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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
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SUMMARY:Data Justice Hub Skills Development Webinar With Imani Jacqueline Brown
DESCRIPTION:The Data Justice Hub invites you to a webinar with artist\, activist\, and architechtural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown: Unraveling Industry: Mapping Oil and Gas Infrastructure to Demand Reparations \nUnraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by company\, supporting local and global demands for corporate accountability and “ecological reparations”. It maps and archives the corporate-colonial guidelines along the continuum of extractivism\, which spans from colonialism and slavery to fossil fuel production\, coastal erosion and climate change. The platform uses a methodology that Brown calls “cartographic unraveling” to disentangle and analyze cartographic lines and points representing antebellum property lines\, as well as permits for oil and gas pipelines\, canals\, and wells––terrestrial inscriptions that make geographies\, unmake communities\, and break Earth’s geologies. Brown notes that\, since 1926\, oil and gas companies have dredged 10\,000 linear miles of canals to drill and access over 90\,000 wells throughout the Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. These wells connect to a region known to industry as the “Petrochemical Corridor\,” formerlly called “Plantation Country\,” and nicknamed “Cancer Alley” by its residents. There\, the nation’s most polluting petrochemical plants and refineries occupy the footprints of former plantations alongside majority-Black communities descended from people historically enslaved on those same grounds. Ultimately\, maps\, data\, histories\, mythologies\, and geographies are archived in an interactive platform that reveals the corporate authors of extractivism and points toward a horizon of justice.\nRegister here\nImani Jacqueline Brown is an artist\, activist\, and architectural researcher from New Orleans\, USA\, based in London. Her work investigates extractive environmental and economic systems to expose the layers of violence and resistance that comprise the foundations of settler-colonial society and imagine paths to ecological reparations. Brown is currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary\, University of London\, a research fellow with Forensic Architecture\, and an associate lecturer in MA Architecture at the Royal College of Art. She received her MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths\, University of London in 2019.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/data-justice-hub-skills-development-webinar/
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SUMMARY:The River’s Threads | Au fil du Saint-Laurent
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thurday\, June 15 to Sunday\, June 18\, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM outside the Maison Nivard-De Saint-Dizier archaeological museum for our community stitch research and creation project – family friendly\, fun\, and free!\n\n\nThe River’s Threads | Au fil du Saint-Laurent is a community stitch project that integrates cyanotype\, eco-printing\, and natural dye in a large River-inspired textile into which people are invited to embroider their engagement with our magnificent waterway. A person can sit and contribute to the project for as little or as long as they like\, converse or not\, and embroider either sketched-out motifs or words that relate to the River life or free form elements of the their own choosing. \nOriented to sustainability\, upcycling\, and biodegradability\, The River’s Threads uses only natural materials (linen\, cotton\, silk)\, much of it upcycled\, and integrates plants as collaborators: their bodies create imprints and offer chemistry that beautifully tints plant-based cloth. We hope the artwork will be impressive when it is complete; we are delighted that eventually it will fully rot back into the landscape with no chemical residue or plastic remainders. \nA second aspect of this collaborative work is a short audio-recorded interview\, which gives participants the opportunity to discuss their experience of stitching and their connection to and wishes for the St. Lawrence. \nA third aspect is some interactive water science – demos from our collaborators of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières offering things to touch\, colours to consider\, and an overview of the work they do to determine water quality. \nFor more information: kathleen.vaughan@Concordia.ca \nProject website: https://learningwiththestlawrence.ca/projects/rivers-threads/ \nFacebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/231574176176282/231576192842747/?active_tab=about
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-rivers-threads-au-fil-du-saint-laurent/
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SUMMARY:[Info Session] Milieux Expo: The Commons
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to invite all members (faculty and students alike!) to an online info session dedicated to our upcoming annual exhibition\, which will be held from September 25 to 29\, 2023\, at Concordia’s 4th Space! This session will serve as an open platform to discuss and clarify the theme\, guidelines\, submission processes\, and any other queries you might have about the exhibition. \nGood news for those working on their submissions! We have extended the deadline for submitting your research and research-creation work until July 1st\, 2023. We hope this gives you additional time to develop your individual or collective proposals. Remember that we’re open to all kinds of submissions\, whether you’re into visual art\, audio projects\, performances\, presentations\, text-based work\, or even something entirely different! We hope to see you there! \nGET THE ZOOM LINK \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/info-session-milieux-expo-the-commons/
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP!\nWhat? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations \nWhen? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \nWe are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO\, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative approach to understand and imagine human-machine relations\, and takes the event of NAO’s visit to Montreal as an occasion to grasp this machinic being through their everyday rituals.  \nAs part of our residency we are hosting a workshop series focused on social imagination and (re)defining the relationships we humans have with machines. In these workshops we will search for alternatives to the typical human-machine narratives of consumption of exploitation\, and find ways to make them real. To guide this search we will be centering the notion of the ritual not only as a method for understanding the day-by-day reinforcement of existing relationships\, but also as a way of making space for (re)conceiving new relations/interactions\, a way of inhabiting a liminal space in which we can be creatively (and critically) thinking through ‘things’. \nAs a participant you will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the robot\, and design interactions\, moments\, and experiences with NAO. Furthermore you will engage with broader questions that NAO personifies—about robots\, machines and social imaginaries—with a set of hands-on making/doing activities. Throughout the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘zine that documents our discussions and creations. \nThe workshop is designed to take you on a journey through human-machine relations. The plan is to meet three times in the last week of June\, and explore these questions through multiple approaches. We strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions if possible\, so that you can participate at every stage of research-creation. However\, if you can’t come to all three we still welcome you to join us for whichever sessions you are able to attend! \nTentative Schedule\nDay 1 : theoretical intro; introducing NAO \nDay 2 : conceptual development; brainstorming; interactions \nDay 3 : making session; co-producing zine \nYou do not need to have technical skills in order to participate in this workshop. Ultimately this is an exercise in imagination and creativity. \n>>>REGISTRATION LINK<<<\n \nSee you there! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participants-workshop-ritualizing-human-nao-relations/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP!\nWhat? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations \nWhen? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \nWe are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO\, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative approach to understand and imagine human-machine relations\, and takes the event of NAO’s visit to Montreal as an occasion to grasp this machinic being through their everyday rituals.  \nAs part of our residency we are hosting a workshop series focused on social imagination and (re)defining the relationships we humans have with machines. In these workshops we will search for alternatives to the typical human-machine narratives of consumption of exploitation\, and find ways to make them real. To guide this search we will be centering the notion of the ritual not only as a method for understanding the day-by-day reinforcement of existing relationships\, but also as a way of making space for (re)conceiving new relations/interactions\, a way of inhabiting a liminal space in which we can be creatively (and critically) thinking through ‘things’. \nAs a participant you will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the robot\, and design interactions\, moments\, and experiences with NAO. Furthermore you will engage with broader questions that NAO personifies—about robots\, machines and social imaginaries—with a set of hands-on making/doing activities. Throughout the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘zine that documents our discussions and creations. \nThe workshop is designed to take you on a journey through human-machine relations. The plan is to meet three times in the last week of June\, and explore these questions through multiple approaches. We strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions if possible\, so that you can participate at every stage of research-creation. However\, if you can’t come to all three we still welcome you to join us for whichever sessions you are able to attend! \nTentative Schedule\nDay 1 : theoretical intro; introducing NAO \nDay 2 : conceptual development; brainstorming; interactions \nDay 3 : making session; co-producing zine \nYou do not need to have technical skills in order to participate in this workshop. Ultimately this is an exercise in imagination and creativity. \n>>>REGISTRATION LINK<<<\n \nSee you there! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participants-workshop-ritualizing-human-nao-relations/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[Call for Participants] Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN-MACHINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS? WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US IN A RESEARCH-CREATION WORKSHOP!\nWhat? Workshop: Ritualizing Human-NAO Relations \nWhen? June 28-29 (17:30hs-20:30hs) \nWhere? Milieux Institute\, Concordia University \nWe are a trio of research-creators conducting a “robot residency” with NAO\, a humanoid robot. The residency takes a critical and creative approach to understand and imagine human-machine relations\, and takes the event of NAO’s visit to Montreal as an occasion to grasp this machinic being through their everyday rituals.  \nAs part of our residency we are hosting a workshop series focused on social imagination and (re)defining the relationships we humans have with machines. In these workshops we will search for alternatives to the typical human-machine narratives of consumption of exploitation\, and find ways to make them real. To guide this search we will be centering the notion of the ritual not only as a method for understanding the day-by-day reinforcement of existing relationships\, but also as a way of making space for (re)conceiving new relations/interactions\, a way of inhabiting a liminal space in which we can be creatively (and critically) thinking through ‘things’. \nAs a participant you will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the robot\, and design interactions\, moments\, and experiences with NAO. Furthermore you will engage with broader questions that NAO personifies—about robots\, machines and social imaginaries—with a set of hands-on making/doing activities. Throughout the workshop we will collectively produce a ‘zine that documents our discussions and creations. \nThe workshop is designed to take you on a journey through human-machine relations. The plan is to meet three times in the last week of June\, and explore these questions through multiple approaches. We strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions if possible\, so that you can participate at every stage of research-creation. However\, if you can’t come to all three we still welcome you to join us for whichever sessions you are able to attend! \nTentative Schedule\nDay 1 : theoretical intro; introducing NAO \nDay 2 : conceptual development; brainstorming; interactions \nDay 3 : making session; co-producing zine \nYou do not need to have technical skills in order to participate in this workshop. Ultimately this is an exercise in imagination and creativity. \n>>>REGISTRATION LINK<<<\n \nSee you there! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-participants-workshop-ritualizing-human-nao-relations/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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