What does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop, Textiles and Materiality invites you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. Participants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads […]
Join LePARC for a lecture-performance of La Table (1967-1973) by Jeroen Peeters. Written by French poet Francis Ponge, La Table is the last of his notebook works, dedicated to his immediate environment, la table. In this lecture-performance, essayist Jeroen Peeters takes up the invitation to do the reading of this notebook and the tables it […]
Bring your lunch and join IFRC for its next Research Bites session featuring Van Racine. Van will share their research exploring the relationship between linguistic theory and new media through Zaagi'idiwin, an Anishinaabe understanding of love as a practice of relation, care, and responsability. ABOUT VAN RACINE: Photo credit: Ana Isabel Duque Van (they/them) […]
The Indigenous Futures Research Centre’s (IFRC) annual research symposium returns January 29 and 30 at 4TH SPACE. Now in its fourth year, this essential gathering brings together faculty, students, and alumni to share their work with the Concordia community through panels, workshops, performances, and artist talks. Guided by the theme, “Practicing the Future”, this year’s symposium considers how Indigenous research and […]
Join TAG for the first screening of 2026! The 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). ABOUT THE MOVIE: Tetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based […]
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. ABOUT THE TALK: Quiet 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 […]
(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. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Galit 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. […]
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. Stream Evil is a research-creation project funded by SSHRC and the mLab that investigates tandem play: playing single-player games with multiple people. […]
Join the Visual Methods Studio to critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions, engaging "Youth United Will Never Be Defeated" and your projects! If 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. Come and engage critically with your own photos […]
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! Come enjoy some pizza, (re)connect with fellow members, and catch up on the incredible work your peers have been doing this semester. Your headshot needs a refresh? We will have a photographer onsite […]
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. ABOUT THE TALK: What 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 […]
Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. The 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. […]