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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200922T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200915T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200523T110000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200321T110000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Arduino Day 2020
DESCRIPTION:Update: Unfortunately\, this event has been cancelled along with all other events at Milieux facilities through March 30\, 2020 due to COVID-19.\n\n\n\nEducation Makers is hosting a celebration for international Arduino Day 2020. Sign up to show and tell us about your innovations. Participants will workshop\, play around and experiment with Arduino kits. There will be snacks and thrilling Arduino freebies! Bring your laptop and your enthusiasm. \n\n\n\nTo sign up to share your work\, please contact the event organizer\, Farnaz Gholami\, at gholami.farnaz@gmail.com. \n\n\n\nFor more information about Education Makers\, visit their website.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cancelled-arduino-day-2020/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200319T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200319T180000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Talk: From operation to cooperational aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:Update: Unfortunately\, this event has been cancelled along with all other events at Milieux facilities through March 30\, 2020 due to COVID-19.\n\n\n\nMilieux Speculative Life Biolab Artists Talk Series Presents: Samuel Bianchini\n\n\n\nDr. Samuel Bianchini\, an artist and associate professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD\, PSL Research University\, Paris). His work addresses the relationship between technological “dispositifs\,” new modes of representation\, aesthetic experiences\, and sociopolitical organizations.Bianchini is head of the “Reflective Interaction” research group at EnsadLab and Co- Director of the Arts & Sciences Chair (with École Polytechnique and Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation). He is a member of the SACRe Laboratory (Sciences Arts Création Recherche\, PSL)\, and a member of Hexagram.  \n\n\n\nBianchini has co-edited books such as “Practicable: From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art” (2016\, MIT Press\, with Erik Verhagen) and “Behavioral Objects 1 – A Case Study: Céleste Boursier Mougenot” (2016\, Sternberg Press\, with Emanuele Quinz). Other works were published by Éditions du Centre Pompidou\, Analogues\, Media-N – Journal of the New Media Caucus\, Hermes\, and Les Presses du Réel. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about the Speculative Life BioLab\, visit their website.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cancelled-talk-from-operation-to-cooperational-aesthetics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200311T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200311T140000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Documentary filmmaker Mia Donovan
DESCRIPTION:The Post Image Cluster invites you to join for an artist talk by Canadian filmmaker Mia Donovan. \n\n\n\nMia Donovan is a socially engaged documentary filmmaker. She is best known for telling stories that provide counter-narratives about people who have been negatively mislabeled or dehumanized by mainstream media. Her work is driven by a preoccupation with empathy and how storytelling can both nurture and exploit it. She has made three feature documentaries\, Inside Lara Roxx\, Deprogrammed\, and Dope Is Death and one virtual reality experience called Deprogrammed VR. \n\n\n\nMia’s work has been presented worldwide at film festivals\, on TV broadcasts\, theatrically and on digital platforms including Netflix. She was awarded the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking in 2012 at Hot Docs. In 2016 Deprogrammed VR won the coveted IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling. She recently produced and directed her first music video for Rufus Wainrwright’s song Trouble In Paradise. \n\n\n\nHer most recent film Dope Is Death (2020) will have it’s World Premiere at True/False Film Fest in March 2020\, followed by it’s International Premiere at CPH:DOX. Mia is currently developing her first narrative feature film\, The Touch of her Flesh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility:The talk is located on the 11th floor of the EV Building at Concordia University\, accessible by two sets of elevators near the Mackay street entrance or in-between St. Catherine and Guy street entrance. \n\n\n\nTerritorial Acknowledgement:We would like to acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-documentary-filmmaker-mia-donovan/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200313
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Voice and Performance Devising with LePARC
DESCRIPTION:A Walk in LePARC with matralab: Misha Penton\n\n\n\nJoin soprano and performance creator Misha Penton for a multi-day performance workshop. Create voice and text-based experimental solo\, and collaborative works with (or without!) media. \n\n\n\nMarch 10-12\, 20202 to 4 p.m.EV 4.502 \n\n\n\nThe workshop will explore the development of original text\, investigations into improvisational practices and semi-structured collaborative devising methods as well as playful voice techniques and experimental voice composition. The multi-day adventure culminates in an informal showing of in-process solo and collaborative group performance\, and media projects. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is appropriate for students from diverse creative backgrounds who are interested in performance-making (singers\, actors\, dancers\, media artists\, instrumentalists\, etc). \n\n\n\nDress comfortably. Bring laptops\, smartphones and instruments\, if desired. \n\n\n\nMilieux’s Performing Arts Research Cluster\, LePARC\, hosts researchers and artists to give workshops\, performances\, and other forms of shared inquiry\, open to all members and the public. Learn more about LePARC by visiting their website. \n\n\n\n\n\nMisha Penton is a soprano\, performance creator\, experimental vocal composer\, director\, and filmmaker. Recent projects include Threshold\, a site-specific experimental new opera created for the cavernous old grain Silos at Sawyer Yards in Houston; Anecdote of the Spirit\, a contemplative music work for the Rothko Chapel; The Medusa Project with its premiere performance at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford (CT) and a film version created for Bath Spa University’s 35’ high MediaWall in the UK; and Misha’s directorial debut with Houston Grand Opera directing a new web opera in HGO’s series Star Cross’d. Misha has conceptualized\, produced\, and directed over 16 original evening-length performance works and more than six music video projects.  \n\n\n\nProfessional affiliations include Houston Grand Opera\, Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, Menil Collection Houston\, Dallas Museum of Art\, The Foundation for Modern Music\, The University of Houston Center for Creative Work\, Jewish Community Center Houston\, Liminal Space Contemporary Music Ensemble\, and DiverseWorks Arts Space Houston. Upcoming projects include Visible Darkness\, a multi-version new media monodrama celebrating the magnificent monstrous feminine; Kassandra\, a film and performance project based on the Greek anti-heroine with dancer and choreographer Meg Brooker; and a trio of operatic cyber-fairytale music films. Misha is a doctoral candidate in music and voice at Bath Spa University\, UK. Visit her work at mishapenton.com.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-voice-and-performance-devising-with-leparc/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200306T150000
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SUMMARY:Sound & Play: Talk and Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Yann Seznec\, Game Designer in Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art Game Lab in Baltimore\, is visiting the Technoculture\, Art and Games cluster at Milieux. Yann is an artist and musician whose work focuses on sound\, music\, physical interaction\, games\, and building new instruments. \n\n\n\nOn Friday\, March 6th at 1pm\, Yann will be giving a talk followed by a quick sound workshop at TAG (EV 11.435). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMuch of Yann’s work involves building custom instruments such as musical pigsties\, slinky instruments\, candle-based sound installations\, electromechanical mushroom spore reactors\, and more. His short talk will focus on Prayer Request\, his installation and performance inspired by (and based upon) a subgenre of YouTube videos involving people asking for help to attract divine attention for their personal problems. The work uses light sensors and candles to control the sound – following the talk attendees will work together to create their own sound installation using the same hardware and software system. \n\n\n\nYann is particularly interested in using playful musical interactions to reveal our problematic relationships with media. Recent projects include residencies at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum\, the Floating Cinema in London\, Playable City Lagos\, and Timespan in the Scottish Highlands. He has performed at The Roundhouse London\, Mutek Montreal\, Melbourne Recital Hall\, Liquid Rooms Tokyo\, Köln Philharmonie\, Fak’ugesi Johannesburg\, and more. He is founder of the award-winning creative studio Lucky Frame and was most recently a lecturer at Abertay University in Dundee\, Scotland. In December 2015\, he received the British Composer Award for Sonic Art for his 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival work “Currents”.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sound-play-talk-and-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200304T180000
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SUMMARY:Technoculture\, Art and Games: MICROTALKS
DESCRIPTION:The Technoculture\, Art and Games cluster is hosting another session of MICROTALKS featuring new cluster members. Speakers will share their work in super fast pecha-kucha style presentations. \n\n\n\nThe speakers featured in this first session will talk about a wide variety of topics including\, but not exclusive to: ethical game design\, gender in games\, procedural choreography\, conversing with NPCs and narrative AIs. Join us and get up to date on the research TAG members have been conducting this year. \n\n\n\nFEATURING\n\n\n\n\nSteven Sych: T-POSE: Dancing With One’s Hands\n Hazel Thexton: Sliders and Pronouns: Gender Choice in Games\n Aurélie Petit: Becoming Political: Anime Imagery in Alt-right Online Discourses\n Cyrus LK: 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET\n Elise Trinh: Tales of disruptive plays and rhapsody games\n Hanieh Jahanshahi: Conversational Landscapes\n Arian Saffarizadeh: Quick history of proc-gen narrative and murder mystery approach\n Yann Seznec: The Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices\n\n\n\n\nFor more information about this and other TAG events\, please visit the cluster’s website.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/technoculture-art-and-games-microtalks/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200210T130000
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SUMMARY:Defiant Wearables Workshop
DESCRIPTION:with Geneviève Moisan & Marc Beaulieu\n\n\n\nThis workshop is a introductory crash-course in wearable interactive-textile creation. We will build basic circuits and learn basic coding strategies to program the Adafruit Gemma microcontroller. We will explore possible behaviours that we might integrate into a wearable fabric (such as playfulness\, irrationality\, vengefulness…)\, using one input sensor and one output component. \n\n\n\nDAY 1 – Monday\, February 3rd\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm – Understanding the Gemma microcontroller & sample Arduino code– Designing an interactive textile– Preparing a test circuit– Understanding how to layout electronic components in a soft-circuit \n\n\n\nDAY 2 – Monday\, February 10th\, 1:00pm – 5:00pm – Creating an embroidery circuit from an Illustrator file– Laying conductive thread circuit using the industrial embroidery machine– Integrating electronic components into a soft circuit by hand– Fine-tuning Arduino programming to achieve desired responses \n\n\n\nPrerequisites: A basic understanding of electronics and a basic understanding of the software Adobe Illustrator is strongly recommended. \n\n\n\n * This workshop is open to members of all Milieux Research Clusters. \n\n\n\n**Limited spaces available. Please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include ‘Defiant Wearables’ in the subject line for RSVP.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/defiant-wearables-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200203
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20200106T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073032Z
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SUMMARY:Global Game Jam 2020
DESCRIPTION:TAG is hosting Global Game Jam (GGJ) again in 2020. GGJ is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a 48 hour long game making marathon. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world\, we could come together\, be creative\, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using games. If you are interested in jamming with us\, please register at: https://globalgamejam.org/2020/jam-sites/tag-lab \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe structure of a jam is usually that everyone gathers on Friday late afternoon\, watches a short video keynote with advice from leading game developers\, and then a secret theme is announced. All sites worldwide are then challenged to make games based on that same theme\, with games to be completed by Sunday afternoon. \n\n\n\nThe jam is known for helping foster new friendships\, increase confidence and opportunities within the community. The jam is always an intellectual challenge. People are invited to explore new technology tools\, trying on new roles in development and testing their skills to do something that requires them to design\, develop create\, test and make a new game in the time span of 48 hours. \n\n\n\nTAG will have a jury at the end of the jam\, who will give out some awards as well as a two our public play-test from 5pm to 7pm on Sunday the 2nd. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIMPORTANT:\n\n\n\nPLEASE BRING YOUR OWN COMPUTER / EQUIPMENT!You will also need to upload your game to the GGJ site. \n\n\n\nSIGN UP HERE\n\n\n\n\nhttps://globalgamejam.org/2020/jam-sites/tag-lab
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/global-game-jam-2020/
CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20200122T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073049Z
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SUMMARY:Bacterial Portraiture Workshop
DESCRIPTION:with Alexandra Bachmayer & Marc Beaulieu\n\n\n\nDAY 1 – Monday\, January 27th\, 1:00pm – 5:00pmIntroduction to bacterial culture activities & stencil creation from portraits:Pre-prepared liquid bacterial cultures will be used to streak petri-dish plates that have stencils applied to them\, and to create petri dish shibori samples on fabric.DAY 2 – Wednesday\, January 29th\, 1:00pm – 4:00pm Analyzing results\, printing activities will include examining both the shibori sample results and the growth on the streaked (stencil) plates.Participants will learn how to print on fabric with the bacteria that has grown on the stencil plates\, and to prepare their samples for steam sterilization. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis workshop relates to ideas of labour\, particularly invisible labour\, quite literally\, as microorganisms perform processes invisible to the naked eye. This is a relevant topic for investigation as it relates to bioart practice\, within the context of nonhuman agency and its implications in how we think about\, credit & complete works of art. \n\n\n\n* This workshop is open to members of all Milieux Research Clusters. \n\n\n\n** Limited spaces. Please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include ‘Bacterial Portraiture’ in the subject line for RSVP. \n\n\n\n*** Due to bio-permit restrictions\, we are unable to open this workshop to non-Concordians.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/bacterial-portraiture-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200131T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20200117T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073043Z
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SUMMARY:MycoSculpture Workshop
DESCRIPTION:with Théo Chauvirey & Amélie Brindamour\n\n\n\nDAY 1 – Friday\, January 24th\, 1:00pm – 4:00pmIntroduction to Mycelium; natural properties\, current research & methods for working with the material. Using natural fibers and structural elements make a small sculpture scaffold.DAY 2 – Friday\, January 31st\, 1:00pm – 4:00pmDecontamination & inoculating the sculpture scaffold with Mycelium.DAY 3 – Mid to End of February (TBC)A short session to view / cure & collect fully-grown pieces. \n\n\n\nThis is a two-part introductory workshop exploring the use of mycelium in bioart & design (+ an optional short wrap up later in February). Mycelium\, the fibrous vegetative part of mushrooms\, is known as a natural decomposer in the soil\, digesting all kinds of organic material (vegetal or animal) and spreading nutrients across lands. More recently\, mycelium has been used as a natural glue to build furniture\, art pieces and even small buildings! Using a custom blend of organic matter and mushroom mycelium\, participants will be invited to design & grow their own mycosculpture! \n\n\n\n* This workshop is now FULL.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mycosculpture-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200123T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200123T180000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20200116T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073037Z
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SUMMARY:Speculative Life BioLab artist talk: Amélie Brindamour and Brice Ammar-Khodja
DESCRIPTION:Amélie Brindamour (Montréal) is an artist and educator exploring issues pertaining to the natural and urban environment. Her research includes electronic art\, biomaterials\, installation\, and participatory performances. Awarded by the Conseil Quebecois des Arts Médiatiques (CQAM)\, she recently completed a residency at Milieux’ Speculative Life Biolab\, and developed a new body of work exploring bioluminescence and communication. Her works have been exhibited at the McCarthy Art Center\, Eastern Bloc\, Avatar\, the Caetani Cultural Centre\, Murmur Land Studio\, Great Island Arts Co-op\, and White Rabbit.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja (Paris) is an artist and designer working at the intersection of digital arts\, material science\, and anthropology. His research problematizes the relation between form\, matter\, and function. Affiliated with EnsadLab (Paris) and the Reflective Interaction research group (dir. Samuel Bianchini)\, he combines responsive materials\, video\, and softrobotics to question the symbolic\, spatial\, and sensory relations pertaining to materiality and visual information. His works have been exhibited at Biennale internationale du Design\, la Cité internationale des arts\, V2_Institute for Unstable Media\, Musée historique de la ville de Strasbourg\, and Modulab.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-biolab-artist-talk-amelie-brindamour-and-brice-ammar-khodja/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191216T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191216T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191209T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073021Z
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SUMMARY:Liquid Perceptions VR group presentation
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Realities VR group invites all Milieux members to join a public meeting\, their final of the term\, where they will present their in-progress work\, Liquid Perceptions\, for a round of feedback and discussion. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nLiquid Perceptions is an interactive VR experience about the interconnections between the goals we set and the balance of marine ecosystems.  \n\n\n\nHot cocoa and snacks will be served! \n\n\n\nThe project is a collaboration with the University of Waterloo. Milieux member participants include Olivia McGilchrist\, Dougy Herard\, Julia Salles\, Sayed Tabatabaei\, Marco Luna\, Bart Simon\, and Gada Jane.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/liquid-perceptions-vr-group-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191206T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191119T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073010Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining an AI Commons: A One-Day Workshop on AI and the Commons
DESCRIPTION:Hosted at Machine Agencies\, Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \n\n\n\nHow can artificial intelligence be oriented toward the common good? The belief in AI for good has widespread acceptance in the industry and among governments. Declarations from around the globe—Canada\, China\, South Korea\, France\, and more—call for the development of AI to have a social purpose. But what is that purpose? \n\n\n\nThe workshop seeks to develop a vision for a commons-based approach to the future of AI. It is an intervention to develop democratic approaches to digital disruption and understand transformations in citizen engagement. The workshop will produce a public report on the possibility of an AI as well as a series of video interviews capturing the discussion. \n\n\n\nWithout clear direction\, AI risks becoming privatized and at odds with a common world. In a recent study\, researchers calculated the costs of training a deep neural network model for use in natural language processing. Their findings are alarming. The energy required can result in CO2 emissions equal to the lifetime emissions of five cars. Meanwhile\, the financial cost of the computing needed to carry out this research has become so high that academic researchers cannot participate\, enclosing AI innovation within the profit-oriented technology industry. \n\n\n\nA commons approach to AI seeks to mitigate these harms\, just as commons approaches in other areas have intervened in environmental devastation and the privatization and commodification of knowledge. The term “commons” was initially rooted in theories about the conditions and consequences of sharing resources. But theorists and activists have worked to broaden it\, naming new commons in order to advocate for their protection while developing praxis to govern them. This shift in understanding has been greatly informed by indigenous scholarship and indigenous people’s histories\, epistemologies\, and practices\, which offer a wealth of approaches to the management and preservation of common resources\, material and otherwise. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we invite you to reflect broadly on artificial intelligence and its relation to the commons as you consider the following questions: \n\n\n\n\nWhat should an AI Commons be?\n\nHow could a commons-based approach guide the development of AI?\nHow does a commons approach differ from proposed ethical or rights-based frameworks?\n\n\nHow could the development of AI today—including the infrastructure and knowledge at its foundation—become a commons?\n\nWhat forms of collective action and governance would be necessary? What movements and efforts already exist?\nWhat latent commons or undercommons might we find in thinking about AI?\n\n\nCould AI reshape how we think about the commons\, leading to new theories or practices?\n\nHow might related (or unrelated) approaches to the commons be understood through AI and the commons (e.g.\, making kin\, new materialism\, infrastructures of care\, or platform cooperativism)?\nWhat histories and instances of the commons does an AI commons require for context and inspiration?\n\n\nHow might we imagine a future common world for the machines\, environments\, humans\, and other life drawn together by the industrial efforts around AI?\n\nHow can humans\, AI\, and other agents collaborate equitably in these commons?\nHow might AI reproduce sustainably within the natural commons\, unseating extractive and settler approaches to common worlds?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe invite people from diverse professions and communities to contribute as either a workshop participant or a speaker. Participants are expected to prepare a short 500-word position statement on one of these questions to be shared before the workshop then workshopped in groups to draft a shared response to these questions to be integrated into a public position paper. Speakers are expected to prepare a short 15-minute presentation\, participate in a roundtable and animate around 1-2 of these questions. \n\n\n\nThe workshop is invite-only. Some travel funds will be available for speakers. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and the Milieux Institute for Arts + Technology at Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/imagining-an-ai-commons-a-one-day-workshop-on-ai-and-the-commons/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191120T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073016Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux Undergraduate Fellows Pecha-Kucha
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, Milieux’s Undergraduate Fellows take part in a pecha-kucha presentation that is open to the public. \n\n\n\nFellows are invited to present on any topic that is of current interest to them. Join us for an hour of snappy\, fascinating presentations from a group of standout emerging researchers. \n\n\n\nRead more about the 2019-2020 Undergraduate Fellows here. \n\n\n\nSnacks will be served.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-undergraduate-fellows-pecha-kucha/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191028T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T165400Z
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop series presents: Tactile Sound
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? We will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textiles and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \n\n\n\nMulti-disciplinary artist Ryth Kesselring will discuss her research and recent projects\, along with other work in this field. She will then demonstrate the use and capabilities of several components that can facilitate the inclusion of sound into a textile wearable / artwork. We will also look at different textile speaker coils and magnet configurations in relation to the body to experience the sound in different ways. \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 ‘Tactile Sound’ in the subject line. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-series-presents-tactile-sound/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191114T140000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191025T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072937Z
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SUMMARY:Breaking the Hand-Eye Paradigm: Hybrid Games\, Alt Controllers\, and Physicality for Video Games
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jess Marcotte of TAG\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis workshop will make the case for how hybrid games and alt controllers can serve as an entry-point for moving beyond the status quo of standard gaming interfaces (keyboard\, mouse\, controller\, touchpad) and into new ways of thinking about video games and who plays them. Starting from examples of extant work\, we will discuss why it matters to move beyond these usual forms of interaction. From there\, we will do some rapid prototyping with simple\, easy-to-learn boards such as the Makey-Makey or BBC micro:bit and conductive materials. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, November 14 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nWHERE: TAG\, EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/breaking-the-hand-eye-paradigm-hybrid-games-alt-controllers-and-physicality-for-video-games/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T120000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072900Z
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SUMMARY:From Creator to Curator: How Creative AI Changes the Relationship With the Machine
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, humans have used tools and technology to express creativity\, not as a goal in itself\, but as a means of production. With the advent of creative AI\, it is time to rethink our relationship with technology and embrace the computer as a creative partner. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIn this talk we’ll explore the possibilities of creative AI. Through examples of students and professionals we’ll discuss how machines can aid the creative process and what happens if things go wrong. \n\n\n\nAbout Frederick De Bleser\n\n\n\nFrederik De Bleser is a PhD researcher and professor at the Saint Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp\, Belgium. His research focuses on the link between art and technology\, developing free software tools for generative design and data visualisation. He co-founded the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG) in 2004. He coordinates and teaches in the technology labs in the bachelor and master programmes. \n\n\n\nHe has organised data visualisation workshops in France\, Italy\, Finland\, Poland\, Lithuania and Canada. His open-source work is included in tools and applications reaching millions of people.  \n\n\n\nHe works commercially creating visualisations and interactive art installations for government and media organisations. In his free time he is a coach for Hack Your Future\, organizing and teaching web development to refugees. He lives with his wife and two children near Antwerp.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/from-creator-to-curator-how-creative-ai-changes-the-relationship-with-the-machine/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191105T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T073005Z
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SUMMARY:Danses Kaléidoscopiques (a work in progress)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Manon De Pauw and Pierre-Marc Ouellette\n\n\n\n1-4 p.m. – OPEN STUDIO4-5 p.m. – PERFORMANCE\n\n\n\nKaleidoscopic Dances is an installation-performance project that puts forward a hybrid artistic form linking dance\, performance\, visual and media arts. The project is based on a historical research on Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922)\, from which we examine the links between body\, image and technology. We explore the meeting between the performers and a visual device made of mirrors and live video projections.  \n\n\n\nOur current exploration aims to further the potential of the device and to complicate the appearance and disappearance of bodies in the image. \n\n\n\n\n\nBio : Manon De Pauw \n\n\n\nManon De Pauw’s work has been shown at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art\, La Chapelle Theater\, Centro Nacional de las artes in Mexico\, the Art Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, among others. In 2009\, the UQAM Gallery and curator Louise Déry presented the exhibition Manon De Pauw – Intrigues\, which circulated notably at the Musée Régional de Rimouski (2011) and at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris (2012). In 2010\, she directed the exhibition Acts of Presence as guest curator at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art as part of her series Point de vue sur la collection. In 2011\, she was the Quebec finalist for the Sobey Prize for the Arts\, and in 2012\, the Visual Arts Winner of the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award.  In ten years\, Manon De Pauw collaborated notably with the choreographer Danièle Desnoyers\, the musicians André Pappathomas\, Joane Hétu and Philippe B and the director Denis Lavalou. In 2014\, she presented at Usine C the interdisciplinary performance La matière ordinaire as part of the Festival Temps d’Images. In the spring of 2017\, she presented Somatic Cocoons at Agora de la danse in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Pierre-Marc Ouellette. Manon De Pauw lives and works in Montreal. She is represented by the Divison Gallery. She is Professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQÀM. \n\n\n\n\n\nBio : Pierre-Marc Ouellette  \n\n\n\nPierre-Marc Ouellette completed his training at l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM) in 2005. From 2007 to 2017\, he worked as a performer for the company Carré des Lombes by choreographer Danièle Desnoyers. In this company\, he danced in Play It again! and collaborated in the creation of Là où je vis\, Hozhro\, Dévorer le ciel\, Sous la peau\, la nuit\, Paradoxe Mélodie and Anatomie d’un souffle. In addition to taking part in several international tours\, Pierre-Marc has also participated in various projects initiated by various choreographers\, including Paul-André Fortier\, Harold Rhéaume\, Erin Flynn and Deborah Dunn. Recipient of a Canada Council scholarship in 2009 and 2013\, he has perfected in Vienna and New York. As a choreographer\, he created Le show off\, presented in 2010 in Tangente\, then Les Angèles (collective creation) at the La Chapelle theater in 2012 and Cocons somatiques\, with visual artist Manon De Pauw in 2017 at the Agora de la danse. Pierre-Marc has taught Danièle Desnoyers’s repertoire at UQAM\, EDCM and in various professional dancer workshops (Springboard\, Circuit-Est). In 2018\, he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Art History at UQAM\, is enrolled in the Individualized Masters of Concordia University and has created a piece for the first year group of EDCM students. His master’s project is supported by CRSH and FQRSC.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/danses-kaleidoscopiques-a-work-in-progress/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191025T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072932Z
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SUMMARY:Open Studio - Vision in Motion: Moholy-Nagy Milieux
DESCRIPTION:The Hungarian artist/photographer/researcher/writer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ranks as one of the key visionaries of the 20th century. A central figure with the Bauhaus in Germany and then founder of the New Bauhaus in Chicago during the Second World War\, Moholy-Nagy was a strong supporter of art and technology as factors of social progress. He deeply explored and experimented with the fundamental elements of visual perception—light\, color\, space\, matter\, and motion—in what he called “The New Vision” in his groundbreaking writings from the 1920s to the 1940s.   The Moholy-Nagy research studio at Milieux convened in anticipation of the milieuXbauhaus Festival\, with the intention of exploring what the political-social-cultural impact of this new vision means today in an era of transforming perception\, from artificial intelligence\, machine vision\, the transformation of space through new means such as XR/VR/AR\, sensing and the overall shifts in being generated by new forms of cognitive capitalism.  The group’s aim was to re-evaluate and create a new body of knowledge around Moholy-Nagy’s concepts and categories discussed in The New Vision and Vision in Motion. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe final results of the research studio’s work will be professional displayed at this open house. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Speculative Life/LabXmodal\, EV 10.815\n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, Nov. 8\, 1:00- 4:00 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/open-studio-vision-in-motion-moholy-nagy-milieux/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191025T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072927Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux Open House
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nPlease join us for an open house throughout our two floors of cluster spaces\, labs and workshops. Members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that our Institute supports.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Milieux Institute\, EV Building 10th and 11th floors. Come to EV 11.705 to get oriented if you’re not familiar with our spaces.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, November 8\, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Tour - Visit
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
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SUMMARY:Stickers and Decals workshop with Education Makers
DESCRIPTION:Every maker needs a sticker. Every pinball needs a decal. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nCome to #MilieuxMake to learn to make your own sticker or decal. You can even try an iron-on patch. Learn to simply print\, or make your own design. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nCome with your laptop and install the Cameo Silhouette software\, or simply wait in line a bit to use one of our computers. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: 12:00- 2:00 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stickers-and-decals-workshop-with-education-makers/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191025T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Talk: Open Codes\, with Livia Nolasco Rozsas\, Curator of ZKM
DESCRIPTION:The ZKM\, one of the largest centres in the world for the exhibition of media art and technology\, has long been called the “digital Bauhaus.”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nCurator Livia Rozsas will discuss her curatorial work and approach on the large scale exhibition ZKM exhibition Open Codes\, which ran from October 20\,2017-June 2\, 2019 in which the Hexagram network was also featured through the exhibition of three Hexagram researcher and student projects. The exhibition and educational project Open Codes reflects on the world we live in today; a world that is created and controlled by codes. The project brought together computing and art together in various ways. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nIt was a new form of assembly\, combining practical knowledge of computer code and critical artistic approaches in a single venue. The project sought to empower its participants to regain access to reality through instruments of thought and to reflect on the genealogy and current social impact of digital code\, computer programing\, and software.  Open Codes was based on a concept by Peter Weibel and was shown at ZKM | Karlsruhe from October 20\, 2017 to June 2\, 2019.   \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: Friday\, November 8\, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunchtime-talk-open-codes-with-livia-nolasco-rozsas-curator-of-zkm/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191028T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072943Z
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Consequences of the Anthropocene for Social Scientific Theory and Method
DESCRIPTION:This public session is a discussion between four scholars of the consequences of the Anthropocene for how we understand the role of theory and method in the social sciences. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nKregg Hetherington will present some thoughts related to a recent edited volume\, Infrastructure\, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene\, about how the experience of working with the authors it contains has changed his approach to the ethnography of Anthropocenic infrastructures\, and has guided the growth of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHe will be joined by four PhD students from Concordia and McGill\, Aryana Soliz\, Jonathan Wald and Kariuki Kirigia who will offer responses before opening up to discussion. \n\n\n\nKregg Hetherington is an Environmental Anthropologist at Concordia\, co-director of the Speculative Life research cluster at Milieux\, and director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. He has written extensively about monocrops\, peasant movements and bureaucracy in Latin America\, as well as Montreal’s water infrastructure. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.\, in the Speculative Life Commons
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/discussion-consequences-of-the-anthropocene-for-social-scientific-theory-and-method/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T171500
DTSTAMP:20260627T052422
CREATED:20191021T040000Z
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SUMMARY:The Inverse Power of Wavelengths\, a performative talk by Alessandro Carboni
DESCRIPTION:Inverse power of wavelengths – performative lecture is a cross-sectional survey on Alessandro Carboni’s performance practice methodology based on the relationship between body and the city. The performance illustrates a practice that has been developed over a long period of research in several European and Asian cities and mega-cities\, such as Hong Kong\, Singapore\, Kuala Lumpur\, Taipei\, Hanoi\, Ho Chi Min City\, through a “molecular” process\, a spatial frame of the transformations occurring within the urban space. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe research created an hybrid/cross-disciplinary testing ground where observation and documentation of urban events become a getaway for visual interpretations and performance actions. Tensions and flows that animate urban spaces are recreated on stage by buttons\, stings and modular elements that are continuously manipulated and rearranged by the performer. Inverse power of wavelengths aims to rethink the city not as something given\, but rather as a place where the body and its specific features becomes the key element of discussion and a driving force for change. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis performative talk is presented by LePARC as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival\, and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-inverse-power-of-wavelengths-a-performative-talk-by-alessandro-carboni/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk
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