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SUMMARY:Vectors of Visualization: Troubling the Politics of Seeing
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio to critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions\, engaging “Youth United Will Never Be Defeated” and your projects!\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more about the politics of looking\, join Transform co-investigator Dr. Carolina Cambre at the Vectors of Visualization workshop session. \nCome and engage critically with your own photos and the photos from the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition. Join us for refreshments and an interactive event where we will critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions by engaging the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition (part 1) and then engage our own projects and questions (part 2) through sharing and feedback. We will wrestle with discomfort and responsibility (of the viewer to the work and to the producers themselves) while attending to nuance\, complexity\, contradiction and possibility. \nWearing masks is welcomed. \n  \n  January 14\, 2026 \n 5:30-7:30 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vectors-of-visualization-troubling-the-politics-of-seeing/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Stream Evil Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:After captivating a bigger audience than normal when you accidentally kill the wrong character on stream\, you discover an opportune strategy to grow your following: play EVIL to appeal to a wider audience. \nStream Evil is a research-creation project funded by SSHRC and the mLab that investigates tandem play: playing single-player games with multiple people. Research into tandem play shows that players often make different choices\, take bigger risks\, and/or lean into spectacle when playing together. Consequently\, Stream Evil is a game developed to explore how audience feedback can shape moral decision-making during gameplay. \nThe team\, Josh Spatzner\, Jules Maier-Zucchino\, Justin Roberts\, Mia Consalvo\, and Beck de Heuvel\, have been working on this project for two years and are excited to finally share it with fellow TAG members! \nPlease join us for a launch party in which we will finally publish the game and have it available for members at TAG to play it. \n  \n  January 16\, 2026 \n 3:30 PM \nMilieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stream-evil-launch-party/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel
DESCRIPTION:(art)iculating worlds and Machine Agencies welcome Galit Ariel to discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-relatives and surrealities. \n  \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nGalit Ariel is a TechnoFuturist\, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures\, behaviours and interactions. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency\, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity\, Experience and Reality’ which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture\, body\, space and agency. \nHer academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology\, culture and body politics and imaginaries. She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology\, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program\, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists\, artists\, social scientists\, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning)\, and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog-150 principles for a new direction in tech). \nGalit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences\, agencies and institutions\, such as tD\, Bell Labs\, SXSW\, The European Union\, The Next Web\, Slush\, Fifteen Seconds\, FITC\, Pause Fest\, VRARA Global Summit\, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more. \n  \n\nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \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  January 22\, 2026 \n 2-3:30 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Reserve a spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-spacemaking-unrealities-of-imperfect-worlding-by-galit-ariel/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Living Room Revolutions: Black Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and '70s
DESCRIPTION:The Media History Research Centre is hosting its first talk of the year as part of the Media History Seminar Series with a presentation by Jennifer Lynn Stoever. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nQuiet as it’s been kept by music media and academia\, from its start Hip Hop was never solely or even predominantly a masculine art. For so many of hip hop’s originators in 1970s New York City\, it was the women in their lives who loved music\, collected vinyl records\, selected music to play at home and at house parties\, and taught their children how to listen widely across genres and deeply into the new musical worlds being spun around them. Through the revolutions of their living room turntables\, Bronx women used vinyl records as a form of sonic archiving\, worldmaking\, and radical mothering in the 1970s\, bringing revolutionary selves into being along with life-sustaining visions of Black and Brown-centered worlds for their children. The way they curated\, played\, and talked about music in everyday life taught their children to hear cultural connections and family history within the grooves of vinyl records; without question this deeply impacted hip hop’s emergence as a DJ art. In turn\, Black women left a still-audible material imprint on the sound itself: samples from their records have been used and re-used in hip hop songs\, a traceable sonic lineage. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Jennifer Lynn Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and founding Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press\, 2016).  She has published in Social Text\, Social Identities\, Sound Effects\, Modernist Cultures\, American Quarterly\, and Radical History Review among others\, including Oxford Handbooks in both Sound Art and Hip Hop Studies.  Stoever’s  book-in-progress\, Living Room Revolutions: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s\, is supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard Foundation fellowships. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMedia History Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre engaging with the historical development of media change and communication. The centre focuses on nascent\, yet robust subfields such as media archaeology\, variantology\, new materialism\, circulation theory\, and technology writing. Through their research projects and publications\, MHRC members have been celebrated for their innovative studies of many aspects of media history. \n  \n  January 22\, 2026 \n 4 -6 PM \nEV 2.776 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/living-room-revolutions-black-women-collecting-and-selecting-records-in-the-1960s-and-70s/
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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series : Tetris
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of 2026! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion. January’s film is Tetris (2023). \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nTetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. Directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink\, the film stars Taron Egerton\, Nikita Efremov\, Sofia Lebedeva\, and Anthony Boyle. The plot follows Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software\, who becomes interested in the game Tetris\, created by Alexey Pajitnov\, during an electronics show. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo\, he takes trips between Japan\, the United States\, and Russia to win legal battles over the game’s ownership. \n  \n  \n  January 28\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tetris/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:2026 IFRC Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Futures Research Centre’s (IFRC) annual research symposium returns January 29 and 30 at 4TH SPACE. Now in its fourth year\, this essential gathering brings together faculty\, students\, and alumni to share their work with the Concordia community through panels\, workshops\, performances\, and artist talks. \nGuided by the theme\, “Practicing the Future”\, this year’s symposium considers how Indigenous research and research-creation can actively shape the futures we envision.  It offers a moment to exchange ideas\, imagine new avenues\, and cultivate intergenerational and relational forms of knowledge-sharing. The symposium fosters community-building across disciplines\, creating a space where we not only imagine the future but intentionally practice it. \nDesigned to spark interdisciplinary exchanges and highlight current research\, this gathering reflects on the continued emergence and growth of Indigenous scholarship. It celebrates trailblazing accomplishments while foregrounding new and evolving perspectives on Indigenous methodologies. Now in its fourth iteration\, this symposium has become an essential event where IFRC faculty and student members alike share their work with one another and with the greater Concordia community. \n  \nSCHEDULE:\nThursday\, January 29:\n9:45 – 10 am: Welcome: Ohen:ton Kariwa’te’kwan by Prof. Hannah Claus\n10 – 11 am: Panel with Office of Community Engagement\n12 – 1 pm: Lunch break\n1 – 2:30 pm: Panel on First People Studies\n2:30 – 4 pm: Panel – Indigiqueer\n4 – 5 pm: Keynote with Suzanne Kite\n  \nFriday\, January 30:\n1 – 2:30 pm: Panel on Indigenous Pedagogy\n2:30 – 3 pm: Break\n3 – 5 pm: Workshop with Alicia Ibarra-Lemay and Natasha Blanchet-Cohen\n  \n  January 29-30\, 2026 \n4TH SPACE \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2026-ifrc-research-symposium/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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