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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210226T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210226T163000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030233
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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:20260626T030234
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210222T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210219T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210204T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T165559Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210218T153000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210210T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073400Z
UID:10000639-1613656800-1613662200@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210218T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210218T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210212T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073405Z
UID:10000640-1613642400-1613649600@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210202T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073345Z
UID:10000636-1613383200-1613390400@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210209T160000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210201T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073340Z
UID:10000635-1612875600-1612886400@milieux.concordia.ca
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210209
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210126T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073335Z
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SUMMARY:PechaKucha for Undergrad Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Milieux Institute in welcoming the undergraduate fellows of 2020-21 at our annual Pecha-Kucha event! \n\n\n\nThis year\, we are hosting two separate sessions during which fellows will give short and snappy presentations about their latest research interests and obsessions.  \n\n\n\nSession 1: Tuesday\, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. ET – See Event on Facebook \n\n\n\nSession 2: Monday\, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m. ET – See Event on Facebook \n\n\n\nThis year’s cohort hails from more than five academic departments and is representative of the creative diversity and critical social engagement that bring the Institute to life. With students engaging in topics ranging from accessible medical design to textile exploration of astrophysical concepts\, each fellow is enriching the work of both their cluster\, and Milieux at large. We are proud to welcome them as the next generation of critical and creative researchers.  \n\n\n\nSee the full list of fellows here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pechakucha-for-undergrad-fellows/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210215
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210121T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073330Z
UID:10000633-1612137600-1613347199@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:'Fossilation' at the Pompidou
DESCRIPTION:Researchers and student members of the Speculative Life Cluster Biolab present Fossilation at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris\n\n\n\nThe artwork is part of the Hors-Pistes Festival\, February 1 to 14\, 2021 and the Matières d´image exhibition. \n\n\n\nCo-developed with l’École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (Ensad\, Paris\, with the EnsadLab laboratory) and the University of Toronto Mississauga\, the artwork is part of a research-creation project about the operative concept of ‘membranes’ (dir. Alice Jarry\, co-dir. Samuel Bianchini and Marie-Pier Boucher). \n\n\n\nIt was produced collectively – on both sides of the Atlantic – by Brice Ammar-Khodja\, Alexandra Bachmayer\, Samuel Bianchini\, Marie-Pier Boucher\, Didier Bouchon\, Maria Chekhanovich\, Matthew Halpenny\, Alice Jarry\, Raphaëlle Kerbrat\, Annie Leuridan\, Vanessa Mardirossian\, Asa Perlman\, Philippe Vandal and Lucile Vareilles\, with the collaboration of Louise Rustan (Light Design) and Théo Chauvirey\, Corentin Loubet\, Joséphine Mas and Simon Paugoy (technical support).Similar to a film roll\, a large bioplastic membrane is made up of several successive photograms. Rather than being the effect of a certain photographic framing\, these quasi-images come from a slow form-taking process: the imprint of obsolete electronic display devices (flat screen\, cables\, computer and its peripherals). \n\n\n\nSubtle light patterns animate the photograms and fluctuate according to the interference of residual energies captured on the building’s surfaces and heating/cooling pipes. The installation\, in direct contact with the Pompidou’s infrastructure\, configures an ecosystem where the image\, which has become a material imprint\, composes with different dimensions specific to its environment. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); The Chaire arts & sciences of École polytechnique\, École des Arts Décoratifs-PSL and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation; Hexagram – International Network Dedicated to Research-Creation in Media Arts\, Design\, Technology and Digital Culture; and Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/fossilation-at-the-pompidou/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210128T142000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210128T175000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20210121T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073324Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux at La nuit des idées
DESCRIPTION:Fossilation\, installation\, 2020-2021 (detail).Bioplastic membrane\, an apparatus for harvesting residual energy interacting with light\, 2021. A project designed collectively by rice Ammar-Khodja\, Alexandra Bachmayer\, Samuel Bianchini\, Marie-Pier Boucher\, Didier Bouchon\, Maria Chekhanovich\, Matthew Halpenny\, Alice Jarry\, Raphaëlle Kerbrat\, Annie Leuridan\, Vanessa Mardirossian\, Asa Perlman\, Philippe Vandal and Lucile Vareilles\, as part of a collaboration between the Milieux Institute (Concordia University)\, EnsadLab (École des Arts Décoratifs and its Chair in Arts and Sciences) and the University of Toronto Mississauga.With the collaboration of Louise Rustan (Light Design) and Théo Chauvirey\, Corentin Loubet\, Joséphine Mas and Simon Paugoy (technical support)Photo: Vanessa Mardirossian \n\n\n\nRetake/Reprise de vues: Milieux researchers present at La nuit des idées\n\n\n\nWhere: Hexagram’s Youtube Channel & www.reprisedevues.org \n\n\n\nImages act as both remedy and problem in the current health crisis: they limit movement and increase the possibility of social relations at a distance\, but they also have an ecological impact that can no longer be neglected. \n\n\n\nHow can we rethink the materiality of the image in light of this dual approach? How do we implement images which\, by their materiality\, bring us closer to each other\, and closer to the environment? \n\n\n\nIn the spirit of the 2021 La nuit des idées theme\, “Closer\,” Reprise de vues invites us to consider ‘the image’ from environmental and societal perspectives. We will engage in discussion\, visit an exhibition (Matières d’image and the artwork Fossilisation\, during Hors-Pistes Festival\, Georges Pompidou Centre\, Paris)\, and discover research-creation practices that interrogate the materiality of images and of interfaces that bring us closer together. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to formal discussions\, the event will include video capsules and a resolutely performative format\, anchored in action\, making\, and demoing from the very locations of creation and dissemination — the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Speculative Life Biolab at the Milieux Institute. \n\n\n\nThe reflection will be modeled by three pivotal concepts: (1) fossil-imprint\, which questions the eco-signatures left by contemporary images; (2) residual energy\, which questions methods of capture and recovery of energy linked to images and; (3) matter-data\, which critically examines the ubiquity of big data and its infrastructural and socio-environmental weight. \n\n\n\nThis event will\, therefore\, be an opportunity to construct a reflection and a collective dialogue on planetary futures in connection with major projects of technological infrastructure that condition the production and circulation of images. \n\n\n\n\n\nWITH \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja (Individualized Program\, EnsadLab – Concordia University) \n\n\n\nSofian Audry (École des médias\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nAlexandra Bachmayer (Design and Computation Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nMartin Beauregard (Création et nouveaux médias\, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue) \n\n\n\nSamuel Bianchini (EnsadLab et Chaire arts et Sciences\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nFrédéric Bigras-Burrogano (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nMarie-Pier Boucher (Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information & Technology\, Université of Toronto Mississauga) \n\n\n\nAntoine Caron (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nTheo Chauvirey (Maîtrise en Design\, Université Concordia) \n\n\n\nMaria Checkhanovich (Studio Arts\, Université Concordia) \n\n\n\nJean Dubois (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nDelfina Fantini Van Ditmar (Design Products\, Royal College of Arts) \n\n\n\nGéraldine Gomez (Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris) \n\n\n\nMatthew Halpenny (Design and Computation Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nOrit Halpern (Sociology and Anthropology\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nAlice Jarry (Design and Computation Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nRaphaëlle Kerbrat (EnsadLab et Chaire arts et Sciences\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nAnnie Leuridan (Design lumière\, EnsadLab\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian (Individualized Program\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nFilipe Pais (EnsadLab\, École des Arts Décoratifs\, Paris) \n\n\n\nGuillaume Pascale (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nArchie Reid (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nMiranda Smitheram (Design and Computation Arts\, Université Concordia) \n\n\n\nGisèle Trudel (Arts visuels et médiatiques\, Université du Québec à Montréal) \n\n\n\nPhilippe Vandal (Intermedia Cyber Arts\, Concordia University) \n\n\n\nLee Wilkins (School of Information\, Université of Toronto) \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganized in partnership with the Museum of Arts et Métiers and the Pompidou Centre\, this event is co-developed by Hexagram – International Network for Research-Creation in Arts\, Culture and Technology – and the research-creation team of the international project Membranes in action: Multidisciplinary Creation of Sustainable Interfaces between Communities\, Ecological Milieux and the Built Environment (dir. Alice Jarry\, Concordia University\, Montreal; Samuel Bianchini \, EnsadLab – laboratoire de l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Université PSL; Marie-Pier Boucher\, University of Toronto Mississauga). \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Concordia University (Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology); The Chaire arts & sciences of École polytechnique\, École des Arts Décoratifs-PSL and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. With the support of the Institut français\, the Consulat général de France à Québec and the Délégation générale du Québec à Paris.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-at-la-nuit-des-idees/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201211T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201211T130000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20201209T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073313Z
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SUMMARY:Cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER: Contact Sheena at info.riseopera@gmail.com. \n\n\n\nLed by Dr. Eldad Tsabary and funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)\, Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) is a LePARC based 5-year (2020-2025) research-creation project designed to enact and investigate cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas. \n\n\n\nThe premise of the critical-reflection session is to begin with a presentation of the vision and narrative of the opera and then to open that to public scenario reflection. Everyone will be invited to envision different scenarios related to the premise of the narrative and its potential issues—anything that emerges. \n\n\n\nWe will begin with a presentation on the narrative and vision: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduction to RISE—Eldad (5min)\nConsent—Sheena (5min)\nNarrative—John on the story aspects and writing (5-10min)\nEthical— Elena on the ethical considerations in relation to the story and adjustments (5min)\n\n\n\n\nWe will then open the narrative to the public for scenario reflection.The critical-reflection activity: \n\n\n\n\nFeedback on narrative—potential scenarios\, or issues that have emerged (35 min)\nEmergent discussion on the feedback generated (20 min)\nFinal thoughts or questions (10 min)\n\n\n\n\n*Participants will have options on how they can engage in a comfortable way. They can speak through video\, audio\, write in the chat\, or write anonymously on the google form provided. They can also remove/change their name from zoom. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to know more about the RISE project\, you can visit https://riseopera.ca.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cataclysmic-scenarios-in-10-mini-operas/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201211T200000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20201209T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073319Z
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SUMMARY:Resistance AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2020
DESCRIPTION:Members of Milieux are organizing the Resistance AI workshop at NeurIPS 2020. The aim of the workshop is to confront the AI community with how AI currently concentrates power\, and we hope to inspire and equip attendees with the many visions\, dreams\, and tactics of addressing root problems in AI. \n\n\n\nIt has become increasingly clear in recent years that AI research\, far from producing neutral tools\, has been concentrating power in the hands of governments and companies and away from marginalized communities. Unfortunately\, the NeurIPS Conference — one of the largest and most esteemed machine learning conferences in the world — has until now lacked a venue explicitly dedicated to understanding and addressing this concerning reality. As Black feminist scholar Angela Davis famously said\, “Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” Resistance AI exposes the root of the current reality: technology rearranges power. We believe that when we are engaged in Resistance AI\, we can both resist AI that centralizes power in the hands of the few and we can dream up and build human/AI systems that put power in the hands of the people. This workshop will be a space for AI researchers and marginalized communities to discuss and reflect on AI-fueled inequity and co-create our dreams and tactics of how to work toward Resistance AI. \n\n\n\nMore information about speakers and the workshop can be found on the website. \n\n\n\nThe full schedule is available here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/resistance-ai-workshop-at-neurips-2020/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201208T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
CREATED:20200910T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073209Z
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SUMMARY:Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: Data Reuse in AI
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nDr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup theoretical framework to understand the material\, ethical and political implications of data reuse in AI. \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nDr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup presents from the ‘AI Reuse’ project\, a collaboration with co-PIs Mikkel Flyverbom (MSC) and Louise Amoore (Durham University). The project’s purpose is two-fold: firstly\, it will develop a much-needed theoretical framework for understanding the material\, ethical and political implications of data reuse in machine learning technologies. Secondly\, and on the basis of this\, the project will develop strategies and recommendations that can help the Danish public sector transition into the age of datafication without violating restrictions. \n\n\n\nDr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is an Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Copenhagen Business School. Teheir writing and teaching focus on knowledge infrastructures; infrastructures of ignorance; environmental media; and digital epistemologies. More specifically\, Dr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is interested in how media theory\, cultural theory and critical theory can unpack and unfold issues related to datafication and digitization. Their most recent book is The Politics of Mass Digitization published by MIT Press (2019).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nanna-bonde-thylstrup-data-reuse-in-ai/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Cannupa Hanska Luger
DESCRIPTION:Making Things Work Across Material | Digital Realms\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required and attendance is capped. After the live presentation\, the recording will be available online. \nRegistration: Please e-mail: textiles.materiality@concordia.ca \nCannupa Hanska Luger speaks of his practice combining social collaboration and craft in an evolving tradition of making things work. Moving between the realms of contemporary art and Indigenous culture\, amidst academia and the front lines\, he uses materials such as clay\, textiles\, steel and digital media. Clay signifies our connection to place\, literally the ground on which we stand. We create textiles from plants\, reflecting our truly embodied relationship between fiber and flesh. Steel has allowed humans to develop\, build and dominate; it provides the physical structures for control and capital. And technology now provides an opportunity to question our civility and our connectedness through durational and situational media. He mobilizes social media to create short call-to-action videos requesting objects to be created on massive scale. One such video resulted in communities building hundreds of mirrored shields as a tactic for front lines demonstration. Another involved disparate groups in the making of thousands of clay beads to commemorate lost lives. These engagement techniques combine technology and handwork to mobilize and even heal the communities who are facing immeasurable trauma from colonization. \nCannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota\, he is of Mandan\, Hidatsa\, Arikara\, Lakota and European descent. A winner of many awards and with numerous national and international exhibitions to his credit\, most recently Luger has been named a 2020 Creative Capital Fellow\, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow\, the recipient the 2020 A Blade Of Grass Artist Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art and the recipient of the Center For Crafts inaugural Craft\nResearch Fund Artist Fellowship for 2020. \nwww.cannupahanska.com<http://www.cannupahanska.com> \nThis event is hosted by the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster and the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology. Concordia University is located in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal\, on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of these lands and waters\, which many diverse peoples use today.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-cannupa-hanska-luger/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201124T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201126T093000
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SUMMARY:VR basic concepts: Making 360 degree scenes in Unity
DESCRIPTION:Capacity: 10 students\nSchedule: Tuesday\, Nov. 24 and Thursday\, Nov. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.\nRequirements: A computer that can run UNITY and good internet connection.\nRegistration: please e-mail Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca.\nThis two-day workshop is designed for artist with no previous experience developing VR projects. The goal is to learn VR pre-production development without a headset using free software. I will focus on scene scripting\, quick prototyping and iterations using Unity and Steam VR. At the end of the workshop students will have a basic knowledge of Unity environment and a playable draft of their first VR project. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vr-basic-concepts-making-360-degree-scenes-in-unity/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201123
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
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SUMMARY:Expanded Workshops: Bodies in virtual space
DESCRIPTION:Expanded Workshops is a new curated series at the Centre de Création O Vertigo (CCOV)\, in partnership with LePARC.\n\n\n\nREGISTER ON EVENTBRITE (FREE) \n\n\n\nThese two experimental workshops will focus on collaboration\, co-creation and touch\, and on roughening the protocol for bodies coming together in virtual spaces. \n\n\n\nYou can take part in these two workshops in any space that seems most appropriate to your practices\, desires and comfort-level. There are 9 spaces available in the CCOV studio. In order to respect the sanitary precautions of the CCOV\, each space is separated by 2m\, and will be reserved on a first come first served basis. Others may join via Zoom from anywhere that suits you. \n\n\n\nNov. 21: Language is an intangible bridge\n\n\n\n4 to 8 p.m. ETFrench\, English and SpanishRequirements: Please collect cardboard of different sizes\, craft knives\, scissors\, drawing materials\, paper and any other craft and art materials that you desire. Be prepared to send digital images and video to a shared file during the session. We are aiming to co-create an artist-book in the real time of the workshop with documentation contributed by attendees. \n\n\n\nAn artistic experiment in collaboration\, co-creation and touch \n\n\n\nLed by Alys Longley (NZ)\, Macarena Campbell\, Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira\, Eduardo Cerón-Tilleria\, Rolando Sanhueza (Chile)\, and pavleheidler (Sweden). \n\n\n\nThis lecture-workshop presents an experiment in collaboration across distance and time zones. It tests working methods for the Cartón/ Cardboard project (led by Macarena Campbell and Alys Longley)\, with artists in Auckland\, NZ\, Santiago\, Chile and Stockholm\, Sweden) in which we work with cardboard as an equalizing and accessible skin. \n\n\n\nIn this way\, artists in different continents share the same experiments in touch and collaboration from geographically separated terrains. We will work with scores\, instructions\, poetics\, experimental documentation\, creating performance materials and expanded fields of choreography and writing. This project is inflected by the geopolitics of the Global South. \n\n\n\nNov. 22:  Human-Human: trialling ecologies of practice\n\n\n\nNoon to 4 p.m. ETEnglishRequirements: none \n\n\n\nlo bil will facilitate Human-Human live from Toronto\, CA. lo bil invites us to roughen the protocol for bodies coming together in virtual spaces. She proposes the screen as an ocean\, a barrier that is not inherently hostile but that has gravity and pull. Screens\, made of glass\, are more liquid than solid\, simultaneously an object and an interlocutor. \n\n\n\nHow can we reinvent our codes and body camera? How to reposition ourselves to open up vulnerability under the omnipresent dynamic of surveillance? \n\n\n\nlo’s practice of ‘moving weirdly’ and ‘post-clown’ (what’s next? lol) – a winking half joke\, a hazy embrace of the confusing liminal landscapes we have wandered into\, unnavigable with preparation or compass. \n\n\n\n“I’m borrowing from the self-sourcing Pochinko training without adhering to the outcomes of the clown genre. I’m beginning with the minimum of the body in an environment\, being in the discomfort of not knowing\, feeling the emergency\, breathing the body response through the eyes\, how to outwit oneself when we are collectively enmeshed in a system of violence\, staying with the problem\, generating and riding energetic waves\, acknowledging the psychic space between subject and witness as the primary compositional movement\, how to acknowledge that all things are alive on the microbial level.” \n\n\n\nlo’s performances involve body-based experiments to generate intuitive “felt” research into academic concepts and unique responsive behaviours through spontaneous utterance\, impulse-based scores\, object manipulation\, unexpected humour and inter-relational proposals with audiences. She describes her performance actions as ‘anti-objective\,’ meaning not working toward an expected outcome\, but rather aiming toward discovery-based ‘non-repeatable’ actions.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/expanded-workshops-bodies-in-virtual-space/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201204
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Circuit Board Design
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to make your own circuit board with Eagle through this workshop organized by Education Makers.\n\n\n\nRegister by Nov. 15 by emailing makercultures@gmail.com \n\n\n\nNovember 19\, 10 – 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nIntroduction to software\, interface and base commands \n\n\n\nNovember 26\, 10 – 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nStep-by-step guide to designing your PCB \n\n\n\nDecember 3\, 10 – 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nUsing Eagle libraries \n\n\n\nThis workshop is led by Simon Juif\, an electronic engineer at Ovaom. He designs toys for children with language and learning disabilities. He’s also the director of interactive design studio Le Club Sandwich in Paris.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-circuit-board-design/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201126
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Intro to Photogrammetry
DESCRIPTION:An introductory workshop series for people who wish to learn how to generate 3D environments from photographs.\n\n\n\nRegister by Nov. 15 by emailing makercultures@gmail.com. \n\n\n\nNovember 18\, 10 a.m. to Noon\n\n\n\n\nWhat is photogrammetry?\nIntro to digitiziation (softwares & tools)\nHow to take and prepare photographs\n\n\n\n\nNovember 25\, 10 a.m. to Noon\n\n\n\n\nAgisoft Metashape overview\nImportation of photographs\n3D rendering\, clean-up and touch-ups\nExportations\, applications and discussions\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is led by Roby Provost-Blanchard. Roby’s art practice oscillates between video games\, documentary and internet art. He’s interested in game theory and is a self-taught programmer. He’s part of the punkLab collective and active in Montreal’s fablab scene.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-intro-to-photogrammetry/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201116
DTSTAMP:20260626T030234
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SUMMARY:Kishonna L. Gray: GAMERella 2020 Keynote
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE\nGAMERella is a game jam and workshop series that caters to women and marginalized people who haven’t had a chance to make a game before.\nMany people still feel intimidated by the gaming scene and find it difficult to participate in events like game jams. In 2013\, GAMERella was conceived at the Montreal based TAG Lab to welcome people who are often marginalized in game-related spaces\, and to prove that game jams can be a safe and exciting environment for creating small\, innovative games in a short period of time. Everyone\, including first-time game makers\, is experimenting\, learning\, and sharing skills with others. We believe that GAMERella is a place to improve a skill\, try risky and unconventional game design ideas\, meet other developers\, and above all\, have fun. \nThis year\, the keynote speaker is Dr. Kishonna L. Gray\, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago.\nShe is an interdisciplinary\, intersectional\, digital media scholar whose areas of research include identity\, performance and online environments\, embodied deviance\, cultural production\, video games\, and Black Cyberfeminism. Dr. Gray is the author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press\, 2020). She is also the author of Race\, Gender\, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge\, 2014)\, and the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming: Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press\, 2018). Dr. Gray has published in a variety of outlets across disciplines and has also featured in public outlets such as The Guardian\, The Telegraph\, and The New York Times. \nEvery year\, GAMERella creates opportunities to meet all types of people (including those who support minorities in the industry) who are interested in game development.\n\n\n\n\nDissatisfied with the game spaces and opportunities provided for women in Montreal’s game scene\, Gina Hara and Charlotte Fisher created GAMERella in 2013. Led by Concordia University’s game research centre TAG\, industry mentors\, support staff and researchers\, GAMERella welcomes participants in a low stress\, learner-friendly environment\, with the aim to change the way people jam\, as well as the way people think about gaming. \n\n\n\n\nLearn more at https://tag.hexagram.ca/gamerella/.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/kishonna-l-gray-gamerella-2020-keynote/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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