We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members (faculty and students alike!) to meet in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) for our last pizza lunch of the semester! This will be a great opportunity for current and new members to reunite and (re)connect. Come along to have some pizza and chat […]
Through a common interest in the environment and creative storytelling, the Concordia Ethnography Lab has partnered with McGill's Critical Media Club to host Jacquelyn Mills who will present her stunningly beautiful film Geographies of Solitude, part nature film, part biographical portrait. The screening will be followed by a master class on the making of the […]
Join us Monday December 4th, between 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm, at the Speculative Life Biolab for the Pico Power and Energy Transition Residency Open Lab. Since November 20th, interdisciplinary Amsterdam-based artist Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) works in collaboration with Alice Jarry, Bart Simon, and students to develop biomaterials, composites, and technologies for alternative energy futures. Come […]
Love wool? Longing to learn more about it AND join a new knit along project? Then cast on with us! The Future is Wool is a continuing community research project based at Concordia University, exploring the personal and planetary benefits of wool as a beautiful and sustainable material for making in arts, crafts, and design. […]
Come learn about the Angles of Consequence team’s early research since September! LePARC co-director Meghan Moe Beitiks and their research team will present their project and early research in a Lab Report on November 28th, from 12:00 - 13:30, at the Performance Lab (10. 785).
Kathleen Vaughan will give an information session about the Icelandic Field school and courses! Returning June 1-30, 2024, The Iceland Field School is a 3-credit mixed level (BFA to PhD - ARTE 398/660/850 Imagining Iceland) artist’s residency in north Iceland, with a fibre arts inflection! Open to current Concordia students. The Iceland Field School (IFS) […]
As part of her residency in the Performance Lab this November, dance artist and Art Ed. master’s Sara Hanley is inviting people to visit her in the studio for select time periods and come into dialogue with her project. Que constitue la rencontre entre L'asclépiade Le pistage Le.s territoire.s Le désir / besoin d’attachement Le […]
Ethnographic methodologies include a wide range of approaches, many explored in the book A Different Kind of Ethnography (2016). One that has been neglected, while having been a tool for expression and documentation for ever, is drawing. Kuschnir (2016,105) says “ Both anthropology and drawing are ways of seeing and also ways of knowing the […]
Join us for a concert of music generated by Artificial Intelligence! Artificial Intelligence in Music research is a new step in algorithmic and generative music that started in the 1950s with a Computer Assisted Composition tools. This ongoing project is supervised by Eldad Tsabary, Sabine Bergler and Yong Zeng. The main research assistant for the […]
Join us on November 22nd, 2023, at 6 pm at the Concordia Ethnography Lab (EV 10. 625) for the screening of "Huahua's Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations (2022)" & Q&A with the director! Huahua, an eccentric and exuberant woman from Xiongan New Area, a government-planned city just south of Beijing, livestreams herself dancing, singing, and chatting […]
The Ethnography Lab and Centre for Sensory Studies are hosting a brown bag lunch on Repurposed Methods with Anna Harris, Associate Professor of the Social Studies of Medicine at Maastricht University and an Affiliated Researcher with the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia. Repurposing is a term and practice growing in popularity, whether in reference […]
Milieux Institute is opening its doors! On November 22nd from 12-2 PM EST, we’ll be welcoming graduate prospective students to our headquarters at Concordia University! This is a fantastic opportunity to experience our studio-lab spaces, meet our students and researchers (and associated robot friends!), and learn about project and program opportunities. Join us to discover our […]
