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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series : Tetris
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of 2026! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion. January’s film is Tetris (2023). \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nTetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. Directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink\, the film stars Taron Egerton\, Nikita Efremov\, Sofia Lebedeva\, and Anthony Boyle. The plot follows Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software\, who becomes interested in the game Tetris\, created by Alexey Pajitnov\, during an electronics show. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo\, he takes trips between Japan\, the United States\, and Russia to win legal battles over the game’s ownership. \n  \n  \n  January 28\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tetris/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Living Room Revolutions: Black Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and '70s
DESCRIPTION:The Media History Research Centre is hosting its first talk of the year as part of the Media History Seminar Series with a presentation by Jennifer Lynn Stoever. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nQuiet as it’s been kept by music media and academia\, from its start Hip Hop was never solely or even predominantly a masculine art. For so many of hip hop’s originators in 1970s New York City\, it was the women in their lives who loved music\, collected vinyl records\, selected music to play at home and at house parties\, and taught their children how to listen widely across genres and deeply into the new musical worlds being spun around them. Through the revolutions of their living room turntables\, Bronx women used vinyl records as a form of sonic archiving\, worldmaking\, and radical mothering in the 1970s\, bringing revolutionary selves into being along with life-sustaining visions of Black and Brown-centered worlds for their children. The way they curated\, played\, and talked about music in everyday life taught their children to hear cultural connections and family history within the grooves of vinyl records; without question this deeply impacted hip hop’s emergence as a DJ art. In turn\, Black women left a still-audible material imprint on the sound itself: samples from their records have been used and re-used in hip hop songs\, a traceable sonic lineage. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Jennifer Lynn Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and founding Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press\, 2016).  She has published in Social Text\, Social Identities\, Sound Effects\, Modernist Cultures\, American Quarterly\, and Radical History Review among others\, including Oxford Handbooks in both Sound Art and Hip Hop Studies.  Stoever’s  book-in-progress\, Living Room Revolutions: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s\, is supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard Foundation fellowships. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMedia History Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre engaging with the historical development of media change and communication. The centre focuses on nascent\, yet robust subfields such as media archaeology\, variantology\, new materialism\, circulation theory\, and technology writing. Through their research projects and publications\, MHRC members have been celebrated for their innovative studies of many aspects of media history. \n  \n  January 22\, 2026 \n 4 -6 PM \nEV 2.776 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/living-room-revolutions-black-women-collecting-and-selecting-records-in-the-1960s-and-70s/
LOCATION:EV 2.776
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel
DESCRIPTION:(art)iculating worlds and Machine Agencies welcome Galit Ariel to discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-relatives and surrealities. \n  \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nGalit Ariel is a TechnoFuturist\, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures\, behaviours and interactions. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency\, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity\, Experience and Reality’ which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture\, body\, space and agency. \nHer academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology\, culture and body politics and imaginaries. She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology\, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program\, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists\, artists\, social scientists\, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning)\, and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog-150 principles for a new direction in tech). \nGalit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences\, agencies and institutions\, such as tD\, Bell Labs\, SXSW\, The European Union\, The Next Web\, Slush\, Fifteen Seconds\, FITC\, Pause Fest\, VRARA Global Summit\, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more. \n  \n\nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  January 22\, 2026 \n 2-3:30 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Reserve a spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-spacemaking-unrealities-of-imperfect-worlding-by-galit-ariel/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Stream Evil Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:After captivating a bigger audience than normal when you accidentally kill the wrong character on stream\, you discover an opportune strategy to grow your following: play EVIL to appeal to a wider audience. \nStream Evil is a research-creation project funded by SSHRC and the mLab that investigates tandem play: playing single-player games with multiple people. Research into tandem play shows that players often make different choices\, take bigger risks\, and/or lean into spectacle when playing together. Consequently\, Stream Evil is a game developed to explore how audience feedback can shape moral decision-making during gameplay. \nThe team\, Josh Spatzner\, Jules Maier-Zucchino\, Justin Roberts\, Mia Consalvo\, and Beck de Heuvel\, have been working on this project for two years and are excited to finally share it with fellow TAG members! \nPlease join us for a launch party in which we will finally publish the game and have it available for members at TAG to play it. \n  \n  January 16\, 2026 \n 3:30 PM \nMilieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stream-evil-launch-party/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Vectors of Visualization: Troubling the Politics of Seeing
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio to critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions\, engaging “Youth United Will Never Be Defeated” and your projects!\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more about the politics of looking\, join Transform co-investigator Dr. Carolina Cambre at the Vectors of Visualization workshop session. \nCome and engage critically with your own photos and the photos from the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition. Join us for refreshments and an interactive event where we will critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions by engaging the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition (part 1) and then engage our own projects and questions (part 2) through sharing and feedback. We will wrestle with discomfort and responsibility (of the viewer to the work and to the producers themselves) while attending to nuance\, complexity\, contradiction and possibility. \nWearing masks is welcomed. \n  \n  January 14\, 2026 \n 5:30-7:30 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vectors-of-visualization-troubling-the-politics-of-seeing/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Milieux End-of-Term Pizza Lunch and Headshot Session
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to invite ALL Milieux members—faculty and students alike—to join us on December 3rd to celebrate the end of the term! \nCome enjoy some pizza\, (re)connect with fellow members\, and catch up on the incredible work your peers have been doing this semester. \nYour headshot needs a refresh? \nWe will have a photographer onsite to take free professional headshots! \nPlease note that spots are limited and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n  \nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n  \n🗓 December 3\, 2025\n🕒 12-2 PM\n📍Milieux Kitchen Area \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-end-of-term-pizza-lunch-and-headshot-photoshoot/
LOCATION:Milieux Kitchen
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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SUMMARY:Extra-curricular:Photography\, race and citizenship in Toronto's University Settlement House\, 1946-56
DESCRIPTION:Join Media and Materiality Cluster for the second talk of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, a series of public talks and discussions on recent media scholarship. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nWhat is the social significance of a photographic archive with no\, or at most a very accidental\, external audience? Is it akin to photographs that are taken but never printed\, filed away as negatives in a basement or library? For a social historian of photography\, interested in where photographs circulated and how viewers understood them\, how can we begin to understand what these images meant to their authors and subjects? \nThis talk examines these questions through the photographic archives of Toronto’s University Settlement House: a radical experiment in social work that foregrounded extra-curricular activities—art and music classes\, theatre productions\, recreational sports clubs\, Sunday evening dances\, and summer camps\, but also language classes\, library facilities\, medical clinics and lunchrooms—as vital means for providing “lessons in citizenship and cooperative organization” (James 2001). Located in Toronto’s Ward neighbourhood—a site of an influx of non-European immigration that middle class residents worried would disrupt the moral fabric of the city—the University Settlement House’s activities were fastidiously documented by amateur photographers and now reside in the City of Toronto Archives. \nAs part of Moser’s wider project examining the history of photography and citizenship in Canada after 1947\, this paper examines the ways photography\, race\, and extra-curricular activities came together as technologies of assimilation and settlement in the University Settlement House archive. But it equally asks how community members used these same technologies for acts of resistance\, de-segregation and transnational alliance. Paying an inordinate amount of attention to these everyday images of extra-curricular activities that rarely circulated outside the walls of the settlement house\, Gabrielle Moser argues that these photographs impart lessons of their own about the precarities of belonging in multicultural Canada. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nGabrielle Moser is an art historian\, writer\, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press\, 2019) and\, with Adrienne Huard\, co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation (2022). Moser is currently at work on her second book\, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA\, Moser is Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art\, and Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University in Montréal. \n  \n  \n\n November 28\, 2025\n3:30-5 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure you register here to participate! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/extra-curricularphotography-race-and-citizenship-in-torontos-university-settlement-house-1946-56/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[BOOK TALK] Critical Design Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. \nThe ecological\, social\, and political challenges of our time require creative\, more-than-human\, and futures-oriented engagements. However\, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative\, caring\, engaged\, or collaborative thinking\, making\, or doing. How can the field of communications address this challenge? \nThis talk will explore the power of community engaged design processes to create space for embedded\, embodied\, and emergent thinking. This approach and its results will be illustrated with projects about data literacy\, environmental education\, and digital sovereignty. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nData increasingly forms the backbone of systems and processes that shape how we do things and how we relate to each other. Datafication – the uptake of data to reorganize social processes – is reshaping everything from loyalty programs and digital identification systems to credit card payments and rental pricing platforms. Artificial intelligence accelerates these processes. \nMaking sense of what these changes mean for our everyday lives is no easy task. Datafied systems are highly technical and designed to be convenient and seamless; we tend to encounter them in brief moments of individualized transaction\, which makes them difficult to see\, let alone read\, and their illegibility makes them very challenging to respond to. Communing Data Literacy offers a novel set of concepts and tools to help people make sense of how technology is altering their communities and their social interactions. Building on three years of design research by digital rights organizations in Chile\, Colombia\, Paraguay\, Peru\, and Uruguay\, the volume analyzes people’s everyday experiences with datafication\, rethinking data from the perspective of community and offering practical techniques for community engagement. \nCommuning Data Literacy pushes back against the individualism and technocentrism of Western data literacy practice and scholarship\, providing English readers the opportunity to engage with Latin American perspectives. \n  \nABOUT KATERINE REILLY: \nKatherine Reilly is the lead author on Communing Data Literacy: Tools and Concepts for Social Engagement (MQUP\, 2025)\, “Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-Than-Human Worlds” (Somatechnics\, 2025)\, and Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro Sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (Tierra Común\, 2025). She is a member of the Latin American data colonialism network Tierra Común\, as well as Simon Fraser University’s Imaginative Methods Lab\, and Scholarly Communications Lab. She is an Associate Professor in SFU’s School of Communication. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n🗓 November 20\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-critical-design-research-methods/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Guest Talk: Sara Grimes - Parasocial Gameworlds: Play with Friends\, Influencers\, and AI NPCs.
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 19 for a talk on children’s digital play with Sara M. Grimes. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the Director and Founder of the Kids Play Tech Lab\, and Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded Children and Age-Appropriate Game Design Project. Her research and teaching are centered in the areas of children’s digital media culture(s) and children’s rights in the digital environment\, with a focus on games. Her award-winning book\, Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces\, Virtual Worlds\, and Connected Games\, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new book\, Kidfluenced\, under contract with the University of California Press\, about children as creators of digital games\, media and other content. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓November  19\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-sara-grimes-parasocial-gameworlds-play-with-friends-influencers-and-ai-npcs/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Tactile Sound: Sensing the Audible
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to explore the senses by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? \nTogether with multi-disciplinary artists Ryth Kesselring and Geneviève Moisan\, participants will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textile and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \n  \nABOUT RYTH KESSELRING: \nBorn in Switzerland\, Ryth Kesselring moved to Québec during her childhood. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on sound\, textiles and the rhythms of craftsmanship as imprints of the textile memories. In her recent work she uses weaving\, sound\, electronics and plants to create interactive ecosystems that are reflecting on political and ecological issues. She is a MFA candidate in Studio Arts with a specialisation in Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University. She worked as research assistant for different research-creation projects as for studio subTela where she worked on electronics and embroideries for interactive textiles. Ryth Kesselring’s work has been shown nationally and internationally through residencies and exhibitions. She is a recipient of several research grants and awards as the FRQSC scholarship and the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier scholarship. She is active as an educator offering studio art workshops and e-textile master classes. \n  \n  \nNovember 17\, 2025\n1-5 PM\nTextiles + Materiality Commons EV 10.730 \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, please make sure you register here to participate! \nMarc Beaulieu will get back to you within a few days to confirm your spot.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tactile-sound/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Research Institute Day: Open House at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:On November 12th\, four of Concordia University’s Research Institutes are opening their doors to offer a glimpse into the world of interdisciplinary graduate research. \nJoin us at Milieux for an afternoon of tours\, demos\, workshops\, and research spotlights. This is a great opportunity to connect with our research community\, and learn how collaborative\, non-linear research fuels discovery across the university. \nIf you’re already a member but are curious about the different research clusters\, this is your chance to meet with your peers in an informal setting. Come by and say hi! \nFor the occasion\, Milieux has planned a list of activities designed to showcase the institute’s vibrant research culture . \nAll activities are drop-in!. \n  \nSchedule:\n  \n\n\n1-2 PM: How Research Institute Take Shape (and Shape You) | Panel Discussion at 4TH SPACE\n\n\nLearn how Concordia’s research institutes function\, how they began\, the projects they’re tackling today\, and what’s next. Panelists will share how interdisciplinary collaboration fuels discovery and shapes the graduate research experience. \n  \n\n\n1-4 PM: What the Heck Are You Working On? | Media & Materiality Cluster\, EV 10.775 \n\n\nMedia and materiality members will present their research in a welcoming environment. Each show-and-tell will be 5 minutes in length\, followed by a brief Q&A. \n  \n\n\n2:15-4:30 PM: Project Spotlight and Community Stitch: The Future is Wool | Textiles & Materiality Commons\, EV 10.735\n\n\nThe Textiles and Materiality Cluster will be hosting a community stitch event as part of the “La Laine : matériau d’avenir | The Future is Wool” project\, exploring cross-cultural histories and planet-healing futures of our favourite fibre\, local/regional/Canadian wool! Led by Dr. Kathleen Vaughan\, ” The Future is Wool” is a multi-pronged research\, research-creation\, and public outreach initiative that explores entwined considerations of personal well-being and sustainable planetary futures\, and the role that wool can play in promoting both.  \nTogether\, we’ll create a multi-panel “Bayeux”-style tapestry about our wool. All materials provided\, no previous experience required\, and your ideas and stories invited as part of this Concordia University research and creation adventure. \n  \n\n\n2:30-4 PM: Mini MUTEK Forum | Resource Room\, EV11.705\n\n\nThe Machine Agencies Research Group will present works from their exhibition “Machinic Encounters” presented at the MUTEK Forum earlier this year. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM & 3:30 PM: Milieux Guided Tour | Meeting Point Atrium on the 11th floor.\n\n\nJoin one of our 45-minute Guided Tour and learn more about the institute and the research clusters\, discover the different labs and studios and get a glimpse into the institute’s research culture by meeting faculty\, students and staff onsite. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM: “Mess and Methods: Outcomes of rapidly-deployable composite ethnography” | Speculative Life Cluster \, EV 10.625\n\n\n The Concordia Ethnography Lab will discuss the outcome of the Summer Institute “Mess and Methods”. Led by Dr. Kregg Hetherington\, this year’s Summer Institute focused on the ethnographic exploration of  Montreal’s waterways over the course of two weeks. The Montreal waterways research group led an hand-on session over multiple sites around the St Lawrence River to introduce participants to Composite Ethnography. At the end of these two weeks\,  the group showcase the results of their explorations in a closing exhibition open to the public. \n  \n\n\n3 PM : “How do you play with nostalgia?”  | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nIn this research spotlight\, PhD Candidate and Concordia Public Scholar\, Richy Srirachanikorn will talk about his research around nostalgia. Richy’s research looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was\, but the way it could have been. Richy is also a founding member of the Nostagain Network\, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. \n\n  \n\n\n3:15 PM :  “What a Year at TAG Looks Like” | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nMarc Lajeunesse will introduce TAG and look back at highlights and key events from the past year. \n\n  \n\n\n4-4:30 PM :  “Introduction to LePARC” | LePARC Performance Lab\, EV 10.785\n\n\nCluster Co-Director Lília Mestre introduces the LePARC performance lab and invites attendees to a surprise concert. \n\n  \n\n\n4:30-5 PM: Closing Talk | “Turning Data into Action for a Sustainable Future” | Milieux Atrium EV. 11\n\n\nPhD student Faisal Shennib will present his research and invite the audience to rethinking how cities handle waste and move toward a circular economy. His work looks at how everyday data and smart technologies can help people and communities make better\, greener choices\, from waste-sorting tools to smarter recycling systems. In this closing talk\, Faisal will share his story of discovery at Concordia — how curiosity about sustainability\, technology\, and design evolved into research that aims to make cities cleaner\, smarter\, and more sustainable for everyone. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/research-institute-day-open-house-at-milieux/
LOCATION:milieux institute
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
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SUMMARY:Mycosculpture: An introduction to growing Biomaterials
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an introductory workshop exploring the use of mycelium in bioart & design\, facilitated by Amélie Brindamour and Alex Bachmayer. \nMycelium\, the fibrous\, vegetative part of mushrooms\, has been used in recent years to build furniture\, art pieces\, and even small buildings. Come to the Speculative Life Biolab to learn more about mycelium\, how to grow it on burlap in petri dishes\, and get to know techniques to use lab tools in order to avoid contamination. Using a blend of organic matter and mycelium\, participants are invited to design & grow their own mycosculpture! \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here. \n \n  \nABOUT AMÉLIE BRINDAMOUR: \nAmélie Brindamour explores different issues related to the natural environment. Her research includes sculpture\, installation\, biomaterials and electronic arts\, in order to reflect on interspecies relationships\, alternative forms of communication and intelligent systems in nature. Her projects blur the boundaries between art and science and is developed mainly by participating in diverse artist residencies\, such as Est-Nord-Est (2023)\, the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup (Sociochimie program\, 2022)\, the Speculative Life BioLab at Concordia University (residency CQAM/Milieux\, 2019) and the Vermont Studio Centre (2018). Her work has been presented in various events and institutions such as Caravansérail (2025)\, Science Gallery Melbourne (2024)\, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent (2024)\, Mois Multi (2023)\, and the McCarthy Art Gallery (Vermont\, 2019). Amélie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and a Master in Art Education from Concordia University. Originally from Quebec City\, she lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. \n  \n  \n🗓 November  11\, 2025\n🕒 1-5 PM\n📍Milieux BioLab EV 10.835 \n🎟️ To book your spot\, email biolab.milieux@concordia.ca with the subject ‘MYCOART‘ to reserve a spot. \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. \n  \n  \n\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Alex Bachmayer\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Alex Bachmayer
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mycosculpture-an-introduction-to-growing-biomaterials/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251031T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251031T123000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Research Horror Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for the Halloween edition of Research Bites! \nResearch can be scary sometimes. From the nerve-wracking moment of submitting your thesis\, to late night citation nightmares\, to the haunting feeling of discovering a missing source right before a deadline.\nBring your lunch to the IFRC HQ and join us for a lighthearted discussion about research. \nThis informal lunchtime event is your chance to share your own spooky tales from the trenches of academia. \nWe’ll provide Halloween candy to sweeten the mood! \n  \n🗓 October  31\, 2025\n🕒 12:30 PM\n📍IFRC HQ EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-research-horror-stories/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250930T152314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T152314Z
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SUMMARY:TAG General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for their Annual General Meeting. This is your chance to meet other TAG members\, learn about all of TAG’s happenings this year\, and to make yourself known to the TAG community! \n  \n🗓 October  30\, 2025\n🕒 4-5 PM\n📍TAG LAB EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-general-meeting/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250930T164227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T172706Z
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SUMMARY:Milieux x Montreal Connect / Showcase\, 5 à 7\, Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Milieux is excited to partner with Printemps numérique for the 7th edition of MTL connect. This annual international event brings together entrepreneurs\, researchers\, industry professionals and artists to explore the evolving challenges and issues of the digital revolution. \nOn October 29th\, Milieux will host a delegation of international curators and industry professionals for a tour of the Institute followed by a 5 à 7 in the atrium on the 11th floor.  \nThis event is a fantastic opportunity for members to showcase their research and creative work with professionals and peers in an informal setting. It’s also an amazing chance to connect with other members\, so even if you can’t present a project\, we invite you to join us to celebrate the research-creation at the institute. \n  \n \n  \nHere some pictures of last year’s event (Credits: Ana Isabel Duque): \n  \n                                                     \n  \nABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION: \n  \nJack Thomas Taylor is the Curator of Art\, Media and Technology at the media majlis museum (mm:museum) located within the school of Northwestern Qatar. He is one of the founding curators and has worked across multiple areas of the museum since its inception. In 2021 he was a key member of the team that helped the museum receive its accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (awarded in 2022). \nTaylor holds a Master of Arts in Culture\, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins (CSM) at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and a Master of Business Administration in Culture and Enterprise\, jointly awarded by Birkbeck Business School and his alma mater CSM. Taylor also has a diploma in Intellectual Property and Collections from the Institute of Art & Law at Queen Mary University\, London. \nHis current research interests include the exploration of the cultural and creative industries in Doha\, Qatar. This research is being supervised by King’s College London where he is also currently obtaining his PhD within the culture\, media\, and creative industries faculty. \n  \n  \nJens Hauser is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology\, trans-genre and hybrid aesthetics. He’s currently a researcher at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion\, following a dual post-doctoral research position at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences\, and coordinates the (OU)VERT network for Greenness Studies. He is also a senior postdoc researcher at the Medical University Vienna\, a distinguished affiliated faculty member of the Department of Art\, Art History and Design at Michigan State University\, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency program\, an affiliated faculty member at the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems\, a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Innsbruck\, a guest professor at the Department of Arts and Sciences of Art at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne\, and a researcher affiliated with École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay. Hauser has been the chair of the European Society for Literature\, Science and the Arts’ 2018 conference in Copenhagen. At the intersection of media studies\, art history and epistemology\, he has developed an aesthetic and epistemological theory of biomediality as part of his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum\, and also holds a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours. \n  \n  \nMohumagadi Moruti is an emerging curator and researcher with a background in computing and an M.A. in Media Arts Cultures at Aalborg University\, her research focuses on the ontology of technology\, culture\, memory\, and geocultural-international curating. She has been actively involved in curatorial and collaborative projects through the Botswana National Gallery\, Aalborg University\, Siggraph 2023\, 2024\, 2025 as well as International Program Committee (ICP) member for ISEA 2025.\n \n  \n  \n Georges-Emmanuel ARNAUD is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work transcends traditional art boundaries to create pieces that explore and challenge our relationship with body\, time and memory. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarine Haverland is the co-founder of fomo.scene\, a Brussels-based company established in 2021 that curates and produces immersive installations and digital exhibitions for cultural venues. Her projects include Reset Immersive (Brussels\, 2023). Previously\, she worked in audiovisual production at Versus Production\, founded Aura Films—a consulting agency specializing in new media and production—and co-founded the Liège Web Fest (2013-2016)\, a festival dedicated to emerging digital formats including transmedia\, web series\, and virtual reality. Marine actively participates in professional events related to immersive technologies and digital culture\, with a particular interest in access to immersive art and the challenges of scenography\, technology\, and audience mediation. \n  \n  \nCarol Giordano is Associate Director of Chroniques (Biennale of Digital Imaginaries) in Marseille\, France.\nFounded in 2018\, the Biennale of Digital Imaginaries is the major event for digital arts and culture in Southern France. It showcases visual arts\, sound arts\, and live performance that explore new technologies\, activates public spaces\, and provides a platform for national and international artists from diverse backgrounds.\nCarol Giordano is also affiliated with Seconde Nature and ZINC\, key organizations in the digital arts scene of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Giordano also served as Associate Director Seconde Nature and ZINC from January 2020 to November 2023\, where he coordinated innovative cultural and artistic projects. \n  \n  \n🗓 October 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5 – 7 PM \n📍Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/11341/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251028T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251028T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
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SUMMARY:Altered Perceptions: An introduction to the Biolab through Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:After an introduction to the Biolab\, Alex Bachmayer will guide participants through the exploration a variety of tools that can be used for imaging tiny worlds: DIY macro-lenses that can be easily mounted to a cellphone camera\, small-scale magnifiers\, portable lab microscopes\, as well as polarization\, dark-field and fluorescence on the main lab microscope! This workshop covers both technical skills and playful approaches to working with microscopic structures\, patterns\, and scale. \n \n  \n🗓 October 28\, 2025 \n🕒1-4PM\n📍Milieux BioLab EV 10.835 \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/altered-perceptions-an-introduction-to-the-biolab-through-microscopy/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20251016T185129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T185147Z
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SUMMARY:A Glitch: House9 x Dark Opacities Lab in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Post Image cluster for a discussion between Farah Khan\, Balbir K. Singh moderated by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo . This event will explore the tension\, challenge\, and possibilities of considering opacity as a framework in which to devise and create a research lab. As a portal to the lab\, House9 created such a site for Dark Opacities Lab at Concordia University\, with the demands of considering what opacity could look like\, and where that overlaps with the concept of a glitch. In addition\, they will speak to the work of design and justice-centered projects in building solidarity and networks for communities of colour\, especially at a time of intensifying crises locally and globally. \nEvent starts at 6 PM but doors open at 5:30 PM. Light snacks and beverages will be served. \n  \n🗓 October  27\, 2025\n🕒 6 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-glitch-house9-x-dark-opacities-lab-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251024T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251024T140000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20251016T142043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T142043Z
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SUMMARY:Immersive Storytelling Studio Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 24 for an Open House of the Immersive Storytelling Studio! \nMeet the team\, learn more about the ongoing projects at the lab and discover how to get involved. \nNow located on the first floor of the EV Building\, the Immersive Storytelling Studio (ISS) is home to cross-disciplinary research-creation experiments for undertaking hands-on\, collaborative\, and critical explorations in crafting and designing XR environments with 3D technologies. \n  \n🗓 October 24\, 1-2 PM\n📍Immersive Storytelling Studio EV1.631 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-storytelling-studio-open-house/
LOCATION:Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20251014T141423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T185007Z
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] TouchDesigner as Research-Creation: An introductory Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies and LePARC invite you to a practical workshop led by creative technologist Michel Didier. \nOver the course of this hand-on workshop\, participants will learn how utilize TouchDesigner to generate real-time visual projections\, synchronize visual effects with music\, and create electrifying artistic experiences at the intersection of researching creation. \n  \nNo prior experience with TouchDesigner needed. Participants should bring a laptop\, a computer mouse\, sign up for free non-commercial TouchDesigner license beforehand\, and ensure that their laptop meets TouchDesigner’s minimum requirements. \nSpots are limited\, make sure to register to secure your spot! \n  \nABOUT MICHEL DIDIER: \nMichel is a Montreal-based artist and a seasoned multimedia developer. A graduate in Computer Arts from Concordia University\, he is eager to realize innovative projects using cutting-edge technologies. TouchDesigner developer and former creative developer at Moment Factory\, he is currently a tools developer and creative developer at Derivative. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓 October  23\, 2025\n🕒 5-9 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/touchdesigner-as-research-creation-an-introductory-workshop/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T183000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250912T182221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T182307Z
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SUMMARY:DIGS Reading Group: Queer Interfaces
DESCRIPTION:After a successful reading group pilot during the Winter 2025 semester\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab’s reading group is back! \nDIGS Reading group is an initiative led by the lab’s graduate student members\, envisioned as an academic “third place” in which we discuss scholarship related to \ndigital intimacy\, gender and sexuality in a semi-formal setting. This time\, we are setting out to explore the topic of Queer Interfaces. \nInterface\, a concept originating in physics\, has spread across various disciplines to denote “any communicative interchange that takes place in a specific space” (Scolari\, p.215). The interface refers to a dialectical site of interplay\, in which media technologies and users/consumers negotiate their participation and actualization within this shared space. According to media theorists Brandon Hookway (2014) and Alexander Galloway (2012)\, the interface can be understood as a relation that emerges between the user and the technical object\, or an effect that emerges from that relation rather than simply being an object that is designed and prepared for use. Both Hookway and Galloway insist that an interface is a boundary\, or a threshold condition that opens up gateways to new conditions. In that sense\, the interfaces of social media do not only concern the features of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) the users interact with\, but are a whole network of relations\, effects and possibilities that arise from those interactions. The interface\, as a site that delimits the conditions of agency and participation\, doesn’t only \nserve to bring disparate agents into an act of exchange\, but additionally produces forms of subjectivity that make communication between those agents possible (Hookway\, 2014). Given that no “technology is single use” (Lingel\, 2014)\, we are asking\, how do interfaces of digital archiving\, social media and dating platforms help shape queer subjectivity\, connectivity\, culture and history? And on the other side\, how does queerness complicate\, subvert or otherwise intervene in norms and conditions of digital interfaces? \nThis reading group is imagined as a space for discussion\, inquiry and experimentation with three meetings planned until the end of the fall semester. In order to keep track of participation\, please RSVP with your name and email on this spreadsheet. \nTo facilitate a focused discussion\, we set a cap of 12 participants per meeting (with a waiting list in case of increased interest). \nThis  session will be led by Alex Chartrand. \nReading:\nSzulc\, L. (2019). Profiles\, identities\, data: Making abundant and anchored \nselves in a platform society. Communication Theory \, 29 (3)\, 257-276. \n  \nThese meetings are intended to be in-person\, but there is a hybrid option available; if you require this accommodation\, please let us know. For that and other inquiries\, write to the DIGS Lab coordinator Dunja Nešović. \n  \n🗓 October  23\, 2025\n🕒 5-6:30 PM\n📍EV 10.775
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/11034/
LOCATION:EV 10.775
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251008T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250924T144509Z
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SUMMARY:Body of Nothing: A Counter-Defence
DESCRIPTION:In Counter-Defence\, Pauline Batamu Kasiwa. Lomami (Po B. K. Lomami) proposes to reimagine the thesis defence as a process of positionality-sharing and relation-building rather than a demonstration of mastery. Decentering clarity\, justification\, and proof\, this conversation will question the demand to render all aspects of artistic research transparent for institutional recognition and will include a guided tour of Lomami’s thesis exhibition. The Counter-Defence is an encounter for co-implication rather than evaluation\, inviting us all to pay attention to how we participate in the politics of interpretations\, the process of meaning-making\, and the mechanisms of validation. \n  \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION: \n \n  \nThe Nothing series is an ongoing body of work composed of entangled projects that together disclose a mental and socio-political infrastructure of collapse\, taking the shape of the exhibition Body of Nothing: Silence\, Avoidance\, Compartmentalization. The concept of nothing is deceptively simple\, often conceptualized as void\, lack\, or absence — a negation of being\, an empty category that holds meaning only in relation to what it negates. Yet\, when Po B. K. Lomami looked at the marks of colonialism\, genocide\, ecocide\, displacement\, and madness\, nothing is not absence but presence: the charged residue of loss\, silence\, refusal\, and survival. Nothing is daily negotiation. It appears in the silence of archives\, in interrupted testimonies\, in refusals to perform trauma for outsiders. Nothing is not emptiness but a critical resource: a mode of opacity\, an affective surplus\, and a necropolitical scar. \nExhibition hours:\nOctober 1 | 5 to 9 p.m.\nOctober 2\, 3\, 4\, 6\, 7 | 1 to 6 p.m.\nOctober 8 | 5 to 9 p.m. \nLocation:\nBlack Box – EV S3. 855 (basement S3)\nConcordia University – EV Building\n1515 Saint-Catherine Street West\, Montreal \n  \n🗓 October  8\, 2025\n🕒 4-6 PM\n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/body-of-nothing-a-counter-defence/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250925T200702Z
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SUMMARY:The Educational Power of Zines: A Zine 101 Workshop  With an Overview on Zines in Education and Research
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio and the Concordia Ethnography Lab for an interactive workshop about zines led by Sage Pantony! In this workshop\, we will: \n\nReview what zines are and discuss their history\nReview various examples of zines\nExplore using zines in and outside of classrooms (zines in formal\, non-formal\, and informal education)\nExplore using zines to conduct research and disseminate research results\nDiscuss our experiences with and questions about zines\, their benefits and limitations\, and different ways to create them\nMake zines together (instructions will be provided)\n\nThis workshop will also provide resources for learning about\, teaching with\, and making zines. \n  \nABOUT ZINES: \n“Zines are independently published booklets. They can be on a variety of topics like music\, feminism\, gender\, art\, spirituality or mental health. They tend to be composed of mixed media like text\, illustrations\, comics\, collages\, photographs\, and more… The language they use is usually accessible to a general audience. They come from a do-it-yourself (DIY) culture\, which emphasizes that anyone should be able to make a zine” (Pantony\, 2024\, p. 13). \n“Zines are self-published or published by a small\, independent publisher. Self-publishing allows marginalized voices to express themselves beyond the constraints of mainstream media\, and also lets authors take control of the process of publishing. Zines also present an alternative to the hierarchical and commodified world of mainstream media… Zines provide a vehicle for ideas\, expression\, and art” (Van Leuven\, 2017\, para. 2). \n  \nABOUT SAGE PANTONY: \nSage Pantony is a writer\, poet\, and zinester. They have been making zines since 2019 that have been featured in stores\, libraries\, and fairs across North America. They are currently completing an MA in Educational Studies at Concordia University. The focus of their research is on zines as empowering\, community-building popular education tools for social change. \n  \n🗓 October  3\, 2025\n🕒 2-4 PM\n📍Speculative Life EV 10.625 \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-educational-power-of-zines-a-zine-101-workshop-with-an-overview-on-zines-in-education-and-research/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:The DIY Cloud: Self-Hosting Digital projects with Coolify
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual workshop\, Machine Agencies member Luciano Frizzera will guide you on how to self-host your own digital projects using Coolify. Learn to deploy apps\, websites\, databases\, and creative tools on your own infrastructure\, giving you autonomy and control over your data. Whether you’re prototyping a research project\, building interactive art\, or experimenting with new software\, this session will equip you with practical skills to bring your ideas to life. No deep DevOps knowledge required—just curiosity\, creativity\, and the drive to get your work online! \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 12-1:30 PM \n📍 Online \n🔗 Link to join online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-diy-cloud-self-hosting-digital-projects-with-coolify/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T160000
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Artistic Research
DESCRIPTION:Join the Milieux Institute’s Post Image research cluster and MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain for a day-long reflection on artistic research. This event builds on the Biennale’s theme\, “In Praise of the Missing Images\,” which explores the complex narratives and contemporary issues surrounding images today. \n\n\n\nThis conference brings together artists\, curators\, and scholars to explore the distinct nature of research within art. Beyond academic conventions\, artistic inquiry unfolds through materials\, gestures\, and embodied memory. This conference invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique\, and how can curiosity\, imagination\, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing?   \n  \nSCHEDULE: \n\n \n10 AM: Raven Chacon in conversation with Martín Rodríguez \n\n\n\n11:30 AM: Panel | Mallory Lowe Mpoka\, Lou Sheppard\, Sanaz Sohrabi moderated by Alice Ming Wai Jim. \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: Panel | Caroline Mauxion\, OK Pedersen\, Anouk Verviers moderated by Alanna Thain. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Keynote: Lucy Cotter \n\n\n\n3 PM: Keynote: Nathalie Loveless \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 10-6 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute\, Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ This event is free but spots are limited\, Please Reserve your seat here \n  \n\n \nThis event is supported by the Hexagram Network\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Post Image research cluster\, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain\, Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA)\, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery and Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/reflections-on-artistic-research/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251002T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
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SUMMARY:An Esoteric TTRPG History With Leonardo Abate\, Michael Iantorno\, and Marc Lajeunesse
DESCRIPTION:Join Leonardo Abate\, Michael Iantorno\, and Marc Lajeunesse for a discussion about tabletop roleplaying games. \nWe’ll look at exciting moments in the development of TTRPGs across time and place. Starting with a general overview of how TTRPGs developed in America\, we’ll venture across the sea to look at the beautiful TTRPG coastline of Italy where in the 80s and 90s small but imaginative subcultures of TTRPG gaming developed independently\, with games that were never translated to English. We’ll also discuss the development of the Open Gaming License and how it spawned subcultures of homebrew practices. \n  \n🗓 October 2\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 5 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-esoteric-ttrpg-history-with-leonardo-abate-michael-iantorno-and-marc-lajeunesse/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250929T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250922T161412Z
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Talk by Samantha Lance: "Stitching Ancestral Histories and Diasporic Stories: New Reflections on Curating Textiles"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster for a special virtual talk with curator and writer Samantha Lance as she shares reflections on curating textile practices. This session will explore ancestral\, diasporic\, and contemporary contexts\, and will be especially relevant for anyone interested in material culture\, embodied histories\, and textiles as vessels of memory and community. \nSamantha will give an in-depth walkthrough of her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains\, which was on display at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She’ll also discuss her experience at the Textile Society of America’s 2024 symposium\, “Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles”. \nAs the current Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington\, Samantha will also touch on the exhibition To Our Reunited Future by Moroccan-Canadian artist Rihab Essayh. \nAfter the talk\, you’re invited to participate in a story-sharing circle to reflect on textile practices as expressions of love\, ancestral rituals\, and intergenerational connection. \n  \nABOUT SAMANTHA LANCE: \nSamantha Lance is a Canadian curator and writer whose work fosters meaningful connections between artists and communities. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. She is currently Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington. \nLance has worked with institutions including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, C Magazine\, the Art Gallery of Algoma\, Onsite Gallery\, and Latitude Gallery New York. Her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains (Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, 2024)\, brought together Toronto-based artists whose textile practices recover matrilineal histories of displacement and belonging. She continues to research and collaborate with artists and curators advocating for women’s labour\, textile practices\, and ancestral techniques\, with a particular interest in experimental\, multisensory exhibition strategies that expand accessibility and dialogue. \n  \n📅 September 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5-7 PM \n📍 Online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/curatorial-talk-by-samantha-lance-stitching-ancestral-histories-and-diasporic-stories-new-reflections-on-curating-textiles/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T133000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250924T141809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T165551Z
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SUMMARY:Seeds\, Samplers and Schedules: An Introduction to Image Generation
DESCRIPTION:In Machine Agencies’s first skill share of the school year\, new media artist and Machine Agencies member\, Rowena Chadkowski\, will move beyond the hype of AI Image generation to think about what it means to create “AI Art”. \nThroughout the workshop\, participants will gain hands-on experience using the Stable Diffusion model with the Automatic1111 interface to experiment with the ways seeds\, samplers and schedules shape the image generation process.\nThis introductory workshop is perfect for those who are curious as to how AI models can be used to explore new possibilities in artistic creation.\n \nTo participate please bring your personal laptop!  \n  \n🗓 September  26\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/seeds-samplers-and-schedules-an-introduction-to-image-generation/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T120000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar with Cait McKinney
DESCRIPTION:Join the DIGS Lab  for a graduate seminar with Cait McKinney. This conversation-based session will be a great opportunity to engage directly with the author while discussing the chapter “Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines” from their book Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. The chapter will be shared with participants in advance. \nParticipation is limited to 20 people. If the seminar reaches capacity\, you will receive an email confirming your spot on the waitlist\, and another message if a space becomes available. \n📩 Please contact hannah.schallert@gmail.com for any questions and additional information. \n  \nABOUT CAIT MCKINNEY: \nCait McKinney is an associate professor in the School Communication at Simon Fraser Universityspecializing in sexuality studies\, media history\, and activist media. Their research focuses on the mediated conditions in which queer people\, especially activists\, have taken up new computing and information technologies to serve their communities and movements. This work surfaces queer modes of technological use that show us alternative ways of understanding technologies and their politics\, and offers new media theories and methodologies that emerge from and can account for the knowledges of queer people. Cait McKinney is the author of I Know You Are\, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman (Minnesota 2024) and Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke 2020). \n  \n  \n  \n📅  September 26\, 2025 \n⏱️ 10 AM-12 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please register your attendance here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/graduate-seminar-with-cait-mckinney/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T203000
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] Tron Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of the year with Tron: Legacy. Have you wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a game when your dad is already trapped inside of that game? Of course you have! Tron: Legacy has answers to that age old question. \nJoin us for a screening of the film and a subsequent discussion on the themes\, form\, and legacy of Tron…..legacy. \n  \n \n  \n📅  September 25\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5:30-8:30 PM \n📍Screening Room EV 10.525 \n* This event is fully booked 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tron-legacy/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T214731
CREATED:20250911T193009Z
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SUMMARY:"A Queer History of Blackouts" by Dr. Cait McKinney
DESCRIPTION:Media History Research Center (MHRC)\, DIGS Lab and Archive/Counter Archive (A/CA) are delighted to invite you to Dr Cait McKinney’s talk “A Queer History of Blackouts.”\n  \nIn this talk\, McKinney offers a media history of the online blackout as a digital tactic grounded in 1990s AIDS activism. “Blackout” protests evoke power grid failures\, temporarily shutting down online systems by removing content\, blocking access\, or replacing content with black imagery. This lasting tactic began with New York-based Visual AIDS and Creative Time’s Day Without Art online blackout (1995–2000)\, which drew attention to the AIDS crisis as a systemic failure to care for minoritized people. The protest asked participating sites to adopt a small banner graphic and redact their websites for the day. McKinney argues that an AIDS-informed perspective on infrastructure collapse and systemic exclusion shaped blackouts. This history helps us understand how and why blackouts trade in feelings of frustration with broken systems. The author situates this historical analysis of the online blackout in a wider queer media theory of blackouts as impasses in which affective life abruptly shifts in generative ways.\nThe public talk will be followed by a graduate seminar on Friday\, September 26 from 10am to 12pm. \n  \nABOUT CAIT MCKINNEY: \nCait McKinney is an associate professor in the School Communication at Simon Fraser Universityspecializing in sexuality studies\, media history\, and activist media. Their research focuses on the mediated conditions in which queer people\, especially activists\, have taken up new computing and information technologies to serve their communities and movements. This work surfaces queer modes of technological use that show us alternative ways of understanding technologies and their politics\, and offers new media theories and methodologies that emerge from and can account for the knowledges of queer people. Cait McKinney is the author of I Know You Are\, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman (Minnesota 2024) and Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke 2020). \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n📅  September 25\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4:30-6 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please register your attendance here. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-queer-history-of-blackouts-by-dr-cait-mckinney/
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