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SUMMARY:Workshop in the Performance Lab
DESCRIPTION:For those of you that have been wanting to learn a bit more about how to work with the tech equipment in the Performance Lab\, this workshop is for you!\n\nWe will be looking at the light board\, the audio mixer\, and how to use these with some of the software that is accessible on the iMac computer in your work in the Performance Lab. The first section of the workshop introduces participants to the gear and equipment\, and the second half\, we’ll experiment and play around together!\n\nPlease feel free to bring any audio and/or video contents that you would like to experiment with.\nThe same workshop format will be given on both two dates (April 22 &May 7)\n\nNo need for a sign up\, just show up!\n\n\n📅 April 22\n⏱️ 5-7 PM\n📍 Performance lab EV 10.785
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SUMMARY:[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit\, power\, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \n \nAI is often presented in extremes\, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone\, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs\, democracy\, or even human life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI\, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? \nDrawing on her co-authored book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (open access\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan)\, Regine Paul argues that today’s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt\, but about profit imperatives and political choices. \nAI technologies are developed and deployed within pre-existing economic structures\, largely reinforcing inequalities between industries\, workers\, and countries rather than fundamentally transforming them away. \nThe main focus of this talk is on how long-standing insights from critical and global political economy can help us expose the complex interactions (1) of political institutions and agency\, (2) speculative tech narratives\, (3) the imperative of geopolitical tech races\, and (4) globe-spanning forms of domination and exploitation in shaping articulations of AI transformations\, in the plural\, on the ground as well as what connects these into one more global transformation\, in the singular\, across time and space. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nRegine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway\, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on “Technology and Statehood”. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)\, as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (2026)\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 23\, 2026 \n 12–1:30 PM \n Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend online\, please register here to receive the registration link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-ai-matrix-a-critical-political-economy-reading-of-the-profit-power-and-politics-behind-global-ai-transformations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Ghostly Image\, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \n Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n\nThis workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs\, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice\, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing\, lifting\, folding\, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper\, cardboard\, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood\, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition. \n\nParticipants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film\, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process.\n  \n                                                   \n  \nABOUT CASPER SUTTON-FOSMAN:\n  \n\nCasper Sutton-Fosman is a curator\, artist and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, also known as Montreal. Their work engages with queer and disabled relationships to lens-based art and image capture technology\, moving through complex temporalities and webs of connection. They hold an MFA from OCAD University and are a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University.\n\n  \n  \n\n April 23\, 2026 \n 1 – 4 PM \n MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
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