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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211216T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211216T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211111T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073639Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211202T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073726Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211210T150000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211201T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073715Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211210T150000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211201T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073720Z
UID:10000861-1639130400-1639148400@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211209T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211209T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211111T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073634Z
UID:10000668-1639008000-1639008000@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211122T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073659Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T153000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211116T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073649Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211209
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211124T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073704Z
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SUMMARY:'Ether' by Genevieve Collins
DESCRIPTION:An immersive sensory environment that explores the possibilities of sensory perception in outer space— \n\n\n\nDATES: December 3rd to the 8th\, CLOSED ON THE 5THHOURS: 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST \n\n\n\nDue to COVID\, it is necessary to email sensoryfutures@gmail.com in advance to schedule a visit and receive a copy of the consent form and project description. \n\n\n\nDrawing inspiration from speculative habitat design\, scientific studies\, and science fiction\, Ether asks questions such as: what does Martian water taste like\, what does the layered atmosphere of Venus smell like\, and how might a non-terrestrial entity register the elements of the Voyager Golden Record? Using sensory ethnography as a guiding method\, this project encourages participants to reflect on their unique sensory experiences and perhaps even imagine a more than human subjectivity.  \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will take place at L’Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ) at 3535 Saint Denis from December 3rd – 8th. Visitors are asked to participate in a small group discussion after engaging with the exhibition\, and the entire experience will take approximately 45 minutes. A maximum of 3 participants may engage at once\, so please feel free to indicate in your email if you would like to schedule a group visit.  \n\n\n\nThis research is inspired by immersive multi-modal exhibitions created by Chris Salter and David Howes\, such as Displace\, a performative sensory environment designed to engage and combine the senses. Drawing on their research creation methods\, this project combines visuals\, acoustics\, aromas\, tastes\, and tactile sensations to craft a particular sensory atmosphere that participants may find compelling\, confounding\, or blissfully disorienting. The concluding small group discussions offer participants the opportunity to share their unique experiences in the immersive environment and reflect on how their sensory perception may have been subverted\, altered\, or ‘reconfigured’ (Howes & Salter 2016). \n\n\n\nGenevieve Collins is an MA student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her research interests include sensory studies\, futures anthropology\, and astronautical space futures. Her MA thesis project is directed by Professor David Howes and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)\, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT)\, ExperiSens\, le centre collégial de transfert de technologie (CCTT) de l’Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ). \n\n\n\nPlease email sensoryfutures@gmail.com for more information and to schedule a visit.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ether-by-genevieve-collins/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211202T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211202T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211111T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073628Z
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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-4/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211204
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211118T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073654Z
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SUMMARY:Decoding and Reimagining Posthuman Identity Exhibition by Oonagh Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:A mixed media art exhibition and social engagement\, prepared by Oonagh E. Fitzgerald and presented by LePARC\, from November 29th to December 3rdGALLERY HOURS: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PMFINISSAGE: December 3rd\, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM \n\n\n\nThrough participatory mixed media art projects\, Oonagh explores the material relations between international law\, art and governance. With found wood and bark\, plastic waste\, wood and fabric scraps\, string and thread\, paper and prefabricated masks\, clay\, water- and oil-based paints\, Oonagh investigates posthuman identity and imagination in times of global environmental\, health\, social\, economic\, political\, and technological crisis.   \n\n\n\nMaking\, performing\, and engaging in complex and elaborate human-material-technological assemblages\, Oonagh seeks to connect materials and people and generate new insights and inspiration for tackling global problems and contributing to a more sustainable\, equitable and just posthuman era. \n\n\n\nThis transdisciplinary research practice builds on philosophical frameworks (postmodernism\, posthumanism\, new materialism\, speculative futures\, and colonial legacy\, gender\, and critical legal studies)\, and methodologies of research-creation\, autoethnography\, case study\, and socially engaged art. The projects seek to decode meaning and reimagine identity\, solidarity\, resistance\, and resilience in the face of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene. \n\n\n\nAll are welcome to come to enjoy the exhibit and contribute to decoding and recoding posthuman meanings\, values\, and identities. \n\n\n\nOonagh Fitzgerald  B.F.A. (Hon.)\, LL.B.\, LL.M.\, S.J.D.\, M.B.A.\, is an INDI PhD in Fine Arts student at Concordia University\, under the supervision of Professor Eldad Tsabary and a member of LePARC. She brings to her performance and visual research-creation artworks her experience as dancer\, choreographer and visual artist; senior executive and international lawyer in the federal government; university sessional lecturer; and director of international law research at a think tank. \n\n\n\nEnthusiastic about exploring international law\, art\, and governance\, Oonagh has interviewed for national and international news media\, written and edited books\, essay series and articles\, and spoken publicly on topics including research-creation and participant-based art projects\, corporate citizenship\, gender equality\, Indigenous people’s rights\, climate change and technological innovation.  \n\n\n\nShe is a Senior Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre\, co-chair of the Canadian Environmental Domestic Advisory Group\, and a director of the International Law Association of Canada.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/decoding-and-reimagining-posthuman-identity-exhibition-by-oonagh-fitzgerald/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211125T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211125T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211111T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073623Z
UID:10000666-1637798400-1637798400@milieux.concordia.ca
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-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211116T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073644Z
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SUMMARY:Hypo//Hyper Presence Workshop N˚ 1: Filters\, with Marie LeBlanc Flanagan
DESCRIPTION:With Filters\, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan will be teaching you the ropes on how to apply\, modify and have fun with filters! \n\n\n\nPART 1: Creating Filters (1HR) \n\n\n\nInstagram\, TikTok and Snapchat filters are sites of debate around how we present ourselves digitally. This workshop invites participants to create basic instagram filters and explore possibilities of this medium\, with no experience needed.  \n\n\n\nPART 2: Exploring Filters (1HR) \n\n\n\nThe second segment\, participants will learn how to create advanced filters\, remix existing filters\, and create unique interactions. They will create their own filters by the end of this workshop.  \n\n\n\nMarie LeBlanc Flanagan is an artist working in the playful spaces between people\, especially related to connection and community. Marie builds experimental video games\, playful installations\, and cooperative experiences with a diverse variety of technologies including virtual and augmented realities\, open-source data\, biosignals\, olfactory art\, sonic art\, computer vision\, and machine learning. Marie has spoken\, shared work\, and taught workshops in South America\, North America\, Africa\, and Europe. Marie has completed artist residencies at the NYU Game Center\, with SoftieFeelies\, and at LiveLab. \n\n\n\nMarie is on the board of Inter Arts Matrix\, is on the Eastern Bloc artistic programming committee; and is a Polaris Prize Juror. Marie co-organized GAIA\, a 9-session online conference for 150+ game curators around the world. Marie has done consulting work with a number of artists and arts organizations including A MAZE. Berlin International Games and Playful Media Festival\, The School of Machines\, Making\, and Make-Believe\, Genielab\, Daily Tous Les Jours\, Ada X\, and Long Winter.  \n\n\n\nMarie co-founded the Imaginary Residency\, an artist-run online residency. Marie founded Wyrd Arts Initiatives a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to encouraging\, documenting\, and connecting creative expression across Canada; served as the Editor in Chief of Weird Canada and founded Drone Day an international day for the celebration of experimental drone music and communities. \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-1-filters-with-marie-leblanc-flanagan/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211118T000000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211111T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073617Z
UID:10000665-1637193600-1637193600@milieux.concordia.ca
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-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211112T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260622T235747
CREATED:20211110T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073607Z
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SUMMARY:VR Prototype Testing Session
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nJoin the Milieux cross-cluster Immersive Reality Lab for a VR Prototype Testing of the latest interactive project by Argentinian artist and university researcher Yessica Duarte. The workshop will take place IN PERSON at the Immersive Reality Lab 10.705\, on FRIDAY\, November 12th\, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. \n\n\n\nPlease email Marco Luna directly at vr.milieux@concordia.ca to book a time slot! \n\n\n\nYessica Duarte is a Masters Student in Technology and Aesthetic of Electronics Arts at the University of Tres de Febrero\, Argentina. Her research in VR explores medium impacts on perception\, proprio-perception and learning\, based on the theories of embodied cognition and the concept of enactive learning.. She is developing immersive environments of hyper-realism with a prototype able to recreate an interactive and immersive embodiment experience. It uses biofeedback sensors as wearable interfaces. The sensors are controlled by Arduino and send data to Unity through bluetooth. Yessica made a breathing sensor with a resistive wool elastic belt\, and a pulse sensor with an oximeter. It is a receiver and emitter of infrared light that measures the amount of oxygen in the blood.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-prototype-testing-session/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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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/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:CARG Reading Group: Radhika Govindrajan
DESCRIPTION:The Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG) is hosting a reading group event this Friday\, November 5th in partnership with CRIE (Colonialism\, Race and Indigenous Ecologies) and SPAM (Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materiality) to read Radhika Govindrajan’s chapter “The Goat who Died for Family Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship” from her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas in anticipation of Govindrajan’s scheduled conversation presentation in December. \n\n\n\nWe are meeting on Friday\, November 5th from 11:00 AM 1:00 PM (EST). Please contact Priscilla Jolly directly at priscilla.jolly@concordia.ca for a copy of the reading for Friday’s meeting as well as the Zoom link. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you all there! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/carg-reading-group-radhika-govindrajan/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211104T150000
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SUMMARY:De-Re-coding International Law Through Art
DESCRIPTION:Online Presentation/Discussion with LePARC member Oonagh Fitzgerald \n\n\n\nThis LePARC presentation and discussion via Zoom will address the challenges in crafting research-creation that critiques existing international law and governance through art and performance while generating new insights about how we decode meaning and recode identity\, solidarity\, resistance\, and resilience in the face of global crises. \n\n\n\nOonagh will share a transdisciplinary approach in which she considers philosophical frameworks (e.g.\, postmodernism\, posthumanism\, colonial legacy\, gender\, new materialism\, speculation)\, methodologies (e.g.\, research-creation\, autoethnography\, case study\, artivism) and examples of artworks that seek to instigate the development of individual\, community\, and planetary codes of values designed to overcome the multiple crises of the Anthropocene. \n\n\n\nClick the Register link to the left to RSVP for the event; you will then be sent the Zoom link before the presentation itself! \n\n\n\nOonagh Fitzgerald B.F.A. (Hon.)\, LL.B.\, LL.M.\, S.J.D.\, M.B.A.\, is an INDI PhD in Fine Arts student at Concordia University\, under the supervision of Professor Eldad Tsabary and a member of LePARC. She brings to her performance and visual research-creation artworks experience as dancer\, choreographer\, and visual artist; senior executive and international lawyer in the federal government; university sessional lecturer; and director of international law research at a think tank. Enthusiastic about exploring international law\, art\, and governance\, Oonagh has interviewed for national and international news media\, written and edited books\, essay series and articles\, and spoken publicly on topics including research-creation and participant-based art projects\, corporate citizenship\, gender equality\, Indigenous people’s rights\, climate change and technological innovation. She is a Senior Fellow at Human Rights Research and Education Centre\, Co-chair of the Canadian Environmental Domestic Advisory Group\, and a Director of International Law Association of Canada.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/de-re-coding-international-law-through-art/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Pigment Precipitation: Making Organic Colors [ONLINE]
DESCRIPTION:Pigments are brightly colored\, insoluble powders that can be used in a variety of art forms. They can be extracted from minerals\, coal\, or most often than not\, they are synthesized out of petroleum compounds. In the spirit of promulgating sustainable practices in the lab\, this workshop aims at teaching you how to make your own pigments\, using botanical matter and food leftovers instead.   \n\n\n\nUsing plants that you can find in your garden or your compost pile\, Amélie Bélanger from the STAIN Lab is going to demonstrate an easy step-by-step method for lake pigment extraction. Using only a few ingredients that are readily available on the market\, you will be able to create your own shades and transform them into watercolor\, paints\, gouaches\, or include them in your next bio-plastic recipe!  \n\n\n\nThe demo/workshop will be 1h30 hour long allowing time for questions and discussion.   \n\n\n\nWhere: Speculative Life BioLab via ZOOM.  \n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday October 28th 3:30pm \n\n\n\nDemo presented by the STAIN Lab. \n\n\n\n*There are no prerequisites for this workshop\, however registration is required. Please email tm.support@concordia.ca to register. Zoom links will be emailed to all registered participants.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pigment-precipitation-making-organic-colors-online/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Volumetric Video Dance Extravaganza! (3 sessions open!)
DESCRIPTION:This is a limited opportunity to have a little hands-on experience with the elusive Azure Kinect volumetric camera! \n\n\n\nIn this 2 hour workshop we will create a 30-second volumetric video dance using the Azure Kinect camera with After Effects and DepthKit software. Students will go through each step of setting the capturing space with green-screen\, cleaning the video and previewing the final results in a VR headset.Future workshops will look at converting volumetric videos like this to your mobile device\, and changing environments so you can dance anywhere you can imagine!3 sessions are available:Thursday October 28\, 10:00am (3 participants max)Thursday October 28\, 1:00pm (3 participants max)Friday October 29\, 10:00am (3 participants max) \n\n\n\nLocation: 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
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-volumetric-video-dance-extravaganza-3-sessions-open/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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