BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Milieux - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Milieux REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230504 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230424T144627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T145350Z UID:5560-1682640000-1683158399@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:More-than-ethnographic probes: Workshop & Round-Table DESCRIPTION:More-than-ethnographic probes: On scales\, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human with Maxime Le Calvé \n\nThe CURC in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Milieux Biolab are happy to host anthropologist of art and science Maxime Le Calvé (Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence\, U. Humboldt) for a four-day workshop (April 28th to May 3rd). This event is designed as a fieldwork and a platform for the development of collaborative sketching\, writing\, and documentation methods. Exploring how to attend to more-than-human collectivities at different scales\, from built environment to cellular activity\, the workshop is envisioned as an inventive anthropological design inquiry within the heavily mediated sense worlds of performative and situated spatial practices\, biodesign\, HCI and Medical Imagery. “More-than-ethnographic Probes” will invite participants to contribute to an account of scientific cultures of microscopy and XR visualization techniques that pays respect to their embodied experience. The making process will be shaped by hands-on conversations through cultural probing: we will concoct\, in short sessions\, playful devices to render and further explore our observations and chats in different labs and residency spaces. \nThe workshop will conclude with a round-table at the Uncommon Senses IV Conference (May 4th\, 4PM)\, including Alice Jarry\, Shauna Janssen\, Stefan Helmreich\, Maxime Le Calvé\, and Brice Ammar-Khodja. \n\n\nQuestions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n\n\nMaxime Le Calvé is an anthropologist of art and science\, currently postdoctoral research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activities” (HU Berlin). In his latest ethnographic project\, he is exploring haptic creativities and cartographic practices in neurosurgery. Visual ethnographer\, he is making use of digital drawing as an investigative device. He is also curating virtual reality experiences\, which he frames as collaborative art-science inquiries aiming to stretch the senses of anthropologists and of their publics. He trained in general ethnology in Paris Nanterre and owns a PhD in social anthropology and in theater studies\, from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. He has published on the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances\, 2018)\, on performance art\, on music\, on Berlin\, on brains\, and on ethnographic training. He acted as curator to the exhibitions Field/Works in Lisbon (2020-2021)\, Stretching Materialities (Berlin\, 2021-2022)\, and the ongoing participant exhibition Sketching Brains (Charité\, Berlin). \n\nhttps://www.maximelecalve.com/about URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/more-than-ethnographic-probes-workshop-round-table/ CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/download.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230702 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230501T000357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T155626Z UID:5596-1682899200-1688255999@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Call For Submissions: 'The commons' Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, located in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual members’ exhibition\, which will take place from September 25 – 29\, 2023\, at Concordia’s 4th Space. \nMilieux is seeking submissions from active student and faculty members that engage with this year’s theme: The Commons. Members are invited to submit an individual or collective proposal to feature their creative work\, including (but not limited to): visual art\, audio projects\, performance\, presentations\, written or text-based work\, workshops\, panel discussions\, and more.  \nDeadline to apply: July 1st\, 2023.\nTheme: \nFor this year’s exhibition\, Milieux invites its members to submit interdisciplinary projects and activities that relate to the concept of “The Commons”. \nThe Commons refers to shared resources and spaces that are accessible to all members of a community or society. This exhibition seeks to explore the many facets of The Commons and showcase the ways in which it can be a source of creativity\, collaboration\, and social change.  \nThe concept of  Commons can be interpreted through different means\, including the natural commons\, such as land\, water\, air\, and the ways in which they are managed and protected; the cultural commons\, such as knowledge\, art\, and literature\, and the ways they are created. The concept of the commons can also be thought of as a shared space for innovative approaches to research and art-making\, including open-source software\, commonalities\, and collaborative and community-based practices. The Commons can also explore the challenges and opportunities of creating and maintaining a commons\, including issues of governance\, inclusivity\, and collective action. \nWe encourage all participants to explore the theme through their respective research and creative practices. \nConsiderations of the theme ask many questions\, including:  \n\n-As artists and researchers\, how do our activities reflect an ethos of tending to\, experimenting with\, and cultivating a commons? \n-How can such “commons” be constructed\, negotiated\, or provoked in the co-presence of others?\n-What is the role of art in creating and sustaining commons\, and how do these practices challenge dominant norms and power structures?\n-What are the fruits of our common fields?\n\nKeywords: \nKeywords may include\, but are not limited to: \nshared spaces; alternative futures; sustainability; speculative fiction; community-based research; climate change; counterarchives; alternative temporalities; land back; digital spaces; care and community; open access; collective action; undercommons; community art; social practices; creative commons; maker culture; co-creation; collaboration; craft; translation; participatory or interactive objects; material knowledges; place-based knowledge; scores; sustainable fashion; circular economy; visual storytelling; collective memory; player communities; philosophical gardens; \nDetails: \nDue to spatial limitations\, we are encouraging the submission of works with a small-to-medium physical footprint. For larger sculptural objects\, consider proposing a mode of display or documentation that can translate the work into the context of 4th Space while respecting our physical constraints. In the spirit of common resources\, digital submissions such as video or audio works may be compiled into a sequence in one or more central viewing stations. \nPlease outline technical requirements and requests in advance.  \nWe are excited to offer a $250 honorarium to each selected project for exhibiting artwork or performing at the event. This honorarium is per project and not per participant\, and we’ll pay the honorarium at the end of the event. Groups should nominate one eligible student member to receive the honorarium; faculty members are not eligible. This honorarium aims to recognize and support student research/creation and professionalization. To verify your eligibility\, please contact Ariana Seferiades\, Head of Communications at Milieux Institute at ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca. \nTo Apply please fill out the submission form: \nTHE COMMONS | EXHIBITION CALL URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-submissions-the-commons-exhibition/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/posterDv1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230507 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230420T194003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T194104Z UID:5546-1683072000-1683417599@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies\, Economies & Aesthetics DESCRIPTION:The Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies invites everyone to the international multidisciplinary conference Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies\, Economies & Aesthetics\, happening from May 3rd to May 6th at Concordia University and on-line!\nThe senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However\, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the focus on the “prereflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception\, and the emphasis on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience. The collision of the senses is inherent to Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the “collideroscope” of the sensorium. With this conference\, we seek to explore the potentialities of the latter concept. \nIn the same spirit\, the conference will welcome contributions relying on differing disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives may complement one another (multidisciplinary research) or they may coalesce (interdisciplinary research). “Cross-disciplinary research” is the expression we prefer — “crossing” in the sense of blending\, but also of confronting. \nThe overarching aim of the conference is to highlight the relevance of the emergent understanding of the collision of the senses to thinking about some burning issues of our times: the ecological crisis\, the commodification of the senses under capitalism\, and “the new aesthetics” as framed by the late Gernot Böhme. \nWhen? From May 3rd to May 6th \nWhere? Concordia University – in-person and on-line \nFeaturing over 150 papers grouped in 50 sessions and 12 panels\, 6 roundtables\, 9 workshops and a multisensory and virtual art gallery\, as well as a reception on the Friday evening entitled “A Feast for the Senses.” The four keynotes are free and open to the public. For all other sessions\, participants are required to register. \nKeynote Speakers:\nConstance Classen\nHsuan Hsu\nKathleen Sitter\nCharles Spence \nConference website\nFor more information please contact senses@concordia.ca URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/uncommon-senses-iv-sensory-ecologies-economies-aesthetics/ CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival,Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-3.20.45-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230505T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230507T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230314T195735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T195735Z UID:5216-1683273600-1683478800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning how to do data activism?  \nJoin our free workshop from May 5-7th on Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism\, at Concordia University and online! “Mobilizing Data for Justice” is a three-day skills development workshop where activists and critical researchers can learn methods for making sense of and engaging with data in social struggles. \n\n\n\nWe have invited activists from around the world to share their experiences doing data activism. The workshops will focus on three areas: \n\n\n\n\nVisualizing: how can activists and critical researchers deploy techniques\, such as mapping and countermapping\, to visualize social justice issues in new ways?\nArchiving: how can activists and critical researchers effectively engage with archives in getting access to data and curate their own community-based archives in thinking about data differently? \nSurveillance: how can activists and critical researchers identify and negotiate surveillance infrastructures in organizing their work?\n\nThe event will be interactive\, emphasizing dialogue\, with the aim of creating opportunities for activists and researchers to troubleshoot ideas together. Please send along any specific questions or data needs you would like us to explore during the workshop. How can I register? \n\nTo join us in-person register here. \nTo join us online register here.\n\n\n\nPlease note that we will need to limit in-person attendance for some sessions. We will prioritize attendance for community activists working in these areas\, though we will seek to accommodate other participants as best we can.We know that community groups are often under-resourced and overworked\, so we are offering a small bursary for activists of up to $250 in recognition of your time\, energy\, and resources required to attend. You can apply for it before March 31st by filling out the form here and directly from the registration form. If you have any questions\, comments\, or concerns\, please don’t hesitate to email chris.hurl@concordia.ca URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mobilizing-data-for-justice-a-skills-development-workshop-in-data-activism/ LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-14-at-4.49.16-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230508T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230512T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230426T152057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T152531Z UID:5579-1683532800-1683910800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Home/Making Research Creation Showcase DESCRIPTION:The Textiles and Materiality Cluster is happy to invite everyone to the Home/Making Research-Creation Showcase\, co-hosted with 4 TH Space! \nJoin us for a weeklong workshop series\, research creation showcase and symposium drawing interdisciplinary scholars and makers into an ongoing conversation at the intersection of craft and home. The Home/Making Research-Creation Showcase will present material inquiries with work that interrogates issues such as domesticity and gender\, placemaking through craft\, and the reinvention of regional craft traditions. \nDuring the week of May 8\, research-creation work – including physical work\, images\, and video – will be displayed in 4TH Space\, which is open to the Concordia community and the general public from 10-6 daily. \nParticipants \n\nCilia Sawadogo\, Reihan Ebrahimi and Pots Uniques\nSelina Latour and Meaghan Bissett\nJosé Cortes\nSharmistha Kar\nNicole Miles\nPatrick Moskwa\nKerri-Lynn Reeves\nSabina Rak\nShaney Herrmann\nRebecca Strzelec\nFiona Harrington\nPragya Sharma\nRosa Borrás\nKathleen Vaughan\nSkot Deeming\nMichelle Wilson\nHeather Kohlmeier\nYesha Subotincic West\n\nHosted in partnership with the Textiles and Materiality Cluster\, Milieux Institute\, Concordia University. \n\n\n\n\nHow can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \nHave questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote speaker\n\n\n\n\nDr. Juliette MacDonald (Edinburgh College of Art) \n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of:\nHome/Making Project URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/home-making-research-creation-showcase/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1677693217976.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230511T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230511T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230418T144958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T155411Z UID:5510-1683797400-1683824400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age - Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Solar Media Collective is organizing a symposium on the multiscalar dimensions of sustainable\, just\, and hopeful energy transitions. Join academics\, artists\, and community members for round table discussions and a workshop exploring sustainability at different scales.\nSituated Solar Relations: rethinking scale for the renewable energy age will convene academics\, artists\, students\, and community members for a day of roundtable discussions and workshops stimulating us to question and imagine what forms of social organization and tech design are possible—even ludic and enjoyable—when we abandon the fossil-fuel-powered assumption of energy abundance and work within the affordances and limits of the sun’s energy. \nHow can we imagine the social\, technical\, and political norms and protocols that are offered by solar (or alternative) energy and solar-powered media? In what ways can we stimulate diverse and democratized technical design and caring principles that are useful\, rewarding\, and enduring for specific groups and communities of users? What strategies of scalability (or non-scalability) could help us find pleasurable and rewarding ways to transition away from our carbon-powered lifestyles and towards more sustainable paths? \nWhen? May 11th\, 2023 \nWhere? Concordia’s Next-Generation Cities Institute (2155 rue Guy\, ER Building\, Room 1431) or remote participation possible via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the event on Eventbrite.\nFor more information on the event and to consult the day’s program\, please visit the symposium page. \nLocal organizers include: Isabelle Boucher\, Alex Custodio\, Janna Frenzel\, Michael Iantorno\, Malte Leander\, Robert Marinov\, Christine White\, Lee Wilkins URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/situated-solar-relations-rethinking-scale-for-the-renewable-energy-age-symposium/ LOCATION:Next-Generation Cities Institute\, 2155 rue Guy\, ER Building\, Room 1431 CATEGORIES:Symposium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/solar_media_symposium_8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230516T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230516T143000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230504T171112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T155004Z UID:5611-1684242000-1684247400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[Postponed] Dr. Louise Amoore Lecture on Machine Learning Politics DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amoore introduces the concept of machine learning politics. \n\n\nThe idea that a ‘good’ machine learning model is one that can generalise to new situations has a long history. Even Turing’s 1950s accounts of machine intelligence referred to what he called a “spring of action” that exceeded the programming of explicit rules. By 2012\, when the Turing Laureate Yoshua Bengio sets out the guiding principles for unsupervised machine learning\, the ‘good’ model is rendered normatively as having the capacity to exploit the unknown structure in data. Here\, that which is unknown and unencountered is re-cast as a positive force to be harnessed in machine learning. It is a machine learning logic that has simultaneously become pervasive in the contemporary governing of societies – how the unknown structure of health data\, policing data\, pandemic data\, immigration data\, might yield the patterns and features that make interventions possible. The combinatorial possibilities of deep learning models reimagine the contingencies of the world as a field of political possibility. When Bengio proposes that deep learning algorithms “discover good representations” in data distributions\, I propose that this logic powerfully generates a politics of discovering good representations of a social distribution. Thus\, to deploy large language models (LLMs) or transformer models in the social world is never only to instrumentally bring a tool into use\, but rather it brings into being a specific political means of picturing and knowing the world. \n\n\nBiography \nLouise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching focuses on aspects of geopolitics\, technology and security. She is particularly interested in how contemporary forms of data and algorithmic analysis are changing the pursuit of state security and the idea of society. Her most recent book\, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others\, is published by Duke University Press in Spring 2020. Among her other published works on technology\, biometrics\, security\, and society\, her book\, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability (2013)examines the governance of low probability\, high consequence events\, and its far-reaching implications for society and democracy. Louise’s research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust\, ESRC\, EPSRC\, AHRC\, and NWO. She is appointed to the UK independent body responsible for the ethics of biometric and data-driven technologies. Louise is co-editor of the Journal Progress in Human Geography. \n\n\n\n\nMade possible through the support of the School of Graduate Studies\, the Applied AI Institute and the Milieux Institute at Concordia University. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-louise-amoore-lecture-on-machine-learning-politics/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-04-at-1.05.49-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230421T192341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T192656Z UID:5552-1684486800-1684512000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:DisinfoGames: Analog Game Jam DESCRIPTION:The Concordia University’s Disinformation and Games Research Project invites all members to join their upcoming analog game jam\, DisinfoGames!\nEvent Description\nThis is a 2-day event taking place on Friday May 19th and Friday May 26th from 9-4pm. Participants will work in teams to create analog games around the theme of media disinformation. Through this creation process\, we will identify current issues around the subject and reflect on the particularities of games as a site for–or tool against–false content. \nOur game jam focuses on making analog\, tabletop games (card\, board\, role playing games). Even if you’ve never made a game before\, no worries! We’ll walk you through the process\, the idea is to have fun\, get creative and learn by making. We will provide all necessary supplies (crafting material\, dice\, tokens\, etc.) and food and drinks will also be provided. \n→ This is a free event and open to participants of absolutely all levels. \n→ To sign up\, email disinfogames@gmail.com. \nEvent location: Concordia University\, ER Building\, 6th floor\, 2155 Rue Guy\, Montreal \nEvent Schedule:\nMay 19th \n9-10: Research presentation\n10-12: Making teams\, brainstorming in groups\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Conceptualizing and prototyping games \nMay 26th \n9-12: Working on games\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Playtesting games URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disinfogames-analog-game-jam/ LOCATION:Concordia University – ER Building\, 2155 Rue Guy\, 6th floor\, Montreal CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DisinfoJam.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230523T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230523T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230220T234726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T154637Z UID:4989-1684832400-1684861200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:(un)Stable Diffusions Symposium DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is happy to invite everyone to join this two-day international symposium on AI’s publics\, publicities\, and publicizations\, happening from May 23-24 online and in-person at the Milieux Institute. \nAbout (un)Stable Diffusions\n21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled\, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists\, startup founders and global companies to policy makers\, journalists\, and civil society. For some\, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems\, which in turn will change how we live\, communicate\, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality\, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes\, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible\, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. \nOur symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom and Canada\, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s  media representations\, policy framings\, and scientific debates. Crucially\, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI\, including practice-based research or research-creation. \nCheck the full programming here\nRegister for in-person and online attendance here\nWhen? May 23-24\, 9am to 5 pm. \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11705)\, Concordia University. \n*Free to the public \nLocal organizers include Meaghan Wester\, Sophie Toupin\, Jonathan Roberge\, Fenwick McKelvey\, Maurice Jones\, and Guillaume Dandurand. \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/unstable-diffusions-symposium/ CATEGORIES:Symposium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/usd-web1-2048x1024-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230523T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230523T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230220T234726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T154637Z UID:4989-1684832400-1684861200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:(un)Stable Diffusions Symposium DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is happy to invite everyone to join this two-day international symposium on AI’s publics\, publicities\, and publicizations\, happening from May 23-24 online and in-person at the Milieux Institute. \nAbout (un)Stable Diffusions\n21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled\, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists\, startup founders and global companies to policy makers\, journalists\, and civil society. For some\, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems\, which in turn will change how we live\, communicate\, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality\, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes\, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible\, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. \nOur symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom and Canada\, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s  media representations\, policy framings\, and scientific debates. Crucially\, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI\, including practice-based research or research-creation. \nCheck the full programming here\nRegister for in-person and online attendance here\nWhen? May 23-24\, 9am to 5 pm. \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11705)\, Concordia University. \n*Free to the public \nLocal organizers include Meaghan Wester\, Sophie Toupin\, Jonathan Roberge\, Fenwick McKelvey\, Maurice Jones\, and Guillaume Dandurand. \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/unstable-diffusions-symposium/ CATEGORIES:Symposium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/usd-web1-2048x1024-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230421T192341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T192656Z UID:5552-1684486800-1684512000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:DisinfoGames: Analog Game Jam DESCRIPTION:The Concordia University’s Disinformation and Games Research Project invites all members to join their upcoming analog game jam\, DisinfoGames!\nEvent Description\nThis is a 2-day event taking place on Friday May 19th and Friday May 26th from 9-4pm. Participants will work in teams to create analog games around the theme of media disinformation. Through this creation process\, we will identify current issues around the subject and reflect on the particularities of games as a site for–or tool against–false content. \nOur game jam focuses on making analog\, tabletop games (card\, board\, role playing games). Even if you’ve never made a game before\, no worries! We’ll walk you through the process\, the idea is to have fun\, get creative and learn by making. We will provide all necessary supplies (crafting material\, dice\, tokens\, etc.) and food and drinks will also be provided. \n→ This is a free event and open to participants of absolutely all levels. \n→ To sign up\, email disinfogames@gmail.com. \nEvent location: Concordia University\, ER Building\, 6th floor\, 2155 Rue Guy\, Montreal \nEvent Schedule:\nMay 19th \n9-10: Research presentation\n10-12: Making teams\, brainstorming in groups\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Conceptualizing and prototyping games \nMay 26th \n9-12: Working on games\n12-1pm: Catered lunch\n1-4pm: Playtesting games URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disinfogames-analog-game-jam/ LOCATION:Concordia University – ER Building\, 2155 Rue Guy\, 6th floor\, Montreal CATEGORIES:Game - Maker Jam ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DisinfoJam.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T133000 DTSTAMP:20260502T052142 CREATED:20230515T160918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T161049Z UID:5683-1685102400-1685107800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to invite ALL Milieux members to meet in-person at the Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) for lunch and a chat for our Annual General Meeting! \nWe will be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2021-2022). 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! \nWhen? Friday\, May 26th\, 2023\, from 12:00 to 13:30 \nWhere? Milieux Institute Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nMark your calendars\, and see you there! URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/img3.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR