⟵ 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 […]
⟵ 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 […]
⟵ 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 […]
⟵ 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 […]
⟵ 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
⟵ Back to programming Geese, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons talk by Bart Simon and Fenwick Mckelvey. About the talk Too often discussions of the Commons seen like a game of Settlers of Catan. All the talk centers on an idealization of the land as a resource to own or not own seemingly […]
⟵ Back to programming You are cordially invited to join us for The Commons opening ceremony, featuring a welcome by Indigenous Edler (TBC), and remarks by Concordia's President and Vice-Chancellor, Graham Carr, VP Research and Graduate Studies, Dominique Bérubé, Director of Milieux, Bart Simon, and the graduate student curators behind this remarkable exhibition Hanss Lujan Torres, […]
The Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang is delighted to invite you to our annual members’ exhibition. This event will unfold from September 25 - 29, 2023, at Concordia’s 4th Space. This year, our diverse community of students and faculty members will present their research and research-creation works through the thematic lens […]
The Research-Creation Collective (RCC) is a collaborative project involving members of the DIGS lab and Feminist Media Studio, Concordia University. This year the RCC has co-curated Digital Intimacies, an exhibition exploring the impacts of digitization on our understanding of intimacy through diverse research creation projects. Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s attestation that “the kinds of connections […]