring something they are working on\, whether a material project\, writing\, or music – although music might be best contained through headphones. Comfortable clothing is suggested but not necessary. Not bringing any materials\, questions or desires is also a great place to begin.   \n\n\n\nMasks and physical distancing will be maintained.  \n\n\n\nTo register\, write to leparc.milieux@gmail.com  \n\n\n\nlo bil (she-her) is a cross-disciplinary artist who creates experiments to generate intuitive felt research through moving-thinkings\, spontaneous utterance\, impulse-based scores\, object manipulation\, unexpected humour\, and inter-relational proposals with the audience. She has performed her work in Toronto\, Montreal\, Edmonton\, Chicago\, New York\, Mexico City\, Berlin\, Amsterdam and Glasgow; and at venues including: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art\, Harbourfront Centre\, Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival\, First Thursdays at AGO\, Luminato Online\, Nuit Blanche\, Flowchart at Dancemakers\, Summerworks\, Fringe and Rhubarb Performance Festivals.   \n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Lo received a Chalmers Award to expand performance methods with mentor Fiona Griffiths and was selected for a Studio 303 residency in Montreal to develop her participatory score\, COMPASS. Lo is the recipient of a Kathy Acker Award (2019) and FADO Performance Arts Centre Live Art Award at Summerworks Performance Festival (2016). Lo has taught Performance-Based art at Sheridan College and facilitated movement as a guest artist at Concordia and University of Toronto in both dance and visual art departments\, School of the Alternative in North Carolina\, Toronto Dance Community Love-in\, and is a certified yoga teacher with 20 years of practice. Lo is a mentor with Maxine Heppner’s Choreographic Marathon and an ongoing voice practice devotee in Fides Kruker’s studio.  
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/open-scores-workshop-with-lo-bil/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Workshop
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Cooking and Culturing Colour
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake Workshop Series presentsCOOKING AND CULTURING COLOUR:Creating compostable dyes from food waste and bacteriaBy Vanessa Mardirossian\, with Alexandra BachmayerDATES: March 15\, 22\, 29\, & 31\, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTLOCATION: HYBRID — Milieux Speculative Life BioLab AND online via Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this four-part hybrid workshop\, we will develop dyes extracted from food waste and derived from bacteria. Through this creation process\, we will explore and discuss themes of sustainability\, minimal waste and re-use\, and the environmental impact of our explorations. We will introduce participants to basic lab protocols\, alternative ‘eco-friendly’ lab methodologies\, and adapted techniques for safe ‘at-home’ lab work as well.  Specifically\, participants will learn to dye textiles with food waste and with bacteria; and how to modulate colors and grow patterns\, through a variety of basic lab techniques including the preparation of a liquid culture\, the preparation of agar plates\, streaking plates\, and the safe use of the bactincinorator and autoclave. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. Registration is required! Please email your interest or any questions to Alexandra Bachmayer via the left-hand column button with ‘Colour Workshop’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS WILL BE A HYBRID WORKSHOP!Participants will be invited to break into 4 groups\, and 1 person from each group will be permitted onsite in the lab for each session\, while the rest participate via Zoom. In order to give everyone the chance for a hands-on experience the maximum participants for this workshop will be 12\, allowing for groups of no more than 3\, depending on registration numbers. Please note: the workshops will be filmed onsite and via Zoom for educational & documentation purposes. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian is a textile designer and worked in fashion for 20 years before starting her PhD. She was driven to return to school after learning about the ecological impact of her industry. Vanessa had already been working with food waste natural dyeing — including onion\, avocado\, tea\, and black bean — and after researching bacterial dyes with the Bactinctorium\, she became interested in how she could merge these different techniques. \n\n\n\nOver the course of this research\, she has created different bacterial liquid cultures from food waste and has tested various fibres in an attempt to expand the colour palette. This workshop is based on her PhD research\, The Culture of Color: An Ecoliteracy of Textile Design.  \n\n\n\nVanessa’s project and workshop are supported by the Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, who granted her an award to promote sustainability within the Concordia community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Sustainability Action Fund is a student run fee levy group at Concordia University. Their mission is to build an inclusive culture of sustainability at Concordia University by enabling\, supporting\, and financing projects that tackle interconnected environmental\, social\, and economic issues.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-cooking-and-culturing-colour-4/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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