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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Luiza Helena Guimarães
DESCRIPTION:The Immersive Reality Lab at the Milieux Institute invites you to a talk with artist-researcher Luiza Helena Guimarães on the use of immersive technology on art creation. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For more information and questions\, please contact Marco Luna at vr.milieux@concordia.ca. \n\n\n\nLuiza Helena Guimarães is a Brazilian artist-researcher\, performer\, entrepreneur\, creator\, screenwriter and director of immersive media. Founder and Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Digital Humanities (ABHD) and Founder-Director of the Neuro-Spectral Art Lab (LArtEN). Post-doctorate in Communication and Culture\, State University of Rio\, Brazil. PhD in Clinical Psychology at Center for Subjectivity – Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of São Paulo\, Brazil and Faculty of Visual and Plastic Arts Education and Interactive Media Laboratory at University of Barcelona\, Spain. Master in Communication and Culture\, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Researcher at TransObjeto\, Tecnologias da Inteligência e Design Digital (TIDD) at PUC\, and Laboratory of Conservation and Management of Digital Collections (LABOGAD)\, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nFind more information about the artist here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-luiza-helena-guimaraes/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Nothing with Victoria at LePARC
DESCRIPTION:Members across clusters are welcome to join this activity with Victoria Stanton \n\n\n\nDATE: October 5th & November 2ndLOCATION: Milieux Residency Room (EV 10.785) \n\n\n\nOn Wednesdays\, for the foreseeable future I will attempt to disconnect from all devices. What happens in the space/time that fills this “gap”? Is this another opportunity for/adventure in another kind of “doing nothing”?  \n\n\n\nCome join me to find out… \n\n\n\nVictoria Stanton is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist and researcher/curator/educator working with live action\, human interaction\, video\, film\, photo\, drawing\, and writing. Exploring within diverse media\, while the outward results of her practice manifest in various forms\, performance is the invariable core of her research. Her time-based work includes performance for stage and for the camera\, infiltrating actions in public spaces\, and one-on-one encounters in intimate contexts. Victoria is a part-time Fine Arts professor at the Department of Studio Arts and a PhD student who likes to talk about Nothing and tries to Do Nothing about it.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nothing-with-victoria-at-leparc/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221109T180000
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SUMMARY:Ethnography Lab Film Nights
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the first screening of our Ethnography Lab Film Nights! One of Quebec’s most iconic films\, this ethno-fiction is an emblem of the Cinéma direct movement.  \n\n\nThe Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to launch a series of film nights starting off this month! With these screenings we are inviting you to see through the ethnographic eyes of the directors and think through cinematic images. There will be three screenings taking place before the holidays on select Wednesday evenings at 6pm in the Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625). \n\n\nThe first event is a screening of Pour la suite du monde (1963) directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault. “Pour la suite du monde is the unrehearsed story of what happened when old-timers from Île-aux-Coudres\, a small island in the St. Lawrence River\, were persuaded to revive a local whale-catching practice” (NFB\, 2006). We chose this Quebec classic to introduce you to the Cinéma direct movement happening in Quebec at the end of the 50s which is characterised by a desire to directly capture reality and the voice of research subjects\, questioning the relationship between cinema and daily life. The film has been called an ethno-fiction\, but we’ll discuss all that together on Nov. 9th!It will be super cozy and we hope to have a nice discussion on the film afterwards!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnography-lab-film-nights/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221111T150000
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SUMMARY:Ethnography Beyond Anthropology: Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to this introductory workshop to ethnography for graduate researchers from all disciplines interested in thinking about ways to change their own research practice\, as well as those wondering how to do ethnography …beyond anthropology? \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Kregg Hetherington (Anthropology)\, Bart Simon (Science and Technology Studies)\, Javiera Araya-Moreno (Sociology)\, Kariuki Kirigia (Development Studies). \n\n\n\nPlease email concordia.ethnography@gmail.com to register
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnography-beyond-anthropology-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221114T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221114T160000
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture by Dr. Francesca Sobande
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, and Sexuality Lab (DIGS) is happy to present Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Experiences\, Archiving\, and Opacity\, a guest lecture by Dr. Francesca Sobande. \n\n\nHow are Black feminist approaches to digital experiences and archiving practices shaping Black history and futures? How do these archival approaches enable Black feminists to play with forms of opacity in ways that subvert the gaze of institutions? Can Black feminist digital archiving efforts result in a redefinition of what it means to archive? Focusing on aspects of Black feminist digital archiving experiences\, and research on Black Scottish history\, this session considers the role and pursuit of forms of opacity as part of such efforts. Moving beyond a focus on questions of visibility and publicness\, this session involves an emphasis on elements of the interiority of Black feminist digital archiving work\, including the generative nature of refusing demands of “transparency”.This online guest lecture is open to all interested students and scholars. Advance registration is required at this link. Please use your institutional email address to register if possible. \n\n\nDr. Francesca Sobande is a senior lecturer\, researcher\, and writer who explores the power and politics of media and the marketplace. Her work focuses on digital remix culture\, Black diaspora and archives\, feminism\, creative work\, pop culture\, branding and crises\, and devolved nations.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-lecture-by-dr-francesca-sobande/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:DRAWING WITH THREADS: MATERIALIZING DATA
DESCRIPTION:Textiles and Materiality invites members across clusters to this workshop with Gen Moisan \n\n\n\nWhat does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, we invite you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be two hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs.  \n\n\n\n*Please register at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca using the subject “Drawing with Threads: Materializing Data”**Activity open to Milieux members
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-with-threads-materializing-data/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221117T183000
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SUMMARY:Video as Intimacy: A Talk With Ishita Tiwary
DESCRIPTION:On November 17th\, join us for the third installment of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, featuring Dr. Ishita Tiwary’s talk Video as Intimacy: Biography of the Straight to Video Erotic Thrillers.  \n\n\n\n“In this presentation\, I present a biography of the video film-making industry in India in the 1980s. I chart its rise to a successful form with the emergence of VHS technology\, and its ultimate marginalization into oblivion. I will track the journey of the video film through a case study of a specific video production house\, Hiba Films. I look at Hiba as an institutional structure that emerged broadly in response to the arrival of video\, and specifically in relation to the rise of the video nasty and straight to video genre across the world. Hiba was the audio-visual sister of India‘s best-selling tabloid film magazine\, Stardust\, which promoted films produced by Hiba in its pages. The production house concentrated on the creation of female stars in order to attract its primarily female audience. The entry of satellite television and piracy led to its decline and the company was ultimately doomed to be forgotten from popular memory. The video-film as a commodity now becomes of academic interest for us. In this lecture\, I tell the story of such an adjacent entertainment industry. The story of a new infrastructure and style located in the heart of Bombay. \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, video attempts to define itself as a medium opposed to celluloid. It is this otherness and attempt to define the medium that the presentation hopes to explore through a case study of Hiba. My biographical excavation of Hiba Films will move through legal regulations\, tabloid journalism\, film equipment\, and the star system. I hope to generate through my method a complicated narrative about the unstable life of the video-film“ \n\n\n\n* Registration is required via the Eventbrite page.** For this session\, we ask you to read Dr. Tiwary’s text What is Video: Video and the Moment of Legal Disruption. \n\n\n\nIshita Tiwary is an Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim school of Cinema\, Concordia University and Canada Research Chair in Media and Migration. Her research interests include video cultures\, media infrastructures\, migration\, contraband media practices\, and media aesthetics. She has published essays in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies\, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities\, Culture Machine\, MARG: Journal of Indian Art\, and in edited collections on topics of media piracy\, video histories\, and streaming platforms.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-as-intimacy-a-talk-with-ishita-tiwary/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221122T120000
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SUMMARY:Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties at LePARC
DESCRIPTION:LePARC invites members across clusters to join this event! \n\n\n\nGet your boogie on with Tornado Trish – aka Tricia Enns – and potential guest appearance of MC Diamond Don for the first of many Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties in the Residency Room (EV 10.785). \n\n\n\nWhat is it?!The event will involve cheesy aerobics meets dance music\, mood lighting\, and optional biodegradable glitter all to help you get into your best wiggly\, giggly\, lunging and prancing self. \n\n\n\nSilly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties (SSADP) invites people to move in whatever way allows them to engage in a playful and expansive way of being. Silliness at these events is about enabling a depth\, joy and connection with one another. Releasing the heavy and seriousness of life to just take a moment to wiggle and laugh together. \n\n\n\nAt the moment future SSADP are planned for Monday evenings\, but we are welcome to other time suggestions.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/silly-sexy-awkward-dance-parties-at-leparc/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T160000
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SUMMARY:Soft Switches & Gentle Touch Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second workshop in the Milieux’s Soft SLow Tech series! November 25th at MilieuxMake we will be exploring ‘Soft Switches & Gentle Touch’!This workshop will go over the basics of soft switches and e-textiles. We will learn how to create switches that live in collaboration with the body using conductive fabric and touch-sensitive materials. We’ll learn about using switches to create basic logic and building complex interactions using soft circuits. \n\n\n\nSoft SLow tech is a series about creating electronics that are made out of soft\, squishy\, pliable\, bendable\, or otherwise unconventional materials. With bi-weekly meet-ups\, alternating between workshops and group work sessions\, we will explore soft circuits\, e-textiles\, soft robots and slow / low tech solutions. For those interested in getting more deeply involved\, the ultimate goal will be to collaborate on a project\, to be determined by the group! All participants are invited to take part in both learning through an ongoing workshop series\, and working together on a larger project in bi-weekly sessions\, or exploring individual projects as well! \n\n\n\nRSVP required!* We ask that you register by emailing lee at l.wilkins@concordia.ca with ‘soft switches’ included in the subject line.** This workshop is open to members of all Milieux research groups and requires no pre-requisites. \n\n\n\nAs this is an ongoing series\, even if you cannot make this workshop\, feel free to contact us to register your interest for future events in the Soft SLow Tech series\, so that we can schedule and plan accordingly!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/soft-switches-gentle-touch-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T150000
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SUMMARY:BREATHING AESTHETICS:A Talk with Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Alice Jarry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first installment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by CARG\, CRIE\, and SPAM: Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series\, featuring a talk with Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York) and Dr. Alice Jarry (Concordia). \n\n\n\nDr. Tremblay’s talk previews the monograph Breathing Aesthetics\, in which they argue that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination\, weaponization\, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism\, imperialism\, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration \n\n\n\nDr. Jarry’s presentation will address the material and conceptual aspects of the collaborative research-creation project capture*. Exploring how ‘membranes’ can act as porous interfaces that enable exchanges across systems and transform what is filtered in the process\, capture aims at materializing the microscopic invisibility of air pollution and the macroscopic dimension of its socio-environmental issues. \n\n\n\n// READING GROUP // \n\n\n\nIn preparation for the talk\, the group is hosting a reading group event this Friday\, November 11th\, from 3:00-4:30 PM\, to read Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Breathing Aesthetics‘ first chapter “Breathing against Nature”! If you want to participate email priscilla.jolly@concordia.ca to be added to mailing list and receive pdf. of reading. \n\n\n\nJean-Thomas Tremblay is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at York University. They are the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press\, 2022) and co-editor of Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s (State University of New York Press\, 2021). Jean-Thomas is currently working on two books: The Art of Environmental Inaction and Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction. \n\n\n\nAlice Jarry is an artist-researcher and an assistant professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and is the director of Milieux Institute Speculative Life Biolab. Her research focuses on residual matter\, and responsive biomaterials for the built environment. Specializing in site-specific works\, socio-environmental design\, art-science practices\, and tangible media\, Jarry examines how materiality – engaged in processes of transformation with sites\, technology\, and communities – can provoke the emergence of adaptive forms and resilient socio-environmental relations.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/breathing-aestheticsa-talk-with-jean-thomas-tremblay-and-alice-jarry/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221129T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221129T163000
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SUMMARY:GameBling Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:After the resounding success of last year’s GameBling Game Jam\, TAG\, HERMES\, and the Jeu Responsable à l’Ère Numérique (JREN) team are back for the second edition\, and we need your help! \n\n\n\nWe will be hosting another game jam in the Winter term. During two days\, several teams of students will work together to create video games that reflect on gaming and gambling. \n\n\n\nWe are asking for your input about this edition’s theme. Last year was all about slot machines. You can check out last year’s games here. \n\n\n\nWhat aspects of gaming / gambling do you want to see featured in this year’s edition? \n\n\n\nWe will discuss your ideas for potential themes during a planning meeting\, on November 29th\, from 3-4:30 pm (via Zoom). \n\n\n\n*Please RSVP here. We look forward to your input!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gamebling-planning-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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