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SUMMARY:Redefining Digital Inclusion from Peru to the World
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce an upcoming talk from a newcomer to the Abundant Intelligences network! \nMathias Becerra Sanchez is a student from Peru currently pursuing a major in Symbolic Systems in the Concentration of Human-Centered AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. His work focuses on using technology to empower Indigenous and other digitally disadvantaged languages both in Peru and Latin America. In this talk\, he’ll be presenting his research on STEM education\, linguistics\, and policy in globally disadvantaged language communities. \nThis presentation will be moderated by Hanss Lujan Torres\, Research Coordinator at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). Hanss is a writer\, curator\, and researcher from Cusco\, Peru\, whose work focuses on collective time-making\, alternative understandings of time\, and dissident futures. \n  \nThis event is fully virtual\, please register here \n  \n February 26\, 2026 \n 6-7 PM \nOnline \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/redefining-digital-inclusion-from-peru-to-the-world/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T160000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jennifer Pybus: Auditing Extractive Infrastructures of Datafication in Mobile Applications
DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces an infrastructural mixed method for auditing how health apps embed third-party software development kits (SDKs) and access both personal and health-related data from mobile devices. \nThe method includes: \n\nAn app selection based on relevant criteria\nAn assisted manifest data audit using a large language model (LLM)\nA qualitative examination of corresponding privacy policies and data safety agreements\nA walkthrough method\, established by Light et al. (2018)\, to account for the different kinds of health and personal data that can be input in the apps’ interface.\n\nRather than focusing primarily on user behaviour or consent\, the method centres on qualitative analysis of Android manifest files\, since any personal data an application seeks to access from a user’s device\, or share with third parties\, should be declared there. Participants will also be introduced to the role app events play in personal data tracking\, and to how health-related data are structured in manifest files in ways that make them legible and reusable across a range of actors\, including large platforms. \nBy the end of the session\, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to conduct a static audit of mobile tracking infrastructures and compare back-end findings with front-end privacy policies in order to better infer how personal and health data are extracted\, shared\, and monetised through third-party SDKs\, and how these practices are\, or are not\, communicated to end users. \n  \n🚨 Important: Participants must pre-install software tools in advance of the workshop. Please register early to obtain the installation instructions and recommended pre-reading. Places are limited. \n🎟️ Register for the workshop by sending an email to digslab@concordia.ca with your name\, department\, and level of study. \n  \nABOUT JENNIFER PYBUS: \nJennifer Pybus is a globally recognized scholar whose interdisciplinary research intersects digital and algorithmic cultures and explores the capture and processing of personal data. Her work focuses on the political economy of social media platforms\, display ad economies\, and the rise of third parties embedded in the mobile ecosystem which are facilitating algorithmic profiling\, monetisation\, polarization and bias. Her research contributes to an emerging field\, mapping out datafication\, a process that is rendering our social\, cultural and political lives into productive data for machine learning and algorithmic decision-making. Pybus has cultivated strong European links with public organizations and will use her chair to engage Canadians with innovative tools\, resources and pedagogy for increasing critical data literacy and democratic debate about artificial intelligence. \n  \nThis event is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Data\, Democracy and AI\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, and the Speculative Life cluster at Milieux. \n  \n  \nFebruary 25\, 2026 \n 2:30 – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-jennifer-pybus-auditing-extractive-infrastructures-of-datafication-in-mobile-applications/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Texting on Tajima
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? \nJoin Textiles & Materiality for their upcoming Texting on Tajima workshop! \nIn 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 2 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text. \n  \n February 20\, 2026\n 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\n🎟️ Register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/texting-on-tajima/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260219T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Many\, many Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us in launching our publishing project “Many\, Many Machine Agencies”!\n.\nThis edited collection will be a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and it gathers hybrid maker-thinkers who dabble in different theories of machinic agency including artificial life\, digital games\, interaction design\, robotics\, ubiquitous computing\, expert systems\, virtual life\, simulation\, and neural networks.\n.\nCome along to learn more about our book project\, and connect with others!\n\n.\nThis project is supported by Hexagram’s AI Chantier.\n\n.\n.\n\n February 19\, 2026 \n 3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n\n  \n  \n\n                                                                                                                                           \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/many-many-machine-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T193000
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SUMMARY:'Making art with other people's live': a workshop on the violence of visual representation
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio for a workshop led by HUMA Ph.D Candidate Magdalena Hutter. \nThis workshop invites members of the community who work with documentary photography and/or film to come together and ask questions around how we address the violence of visual representation. How can we work with the lives of real people without being extractive or exposing our protagonists to harm\, particularly when working with groups who have historically been victimized – either in the name of science or art – by film and other visual media? How can we work with visual methods in ways that break down hierarchies\, rather than reinforce colonialist structures that equate seeing with knowing? What can protocols of ongoing consent look like? And what artistic approaches can help us to make our work more relational and accountable? \nAn experiment in thinking together\, this is a space to bring our own work and experiences\, ask some uncomfortable questions\, and support each other in committing to intentional\, responsible uses of visual documentary forms. \nMasking is encouraged at this event. Please do not attend if you are feeling poorly or have cold symptoms. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nVMS coordinator and HUMA PhD candidate Magdalena Hutter has been making documentary films for 20 years\, both as a director and a camera woman. In her research-creation dissertation project she uses oral history and documentary film to explore fatness as method in dance and movement art. \n  \n  \n February 18\, 2026\n 5:30-7:30 PM\n Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/making-art-with-other-peoples-live-a-workshop-on-the-violence-of-visual-representation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T183000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series: The Warcraft Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a new screening as part of the TAG Critical Watch Series. This time\, participants will be screening Warcraft. As always\, the screening will be followed by a discussion. \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nWarcraft is a 2016 American action fantasy movie based on the video game series of the same name. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war\, as the warlock Gul’dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together\, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace. \n  \n  February 18\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-warcraft-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T123000
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SUMMARY:2025-2026 UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you know\, we recently announced our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Fellows cohort. Now\, it’s their turn to take the floor! We’re excited to hear them share their projects and the topics that drive their research. \nTo welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community\, we invite all faculty\, students\, and staff to join us for a special gathering on February 17th\, 2026\, in the Resource Room (EV 11.705). \n\nJoin us for an informal gathering and presentations from these outstanding emerging researchers—plus\, enjoy some pizza! \n  \n  \n⏱️ 12:30 PM: Come grab a slice of pizza! \n⏱️ 1 PM: The Fellows will briefly introduce themselves and tell us more about their research interest and projects. \nFor those who are interested\, the afternoon will conclude with a guided tour led by Marc Beaulieu\, who will share stories of the Institute’s research spaces and reveal some of the “hidden corners” of our institute. \n  \n  \nIn the meantime\, get to know this year’s talented cohort: \nAnnouncing Milieux Institute’s 2025-26 Undergraduate Fellows \n \n  \nWe can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n: February 17\, 2026 | 12:30 PM \n: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2025-2026-ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland\, the latest publication by Will Straw. \nIn its time (the 1920s and 1930s)\, the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison in 1925. In recent years\, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. \nThe fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan\, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives. This talk will deal with the historical usefulness of these accounts\, and with the problem of researching magazines which were rarely preserved in libraries and\, until very recently\, ignored by historians. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nWill Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery\, 2006) and the new Nights in Fairyland: Gossip\, Blackmail\, and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities. Will Straw is also the co-editor of numerous books\, including Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin\, 2014)\, Night Studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli\, 2020) and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Night Time Economy(with Jess Reia and Alessio Koliulis). Dr. Straw has published more than 200 articles on cinema\, music popular culture and the urban night. \n  \n  \n  \nFebruary 13\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure your register for this event \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-and-book-launch-nights-in-fairland-by-will-straw/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T160000
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SUMMARY:Drawing with Threads
DESCRIPTION:What does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, Textiles and Materiality invites you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \nThe workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \n  \n\n\n February 13\, 2026\n⏱️ 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\nFirst come first serve
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/12157/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Lecture-performance: Jeroen Peeters
DESCRIPTION:Join LePARC for a lecture-performance of La Table (1967-1973) by Jeroen Peeters. Written by French poet Francis Ponge\, La Table is the last of his notebook works\, dedicated to his immediate environment\, la table. \nIn this lecture-performance\, essayist Jeroen Peeters takes up the invitation to do the reading of this notebook and the tables it evokes. Seated at a wooden table\, he activates Ponge’s book by way of reading (in English translation)\, gestures as well as visual and textual annotations that are projected live. \n  \nABOUT JEROEN PEETERS: \nJeroen Peeters (1976) is an essayist\, dramaturg and performer based in Brussels. His experimental writing practice translates itself in essays\, artist books\, lecture-performances and installations. As a dramaturg\, performer\, editor and curator\, he has collaborated with a great number of people in the field of contemporary dance and beyond. As a critic and researcher\, he has published widely on contemporary dance and performance as well on matters such as spectatorship\, ecologies of attention\, readership\, dramaturgy\, embodied knowledge\, material literacy and sustainable development\, \nIn March 2025\, Peters defended his PhD in the arts at Hasselt University\, Faculty of Architecture and Arts\, And PXL-MAD School of Arts\, on ” Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field”. \n  \nFebruary 12\, 2026 \n 5 PM \nLePARC Performance Lab EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lecture-performance-jeroen-peeters/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T123000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Van Racine
DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and join IFRC for its next Research Bites session featuring Van Racine. Van will share their research exploring the relationship between linguistic theory and new media through Zaagi’idiwin\, an Anishinaabe understanding of love as a practice of relation\, care\, and responsability. \n  \nABOUT VAN RACINE: \nPhoto credit: Ana Isabel Duque\nVan (they/them) is a 2Spirit French/Anishinaabe artist with a multidisciplinary focus on video game development\, linguistics\, and beadwork. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n February 12\, 2026 \n 12:30 PM \nIFRC HQ EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-van-racine/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260129T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20260113T160737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T160737Z
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SUMMARY:2026 IFRC Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Futures Research Centre’s (IFRC) annual research symposium returns January 29 and 30 at 4TH SPACE. Now in its fourth year\, this essential gathering brings together faculty\, students\, and alumni to share their work with the Concordia community through panels\, workshops\, performances\, and artist talks. \nGuided by the theme\, “Practicing the Future”\, this year’s symposium considers how Indigenous research and research-creation can actively shape the futures we envision.  It offers a moment to exchange ideas\, imagine new avenues\, and cultivate intergenerational and relational forms of knowledge-sharing. The symposium fosters community-building across disciplines\, creating a space where we not only imagine the future but intentionally practice it. \nDesigned to spark interdisciplinary exchanges and highlight current research\, this gathering reflects on the continued emergence and growth of Indigenous scholarship. It celebrates trailblazing accomplishments while foregrounding new and evolving perspectives on Indigenous methodologies. Now in its fourth iteration\, this symposium has become an essential event where IFRC faculty and student members alike share their work with one another and with the greater Concordia community. \n  \nSCHEDULE:\nThursday\, January 29:\n9:45 – 10 am: Welcome: Ohen:ton Kariwa’te’kwan by Prof. Hannah Claus\n10 – 11 am: Panel with Office of Community Engagement\n12 – 1 pm: Lunch break\n1 – 2:30 pm: Panel on First People Studies\n2:30 – 4 pm: Panel – Indigiqueer\n4 – 5 pm: Keynote with Suzanne Kite\n  \nFriday\, January 30:\n1 – 2:30 pm: Panel on Indigenous Pedagogy\n2:30 – 3 pm: Break\n3 – 5 pm: Workshop with Alicia Ibarra-Lemay and Natasha Blanchet-Cohen\n  \n  January 29-30\, 2026 \n4TH SPACE \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2026-ifrc-research-symposium/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260128T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series : Tetris
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of 2026! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion. January’s film is Tetris (2023). \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nTetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. Directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink\, the film stars Taron Egerton\, Nikita Efremov\, Sofia Lebedeva\, and Anthony Boyle. The plot follows Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software\, who becomes interested in the game Tetris\, created by Alexey Pajitnov\, during an electronics show. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo\, he takes trips between Japan\, the United States\, and Russia to win legal battles over the game’s ownership. \n  \n  \n  January 28\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tetris/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Living Room Revolutions: Black Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and '70s
DESCRIPTION:The Media History Research Centre is hosting its first talk of the year as part of the Media History Seminar Series with a presentation by Jennifer Lynn Stoever. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nQuiet as it’s been kept by music media and academia\, from its start Hip Hop was never solely or even predominantly a masculine art. For so many of hip hop’s originators in 1970s New York City\, it was the women in their lives who loved music\, collected vinyl records\, selected music to play at home and at house parties\, and taught their children how to listen widely across genres and deeply into the new musical worlds being spun around them. Through the revolutions of their living room turntables\, Bronx women used vinyl records as a form of sonic archiving\, worldmaking\, and radical mothering in the 1970s\, bringing revolutionary selves into being along with life-sustaining visions of Black and Brown-centered worlds for their children. The way they curated\, played\, and talked about music in everyday life taught their children to hear cultural connections and family history within the grooves of vinyl records; without question this deeply impacted hip hop’s emergence as a DJ art. In turn\, Black women left a still-audible material imprint on the sound itself: samples from their records have been used and re-used in hip hop songs\, a traceable sonic lineage. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Jennifer Lynn Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and founding Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press\, 2016).  She has published in Social Text\, Social Identities\, Sound Effects\, Modernist Cultures\, American Quarterly\, and Radical History Review among others\, including Oxford Handbooks in both Sound Art and Hip Hop Studies.  Stoever’s  book-in-progress\, Living Room Revolutions: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s\, is supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard Foundation fellowships. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMedia History Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre engaging with the historical development of media change and communication. The centre focuses on nascent\, yet robust subfields such as media archaeology\, variantology\, new materialism\, circulation theory\, and technology writing. Through their research projects and publications\, MHRC members have been celebrated for their innovative studies of many aspects of media history. \n  \n  January 22\, 2026 \n 4 -6 PM \nEV 2.776 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/living-room-revolutions-black-women-collecting-and-selecting-records-in-the-1960s-and-70s/
LOCATION:EV 2.776
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T153000
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SUMMARY:Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel
DESCRIPTION:(art)iculating worlds and Machine Agencies welcome Galit Ariel to discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-relatives and surrealities. \n  \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nGalit Ariel is a TechnoFuturist\, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures\, behaviours and interactions. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency\, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity\, Experience and Reality’ which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture\, body\, space and agency. \nHer academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology\, culture and body politics and imaginaries. She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology\, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program\, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists\, artists\, social scientists\, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning)\, and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog-150 principles for a new direction in tech). \nGalit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences\, agencies and institutions\, such as tD\, Bell Labs\, SXSW\, The European Union\, The Next Web\, Slush\, Fifteen Seconds\, FITC\, Pause Fest\, VRARA Global Summit\, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more. \n  \n\nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  January 22\, 2026 \n 2-3:30 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Reserve a spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-spacemaking-unrealities-of-imperfect-worlding-by-galit-ariel/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260116T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260116T153000
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SUMMARY:Stream Evil Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:After captivating a bigger audience than normal when you accidentally kill the wrong character on stream\, you discover an opportune strategy to grow your following: play EVIL to appeal to a wider audience. \nStream Evil is a research-creation project funded by SSHRC and the mLab that investigates tandem play: playing single-player games with multiple people. Research into tandem play shows that players often make different choices\, take bigger risks\, and/or lean into spectacle when playing together. Consequently\, Stream Evil is a game developed to explore how audience feedback can shape moral decision-making during gameplay. \nThe team\, Josh Spatzner\, Jules Maier-Zucchino\, Justin Roberts\, Mia Consalvo\, and Beck de Heuvel\, have been working on this project for two years and are excited to finally share it with fellow TAG members! \nPlease join us for a launch party in which we will finally publish the game and have it available for members at TAG to play it. \n  \n  January 16\, 2026 \n 3:30 PM \nMilieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stream-evil-launch-party/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260114T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260114T193000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Vectors of Visualization: Troubling the Politics of Seeing
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio to critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions\, engaging “Youth United Will Never Be Defeated” and your projects!\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more about the politics of looking\, join Transform co-investigator Dr. Carolina Cambre at the Vectors of Visualization workshop session. \nCome and engage critically with your own photos and the photos from the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition. Join us for refreshments and an interactive event where we will critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions by engaging the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition (part 1) and then engage our own projects and questions (part 2) through sharing and feedback. We will wrestle with discomfort and responsibility (of the viewer to the work and to the producers themselves) while attending to nuance\, complexity\, contradiction and possibility. \nWearing masks is welcomed. \n  \n  January 14\, 2026 \n 5:30-7:30 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vectors-of-visualization-troubling-the-politics-of-seeing/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T140000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Milieux End-of-Term Pizza Lunch and Headshot Session
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to invite ALL Milieux members—faculty and students alike—to join us on December 3rd to celebrate the end of the term! \nCome enjoy some pizza\, (re)connect with fellow members\, and catch up on the incredible work your peers have been doing this semester. \nYour headshot needs a refresh? \nWe will have a photographer onsite to take free professional headshots! \nPlease note that spots are limited and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n  \nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n  \n🗓 December 3\, 2025\n🕒 12-2 PM\n📍Milieux Kitchen Area \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-end-of-term-pizza-lunch-and-headshot-photoshoot/
LOCATION:Milieux Kitchen
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20251117T174405Z
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SUMMARY:Extra-curricular:Photography\, race and citizenship in Toronto's University Settlement House\, 1946-56
DESCRIPTION:Join Media and Materiality Cluster for the second talk of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, a series of public talks and discussions on recent media scholarship. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nWhat is the social significance of a photographic archive with no\, or at most a very accidental\, external audience? Is it akin to photographs that are taken but never printed\, filed away as negatives in a basement or library? For a social historian of photography\, interested in where photographs circulated and how viewers understood them\, how can we begin to understand what these images meant to their authors and subjects? \nThis talk examines these questions through the photographic archives of Toronto’s University Settlement House: a radical experiment in social work that foregrounded extra-curricular activities—art and music classes\, theatre productions\, recreational sports clubs\, Sunday evening dances\, and summer camps\, but also language classes\, library facilities\, medical clinics and lunchrooms—as vital means for providing “lessons in citizenship and cooperative organization” (James 2001). Located in Toronto’s Ward neighbourhood—a site of an influx of non-European immigration that middle class residents worried would disrupt the moral fabric of the city—the University Settlement House’s activities were fastidiously documented by amateur photographers and now reside in the City of Toronto Archives. \nAs part of Moser’s wider project examining the history of photography and citizenship in Canada after 1947\, this paper examines the ways photography\, race\, and extra-curricular activities came together as technologies of assimilation and settlement in the University Settlement House archive. But it equally asks how community members used these same technologies for acts of resistance\, de-segregation and transnational alliance. Paying an inordinate amount of attention to these everyday images of extra-curricular activities that rarely circulated outside the walls of the settlement house\, Gabrielle Moser argues that these photographs impart lessons of their own about the precarities of belonging in multicultural Canada. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nGabrielle Moser is an art historian\, writer\, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press\, 2019) and\, with Adrienne Huard\, co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation (2022). Moser is currently at work on her second book\, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA\, Moser is Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art\, and Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University in Montréal. \n  \n  \n\n November 28\, 2025\n3:30-5 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure you register here to participate! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/extra-curricularphotography-race-and-citizenship-in-torontos-university-settlement-house-1946-56/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:[BOOK TALK] Critical Design Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. \nThe ecological\, social\, and political challenges of our time require creative\, more-than-human\, and futures-oriented engagements. However\, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative\, caring\, engaged\, or collaborative thinking\, making\, or doing. How can the field of communications address this challenge? \nThis talk will explore the power of community engaged design processes to create space for embedded\, embodied\, and emergent thinking. This approach and its results will be illustrated with projects about data literacy\, environmental education\, and digital sovereignty. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nData increasingly forms the backbone of systems and processes that shape how we do things and how we relate to each other. Datafication – the uptake of data to reorganize social processes – is reshaping everything from loyalty programs and digital identification systems to credit card payments and rental pricing platforms. Artificial intelligence accelerates these processes. \nMaking sense of what these changes mean for our everyday lives is no easy task. Datafied systems are highly technical and designed to be convenient and seamless; we tend to encounter them in brief moments of individualized transaction\, which makes them difficult to see\, let alone read\, and their illegibility makes them very challenging to respond to. Communing Data Literacy offers a novel set of concepts and tools to help people make sense of how technology is altering their communities and their social interactions. Building on three years of design research by digital rights organizations in Chile\, Colombia\, Paraguay\, Peru\, and Uruguay\, the volume analyzes people’s everyday experiences with datafication\, rethinking data from the perspective of community and offering practical techniques for community engagement. \nCommuning Data Literacy pushes back against the individualism and technocentrism of Western data literacy practice and scholarship\, providing English readers the opportunity to engage with Latin American perspectives. \n  \nABOUT KATERINE REILLY: \nKatherine Reilly is the lead author on Communing Data Literacy: Tools and Concepts for Social Engagement (MQUP\, 2025)\, “Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-Than-Human Worlds” (Somatechnics\, 2025)\, and Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro Sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (Tierra Común\, 2025). She is a member of the Latin American data colonialism network Tierra Común\, as well as Simon Fraser University’s Imaginative Methods Lab\, and Scholarly Communications Lab. She is an Associate Professor in SFU’s School of Communication. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n🗓 November 20\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-critical-design-research-methods/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251119T163000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Guest Talk: Sara Grimes - Parasocial Gameworlds: Play with Friends\, Influencers\, and AI NPCs.
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 19 for a talk on children’s digital play with Sara M. Grimes. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the Director and Founder of the Kids Play Tech Lab\, and Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded Children and Age-Appropriate Game Design Project. Her research and teaching are centered in the areas of children’s digital media culture(s) and children’s rights in the digital environment\, with a focus on games. Her award-winning book\, Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces\, Virtual Worlds\, and Connected Games\, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new book\, Kidfluenced\, under contract with the University of California Press\, about children as creators of digital games\, media and other content. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓November  19\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-sara-grimes-parasocial-gameworlds-play-with-friends-influencers-and-ai-npcs/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251117T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Tactile Sound: Sensing the Audible
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to explore the senses by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? \nTogether with multi-disciplinary artists Ryth Kesselring and Geneviève Moisan\, participants will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textile and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \n  \nABOUT RYTH KESSELRING: \nBorn in Switzerland\, Ryth Kesselring moved to Québec during her childhood. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on sound\, textiles and the rhythms of craftsmanship as imprints of the textile memories. In her recent work she uses weaving\, sound\, electronics and plants to create interactive ecosystems that are reflecting on political and ecological issues. She is a MFA candidate in Studio Arts with a specialisation in Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University. She worked as research assistant for different research-creation projects as for studio subTela where she worked on electronics and embroideries for interactive textiles. Ryth Kesselring’s work has been shown nationally and internationally through residencies and exhibitions. She is a recipient of several research grants and awards as the FRQSC scholarship and the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier scholarship. She is active as an educator offering studio art workshops and e-textile master classes. \n  \n  \nNovember 17\, 2025\n1-5 PM\nTextiles + Materiality Commons EV 10.730 \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, please make sure you register here to participate! \nMarc Beaulieu will get back to you within a few days to confirm your spot.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tactile-sound/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251112T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Research Institute Day: Open House at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:On November 12th\, four of Concordia University’s Research Institutes are opening their doors to offer a glimpse into the world of interdisciplinary graduate research. \nJoin us at Milieux for an afternoon of tours\, demos\, workshops\, and research spotlights. This is a great opportunity to connect with our research community\, and learn how collaborative\, non-linear research fuels discovery across the university. \nIf you’re already a member but are curious about the different research clusters\, this is your chance to meet with your peers in an informal setting. Come by and say hi! \nFor the occasion\, Milieux has planned a list of activities designed to showcase the institute’s vibrant research culture . \nAll activities are drop-in!. \n  \nSchedule:\n  \n\n\n1-2 PM: How Research Institute Take Shape (and Shape You) | Panel Discussion at 4TH SPACE\n\n\nLearn how Concordia’s research institutes function\, how they began\, the projects they’re tackling today\, and what’s next. Panelists will share how interdisciplinary collaboration fuels discovery and shapes the graduate research experience. \n  \n\n\n1-4 PM: What the Heck Are You Working On? | Media & Materiality Cluster\, EV 10.775 \n\n\nMedia and materiality members will present their research in a welcoming environment. Each show-and-tell will be 5 minutes in length\, followed by a brief Q&A. \n  \n\n\n2:15-4:30 PM: Project Spotlight and Community Stitch: The Future is Wool | Textiles & Materiality Commons\, EV 10.735\n\n\nThe Textiles and Materiality Cluster will be hosting a community stitch event as part of the “La Laine : matériau d’avenir | The Future is Wool” project\, exploring cross-cultural histories and planet-healing futures of our favourite fibre\, local/regional/Canadian wool! Led by Dr. Kathleen Vaughan\, ” The Future is Wool” is a multi-pronged research\, research-creation\, and public outreach initiative that explores entwined considerations of personal well-being and sustainable planetary futures\, and the role that wool can play in promoting both.  \nTogether\, we’ll create a multi-panel “Bayeux”-style tapestry about our wool. All materials provided\, no previous experience required\, and your ideas and stories invited as part of this Concordia University research and creation adventure. \n  \n\n\n2:30-4 PM: Mini MUTEK Forum | Resource Room\, EV11.705\n\n\nThe Machine Agencies Research Group will present works from their exhibition “Machinic Encounters” presented at the MUTEK Forum earlier this year. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM & 3:30 PM: Milieux Guided Tour | Meeting Point Atrium on the 11th floor.\n\n\nJoin one of our 45-minute Guided Tour and learn more about the institute and the research clusters\, discover the different labs and studios and get a glimpse into the institute’s research culture by meeting faculty\, students and staff onsite. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM: “Mess and Methods: Outcomes of rapidly-deployable composite ethnography” | Speculative Life Cluster \, EV 10.625\n\n\n The Concordia Ethnography Lab will discuss the outcome of the Summer Institute “Mess and Methods”. Led by Dr. Kregg Hetherington\, this year’s Summer Institute focused on the ethnographic exploration of  Montreal’s waterways over the course of two weeks. The Montreal waterways research group led an hand-on session over multiple sites around the St Lawrence River to introduce participants to Composite Ethnography. At the end of these two weeks\,  the group showcase the results of their explorations in a closing exhibition open to the public. \n  \n\n\n3 PM : “How do you play with nostalgia?”  | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nIn this research spotlight\, PhD Candidate and Concordia Public Scholar\, Richy Srirachanikorn will talk about his research around nostalgia. Richy’s research looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was\, but the way it could have been. Richy is also a founding member of the Nostagain Network\, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. \n\n  \n\n\n3:15 PM :  “What a Year at TAG Looks Like” | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nMarc Lajeunesse will introduce TAG and look back at highlights and key events from the past year. \n\n  \n\n\n4-4:30 PM :  “Introduction to LePARC” | LePARC Performance Lab\, EV 10.785\n\n\nCluster Co-Director Lília Mestre introduces the LePARC performance lab and invites attendees to a surprise concert. \n\n  \n\n\n4:30-5 PM: Closing Talk | “Turning Data into Action for a Sustainable Future” | Milieux Atrium EV. 11\n\n\nPhD student Faisal Shennib will present his research and invite the audience to rethinking how cities handle waste and move toward a circular economy. His work looks at how everyday data and smart technologies can help people and communities make better\, greener choices\, from waste-sorting tools to smarter recycling systems. In this closing talk\, Faisal will share his story of discovery at Concordia — how curiosity about sustainability\, technology\, and design evolved into research that aims to make cities cleaner\, smarter\, and more sustainable for everyone. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/research-institute-day-open-house-at-milieux/
LOCATION:milieux institute
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:Mycosculpture: An introduction to growing Biomaterials
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an introductory workshop exploring the use of mycelium in bioart & design\, facilitated by Amélie Brindamour and Alex Bachmayer. \nMycelium\, the fibrous\, vegetative part of mushrooms\, has been used in recent years to build furniture\, art pieces\, and even small buildings. Come to the Speculative Life Biolab to learn more about mycelium\, how to grow it on burlap in petri dishes\, and get to know techniques to use lab tools in order to avoid contamination. Using a blend of organic matter and mycelium\, participants are invited to design & grow their own mycosculpture! \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here. \n \n  \nABOUT AMÉLIE BRINDAMOUR: \nAmélie Brindamour explores different issues related to the natural environment. Her research includes sculpture\, installation\, biomaterials and electronic arts\, in order to reflect on interspecies relationships\, alternative forms of communication and intelligent systems in nature. Her projects blur the boundaries between art and science and is developed mainly by participating in diverse artist residencies\, such as Est-Nord-Est (2023)\, the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup (Sociochimie program\, 2022)\, the Speculative Life BioLab at Concordia University (residency CQAM/Milieux\, 2019) and the Vermont Studio Centre (2018). Her work has been presented in various events and institutions such as Caravansérail (2025)\, Science Gallery Melbourne (2024)\, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent (2024)\, Mois Multi (2023)\, and the McCarthy Art Gallery (Vermont\, 2019). Amélie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and a Master in Art Education from Concordia University. Originally from Quebec City\, she lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. \n  \n  \n🗓 November  11\, 2025\n🕒 1-5 PM\n📍Milieux BioLab EV 10.835 \n🎟️ To book your spot\, email biolab.milieux@concordia.ca with the subject ‘MYCOART‘ to reserve a spot. \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. \n  \n  \n\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Alex Bachmayer\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Alex Bachmayer
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mycosculpture-an-introduction-to-growing-biomaterials/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251031T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251031T123000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Research Horror Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for the Halloween edition of Research Bites! \nResearch can be scary sometimes. From the nerve-wracking moment of submitting your thesis\, to late night citation nightmares\, to the haunting feeling of discovering a missing source right before a deadline.\nBring your lunch to the IFRC HQ and join us for a lighthearted discussion about research. \nThis informal lunchtime event is your chance to share your own spooky tales from the trenches of academia. \nWe’ll provide Halloween candy to sweeten the mood! \n  \n🗓 October  31\, 2025\n🕒 12:30 PM\n📍IFRC HQ EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-research-horror-stories/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20250930T152314Z
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SUMMARY:TAG General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for their Annual General Meeting. This is your chance to meet other TAG members\, learn about all of TAG’s happenings this year\, and to make yourself known to the TAG community! \n  \n🗓 October  30\, 2025\n🕒 4-5 PM\n📍TAG LAB EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-general-meeting/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20250930T164227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T172706Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux x Montreal Connect / Showcase\, 5 à 7\, Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Milieux is excited to partner with Printemps numérique for the 7th edition of MTL connect. This annual international event brings together entrepreneurs\, researchers\, industry professionals and artists to explore the evolving challenges and issues of the digital revolution. \nOn October 29th\, Milieux will host a delegation of international curators and industry professionals for a tour of the Institute followed by a 5 à 7 in the atrium on the 11th floor.  \nThis event is a fantastic opportunity for members to showcase their research and creative work with professionals and peers in an informal setting. It’s also an amazing chance to connect with other members\, so even if you can’t present a project\, we invite you to join us to celebrate the research-creation at the institute. \n  \n \n  \nHere some pictures of last year’s event (Credits: Ana Isabel Duque): \n  \n                                                     \n  \nABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION: \n  \nJack Thomas Taylor is the Curator of Art\, Media and Technology at the media majlis museum (mm:museum) located within the school of Northwestern Qatar. He is one of the founding curators and has worked across multiple areas of the museum since its inception. In 2021 he was a key member of the team that helped the museum receive its accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (awarded in 2022). \nTaylor holds a Master of Arts in Culture\, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins (CSM) at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and a Master of Business Administration in Culture and Enterprise\, jointly awarded by Birkbeck Business School and his alma mater CSM. Taylor also has a diploma in Intellectual Property and Collections from the Institute of Art & Law at Queen Mary University\, London. \nHis current research interests include the exploration of the cultural and creative industries in Doha\, Qatar. This research is being supervised by King’s College London where he is also currently obtaining his PhD within the culture\, media\, and creative industries faculty. \n  \n  \nJens Hauser is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology\, trans-genre and hybrid aesthetics. He’s currently a researcher at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion\, following a dual post-doctoral research position at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences\, and coordinates the (OU)VERT network for Greenness Studies. He is also a senior postdoc researcher at the Medical University Vienna\, a distinguished affiliated faculty member of the Department of Art\, Art History and Design at Michigan State University\, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency program\, an affiliated faculty member at the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems\, a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Innsbruck\, a guest professor at the Department of Arts and Sciences of Art at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne\, and a researcher affiliated with École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay. Hauser has been the chair of the European Society for Literature\, Science and the Arts’ 2018 conference in Copenhagen. At the intersection of media studies\, art history and epistemology\, he has developed an aesthetic and epistemological theory of biomediality as part of his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum\, and also holds a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours. \n  \n  \nMohumagadi Moruti is an emerging curator and researcher with a background in computing and an M.A. in Media Arts Cultures at Aalborg University\, her research focuses on the ontology of technology\, culture\, memory\, and geocultural-international curating. She has been actively involved in curatorial and collaborative projects through the Botswana National Gallery\, Aalborg University\, Siggraph 2023\, 2024\, 2025 as well as International Program Committee (ICP) member for ISEA 2025.\n \n  \n  \n Georges-Emmanuel ARNAUD is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work transcends traditional art boundaries to create pieces that explore and challenge our relationship with body\, time and memory. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarine Haverland is the co-founder of fomo.scene\, a Brussels-based company established in 2021 that curates and produces immersive installations and digital exhibitions for cultural venues. Her projects include Reset Immersive (Brussels\, 2023). Previously\, she worked in audiovisual production at Versus Production\, founded Aura Films—a consulting agency specializing in new media and production—and co-founded the Liège Web Fest (2013-2016)\, a festival dedicated to emerging digital formats including transmedia\, web series\, and virtual reality. Marine actively participates in professional events related to immersive technologies and digital culture\, with a particular interest in access to immersive art and the challenges of scenography\, technology\, and audience mediation. \n  \n  \nCarol Giordano is Associate Director of Chroniques (Biennale of Digital Imaginaries) in Marseille\, France.\nFounded in 2018\, the Biennale of Digital Imaginaries is the major event for digital arts and culture in Southern France. It showcases visual arts\, sound arts\, and live performance that explore new technologies\, activates public spaces\, and provides a platform for national and international artists from diverse backgrounds.\nCarol Giordano is also affiliated with Seconde Nature and ZINC\, key organizations in the digital arts scene of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Giordano also served as Associate Director Seconde Nature and ZINC from January 2020 to November 2023\, where he coordinated innovative cultural and artistic projects. \n  \n  \n🗓 October 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5 – 7 PM \n📍Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/11341/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251028T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251028T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20250926T213823Z
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SUMMARY:Altered Perceptions: An introduction to the Biolab through Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:After an introduction to the Biolab\, Alex Bachmayer will guide participants through the exploration a variety of tools that can be used for imaging tiny worlds: DIY macro-lenses that can be easily mounted to a cellphone camera\, small-scale magnifiers\, portable lab microscopes\, as well as polarization\, dark-field and fluorescence on the main lab microscope! This workshop covers both technical skills and playful approaches to working with microscopic structures\, patterns\, and scale. \n \n  \n🗓 October 28\, 2025 \n🕒1-4PM\n📍Milieux BioLab EV 10.835 \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/altered-perceptions-an-introduction-to-the-biolab-through-microscopy/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20251016T185129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T185147Z
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SUMMARY:A Glitch: House9 x Dark Opacities Lab in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Post Image cluster for a discussion between Farah Khan\, Balbir K. Singh moderated by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo . This event will explore the tension\, challenge\, and possibilities of considering opacity as a framework in which to devise and create a research lab. As a portal to the lab\, House9 created such a site for Dark Opacities Lab at Concordia University\, with the demands of considering what opacity could look like\, and where that overlaps with the concept of a glitch. In addition\, they will speak to the work of design and justice-centered projects in building solidarity and networks for communities of colour\, especially at a time of intensifying crises locally and globally. \nEvent starts at 6 PM but doors open at 5:30 PM. Light snacks and beverages will be served. \n  \n🗓 October  27\, 2025\n🕒 6 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-glitch-house9-x-dark-opacities-lab-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251024T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251024T140000
DTSTAMP:20260608T170522
CREATED:20251016T142043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T142043Z
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SUMMARY:Immersive Storytelling Studio Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 24 for an Open House of the Immersive Storytelling Studio! \nMeet the team\, learn more about the ongoing projects at the lab and discover how to get involved. \nNow located on the first floor of the EV Building\, the Immersive Storytelling Studio (ISS) is home to cross-disciplinary research-creation experiments for undertaking hands-on\, collaborative\, and critical explorations in crafting and designing XR environments with 3D technologies. \n  \n🗓 October 24\, 1-2 PM\n📍Immersive Storytelling Studio EV1.631 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-storytelling-studio-open-house/
LOCATION:Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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