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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera | Warm-Up Segment
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIt is (once again!) with great enthusiasm that we introduce to you another segment/announcement/development for In the Middle\, a Chimera\, the Milieux Institute’s Year-End Exhibition and Symposium! This time we are announcing the official programming for the warm-up segment\, happening from April 21st to May 3rd. This segment encompasses three diverse\, incisive and vivifying events—a (double) book launch\, a work presentation and a (series of) performance(s). Read on to find out more— \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 21: DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH + ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONArt in the Age of Machine Learning | Sofian Audry + Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life | Chris SalterAnteism Books—435 Rue Beaubien Ouest\, #1003 PM EST \n\n\n\nJoin us for the kick-off warm up event (featured in Hexagram’s EMERGENCE/Y programming): the Chris Salter/Sofian Audry double book launch and round table discussion at Anteism! The event begins at 3 PM EST\, and artworks related to topics discussed will be installed in the exhibition space. You can access the Facebook event via the above image.Authors Christopher Salter and Sofian Audry will get together to discuss their recent publications\, respectively\, “Art in the Age of Machine Learning” (MIT Press\, 2021) and “Sensing machines: How sensors shape our everyday life” (MIT Press\, 2022). The live-streamed roundtable will be followed by a book launch and signature session. Both authors entangle art\, culture and social-cultural responses to technology. More info via the above image! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilieuxMake Workshops PresentsLISTENING TO RADIO WAVES (CHAPTER 1)By Zeph Thibodeau \n\n\n\nDATE: Tuesday April 26th\, 1:00 – 4:00 PMLOCATION: MilieuxMake\, EV-10.825In this workshop\, we will be exploring the fascinating world of electromagnetic listening. Using AM radios we can listen to human radio broadcasts\, but we can also listen to the countless voices of the natural and built environment. Taking things a step further\, we can attach two radios to a pair of headphones\, constructing immersive radio-listening machines. Together\, we will make\, think and talk our way through the experience of connecting to the electromagnetic world in a different way. We will collaborate in recording the process and our findings\, which will form the basis for subsequent workshops. This is a do-it-together workshop—no technical expertise is necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend and to contribute in whatever way they can.Registration is required for this onsite workshop as spaces are limited. Please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca to register and include ‘Listening to Radio Waves’ in the subject line of your email. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIsa Arriola\, Beyond the “Crossfire”: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islands\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 27: BEYOND THE CROSSFIRE | THERESA ARRIOLALive presentation of Beyond the “Crossfire”: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islandsdaphne—5842 rue St Hubert6 PM EST \n\n\n\nProfessor Theresa Arriola will be presenting her project\, Beyond the “Crossfire“: Refusing the Making of a Military Bombing Range in the Mariana Islands\, on Wednesday\, April 27th at daphne at 6 PM. The presentation will take approximately one hour\, including a Q&A with the artist and researcher following the presentation. The work will be on view prior to and following the presentation. \n\n\n\nWhen militarization becomes commonplace\, how does one denaturalize this reality? As the hypermilitarization of Oceania continues to accelerate\, I want to offer alternative ways of imagining Indigenous futures that are not tied to the whims of military goals\, but privilege Indigenous sovereignty instead. One way to approach this task is through the hard work of denaturalizing what have become commonplace notions of territory and environment under U.S. imperialism and militarism. These imaginings work to unsettle the taken for granted ways in which the Marianas is framed by military planners in both its violent vocabulary and stagnant cartographic renderings of land\, water and air. \n\n\n\nTheresa “Isa” Arriola was born and raised on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in sociocultural anthropology. Her research focuses on the socio-political implications of contemporary militarization throughout the Marianas archipelago and Oceania more broadly. She is currently an assistant professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Concordia University where she teaches about militarism\, Indigeneity and Oceania. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMAY 3: TATIANA KOROLEVA | BODY ARCHEOLOGY: ANCESTRAL MEMORY IN THE CONTEXT OF (IM)MIGRATIONPerformance presentation following Koroleva’s workshop by participating artists Anissa Boukili\, Danielle Douez\, Tricia Enns\, Somaye Farhan\, Goldjian/Anne Goldenberg\, Myro Le Ber Assiani\, Eliza Mcfarlane\, & c t pIntermedia/Cyberarts Video Production Studio—Concordia EV Building\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W\, 6. 6356 PM EST \n\n\n\nTatiana Koroleva and the participating artists from the Body Archeology: Ancestral Memory in the Context of (Im)Migration workshop series welcome you for a presentation of their findings and developed projects. The presentation will take place at the Intermedia/Cyberarts Production Studio and will last approximately two hours. The following are the featured participating artists: \n\n\n\nAnissa Boukili El Hassani \n\n\n\nAnissa Boukili El Hassani draws on her experience as an immigrant\, perpetually torn between opposite cultures. Her artistic practice revolves around the notions of decolonization\, reappropriation\, self-criticism and repair. The plurality of identities and fragmentation are her main sources of inspiration\, hence her goal: the democratization of conceptual art through an intersectional perspective. Thus\, she seeks to combine the extremes to paint a picture of the complexity of the social\, economic\, cultural and historical relations existing within the capitalist system. \n\n\n\nDanielle Douez \n\n\n\nDanielle Douez (she/her) is a writer and creator based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) with Colombian\, African American\, and French ancestry. She loves projects that involve community building and transformative justice work\, and that explore migrations\, borders\, decolonization\, and beyond-human kinship. \n\n\n\nTricia Enns \n\n\n\nTricia Enns is a masters of design student at Concordia University who explores our relationship with public space through participatory\, sensory\, materially engaged methods. Her work challenges preconceived value hierarchies held within public space by engaging with debris and directing the senses towards the unheard narratives. Enns uses paper making\, illustration\, electronics\, performance\, photography\, audio walks\, and the postal system in her work. Sign-up at her website to have her send you a package in the mail! \n\n\n\nSomaye Farhan \n\n\n\nSomaye Farhan (born in Tehran\, Iran) is a multi-disciplinary artist is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and sculpture. An undergraduate student of Studio Arts program\, Concordia University (Montréal). Farhan explores the theme of perception\, mind\, body\, identity\, nature and women. Most of her artworks are influenced by her two and a half journey on bicycle\, her meditation experiences\, and women. \n\n\n\nHer works are exhibited in the VAV Gallery and Art Matters Festival at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nanne goldenberg/goldjian \n\n\n\nGoldjian is a transdisciplinary artist interested in relational practices between human beings\, ecologies and technologies. Their work creates intimate spaces dedicated to mutual learning and slowing processes. goldjian embraces performance art\, media arts\, land art\, installation and video dance. They facilitate collaborative\, collective and restorative practices. They were born in fRance from rural french and romanian jewish ancestors and crossed the ocean in 2004 to grow roots on an island traditionally named Tiohtia:ke and colonially known as Montreal. To connect to this world\, goldjian practices reliance\, to oneself\, to spaces\, to other human beings and non-humans\, and questions the conditions needed to activate this quality of presence. \n\n\n\nMyro Le Ber Assiani \n\n\n\nQueer and non-binary artist\, Myro Le Ber Assiani lives on the unceded territory of Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. They graduated with the B.A. in Theatre Studies from UQÀM and has been refining their practice in workshops. As a daredevil bush performer\, Myro Le Ber Assiani is interested in risk and transformation as engines of existence and resistance. Their approach is site specific and reflects collective space as a political ecosystem where structuring boundaries lead them to rethink notions of “power\,” “trauma\,” and “consent.” Their work has been presented in solo and collaborative performances at various festivals and venues:  Dare-Dare\, Fonderie Darling\, Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts\, Théâtre des Écuries\, Festival d’arts performatifs de Trois-Rivières\, Festival La plage des Six pompes (Switzerland) and Festival Chalon dans la rue (France). Their work has been distributed by La Serre and Vidéographe in Canada\, the United States and Europe. \n\n\n\nEliza McFarlane \n\n\n\nEliza McFarlane is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Toronto\, ON. She is currently completing her BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. Her current focus is in print making and performance art. She also is active as a vocalist\, organizing and participating community music events in Montreal. Since 2017\, Eliza has lived and worked in Montreal QC. She roots her work and life in economic\, environmental\, and community sustainability. She plans to continue centering community solidarity\, creative experimentation\, emotional resilience\, and interconnectivity in her life and work. Eliza’s instagram account acts as her website at present – It is fitting for the hybridity of private and public life. For the indecisive value of daily\, mundane\, or minute existence\, vs\, isolated\, intentional\, artwork.” \n\n\n\nc t p  \n\n\n\nchantal t paris · my doctoral research-creation project (études et pratiques des arts\, uqam) pulses in the relations between listenings\, situated knowledges and changing climates\, through different moving explorations and within a more than human sympoietic perspective. \n\n\n\nMask wearing for attendees is required\, and we will observe social distancing measures to the best of our ability. \n\n\n\nON THE WORKSHOP: \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore a variety of ways our genetic memory can be activated in the process of performance creation with the purpose of reviewing and connecting to the history of our ancestors. Focusing specifically on the experiences of migration\, immigration\, displacement and relocation as a part of global history\, the workshop proposes to activate the invisible link between our cultures of origin and our present moment. Opening the space for connecting to our roots while also acknowledging the hybridity of (im)migrant’s experiences and identities\, we will focus on creating individual and group projects to venerate our ancestral past and to give voices to the parts of our identities that often remain silenced in a new cultural context. Using the framework of ritual and a variety of performance art methodologies\, this workshop brings forward the concepts of empathetic presence\, collaboration\, dialogic witnessing\, and awareness of belonging to a larger community as fundamental principles of performance art creation. This workshop is suitable for international students and faculty\, immigrants\, travellers\, and/or anyone interested in exploring ancestral memory and the multiplicity of ways it continuously affects our present.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop is organised and facilitated by Tatiana Koroleva\, a multi-disciplinary artist\, poet\, educator\, and researcher who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and creative writing. Currently\, Tatiana teaches at the Department of Studio Arts\, Concordia University (Montreal\, QC). Her work is grounded in the subjects of ancestral memory\, migration\, intergenerational trauma and search for personal and collective healing. 
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SUMMARY:Inertia: Speculative Fossils Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nFrom April 22 to June 13\, 2022Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan de Montréal4801 Pierre-De Coubertin Avenue \n\n\n\nGuillaume Pascale and the research group led by Alice Jarry (Concordia University): Brice Ammar-Khodja\, Jacqueline Beaumont\, Asa Perlman and Philippe Vandal\, in collaboration with Ariane Plante. With the participation of Jean Dubois (UQAM). \n\n\n\nA speculative work that crosses the disappearance of the Earth in the eye of the Voyager probes with the atmospheric and ecological situation in the east of Montreal. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n1977. The two Voyager probes are launched into space to study the planets in our Solar System. Symbolically\, each one carries a gold-plated copper disk bearing a message intended to represent humanity. It contains images\, music and drawings meant for a hypothetical intelligent extra-terrestrial life form. \n\n\n\nInertia revisits this approach on Earth using artifacts created to reflect today’s environmental challenges — they’re made of biomaterials\, that is\, renewable organic plant or animal matter. The work centres around a bioplastic disk that displays a binary representation of a daytime air quality status near petrochemical plants east of Montreal. This becomes the score for the first piece of music in a sequence of four composed using these data as well as the calculated distance of the Voyager probes from our planet. A series of laser-engraved biomaterial membranes and a film bear witness to this process\, which suggests that in the same way that Earth is disappearing from the eye of the Voyager probes\, the living conditions of the planet’s inhabitants are becoming increasingly precarious. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nApril 22\, 2022\, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PMDebris\, space\, and meaning around the exhibition ‘Inertia: Speculative Fossils’ — The waste cycle of planetary vision infrastructuresDemos + Round Table \n\n\n\nAs Voyager’s scientific instruments are gradually being shut down due to a lack of available electrical energy\, this public activity organized within the context of Earth Day 2022 proposes\, from a vertical perspective\, to compare the issues related to space debris with those generated by our ways of life on Earth. Drawing on engagement in their practice with residual\, geo-inspired\, reactive\, intelligent or sustainable materials\, the invited artists\, designers\, media theorists and scientists will take an interdisciplinary look at how these artifacts allow us to envision new scenarios and relationships for the waste – material and technological – produced on Earth\, but also left adrift in space. \n\n\n\nThe event is free and will be hosted in both French and English. \n\n\n\nDemos 1:00 PM to 2:30 PMRound Table 2:30 PM to 4:00 PMFor participants\, please consult the Planétarium’s website here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nApril 28\, 2022\, 6 PMInertia Exhibition Vernissage + Performance \n\n\n\nGuillaume Pascale will offer a sound performance\, improvising in real-time with the distance between the Voyager probes and the Earth. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/inertia-speculative-fossils-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:In The Middle\, a Chimera Vernissage
DESCRIPTION:Please join on on THURSDAY\, MAY 5TH\, at 6:00 PM EST at Eastern Bloc for the official opening party for In the Middle\, a Chimera\, as well as the opening for the exhibition element at Eastern Bloc. No reservation is required; mask wearing will be mandatory\, and social distancing will be maintained during the event.The exhibition will be open at Eastern Bloc up until and including May 18th from Tuesday to Saturday\, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST. \n\n\n\nIn the Middle\, a Chimera considers how new\, breakthrough technology developed under the veil of capitalism inevitably bends to its whirling\, maelstrom pull (sometimes despite more communitarian originary intentions): the goal of this exhibition/project is to envision and develop community-oriented futures where this pull is redirected towards mutually beneficial relationships\, and ways in which we might undermine or re-conceptualize these technologies to not only nurture ourselves but our surrounding ecosystems and environments.  \n\n\n\nFEATURED ARTISTS \n\n\n\njacqueline beaumont | post-binary genetic sequencesjacqueline beaumont is a bio-material architect\, artist and researcher. Her research weaves together Queer Ecology\, Artificial Reproductive technologies\, Transgender studies and Material engineering. She has been exhibited\, lectured and recognized internationally including a gold medal from IGEM (MIT 2019)\, Concordia university undergraduate fellowship(2020)\, presented work at MUTEK (2021)\, Culture² (2021)\, Center Pompidou (behavioral matter 2019)\, and FoFa Gallery (2020). She graduated with a BFA in Fibers and Material practices at Concordia University. Currently she works as a research affiliate of the Milieux institute under Dr.Alice Jarry (Concordia University research chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality) as well as the Biointerface lab at Mcgill. \n\n\n\nDiyar Mayil | BroomDiyar Mayil is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture\, installation and performance. Her work explores the public life of marginalized bodies. Comfort\, discomfort\, adaptation\, and the acceptance of different bodies in both public and private are recurring subjects in her practice. Her work has recently been shown at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse\, Printemps numérique and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Upcoming commitments include residency at the Banff Center in Alberta and NARS Foundation in NYC. She holds a BFA from Concordia University\, where she has recently completed her MFA. Originally from Istanbul\, she now lives and works in Montreal. \n\n\n\nOjo Agi | There Is Space For You Here \n\n\n\n“There is space for you here” is a series of drawings exploring self-care and empowerment. The common feminist response to sexist and racist representation is to look back\, reclaiming the gaze as a site of resistance. But what if\, instead\, we opted to look away\, making space for ourselves to rest\, recover and restore?In “Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery”\, feminist writer bell hooks insists that Black people “are so well socialized to push ourselves past healthy boundaries that we often do not know how to set protective boundaries that would eliminate certain forms of stress in our lives… Since society rewards us most\, indicates that we are valuable\, when we are willing to push ourselves to the limit and beyond\, we need a life-affirming practice\, a counter-system of valuation in order to resist this agenda.”While self-care practices are diverse and suited to each individual’s needs\, they all begin with setting boundaries and disengaging from the things that we no longer want. Inspired by the practice of refusal\, these drawings suggest that making space for ourselves begins with saying no. \n\n\n\nTimothy Thomasson | I’m Feeling Lucky \n\n\n\nMy work primarily is created with computer animation\, and utilizes real-time technologies to create continually generative environments and systems. I am questioning the ways moving images are produced and consumed within both historic and contemporary contexts\, particularly examining the affects computer generated images have on society\, culture\, and perception. \n\n\n\nMark Igloliorte | Makpilitak UKalagalâk (Tile Talk) \n\n\n\nMark Igloliorte (Inuk\, Nunatsiavut) is an artist\, essayist and educator. He is an associate professor of Frameworks and Interventions in Indigenous Art Practices\, Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University. As a scholar and artist his work investigates relating to indigenous futures through a grounding in the embodied practices and language. His use of the kayak\, kamutik (Inuit sled) and skateboard speak to relating to the land how it is traversed and with specific ties to a pre-colional past and an indigenized future. Igloliorte’s artistic work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada as well as internationally. Including including New Zealand and The Netherlands. Igloliorte has a new Immersive Video Production Project as one of 6 mid-career Indigenous exploring the power of 360-degree video and augmented reality for digital storytelling which will be featured in an eight meter high Lavuu as the Nordic Pavilion in the 59th Venice Biennale contemporary art international exhibition between April and November 2022. \n\n\n\nPhilippe Vandal | saturation by accumulation \n\n\n\nAt the intersection of technological\, ecological\, and artistic preoccupations\, Philippe’s work bridges bio-inspired critical design\, environmental chemistry\, and site-specific tangible media interventions. He has been interested in prototyping and exploring small-scale devices as both scientific tools and sensitive frameworks for intervening\, visualizing\, remediating\, and thinking with different local sites impacted by the mismanagement of landfill and construction waste\, snow removal\, and industrial leachates. Addressing issues of socio-environmental justice\, his work seeks to align with critical landscape studies\, waste and discard studies\, and environmental realism to examine the practical\, sociocultural and political capabilities and limits of remediation framework to engage with at-risk materials\, sites\, and communities. Philippe’s work has been presented at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2020: What is Sentience?)\, VAV Gallery\, Art Mûr\, and collaborative work at Centre Pompidou\, Ars Electronica\, les Rencontres Hexagram\, Ada X\, and Mutek. Philippe is currently completing a BFA Major in Intermedia Cyber Arts.
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SUMMARY:Milieux Institute Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:It is finally happening! We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members (faculty and students alike!) to meet IN PERSON at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) AND Online (see left-hand column for link) for our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING! We will be presenting our Annual Report (2020-2021) for you to peruse\, palpate\, etc.\, and we will be present to answer any and all of your questions! We encourage everyone to attend—even if you have no interest in reports or questions\, we’re interested in seeing you and hearing what you’re up to! \n\n\n\nWhile past annual meetings have famously featured pizza\, given the current circumstances we will not be able to provide such sustenance. It is our hope\, however\, that our presence and discussions will prove to be nourishing! The meeting should last no longer than an hour and a half. \n\n\n\nMark your calendars\, and see you there!
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera Symposium
DESCRIPTION:About midway through the exhibition portion\, we present to you the Symposium segment\, where you’ll be able to hear presentations about exciting research-creation projects and participate in a Gameboy workshop led by Alex Custodio and Michael Iantorno! What a variety! It’s all happening May 13th\, from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM\, at the Milieux Resource Room and MakerSpace\, AND online (for the morning presentations)! \n\n\n\nModerating the symposium will be Mona Hedayati\, an artist-researcher and a joint PhD student in the research-creation stream of Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University and the digital arts doctorate program at Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts at University of Antwerp\, Belgium. \n\n\n\nOFFICIAL PRESENTERS \n\n\n\nAlex Custodio & Michael Iantorno\, Ali Kenefick\, Hanine El Mir\, Melina Campos\, Kregg Hetherington\, jacqueline beaumont\, Rythâ Kesselring\, Miranda Smitheram\, Laurent Simon (HEC Montreal)\, Helen Brunet (Vestechpro)\,  Alicia Turgeon (Eastern Bloc)\, Chris Salter & the Animate Team\, the Solar Media Project team\, & the Minecraft and Modernity Student Research Cabal. \n\n\n\nWORKSHOP DETAILS1:30 PM EST—Milieux MakerSpace (10.825)BRING YOUR BROKEN GAMEBOYS! \n\n\n\nOur proposed intervention interrogates the black boxing of technology and empowers users to repair their own hardware to extend the lifespan of their consumer electronics. We begin with a brief presentation to situate videogames within the narrative of planned obsolescence and challenge assumptions around the legality or authenticity of altering proprietary hardware. We then demonstrate how to perform a simple act of repair: replacing a CR1616\, CR2025\, or CR2032 battery in a Game Boy\, Game Boy Color\, or Game Boy Advance cartridge. We spend the remainder of the time supporting participants as they repair their own hardware. \n\n\n\nWe ask interested participants to please register via email directly to Alex at alexandra.custodio@concordia.ca so that the coordinators have a general sense of how many people will be there! \n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:-- POSTPONED -- Caroline Sinders Workshop: People's History of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED | STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULED DATE \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders: People’s History of the InternetMay 15th\, 2022\, 11:00 AM ESTHYBRID: Fondation PHI Education Room (451 rue Saint-Jean) AND OnlineIn collaboration with the Fondation PHI \n\n\n\nFor online attendance\, please click the link in the left-hand column. To register for in-person attendance (space is limited to 10 people!)\, please send an email to dfiset@phi.ca with the subject Caroline Sinders WORKSHOP. \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders will be offering a workshop as part of People’s History of the Internet (working title)\, a research project which aims at producing a decentralized and global narrative of the network’s presence and impact in our daily lives. Using Miro to build a collaborative framework with participants with differing levels of professional or personal engagement with Internet\, the project looks to broaden\, shift or remediate accepted narratives or representations of the Internet\, and to highlight key figures (some of them women-identified\, or BIPOC) and moments which have largely been erased from canonical histories of the Internet. Participants will be invited to contribute data which brings forth our intimate\, personal\, subjective or countercultural experiences of (and entanglements with) the web. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be of a duration of two (2) hours\, and the location is to be determined shortly. This workshop is the first in a longer-term collaboration with the PHI and Sinders around this global project. \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years\, she has been examining the intersections of  technology’s impact in society\, interface design\, artificial intelligence\, abuse\, and politics in digital\, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research\, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning\, user research\, designing for public good\, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher\, she has worked with Amnesty International\, Intel\, IBM Watson\, the Wikimedia Foundation\, and others. \n\n\n\nSinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School\, the Mozilla Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Eyebeam\, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry\, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, Omidyar Network\, the Open Technology Fund and the Knight Foundation. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern\, Victoria and Albert Museum\, MoMA PS1\, LABoral\, Ars Electronica\, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft\, Slate\, Quartz\, Wired\, as well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/postponed-caroline-sinders-workshop-peoples-history-of-the-internet/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Vigliensoni Workshop: Introduction to Machine Learning for Creative Practice
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n Gabriel Vigliensoni: Introduction to machine learning for creative practice with sound and musicMay 17th & 24th\, 2022\, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTMilieux Resource Room (EV 11/705) \n\n\n\nTo register\, please email marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca with subject line ‘VIGLIENSONI WORKSHOP’— \n\n\n\nThis two-day workshop aims at developing technical and personal skillsin users and potential users of machine learning in creative contextsin general\, and sound and music in particular. The sessions willinclude an introduction to the machine learning (ML) paradigm andhuman agency in creative AI; supervised\, unsupervised\, and generativeML approaches; and music research-creation projects using machinelearning tools. Some of the tools that will be covered in the sessionsare: Wekinator\, AudioStellar\, R-VAE\, and RAVE.The workshop is designed to appeal to any artist\, student\, or creatorusing music or sound as a plastic material for (part of) their workand creative practice. This group includes sound and electronic musicartists\, and also intermedia and mixed media artists. \n\n\n\nvigliensoni\, aka Gabriel Vigliensoni\, is an electronic music artist\,performer\, and researcher whose work interrogates the various stagesof contemporary music production’s workflow\, always transforming theprocess of making a record into a playing field for experimentationand learning.   Having studied music technology in Santiago andMontréal\, and carried out research on machine learning for creativepractices in London\, vigliensoni is equally grounded in the electronicmusic subcultures surrounding house and techno as well as onstate-of-the-art and experimental techniques for music-making.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gabriel-vigliensoni-workshop-introduction-to-machine-learning-for-creative-practice/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:In the Middle\, a Chimera Finissage
DESCRIPTION:Please join on on WEDNESDAY\, MAY 18TH\, at 6:00 PM EST at The Milieux Institute (11th Floor\, EV 11.725) for the official closing party for In the Middle\, a Chimera\, as well as the closing for the exhibition element at the Milieux Institute. The evening will feature live demonstrations of games and installations\, as well as a live performance by Alexandre Saunier and Marc-André Cossette happening at 7 PM EST in the Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625)! \n\n\n\nMilieux cofounder Chris Salter and his partner Anke Burger will also use the opportunity to say farewell to dear colleagues and friends before their move to Switzerland. Everybody is welcome! \n\n\n\nMask wearing will be mandatory\, and social distancing will be maintained during the event.The exhibition will be open as of May 5th (some artist exceptions) from Monday to Saturday\, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST. \n\n\n\nIn the Middle\, a Chimera considers how new\, breakthrough technology developed under the veil of capitalism inevitably bends to its whirling\, maelstrom pull (sometimes despite more communitarian originary intentions): the goal of this exhibition/project is to envision and develop community-oriented futures where this pull is redirected towards mutually beneficial relationships\, and ways in which we might undermine or re-conceptualize these technologies to not only nurture ourselves but our surrounding ecosystems and environments.  \n\n\n\nFEATURED ARTISTS \n\n\n\n10TH FLOOR (Floor maps will be available on site) \n\n\n\nTricia Enns | Narrative Debris: Mapping with pulp\, debris\, electronics\, and many hands \n\n\n\nMegan Stein | The Yellow Wallpaper – Sensory Implications \n\n\n\nAndrew Rabyniuk | A representational disassembly of the practical machinery for a conditional technicity in material relations (Leclerc Artistat 36” four-shaft jack loom I\, II\, and III) \n\n\n\nThe Solar Media Project: Isabelle Boucher Alex Custodio Janna Frenzel Michael Iantorno Idun Isdrake Malte Leander Fenwick McKelvey Robert Marinov Bart Simon Don Undeen Edith Viau Christine White Lee Wilkins \n\n\n\nPatrick Seemann-Ricard | Exposed Façades \n\n\n\nMelina Campos Ortiz | Abolissons les tropiques: An ethnography of snow in three blog entries \n\n\n\nVIDEO PRODUCTION STUDIO (10.760)(On view as of May 9TH) \n\n\n\nlee wilkins | void \n\n\n\nNatalia Balska\, Brice Ammar-Khodja\, Maurice Jones\, & Idun Idrake | Sensing field. \n\n\n\nBrice Ammar-Khodja | The Cycles of Attraction \n\n\n\nSteven Sych | Oceanic Theremin\, a Triptych \n\n\n\nMinecraft and Modernity Student Research Cabal \n\n\n\nScott DeJong | Lizards & Lies \n\n\n\n11TH FLOOR \n\n\n\nOra4Art (Debora Alanna & Bora Bodur) | Poetics as Psychogeography \n\n\n\nPuneet Jain | Umwelten: Shifting agencies among the human\, non-human and a machine learning algorithm.  \n\n\n\nIdun Isdrake | Ravens Ice \n\n\n\nMarie-Christine Larivière\, Anne Boutet\, & Audrey Coulombe | Moving Boundaries \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian | Residual Textile Dye Spectrum \n\n\n\nMalte Leander | When in Shade \n\n\n\nEtta Sandry | Pathways
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-finissage/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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