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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211105T130000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
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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:20260626T025602
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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
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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:20260626T025602
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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:20260626T025602
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210915T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
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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
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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:20260626T025602
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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:20260626T025602
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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
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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:20260626T025602
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:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210204T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073355Z
UID:10000638-1616072400-1616079600@milieux.concordia.ca
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T140000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210316T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073452Z
UID:10000649-1616072400-1616076000@milieux.concordia.ca
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:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073421Z
UID:10000643-1616060700-1616067900@milieux.concordia.ca
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210316T173000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210224T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073447Z
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SUMMARY:Streams of Resistance: Black Bodies in Space-Time
DESCRIPTION:Deanna Bowen (Concordia University) and Kara Keeling (University of Chicago)  \n\n\n\nThe Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) and Milieux Institute invite artist scholars Deanna Bowen and Kara Keeling to a conversation using different languages to articulate blackness\, the (de)construction of narratives around black bodies\, identity and its shifts in space and time. Join us for a dialogue at the intersections of media and queer theory\, photography and gallery systems strategies\, double consciousness\, anti-racist operational systems\, black feminist intervention\, technology and culture politics. \n\n\n\nDeanna Bowen is a descendant of two Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie\, Alberta. Bowen’s family history has been the central pivot of her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works since the early 1990s. She makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time. She is a recipient of a 2020 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts\, and a 2018 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant. Her writing\, interviews and art works have been published in Canadian Art\, The Capilano Review\, The Black Prairie Archives\, and Transition Magazine. Bowen is the editor of the 2019 publication Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada. \n\n\n\nKara Keeling is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Keeling is the author of Queer Times\, Black Futures (New York University Press 2019) and The Witch’s Fight: The Cinematic\, the Black Femme\, and the Image of Common Sense (Duke University Press 2008). Keeling is also coeditor (with Josh Kun) of a selection of writings about sound and American Studies entitled Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012) and (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) a selection of writings by the late James A. Snead entitled European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Racist Traces and Other Writing (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2003). \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/streams-of-resistance-black-bodies-in-space-time/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210308T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210308T163000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210222T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073442Z
UID:10000647-1615210200-1615221000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Textiles + Materiality Workshop: The Merit of Making
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nAre you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? The Textile + Materiality research cluster has a limited number of spots left in the upcoming Merit of Making Workshop giving other Milieux cluster members a chance to participate! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTEXTILE QUOTES WORKSHOP   Instructor: Gen Moisan \n\n\n\nWhen:          Monday\, March 8th\, 2021 from 13h30-16h30 ESTWhere:         ZoomWho:             Milieux cluster members \n\n\n\nEmbroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally\, functioning as symbols of status\, achievement\, and identity within communities. In this workshop\, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible\, unseen\, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge? \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics\, required to embroider different shapes\, textures\, and images\, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n\n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to bring design ideas to the workshop. \n\n\n\nPREREQUISITES: Drawing with Threads: Materializing Data \n\n\n\nSOFTWARE: You will need Adobe Illustrator for this workshop.   \n\n\n\n* Registration is Required! Please send an e-mail to textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSee original T+M post here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster is part of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Textiles and Materiality brings together research creation expertise from textile arts and material culture to experiment with methods\, processes and interdisciplinary modes of thinking that will shape the future of textiles\, material objects and charged experiential spaces. \n\n\n\nThe cluster fosters research-creation expertise in textile arts and technologies\, such as complex weaving\, electronic fabrics\, interactive garments\, rapid prototyping technologies\, emerging materials\, soft surfaces\, and smart fashion. The synergy\, momentum\, and strategic collaborations that emerge from this collective\, support innovation in new material research practices\, leveraging the rich potential of interdisciplinary work.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/textiles-materiality-workshop-the-merit-of-making/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210304T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210304T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073415Z
UID:10000642-1614852000-1614859200@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:VR Workshop: Making 360° projects in Unity
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn this 2-hour online workshop\, participants will learn how to import 360 degree videos into Unity and some 2D and 3D compositing techniques. \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 – 360 degree video’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-workshop-making-360-projects-in-unity/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210226T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210226T163000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210217T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073436Z
UID:10000646-1614346200-1614357000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:[FULL] Textiles + Materiality Workshop: Textile Quotes
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nAre you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? The Textile + Materiality research cluster has a limited number of spots left in the upcoming Textile Quotes Workshop giving other Milieux cluster members a chance to participate! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTEXTILE QUOTES WORKSHOP   Instructor: Gen Moisan \n\n\n\nWhen:          Friday\, February 26th\, from 13h30-16h30Where:         ZoomWho:             T+M Members (extra spaces may be available to other Milieux cluster members) \n\n\n\n1 session – 3 hours long + embroidering time In this workshop\, you will learn design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats\, fonts\, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own quote using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.   The workshop will be 3 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text.   \n\n\n\nPREREQUISITES:  Drawing with Threads: Materializing Data \n\n\n\nSOFTWARE: You will need Adobe Illustrator for this workshop.   \n\n\n\n* Registration is Required! Please send an e-mail to textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSee original T+M post here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster is part of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Textiles and Materiality brings together research creation expertise from textile arts and material culture to experiment with methods\, processes and interdisciplinary modes of thinking that will shape the future of textiles\, material objects and charged experiential spaces. \n\n\n\nThe cluster fosters research-creation expertise in textile arts and technologies\, such as complex weaving\, electronic fabrics\, interactive garments\, rapid prototyping technologies\, emerging materials\, soft surfaces\, and smart fashion. The synergy\, momentum\, and strategic collaborations that emerge from this collective\, support innovation in new material research practices\, leveraging the rich potential of interdisciplinary work.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/full-textiles-materiality-workshop-textile-quotes/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210225T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073410Z
UID:10000641-1614247200-1614254400@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:VR Workshop: Setting up a scene in Unity
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThis 2-hour online workshop will teach participants how to quickly set up a virtual reality scene in Unity\, understanding basic functions of the software\, and how to import assets—crucial first steps in designing your VR experience! This workshop is designed to be accessible on low-spec computers. \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 – Setting the scene’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-workshop-setting-up-a-scene-in-unity/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210222T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073431Z
UID:10000645-1613988000-1613995200@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Online Unity Workshop - Part II
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is open to ALL Milieux research clusters and groups! \n\n\n\nAlways wanted to learn to create game-based artwork?Get introduced to Unity in a 2-part workshop with Jules Deslandes.February 15th and 22nd (you must commit to both workshops) from 10am – 12pm EST on Zoom. \n\n\n\nWhat will you learn during the 4-hour intro to Unity workshop? \n\n\n\n– Discover the basic functions of the software.– Explore the different rendering options.– Get introduced to coding in Unity. \n\n\n\nYou will be given access to a scene to experiment with\, created in Unity by the artist. You will explore ways of coding and play with materials and attributes to help you create games and artworks of your own! \n\n\n\nJules’ practice revolves around 3D modelling\, game engines\, interactive experiences and electronics. He is an MA candidate in Design at NAD. Jules works as a consultant in digital fabrication and as a fablab educator in public schools. \n\n\n\nRequirements: You will need a computer with a mouse. Once registered you will receive an link to install the software and to watch a short preparatory video before the first session. \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED:To register send an email to makercultures@gmail.com including ‘Online Unity Workshop‘ in the Subject line. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/online-unity-workshop-part-ii/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210219T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210204T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T165559Z
UID:10000637-1613739600-1613746800@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Kombucha @ Home: An Introduction to Fermentation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake is happy to announce as part of the winter 2021 line-up\, the first in a series of BioLab@Home Workshops\, where we will begin to look at using the kitchen as a safe bio-research space\, introducing methods of material-creation\, adapted for the home. \n\n\n\nFermentation is a transformational and dynamic metabolic process that is intimately tied to the life cycles and environmental conditions of microorganisms. \n\n\n\nAfter a brief introduction to fermentation techniques and theory\, and a discussion of some of the research projects that have come out of the Milieux Speculative Life BioLab\, we will give a live kitchen demo showing the process for creating — and caring for — your own kombucha cultures. We will close with a discussion of how to expand and adapt the techniques demonstrated to produce larger works and bio-materials. \n\n\n\nParticipants who can safely obtain the required ingredients on their own will have the opportunity to follow along in real time. A finalized list of ingredients will be made available to those who wish to follow along a week before the workshop. \n\n\n\n\nBlack tea bags\nWhite sugar\nKombucha (either store-bought or from a friend’s homebrew\, ideally raw and unflavoured)\nMeasuring cups \nLarge glass jar (ideally\, 2L or larger)\nTightly woven cloth (such as\, tea towel or coffee filter)\nString or elastic band\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFermenting Kombucha @ Home\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLarge-scale Kombucha Cellulose Fabrication\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n* This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. ** Registration is required! Please email: marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register for this workshop\, including ‘Kombucha’ in the subject line.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/kombucha-home-an-introduction-to-fermentation-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210218T153000
DTSTAMP:20260626T025602
CREATED:20210210T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073400Z
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SUMMARY:Fiction Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Concordia Ethnography lab member Emma Bider (from the Speculative Life Cluster at Milieux) will be leading a Fiction Writing Workshop on February 18th at 2 pm EST.The workshop will explore the relationship between fiction and ethnography. The first half will explore the writing process itself\, talking about description\, voice and evocative language in ethnographic writing and prose. The second half will explore how fiction can be used as a method in anthropological research. Bring your preferred writing device\, there will be writing exercises! The goal of the workshop is to stretch our creative muscles\, talk about our favourite books (fiction or ethnography) and unpack what makes a compelling story.There is a limited capacity of 20 people and is open to all Milieux cluster members. To register\, please email ethnographylab@concordia.caSee original Facebook post here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Concordia Ethnography Lab was established in 2016 to promote and explore innovative ethnographic research. The Lab gathers ethnographic expertise from across Concordia to foster creative thinking about methodology\, to enhance the possibility of research collaboration\, and to act as a resource for researchers inside and outside the university who wish to use ethnography to ask questions about the world around them. \n\n\n\nLocated at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, the Lab is ideally placed for creating interdisciplinary collaboration. Our members include anthropologists\, sociologists\, artists\, engineers\, film-makers\, designers\, geographers and political scientists. We share loft-like space with other labs in the Speculative Life research cluster where we hold our meetings\, workshops\, and other events related to ongoing research activities.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/fiction-writing-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:VR Workshop: Exploring Virtual Reality
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThis 2-hour online lecture / demo is a comprehensive introduction for artists looking to explore virtual reality for the first time. We will look at technologies\, creative tools and various workflows available to start designing VR experiences.  \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 the first in the 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\nThis introductory session is a good opportunity to assess your interest in working with and conducting research using VR. \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 ‘Exploring VR Workshop’ in the subject line. Zoom Links will be sent to all registrants before the Workshop date.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-workshop-exploring-virtual-reality/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210215T120000
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SUMMARY:Online Unity Workshop with Jules Deslandes
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is open to ALL Milieux research clusters and groups! \n\n\n\nAlways wanted to learn to create game-based artwork?Get introduced to Unity in a 2-part workshop with Jules Deslandes.February 15th and 22nd (you must commit to both workshops) from 10am – 12pm EST on Zoom. \n\n\n\nWhat will you learn during the 4-hour intro to Unity workshop? \n\n\n\n– Discover the basic functions of the software.– Explore the different rendering options.– Get introduced to coding in Unity. \n\n\n\nYou will be given access to a scene to experiment with\, created in Unity by the artist. You will explore ways of coding and play with materials and attributes to help you create games and artworks of your own! \n\n\n\nJules’ practice revolves around 3D modelling\, game engines\, interactive experiences and electronics. He is an MA candidate in Design at NAD. Jules works as a consultant in digital fabrication and as a fablab educator in public schools. \n\n\n\nRequirements: You will need a computer with a mouse. Once registered you will receive an link to install the software and to watch a short preparatory video before the first session. \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED:To register send an email to makercultures@gmail.com including ‘Online Unity Workshop‘ in the Subject line. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/online-unity-workshop-with-jules-deslandes/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210209T160000
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SUMMARY:Cyborgs of the Web: An Introduction to 3D modelling with Blender
DESCRIPTION:“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism\, a hybrid of machine and organism\, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” \n—-Donna Haraway\, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science\, Technology\, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”\n\n\n\n\nIn her landmark essay\, “A Cyborg Manifesto”\, Donna Haraway speaks of the cyborg as a being that breaks down the boundaries between human and animal\, animal/human and machine\, and physical and non-physical. For Haraway\, the cyborg is our contemporary state of being and our politics. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, participants are invited to consider how the metaphor of the cyborg enriches our discussions of virtuality and embodiment. \n\n\n\nThis three-hour workshop will provide an introduction to Blender: a professional\, open-source software for 3D modelling\, rendering\, and animation. Using Blender\, participants will have the opportunity to create their own cyborgian entity using models from the Thingiverse. A brief discussion of Blender materials\, lighting systems\, and image rendering will be also provided. \n\n\n\nNote: Blender is an open-source software compatible with Mac\, Linux\, and PC computers. \n\n\n\nEach participant should bring a laptop with the latest version (2.9) of the software installed as well as a mouse with a scroll wheel. \n\n\n\n*This workshop has no pre-requisite skill set and is open to all Milieux Research clusters. \n\n\n\n** Please email: marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register for this workshop\, including ‘Cyborgs of the Web’ in the subject line.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cyborgs-of-the-web-an-introduction-to-3d-modelling-with-blender/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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