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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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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
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210201
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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
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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:20260626T100308
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201211T100000
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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:20260626T100308
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
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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
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
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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:20260626T100308
CREATED:20201105T050000Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20201112T050000Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20201112T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073303Z
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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:20260626T100308
CREATED:20201103T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073246Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201110T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20200910T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073204Z
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SUMMARY:Louise Amoore: Cloud Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nDr. Louise Amoore presents their new book\, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nIn Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Conceptualizing algorithms as ethicopolitical entities that are entangled with the data attributes of people\, Amoore outlines how algorithms give incomplete accounts of themselves\, learn through relationships with human practices\, and exist in the world in ways that exceed their source code. In these ways\, algorithms and their relations to people cannot be understood by simply examining their code\, nor can ethics be encoded into algorithms. Instead\, Amoore locates the ethical responsibility of algorithms in the conditions of partiality and opacity that haunt both human and algorithmic decisions. To this end\, she proposes what she calls cloud ethics—an approach to holding algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate. \n\n\n\nDr. Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching focuses on aspects of geopolitics\, technology and security. She is particularly interested in how contemporary forms of data and algorithmic analysis are changing the pursuit of state security and the idea of society.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/louise-amoore-cloud-ethics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20201103T050000Z
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SUMMARY:RubyCoders Weekly Meetings
DESCRIPTION:The RubyCoders is an informal group that holds weekly meetings where we take an online\, collaborative\, and hands-on approach to learning computer programming and electronics using the Arduino platform.\n\n\nDate: Every Thursday\nTime: 4 to 6 p.m. ET\nZoom Link: Contact Ivan Ruby at\nTopics: Microcontrollers\, Arduino\, Electronics\, Computer programming\, Problem-solving\, Autonomous learning\n\n\n\nWe meet on Zoom and use an online simulator\, Tinkercad Circuits\, to increase the accessibility of our activities. We work on real-world projects and troubleshooting challenges designed to stimulate the group into learning together and comprehensively.\n\nWe are now expanding our group and looking for new members who are interested\, curious\, and eager to socialize\, regardless of the level of expertise or prior experience.\n\nAre you up to the challenge? Get in touch by sending an email to ivan.ruby@mail.concordia.ca.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rubycoders-weekly-meetings/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20200910T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073159Z
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SUMMARY:Sun-ha Hong: Technologies of Speculation
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nDr. Sun-ha Hong presents their new book\, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society \n\n\n\nAn inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms \n\n\n\nKnitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader\, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge\, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep\, our voluminous social media activity and location data\, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new technologies of state and self-surveillance promise to re-enlighten the black boxes of our bodies and minds. But Sun-ha Hong suggests that the burden to know and to digest this information at alarming rates is stripping away the liberal subject that ‘knows for themselves’\, and risks undermining the pursuit of a rational public. What we choose to track\, and what kind of data is extracted from us\, shapes a society in which my own experience and sensation is increasingly overruled by data-driven systems. \n\n\n\nFrom the rapidly growing Quantified Self community to large-scale dragnet data collection in the name of counter-terrorism and drone warfare\, Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation. In his analysis of the Snowden affair\, Hong demonstrates an entirely new way of thinking through what we could know\, and the political and philosophical stakes of the belief that data equates to knowledge. When we simply cannot process all the data at our fingertips\, he argues\, we look past the inconvenient and the complicated to favor the comprehensible. In the process\, racial stereotypes and other longstanding prejudices re-enter our newest technologies by the back door. Hong reveals the moral and philosophical equations embedded into the algorithmic eye that now follows us all. \n\n\n\nDr. Sun-ha Hong is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Their work asks how new media and its data become invested with ideals of precision\, objectivity and truth – especially through aesthetic\, speculative\, and otherwise apparently non-rational means. Dr. Sun-ha Hong analyses the contemporary faith in “raw” data\, sensing machines\, and algorithmic decision-making\, and of their public promotion as the next great leap towards objective knowledge.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sun-ha-hong-technologies-of-speculation/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201019
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
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SUMMARY:Milieux Institute @ ISEA2020 Online
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nMilieux Engagement\n\n\n\nThis year’s program features 20+ Milieux Institute students\, faculty\, and collaborators: \n\n\n\nAlexandre SaunierAllison MooreAntonia HernandezCeyda YolgormezCsenge KolozsvariEmmanuelle ForguesGarrett JohnsonJoseph ThibodeauMatthew HalpennyNavid NavabNima NavabSamuel ThulinSamuelle BourgaultSuzanne KiteChristopher SalterDavid HowesJill DidurRicardo Dal FarraRilla KhaledMaurizio MartinucciNathalie Dubois CaleroSofian AudryStanzi Vaubel \n\n\n\nSee the full program for details. \n\n\n\nISEA2020 Theme\n\n\n\nISEA 2020 turns towards the theme of “Why Sentience?” Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. ISEA2020 will be fully dedicated to examining the resurgence of sentience—feeling-sensing-making sense—in recent art and design\, media studies\, science and technology studies\, philosophy\, anthropology\, history of science and the natural scientific realm—notably biology\, neuroscience and computing. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe ask: why sentience? Why and how does sentience matter? Why have artists and scholars become interested in sensing and feeling beyond\, with and around our strictly human bodies and selves? Why has this notion been brought to the fore in an array of disciplines in the 21st century? \n\n\n\nFounded in the Netherlands in 1990\, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art\, science and technology. ISEA is one of the most prominent international events on art and technology around the world\, bringing together scholarly\, artistic\, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in electronic art\, interactivity and digital media.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-institute-isea2020-online/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201008
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20200924T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Textiles: Fall Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about this event on the Textiles & Materiality website\n\n\n\nHosts: Miranda Smitheram\, Camelia Layachi\, Etta Sandry \n\n\n\nWhen: Wednesdays from 6pm-7:30pm\, Sept 23\, Oct 7 & 21\, Nov 4 & 18\, Dec 2 \n\n\n\nWhere: Zoom (e-mail the Research Coordinator at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca for the recurring link). \n\n\n\nAccess the full bibliography here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/decolonizing-textiles-fall-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201006T160000
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20200930T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073230Z
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SUMMARY:Amber the Maker: Soft Launch
DESCRIPTION:Amber the Maker is the story of an 8-year old amputee who gets bullied by her teammates during swim practice. She meets Gentling\, a dragon\, who will inspire her to create her own prosthetic hand. She will discover a makerspace where she will make her own swimming hand.  \n\n\n\nThe story stems from cutting-edge research developed by professor Ann-Louise Davidson\, Concordia University Research Chair in Maker Culture\, and Education Makers. The authors of the book will be present and will discuss the story with children. This is an event for everybody including families and older adults.  \n\n\n\nJoin a group of children who will read Amber’s story virtually at 4th SPACE.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/amber-the-maker-soft-launch/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200922T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200922T150000
DTSTAMP:20260626T100308
CREATED:20200910T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073154Z
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SUMMARY:My first VR socially distanced exploration!
DESCRIPTION:To kickstart the fall 2020 semester\, the cross-cluster Immersive Reality Lab at the Milieux Institute is organizing a lecture titled: Exploring Virtual Reality: My first VR socially distanced exploration! \n\n\n\nThis 2-hour lecture is designed for artists looking to explore virtual reality for the first time. We will look at technology\, creative tools and workflows available to start designing VR experiences at the Immersive Reality Lab. \n\n\n\nLecturer: Marco Luna\, Technologist and Coordinator of the Milieux Immersive Reality Lab \n\n\n\nLimited Capacity: 15 students \n\n\n\nTo participate\, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/my-first-vr-socially-distanced-exploration/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Christian Katzenbach: Public Controversies and the Future of AI
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nFacial recognition\, digital contact tracing and content moderation have all been major controversies involving AI in 2020. How do these controversies shape the global governance of AI? A leading global scholar on platform and AI governance\, Dr. Katzenbach will introduce a framework for the contested\, informal governances processes of AI unfolding across research\, policy and media in Canada\, France\, the UK\, and Germany. These controversies shape understanding of what kind of AI comes into being\, which problems and challenges are to be addressed\, and our expertise to shape its future developments for the public good. As scandal and outrage give way to public debate and regulation\, Dr. Katzenbach will outline a way to understand a dominant concern for the future of media\, social and technology policy. \n\n\n\nDr. Katzenbach is a Senior Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin\, Germany). He directs the interdisciplinary research program “The Evolving Digital Society”. He is Chair of the Section Digital Communication of the German Association for Media and Communication ResearchIn the past and has acted as interim professor for communication policy and media economics at the Institute for Media and Communication Research at Freie Universität Berlin. His research addresses the intersection of technology\, communication\, and governance. He is a co-initiator of the open access journal Internet Policy Review and co-editor of the open access book series Digital Communication Research.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/christian-katzenbach-public-controversies-and-the-future-of-ai/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Hexagram - SYMPOÏÉTIQUES 2020 Launch
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event\n\n\n\nHexagram\, the network dedicated to research-creation in arts\, culture\, and technology\, is hosting the first edition of its online Interdisciplinary Summit. This web platform\, which will provide a creative laboratory for all\, will be launched on the 15th of September at noon. \n\n\n\nThe theme of this first edition makes reference to sympoiesis (Haraway\, 2016)\, which is to say the relationship between participants and the sharing and co-extension of their projects—extending from the design of the works to the practical organization of the symposium. The event was initially intended to take place in person over three days in May 2020 and has since been adapted due to the pandemic. Through the digital platform\, the hope is to extend typical approaches online by engaging researchers and the public to interact together. The precarity affecting physical creation spaces\, caused by the current situation\, demands a much-needed reimagining of the means by which social solidarity can be practiced. Given the spatial constraints inherent in physical distancing\, Hexagram’s Interdisciplinary Summit will attempt to present a new world filled with innovative online contributions\, including other events and projects to be added over the course of the Fall season. \n\n\n\nThe digital platform created especially for this first edition acts as a full-fledged avenue for research-creation. It will bring together over 20 participants from academia and communities of practice\, and audiences will be invited to discover a multitude of innovative approaches. The platform will be comprised of performances\, scientific articles\, discussions\, workshops\, presentations\, videos\, BioArt\, photography\, games\, sounds\, and 3D imagery. In line with Hexagram’s mandate\, the summit itself will constitute an engaging combination of experiments in digital\, material\, textual and technological research-creationThe 15th of September at noon will be the time to take part in the launch of Hexagram’s Interdisciplinary Summit and enter a world of sympoietic research-creation.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/hexagram-sympoietiques-2020-launch/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200911T130000
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SUMMARY:Immersive Reality Lab: Open House Fall 2020
DESCRIPTION:The Milieux Institute’s Immersive Reality Lab has created the first proof of concept for a multiplayer VR research project called: “Documentary Practices: Knowledge sharing and community building using immersive technology during time of social distancing.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe have reproduced an immersive interactive space emulating Technoculture\, Arts and Games\, and we would like to invite Milieux members to explore\, hang around\, chill out\, in a VR open house on Friday\, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. ET. \n\n\n\nTo reach the space please contact us at vr.milieux@concordia.ca and follow the instructions below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstalling Steam: If you haven’t already\, download Steam. Steam can be found here https://store.steampowered.com Click on “Install Steam” and follow the instructions. (You will need to sign up).\nDownloading VRChat: In the Steam Application\, type “vrchat” on the search bar and press enter. Then\, scroll a bit down and select “Play Game”. (It might say “Install” or “Download” for you)\nMaking an Account: Once the game has been installed\, you can put your VR headset on if you have one. You should see three options “VRChat”\, “Steam”\, or “Create Account”. Select “Create Account.” If you have your headset on\, take it off. On your Desktop\, a window should have appeared to register for an account. Enter your information.The final step will be to confirm your email. After confirming your email\, you can put back your VR headset.\nSelect “VRChat”\, and enter your Username\, and your password.\nYou should be able to play the game now!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-reality-lab-open-house-fall-2020/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:New Nature: A Climate Change Exchange
DESCRIPTION:New Nature is a year-long exchange between 25 leading climate scientists\, artists\, producers\, and creators working on the forefront of immersive technologies\, initiated by the Goethe-Institute of Montreal\, in partnership with the Milieux Institute and others. \n\n\n\nOriginally planned as an on-site event in Montreal\, the project is now kicking off online from Monday May 25 through Thursday May 28. The weeklong event will feature public keynotes\, online film screenings\, and artist talks. \n\n\n\nMonday\, May 25 – Opening Keynote by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Moderated by Ian Mauro\, followed by a Q&A session \n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 26 – Artist Talk: Architect Nerea Calvillo in conversation with Environmental Researcher Nick Shapiro \n\n\n\nMore details about events and speakers are available on the Goethe-Institut website: goethe.de/canada/newnature \n\n\n\nNew Nature seeks to open up new perspectives\, by integrating emerging and immersive media — such as public and virtual installations\, projections\, and virtual\, augmented and mixed reality — with future-oriented forms of science and climate storytelling. The exchange brings together leaders from Canada\, Germany\, Mexico\, and the United States by creating an ideal setting for networking\, and forging lasting connections for collaboration and co-production. Through strong partnerships with funders\, exhibitors\, and media outlets\, New Nature encourages co-productions and joint cultural projects between creative professionals in all four countries. \n\n\n\nTHEME: AIR – DESIRABLE & SHARED FUTURES\n\n\n\nThe New Nature project focuses on the shared and yet invisible element of air to address the imminent necessity to reimagine our relationship to nature. New Nature focuses on visions of desirable futures and collective imaginaries of how we might reroute disaster and reinvent our relationship to the natural world. New Nature seeks also to collectively and creatively reflect about the current situation facing the global outbreak of COVID-19: such concepts as global pandemics\, airborne pathogens\, interspecies infections\, correlations of disease and environmental destruction/climate change\, exposure and vulnerable populations\, as well as the emotional and social fallout of the COVID-19 crisis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Nature is a project by the Goethe-Institut\, realized with the support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPROJECT PARTNERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilieux Institute for Art\, Culture and Technology\, an interdisciplinary graduate research institute for research-creation in new media arts\, digital culture and information technology at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nPhi Centre in Montreal\, a multifunctional centre where art can express itself in its various forms of art\, film\, music\, design and technology. \n\n\n\nNational Film Board Digital Studio in Montreal\, one of the world’s leading digital content hubs\, creating groundbreaking interactive documentaries and animation\, mobile content\, installations and participatory experiences. \n\n\n\nRetune – Creative Technology Platform\, a biennial event at the intersection of Art\, Design\, and Technology in Berlin. \n\n\n\nMassive Science\, a content and media company operating worldwide and delivering bleeding-edge scientific research and expertise. \n\n\n\nThe Museum of the Moving Image – Science on Screen in New York City.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/new-nature-a-climate-change-exchange/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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SUMMARY:Post-Arduino Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:https://www.facebook.com/CU4thSpace/videos/285238069545469/\n\n\n\n\nEducation Makers invites you to attend their belated Arduino Day celebration. Hosted by #CU4thSpace and Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia\, this virtual and global celebration will introduce you to the exciting world of Arduino: an open-source hardware and software project and user community that designs and manufactures single-board kits for building digital devices. \n\n\n\nThe event will begin with an expert Q&A with David Cuartielles\, Arduino co-founder\, followed by a talk by Tomas de Camino\, a mathematician\, computer scientist\, musician\, maker and professor at Lead University in Costa Rica. Five-minute presentations and demos of Arduino projects by a community of makers will follow. A full schedule is available below. \n\n\n\nJoin the fun by registering for the Zoom webinar (https://bit.ly/2TlSnGK ) or watching live on Facebook. \n\n\n\nHave questions on this topic that you want to get to our experts and makers ahead of time? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n11:00-11:10: Introduction by Education Makers11:10-11:30: Q&A with David Cuartielles11:30-11:50: A talk by Tomas de Camino11:50-12:20: Presentations and Demos• Rima Abou-Khalil (Rick & Morty Portal Gun)• Nathalie Duponsel (Stars Nightlight Exploration)• Houda Jawhar (Elektroknitting)• Parsa Hariri (Smart Car Assistant)• Ben Douek (Robot In A Can)• The “Ruby” Coders (Ivan Ruby Coding Group)12:20-12:30: Q&A \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/post-arduino-day-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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