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SUMMARY:Stream Evil Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:After captivating a bigger audience than normal when you accidentally kill the wrong character on stream\, you discover an opportune strategy to grow your following: play EVIL to appeal to a wider audience. \nStream Evil is a research-creation project funded by SSHRC and the mLab that investigates tandem play: playing single-player games with multiple people. Research into tandem play shows that players often make different choices\, take bigger risks\, and/or lean into spectacle when playing together. Consequently\, Stream Evil is a game developed to explore how audience feedback can shape moral decision-making during gameplay. \nThe team\, Josh Spatzner\, Jules Maier-Zucchino\, Justin Roberts\, Mia Consalvo\, and Beck de Heuvel\, have been working on this project for two years and are excited to finally share it with fellow TAG members! \nPlease join us for a launch party in which we will finally publish the game and have it available for members at TAG to play it. \n  \n  January 16\, 2026 \n 3:30 PM \nMilieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stream-evil-launch-party/
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SUMMARY:Seeds\, Samplers and Schedules: An Introduction to Image Generation
DESCRIPTION:In Machine Agencies’s first skill share of the school year\, new media artist and Machine Agencies member\, Rowena Chadkowski\, will move beyond the hype of AI Image generation to think about what it means to create “AI Art”. \nThroughout the workshop\, participants will gain hands-on experience using the Stable Diffusion model with the Automatic1111 interface to experiment with the ways seeds\, samplers and schedules shape the image generation process.\nThis introductory workshop is perfect for those who are curious as to how AI models can be used to explore new possibilities in artistic creation.\n \nTo participate please bring your personal laptop!  \n  \n🗓 September  26\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/seeds-samplers-and-schedules-an-introduction-to-image-generation/
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SUMMARY:Sampling with AudioStellar: New Frontiers in Music and Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies and Kamyar Karimi for an Introduction to AudioStellar workshop to discover how this AI-powered experimental sampler transforms your audio samples into an interactive\, real-time visual and sonic experience. Learn to load your own dataset and extract the features/turn to samples\, navigate the latent space\, and integrate machine learning concepts into live performance and sequencing. \n🚨 To participate\, make sure you come with : \n\nYour own laptop\nA sample pack with at least 20 minutes of sound\nAudioStellar installed from audiostellar.xyz\n\n  \nABOUT KAMYAR KARIMI: \nKamyar ‘Noak’ Karimi is a digital storyteller who believes that within the dynamic human global network\, the interwebs of human stories are recursively retold within different media. His perspective on storytelling is reflected in his diverse career\, which spans roles as a programmer\, game designer\, and sound designer. In his work\, Karimi primarily uses code and sound to explore and expand the possibilities of storytelling in the realm of new media. This multi-disciplinary approach enables him to weave intricate narratives that resonate across various platforms\, underpinning his philosophy that stories are a universal medium\, continually evolving and reshaping themselves in the digital age. \n  \n  \n📅 March 21\, 2025 | 12-1:30 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sampling-with-audiostellar-new-frontiers-in-music-and-machine-learning/
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SUMMARY:Chatting with Ollama - Build your own AI Bot
DESCRIPTION:join Machine Agencies‘s Gen AI Studio for a creative workshop: Chatting with Ollama – Build your own AI Bot!\n\nFrançois Lespinasse will be showing us how to implement RAGs using Ollama\, a tool designed to simplify the process of running open-source large language models (LLMs) like Deepseek and Llama directly on your laptop.\nDuring this  brief workshop\, participants will implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that can do things like answer questions about a pdf etc.\n\n\n\nABOUT FRANÇOIS LESPINASSE:\n\nFrançois Lespinasse\, a transdisciplinary artist based in Montréal\, integrates his expertise in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) into his creative practice. He crafts human-computer interfaces (HCI) that blend procedurally generated musical\, visual\, and textual compositions\, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven creativity. His artistic endeavors are deeply informed by his research into the somatic states underpinning emotions and intersubjectivity. By incorporating biosignals into his work\, he creates immersive experiences that explore the convergence of brain-body dynamics and phenomenology\, offering a rich sensory symphony of visual\, auditory\, poetic\, and tactile stimuli. \nLespinasse develops immersive interfaces that weave intricate narratives of consciousness\, offering retrospectives on its evolution as a cultural construct and forecasting potential transhumanistic progressions. These artistic explorations serve as a medium for communicating complex ideas about the interplay between technology and consciousness\, inviting audiences to engage with these concepts on a visceral and experiential level. \nHis commitment to open-source learning and collaboration extends to his artistic practice\, as he shares his creative processes and insights through his Github portfolio\, fostering a community of artists and researchers working at the intersection of art\, science\, and technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n📅 March 14 \, 2025 | 12-1:30 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425\n🚨 To participate bring your own laptop and please download Ollama beforehand 👉 https://ollama.com/download
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/9809/
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SUMMARY:Exploring Audiovisual Narratives in Virtual Reality with Point Line Piano
DESCRIPTION:Join Post Image and the Immersive Storytelling Studio for an immersive workshop led by intermedia composer and pianist Jarosław Kapuściński. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nIn this workshop participants will delve into the VR project\, Point Line Piano. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore 18 different immersive environments\, each designed to redefine your experience of music\, visuals and gestural interaction. As participants create their own audiovisual flows\, we will discuss the principles behind the interactive architecture of each environment and their unique pathways. The focus will be on understanding the music-like narrativity of the project\, moving beyond traditional text-based frameworks to explore how audiovisual elements come together to tell a different kind of story. \nPoint Line Piano is a VR project that reimagines the composition\, performance\, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating\, playing\, and listening. As you interact with it\, your ears\, eyes\, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you\, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate\, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms\, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables a spatial and full-body experience of abstraction not found in any other medium. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument. \nMore about Point Line Piano. \n  \nABOUT JAROSŁAW KAPUŚCIŃSKI: \nJarosław Kapuściński is a Polish-born intermedia composer and pianist. He presented his works at numerous art and music venues worldwide\, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, the National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid\, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris\, National Arts Centre in Canada\, EMPAC\, ZKM\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has received awards at the UNESCO Film sur l’Art Festival in Paris\, the VideoArt Festival in Locarno\, and the International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in Montréal. Kapuściński has lectured internationally and is currently Associate Professor at Stanford University. \nhttps://jaroslawkapuscinski.com/ \n  \nCoauthors and collaborators on the project: \nMarc Downie and Paul Kaiser have collaborated as OpenEndedGroup since 2001. Working in a broad variety of media and venues:\, they make art for façade\, gallery\, dance\, stage\, 3D cinema\, print\, and virtual reality. Their works respond to a wide range of materials — drawing\, film\, motion capture\, photography\, music\, and architecture.  They frequently combine three signature elements: non-photorealistic 3D rendering; the incorporation of body movement by motion-capture and other means; and the autonomy of artworks directed or assisted by artificial intelligence. \nOpenEndedGroup’s films\, installations\, stage works\, and VR pieces have premiered in such venues as MoMA\, Lincoln Center\, the Barbican\, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, the Hayward Gallery\, Sadler’s Wells\, and the Berlin\, New York\, and Rome film festivals. Eight of their 3D digital films were the first of their kind to enter MoMA’s permanent collection. \nhttps://openendedgroup.com/ \n  \n🗓: March 3\, 2025\n🕒:  1-4 PM\n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \n🔗 Make sure to reserve your spot as capacity is limited!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/exploring-audiovisual-narratives-in-virtual-reality-with-point-line-piano/
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SUMMARY:Woven Futures: In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Armando Perla\, acting Co-Director and Chief Curator of the Textile Museum of Canada\, along with artist and independent curator Michaëlle Sergile and associate professor Miranda Smitheram\, in a conversation around textiles\, art\, fashion and cultural institutions. \nTextiles contain many stories. This session looks at the many stories and histories untold and misrepresented through colonial narratives\, as well as current practices that are actively rewriting histories and collaboratively imagining futures. \nThis event is organized as part of the Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Canada until March 2nd.  This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past seventy years. \nBefore the main event\, Textiles & Materiality cluster invites you to joinsWoven Stories\,  a panel discussion between led by PhD student Morris Fox. This session\, featuring members\, artists\, and PhD scholars will take place in the Milieux Learning Atelier prior to the main conversation. \nMore about Woven Stories\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nArmando Perla is a non-binary queer mestizo curator currently acting as Co-Director and Chief Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Previously\, Perla was Chief Curator for the City of Toronto\, and Vice-President of the Canadian Museums Association. \nThey also worked as an Assistant Professor on Decolonization and Race in the iSchool at the University of Toronto\, and served as International Advisor on Museums for the City of Medellin\, Colombia. In addition\, they were part of the founding team for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights\, and Project Leader for the Swedish Museum of Migration and Democracy. In 2021\, they were awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Fellowship. \n  \n  \nMichaëlle Sergile is an artist and independent curator working mainly on archives including texts and works from the postcolonial period from 1950 to today. Her artistic work aims to understand and rewrite the history of Black communities\, and more specifically of women\, or communities living in diverse intersections\, through weaving. Often perceived as a medium of craftsmanship and categorized as feminine\, the artist uses the lexicon of weaving to question the relationships of gender and race. \nShe has exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec\, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Off Biennale de Dakar. Her name was also on the long list of the prestigious Sobey Award for the Arts in 2022. In 2023\, she won Visual Artist of the Year at the Gala Dynastie and began a residency at the Darling Foundry. She exhibited her work at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the McCord Stewart Museum in 2024. \n  \nAssociate Professor Miranda Smitheram is an artist\, design researcher and educator. Miranda was raised within a bicultural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand\, and draws upon her Māori and settler-colonial heritage in her work. \nDeveloping new hybrid materials to contribute to sustainable\, relational and postcolonial futures\, she centres her approach on crafting with the environment. This is explored through digital\, physical and hybrid materialities. Miranda’s current research investigates ontologies of kinship\, contested places\, and decolonizing matter through research-creation\, by rematerializing invasive plant species and contaminants into soft surface\, biocomposite and textile applications. \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 6-7:30 PM \n📍: National Gallery of Canada\, Auditorium / Live-broadcasted into Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \n🔗 Zoom registration \nThe event will be held in English with simultaneous French interpretation. \n  \nOrganized in partnership with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology and the National Gallery of Canada. \n               \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/woven-futures-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Roundtable
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SUMMARY:[PANEL] Woven Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Textiles and Materiality Cluster at the Milieux Institute invites you to a 30-minute panel discussion and Q&A session exploring key themes from the National Gallery of Canada’s Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition. Join PhD scholars Victoria MacBeath\, Geneviève Moisan\, Fernanda Suarez\, and Morris Fox for a captivating conversation that will touch on: \n\nTextiles as material\, technique\, and subject\nUsing textiles to address socio-political change\nTextiles as communal acts of care\n\nThis discussion will not only delve into these themes through the panelists’ creative research practices but will also serve as a lead-in to the Woven Futures: In Conversation panel\, which will take place later in the evening.\nThis second panel\, hosted at the National Gallery of Canada and live-broadcasted into our space\, will feature a Q&A where members will have the opportunity to ask questions first to panelists\, Dr. Miranda Smitheram\, Armando Perla\, and Michaëlle Sergile. \n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nVictoria MacBeath is a PhD candidate in the department of art history at Concordia University in Montréal\, Canada. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research considers the intersections of care ethics and craft-making practices in 20th-century New Brunswick. In doing so\, it takes up questions of language politics\, settler and indigenous relations\, notions of folklore and heritage\, and the rural and urban divide. Her research interests include material culture\, craft\, Atlantic history\, gender and feminist studies\, and heritage.  \n  \n  \nGeneviève Moisan is a skilled Jacquard weaver with a strong technical background in textile construction\, printing\, and dyeing. As a PhD student in Art Education at Concordia University\, her research explores the transfer of textile knowledge in informal learning settings\, particularly in support groups for caregivers. She actively participates in diverse collaborative research projects\, including creating textile antennas for video communication\, Jacquard weaving\, soft circuit textiles\, and cultivating bacteria to develop sustainable fibre dyeing protocols. Genevieve works as an equipment support specialist at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, where she also teaches workshops on weaving and digital embroidery.   \nShe holds a BFA from UQAM\, an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University\, and a diploma in Higher Education Pedagogy. Since 2019\, she has been a part-time instructor in the Fibres and Material Practices program at Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in various venues\, including the Centre d’action culturelle de la MRC de Papineau\, as well as in Montreal\, Toronto\, Venice\, Paris\, and Oaxaca\, Mexico.  \n  \nFernanda Suarez is a visual artist with an MA in Communication and Social Change and a BFA\, currently a PhD candidate in the  Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD student at Concordia University. Her artistic practice is transdisciplinary\, deploying a situated approach to drawing\, textile\, text\, and craft techniques to address issues of gender\, subjectivity\, and collaboration. With an interest in the material implications of textile production from a feminist decolonial approach\, her practice explores memory and knowledge. Environment and technique are central to her processes as open forms of knowledge that come into meaning through relations.   \nHer research-creation project explores the experience of weaving together with Nahua indigenous and Mestiza women in the Nahua community of Cuacuila\, located in the Sierra Norte de Puebla in Mexico. By working together\, they have learned and retaken almost extinct techniques in this territory. Although having a complex relationship influenced by colonial legacies\, learning and creating together has allowed us to recognize each other and forge different bonds.  \n  \nMorris Fox is a settler-Canadian interdisciplinary visual artist and poet whose work explores the hauntings of our ecological and socio-political atmospheres through a queer and gothic ecological lens. Fox integrates writing and ecological motifs into poetry\, chainmaille soft sculptures\, crafted queer ephemera\, and digital video\, asking what it means to make worlds and conditions of liveability\, as queer possibility\, within ecological end times?  \nBased in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal)\, Morris is currently pursuing a PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University. He has exhibited artworks and programmed workshops and talks internationally\, including Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal)\, Tkaronto (Toronto)\, where he grew up\, the United States and Iceland. His work has notably been featured in various exhibitions such as Spring Awaits (Wick Gallery\, Minneapolis\, 2025)\, Cruise-ading (Webster Library\, Montréal\, 2024)\, Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic (Stoveworks\, Chattanooga TS\, 2023)\, My Gay Mediaeval Times (Spacemaker ii\, Toronto\, 2022)\, and Vestiges and Remains (Artcite Inc.\, Windsor\, 2022). He holds a BFA (Concordia U\, 2010) and a Low Residency MFA (School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, 2018).  \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 5-5:30 PM \n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \nMore information about Woven Futures: In conversation \n  \n               \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/panel-woven-stories/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Working with Ollama: Build AI RAGs on your own Laptop
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies‘s Gen AI Studio for the first of our monthly skill share meetings! \nFrançois Lespinasse will be showing us how to implement RAGs using Ollama\, a tool designed to simplify the process of running open-source large language models (LLMs) like Deepseek and Llama directly on your laptop. \nDuring our brief workshop\, participants will implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that can do things like answer questions about a pdf etc. \n  \nABOUT FRANÇOIS LESPINASSE: \n\nFrançois Lespinasse\, a transdisciplinary artist based in Montréal\, integrates his expertise in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) into his creative practice. He crafts human-computer interfaces (HCI) that blend procedurally generated musical\, visual\, and textual compositions\, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven creativity. His artistic endeavors are deeply informed by his research into the somatic states underpinning emotions and intersubjectivity. By incorporating biosignals into his work\, he creates immersive experiences that explore the convergence of brain-body dynamics and phenomenology\, offering a rich sensory symphony of visual\, auditory\, poetic\, and tactile stimuli. \nLespinasse develops immersive interfaces that weave intricate narratives of consciousness\, offering retrospectives on its evolution as a cultural construct and forecasting potential transhumanistic progressions. These artistic explorations serve as a medium for communicating complex ideas about the interplay between technology and consciousness\, inviting audiences to engage with these concepts on a visceral and experiential level. \n\nHis commitment to open-source learning and collaboration extends to his artistic practice\, as he shares his creative processes and insights through his Github portfolio\, fostering a community of artists and researchers working at the intersection of art\, science\, and technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n📅:February 7\, 2025 | 12-1 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425\n🚨 To participate bring your own laptop and please download Ollama beforehand 👉 https://ollama.com/download
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/working-with-ollama-build-ai-rags-on-your-own-laptop/
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CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Montreal Media History Seminar: ‘Written by Readers’: The 'Sunshine Dividends' of Junior Press Clubs
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media and Materiality Research Cluster for the first Montreal Media History Seminar of 2025. This talk will explore the history and significance of Junior Press Clubs in 20th-century newspapers\, examining how youth-driven media outlets shaped early youth journalism and the varying motivations behind their creation\, drawing insights from Gabriele and Moore’s book The Sunday Paper: A Media History (Illinois\, 2022). \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nBetween 1890 and 1990\, for the entire span of newspapers’ predominance of mass media\, a small but significant number of papers ran “junior press clubs.” These outlets expanded the typical weekend children’s page into fully-fledged more or less self-organized youth organizations. Junior Press Clubs had elected officers trained in the production of a weekly or daily school or youth publication. \nIn their book chapter on tabloid and poster supplements of The Sunday Paper (which we offer as background reading) Gabriele and Moore briefly spotlighted early bannered children’s pages and specially-sized ‘junior” journals as a matter of “fashioning the supplement for little hands” (pp. 71-79). Their new\, preliminary research into junior press clubs’ in later years demonstrates surprising variability and sporadic adoption; they did not become standardized or syndicated on a continental scale. Some were pitched as entertainment\, offering club members picnics\, free movies or trips to ball games. Some were relatively elaborate\, like the Los Angeles “Junior Times” Club’s weekly magazine\, entirely written\, illustrated\, edited and managed by a juvenile staff. The LA Times (1923) promised “sunshine dividends” for youth members\, including their own pressroom and club quarters. \nIn this early exploration of these and other cases\, Gabriele and Moore ask why a newspaper would undertake this extraordinary effort to facilitate entire “junior journals” (Minneapolis Journal 1898) that were “written by readers” (Hamilton Spectator\, 1902)? They will share a range of examples\, inviting Seminar participants’ further insights. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nSandra Gabriele is the Vice-Provost\, Innovation in Teaching & Learning and a Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She has published on changing historical news forms. She is currently researching student fluency in the language of employability and mindful self-compassion in the professional development of university teaching. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPaul Moore is professor of sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. His media histories of cinema exhibition in North America have focused on the relation between audiences and newspaper publicity\, appearing in Film History\, Canadian Journal of Film Studies\, and The Moving Image. He is currently writing an updated history of cinema in Canada. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: January 31\, 2025\n🕒: 3:00 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Learning Atelier\, EV 11.425\, Concordia University \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/montreal-media-history-seminar-written-by-readers-the-sunshine-dividends-of-junior-press-clubs/
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