This workshop aims to explore the senses, by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? We will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textiles and learn different methods […]
Presented by Manon De Pauw and Pierre-Marc Ouellette 1-4 p.m. - OPEN STUDIO4-5 p.m. - PERFORMANCE Kaleidoscopic Dances is an installation-performance project that puts forward a hybrid artistic form linking dance, performance, visual and media arts. The project is based on a historical research on Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet (1922), from which we examine the […]
The Hungarian artist/photographer/researcher/writer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ranks as one of the key visionaries of the 20th century. A central figure with the Bauhaus in Germany and then founder of the New Bauhaus in Chicago during the Second World War, Moholy-Nagy was a strong supporter of art and technology as factors of social progress. He deeply explored and experimented with the fundamental elements […]
Please join us for an open house throughout our two floors of cluster spaces, labs and workshops. Members and technicians will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate some of the incredible work that our Institute supports. WHERE: Milieux Institute, EV Building 10th and 11th floors. Come to EV 11.705 to […]
Every maker needs a sticker. Every pinball needs a decal. Come to #MilieuxMake to learn to make your own sticker or decal. You can even try an iron-on patch. Learn to simply print, or make your own design. Come with your laptop and install the Cameo Silhouette software, or simply wait in line […]
Inverse power of wavelengths - performative lecture is a cross-sectional survey on Alessandro Carboni’s performance practice methodology based on the relationship between body and the city. The performance illustrates a practice that has been developed over a long period of research in several European and Asian cities and mega-cities, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala […]
Dietmar Lupfer is co-founder and artistic director of the International Art and Culture Center Muffatwerk in Munich. He is responsible for an urban, future-oriented interdisciplinary program that brings together dance, performance, hybrid art and media art as well as work at the interface of art, technology and science. He conceives and curates art actions in public space, designs media art spaces […]
Project wrap-up, discussion and screening Seven intrepid Milieux faculty and students set out to modernize aMinecraft village in just 30 days. Along the way they discover theprinciples of Bauhaus architecture and the international style,discuss the relationship between logistics, rationalism and modernism, build a new conception of functionalist aesthetics, and develop a deep fear of the “creepers” […]
Led by Darian Stahl, Participatory Media Cluster In this artist’s book workshop, participants will learn about the intersecting histories of medicine and bookmaking, contemporary artists working in thisSelect an area to comment on medium, and then receive hands-on guidance in the creation of their very own artist’s book. This combination of fine art and book […]
The Power of the Spill is an audio-visual performance that works at the intersection of digital and imaginary technologies. Using live video feedback, creative coding and movement-choreography, it agitates the visible borders of objects and bodies and questions habitual divisions between life and matter. The piece starts with a video recording and movement-choreography done on site. This footage (and its constantly changing perspectives) is live-processed using pixelation-effects similar to white […]
Through their experimental and collaborative approach to art-making, the weavers of the Bauhaus transformed both the future of textiles and of abstract art. In this two-hour workshop, participants will have the opportunity to design and embroider their own 5" x 5" continuous line drawings and simple shapes using the digital thread placement machine in the […]
All Milieux members are invited for lunch and a chat on TUESDAY, OCT 22 from 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. We will discuss the upcoming milieuXbauhaus festival, congratulate the new Milieux Undergraduate Fellows, and we will also be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report. Please RSVP on Facebook if possible, so […]