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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/
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SUMMARY:Arts Pessimism and the Role of Dance in Time of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation investigating the potential of choreographic thinking for an understanding of systems of relations. Dr. Susan Leigh Foster\, Dr. André Lepecki\, Dr. Erin Manning\, Dr. Jens R. Giersdorf\, Lilia Mestre\, and Dr. Angélique Willkie will discuss how dance and choreography can function as mediating forces within social and political structures. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nDr. Susan Leigh Foster\, choreographer and scholar\, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She is author of Reading Dancing\, Choreographing Narrative\, Dances that Describe Themselves\, Choreographing Empathy\, and\, most recently\, Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. André Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies\, curatorial practice\, performance theory\, contemporary dance and visual arts performance. Selected curatorial work includes Chief Curator of the festival IN TRANSIT (2008 and 2009 editions) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin. Co-curator of the archive Dance and Visual Arts since 1960s for the exhibition MOVE: choreographing you\, Hayward Gallery (2010). Curator of the lecture series Points of Convergence: performance and visual arts (2014) and Off-Hinge Off Center: alternative histories of performance\, for the Museum of Modern Art of Warsaw (2014 and 2015). Also for MoMA-Warsaw he curated the series Performance in the Museum (2015). He also curated the project “The Future of Disappearance” for Sydney Biennial 2016\, and co-curated with Adrian Heathfield the symposium Afterlives of Performance\, at FiAFF and MoMA 2015. \nIn 2008 he received the AICA Award for Best Performance as co-curator and director of the authorized re-doing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (commissioned by Haus der Kunst\, Munich 2006; presented at Performa 07). \nSelected lectures include Museo Reina Sofia\, MoMA-NY\, Museu de Arte Moderna\, Rio\, MACBA\, Para Site\, Hong Kong\, Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin\, WIELS\, The Gauss Seminars at Princeton University\, Freie Universität\, Berlin\, Brown University\, UC-Berkeley\, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro\, École Superiore des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, Paris. In 2009 he was Resident Fellow at Institute Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie Universität\, Berlin. In 2015 he was Artistic Professor at Stockholm University of the Arts\, where he helped develop the research profile area on Concept and Composition. \nHe is the editor of the anthologies Points of Convergence: alternative views on performance (MoMA-Warsaw and Chicago Univ. Press 2016\, with Marta Dziewanska)\, Dance (Whitechapel\, 2012)\, Planes of Composition: dance\, theory and the global (Seagull press\, 2009\, with Jenn Joy)\, The Senses in Performance (Routledge 2007\, with Sally Banes)\, and Of the Presence of the Body (Wesleyan University Press\, 2004). His single authored books are Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (Routledge 2006)\, currently translated in 13 languages\, and Singularities: dance in the age of performance (Routledge 2016). \n  \nDr. Erin Manning studies in the interstices of philosophy\, aesthetics and politics\, concerned\, always\, about alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. Pedagogical experiments are central to her work\, some of which occur at Concordia University in Montreal where she is a research chair in Speculative Pragmatism\, Art and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Recent monographs include The Minor Gesture (Duke 2016)\, For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020) and Out of the Clear (forthcoming\, minor compositions). Her artwork is textile-based and relationally-oriented\, often participatory. She is interested in the detail of material complexity\, in what reveals itself to perception sideways\, in the quality of a textural engagement with life. Her work often plays synesthetically with touch\, of recent in acknowledgement and experimentation with the ProTactile movement for DeafBlind culture and language. Tactile propositions include large-scale hangings produced with a diversity of tools including tufting\, hooking\, knotting\, weaving. 3e is the main direction her current research takes – an exploration of the transversality of the three ecologies\, the social\, the environmental and the conceptual (3ecologies.org). An iteration of 3e is a land-based project north of Montreal where living and learning is experimented. Legacies of SenseLab infuse the project\, particularly the question of how collectivity is crafted in a more-than human encounter with worlds in the making. \n  \nABOUT THE MODERATORS: \n  \nDr. Jens Richard Giersdorf is an international dance scholar whose research focuses on choreographies of politics in a global context as well as epistemological concerns in dance studies. He received a Magister Theater\, Dance and Music Theater Studies from the University of Leipzig\, Germany\, and a Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory from the University of California\, Riverside\, USA. He taught at the University of Surrey\, UK\, Marymount Manhattan College\, and the University of California\, Riverside\, both USA. His writing has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals as well as translated and anthologized internationally. Giersdorf is regularly invited by key national and international institutions to speak on his work. His monograph The Body of the People: East Germany Dance since 1945 (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2013) is the first study on dance in East Germany\, it was named “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2013 by Choice magazine. The German translation Volkseigene Körper: Ostdeutscher Tanz seit 1945 (transcript Verlag\, 2014) was supported by the Swedish Lilian Karina Foundation. Giersdorf edited Choreographies of 21st Century Wars (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series\, Oxford University Press\, 2016) in co-authorship with Gay Morris and the third edition of the Routledge Dance Studies Reader (2019) with Yutian Wong. In his professional affiliations\, Giersdorf is a member of Dance Studies Association\, where he also served as the Vice President for Publication and Research and the International Federation of Theater Research. \n  \nLília Mestre (she\, her) is a performing artist\, dramaturge and researcher working in collaborative formats mainly in the fields of contemporary dance and choreography. She is interested in forms of organisation created by and for artistic practice as alternative study processes for social-political reflection. She has been working on the concept of ‘artificial friendship’ which has been the source for the creation of methodological structures (scores) for exchange and collaboration in artistic research settings\, which have been documented in various publications. She was artistic coordinator of a.pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels and is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and Co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She was granted the The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2023 for her research on expanded choreography “Through Materialities\, Movement and Description”. \n  \nA multidisciplinary artist\, Angélique Willkie began her dance training after completing a Master’s degree in Economics at McGill University. A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre\, she subsequently pursued a career in Europe where\, over 25 years\, she performed with dance companies and independent projects throughout Europe\, most notably Alain Platel/Les Ballets C. de la B.\, Jan Lauwers/Needcompany\, Sidi LarbiCherkaoui\, Helena Waldmann and as a singer with the Belgian world-music group Zap Mama\, bands Arno\, dEUS\, 7Dub\, DAAU\, Ez3kiel\, and Zita Swoon Group\, with jazz vocalist David Linx and contemporary composers Walter Hus\, Kaat De Windt and Fabrizio Cassol. \nPerformer\, singer\, dramaturge and pedagogue\, Angélique has been among the more sought-after contemporary technique teachers on the European professional circuit\, teaching companies\, schools and festivals including ImpulsTanz (Vienna)\, Henny Jurriens Stichting(Amsterdam)\, SEAD (Salzburg)\, Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez (Brussels)\,Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Montreal) among others. \nSince resettling in Montreal in 2014\, Angélique has continued to be active in Montreal’s professional community as teacher\, creator and dramaturge. Her current research interests have three main axes: approaches to interdisciplinary artistic creation (i.e. that sits“between” disciplinary boundaries); European circus aesthetics and dramaturgy; and the notion of a personal dramaturgy\, inspired by the trajectories of performer Josephine Baker and French transgender circus artist Phia Ménard. An underlying interest in her work remains the use of the voice as a creative tool and performance instrument. \n  \n🗓 September  25\, 2025\n🕒 2-4 PM\n📍4TH SPACE \n🔗 Join this event online.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/arts-pessimism-and-the-role-of-dance-in-time-of-crisis/
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SUMMARY:LOVE & LOSS - Nostalgia Symposium and Research Creation Showcase
DESCRIPTION:🗓: February 4\, 2025\n🕒: 10:00 – 5:30 PM\n📍: 4TH SPACE \n🎟️: In-person tickets (Spots are limited) \n🔗 Join online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \n  \nJoin us on February 14th for NOSTAGAIN NETWORK third symposium: “LOVE & LOSS”\, a day-long symposium and research creation showcase featuring works by students\, scholars\, and artists! \nCome to feel\, explore and reimagine nostalgia not as mere reminiscence\, but as a powerful tool for understanding our collective past and reimagining our future. Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s concept of “creative nostalgia”(2021)\, this event brings together students\, scholars\, and artists to probe the complex emotional landscapes of remembering and forgetting. \nThe NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN symposium is a student-led symposium that explores creative nostalgia through panel discussions and workshops from experts in the arts and sciences. \n  \nPROGRAM:\n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nHere is a recap of last year’s edition : Time in a Bottle” \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/love-loss-nostalgia-symposium-and-research-creation-showcase/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:2025 Indigenous Futures Research Centre Annual Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) for their third annual symposium at 4TH SPACE. The 2-day Research Symposium will feature meaningful discussions centred around Indigenous perspectives\, methodologies\, and research practices that actively engage Indigenous knowledge systems and communities. \nJoin us as we spark dialogues between faculty and students from across Concordia University\, shedding light on current challenges and exploring connected and constructive visions for the future. \nPROGRAM:\nDAY 1 : Thursday\, January 23\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM Opening Remarks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOhen:ton Karihwatéhkwen by Prof. Hannah Claus \n1:15 PM Indigenous Art Histories: More than Fluff and Feathers \nRodrigo D’Alcantara\, Dayna Danger\, and Victoria May \nModerated by Dr. Michelle McGeough \nThe title of this panel is based on an exhibition and text written by the late Kanien’kehá:ka scholar Dr. Deborah Doxtator. Doxtator’s exhibition and text Fluffs and Feathers: An Exhibit on the Symbols of Indianness offered a critique of the ways Indigenous people are portrayed in popular culture. While the exhibition occurred in the 1990s\, many of these notions of “Indianness” remain a part of the non-Indigenous imagination. These stereotypes are not benign but reveal the violence of settler colonialism.  This panel presents the work of three emerging scholars whose research and praxis speaks to the impact of settler colonialism but centers Indigenous concerns and ideas regarding possible futurities. \n\n2:30 PM Where the Waters Flow: Networks and Tributaries \n\n\n\nPresented by the Concordia University Research Chair in Onkwehonwené:ha \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJess Teionshontàhthe Beauvais\, Armando Cuspinera\, and Martín Rodríguez \nModerated by Prof. Hannah Claus \nThis panel brings together three of the Research Assistants who are currently working with the panel moderator and visual artist\, Hannah Claus\, on her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council project: where the waters flow. Each will talk about their role in the project and how it connects to their own varied practices in theatre\, ceramics and sound art/performance. Claus frames their contributions within a methodology built out of the Two Row Wampum\, Tékeni Teiohá:te\, within which the relationship between the non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples of this territory is upheld by peace\, respect and friendship. \n3:45 PM Weaving Culturally-Grounded Visual identities \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Roundtable Presented by Abundant Intelligences \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTarcisio Cataldi\, Julia Fortin\, Kimiora Whaanga\, and Renee Waiwiri \nModerated by Prof. Jason Edward Lewis \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Abundant Intelligences research program re-imagines how to conceptualize\, design\, develop and deploy Artificial Intelligence based on Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Brought together to discuss the collaborative and labour-intensive design process behind the creation of the program’s visual identity are AbInt designers Renee Waiwiri\, Tarcisio Cataldi\, Kimiora Whaanga and Julia Fortin.  \n\n\n\n\n  \nDAY 2: Friday\, January 24\n11:00 AM Indigenous Knowledges in Interdisciplinary Design \nIako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers\, Dr. Mel Lefebvre\, Dr. Miranda Smitheram \nModerated by Prof. Jason Edward Lewis \nThis panel brings together Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers\, Dr. Mel Lefebvre\, and Dr. Miranda Smitheram to discuss the integration of Indigenous methodologies into contemporary design practices. Through visual storytelling\, skin marking\, and material innovation\, their respective practices explore how ancestral and contemporary methods can create sustainable and relational futures. \n12:45 PM Wampum as Pedagogy \n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Prof. Nicolas Renaud \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a new course on wampum belts\, the experience that unfolded for both students and professor provided lessons in pedagogical approaches that blend theory and material practice\, and make space for Indigenous ways of knowing. This presentation showcases the students’ final wampum projects and draws questions and observations from the process. It reflects on intercultural exchanges in the classroom; boundaries around a culturally specific tradition; inclusion of a creative component in a non-art class; channeling personal narratives; and realizing that a subject can “teach itself”.  \n\n1:15 PM Ways of Knowing and Un-learning in First Peoples Studies Program \n\n\n\n\nDalia Beaudry\, Lena Palacios\, Bailey Parkinson\, and Zephyriah Roberts \nModerated by Prof. Nicolas Renaud \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStudents in the BA program in First Peoples Studies at Concordia are led to explore Indigenous contemporary realities\, culturally and politically\, and to deconstruct dominant settler epistemologies. Four students will present research they have done in recent FPST courses\, contributing significant insight on a range of topics\, such as language revitalization\, decolonial archival practices in filmmaking\, issues of identity definition\, and recording cultural heritage in communities.  \n2:30 PM Indigenoous Cyberspace and Rez Futures \n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by AbTeC Gallery \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDestiny Chescappio and Morgan Zoe \nModerated by Skawennati \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis two-part panel will begin with a conversation on the development of AbTeC Gallery: an Indigenously determined virtual exhibition space for contemporary art\, located on AbTeC Island in Second Life\, featuring artist and founder Skawennati\, who will discuss the process of transmediating art and exhibition-making in cyberspace.  \nThe second part of this presentation will have Skawennati moderating a conversation between Naskapi artist Destiny Chescappio from Kawawachikamach (QC) and Tłı̨chǫ artist Morgan Zoe from Behchokǫ̀ (NWT) whose recent works consider the imagining Indigenous reservations (Rez) in the future\, addressing concepts of resilience\, sovereignty and technology.  \n4:00 PM Community in the Centre: Indigenous  Ways of Doing Research \n\n\n\n\nPresented by the Office of Community Engagement \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuliet Mackie\, Christine Qillasiq Lussier\, Victoria May\, Véronique Picard\,\nIako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers\, and Harriet Ransom  \nModerated by Geneviève Sioui \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Community-engaged learning fund for Indigenous students (CELFIS) recognizes Indigenous knowledge and methodologies as important contributions to academic knowledge and supports Indigenous students in anchoring their work in Indigenous communities. This panel brings together this year’s recipients: Métis multidisciplinary Artist Juliet Mackie\, Inuk Oral Historian Christine Qillasiq Lussier\, Red-River Métis-Michif Dance Scholar Victoria May\, Wendat PhD candidate Véronique Picard\, Seneca designer\, pedagogue and multi-media artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers and Kanien:keha’ka educator Harriet Tsiawenion Ransom.  \n5:00 PM Reception at SHIFT \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n📅: January 23-24\, 2025 | 1-5 PM \n📍: 4TH SPACE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2025-indigenous-futures-research-centre-annual-symposium/
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SUMMARY:The Crip/Mad Archive Dances: Embodied Histories
DESCRIPTION: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? \nThis 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 performance gifts\, archival footage from dance archives\, environmental embedment and grounding in trees\, water\, desert and lakes. Together\, we dance\, and spring our binds. Petra’s Q&A opens up using various creative methods to approach archival finds. \nPlease note: This experimental documentary shares instances of medical incarceration including insulin violence. It offers survivor testimonies of artful and agency-full reclamation. The film is fully subtitled in English. The documentary uses ‘crip’ and ‘mad’ as in-group signifiers\, aware of stigma and histories. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She grounds herself in disability culture methods\, and uses somatics\, performance\, media work\, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is the award-winning Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (UoMinnesota Press\, 2022\, open access). Her fourth poetry collection\, Diver Beneath the Street\, uses a psychogeographic lens to investigate true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil\, bringing together life and death (Wayne State University Press\, 2024). \nShe teaches at the University of Michigan\, was a 2022 Dance/USA Fellow\, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently at work on Planting Disabled Futures\, a virtual reality/community performance project\, as a Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellow (2024-2026). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: November 4\, 2024 | 10:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m \n📍: 4TH Space \n🔗 To participate online you can register on Zoom or watch live on YouTube. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-crip-mad-archive-dances-embodied-histories/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening
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SUMMARY:17 Stations: An Interactive Exhibition and Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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 natural resources like oceans and forests. \n1 – No Poverty \n2 – Zero Hunger \n3 – Good Health and Well-Being \n4 – Quality Education \n5 – Gender Equality \n6 – Clean Water and Sanitation \n7 – Affordable and Clean Energy \n8 – Decent work and Economic Growth \n9 – Industry\, Innovation and Infrastructure \n10 – Reduced Inequalities \n11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities \n12 – Responsible Consumption and Production \n13 – Climate Action \n14 – Life Below Water \n15 – Life on Land \n16 – Peace\, Justice and Strong Institutions \n17 – Partnerships for the goals \n  \nWhat if those SDGs were turned into a sensorial experience?\nThat’s what the 17 Stations project is all about! \nThe 17 Stations is an experimental audio-visual experience that presents the SDGs through music\, commentary\, photography\, local stories and cutting-edge science. \n\nInitiated by Professor Baron Tymas\, member of the Next-Generation Cities Institute\, the project brought together more than 30 Concordia University creatives minds across various disciplines\, including the Milieux Institute and\, more specifically\, the Storytelling Studio. \n\nJoin us for the launch of this unique and innovative experience followed by a roundtable discussion with members of the team at 4 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n  \n  \n: April 16\, 2024 | 10 – 6 p.m \n: 4TH Space\, 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W \n🌐 The discussion will also be available online via Zoom.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/17-stations-an-interactive-exhibition-and-discussion/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk
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SUMMARY:Playing with AI Ethics: Networking\, Directions\, Ideas\, and Approaches
DESCRIPTION:How do we ethically engage with AI? \nJoin 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. \nFrom policies to personal preferences\, we have seen AI take hold in the lives of educators and their students\, with varying support systems to deal with it. We’re inviting you to a networking event focused on sharing and discussing how people are ethically using AI in our own practice and the practice of learners. Drop in over the course of three hours and listen to live interviews with stakeholders\, play a game teaching about it\, and share your thoughts and approaches. Together\, through play and conversation\, we can see the practices of others and consider what steps need to be taken. \nSupported with funds from OBVIA and led by Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson. \nRegister for one of the two events by following the links below: \nFebruary 6\, 2024 12pm – 3pm (Register here) \nFebruary 16\, 2024 2pm to 5pm (Register here)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/playing-with-ai-ethics-networking-directions-ideas-and-approaches/2024-02-16/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Playing with AI Ethics: Networking\, Directions\, Ideas\, and Approaches
DESCRIPTION:How do we ethically engage with AI? \nJoin 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. \nFrom policies to personal preferences\, we have seen AI take hold in the lives of educators and their students\, with varying support systems to deal with it. We’re inviting you to a networking event focused on sharing and discussing how people are ethically using AI in our own practice and the practice of learners. Drop in over the course of three hours and listen to live interviews with stakeholders\, play a game teaching about it\, and share your thoughts and approaches. Together\, through play and conversation\, we can see the practices of others and consider what steps need to be taken. \nSupported with funds from OBVIA and led by Scott DeJong and Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson. \nRegister for one of the two events by following the links below: \nFebruary 6\, 2024 12pm – 3pm (Register here) \nFebruary 16\, 2024 2pm to 5pm (Register here)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/playing-with-ai-ethics-networking-directions-ideas-and-approaches/2024-02-06/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T153000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Archiving the Internet Commons: How activists are fighting the privatization of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin 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”. \nThe 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 is disappearing. A group of activist archivists are changing this. Archive Team are collecting and tending to massive amounts of cultural and digital history created over the past 40 years. Controversially\, they largely disregard individual ownership and corporate property rights in favour of moving materials into open\, freely accessible internet archives. Their priority is to create a record of the internet\, and in the process\, they provide some of the keys to fighting privatisation of the internet commons. By looking at how Archive Team works\, through both interviews and participant observation\, we can ensure that the Internet as a commons continues to provide information and knowledge to everyone. \nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023\nTime: 3:00 – 3:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-archiving-the-internet-commons-how-activists-are-fighting-the-privatization-of-the-internet/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T150000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:[Video Game Activity] Gentrification: The Story
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin us in-person for a workshop/video game activity with PhD student Christian Scott! \nPaying 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 making tool Twine was used to observe and trace the networks of online misleading content. The second\, takes this data and offers an interactive narrative adventure game that is seeped in analogy and metaphor around disinformation networks. \nThrough images\, a “mystical” codebook breaking down the narrative\, and a playable adventure\, this exhibit shows the use of play-based practices in studying and relaying disinformation research. It raises questions around the power of narrative and analogy in creating online movements\, as well as visualizes the deeply networked and convoluted dynamics of online misleading content. \n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023 Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM Location: Concordia University 4TH Space
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-game-activity-gentrification-the-story/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T120000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:[Student-led Session] Reactive Graphene Oxide Residency
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin 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. \nParticipants: \nJacqueline Beaumont (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Yiwen Chen (Materials Engineering\, McGill) Jacob Landry (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Philippe Vandal (Design & Computation Arts\, Concordia) Nima Zakeri (Materials Engineering\, McGill) \n\n\n\nSummary of the residency: \n\n\n\nAt the crossroads of Design and Material Science\, this research-creation project brings together scientists and artists to develop reactive membranes and objects using Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is a layered carbon-based nanomaterial derived from the oxidation and exfoliation of graphite\, which can also be synthesized from thermal treatment of organic waste. Spanning multiple spatial\, technical\, artistic\, and philosophical dimensions\, the project addresses crucial questions at the core of current research in materials science and design: up to which point can materials mimic nature and become ‘alive’\, changing themselves based on external stimuli? What happens when materials and humans interact? Can the interaction between materials and the environment help improve our own environment? Envisioned as a new generation of active materials for technological applications\, the built environment and the arts\, the structures developed in this project also aim to develop novel methods for arts and science collaboration and engage publics in a broader reflection on material futures and human’s shifting relationship with its environment in a context of ecological crisis. \nThe co-creation process of this residency involves the presentation of a documentary film\, in-situ prototyping\, and ongoing video documentation of the work. \n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, September 28th\, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Concordia University 4TH Space and online To learn more about the residency go here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/student-led-session-residency/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T160000
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SUMMARY:[Panel] Textiles and Materiality Collaborative Project ChainStitch
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nJoin 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 and tacit knowledge is braided from the materiality itself\, like how a chain-stitch is decorative and utilitarian. Chainstitch entangles community dialogue and tactile emotional connections as living epistemes\, not only as common cloth\, but fragments of shared imaginations. \nDate: Wednesday\, September 27th\, 2023 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM Location: Concordia 4TH Space and Online! This event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-textiles-and-materiality-collaborative-project-chainstitch/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230927T133000
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SUMMARY:IFRC x daphne beads: perler/parler
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nAs 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 Project Manager Linda Grussani\, this conversation with members of daphne aims at bringing together Indigenous scholars and art practitioners to discuss pressing issues around questions surrounding the promotion and protection of Indigenous arts. \ndaphne beads: perler/parler is a weekly virtual beading night held in the great tradition of gathering around a kitchen table to bead and talk with other daphne members. \nIn-person guests are invited to bring their beading projects and join the table for discussion. \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-x-daphne-beads-perler-parler/
LOCATION:4th Space
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T133000
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SUMMARY:[Talk] An Island is more than a Park: Stories on the eve of an eviction
DESCRIPTION: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 history concerning National or Provincial Parks as a form of conservation\, Île-Sainte-Thérèse offers its own story\, albeit a fragmented one involving multiple actors\, each with a claim to the island’s landscape and heritage. \nFor this presentation\, graduate students affiliated with Montreal waterways and the Concordia Ethnography Lab Maya Lamothe Katrapani\, Melina Campos Ortiz\, and Amrita Gurung\, will share and engage with ethnographic methods and imagery\, along with the collective process of bringing these fragmented pieces together\, not in a way that is definitive\, fixed\, or complete\, but rather to demonstrate how these fragments move\, and move us\, when telling the story of an island. \nDate: Tuesday\, September 26th\, 2023\nTime: 12:00 – 13:00 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n\nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-an-island-is-more-than-a-park-stories-on-the-eve-of-an-eviction/
LOCATION:4th Space
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T110000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:Dwell Time: Virtual/Augmented Reality activation with Puneet Jain
DESCRIPTION:Come join PhD student Puneet Jain to experience his virtual reality piece Dwell Time.  \nDrawing 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.\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 10:00 – 11:00 AM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space\n \nThe experience lasts between 10 and 12 minutes. To reserve your place\, send us an email to ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dwell-time-virtual-augmented-reality-activation/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T173000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:[Gaming Session] Activating Games
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDate: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space.\nThe Rabbit Hole – Scott de Jong (2:30 – 3:30 pm) Online disinformation has been likened to a game\, and this project did so by turning research on Canadian disinformation into a playable fantasy game. Paying homage to the narrative adventure genre\, this project uses its design structures and play to portray the research networks studied and provides an analogy and metaphor to the academic work conducted. Titled\, The Rabbit Hole this project uses play to study and discuss how disinformation creates networks online. With a “mystical” codebook to break down the narrative\, this exhibit shows the use of play-based practices in studying and relaying disinformation research. It raises questions around the power of narrative and analogy in creating online movements\, as well as ways to visualize the deeply networked and convoluted dynamics of online misleading content. \nIn Our Garden – Hanine El Mir (3:30 – 4:30 pm) In Our Garden is a collaborative and cooperative board game in which players plant crops and maintain their gardens in order to feed their communities over the span of one year. Once a year has passed\, the players may decide to expand on their individual soil plots\, start a community garden\, get a fridge\, or participate in a farmers’ market. In Our Garden‘s playtime is based on growing times in seasonal farming calendars but scaled down for game optimisation. Players get an individual soil bed in which they plant seed cards\, water them\, and give them energy to help them grow. The main goal of the game is for players to achieve food security in their community. There are goal/quest cards to achieve that\, such as “plant seasonally-available fruits\,” “plant 3 heads of garlic” and “plant only root vegetables for the next 3 turns.” \nUNDERSCORE – Owen Hellum (4:30 – 5:30 pm) UNDERSCORE is an experimental narrative game project that utilises environmental exploration\, advanced non-linear dialogue\, and multimedia to reflect on ideas of both alienation and kinship. Through engagement with many entities across three different acts\, the player has the chance to explore concepts of shared suffering\, understanding\, and joy. UNDERSCORE is an emotional work\, pulling on personal experiences and thoughts in regards to shared feelings and shared hopes. The work was created in an attempt to explore concepts of choice and narrative through various academic definitions and classifications of game design. Through these novel approaches to classic narrative and game design scenarios (e.g. false choice\, dilemma\, delayed effect\, etc.)\, a new approach is taken to the concepts of collective emotion and individual catharsis. This dense intertwining of both puzzle and story allow the game to effectively communicate its concepts of collectiveness. The game was developed over the course of 3 weeks\, and has undergone playtesting refinement. This event is open to all. Join us in-person at 4th Space!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gaming-session-activating-games-with-scott-de-jong-hanine-el-mir-and-owen-hellum/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T140000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Geese\, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nGeese\, Sheep and GP-AI: Notes on the Coming Commons talk by Bart Simon and Fenwick Mckelvey. \nAbout the talk \nToo 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 for the good of the sheep to the benefit of the humans (the players of these games). Our talk rethinks the commons\, what was and what should be a critical concern for digital cultural studies. The Commons\, we argue\, must be understood as both a specific mode of existence and time (in Ireland for one) lost somewhat to history and with a emphasis on property. Recent investment in an AI commons\, problematic as that may be\, allows us to describe a Commons that must come — a commons built around the shared relations between humans and machines compelled to participate by late capitalism but holding hopes of different ways of being. \nDate: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 1:00 – 2:00 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n  \nThis event is open to all. Join us in-person or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4th Space’s YouTube channel!\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-geese-sheep-and-gp-ai-notes-on-the-coming-commons/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T123000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:The Commons\, Opening
DESCRIPTION:⟵  Back to programming \nYou 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\, Cecilia Mckinnon\, and Puneet Jain. \nCoffee and treats will be offered. Come celebrate with us as we inaugurate this week-long exhibition! \n\nOpening Date: Monday\, September 25th\, 2023\nTime: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM\nLocation: Concordia University 4TH Space and online via Zoom.\n\nAbout The Commons\n \nThe Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology is proud to announce its end-of-year exhibition\, The Commons\, to take place from September 25th to the 29th at Concordia University 4TH Space and Concordia’s Video Production Studio (EV 10.760). \nThough named an exhibition\, The Commons will embody the essence of a forum. A week of dynamic programming invites visitors to discover the projects of Milieux artists and researchers and to engage in communal activities and interdisciplinary experiments\, reflecting the shared ethos of the theme. This exhibition will run concurrently with a residency of scientists and artists from Concordia and McGill university working on research-creation at the interface of Design and Material Science. \nThe exhibition/forum/residency represents the latest in a series of major shows organized by the Institute\, following the 2022’s show In the Middle\, a Chimera. By partnering with Concordia University 4TH Space\, The Commons aspires to create a public platform\, engaging audiences with the richness of the Institute while sparking critical dialogues and collaborations at the juncture of arts and technology. Curated by a team of graduate students from various disciplines\, The Commons’ curatorial approach mirrors the Institute’s spirit of interdisciplinarity and horizontal collaboration\, cultivating a space where both emerging and established voices can converse meaningfully around the concept of the commons. \nThe Commons centers on an exploration of shared resources and spaces\, accessible to all members of a community or society. The exhibition aims to explore the many aspects of The Commons\, demonstrating its potential as a source of creativity\, collaboration\, and social change. Through various lenses\, including the natural commons (land\, water\, air) and the ways they are conserved; the cultural commons (knowledge\, art\, literature) and how they are fostered; as well as innovative shared spaces for research and art-making (open-source software\, emerging technologies\,  and collaborative practices)\, the exhibition will explore challenges and opportunities in constructing and sustaining a commons\, with an emphasis on governance\, inclusivity\, and collective action. \n\nCheck out the Programming to get an overview of the engaging events and experiences that The Commons exhibition will offer and discover the featured artists and researchers.  \nWe hope you can join us in celebrating the inauguration of The Commons and discover the remarkable work of our student and faculty members!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-commons-opening/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Vernissage
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T180000
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SUMMARY:"The Commons" Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: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 of “The Commons”. \nThe theme “The Commons” encourages exploration of shared resources and spaces that are accessible to all members of a community or society. This concept has been interpreted through a range of creative and research practices by our contributors. The exhibition hopes to delve into the many facets of The Commons\, illustrating its potential as a catalyst for creativity\, collaboration and social change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey themes woven throughout the exhibition’s works include our relationship with machines\, the intersections of technology\, ecology\, and human existence\, recent developments in artificial intelligence and collective creation\, a critical examination of the internet as a digital commons\, and the dynamics of access to public spaces. Additional themes encompass the use of craft as a tool for commoning\, sustainable crafts\, embodied virtual experiences\, exploration of urban narratives and systemic issues\, and inquiries regarding inclusion and accessibility. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe mediums used in these projects are diverse\, encompassing digital and analog games\, interactive installations\, multimedia and multi-channel video installations\, sound installations\, textile art\, VR experiences\, photography\, and documentary film. \nMark your calendars and join us to celebrate the year-end exhibition “The Commons” at the 4th Concordia Space from September 25-29\, 2023. Stay tuned for upcoming details on featured artists and researchers!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-commons-exhibition/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230711T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230713T180000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:Digital Intimacies Pop-up Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nInspired by Lauren Berlant’s attestation that “the kinds of connections that impact people\, and on which they depend for living (if not ‘a life’)\, do not always respect the predictable forms\,” Digital Intimacies seeks to understand how intimacy could be conceptualized and creatively explored differently than “predictable forms” (Berlant 1998\, 284). \nWhen? July 11-13\, 2023 (10am – 6pm daily) \nWhere? 4th Space\, SGW Campus (Room LB-103 @ 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-intimacies-pop-up-exhibition/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230411T170000
DTSTAMP:20260606T174003
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SUMMARY:Moving the Landscape to Find Ground with Zinnia Naqvi
DESCRIPTION:Post Image presents lens-based artist and Concordia alumni Zinnia Naqvi\, in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground\, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze. When? April 11th at 4PM \nWhere? In-person at 4th Space and online via Zoom. *Please register to attend onlive here. \n**Registration for in-person attendance is not required.Zinnia Naqvi (she/her) is a lens-based artist working in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work examines issues of colonialism\, cultural translation\, language\, and gender through the use of photography\, video\, the written word\, and archival material. Recent projects have included archival and re-staged images\, experimental documentary films\, video installations\, graphic design\, and elaborate still-lives. Her artworks often invite the viewer to consider the position of the artist and the spectator\, as well as analyze the complex social dynamics that unfold in front of the camera.Naqvi’s work has been shown across Canada and internationally. She is a 2022 Fall Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence and recipient of the 2019 New Generation Photography Award organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Naqvi received a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. She is currently a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University.Our programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre\, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office and daphne. This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council\, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Concordia University’s OVPRGS. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/moving-the-landscape-to-find-ground-with-zinnia-naqvi/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:The Future of Communication with ChatGPT: Promises and Perils
DESCRIPTION:Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate\, learn\, and interact with one another. In response\, it’s important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. \nTo this end\, the Digital Intimacies\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute\, is organizing a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick Mckelvey. Join us to hear from experts and participate in discussions about the pedagogical\, ethical\, social\, and political implications of this technology. \nRefreshments and childcare provided! \nWhen? February 20\, 2023\, from 4-5:30 PM \nWhere? 4TH Space and online. \nRegister here\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-future-of-communication-with-chatgpt-promises-and-perils/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Talk
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