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SUMMARY:The Disco Elysium Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on May 9th for a roundtable discussion on Disco Elysium with Dr. Carl Therrien\, Dr. Mia Consalvo\, Nathanaël Roussy\, and Elizabeth Eraña. Dark play\, detective stories\, and the inner reaches and turmoils of the human mind are all on the table for this discussion! Attendees are encouraged to play Disco Elysium ahead of time and are welcome to contribute to the QA/Open Discussion portion of the event following the main roundtable. \n  \n🗓 May 9 \, 2025 \n⏱️ 3 – 4:30 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-disco-elysium-roundtable/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Roundtable
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SUMMARY:Abstracted! - How to write a Conference Proposal
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 14th from 1-2pm join Machine Agencies for Abstracted! a virtual workshop on how to write the perfect conference proposal.\nDuring this workshop\, Aurélie Petit will guide participants on how to best craft their abstract/proposals to submit to academic conferences and CFPs. This event will be completely virtual.\n.\n\n.\nABOUT AURÉLIE PETIT:\nAurélie Petit is a PhD Candidate in the Film Studies department at Concordia University\, Montréal. She specializes in the intersection of technology and animation\, with a focus on gender and sexuality. Her thesis examines the role that U.S.-based Japanese animation online communities played in shaping toxic technocultures on social media. During the Summer 2023\, she was a PhD Intern at Microsoft Research where she worked on the limits of applying live-action governance frameworks to animated pornographic media. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the AI + Society Initiative (University of Ottawa)\, working with Professor Jason Millar and the CRAiEDL on the ethics of Generative AI pornography. Her research has been published in English and French in various publications\, including Porn Studies\, Internet Histories\, and Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication.\n.\n.\nMachine Agencies Description\nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse.\n\n.\n.\n.\n\n🗓 May 14\, 2025\n⏱️ 1-2 PM\n📍Online:  https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/82703421271
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/abstracted-how-to-write-a-conference-proposal/
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SUMMARY:LUDODROME
DESCRIPTION:Let’s get together! Everyone is busy but it’s time to renew connections – to share what we’ve been making\, and to hang out together. \nLUDODROME proposes to bring together an inspiring collection of 40 experimental games in the SAT’s downstairs space on May 15th for an evening of conversation and PLAY. \nWhile Montréal has a solid ecosystem to support games as an industry (MIGS\, La Guilde\, Zone Indie\, etc.) we are missing venues that highlight games for their artistic\, innovative and critical approaches (whether commercial or not). In 2018 the Mount-Royal Games Society closed its doors after almost eight years of inspiring meet-ups\, and FLOP suspended its activities in 2020. Since then\, other than a small number of art game exhibitions such as the one organized by Sporobole in 2022\, there have been a (very) few opportunities to celebrate experimental games. What happened to the energy? What’s happening with experimental games now in Montreal? What even are experimental games now? \nWe want to find exciting games wherever they can be found – solo work\, indie and artists’ studio work\, and\, of course\, university research-creation initiatives; local games that beat with the experimental impulse\, that explore new\, wonderful\, and eccentric mechanics\, narratives\, aesthetics and formats. \nSchedule: \n\n13h – 18h: Come play our games!\n18h – 23h: Evening expo (with cash bar service / refreshments)\n\n  \nThis event is open to ALL and FREE! \n  \n🗓 May 15\, 2025\n⏱️ 1-11 PM\n📍SAT\, 1201\, Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\n🎟️  Reserve your spot here\n\n\nThis event is supported by Hexagram Research Centre (Concordia)\, the Behaviour Interactive Research Chair in Game Design (Concordia)\, the Chaire de Recherche en Économie Créative et mieux-être FRQSC (Axe créativiténumérique\, NAD-UQAC) and Milieux (Concordia).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/10390/
LOCATION:SAT
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival,Game - Maker Jam
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions: Ruminations on Plurality
DESCRIPTION:Embodied Interventions\, LePARC’s signature event\, is coming back for its 6th edition on May 17 & 18!  \nCurated by Esteban Donoso and Michele Fiedler\, this year’s program\, titled Ruminations on Plurality\, will consist of a series of exchanges\, workshops and performances where participants can act as an intruder’s eye on each other’s proposals in order to signal towards questions\, concerns and opacities and to provide different perspectives. We will approach performance through ruminating\, as in deploying repetitive ways of relating to our environments and processing information. By attending to the plurality of identities that dwell within our hybrid bodies\, we aim to get in touch with movements and voices that display multiple influences.  \n​ \nOn May 17 and May 18\, public presentations of these processes will be shown at 4 different venues around the downtown Concordia University campus. These presentations are free\, and open to the public. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOPS: \nHannah Schallert – “Improvisation and Creation Workshop: Talking and Moving With Animation Software” \n \nThis workshop will introduce participants to a methodology for improvisation and choreographic creation inspired by the movement concepts and tools of computer animation software. Drawing on close embodied study and iterative group discussion\, we will attend to the language and imagery of specific video excerpts from online software tutorials and interviews with animators as the jumping off point for generating choreographic gestures\, phrases\, and states. The workshop will include small group exploration as well as collective sharing and discussion of our experiences and findings.\n\nThis workshop requires you to sign up in advance by emailing hannah.schallert@gmail.com\nMore information about the workshop can be found here.\n.\n.\n.\nAybüke Özel + Yuki Kéké Tam – “Gestures of Care Workshop”\nOur workshop has two parts: discussion and movement. We will start with a common gesture of care—the sharing of food. While participants snack and drink tea\, we will begin by discussing care and its meanings. What does it look like? Is it big or small or in-between? What does it mean to each of us\, personally? We will investigate the definition\, spectrum\, limitations\, and embodied gestures of care we all carry through conversation. While theoretical language and ideas are encouraged\, this is meant to establish camaraderie\, comfort\, and trust between participants. The second part of this workshop will be movement-based. Participants will be led in bodily explorations rooted in vocabularies of dance and the everyday.\n  \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n🗓May 17-18\, 2025\n📍Video Production Studio\, LePARC Performance Lab\, Black Box\, Mini Box\n  \n 
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