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The Crip/Mad Archive Dances: Embodied Histories

4th Space

How do disabled and mad people survive, dance, insert their differences in a world full of stigma? How do we live through bodymindspirit experiences of alienation and pain? This experimental documentary charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of survival and creative expression. It draws on community with human and non-human others: media clips as […]

17 Stations: An Interactive Exhibition and Discussion

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by United Nations Member States outlines a collective vision for global peace and prosperity. Its core consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), urging both developed and developing nations to collaborate in addressing poverty, enhancing health and education, reducing inequality, fostering economic growth, combating climate change, and conserving […]

Playing with AI Ethics: Networking, Directions, Ideas, and Approaches

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How do we ethically engage with AI? Join Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson in 4th Space on February 6 (12pm - 3pm) and February 16 (2pm - 5pm) for a networking event series that explores this question. From policies to personal preferences, we have seen AI take hold in the lives of educators and […]

Playing with AI Ethics: Networking, Directions, Ideas, and Approaches

4th Space

How do we ethically engage with AI? Join Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson in 4th Space on February 6 (12pm - 3pm) and February 16 (2pm - 5pm) for a networking event series that explores this question. From policies to personal preferences, we have seen AI take hold in the lives of educators and […]

[Talk] Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet

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⟵  Back to programming Join us for a talk with graduate student Elena Rowan about her project "Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet". The Internet as a Commons is under threat. As the internet becomes increasingly privatised, the rights of individual users and communities to their data and creations […]

[Video Game Activity] Gentrification: The Story

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⟵  Back to programming Join us in-person for a workshop/video game activity with PhD student Christian Scott! Paying homage to the narrative adventure genre this project uses its design structures and play to portray the networks online disinformation in Canada. It provides two interrelated narrative research structures. The first, through still images, shows how the game […]

[Student-led Session] Reactive Graphene Oxide Residency

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⟵  Back to programming Join us for a panel discussion with Concordia and Mcgill students from the residency Reactive Graphene Oxide: New Materials and Collaborative Methods at the Interface of Design and Materials Engineering led by Alice Jarry and Marta Cerruti (Mcgill), who will discuss their collaborative project with us. Participants: Jacqueline Beaumont (Design & Computation […]

[Panel] Textiles and Materiality Collaborative Project ChainStitch

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⟵  Back to programming Join students from the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster for a discussion of their collective project ChainStitch. The project, programmed by Morris Fox, combines collective action with individual research-creation to form a multimodal assemblage, delving into shared and hybrid research threads. This collaboration is an act of speculative community reciprocity, where tactile […]

IFRC x daphne beads: perler/parler

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⟵  Back to programming As part of the Promoting and Protecting Arts web project (PPIA), the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) and the Indigenous artist-run centre daphne will host a conversation and open beading session in the style of daphne beads: perler/parler on Indigenous beading and cultural appropriation and appreciation of Indigenous arts. Moderated by PPIA […]

[Talk] An Island is more than a Park: Stories on the eve of an eviction

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In the fall of 2021 mayors from the Greater Montreal area officially announced a plan to develop île-Sainte-Thérèse (Sainte-Thérèse Island) into an Eco-Park. But the new park project comes at a cost of 50 family cottages that will be evicted from the island. While the proposed eco-park and impending eviction is reminiscent of a troubling […]

Dwell Time: Virtual/Augmented Reality activation with Puneet Jain

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Come join PhD student Puneet Jain to experience his virtual reality piece Dwell Time. Drawing on my close interventions with people with disabilities as a non-disabled Human-Computer Interaction researcher, building assistive technologies with (and for) disabled people, this work is a VR experience of a self-reflection (a scrapbook) on my morphing artistic and scientific practice. […]

[Gaming Session] Activating Games

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Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) students Scott De Jong, Hanine El Mir, and Owen Hellum will be presenting their games and hosting a participatory gaming session at The Commons exhibition. Date: Monday, September 25th, 2023 Time: 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM Location: Concordia University 4TH Space. The Rabbit Hole – Scott de Jong (2:30 – 3:30 pm) Online […]