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, […]
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. She is the Specialist Advisor for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into influencer culture. On 21 March 2021, The United […]
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 In this four-part hybrid workshop, we will develop dyes extracted from food waste and derived from […]
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 […]
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 […]
Image Credit: Cyber Sensuality. Created during LAbO Summer School 2021 by Nikola Scheibe, Alexandra Fraser, Madina Mahomedova, Mazarine Haarscheer and David Bello Arcos. Members across clusters are welcome to join this discussion and workshop with Frederik de Bleser. During the LAbO 2021 summer school in Antwerp, participants created a virtual dancer driven by artificial intelligence. […]
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 […]
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— How 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 […]
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 […]
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— FREE, registration required (via link in the left-hand column)— Author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, Dr. André Brock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities. Brock's book […]
Every Wednesday, join LePARC members and beyond for their weekly Writing Wednesdays: "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, […]
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! You […]