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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200127T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200131T130000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191216T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191216T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191206T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191119T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191114T140000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191113T120000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T160000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191028T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072959Z
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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:20260627T055136
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:20260627T055136
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion: Dance\, Space\, and Women in the Bauhaus
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Julie Richard\, Alison Peacock\, and Hilary Bergen\n\n\n\n\nAlison Peacock presents: Space Dance: A lecture demonstration in 100 years of ‘space’ \n\n\n\n\nThe masks of Oskar Schlemmer’s Space Dance are emblematic of the Bauhaus’s theatre workshop’s proposal to emphasize mathematical approaches to human movement by obscuring the emotional content of performing bodies\, foregrounding dance’s formal and spatial qualities. Dance scholar Gabriele Brandsetter points to ‘three criteria – “metamorphosis”\, “body-space relationship” and “abstraction.” – (which became) paradigms for Schlemmer’s exploration of kinetics as an experimental artistic process.’ (54) This lecture demonstration will emphasize and imaginatively reconfigure the experimental dimension of Schlemmer’s kinetic approach to movement and space\, while considering multiple meanings of ‘space’ in the context of 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n2. Julie Richard présente: Créatrices avant tout! Le contexte d’apprentissage des femmes au Bauhaus et quelques réalisations majeures (en francais) \n\n\n\nLe Bauhaus de Weimar\, dès sa conception par Walter Gropius\, est imaginé non seulement comme une institution propice au développement des expérimentations des concepteurs d’avant-garde et à la production en industrie de leurs prototypes\, mais aussi comme un haut lieu d’apprentissage émancipateur et paritaire. Bien que le travail des femmes soit valorisé dès les premières années de fonctionnement du Bauhaus\, certaines normes de division entre les sexes demeurent palpables dans sa structure\, contribuant à minorer l’apport des femmes au sein de l’école. À la lueur des études féministes sur les genres\, cette communication traitera des conditions d’apprentissage des femmes au Bauhaus ainsi que des apports esthétiques et techniques de certains travaux. \n\n\n\n\n\n3. Hilary Bergen presents\, “Why Humans at All?”: Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet as Precursor to Digital Mo-Cap Choreographies \n\n\n\nA 1923 review of Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet critiques Schlemmer’s material enhancement of his dancers’ bodies through the use of costumes\, stating that in concealing (or congealing) it under grotesque garments\, the body is “deprived of its best in dance…making it into a soulless machine.” \n\n\n\nMy presentation imagines Schlemmer’s fantasy of body extension and the dancing puppet as a precursor to today’s computer choreographies\, where motion capture technology is used to mine lively movement from the human body in order to animate avatar dancers and their CGI-prosthetic bodies and digital “costumes.” In putting Bauhaus-era representations of the body in conversation with digital-era embodiments\, where “life” is often contingent upon mediation\, I explore the historical link between the practice of dance and the concept of “soul” to consider how dance might articulate cultural ideas about agency\, control and embodiment. \n\n\n\nWHEN? Thursday\, November 7\, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenters:\n\n\n\nAllison Peacock has developed an artistic practice committed to expanding the possibilities of dance and choreography\, experimenting with forms of presentation\, representation\, potentiality\, and imagination. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies\, is a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Dance Training Program\, and completed her MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the UdK/HZT Berlin. She has trained\, taught\, and performed internationally\, most recently performing at Documenta 14 for artists William Pope L and Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Her solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Canada Dance Festival\, Dancemakers\, Fabrica de Pensule\, Movement Research at the Judson Church\, National Dance Centre Bucharest (CNDB)\, Salonul de Proiecte\, Uferstudios\, FOFA gallery\, and numerous non-traditional performance spaces. From 2006-11\, Allison worked professionally as a gardener in Toronto\, with a speciality in topiary\, hedge\, and knot garden clipping. She is currently a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University\, researching performance and contemporary physicality through local gardens and gardening practices.\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Richard est doctorante en histoire de l’art à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle est également membre de l’Institut de recherche en Études Féministes de l’UQAM (IREF)\, du CÉLAT-UQAM et du Centre Figura.  Son projet bénéficie du soutien financier du Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). Elle s’intéresse aux démarches interdisciplinaires des femmes européennes et américaines de l’entre-deux-guerres caractérisées par la pluralité des médiums utilisés\, tels que la production de poupées\, l’art d’infiltration\, la performance\, les pratiques furtives ou performatives ainsi que la photographie. Ses recherches doctorales portent sur les relations entre le corps\, l’espace et l’architecture et procèdent à l’étude de performances artistiques réalisées dans l’espace public\, tant en art moderne que dans les années 2000. En avril 2018\, Julie Richard donnait une conférence sur les performances de la baronne Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven à l’Université Oxford (Royaume-Uni) dans le cadre du colloque Queer Modernisms. À l’automne 2019\, elle publiera un article portant sur la production de poupée-portraits et de marionnettes de Marie Vassilieff dans la revue scientifique anglaise Sculpture Journal (Liverpool University Press).\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bergen is a trained dancer and PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal\, where she studies screendance\, posthumanism and feminist media history. Her work has been published with Screening the Past\, Culture Machine\, PUBLIC (forthcoming) and Word and Text.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-discussion-dance-space-and-women-in-the-bauhaus/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191107T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime talk: Dietmar Lupfer\, Artistic Director of Muffathalle\, discusses SenseFactory
DESCRIPTION:Dietmar Lupfer is co-founder and artistic director of the International Art and Culture Center Muffatwerk in Munich. He is responsible for an urban\, future-oriented interdisciplinary program that brings together dance\, performance\, hybrid art and media art as well as work at the interface of art\, technology and science. He conceives and curates art actions in public space\, designs media art spaces and is interested in formats that have a performative and as well an installation-based context – what he calls “Moving Installations” as a kind of social sculpture.   \n\n\n\n\n\nLupfer will discuss the recent production of SenseFactory\, a spectacular large-scale performative installation combining architecture\, sound\, smell\, light and AI technology into a immersive multisensorial experience. As one of only 23 projects supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (the German government federal cultural funding) to explore the repercussions of the Bauhaus in 2019\, SenseFactory tries to imagine what role Bauhaus thinking can play in the 21st century.   \n\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, November 7\, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunchtime-talk-dietmar-lupfer-artistic-director-of-muffathalle-discusses-sensefactory/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191022T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Synthetic Forever: The Afterlife of Clothing and Textiles
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Kirsty Robertson\n\n\n\nThis talk considers the moment where a once-loved item of clothing is discarded. Part meditation on the shedding of identity that goes along with turning clothing into waste\, and part research into what actually happens to clothing once it is discarded\, this presentation investigates the afterlife of clothing as it unfolds into futures unknown. Concentrating primarily on synthetic clothing (or clothing made at least partially from plastics)\, I uncover the exceedingly long life of “petrotextiles” before they break down to their molecular compounds. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to create textiles and clothing that cannot be “unraveled” and that exact great demands upon the environments from which their component parts have been extracted? Are such textiles a potential resource for or a weight on future generations? Using the 1951 film The Man in the White Suit \, which imagines the outfall from the invention of an indestructible synthetic fabric\, as a kind of guiding voice from the past\, I address the full life cycle of clothing\, concentrating on what happens when exhausted fashions are out of sight and out of mind. \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/synthetic-forever-the-afterlife-of-clothing-and-textiles/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T163000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191028T040000Z
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SUMMARY:"The Ultimate Goal: A Bauhaus Adventure in Minecraft"
DESCRIPTION:Project wrap-up\, discussion and screening\n\n\n\nSeven intrepid Milieux faculty and students set out to modernize aMinecraft village in just 30 days. Along the way they discover theprinciples of Bauhaus architecture and the international style\,discuss the relationship between logistics\, rationalism and modernism\, build a new conception of functionalist aesthetics\, and develop a deep fear of the “creepers” of national socialism! \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nJoin us as we wrap up this project and reflect on what we observed while it took place. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWHEN: 2:30 – 4:30\, at TAG
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-ultimate-goal-a-bauhaus-adventure-in-minecraft/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191025T040000Z
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SUMMARY:The Book as Body: An Artist's Book Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Led by Darian Stahl\, Participatory Media Cluster \n\n\n\nIn this artist’s book workshop\, participants will learn about the intersecting histories of medicine and bookmaking\, contemporary artists working in thisSelect an area to comment on medium\, and then receive hands-on guidance in the creation of their very own artist’s book. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis combination of fine art and book object creates a vehicle for sensory communication between the artist and each attentive reader.In this artist’s book workshop\, participants will learn about the intersecting histories of medicine and bookmaking\, contemporary artists working in this medium\, and then receive hands-on guidance in the creation of their very own artist’s book. \n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants first create a guided list of sensory descriptors to begin thinking metaphorically about a bodily sensation. After crafting a hand-folded book\, participants can then choose any way of transforming their book to convey their sensory lists. While writing can didactically express one’s inner thoughts\, creating a book allows for tacit communication through its very form: the size\, shape\, number of pages\, how those pages turn\, level of completion\, partial destruction\, and even its scent can all convey meaning in excess of its words. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe then conclude with a voluntary round-table discussion and interpretation of the works created. This combination of fine art and book object creates a vehicle for sensory communication between the artist and each attentive reader. \n\n\n\nWHEN: Wednesday\, November 6\, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-book-as-body-an-artists-book-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072854Z
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SUMMARY:The Power of the Spill
DESCRIPTION:The Power of the Spill is an audio-visual performance that works at the intersection of digital and imaginary technologies. Using live video feedback\, creative coding and movement-choreography\, it agitates the visible borders of objects and bodies and questions habitual divisions between life and matter. The piece starts with a video recording and movement-choreography done on site. This footage (and its constantly changing perspectives) is live-processed using pixelation-effects similar to white noise and is projected back into the same space. As this modified image takes over the raw recording\, it opens up a visual of life where edges are multiple\, selves always leak\, spill over\, are impossible to contain. The politics of engaging with this way of seeing both realities (the tangible object and a visual\, that foregrounds its vitality) means a commitment to shifting our value system and our presuppositions\, foregrounding processes that we are usually missing.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCsenge Kolozsvari is an interdisciplinary artist who has been cultivating listening and somatic practices to attune to the thresholds of experience; the fluttering transition between audible and tactile vibrations\, constellations of connective tissue dances\, a topology that is cross-species\, to the body’s potential as a membrane for being active between thought\, movement and sound. Working with the materiality of digital media (sound\, video) and the performativity of mundane material and aesthetic choices (plastic foil\, toys\, skipping rope\, elevators\, aquarium\, etc.) her work makes felt different modalities of life (human-\, non-human bodies and molecular textures across) at the edge of our perception; the infra-perceptible occasions that are often edited out by the process of making sense of the world. A live practice of process-making and form-taking. \n\n\n\n\n\nRodrigo Velasco is a Mexican artist interweaving text\, image\, rhythm and sound through conversational poetics and live coding. Improvisation and collaborative processes are at the heart of the experience\, where thought is being transformed into abstract worlds of relation. Rodrigo is a student of the Master of Design at Concordia University in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and part of the SenseLab\, a laboratory for thought in motion. His explorations through workshops\, non books and audiovisual performances have been shared internationally as part of /*vivo*/ 2014\, Simposio Internacional de Música y Código\, Libre Graphics Meeting 2018\, Nuit Blanche\, NOCHE EN BLANCO : LATINX (RE) MIX – Eastern Bloc + Never Apart\, Electronic Literature Organization – ELO 2018\, TOPO Digital Writings Laboratory\, live => coding music\, IMPA ˜ Rio de Janeiro and MUTEK Montréal Edition 19.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis performance will be immediately preceded by STRUCTURE BORN OF MUSIC: PERFORMING IN THE PUBLIC-LESS CITY.  \n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-power-of-the-spill/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072848Z
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SUMMARY:Structure Born Music: Performing in the Publicness-less City
DESCRIPTION:In Tkarón:to/Toronto\, Bauhaus is a corporate libertarian slogan––appropriated by the city’s most infamous condo developer (bauhaustoronto.com). \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, the local music community is in a venue crisis as a consequence of this and other gentrification techniques. So what might the latent radicality of the Bauhaus\, and subsequent 20th century collectivist movements\, tell us about art and “public space”today? \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artist and dramaturge Christopher Willes for a presentation and discussion of his recent work as part of the Toronto-based artist collective Public Recordings. Christopher will speak about a project that convened an amateur orchestra to stage music by radical composer Pauline Oliveros in the Council Chambers of Toronto City Hall; and his curatorial work presenting experimental music in the Toronto Public Library system. \n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Willes is an interdisciplinary artist\, composer/musician\, dramaturge and facilitator based in both Tkarón:to/Toronto and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. His practice moves between experimental music\, performance\, and visual art forms–with a particular interest in music/sound\, listening\, and collective practices. He is an associate-artist with the Toronto based collective Public Recordings\, and regularly works as a sound-maker and dramaturge within contemporary dance. He studied music at the University of Toronto and received an MFA from Bard College (NY\, USA). \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be immediately followed by THE POWER OF THE SPILL\, a performance by Csenge Kolozsvari and Rodrigo Velsaco. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of the milieuXbauhaus Festival and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/structure-born-music-performing-in-the-publicness-less-city/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Run-of-the-mill: A textiles workshop
DESCRIPTION:Through their experimental and collaborative approach to art-making\, the weavers of the Bauhaus transformed both the future of textiles and of abstract art. \n\n\n\nIn this two-hour workshop\, participants will have the opportunity to design and embroider their own 5″ x 5″ continuous line drawings and simple shapes using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nParticipants will not only be able to bring their samples home with them\, but in the spirit of the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop\, these designs will also be stitched and assembled into a collaborative textile for display at the milieuXbauhaus closing event. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the milieuXbauhaus Festival and is open to the public!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/run-of-the-mill-a-textiles-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
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SUMMARY:Algorithmic Warfare as an Apparatus of Recognition: Talk by Lucy Suchman
DESCRIPTION:In June of 2018\, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company\, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven\, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. \n\n\n\nDefendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations\, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and\, by implication\, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations\, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Machine Agencies group.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/algorithmic-warfare-as-an-apparatus-of-recognition-talk-by-lucy-suchman/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191030T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191030T000000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T165431Z
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Experimenting with Robotic Softness
DESCRIPTION:Led by Sam Bourgault and Emma Forgues \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, we will introduce the concepts of soft robotics and learn to cast silicone pieces to create a collaborative art piece! Every participant will build a small soft robot that we will then put together to create a larger soft robotics “quilt”! \n\n\n\nSoft Robotics is a subfield of robotics whereby robots are constructed from soft\, flexible materials to mimic the soft fleshiness of living organisms and are ‘programmed’ to mimic the motions of living creatures. \n\n\n\n\n\nDigging in various fields that range from art history to engineering\, the not-so-simple concept of softness has generated an impressive amount of literature and experimentations. Softness as a technical principle has been used by architects\, sculptors\, scientists\, engineers\, and roboticists in order to explore new aesthetic and behavioral models. \n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing an introduction to soft robotics concepts and methods\, we will discuss conceptual approaches to softness in art and architecture\, followed by a quick overview of our project “Pero sans Cimon”. \n\n\n\nWe will then workshop together to create several small pieces by reconfiguring moulds\, casting components in silicone and then test-running our creations using a common compressed air system. \n\n\n\n*This workshop has no pre-requisite skill set and is open to all Milieux Research clusters. \n\n\n\n** Email: marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register for this workshop\, including ‘Soft Robotics’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHEN: Tuesday October 29\, from 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nWednesday October 30th\, 2019 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-experimenting-with-robotic-softness-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191029T000000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072837Z
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Experimenting with Robotic Softness
DESCRIPTION:Led by Sam Bourgault and Emma Forgues \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, we will introduce the concepts of soft robotics and learn to cast silicone pieces to create a collaborative art piece! Every participant will build a small soft robot that we will then put together to create a larger soft robotics “quilt”! \n\n\n\nSoft Robotics is a subfield of robotics whereby robots are constructed from soft\, flexible materials to mimic the soft fleshiness of living organisms and are ‘programmed’ to mimic the motions of living creatures. \n\n\n\n\n\nDigging in various fields that range from art history to engineering\, the not-so-simple concept of softness has generated an impressive amount of literature and experimentations. Softness as a technical principle has been used by architects\, sculptors\, scientists\, engineers\, and roboticists in order to explore new aesthetic and behavioral models. \n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing an introduction to soft robotics concepts and methods\, we will discuss conceptual approaches to softness in art and architecture\, followed by a quick overview of our project “Pero sans Cimon”. \n\n\n\nWe will then workshop together to create several small pieces by reconfiguring moulds\, casting components in silicone and then test-running our creations using a common compressed air system. \n\n\n\n*This workshop has no pre-requisite skill set and is open to all Milieux Research clusters. \n\n\n\n** Email: marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register for this workshop\, including ‘Soft Robotics’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHEN: Tuesday October 29\, from 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nWednesday October 30th\, 2019 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-experimenting-with-robotic-softness/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T173000
DTSTAMP:20260627T055136
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072800Z
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SUMMARY:The Port of Santo Domingo: Tidal Debris\, Metal Pollution\, and the Perils of Where the Caribbean Meets the Ozama
DESCRIPTION:A Keynote for the ECOTONES Conference by Dr. Lisa Paravisini-Gebert\, Vassar College\, USA\n\n\n\nOf all Caribbean port cities\, Santo Domingo is perhaps the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Its port\, the site of the New World’s first European capital\, is formed by the broad mouth of the Ozama\, a tidal river subject to frequent flooding and coastal erosion from storm surges growing ever stronger due to climate change. The city’s poorest\, most marginalized populations\, about 400\,000 people pushed by rapid urbanization to the most vulnerable riverside land\, live in substandard housing in overcrowded neighborhoods like La Ciénaga\, La Barquita\, and Guachupita\, precariously built just above port facilities undergoing deep transformations to allow for cruise-ship docking. Persistent flooding threatens lives and property and brings residents into dangerous contact with the rivers’ highly polluted waters\, bearing harmful bacteria and toxic concentrations of metals like thallium. \n\n\n\nThe Dominican poor living along the Ozama are—the World Bank has concluded—among the world’s most at risk of being affected by climate change. Highly threatened by rising sea levels and expected to undergo far-reaching transformations by 2050 due to climate change\, the quandaries of the port of Santo Domingo can serve as a point of entry into the limits of environmental equality under current regional legislation and market forces—and can highlight the role of writers\, artists and scholars in addressing climate change and environmental justice concerns that have often been ignored or neglected by government.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis analysis\, which builds upon Bernardo Vega’s 2011 history\, Me lo contó el Ozama (As the Ozama Told Me\, Santo Domingo: Fundación AES\, 2011)\, uses a multidisciplinary lens that incorporates science\, sociology\, anthropology\, political ecology\, cultural geography\, literature\, and the arts to examine the environmental quandary of the extremely vulnerable population of a port area confronting the impacts of climate change in the 21st century. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis event will take place from 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-port-of-santo-domingo-tidal-debris-metal-pollution-and-the-perils-of-where-the-caribbean-meets-the-ozama/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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