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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:20260627T101907
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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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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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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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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:20260627T101907
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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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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
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191106T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
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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:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072848Z
UID:10000592-1572969600-1572973200@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T120000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191021T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072827Z
UID:10000588-1572948000-1572955200@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191008T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072738Z
UID:10000580-1572620400-1572627600@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191030T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191030T000000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T165431Z
UID:10000591-1572393600-1572393600@milieux.concordia.ca
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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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191029T000000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191023T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072837Z
UID:10000590-1572307200-1572307200@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191025T173000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072800Z
UID:10000584-1572021000-1572024600@milieux.concordia.ca
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T104500
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072755Z
UID:10000583-1571910300-1571913900@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Cruise Ships and Containers: Towards a Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
DESCRIPTION:ECOTONES Conference Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Noxolo\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n\n\n\nIn this Keynote\, Dr. Patricia Noxolo takes concepts from two aspects of geographical work – tourism and transport geographies – and applies them to a range of Caribbean literature.  The goal is not simply to appreciate whether and how concepts such as capacity and captive demand\, transshipment\, hubs\, gateways and feeders appear in and elucidate the presence (and absence) of ports in Caribbean literary works\, but also to explore how such concepts might be deployed to deepen understanding of the spatialities\, openings and connections within and between Caribbean literary works.  Ultimately the paper pushes towards a refreshing of the genre of the literary geography\, by harnessing it to more insistently to materially-focused aspects of geographical work. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis keynote will take place from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, Room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cruise-ships-and-containers-towards-a-literary-geography-of-the-caribbean-port/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191024T104500
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072810Z
UID:10000768-1571910300-1571913900@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Cruise Ships and Containers: Towards a Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
DESCRIPTION:ECOTONES Conference Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Noxolo\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n\n\n\nIn this Keynote\, Dr. Patricia Noxolo takes concepts from two aspects of geographical work – tourism and transport geographies – and applies them to a range of Caribbean literature.  The goal is not simply to appreciate whether and how concepts such as capacity and captive demand\, transshipment\, hubs\, gateways and feeders appear in and elucidate the presence (and absence) of ports in Caribbean literary works\, but also to explore how such concepts might be deployed to deepen understanding of the spatialities\, openings and connections within and between Caribbean literary works.  Ultimately the paper pushes towards a refreshing of the genre of the literary geography\, by harnessing it to more insistently to materially-focused aspects of geographical work. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis keynote will take place from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor\, Room 11.455
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cruise-ships-and-containers-towards-a-literary-geography-of-the-caribbean-port-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191023T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191023T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191018T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072816Z
UID:10000586-1571835600-1571850000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Cloning Plants: An Introduction to Micro-Propagation
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop Biologist & Artist Nathalie Dubois-Calero will be teaching DIY methods she developed for the micro-propagation of plants and vegetables from infertile or ‘protected’ samples. By controlling hormone levels during the propagation\, we will also be able to affect the growth patterns of the plants\, allowing for the creation of unusual plant morphologies.Her processes will allow the individual to create their own menagerie of plants from ‘protected’ samples and samples rendered infertile through specific breeding or genetic modification and regain some space in a field where we are only allowed to be a passive consumer.Though we will be working in the sterile lab environment\, these techniques can be employed outside the lab using relatively common kitchen equipment in the home. The hope is to bring these skill-sets out of the lab environment and into the hands of everyone\, provoking discussions regarding genetic-modification\, gene-copyright and corporate control of our food sources. *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 ‘Cloning Plants’ in the subject line.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/cloning-plants-an-introduction-to-micro-propagation/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191022T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191022T133000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191015T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072805Z
UID:10000585-1571702400-1571751000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Pizza Lunch and Milieux Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:All Milieux members are invited for lunch and a chat on TUESDAY\, OCT 22 from 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  \n\n\n\nWe will discuss the upcoming milieuXbauhaus festival\, congratulate the new Milieux Undergraduate Fellows\, and we will also be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report. \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP on Facebook if possible\, so that we know how much pizza to order. \n\n\n\nSee you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pizza-lunch-and-milieux-annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191017T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191009T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072749Z
UID:10000582-1571333400-1571340600@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Get-together for Critical Materiality and Biolab folks
DESCRIPTION:It’s a new year at the Speculative Life biolab\, and our new lab technician\, Alice Jarry\, invites all critical materiality and BioLab researchers to join for a series of Pecha-Kucha presentations\, and discussion of future research and orientations of the lab. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also be chatting with Amelie Brindamour\, the current Milieux/CQAM artist/researcher-in-residence. \n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in presenting your material\, critical\, speculative\, technological or bio research as part of the Pecha Kucha\, write to alice.jarry@concordia.ca before Wednesday\, October 15.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/get-together-for-critical-materiality-and-biolab-folks/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191016T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191009T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072743Z
UID:10000581-1571245200-1571248800@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC: Hanna Pajala-Assefa
DESCRIPTION:LePARC’s A Walk in LePARC series showcases cluster member research through performances and talks. This is the first Walk in LePARC of the 2019-2020 academic year! \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHana Pajala-Assefa is a Helsinki-based choreographer with an extensive history of interdisciplinary work sourcing from the body both as a practitioner and artistic researcher. In recent years she has focused on embodied experience in digital and virtual environments as an artist\, programme curator\, and producer\, leading her towards media- and digital-art practices. \n\n\n\nShe is lead designer on the project Skeleton Conductor (SC)\, an interactive real time\, movement-based extended reality (XR) experience with the objective to design an interactive digital interface displayed in HMD for musical and visual expression. The project aims to create an immersive\, interactive art experience of the phenomenon of kinetic musicality and kinesonic composition\, emphasizing users’ multi-sensorial presence and full immersion through motion-based interaction and inter-reflectivity in the virtual environment.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-hanna-pajala-assefa/
CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20191001T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072732Z
UID:10000579-1570807800-1570813200@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Supercut Politics: Movie Trailers as Templates for Political Advertising
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Vinzenz Hediger\, Professor\, Goethe University\, Frankfurt\, Germany\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAcross the political spectrum and ranging from professionally produced campaign ads to grass-roots style activist videos\, the movie trailer has become a template for political advertising. Based on an historical analysis of movie trailers\, this presentation will discuss a number of current examples of political ads using the trailer template. The presentation will raise questions about the cultural salience of the trailer format and address what we may call its bi-partisan political affordances. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Vinzenz Hediger\n\n\n\nVinzenz Hediger is professor of Cinema Studies at Goethe Universität Frankfurt\, where he directs the Graduiertenkolleg/Graduate Research Training Program Configurations of Film. His publications include Films That Work. Industrial Cinema and the Productivity of Media (with Patrick Vomderau\, Amsterdam UP 2009)\, Nostalgia for the Coming Attraction. American Movie Trailers and the Culture of FilmConsumption (Columbia University Press\, forthcoming) and Films That Work Harder. The Circulations of Industrial Cinema (with Florian Hoof and Yvonne Zimmermann\, forthcoming from Amsterdam UP). He is a co-founder of NECS – European Network of Cinema and Media Studies (www.necs.org)\, a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders and a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature. \n\n\n\nThis talk is organized in conjunction with the Media History Research Centre\, and in dialogue with the symposium Playback: Genealogies of Interactivity.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/supercut-politics-movie-trailers-as-templates-for-political-advertising/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191011T150000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20190930T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072727Z
UID:10000578-1570798800-1570806000@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Lost in Pixelation: Conversations on Narratives\, Research Creation\, and Digital Spaces
DESCRIPTION:A series of talks and works exploring methodologies for encoding storytelling in digital spaces \n\n\n\n-Vegetarian lunch will be provided-Wheelchair accessible \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lost-in-pixelation-conversations-on-narratives-research-creation-and-digital-spaces/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20190925T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072710Z
UID:10000575-1570579200-1570838399@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Playback: Genealogies of Interactivity Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Use\, re-use\, engagement\, creation\, distraction\, immersion\, seduction\, play\, critique—media and culture consist of practices that shape experience\, meaning\, and communities. The basic dynamism of media present and past\, though\, is not always accommodated in our critical\, theoretical\, and scholarly approaches. We need critical explorations that recognize and assess media and their full cultural complexities in history and across contexts. This includes examinations of both minor and major media forms and formats\, and their specific iterations and uses as content\, event\, institution and apparatus. \n\n\n\nThis symposium brings scholars from Concordia University together with students and faculty from the Institute for Theatre\, Film\, and Media Studies at Goethe University (Frankfurt\, Germany) to explore the complexities of our media and cultural histories. \n\n\n\nSymposium Hosts: \n\n\n\nCommunication Studies\, Faculty of Arts and ScienceFilm Studies\, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema\, Faculty of Fine Arts \n\n\n\nIn association with the Media History Research Centre\, Concordia University and Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film\,” Goethe University \n\n\n\nFor more information on the symposium\, presenters\, and schedule\, please visit our event page at: http://www.concordia.ca/events/genealogies-of-interactivity.html
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/playback-genealogies-of-interactivity-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191011
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20190924T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221217T072705Z
UID:10000574-1570579200-1570751999@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Workshop: Introduction to VR Development
DESCRIPTION:This 10-hour workshop is designed for artists who want to expand their practice using VR. Students will learn UNITY and develop their first VR project for the HTC VIVE headset. No prior coding experience is required. \n\n\n\nWhat we will cover: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduction to Unity (Hierarchy and game objects\, physics\, lighting and textures)\nAnimation and timelime controller- 360 degrees video mapping\n-Introduction to C# and basic functions for your first VR project. (SteamVR\, Collider\, triggers and events)\n\n\n\n\nDate:  October 9 and 10 \n\n\n\nTime: 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nWhere: POST IMAGE CLUSTER ROOM\, EV 10.705  \n\n\n\nStudents need to bring their own laptop and have the latest version of Unity installed \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited to 8 students. To reserve a seat please send an e-mail to: vr.milieux@concordia.ca \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-introduction-to-vr-development/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191003T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191003T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T101907
CREATED:20190926T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Liveness at Play!
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of…\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWhat is liveness? \n\n\n\nHow do we do liveness? \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the weeklong planning session for the new SSHRC project “Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences” which looks at “liveness” across three different but neighboring practices: participatory theatre\, larps (live action role playing games) and digital-physical games. \n\n\n\nLynn Hughes and Bart Simon\, co-founders of TAG\, head up the project with their Concordia collaborator\, Noah Drew (Theatre) along with the main PhD researcher on the project\, JoDee Allen. The international collaborators will be here for the week: Jorge Ramos (ZU Theatre\, London) and Jaakko Sternos (University of Tampere\, Finland). In addition\, for this event\, two special invited guests\, Lawrence Switsky (Theatre\, University of Toronto) and Matteo Uguzzoni (Game Design\, Maryland Institute of Art) will join us.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants \n\n\n\nJoDee Allen is currently pursuing a research/creation PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. Her research\, which looks at videogame control schemes as choreography\, has been presented and performed internationally at conferences and industry events\, including producing an exhibition entitled the Digital Dance Arcade\, in the Santa Monica Art Centre in Barcelona; and being awarded an Artist-in-Residence position at the Flux Laboratories in Geneva\, testing the impact that interface and notation have on players’ learning dance through videogames. \n\n\n\n\n\nNoah Drew is an “all-terrain theatre artist” originally from Vancouver. He has worked across North America\, and in Europe and South America\, as an actor\, composer\, sound designer\, writer/director/dramaturge and teacher.Noah’s research and research-creation focuses on exploring strategies for cultivating and catalyzing heightened states of presence in performers and audiences. Noah’s work draws on aspects of sensory immersion and sensory dramaturgy; (auto)ethnography and a dynamic interplay between true lived experiences and fiction; gamified theatre\, and somatic practices. \n\n\n\n\n\nLynn Hughes is Professor Emeritus in Studio Arts at Concordia University\, where she held the Chair of Interaction Design and Games Innovation from 2004 to 2018. Between 2000 and 2015\, she was instrumental in the founding of three major research centres that radically changed the context for interdisciplinary training in new media art/design and games in Montreal. Her production focuses on collaborative process and the design of ludic hybrid physical/digital experiences. She has exhibited work all over the world and was just awarded the Omosiroi Prize in Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\nJorge Lopez Ramos and Persis-Jadeé Maravala are the directors of the ZU- UK interactive performance company: a highly respected theatre company with years of experience conceiving and realizing ambitious participatory theatre pieces at different scales. ZU-UK sometimes uses technology (e.g binaural sound or VR) to augment the intensity of a dramatic situation\, but is still seeking ways to reduce the burden on actors’ bodies\, through different ways of using technology. They want to produce experiences for large numbers of participants by developing new approaches that make this feasible and sustainable.  \n\n\n\n\n\nBart Simon is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology\, Concordia University. Simon is a sociologist specializing in digital culture and game studies and is the current Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology. He has written extensively on social interaction in digital games and play with previous SSHRC funded projects on the role-play cultures of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (like World of Warcraft)\, gestural and embodied games (focused on the Nintendo Wii \n\n\n\n\n\nJaakko Stenros from the Tampere University\, Finland\, teaches Game Studies at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at Tampere. He has published eight books and over 50 articles and reports\, and received many awards. He has done extensive research on larps and the aesthetics of social play\, often with a focus on unusual games\, game jams\, queer play\, role-playing games and pervasive games. He has worked with experimental theatre companies and is world-expert on how Larping communities develop and self-structure. \n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Switzky is an Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto. He is the incoming editor of the journal Modern Drama and has books forthcoming on Shakespeare and the non-human and on theatre directing and modernist aesthetics as well as a volume of Bernard Shaw’s plays from Oxford World’s Classics. His current research is on the entanglement of modern theatre and performance and the early development of artificial intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatteo Uguzzoni is an architect and a game designer\, his practice focus on creating transformative experience blending real life game and theater. He co-founded Urban Games Factory an Italian collective active in different forms since 2009. He is the host of The Playcast \,a podcast about immersive theater\, real life games and everything in between. He is currently teaching at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art\, Baltimore) and director of the Nomadic Branch of Trust in Play – the European School of Urban Game Design.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/symposium-liveness-at-play/
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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SUMMARY:Designing Creative Voice Bots Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Machine Agencies group presents a workshop on designing creative voice bots. \n\n\n\n** If you’re planning to attend\, please RSVP at machineagencies.milieux@gmail.com ** \n\n\n\nLocation: TAG\, EV 11th floor\, Room 11.435 \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we’ll discuss the history of speech recognition and speech synthesis\, learn the basics of conversational design\, and then create our own creative voice bots. We’ll learn how to appropriate corporate technology to make experimental\, strange\, or subversive voice assistants. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nNicole He is a programmer and artist based in Brooklyn\, New York\, currently making videogames\, including an upcoming sci-fi voice-controlled game with the National Film Board of Canada. She has worked as a creative technologist at Google Creative Lab\, an outreach lead at Kickstarter\, and an adjunct faculty member at ITP at NYU\, where she received her Master’s degree. Nicole’s work has been featured in places such as Wired\, BBC\, The Outline\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/designing-creative-voice-bots-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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