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SUMMARY:Samuel Bianchini: 'Attempts at explementation' Talk at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:Attempts at explementation:Combining material and symbolic operations in art and design research \n\n\n\nIn computer science\, implementation designates that human activity which consists in translating a set of specifications initially expressed in “natural” language into a program a computer can execute. Predicated on the notion that verbalization exercises control over the material world\, implementation and its increasingly widespread application exemplify a form of triumphalist anthropocentrism. Confronted by novel forms of materialism necessitated by the ecological crisis\, this performative turn today needs to seen in perspective. Instead of viewing our relationship with the environment through the prism of how we are to control it with words\, now the need is to develop novel modalities of cooperation with the material world. How can we reverse the process of implementation by listening to what matter says to us—or\, rather\, what it “makes us say”—and thus envisage a form “explementation”? \n\n\n\nBased on a very recent publication (in P. Ribault\, Design\, Gestaltung\, Formatività. Philosophies of Making\, Ed. Birkhäuser\, Basel\, 2022)\, Samuel Bianchini will develop this notion and approach of “explementation” through different case studies of research-creation – in particular in the field of robotics and active materials -\, different examples where the art practice is the main condition to cooperate and to reflect. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality with Hexagram Network\, and happening at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture & Technology\, on Monday\, September 12th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Resource Centre (Room EV-11.705) @ Concordia University\, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West\, H3G 2W1.BIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nSamuel Bianchini is an artist and professor at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD\, PSL University\, Paris). \n\n\n\nHis creations involve physical as well as symbolic operations\, in context\, in public and in real time\, stimulating us to contemplate\, to think as much as to act. Supporting the principle of an “operational aesthetic”\, Samuel Bianchini works on the relationship between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”\, modes of representation\, new forms of aesthetic experiences\, sociopolitical organizations and ecological issues. To this end\, he collaborates with scientists and engineering research laboratories. \n\n\n\nHe lives and works in Paris. With more than 100 collective and 20 solo exhibitions\, his works are regularly presented in Europe and around the world. In close relation to his research and artistic practice\, Samuel Bianchini has undertaken theoretical work\, which has led to numerous publications including the collective book Practicable. From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art\, MIT Press\, 2016 (co-directed with Erik Verhagen). \n\n\n\nHe studied art and design through different approaches and defended his PhD thesis at Palais de Tokyo with a solo exhibition and\, more recently\, his accreditation to supervise research (HDR). As a teacher-researcher at EnsAD\, he is also the head of the Reflective Interaction group of EnsadLab (EnsAD’s laboratory) and the co-head of La Chaire arts & sciences set up in 2017 with École polytechnique and the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation. He is also member of the network Hexagram and associate member of the Cluster of excellence Matters of Activity\, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. \n\n\n\nWebsites: \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ndispotheque.org \n\n\n\nmitpress.mit.edu/books/practicable \n\n\n\nmitpress.mit.edu/books/behavioral-objects-i \n\n\n\nbirkhauser.com/books/9783035622447 \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/samuel-bianchini-attempts-at-explementation-talk-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Michael Century
DESCRIPTION:Milieux presents: \n\n\n\nAn Afternoon with Michael Century \n\n\n\nCome spend an afternoon with Michael Century\, in conversation about his new book Northern Sparks: Innovation\, Technology Policy\, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age.   \n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 14\, 1:30 – 4:00 pm in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University. The event will be followed by a reception on the terrace.  \n\n\n\nThere will be a short presentation by Michael followed by a discussion of the book with participants moderated by three Milieux faculty: Lynn Hughes\, Darren Wershler and Fenwick McKelvey.  Folks coming to the session are invited to read chapter 1 and either one of chapters 3 or 7.  The whole book is available as open access here. \n\n\n\nWe hope you can join us for what will be an excellent afternoon of discussion of this important book that speaks to the heart of Milieux’s history and future. Please RSVP on the eventbrite if you are coming so we can plan for the reception. For more information or questions about this event please contact Harry Smoak. \n\n\n\nMichael Century \n\n\n\nMichael Century\, a musician and media arts historian\, is Professor of Music and New Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He founded the Media Arts program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nNorthern Sparks \n\n\n\nUnderstanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks\, Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention\, starting in the 1960s with the energies unleashed by Expo 67. Debunking conventional wisdom\, Century reclaims innovation from both its present-day devotees and detractors by revealing how experimental artists critically challenge as well as discover and extend the capacities of new technologies.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-afternoon-with-michael-century/
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SUMMARY:Solarities – Thinking with the Sun
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe Solar Media research group is excited to invite you to join them on September 21st\, 2022 for a critical engagement with the possibilities and potentials of solar energy. \n\n\n\n“What might a world look like if our societies\, communications technologies\, and economies were organized around energy from the sun rather than from fossil fuels? What new infrastructures\, institutions\, and power structures would such a transition require? What forms of creativity\, collectivity\, and social organizing might we need?” \n\n\n\nCome and join them for an informal discussion about all these questions and more. Our conversation will be anchored in the work of two collectives who have been grappling with these questions: \n\n\n\n\nThe Solar Media Collective is a group of researchers and makers interested in the question of how to reimagine energy and communications infrastructure for a low-carbon world. Among other things\, they have been building a solar-powered server which will be used to host collaboratively developed art\, games\, and other material. The server will be on display at the event for participants to learn more and interact with. \nThe After Oil Collective is an interdisciplinary group of international scholars\, students\, artists\, activists\, and practitioners who came together in 2019 for a summer school focused on imagining a world powered by solar energy. The collective recently published a short book entitled Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice (read it free online at https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/solarities).  \n\n\n\n\nThe conversation will involve a roundtable discussion with members of the Solar Media Collective about solar energy and its promises\, possibilities\, and potential problems. We will then invite participants\, contributors\, and audience members for an open discussion relating to the themes raised by the roundtable.  \n\n\n\nThe discussion will be followed by refreshments. Please RSVP here. \n\n\n\n*Please note that this is an in-person event that will not be streamed anywhere online. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/solarities-thinking-with-the-sun/
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SUMMARY:MHRC Book Salon and talk by Armond R. Towns
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nThe Media History Research Centre is running a Book Salon on September 22nd\, showcasing and celebrating recent local publications. There has been a considerable amount of local scholarly output over the last couple of years but pandemic conditions have prevented some of our more traditional ways of honouring those contributions. We invite you to gather in person for a ceremonial toast and to peruse our teeming book table!Dr. Armond R. Towns will open the event with his talk “The Medium is the Message\, Revisited: Media and Black Epistemologies\,” which examines the political-economic context that informed the theoretical position of mid-twentieth century Canadian media theory\, particularly the work of Marshall McLuhan. It will open up new ways to think about this context in relation to not just media\, but also race\, humanity\, and radical politics.Dr. Towns is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Carleton University and is the author of On Black Media Philosophy (U of California Press\, 2022).This evening also marks the first edition of the new Montreal Media History Seminar: a series of public talks on recent media historical scholarship that will run throughout 2022-23. For the full schedule click here.Come join us on Sept 22.For more information\, contact MHRC co-ordinator Laura Pannekoek.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mhrc-book-salon-and-talk-by-armond-r-towns/
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SUMMARY:People’s History of the Internet: Workshop with Caroline Sinders
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nCaroline Sinders will be offering an in-person workshop as part of People’s History of the Internet\, a research project which aims at producing a decentralized and global narrative of the network’s presence and impact in our daily lives. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will use design thinking strategies as an artistic method to document\, map\, and explore collaborative ways to build and remember web community histories. More specifically\, it 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\nThis workshop will happen in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Centre (EV-11.705) from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm\, with a one-hour lunch break from Noon to 1:00 pm. \n\n\n\nParticipation is free\, but places are limited; please book by contacting Daniel Fiset at dfiset@phi.ca. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is offered in partnership with the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art.This workshop will be offered in English. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCaroline SindersCaroline 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\n*Photo courtesy of the artist
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/peoples-history-of-the-internet-workshop-with-caroline-sinders/
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SUMMARY:LePARC Lunch: Welcome!
DESCRIPTION:LePARC invite you all to their first Lunch of the semestre! This will be an informal gathering to celebrate your arrival or return\, share ideas\, a and questions. This event is for new and returning members\, as well as folks curious to learn more about their cluster. Bring your lunch\, drop when you can and stay as long as you like! \n\n\n\nAbout LePARC \n\n\n\nLePARC is a community of interdisciplinary performance practitioners made up of faculty\, students\, artists and affiliate researchers united by the desire to collaborate. Their research-creation areas include participatory performance\, collaborative creation\, sound and music\, oral history performance\, intermedia performance\, technologies\, dramaturgy\, contemporary circus\, amongst many more. \n\n\n\nFor more information see their website here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/leparc-lunch-welcome/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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SUMMARY:Martin Akwiranoron Loft: Artist Talk And Reception
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents the first installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023. The first speaker in the series will be Martin Akwiranoron Loft\, photographer\, printmaker\, and craftsperson from Kahnawá:ke. This speaker series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze.   \n\n\n\nThe first gathering will take place on September 27th at 4PM in-person in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University\, AND online via Zoom. The event will begin with opening words by Elder Kawennotas Sedalia Fazio. \n\n\n\nAfter the talk\, there will be a public reception on the terrace. Registration for in-person attendance is not required. Please sign up if you wish to attend online via Zoom. For more information click here. \n\n\n\nSpeakers invited to the series will also provide studio visits to Concordia University graduate students. If you wish to have a studio visit with one of our speakers\, please sign up here. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio\, the Black Perspectives Office and daphne Arts Centre and with the support of Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture\, the Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Office of the Vice-President\, Research and Graduate Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/martin-akwiranoron-loft-artist-talk-and-reception/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:Milieux Institute: Pizza Lunch and Tours
DESCRIPTION: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) for our first pizza lunch since COVID happened. This will be a great opportunity for current and new members to reunite and (re)connect. Come along to have some pizza and chat – we’re eager to see you and hear what you’re up to!  \n\n\n\nWe will also offer tours of the Milieux spaces for new folks and for those not-so-new ones who\, confined to the virtual realm\, did not have the chance to wander around the institute. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing you there! 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-institute-pizza-lunch-and-tours/
CATEGORIES:Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T133000
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SUMMARY:The Ethnography Lab Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Ethnography Lab invite you all to their launch for the upcoming year! As they do every fall\, they will be hosting an open house where they will present the exciting things they have been working on during the past year and introduce the new members they picked up along the way. But\, most of all\, the event will be a moment to stir up new ideas with anyone who wants to get involved with the lab this year! This event will take place on Friday\, September 30th\, at 1:30 pm at their headquarters at the Milieux Institute (E.V. 10.625). At the open house\, they will present you some of their current projects and pitch several ideas for how we might co-create a collaborative ethnographic ethos. They are looking for anyone who wants to be part of their ongoing projects — such as Infrastructures of Ethnography (their new SHRCC-funded project) & Montreal Waterways — and anyone with fresh ideas! You can check out their past activities on their website here.About the Lab The Concordia Ethnography Lab (now in its sixth year!) is part of the Speculative Life research cluster at the Milieux Institute. The Lab was created as a place for different research groups cross-disciplines to meet\, collaborate\, practice ethnography\, and generally ponder what thatmeans. Feel free to contact them ahead of time if you’ve got an idea you want to get on the agenda. If you can’t make it\, but would like to join the lab or get further information\, please contact their new lab coordinator\, Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at mlamothekatrapani@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n“Let’s continue to experiment with new ways of thinking and doing ethnography together this year!”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-ethnography-lab-launch/
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