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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.  
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220329T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220329T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220303T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T165114Z
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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-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220420
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220221T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073801Z
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SUMMARY:Body Archeology Workshop: Ancestral Memory in the Context of (Im)migration
DESCRIPTION:Workshop and performance presentation by Tatiana KorolevaFrom March 26th to April 19th (bi-weekly meetings) \n\n\n\n>>>WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL<<< \n\n\n\nWednesdays and Saturdays\, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ESTIN PERSON at the Sense Lab — Concordia University (EV Building\, EV.10.785)CAPACITY: 12 People \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. Our ultimate goal is to produce 15- to 30-minute long individual performances which will be presented in the spring of 2022. \n\n\n\nThis 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\nTo register\, please click the button on the left-hand column. Capacity is limited to 12 participants\, so don’t delay! \n\n\n\nTatiana Koroleva (born: Surgut\, Western Siberia) is a multi-disciplinary artist\, poet\, educator\, and researcher who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and creative writing. A graduate of a Doctoral program in Humanities\, Concordia University (Montréal\, QC) and a lecturer at the Department of Studio Arts\, Concordia University\, Tatiana explores intersections of performance art\, art therapy and butoh practices. Her work is grounded in the subjects of ancestral and genetic memory\, migration\, intergenerational trauma and search for personal andcollective healing. Since 2006\, Koroleva has performed locally and internationally including her participation in Miami International Festival of Performance Art (FL\, USA)\, International Biennale of Performance Art DEFORMES (Santiago de Chile\, Chile)\, Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival (Sofia\, Bulgaria)\, Body Navigation International Dance Festival (Saint- Petersburg\, Russia) and Nuit Blanche Festival of Contemporary Art (Montréal\, Canada)\, among many others. Her most recent performances were presented at Queens Museum (NYC\, USA) and La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse (Montreal\, QC).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/body-archeology-workshop-ancestral-memory-in-the-context-of-immigration/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220325T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220325T170000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220303T050000Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Murphy Talk: What is Chemical Violence?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the sixth in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM\, CARG\, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World\, with Michelle Murphy presenting What is Chemical Violence? \n\n\n\nIs a chemical pollutant a molecule\, or something else? This talk considers the ways chemical pollution contributes to land and atmosphere disruption\, enacts colonialism and racism\, as well as distributes mortality to beings and their relationships. Thus\, it suggests that chemical pollution might better be understand as part of land/body relations.  Through Indigenous feminist approaches that activate responsibilities to Indigenous jurisdiction\, land\, and intergenerational being on the lower Great Lakes\, this talk reconsiders what makes up chemical violence. \n\n\n\nMichelle Murphy is a science and technology studies scholar whose research concerns feminist and decolonial approaches to environment\, reproduction and data. Their  current research focuses on the relationships between pollution\, colonialism\, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes.  At the University of Toronto\, Murphy is Professor of History and Women & Gender Studies\, a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice\, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit\, which hosts an Indigenous led Environmental Data Justice lab. They are Métis from Winnipeg. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/michelle-murphy-talk-what-is-chemical-violence/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220324
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220216T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073751Z
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SUMMARY:Call for 'In the Middle\, a Chimera' Exhibition & Symposium
DESCRIPTION:As many of you now know\, The Milieux Institute will be presenting In the Middle\, a Chimera—our end-of-year exhibition/symposium/workshop extravaganza—from May 5th to the 18th\, 2022! As the title indicates\, this widespread event is both multi-faceted and multi-locational—we will be working with several organizations and institutions to best present our members’ work to the public\, along with some very exciting participating artists! \n\n\n\nThe event is divided into two official segments: the exhibition (happening for the total duration)\, and the symposium (happening May the 9th and 10th\, and May 13th and 14th\, with possible date changes). Please find below the Google Forms for both calls: \n\n\n\nIN THE MIDDLE\, A CHIMERA | EXHIBITION CALLIN THE MIDDLE\, A CHIMERA | SYMPOSIUM CALL \n\n\n\nThe deadline is March 23rd\, 11:59 PM EST!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-in-the-middle-a-chimera-exhibition-symposium/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220322T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220322T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220303T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073833Z
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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-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220317T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220317T220000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220316T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073849Z
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SUMMARY:Why Do We Dream? A Micro-Opera
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nWhy do we dream?A micro-opera by RISE and CLOrk at LePARCSparked and driven by Valentina Plata \n\n\n\nExperience a lucid dream with us in a massively collaborative\, intersensory performance at Concordia’s EV building. Singers (human and not)\, masked dancers\, community musicians\, costumed actors\, chaos (f)actors\, laptopists\, sound sculpturers (physical and metaphysical)\, brain imagers\, painters\, object handers\, dream journal reciters\, deep dreamers\, live coders\, shape shifters\, and happy campers will enact a lucid dream in a collectively improvised performance. Join us as a dreamer\, a precipitator\, a participator\, a passer-by\, a bystander (or a bywanderer)\, a spectator or an unexpectator. Run with your “unsupervised imagination” into the dreams universe. \n\n\n\nThis happening is open and free for all\, made possible by support from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Procedural masks must be worn throughout. \n\n\n\nTime: This Thursday\, March 17th\, 8 PMLocation:  Performing Arts Research Cluster (Le PARC)Concordia University\, EV building\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W.Room 10.760 (10th fl.) \n\n\n\nHow to find it: Once in the EV building\, take the eastern-wing elevators to the 10th floor. From the elevators corridor turn left (east) and you shall see and hear the entry point.  \n\n\n\nwhat three words location: ///explain.relate.flexed https://w3w.co/explain.relate.flexed \n\n\n\nSpecial note: expect an oonaghverse easter egg appearance by Jean Bark
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/why-do-we-dream-a-micro-opera/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220317T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220317T150000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220202T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073736Z
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SUMMARY:'In the Middle\, a Chimera' Info Session
DESCRIPTION:In the Middle\, a Chimera is the end-of-year exhibition/symposium for the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology. Multi-headed as its title indicates\, the project will span two weeks\, from May 5th to the 18th\, 2022\, and will take place in numerous locations above and beyond the physical and conceptual limits of Concordia University. Though theoretically an exhibition\, its form will feel more like that of a biennale: a dynamism will imbue these two weeks\, bringing viewers to see affixed projects and ephemeral endeavours—performances\, workshops\, and talks—throughout the city. This will all take place either concurrently with a symposium\, where Milieux researchers will be invited to present papers that refer in some way or other to In the Middle’s theme. \n\n\n\nIn the Middle\, a Chimera considers the ways in which modern technology and systems are presented as serving a specific function that inevitably gives way to something entirely different (and in most instances\, nefarious). New\, breakthrough technology developed under the veil of capitalism inevitably bends to its whirling\, maelstrom pull: the goal of this exhibition/project is to envision and develop community-oriented futures where this pull is redirected towards person-to-person\, mutually beneficial relationships (instead of person-to-fiscal gain)\, as well as the 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\nAn integral element to the exhibition is the pragmatic application of community-building\, horizontally oriented project planning; we have selected the institutions and spaces to collaborate with based on their varied positionings (financial\, structural\, thematic\, etc.) with the idea that they could all mutually benefit from collaborating with each other. This\, too\, can be lent to the curatorial approach: emerging artists/student members will be selected and exhibited alongside more established artists (Milieux members and otherwise)\, bringing to the first advantageous visibility and the promise of future opportunities\, and to the latter new ideas from the forthcoming artist generation.  \n\n\n\nThis information session will be for those who are interested in submitting but have questions! It will\, as well\, function as a space for those interested in working on the organizational side to chime in or see in what areas they could work with us. Click the link below to join in on Thursday\, March 17th at 2:00 PM EST: \n\n\n\nMeeting Zoom Link
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-info-session/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220315T130000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220302T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073817Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sophie Bishop discusses Influencer Culture
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sophie Bishop will discuss her research on influencer culture in the UK. Dr. Bishop researches how creative work and promotional cultures are increasingly shaped by social media platforms\, and the implications for labour\, representation and discrimination. \n\n\n\nShe is the Specialist Advisor for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into influencer culture. On 21 March 2021\, The United Kingdom Parliament Digital\, Culture\, Media and Sport Committee has launched an inquiry examining “the power of influencers on social media\, how influencer culture operates\, and will consider the absence of regulation on the promotion of products or services\, aside from the existing policies of individual platforms.” The ‘Influencer culture’ inquiry is a major investigation into contemporary cultural policy in the UK and globally. Dr. Bishop will present her own research relevant to influencer culture in the UK\, but she will not speaking on behalf of parliament or the inquiry \n\n\n\nDr. Sophie Bishop is a Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at Sheffield University Management School . Her current projects include studying the experiences of creative workers\, who labour within rapidly changing digital industries (particularly alongside understandings of ‘algorithms’). In addition to beauty influencers\, she researches how platformisation affects other creative practioners like artists\, actors and tattoo artists. She also co-runs ‘Algorithmic Autobiographies and Fictions’ a project that encourages participants to use their ad data as a creative prompt for fiction writing and artistic interpretation.”  \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Machine Agencies working group of the Speculative Life cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-sophie-bishop-discusses-influencer-culture/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220315T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220315T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220303T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073828Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220308T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220308T180000
DTSTAMP:20260622T203825
CREATED:20220222T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073807Z
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SUMMARY:Neel Ahuja Talk: Animal Death as National Debility
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the latest talk in the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World\, with Neel Ahuja\, presenting Animal Death as National Debility: Climate\, Agriculture\, and Syrian War Narrative. This talk is co-sponsored by Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materialities (SPAM)\, the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG)\, and the Colonial\, Racial\, Indigenous Ecologies Working (CRIE) Working Group.Neel Ahuja is a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland with appointments in the American Studies Department and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. At the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, he is Professor of Feminist Studies and a core faculty member of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program\, where he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Racial Justice. Neel’s research explores the relationship of the body to the geopolitical\, environmental\, and public health contexts of colonial governance\, warfare\, and security.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/neel-ahuja-talk-animal-death-as-national-debility/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Rafico Ruiz Talk: 'Slow Disturbance: Infrastructure and Ice'
DESCRIPTION:In this talk presented by the Speculative Life cluster\, Rafico Ruiz will share his work on ‘slow disturbance’ as a research method that can capture the lasting effects of settler colonialism on land and the built environment. He will also make connections to his current book project on post-global warming ice and the creation of a ‘drift path theory’ to apprehend environmental phenomena through their dissolution. \n\n\n\nFrom the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century\, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador\, Canada\, created a network of hospitals\, schools\, orphanages\, stores\, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador’s coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds\, subjectivities\, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents\, maps\, interviews with municipal officials\, teachers\, and residents\, as well as his field photography\, Ruiz shows how the mission’s infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the coastline—responded to the colony’s environmental conditions in ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing the mission’s history and the mechanisms that enabled its functioning\, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler colonialism and extractive capitalism. \n\n\n\nRafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (DUP\, 2021)\, and the co-editor\, with Melody Jue\, of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (DUP\, 2021). He is completing a manuscript\, Phase State Earth: The End Media of Ice\, on the disrupted phase transitions of ice under the conditions of global warming.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rafico-ruiz-talk-slow-disturbance-infrastructure-and-ice/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC with Frederik de Bleser: Performance and AI
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Cyber Sensuality. Created during LAbO Summer School 2021 by Nikola Scheibe\, Alexandra Fraser\, Madina Mahomedova\, Mazarine Haarscheer and David Bello Arcos. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMembers across clusters are welcome to join this discussion and workshop with Frederik de Bleser.  \n\n\n\nDuring the LAbO 2021 summer school in Antwerp\, participants created a virtual dancer driven by artificial intelligence. After training the algorithm on different gendered bodies and private intuitive acts\, it eventually responded with its own forms of virtual sensuality through gesture\, movement and sound. Out of this training emerged a gender-fluid avatar. \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, we want to show a video of the performance and talk about the implications of capturing virtual bodies into an algorithm. As part of this discussion\, we’ll create our own AI dancer that is a combination of real dancers\, being able to be controlled by our own movements. \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE10:00 AM — 12:00 PM | Discussion around performance + AI\, LAbO Summer School1:00 PM — 5:00 PM | Recording session with dancersWe ask participants to please bring a white shirt or tank top and clothes they are comfortable moving in for the recording. However\, you can attend as an observer should you choose not to perform! \n\n\n\nLOCATION \n\n\n\nVideo Production Studio (EV 10.760)Participants must wear masks and maintain physical distancing. \n\n\n\nFor the Thursday and Friday workshops on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Figment with Frederik de Bleser\, register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-machine-learning-using-figment-tickets-254585962467 \n\n\n\nChampdAction.LAbO is an annual and international 10-day laboratory for artistic creators of all disciplines\, ethnicity and gender with an openness and curiosity for transdisciplinary work. Every summer since 2019 (with one exception)\, LePARC has attended with a small cohort and cluster co-director Angélique Willkie to participate in the creation lab at the deSingel School in Antwerp. We’re excited to once again bring a Milieux presence to the summer 2022 LAbO and encourage students across clusters to come learn more at Frederik de Bleser‘s discussion Wednesday February 23.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-with-frederik-de-bleser-performance-and-ai/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:The Undergraduate Fellows' Introductory Presentations!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you already know\, we have recently announced this years’ Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now that we have made our introductions\, it’s time for the fellows to speak about themselves\, their research\, what they like or dislike\, and anything in between and around! The ‘PechaKucha-style’ presentations will be taking place online via Zoom (link accessible via the button in the left-hand column) on Monday\, February 21st at 11:00 AM EST\, and Wednesday\, February 23rd at 3:00 PM EST. The presenters are as follows (if you’d like to know a bit more about them before their presentations\, please consult our preliminary announcement!): \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMONDAY:Alanna Mitchell | Genevieve Lamarche | Nadine Abdel LatifWEDNESDAY:Malte Leander | Sophie Dummett | Christine White | Maxime Gordon \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you in attendance\, and to hearing more about our Fellows’ projects\, interests\, and about themselves!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-undergraduate-fellows-introductory-presentations/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Hypo//Hyper Presence Workshop N˚ 2: Livestream Tech — You Can Do It! With Mind of a Snail
DESCRIPTION:Hypo//Hyper Presence N˚ 2: Livestream Tech — You Can Do It! is An online workshop on how to Livestream with Chloe Ziner Mind of a Snail— \n\n\n\nHow do we translate a feeling of connection and LIVEness to an online format? We want to get you excited about the possibilities of live streaming! Chloe Ziner from Mind of a Snail will share their DIY approach to designing an engaging live stream using mostly free or low-cost tools. You’ll get an overview of the basics as well as a taste of some interactive and experimental possibilities. We hope you’ll leave this workshop with lots of inspiration and ideas\, and the tools to start moving forward to make your own online performances\, presentations\, or interactive live streams.Mind of a Snail is a shadow theatre duo from Vancouver BC\, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh Nations. Since 2003\, Chloé Ziner and Jessica Gabriel have been developing a multilayered style of visual storytelling and projection design. They have won multiple awards for innovation and excellence at theatre festivals across North America. During COVID \, they quickly pivoted to an interactive online format and have performed live virtually for a number of festivals across Canada & internationally\, including Festival Internacional de Teatro de Sombras in Brazil\, Red Pearl Clown Festival in Finland and PrimeTime Festival in Toronto. Another recent project “Improv in 5 Dimensions” is a hybrid improv theatre show with a team of remote international performers\, for in-person and online audiences. They also do weekly interactive live streams at https://twitch.tv/mindofasnail. \n\n\n\nHypo//Hyper Presence is a workshop series over the period of two semesters with guest lecturers that’s designed to give people skills to explore and create around the idea of telepresence. These technologies have been accelerated with COVID and increased hybrid interactions. Telepresence technologies can be perceived as “hyper” or “hypo” present\, either always there to mediate communication or minimally present to facilitate asynchronous interaction. Now that the dust has settled around which technologies will prevail\, this workshop series allows participants to explore these technologies tangibly.  \n\n\n\nEach session is divided into two parts\, an introduction and an advanced learning session. People can sign up for one or both sessions depending on their level /interest. All sessions will be remote\, except when specified.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/hypo-hyper-presence-workshop-n%cb%9a-2-livestream-tech-you-can-do-it-with-mind-of-a-snail/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:The new year is already flying by at a rapid pace! The Speculative Life Cluster has already begun an incredibly compelling online project\, the Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series. Read on to find out about the final three events\, following the first that happened on January 21st\, and click here for the full post on the Speculative Life website! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n2. Friday\, February 4\, 2:00 PM ESTWorkshop — Alia Nurmohamed\, Futureproofing: Real Options as a Conceptual Tool in the Financialization of Everyday LifeZoom Link \n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted uncertainty in people’s lives and a desire to “futureproof”: anticipate\, plan\, and mitigate unexpected future shocks. Originating in financial derivatives modelling\, real options have gained traction over the last two decades as a decision-making tool that captures the flexibility embedded in projects across various industries such as real estate\, pharmaceutical R&D\, and natural resources. This workshop aims to start a conversation about mobilizing real options – options that are not traded on financial markets – as a conceptual tool to understanding how financialized thinking seeps into everyday life. \n\n\n\nAlia Nurmohamed is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. Alia’s research focuses on how conflicting and intersecting responsibilities can lead to feelings of grief in motherhood. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology & Anthropology\, Alia worked for 10 years in real estate private equity and consulting. She holds a B.Com in Finance from McGill University\, an MBA from the University of Warwick\, and BA in Sociology from Concordia University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n3. Friday\, February 18\, 1:00 PM ESTKathryn Furlong\, Trickle-down debt: Infrastructure\, development\, and financialisation\, Medellín 1960-2013Zoom Link \n\n\n\nIn many Latin American cities\, infrastructure was largely financed through development lending over the second half of the 20th century. Exacerbated by debt crises and currency devaluations\, public utilities became holders of significant levels of negative value. This encouraged public debt financialisation in order to mitigate the effects of shifting interest rates and devaluation. For David Harvey\, negative value is the hallmark of contemporary capitalism whereby one must produce\, not for profit\, but to retire debt. This paper examines these issues through a case study of urban infrastructure financing\, debt\, and tariffs in Medellín\, Colombia from 1960 to 2013. \n\n\n\nKathryn Furlong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal and former Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. She holds a doctorate in human geography (UBC). Her research focuses on the social and environmental consequences of political-economic restructuring for water management and governance\, particularly in the context of cities. Her research  brings together the disciplines of economic and urban geography and political ecology while addressing  issues related to the provision of municipal services\, socio-technical networks\, consumption and the links between practice and ethics. Her book Leaky Governance: Alternative service delivery and the myth of water utility independence (UBC\, 2016) addresses these issues in the Canadian Context. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n4. Friday\, March 18\, 1:00 PM ESTHannah Appel (UCLA)\, From Debtors Prisons to Debtors UnionsZoom Link \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need.  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/financializing-infrastructures-winter-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Dr. André Brock Talk: Distributed Blackness
DESCRIPTION:In this online/virtual event with English live captions\, Distributed Blackness author Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities— \n\n\n\nFREE\, registration required (via link in the left-hand column)— \n\n\n\nAuthor of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\, Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities. Brock’s book asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western technoculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis\, Afro-optimism\, and libidinal economic theory\, Brock will employ Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic. This critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as- technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things.” Hence\, Black technoculture. \n\n\n\nDr. André L. Brock joined the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication as an associate professor. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with an M.A. in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames\, black women and weblogs\, whiteness\, blackness\, and digital technoculture\, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His article “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation” challenged social science and communication research to confront the ways in which the field preserved “a color-blind perspective on online endeavors by normalizing Whiteness and othering everyone else” and sparked a conversation that continues\, as Twitter\, in particular\, continues to evolve. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the 4th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. It is co-hosted by the DIGS Lab of Concordia (under the direction of Dr. Stefanie Duguay).  \n\n\n\nOur series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, the Milieux Institute\, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, and more.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-andre-brock-talk-distributed-blackness/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Writing Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Every Wednesday\, join LePARC members and beyond for their weekly Writing Wednesdays: \n\n\n\n“A focused three hours every week: write with people in the same boat as you and with a structure that includes stretching/dancing breaks. Bring whatever it is you need to do\, be it writing your thesis\, a literature review\, a proposal or application\, emails\, etc.” \n\n\n\nThe sessions are from 9:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST every Wednesday up until and including April 20th\, and are strictly on Zoom for the moment\, with the sessions moving into a hybrid structure following securing of safe spaces that abide by COVID-19 regulations. \n\n\n\nBenefit from the energy\, structure and support of the group for the creation and fruition of any and all projects\, texts\, and beyond! Please email leparcmilieux@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/writing-wednesdays/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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SUMMARY:Milieux Make Work Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Join Milieux’s Head of Partnerships and maker/artist/researcher extraordinaire Lee Wilkins every Thursday\, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST in the Milieux Make Lab (EV 10.825) for an experimentation and making session! Benefit from their presence\, expertise and experience\, as well as the allotted time to try new things and to see what happens! \n\n\n\nYou can sign up for this weekly event by contacting them directly at hello@leecyb.org—if you have any follow-up questions on the sessions\, you can ask them directly as well!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-make-work-sessions-6/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211214T180000
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SUMMARY:'Returning to the Trees' Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Returning to the Trees—the Technological Burnout Crisis (Schizzing the Opera Practice and Narrative) is the 19th proposition/piece in the Ph.D. thesis: Composing with the Event—Techniques that Move Toward Neurodiverse Perception/Sensation. \n\n\n\nThe proposition/piece is also part of the SSHRC funded research project RISE (Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments) led by Dr. Eldad Tsabary. \n\n\n\nRISE’s theme of the year\, “Technological Crises”\, sparked a desire to schizz the field; to explore how to find activation when starting from a neurotypical figure such as “theme”\, “topic” and/or “narrative”. Furthermore\, a reimagining of the opera medium was called for. This appetite for practicing the schizz\, the desiring-machine\, took hold of these (pre-)figures and\, through play (pushing\, pulling\, dismantling\, deconstructing)\, lured them into a field of activity\, transforming them from static to operational. By refraining from the neurotypical tendency to parse and harden experience (to categorize and to represent)\, the field of relation can then be felt. \n\n\n\nThe schizosomatic proposition’s offer was to be composed by the event; to let be felt the event orienting itself towards a collective attunement and emergent ecology\, creating the conditions for trans-sensory (and nonsensuous) qualities to co-compose constellations. \n\n\n\nCarrying germs of experience across event-times\, this panopticon of technological form-taking demonstrates how the proposition folded onto itself; the suggestion of a moving away from technology activated those very qualities in the eventing. The vitality affect running through the material is felt in how the qualities co-compose across the 9 video angles impressionistically—form and subject blurring\, releasing the qualities of forming felt. \n\n\n\nHow can you participate? Attend the screening in person (there is a max capacity of 20 people in the space) or watch online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/returning-to-the-trees-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Techniques of PHOTOGRAMMETRY Workshops: Creating 3D Assets for VR Projects
DESCRIPTION:This 2-hour onsite workshop with artist Allison Moore will demonstrate photogrammetry techniques to create 3D model assets for VR.  The workshop will teach techniques using DSLR cameras for capturing images of objects and environments\, how to ingest and process images into 3D models using Reality Capture software and finally how to import 3D assets into UNITY game engine for use in VR projects.There are TWO sessions are available:SESSION 1: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PMSESSION 2: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PMLocation: Immersive Reality Lab 1515 Rue Sainte-Catherine W. EV 10.705Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology \n\n\n\nTo register please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca \n\n\n\nALLISON MOORE is a new media artist and educator working in expanded cinema and based in Montréal.  Her work has been programmed at Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan)\, OBORO (Montreal)\, Traverse Video (France)\, Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil)\, Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal)\, FIFA Experimental (Montréal)\, MAPP Festival\, MUTEK Montreal and ISEA 2020. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts\, video-mapping landscapes and architecture\, VR\, site-specific public art and performance. Winner of several scholarships and residencies\, she recently completed an MFA in Film Production at Concordia University\, where she is advancing research in immersive media and VR as a member of Milieux\, Hexagram\, TAG and the Post Image Cluster. She currently teaches filmmaking at John Abbott College.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/techniques-of-photogrammetry-workshops-creating-3d-assets-for-vr-projects/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Techniques of PHOTOGRAMMETRY Workshops: Creating 3D Assets for VR Projects
DESCRIPTION:This 2-hour onsite workshop with artist Allison Moore will demonstrate photogrammetry techniques to create 3D model assets for VR.  The workshop will teach techniques using DSLR cameras for capturing images of objects and environments\, how to ingest and process images into 3D models using Reality Capture software and finally how to import 3D assets into UNITY game engine for use in VR projects.There are TWO sessions are available:SESSION 1: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PMSESSION 2: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PMLocation: Immersive Reality Lab 1515 Rue Sainte-Catherine W. EV 10.705Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology \n\n\n\nTo register please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca \n\n\n\nALLISON MOORE is a new media artist and educator working in expanded cinema and based in Montréal.  Her work has been programmed at Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan)\, OBORO (Montreal)\, Traverse Video (France)\, Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil)\, Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal)\, FIFA Experimental (Montréal)\, MAPP Festival\, MUTEK Montreal and ISEA 2020. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts\, video-mapping landscapes and architecture\, VR\, site-specific public art and performance. Winner of several scholarships and residencies\, she recently completed an MFA in Film Production at Concordia University\, where she is advancing research in immersive media and VR as a member of Milieux\, Hexagram\, TAG and the Post Image Cluster. She currently teaches filmmaking at John Abbott College.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/techniques-of-photogrammetry-workshops-creating-3d-assets-for-vr-projects-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Milieux Make Work Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Join Milieux’s Head of Partnerships and maker/artist/researcher extraordinaire Lee Wilkins every Thursday\, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST in the Milieux Make Lab (EV 10.825) for an experimentation and making session! Benefit from their presence\, expertise and experience\, as well as the allotted time to try new things and to see what happens! \n\n\n\nYou can sign up for this weekly event by contacting them directly at hello@leecyb.org—if you have any follow-up questions on the sessions\, you can ask them directly as well!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-make-work-sessions-5/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T180000
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan Talk: 'Spectral Justice: Multispecies Haunting and Accountability in Himalayan India'
DESCRIPTION:The third in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM\, CARG\, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World— \n\n\n\nUniversity of Washington Associate Professor Radhika Govindrajan presents Spectral Justice: Multispecies Haunting and Accountability in Himalayan India\, which will explore the topics from her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press\, 2018).  \n\n\n\nRadhika Govindrajan is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography\, environmental anthropology\, the anthropology of religion\, South Asian Studies\, and political anthropology. Her research is motivated by a longstanding interest in understanding how human relationships with nonhumans in South Asia are variously drawn into and shape broader issues of cultural\, political\, and social relevance: religious nationalism; elite projects of environmental conservation and animal-rights; everyday ethical action in a time of environmental decline; and people’s struggle for social and political justice in the face of caste discrimination\, patriarchal domination\, and state violence and neglect.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/radhika-govindrajan-talk-spectral-justice-multispecies-haunting-and-accountability-in-himalayan-india/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Ethnography or Doing Ethnography Virtually? A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nA hybrid collaborative workshop presented by the Lab for Latin American and the Caribbean Studies\, the Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America – ÉRIGAL\, and our very own Concordia Ethnography Lab. \n\n\n\nIn this interdisciplinary workshop\, we will discuss the evolving craft of virtual ethnography\, and how this expanding field can shed light to virtual ethnography methodologies and approaches during COVID-19 travel and gathering restrictions. \n\n\n\nWhile the workshop was originally thought up and tailored for students currently confronting virtuality when their preliminary research was constructed otherwise\, we plan on discussing research methodologies anchored in virtuality prior to the onset of the pandemic\, as well as describing the process of transitioning from in-person to online research and practice. It is our hope that students\, artists\, and researchers alike will take inspiration\, tips and hope from this workshop\, and be able to expand their ethnography practices in the current state of affairs. \n\n\n\nFeatured speakers at this methodology workshop are Milieux’s directorDr. Bart Simon (Associate Professor Social and Cultural Analysis)\, Dr. Stefanie Duguay (Assistant Professor\, Department of Communication Studies\, DIGS Lab and Milieux)\, and student presenters Kathryn Jezer Morton (Ph.D. student in Social and Cultural Analysis)\, and our very own social media assistant Ariana Seferiades (Recent graduate\, MA Anthropology). The session will be moderated by Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Associated Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology). \n\n\n\nThis event will take place in person at the Ethnography Lab as well as online (via Zoom). TO RSVP\, please email info@erigal.org.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/virtual-ethnography-or-doing-ethnography-virtually-a-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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