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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211209T000000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211203T153000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211209
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211202T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211202T000000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211204
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211125T000000
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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-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211118T000000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
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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-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211112T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211111T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211111T000000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211105T130000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20211103T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073601Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20211027T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073551Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211028T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211028T170000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20211025T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073545Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211029T100000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20211012T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073540Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20211007T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073535Z
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SUMMARY:Jill Didur | The Global Urban Wilds (GUW) (App Launch)
DESCRIPTION:October 15th\, at 4:00 PM—Presented as part of MTLConnectThe Global Urban Wilds App launch In person at the Champ des Possibles; meet in the Champ by the benches on the pedestrian walkway between de Gaspé and Henri-Julienhttps://goo.gl/maps/HVHzYGSkhcGLGvAJ8 \n\n\n\nThe Global Urban Wilds (GUW) locative platform curates ruderal landscapes that survive in city spaces and invites the user to explore the entanglement of urban biodiversity\, site remediation\, and settler culture in contexts such as Montreal’s Champ des Possibles. The site-specific\, GPS-enabled locative sound walk and app affords users experiences of “embodied knowing” – learning through encounter\, awareness\, physicality – in urban wilds that represent informal brown/green spaces on the edges of urban development. Users move through the urban wild and interact with app’s haptic\, sound and visual content to gain further insight into the community’s history and commitment to this protected green space.The GUW project is downloadable for remote and in-person testing in Montreal’s Champ des Possibles for this launch event. You can download the app for testing as of RIGHT NOW here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QkXA11FD \n\n\n\nDr. Jill Didur is a Full Professor in English at Concordia University and co-director of the Speculative Life cluster at the Milieux Institute. She is the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Insight Grant\, Greening Narrative (2014-2023)\, that explores how locative and mobile media can enhance our understanding of the relationship between the discourses of natural history\, globalization\, and contemporary perceptions of the environment and sustainability. \n\n\n\nIf you need more information regarding the event\, please contact Jill directly at jill.didur@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/jill-didur-the-global-urban-wilds-guw-app-launch/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211015T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211015T130000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20211007T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073529Z
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SUMMARY:Andil Gosine | Nature’s Wild: Love\, Sex\, and Law in the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:With discussants Drs. Nalini Mohabir & Jesse ArseneaultThe second 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\nIn Nature’s Wild\, the Trinidad-born scholar-artist contends with his own animality. The story begins in his classroom at an all-boys Catholic high school in Trinidad\, when a priest points to a row of boys and demands\, “Prove to me that you are not homosexual.” From there\, Gosine takes us on a journey that mixes personal narrative with historical analysis of the ways in which anxieties about humans’ animality have produced various kinds of disciplinary strategies in law and culture. Grappling with how the demarcation of a line between human and non-human nature has been specifically deployed since the beginning of the colonial encounter\, Gosine draws from historical and contemporary visual art representations\, dress code regulations and recent legal challenges to the criminalization of sodomy\, to reach consider the signigicance of embracing one’s “wild nature” in the context of global ecological crisis. \n\n\n\nAndil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University. The companion touring exhibition for his book Nature’s Wild will launch in Port of Spain\, Trinidad\, in January 2022. He is also curator of everything slackens in a wreck-\, which  will open at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York next Spring.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/andil-gosine-natures-wild-love-sex-and-law-in-the-caribbean/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210917T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210917T120000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210913T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073519Z
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SUMMARY:The Research Persona Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Research Persona WorkshopDr. Ganaele LangloisFriday\, Sept. 17\, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM\, EST \n\n\n\nDr. Ganaele Langlois teaches the research persona method to study social media platforms \n\n\n\nThe research persona method addresses a key challenge of social media platforms: how can we understand the dynamics of platform personalization as they intersect with informational dynamics (e.g. mis and disinformation) in terms of their impact on users? Two common barriers to such questions are the proprietary\, black-box and secretive natures of platform algorithms and network dynamics\, and the difficulty in conducting ethnographic work in what can quickly become charged and risky environments (esp. with regards to the alt-right). \n\n\n\nThe research persona borrows from autoethnography and theatre studies to collaboratively create complex personae that researchers can inhabit. The research persona method opens the door to understanding the relationships between socio-economic contexts\, affective responses and information and network dynamics. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will guide participants into different exercises in setting up research personae.This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada. \n\n\n\nTo sign up for the workshop\, click here:https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/research-persona-studies-workshop-tickets-170237822911
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-research-persona-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210915T210000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210913T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073524Z
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SUMMARY:Multi-species production: Economic justice beyond the human
DESCRIPTION:Beck Pearse and Dinesh Wadiwel\n\n\n\nThe first 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\nAs we move further into the Anthropocene\, questions about how to intervene in the environment have progressed with new purpose and ambition. It’s no longer possible to deny the change afoot and even more urgent that we refuse and replace the ideology of scarcity. In the ongoing discussions about strategies for multi-species flourishing\, Collard et al (2015) made a welcome call for a politics of abundance that deals with historical violence of settler-capitalism\, creating pluriversal solidarities and recognising animal autonomy. The process of creating the political grounds from which we can develop such strategy requires that we think through the political economy of anthropocentric capitalism. In this paper we seek to chart out potential strategy and goals that make abundance possible. Our approach is to elaborate a multi-species production politics in key sites of extraction and violence. Of capitalist food and energy\, we ask: what is the surplus composed of\, who controls is and how it is distributed? How might we differently organise production in order to enable life to flourish? We argue that by recognising that all production is multi-species in nature\, we can begin to develop answers to these questions. We explore possible strategic goals that flow from a multi-species production politics\, focussing in on ending exploitative and coercive labour and property relations. \n\n\n\nThe talk will take place online on September 15th at 7 PM EST via Zoom: please email Rosemary Collard at rcollardsfuca for the link. \n\n\n\nBeck Pearse works at the intersection of social theory and political economy at the Australian National University. Her teaching and research focuses on environmental inequalities\, policy and social change. Beck’s latest book\, Pricing Carbon in Australia (Routledge/Earthscan\, 2018)\, explores the rise and fall of Australia’s short-lived emissions trading scheme. Her research on the political economy of carbon markets\, environmental movements\, gender relations\, and the coloniality of knowledge has been published in Energy Policy\, Environmental Politics\, The Sociological Review\, Feminist Economics\, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nDinesh Wadiwel is Senior Lecturer in human rights and socio-legal studies at University of Sydney. He is author of the monograph The War against Animals (Brill\, 2015) and is co-editor\, with Matthew Chrulew of Foucault and Animals (Brill 2017). He is a member of the Multispecies Justice research group at the University of Sydney\, and Chair of the Australasian Animal Studies Association. He is finalising a book on animals and capitalism.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/multi-species-production-economic-justice-beyond-the-human/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210709T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210709T130000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210622T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073514Z
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SUMMARY:VR Workshop: Developing landscapes\, animations and scene lights for VR without coding in Unity
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed for artists from different fields looking to explore VR without the burden of learning how to code. I will focus on how to translate their own personal artistic workflow into Unity using Timelines\, Animation clips\, Audio and Video players in order to build an interactive space. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is presented by Marco Luna\, Milieux VR Specialist at the Immersive Reality Lab in the Post Image Cluster. It is part of an ongoing series of VR workshops at Milieux. \n\n\n\n* This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups.** Registration is required! Please email: Marco Luna at Milieux VR to register for this workshop\, including ‘VR Workshop – landscapes and lights’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-workshop-developing-landscapes-animations-and-scene-lights-for-vr-without-coding-in-unity/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210616T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210616T163000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210622T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073509Z
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SUMMARY:VR Basics: Making 360° projects in Unity
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed for low specs computers and the goal is to learn VR making without using a headset. I will focus on scene scripting\, quick prototyping and iterations using Steam VR 360 emulator. At the end of the workshop students will have a basic knowledge of Unity environment and a playable draft of their first VR project.  \n\n\n\nThis workshop is presented by Marco Luna\, Milieux VR Specialist at the Immersive Reality Lab in the Post Image Cluster. It is part of an ongoing series of VR workshops at Milieux. \n\n\n\n* This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups.** Registration is required! Please email: Marco Luna at Milieux VR to register for this workshop\, including ‘VR Workshop – 360 degree’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-basics-making-360-projects-in-unity/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210401T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210401T120000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073426Z
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SUMMARY:VR Workshop: Developing landscapes & scene lights
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn this 2-hour online workshop participants will learn how to use various tools in Unity\, to efficiently light their 3D scenes for VR. We will learn how to bake lights\, optimize textures and play with the perspective of 3D objects in the scene. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is presented by Marco Luna\, Milieux VR Specialist at the Immersive Reality Lab in the Post Image Cluster. It is part of an ongoing series of VR workshops in the winter 2021 MilieuxMake program. While it is recommended to complete all the workshops in order\, it is not required to attend them all. \n\n\n\n* This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups.** Registration is required! Please email: Marco Luna at Milieux VR to register for this workshop\, including ‘VR Workshop – landscapes and lights’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-workshop-developing-landscapes-scene-lights/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210331T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210324T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073503Z
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SUMMARY:Artists' Talk: Virtual Reality exploration at the cross-cluster immersive reality lab
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe immersive reality lab invites you to join artists and graduate students Olivia McGilchrist and Alison Moore as they present their research and discuss their artistic practices in Virtual Reality and Volumetric Videography. This research was facilitated in part by The Research Chair in Interactive Documentary film-making along with the Post-Image Research Cluster at the Milieux Institute\, which enabled access to immersive technology and technical training. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required!Please email: Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca to register.Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOlivia McGilchrist (she / her) is a white French-Jamaican multimedia artist and researcher exploring how colonial legacies extend their reach to Virtual Reality (VR) technology. She has exhibited in Canada\, Jamaica\, the USA\, Brazil\, Germany\, Norway\, Austria\, France\, Switzerland\, and the UK. Building on her experience as a white Euro-Caribbean\, and past research in the portrayal of her hybrid identity within contemporary Jamaican culture\, Olivia explores how this can be represented in VR. Her Individualized Ph.D. research-creation project borrows critical tools from Feminist studies\, Black studies and Postcolonial Caribbean studies in order to offer a framework for the aesthetic experience of VR immersion figuratively and literally. \n\n\n\nAllison Moore is a new media artist based in Montreal\, Canada.  She has crafted an independent practice participating in residencies\, workshops\, and exhibitions internationally. Her series of multi-screen animated video panoramas depict surrealist landscapes referencing scenic dioramas. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts\, video-mapping landscapes and architecture\, site-specific public art and performance. Moore’s works reinterpret and rebuild the world as a metaphoric landscape in which sensitive beings are in synergy with their allegorical macrocosm. Allison Moore’s projects are supported by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec\, SODEC and the Canada Council of the Arts. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artists-talk-virtual-reality-exploration-at-the-cross-cluster-immersive-reality-lab/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210325T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210325T143000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210324T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073457Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring immersive narratives in VR
DESCRIPTION:Exploring immersive narratives in VR: A Case study of collaboration and co-creation at the Research Chair in Interactive Documentary film-making\, with presenters: Daniel Cross and Marco Luna\n\n\n\nThis Zoom presentation reflects on the experimentation in immersion and storytelling applied to the VR documentary project LAST OF THE BLUES DEVILS. Developed at the Concordia University Research Chair in Interactive Documentary Film-making\, this project started as a Documentary film where we recorded an extensive catalogue of images and sounds. The film documented the last remaining blues musicians who when young learned the blues while working in the cotton fields. Mainly in their 80’s and still living in Louisiana and Mississippi\, these musicians have a world of experience etched on their beautiful faces. The sparkle in their eyes is as rich and beautiful as the music they play\, and as documentary filmmakers that’s where we find immersion. But\, what happens when we change the medium? The documentary film went through various interactive pieces created afterwards. Specifically\, researching the question\, can 2D images be effective in 3D immersive environments? \n\n\n\nCURC principal investigator and Associate Professor Daniel Cross together with Research Associate Marco Luna will introduce the creative processes and technical decisions made by In I AM THE BLUES. They will present the unique challenges faced and their resulting workflows\, including both the successes and failures. Including the ever-evolving and ongoing curriculum and pedagogical discussions regarding the teaching of immersive narratives and technologies at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required! Please email: Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca to register.Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDaniel Cross: Founder of EyeSteelFilm in Montreal\, listed by Real Screen Magazine as a top 100 non-fiction production companies in the world. Daniel is a multi-disciplined award winning documentary filmmaker with a long history of directing and producing theatrical documentaries while exploring new media documentary approaches. He made his mark directing feature length films concerning issues of homelessness\, THE STREET: a film with the homeless\, S.P.I.T: Squeegee Punks In Traffic and the interactive documentary www.HomelessNation.Org. His latest documentary I AM THE BLUES received two Canadian Screen Awards in 2017 for Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography; the film also won two Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director and Best Film. Daniel is an Associate Professor at the Mel Hoppeinheim School of Cinema and the principal investigator for the Concordia Research Chair in Interactive Film-making. \n\n\n\nMarco Luna: Born in Lima\, Peru\, Marco is a socially engaged documentary filmmaker who believes in the power of filmmaking as a tool for social change. He participated in the first editions of the Peruvian Documentary Caravan as well as the Independent Documentary Film Exhibitions\, venues that promote human rights and social engagement of documentary films in the Peruvian culture. In 2007 he moved to Montreal to pursue a MFA in film production at Concordia University. From 2008 to 2010 he trained homeless people in the use of new media tools for the project HOMELESSNATION.org\, the first site by and for the street community. In 2011 he joined the WAPIKONI MOBILE team and traveled to several First Nation communities teaching filmmaking as a form of self expression to at-risk youth. He currently works at EyeSteelFilm\, a film and interactive media company\, and is the lead research associate at the Concordia University Research Chair in Interactive Documentary.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/exploring-immersive-narratives-in-vr/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210204T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073355Z
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SUMMARY:Put a stitch on it!  Knitting + crochet + tech meetups
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nMilieuxMake event organizer and Education Maker Jess Blanchet is starting up a virtual Stitching Circle open to the entire Milieux community and beyond! \n\n\n\nThe stitching circle is a place to get inspired by one another and explore the intersections between different types of practice. The goal of these very informal workshops is to create a community around fiber arts and technology. We’ll start every meeting with a presentation on a different topic\, such as notable artists in the fields of fibers and tech\, interesting tutorials to get you started with electronics and coding or stitching techniques. It is a space meant for people to share stories and learn new things. \n\n\n\nThese are friendly\, open-to-all gatherings are hosted by Jess Blanchet. Email her at makercultures@gmail.com to RSVP and join the discord server to drop by!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/put-a-stitch-on-it-knitting-crochet-tech-meetups/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T140000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Lisa Jackson
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe PI Custer in collaboration with the CURC in Interactive Documentary and the cross cluster Immersive reality lab would like to invite all interested to an artist talk Zoom Showcase with award winning Film/VR/Installation artist Lisa Jackson. \n\n\n\nThis event will be hosted by Daniel Cross who in discussion with Lisa will explore her active and extremely diverse artistic trajectories in these oddest of times while celebrating her unique voice.  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP for ZOOM link: vr.milieux@concordia.ca and be sure to include ‘Lisa Jackson talk’ in the subject line of your email. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLisa Jackson’s work has screened at SXSW\, Berlinale\, Hotdocs\, Tribeca and London BFI\, and aired widely on television. Her experimental short Lichen premiered at Sundance in 2020 and she’s made works ranging from IMAX to VR\, animation to a residential school musical. Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier won the 2017 imagineNATIVE Best Doc award and is one of the top watched docs on CBC. \n\n\n\nHer Webby-nominated VR Biidaaban: First Light premiered at Tribeca\, exhibited internationally to 25\,000+ people\, and won a Canadian Screen Award\, the second time she’s received this honour. In 2016\, she directed the VR HIGHWAY OF TEARS for CBC Radio’s The Current which was nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award. In 2015 she was drama director for the APTN/ZDF docudrama series 1491: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS\, based on the bestselling book by Charles C. Mann\, which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. She’s made more than 20 films\, including CTV doc RESERVATION SOLDIERS\, 1-hour doc HOW A PEOPLE LIVE\, and shorts SAVAGE\, SUCKERFISH and SNARE. \n\n\n\nShe is currently at work on a range of projects spanning genres including Hot Docs Citizen Minutes short docs on civic engagement\, the hybrid feature doc Wilfred Buck and a feature animation Mush Hole.  \n\n\n\nShe is mixed Anishinaabe (Aamjiwnaang) and settler descent\, earned a BFA in Film from Simon Fraser University\, an MFA in Film Production from York University\, and lives in Toronto. She’s an alumna of TIFF Talent and Writers Labs\, IDFA Summer School\, and CFC Directors Lab. Playback Magazine named her one of Ten to Watch.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-lisa-jackson/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T114500
DTSTAMP:20260623T101408
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073421Z
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SUMMARY:VR Workshop: Interactive Animations in Unity
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn this 2-hour online workshop participants will learn how to use various animation tools in Unity. The workshop will demonstrate how to create interactive animations with only a few lines of code! Participants will also learn the animation\, animator and timeline sequence components in Unity. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is presented by Marco Luna\, Milieux VR Specialist at the Immersive Reality Lab in the Post Image Cluster. It is part of an ongoing series of VR workshops in the winter 2021 MilieuxMake program. While it is recommended to complete all the workshops in order\, it is not required to attend them all. \n\n\n\n* This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups.** Registration is required! Please email: Marco Luna at Milieux VR to register for this workshop\, including ‘VR Workshop – interactive animation’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-workshop-interactive-animations-in-unity/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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