This 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. This workshop is presented by Marco Luna, Milieux VR Specialist […]
This workshop is open to ALL Milieux research clusters and groups! Always 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. What will you learn during the 4-hour intro to Unity […]
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. Fermentation is a transformational and dynamic metabolic process that is intimately tied […]
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 […]
This 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. This workshop is presented by Marco Luna, Milieux VR Specialist at the Immersive Reality Lab in the Post […]
This workshop is open to ALL Milieux research clusters and groups! Always 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. What will you learn during the 4-hour intro to Unity […]
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” ----Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" In her landmark essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto", Donna Haraway speaks of the cyborg as a being that […]
Please join the Milieux Institute in welcoming the undergraduate fellows of 2020-21 at our annual Pecha-Kucha event! This year, we are hosting two separate sessions during which fellows will give short and snappy presentations about their latest research interests and obsessions. Session 1: Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. ET - See Event on Facebook Session […]
Researchers and student members of the Speculative Life Cluster Biolab present Fossilation at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris The artwork is part of the Hors-Pistes Festival, February 1 to 14, 2021 and the Matières d´image exhibition. Co-developed with l’École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (Ensad, Paris, with the EnsadLab laboratory) and the University of […]
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 […]
REGISTER: Contact Sheena at info.riseopera@gmail.com. Led 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. The premise of the critical-reflection session is to begin with a […]
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. It has become increasingly clear […]