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SUMMARY:FAccT at Milieux : An evening of AI events and programming
DESCRIPTION:This year\, the 9th annual ACM FAccT conference will be held in Montréal from June 25-28 at Le Centre Sheraton. \n\n\nOn Saturday 27\, Milieux Institute and Abundant Intelligences will host an off-site evening of AI events and programming. \n\n\n \n\n\n5-6 PM: Workshop\n\n\nFrom Formal Benchmarks to Street-Smart AI Certifications: Community-Grounded Approaches \n\n\nWho evaluates AI\, and how? Our workshop gathers interdisciplinary practitioners outside the traditional evaluation community to define and expand benchmarking and evaluation practices of AI from industry-defined performance measures to more participatory and interdisciplinary approaches that evaluate AI as systems\, in ways that are grounded\, multi-criteria\, dynamic\, holistic\, accessible\, and practical. \n\n  \n\n6-8 PM: Fenwick McKelvey’s Book Launch and Meet & Greet with Milieux and Abundant Intelligences\n \n\nJoin us from 6pm to 8pm to meet Abundant Intelligences and the Milieux Institute and celebrate the launch of Fenwick McKelvey’s book SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n \n\nHow computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem. \n\n\nFor more than six decades\, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics\, both nationally and internationally. In SimPolitics\, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s. He shows how programmers\, consultants\, academics\, political scientists\, and peace activists all worked—sometimes in tandem\, sometimes not—to build simulations to win campaigns\, predict coups\, forecast the future\, and render politics as legible as a spreadsheet. \n\n\nDrawing on novel archival and historical research\, McKelvey recounts the history of efforts to simulate politics by building models of elections\, voters\, and international relations. Comparing attempts in the United States to simulate domestic electoral politics and international affairs\, he reveals the unexamined connections and conflicts between the two projects. His book provides a helpful guide to taking stock of exaggerated claims that AI and technology will fix politics\, while presenting the long history of such promised technological fixes. \n\n  \n\nABOUT ACM FAccT: \n\n\nACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars from computer science\, law\, social sciences\, and humanities to investigate and tackle issues in this emerging area. Research challenges are not limited to technological solutions regarding potential bias\, but include the question of whether decisions should be outsourced to data- and code-driven computing systems. We particularly seek to evaluate technical solutions with respect to existing problems\, reflecting upon their benefits and risks; to address pivotal questions about economic incentive structures\, perverse implications\, distribution of power\, and redistribution of welfare; and to ground research on fairness\, accountability\, and transparency in existing legal requirements. \n\n  \n📅 June 27\n⏱️ 5 -8 PM\n📍 Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n\n\n  \n\n                
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/facct-at-milieux-an-evening-of-ai-events-and-programming/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reception
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SUMMARY:Interview Like a Journalist
DESCRIPTION:Interviews are one of the most valuable and versatile skills you can develop—whether you’re conducting interviews for your thesis\, you’re producing a documentary project\, you want to start a podcast\, or you’re looking to become a better conversationalist. \nDrawing on journalism techniques\, this practical workshop led by Milieux Storyteller Nadia Trudel will teach participants how to write questions\, build trust\, connect with subjects\, and ensure every interview is successful. Together\, the group will also explore best practices and ethical considerations in conducting and using interviews. While touching on a range of contexts\, the workshop approaches interviewing as an art form. \nRegardless of discipline or project\, participants will leave with concrete tools to refine their own interview style. \n  \n  \n May 27\n 10 AM -12 PM\n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n🎟️ Places are limited\, please reserve your spot by emailing Nadia at nadia.trudel@concordia.ca\n\n\n  \nABOUT NADIA TRUDEL: \nNadia Trudel is is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke based writer and editor. She’s written about culture\, music\, art\, fashion\, books\, and LGBTQ2S+ issues for outlets including CBC\, Dazed\, MTV News\, Polyester Magazine\, Xtra\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Milieux Institute\, Clash\, KOCCA Canada\, Cult MTL\, and the Montreal Review of Books. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in Headlights Anthology\, Soliloquies Anthology\, and Pixie Literary. Previously she was an editor at Phidal Publishing\, Yiara Magazine\, Lignes de Fuite\, and Scatterbrain Magazine. She holds a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at UQAM.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interview-like-a-journalist/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260520T140000
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Annual General Meeting on May 20th! \nCome enjoy some pizza while we showcase the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2024-2025). \n  \n May 20\, 2026\n12-2 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch-3/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception
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SUMMARY:How to Present Yourself and Your Artistic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Join Nadia Trudel for a 2-hour workshop on finding the words for your creative practice. \nCreating art is innate\, but how do you talk about it with committees\, curators\, or even your grandmother? Knowing how to effectively describe your artistic practice is an essential skillset for a professional artist. \nBy drawing on narrative tropes and archetypes\, this workshop will guide participants through the process of writing two key texts for promoting and sharing their work: the artist statement and the artist bio. Through an overview of examples\, group discussion\, and hands-on writing exercises and peer workshopping\, participants will draft accurate and dynamic artist bios and statements that capture their voices. \nPlease bring a variety of physical or digital examples of your work. \n  \n May 20\n 10 AM -12 PM\n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n🎟️ Places are limited\, please reserve your spot by emailing Nadia at nadia.trudel@concordia.ca\n\n\n\n\nABOUT NADIA TRUDEL:\n\nNadia Trudel is is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke based writer and editor. She’s written about culture\, music\, art\, fashion\, books\, and LGBTQ2S+ issues for outlets including CBC\, Dazed\, MTV News\, Polyester Magazine\, Xtra\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Milieux Institute\, Clash\, KOCCA Canada\, Cult MTL\, and the Montreal Review of Books. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in Headlights Anthology\, Soliloquies Anthology\, and Pixie Literary. Previously she was an editor at Phidal Publishing\, Yiara Magazine\, Lignes de Fuite\, and Scatterbrain Magazine. She holds a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at UQAM.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-to-present-yourself-and-your-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:What goes on in the kitchen of creative AI?: A conversation
DESCRIPTION:How does one cook an AI? \nWhat happens in the kitchen when one is preparing ingredients for different kinds of agencies? \nWhat does it mean to move beyond instrumentalism; and what does an interaction look like when its design comes from a place of joy\, curiosity\, and experimentation? \nWe invite the Montreal community of creatives and thinkers who are interested in questions of machine agency\, design process\, and interactivity to join in on this event where they can share the details and experiences of working with machines—in their wonky\, restless\, and still delicious encounters. \nThis event is presented as part of Hexagram Network’s 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters. \n  \nSchedule:\n2 PM (CANCELLED): The first part takes inspiration from MFK Fisher’s The Art of Eating to explore how cooking with machines engenders life worlds with heterogeneous agencies and sociability. \n  \n4:15 PM: The second part will be a Keynote presentation by Montreal-based artist Erin Gee. \nDrawing on Claude Lévi-Strauss’ notion of the “raw” and the “cooked\,” and its feminist reinterpretation in sound studies by Jonathan Sterne and Tara Rodgers\, Gee examines AI through a sonic lens to argue that when real-world phenomena are recorded as sound or data\, they are never captured in a “raw” state. Grounded in her work on the documentation of musical biofeedback systems\, the talk explores how processes of capture\, selection\, and transformation shape what can be heard and what can be known through technology. She contrasts musical AI systems\, which tend to obscure or abstract these operations\, with classic biofeedback practices that foregrounded them—revealing how different technologies organize\, conceal\, or expose their own forms of “cooking.” \n  \nAfter the Event: \nPlease join us at 5:30 p.m. for the official launch event of the Interdisciplinary Encounters.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/what-goes-on-in-the-kitchen-of-creative-ai-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T133000
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SUMMARY:[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit\, power\, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \n \nAI is often presented in extremes\, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone\, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs\, democracy\, or even human life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI\, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? \nDrawing on her co-authored book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (open access\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan)\, Regine Paul argues that today’s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt\, but about profit imperatives and political choices. \nAI technologies are developed and deployed within pre-existing economic structures\, largely reinforcing inequalities between industries\, workers\, and countries rather than fundamentally transforming them away. \nThe main focus of this talk is on how long-standing insights from critical and global political economy can help us expose the complex interactions (1) of political institutions and agency\, (2) speculative tech narratives\, (3) the imperative of geopolitical tech races\, and (4) globe-spanning forms of domination and exploitation in shaping articulations of AI transformations\, in the plural\, on the ground as well as what connects these into one more global transformation\, in the singular\, across time and space. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nRegine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway\, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on “Technology and Statehood”. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)\, as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (2026)\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 23\, 2026 \n 12–1:30 PM \n Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend online\, please register here to receive the registration link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-ai-matrix-a-critical-political-economy-reading-of-the-profit-power-and-politics-behind-global-ai-transformations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260417T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260417T154500
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Climate-Responsive Architecture: Geometries\, Materials & Design Futures
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Zherui Wang. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nZherui (pron. zee-ray) Wang is a designer and building technology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His work focuses on devising architectural methods for cooling and climate-response design for extreme heat while being mindful of material use. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program\, his PhD research explores the design integration of structural form-finding and building thermal mass performance\, informed by architectural geometry\, materials science\, and life cycle thinking. He is a co-author of Hydroculus\, an evaporative and radiative cooling roof prototype that was exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale and received a Holcim Foundation Award for Sustainable Design and Construction. Previously\, Wang was an Academic Professional Researcher at CHAOS Lab in Princeton. He has practiced in design roles at Barkow Leibinger Architects and served on the design faculty at the University of Pennsylvania\, Pratt Institute\, and State University of New York at Buffalo\, where he was named the 2020-21 Reyner Banham Fellow. Wang holds a BArch from Pratt Institute\, a post-professional MArch from Princeton University\, and a graduate certificate in Energy Policy from the Penn Kleinman Center. \n  \n  \n  April 17\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-climate-responsive-architecture-geometries-materials-design-futures/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260415T161500
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Sustainable Design: Collaborative Practices of Heat\, Energy and Environment-Making
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Iva Rešetar. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nIva Rešetar is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrade and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts’ Department of Digital and Experimental Design. Her dissertation critically examines the relationship between architecture and environmental technologies\, searching out historical and experimental knowledge of thermodynamic processes of phase change in architecture – how they are sensed\, mediated and acted upon in context of the current climate crisis. Her interests lie in fluid materialities\, methods and practices of energy and heat\, and their implications for environmental regeneration and repair of the built environment. \nIva has practiced as an architect\, and has taught and carried out research among others at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart\, Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin\, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam\, and CCA in Montreal. Her recent publications include Breath: Morphological\, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter\, 2022)\, and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (Berlin University of the Arts\, 2025). \n  \n  \n  April 15\, 2026 \n 2:45-4:15 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-sustainable-design-collaborative-practices-of-heat-energy-and-environment-making/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260413T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260413T154500
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza. Titled Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies\, this lecture will present insights from research projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality in Northern localities. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza is an architect\, researcher\, and educator dedicated to creating sustainable\, carbon-neutral environments that place human well-being at their core. Her work integrates architectural design with environmental performance\, using building parameters\, light quality\, indoor air quality\, and thermal comfort\, as levers for enhancing occupant health and spatial experience\, specifically in Northern climates. Her research advances simulation-based methods\, immersive visualization\, and post-occupancy evaluation to support evidence-based design decision-making. \nShe holds a PhD in Architecture from Université Laval (Québec\, Canada) and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution\, where she examined the effects of light and colour on visual performance and circadian stimulation in Northern and Arctic communities\, employing image-based simulation and immersive capture techniques. \nDr. Espinoza Sanhueza is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University\, where she investigates the challenges of sustainable and resilient housing in Northern Canada and develops post-occupancy evaluation methods grounded in time-series data analysis. Threading design\, research\, pedagogy\, and professional practice together\, her work advances a vision of the built environment that is as responsive to its inhabitants as it is to the climate and context it serves. \n  \n  April 13\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-designing-for-the-north-sustainable-human-centered-spaces-through-light-air-quality-thermal-comfort-and-climate-responsive-strategies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T175609Z
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Bio-Inspired Folding Techniques Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bio-inspired Folding Techniques\, the first workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n  \n \n\n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nHosted by Lucie Leroux (Laboratoire Textile\, Montreal)\, in collaboration with Alice Jarry and Miranda Smitheram\, this four-hour workshop introduces bio-inspired folding as a research-creation methodology at the intersection of design\, engineering\, and living systems. Moving beyond the representation of natural phenomena\, participants will explore folding as a performative\, speculative\, and relational process that translates principles of growth\, locomotion\, deployability\, adaptation\, and responsiveness into material form. Through hands-on experimentation and an introduction to accessible techniques\, participants will prototype paper and fabric structures\, foregrounding folding as a medium for developing soft and adaptive applications. \n  \nPhoto Credits: Lucie Leroux\n  \nABOUT LUCIE LEROUX: \nTrained in design and architecture in France\, Lucie Leroux began her career in architectural lighting before moving to Montreal\, where she discovered textile printing. It was while working on large-scale projects such as the Shanghai World Expo that she began to take an interest in light and patterns. After working on costumes for Cirque du Soleil\, she collaborated on several projects ranging from fashion to documentary\, presented throughout Quebec at venues such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City. In 2012\, she launched Laboratoire Textile\, a creative space where she explores textile design through various research and creative projects. She has also been a lecturer at the Atelier Textile since 2014 and at the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal since 2024. \n\n  \n\n  \n  \nThis workshop is part of the NFRF project Origami-inspired Deployable Sensoriactuator Soft Robots\, co-directed by Hamid Akbarzadeh\, Alice Jarry\, Miranda Smitheram\, Marta Cerruti\, and David Meger. The event is supported by Hexagram: Research-creation network in arts\, culture\, and technology. \n  \n April 9\, 2026 \n 1 – 5 PM \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.455 \n💡Questions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n  \n  \n                           
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-bio-inspired-folding-techniques/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Stephen Monteiro: How Tech Got Needy: Episodes in Device Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:Networked personal media devices construct an animated intimacy\, fostering user trust and emotional dependence. Viewing this development through a historical eye\, this talk explores examples of object-oriented digital intimacy that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing from Needy Media (recently published by McGill-Queens University Press)\, it will consider how user-device closeness was baked into consumer electronics from 1995 to 2005 through a range of hardware and software cues. These elements collectively tapped psychological vulnerabilities toward affective impact\, situating the device as a lively\, but needy\, presence in the life of users. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nStephen Monteiro is a faculty member in Communication Studies at Concordia University. In addition to Needy Media\, he is the author of The Fabric of Interface (The MIT Press) and Screen Presence (Edinburgh University Press)\, and the editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n March 26\, 2026 \n 4:30 – 6 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stephen-monteiro-how-tech-got-needy-episodes-in-device-intimacy/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T170000
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SUMMARY:“Mass” Media: Cinematic Narratives and Archaeological Presents in Federal Indian Politics
DESCRIPTION:Join the MHRC for their last Montreal Media History Seminar of the year. Assistant Professor Sowparnika Balaswaminathan will talk about how the Tamil Nadu government uses archaeology to create a counter-narrative to Hindu nationalism. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn January 2025\, M.K. Stalin\, the Chief Minister of the south Indian state of Tamilnadu\, made a dramatic announcement befitting his cinema-industry lineage: the Iron Age\, hitherto dated to the Fertile Crescent\, in fact\, had its earliest beginnings “on Tamil soil.” This temporal recalibration\, crafted into a “news event” (Cody 2023)\, carries profound implications for contemporary Indian political discourse. Modern statist archaeology in India navigates between neoliberal rationalism and romantic patriotism\, seeking to maintain scientific rigor while constructing narratives of an enchanted past. This tension is further complicated by India’s current Hindu nationalist regime\, which seeks to establish a direct correlation between territory and religion\, such as in the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC)—South Asia’s oldest known state-level society— which needs to be Hindu\, Sanskritic\, and continuous with the Indo-Aryan identity claimed by contemporary (caste) Hindus. Stalin’s announcement directly challenges this narrative by foregrounding southern archaeological sites that suggest a non-Hindu proto-Dravidian history\, with potential links to the IVC itself. \nThis paper examines the orchestration of media events related to archaeology by the Tamilnadu state apparatus in recent years and analyzes the cinematic stylizations used in their construction. Balaswaminathan argues that the deployment of melodramatic excess in support of the government as a “mass” hero must be read against the coimbricated histories of cinema\, oration\, and politics in Tamilnadu . \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSowparnika Balaswaminathan is an Assistant Professor in Religions and Cultures at Concordia University\, Montreal. She researches the politics of art and craft\, artisanal identity and labor\, and the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. Her methods include ethnography\, collections and archival research\, and arts and media analysis. She is currently working on her monograph based on her dissertation research\, Casting Craft: Ethics\, Aesthetics\, and Sensible Labor in South Indian Bronzecasting. She was the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021) at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History\, Washington DC\, where she researched the role of Smithsonian museums as diplomatic agents during the Cold war and the politics of culture-area representation of newly independent Asian nations. She is currently starting a new project on the mediascape and political mobilization around archaeology and antiquities in India. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  March 13\, 2026 \n 3:30 -5 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Make sure to reserve your spot\, seating is limited!  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mass-media-cinematic-narratives-and-archaeological-presents-in-federal-indian-politics/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Jones in conversation with Gabrielle Moser
DESCRIPTION:In the context of her exhibition at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery on view until April\, 25\, Milieux is hosting a conversation between curator and creative director Ingrid Jones and Associate Professor Gabrielle Moser\, in collaboration with the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. \nIn this lecture\, Ingrid Jones reflects on the conceptualization of the exhibition “Labour” and the challenge of rendering visible that which is routinely unseen. Drawing on both professional and lived experience\, she considers the necessity of naming our labour; the cumulative toll of microaggressions and their embodied consequences; the persistent misreadings of Black rage; and the increasingly politicized terrain of rest as practice. In doing so\, Jones situates her curatorial approach alongside that of Tina Campt\, advancing discomfort not as a byproduct but as a deliberate and necessary condition of her praxis. Jones’s presentation will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Gabby Moser\, Research Chair and Director of the Jarislowsky Institute.\n\nThis event will be followed by a reception at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery to celebrate the opening of her curated exhibition “Labour” and the launch of its accompanying publication.\n\n\nABOUT INGRID JONES:\nToronto-based curator and creative director\, Ingrid Jones examines the intersections of decolonial curatorial practice\, transnational solidarities\, and the politics of museum representation. Her research engages themes of marginalization and refusal through installation\, media\, and collaborative projects. Recent initiatives address liberatory practices of the African diaspora (“Liberation in Four Movements\,” 2024)\, the unseen labour of BIPOC artists and cultural workers (“Labour\,” 2024-25)\, and nostalgia for racialized communities framed through white supremacy (“Nostalgia Interrupted\,” 2022). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  March 10\, 2026 \n 3 -4:30 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ingrid-jones-en-conversation-avec-gabrielle-moser/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Many\, many Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us in launching our publishing project “Many\, Many Machine Agencies”!\n.\nThis edited collection will be a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and it gathers hybrid maker-thinkers who dabble in different theories of machinic agency including artificial life\, digital games\, interaction design\, robotics\, ubiquitous computing\, expert systems\, virtual life\, simulation\, and neural networks.\n.\nCome along to learn more about our book project\, and connect with others!\n\n.\nThis project is supported by Hexagram’s AI Chantier.\n\n.\n.\n\n February 19\, 2026 \n 3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n\n  \n  \n\n                                                                                                                                           \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/many-many-machine-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T123000
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SUMMARY:2025-2026 UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you know\, we recently announced our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Fellows cohort. Now\, it’s their turn to take the floor! We’re excited to hear them share their projects and the topics that drive their research. \nTo welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community\, we invite all faculty\, students\, and staff to join us for a special gathering on February 17th\, 2026\, in the Resource Room (EV 11.705). \n\nJoin us for an informal gathering and presentations from these outstanding emerging researchers—plus\, enjoy some pizza! \n  \n  \n⏱️ 12:30 PM: Come grab a slice of pizza! \n⏱️ 1 PM: The Fellows will briefly introduce themselves and tell us more about their research interest and projects. \nFor those who are interested\, the afternoon will conclude with a guided tour led by Marc Beaulieu\, who will share stories of the Institute’s research spaces and reveal some of the “hidden corners” of our institute. \n  \n  \nIn the meantime\, get to know this year’s talented cohort: \nAnnouncing Milieux Institute’s 2025-26 Undergraduate Fellows \n \n  \nWe can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n: February 17\, 2026 | 12:30 PM \n: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2025-2026-ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland\, the latest publication by Will Straw. \nIn its time (the 1920s and 1930s)\, the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison in 1925. In recent years\, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. \nThe fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan\, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives. This talk will deal with the historical usefulness of these accounts\, and with the problem of researching magazines which were rarely preserved in libraries and\, until very recently\, ignored by historians. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nWill Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery\, 2006) and the new Nights in Fairyland: Gossip\, Blackmail\, and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities. Will Straw is also the co-editor of numerous books\, including Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin\, 2014)\, Night Studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli\, 2020) and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Night Time Economy(with Jess Reia and Alessio Koliulis). Dr. Straw has published more than 200 articles on cinema\, music popular culture and the urban night. \n  \n  \n  \nFebruary 13\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure your register for this event \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-and-book-launch-nights-in-fairland-by-will-straw/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T153000
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SUMMARY:Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel
DESCRIPTION:(art)iculating worlds and Machine Agencies welcome Galit Ariel to discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-relatives and surrealities. \n  \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nGalit Ariel is a TechnoFuturist\, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures\, behaviours and interactions. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency\, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity\, Experience and Reality’ which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture\, body\, space and agency. \nHer academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology\, culture and body politics and imaginaries. She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology\, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program\, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists\, artists\, social scientists\, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning)\, and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog-150 principles for a new direction in tech). \nGalit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences\, agencies and institutions\, such as tD\, Bell Labs\, SXSW\, The European Union\, The Next Web\, Slush\, Fifteen Seconds\, FITC\, Pause Fest\, VRARA Global Summit\, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more. \n  \n\nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  January 22\, 2026 \n 2-3:30 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Reserve a spot
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-spacemaking-unrealities-of-imperfect-worlding-by-galit-ariel/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Extra-curricular:Photography\, race and citizenship in Toronto's University Settlement House\, 1946-56
DESCRIPTION:Join Media and Materiality Cluster for the second talk of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, a series of public talks and discussions on recent media scholarship. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nWhat is the social significance of a photographic archive with no\, or at most a very accidental\, external audience? Is it akin to photographs that are taken but never printed\, filed away as negatives in a basement or library? For a social historian of photography\, interested in where photographs circulated and how viewers understood them\, how can we begin to understand what these images meant to their authors and subjects? \nThis talk examines these questions through the photographic archives of Toronto’s University Settlement House: a radical experiment in social work that foregrounded extra-curricular activities—art and music classes\, theatre productions\, recreational sports clubs\, Sunday evening dances\, and summer camps\, but also language classes\, library facilities\, medical clinics and lunchrooms—as vital means for providing “lessons in citizenship and cooperative organization” (James 2001). Located in Toronto’s Ward neighbourhood—a site of an influx of non-European immigration that middle class residents worried would disrupt the moral fabric of the city—the University Settlement House’s activities were fastidiously documented by amateur photographers and now reside in the City of Toronto Archives. \nAs part of Moser’s wider project examining the history of photography and citizenship in Canada after 1947\, this paper examines the ways photography\, race\, and extra-curricular activities came together as technologies of assimilation and settlement in the University Settlement House archive. But it equally asks how community members used these same technologies for acts of resistance\, de-segregation and transnational alliance. Paying an inordinate amount of attention to these everyday images of extra-curricular activities that rarely circulated outside the walls of the settlement house\, Gabrielle Moser argues that these photographs impart lessons of their own about the precarities of belonging in multicultural Canada. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nGabrielle Moser is an art historian\, writer\, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press\, 2019) and\, with Adrienne Huard\, co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation (2022). Moser is currently at work on her second book\, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA\, Moser is Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art\, and Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University in Montréal. \n  \n  \n\n November 28\, 2025\n3:30-5 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure you register here to participate! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/extra-curricularphotography-race-and-citizenship-in-torontos-university-settlement-house-1946-56/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[BOOK TALK] Critical Design Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. \nThe ecological\, social\, and political challenges of our time require creative\, more-than-human\, and futures-oriented engagements. However\, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative\, caring\, engaged\, or collaborative thinking\, making\, or doing. How can the field of communications address this challenge? \nThis talk will explore the power of community engaged design processes to create space for embedded\, embodied\, and emergent thinking. This approach and its results will be illustrated with projects about data literacy\, environmental education\, and digital sovereignty. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nData increasingly forms the backbone of systems and processes that shape how we do things and how we relate to each other. Datafication – the uptake of data to reorganize social processes – is reshaping everything from loyalty programs and digital identification systems to credit card payments and rental pricing platforms. Artificial intelligence accelerates these processes. \nMaking sense of what these changes mean for our everyday lives is no easy task. Datafied systems are highly technical and designed to be convenient and seamless; we tend to encounter them in brief moments of individualized transaction\, which makes them difficult to see\, let alone read\, and their illegibility makes them very challenging to respond to. Communing Data Literacy offers a novel set of concepts and tools to help people make sense of how technology is altering their communities and their social interactions. Building on three years of design research by digital rights organizations in Chile\, Colombia\, Paraguay\, Peru\, and Uruguay\, the volume analyzes people’s everyday experiences with datafication\, rethinking data from the perspective of community and offering practical techniques for community engagement. \nCommuning Data Literacy pushes back against the individualism and technocentrism of Western data literacy practice and scholarship\, providing English readers the opportunity to engage with Latin American perspectives. \n  \nABOUT KATERINE REILLY: \nKatherine Reilly is the lead author on Communing Data Literacy: Tools and Concepts for Social Engagement (MQUP\, 2025)\, “Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-Than-Human Worlds” (Somatechnics\, 2025)\, and Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro Sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (Tierra Común\, 2025). She is a member of the Latin American data colonialism network Tierra Común\, as well as Simon Fraser University’s Imaginative Methods Lab\, and Scholarly Communications Lab. She is an Associate Professor in SFU’s School of Communication. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n🗓 November 20\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-critical-design-research-methods/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
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SUMMARY:A Glitch: House9 x Dark Opacities Lab in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Post Image cluster for a discussion between Farah Khan\, Balbir K. Singh moderated by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo . This event will explore the tension\, challenge\, and possibilities of considering opacity as a framework in which to devise and create a research lab. As a portal to the lab\, House9 created such a site for Dark Opacities Lab at Concordia University\, with the demands of considering what opacity could look like\, and where that overlaps with the concept of a glitch. In addition\, they will speak to the work of design and justice-centered projects in building solidarity and networks for communities of colour\, especially at a time of intensifying crises locally and globally. \nEvent starts at 6 PM but doors open at 5:30 PM. Light snacks and beverages will be served. \n  \n🗓 October  27\, 2025\n🕒 6 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-glitch-house9-x-dark-opacities-lab-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T210000
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] TouchDesigner as Research-Creation: An introductory Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies and LePARC invite you to a practical workshop led by creative technologist Michel Didier. \nOver the course of this hand-on workshop\, participants will learn how utilize TouchDesigner to generate real-time visual projections\, synchronize visual effects with music\, and create electrifying artistic experiences at the intersection of researching creation. \n  \nNo prior experience with TouchDesigner needed. Participants should bring a laptop\, a computer mouse\, sign up for free non-commercial TouchDesigner license beforehand\, and ensure that their laptop meets TouchDesigner’s minimum requirements. \nSpots are limited\, make sure to register to secure your spot! \n  \nABOUT MICHEL DIDIER: \nMichel is a Montreal-based artist and a seasoned multimedia developer. A graduate in Computer Arts from Concordia University\, he is eager to realize innovative projects using cutting-edge technologies. TouchDesigner developer and former creative developer at Moment Factory\, he is currently a tools developer and creative developer at Derivative. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓 October  23\, 2025\n🕒 5-9 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/touchdesigner-as-research-creation-an-introductory-workshop/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251008T180000
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SUMMARY:Body of Nothing: A Counter-Defence
DESCRIPTION:In Counter-Defence\, Pauline Batamu Kasiwa. Lomami (Po B. K. Lomami) proposes to reimagine the thesis defence as a process of positionality-sharing and relation-building rather than a demonstration of mastery. Decentering clarity\, justification\, and proof\, this conversation will question the demand to render all aspects of artistic research transparent for institutional recognition and will include a guided tour of Lomami’s thesis exhibition. The Counter-Defence is an encounter for co-implication rather than evaluation\, inviting us all to pay attention to how we participate in the politics of interpretations\, the process of meaning-making\, and the mechanisms of validation. \n  \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION: \n \n  \nThe Nothing series is an ongoing body of work composed of entangled projects that together disclose a mental and socio-political infrastructure of collapse\, taking the shape of the exhibition Body of Nothing: Silence\, Avoidance\, Compartmentalization. The concept of nothing is deceptively simple\, often conceptualized as void\, lack\, or absence — a negation of being\, an empty category that holds meaning only in relation to what it negates. Yet\, when Po B. K. Lomami looked at the marks of colonialism\, genocide\, ecocide\, displacement\, and madness\, nothing is not absence but presence: the charged residue of loss\, silence\, refusal\, and survival. Nothing is daily negotiation. It appears in the silence of archives\, in interrupted testimonies\, in refusals to perform trauma for outsiders. Nothing is not emptiness but a critical resource: a mode of opacity\, an affective surplus\, and a necropolitical scar. \nExhibition hours:\nOctober 1 | 5 to 9 p.m.\nOctober 2\, 3\, 4\, 6\, 7 | 1 to 6 p.m.\nOctober 8 | 5 to 9 p.m. \nLocation:\nBlack Box – EV S3. 855 (basement S3)\nConcordia University – EV Building\n1515 Saint-Catherine Street West\, Montreal \n  \n🗓 October  8\, 2025\n🕒 4-6 PM\n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/body-of-nothing-a-counter-defence/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T160000
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Artistic Research
DESCRIPTION:Join the Milieux Institute’s Post Image research cluster and MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain for a day-long reflection on artistic research. This event builds on the Biennale’s theme\, “In Praise of the Missing Images\,” which explores the complex narratives and contemporary issues surrounding images today. \n\n\n\nThis conference brings together artists\, curators\, and scholars to explore the distinct nature of research within art. Beyond academic conventions\, artistic inquiry unfolds through materials\, gestures\, and embodied memory. This conference invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique\, and how can curiosity\, imagination\, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing?   \n  \nSCHEDULE: \n\n \n10 AM: Raven Chacon in conversation with Martín Rodríguez \n\n\n\n11:30 AM: Panel | Mallory Lowe Mpoka\, Lou Sheppard\, Sanaz Sohrabi moderated by Alice Ming Wai Jim. \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: Panel | Caroline Mauxion\, OK Pedersen\, Anouk Verviers moderated by Alanna Thain. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Keynote: Lucy Cotter \n\n\n\n3 PM: Keynote: Nathalie Loveless \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 10-6 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute\, Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ This event is free but spots are limited\, Please Reserve your seat here \n  \n\n \nThis event is supported by the Hexagram Network\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Post Image research cluster\, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain\, Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA)\, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery and Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/reflections-on-artistic-research/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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SUMMARY:[Machine Agencies Kick-Off Event] Patchwork Agencies
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies for Patchwork Agencies\, the exciting kick-off event for the new year with the Milieux Institute’s AI Research Group! \nOn Friday September 19th from 2-4pm come on down to the Milieux Resource Centre and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations. \nDuring the event\, Machine Agencies researcher Aurélie Petit will lead Black Pudding: Collaborative Speculation Workshop. Through collage and generative video\, this workshop asks what AI might look like if we slowed it down\, made it smaller\, and used it to make art together! \n  \nPhoto credits: Felix Bonnevie \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. We encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \n  \n📅  September 19\, 2025 \n⏱️ 2-4 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/machine-agencies-kick-off-event-patchwork-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Info Session,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 07
DESCRIPTION:Epistemological Foundations returns to continue the conversation around Data Sovereignty and AI. EF07 will bring together Ashley Cordes\, Peter-Lucas Jones and Keolu Fox to reflect on their to reflect on their approaches to creating knowledge at this intersection. \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team sharing how the knowledge frameworks in their field are constructed\, validated\, and employed. This session will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into what it means to bring together Data Sovereignty and AI. \nThis will be a hybrid event. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nAshley Cordes is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of Indigenous media\, critical/cultural studies\, environmental storytelling\, and community-based projects. Her recent work in these areas has been published in journals such as Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies\, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication\, and Feminist Media Studies. Her current book project\, From the Gold Rush to Code Rush: Communication of Alternative and Digital Currency in Indigenous Communities is under advance contract with MIT Press. Ashley is an enrolled citizen and Chair of the Culture and Education Committee of the Kōkwel/Coquille Nation. \n  \nPeter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri\, Ngāi Takoto\, Ngāti Kahu) is the Chief Executive Officer of Te Hiku Media and an experienced governor in the Māori media eco-system. He is currently the Chair of Te Whakaruruhau o ngā Reo Irirangi Māori\, Deputy Chair of Māori Television and Chairman of Te Rūnanga Nui o Te Aupōuri\, and board member of Te Pūnaha Matatini\, a Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems. As a trusted kaitiaki of Māori data\, Peter-Lucas negotiates the responsibility of protecting iwi and Māori data while meeting the needs of funders and the expectations of iwi and hapū. Peter-Lucas has terrestrial and digital experience working with kaumātua and marae to record and provide access to te reo ā-iwi\, tikanga ā-iwi\, kōrero tuku iho and iwi history. This experience has seen the development of a Kaitiakitanga License for Te Hiku Media that provides a framework to guide the use of Māori data from a haukāingaperspective. \n  \nKeolu Fox Ph.D.\, Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) is an assistant professor at University of California\, San Diego\, affiliated with the Department of Anthropology\, the Global Health Program\, the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute\, the Climate Action Lab\, and the Indigenous Futures Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Genome Sciences from the University of Washington\, Seattle (2016). Dr. Fox’s multi-disciplinary research interests include genome sequencing\, genome engineering\, computational biology\, evolutionary genetics\, paleogenetics\, and Indigenizing biomedical research. His primary research focuses on questions of functionalizing genomics\, testing theories of natural selection by editing genes and determining the functions of mutations. \nDr. Fox has published numerous articles on human genetics\, biomedicine\, ancient genomics\, and Indigenous data sovereignty\, most recently in the New England Journal of Medicine\, Nature\, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. \nDr. Fox is a recipient of grants from numerous organizations including the National Institutes of Health\, the National Science Foundation\, National Geographic\, the American Association for Physical Anthropology\, Emerson Collective\, the Social Science Research Council and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, SOLVE Initiative. \n  \n🗓: April 17\, 2025\n🕒: 5:30- 7 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 : Zoom link \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend this event in-person\, please make sure you RSVP by emailing: abint-activities@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-07/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Annual General Meeting on April 16th!  \nWe’re delighted to invite you ALL  to meet in person for our AGM.  \nCome enjoy some pizza while we showcase the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2023-2024) and give you a look at our newly renovated spaces! 🎉 \n  \n🗓 April 16\, 2025\n⏱️12-2 PM\n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Pizza Lunch Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9 for Pizza lunch  engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9\, Meghan Moe Beitiks\, Eija Loponen-Stephenson and Gabriel Junqueira will be working on Shipwreck\, attempting to make a home among remnants brought by three UKAI Projects artists. \nLet’s discover together their work while grabbing a slice of pizza! This will be an amazing opportunity to get a sense of the project and think about the potential connections between the installation and your own research/work. Come join us! \n  \n📷 Photo credit: Antoine Simard-Legault \n🗓: April 9\, 2025 |12-2 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/shipwreck-pizza-lunch-meet-greet/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception,Tour - Visit
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Marco Armiero : Guerrilla Narrative in the Wasteocene
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. \nWhile the concept of the geological Anthropocene may have diminished in prominence\, it remains vital to scrutinize the narratives it has generated and to foster counter-hegemonic storytelling. Although humanity collectively inhabits the Anthropocene\, its effects are far from uniformly distributed. Instead of seeking its evidence solely in the geosphere\, what if researchers shifted their focus to the organosphere — exploring the intertwined ecologies of humans and their environments? \nToxic layers have not only settled into physical landscapes but have also infiltrated human and more-than-human bodies. Recent epigenetic studies suggest that these toxic imprints are now embedded in genetic memory. By investigating this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity\, we confront not the Anthropocene but the Wasteocene—an era defined by waste. However\, the Wasteocene extends beyond the mere generation of waste; it is fundamentally about the systematic production of wasted lives and degraded places. The enforcement of wasting relationships upon marginalized human and more-than-human communities constructs a toxic ecology made of contaminants and narratives. \nThis talk will examine the “Toxic Narrative Infrastructure” — a framework which invisibilizes\, normalizes\, and naturalizes injustices — and explore how guerrilla narratives seek to disrupt and dismantle it. \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\nMarco Armiero is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science\, Autonomous University of Barcelona & Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. A global leader in environmental humanities\, he has held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Yale\, Stanford\, Berkeley\, and Coimvra\, and directed the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, establishing it as a hub for socioecological research and activism. \nHis groundbreaking book\, Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump (Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, has been widely recognized\, translated into several languages\, and inspired both academic symposia and media coverage. In 2022\, he co-authored the first environmental history of Italian fascism\, published by Einaudi\, translated by MIT Press\, and forthcoming in Spanish. \nA pioneer in his field\, Prof. Armiero is a founding figure in European environmental history and has advanced research on migration\, socioecological crises\, and justice. His influential concepts\, such as the “Wasteocene” and “toxic narrative infrastructure\,” have shaped contemporary scholarship\, blending academic excellence with advocacy for environmental and social equity. \n  \n  \n🗓: March 31\, 2025\n🕒: 2 – 4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n      
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-marco-armiero-guerrilla-narrative-in-the-wasteocene/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Joni Adamson: Beyond Climate Fiction: Visionary Fictions\, Futures Thinking\, and a Cosmovisionary Archive
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives\, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn Fall of 2024\, the United Nations hosted hundreds of global delegates at The Summit of the Future\, a monumental effort to forge a new international consensus on how to safeguard the future.  For the first time\, humanists\, including me\, were an officially-invited part of the delegation\, and at the table for consideration of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ challenge to take specific steps to “make a tangible difference in people’s lives and account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations.” \nIn this lecture\, I will explain the role of climate fiction in the lead-up to my invitation (as a humanist) to come to the United Nations. Then\, I’ll dive into a discussion of Day After Tomorrow (2004)\, the most celebrated “cli-fi” film to date\, and bring Solar Storms (1994)\, an indigenous-authored novel that has only recently been considered part of an emerging climate fiction canon into the discussion.  I connect these two seemingly unrelated pieces because they can both be connected in interesting ways to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)\, the massive Atlantic Ocean current system which affects climate\, sea levels and global weather system. \nMy discussion explores how both film and novel create characters that draw attention to the value of “futures thinking\,” a practice foregrounded at the Summit of the Future and\, for over 20 years\, by environmental humanists interested in impowering individuals\, students\, governments\, societies\, and organizations to imagine and shape alternative\, desirable futures\, particularly in the face of accelerating ecosystemic disruptions associated with climate change (like AMOC).  With Solar Storms as an example not of “cli-fi” per se\, but as an example of a genre Black Studies professor and spoken word artist Walida Imarisha calls ‘visionary fiction\,’ I explore why we might want to go beyond futures thinking to ‘cosmos thinking\,’ a concept linked to cosmovisions\, cosmopolitics and the indigenous-authored Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change (2012). \nBuilding on my previous work around indigenous cosmopolitics and the environmental humanities (Adamson and Davis 2017\, Adamson and Monani 2016)\, I propose a ‘cosmovisionary archive’ that would facilitate cosmos-thinking by gathering together unruly\, mixed genres (ancient oral tradition\, almanacs\, visionary fictions\, blockbuster films) that “account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations” and acknowledge Earth systems (like AMOC) as ‘persons’ with rights ‘to regenerate biocapacity and continue vital cycles’ (Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change 2012). \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nJoni Adamson is President’s Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Distinguished Global Futures Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL). She is Founding Director of the Flagship Hub of UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition\, the first humanities-led science platform in the world. She is also Director of Humanities for the Environment North America (HFE)\, based in the Global Institute for Sustainability and Innovation at ASU’s Walton Center for Planetary Heath.\n \nAdamson is the author and/or co-editor of nine books and special issues and 90 articles\, chapters\, reviews and blog posts which have been widely cited\, reprinted\, and translated into Mandarin and Spanish. She writes on environmental justice\, the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences\, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies\, the rights of nature movement\, and the food justice movement.  Her research has been supported by many awards and grants\, including the 2019 Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. She has delivered 90+ keynote and plenary lectures throughout the US and in Australia\, China\, England\, Italy\, France\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, the Netherlands\, Scotland\, South Africa\, Spain\, Sweden\, and Taiwan. \n  \n🗓: March 28\, 2025 |2-4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n       
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-joni-adamson-beyond-climate-fiction-visionary-fictions-futures-thinking-and-a-cosmovisionary-archive/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Output with Nick Montfort
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 17 for a reading and panel discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953-2023 edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. \nWe’re thrilled to welcome authors Sofian Audry\, Bill Kennedy\, Erín Moure\, and Darren Wershler for a conversation about the book and the fascinating world of computer-generated writing. \nCopies of OUTPUT will be available for purchase\, and there will be free giveaways of other books featuring computer-generated writing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNick Montfort uses computation to develop literary art. His work includes ten computer-generated books (in print from seven presses)\, the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between\, and Memory Slam: Batch-Era Text Generation. Among his MIT Press books are The Future and two co-edited volumes\, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023. He’s professor of digital media at MIT and principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. Montfort directs a lab/studio\, The Trope Tank\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nAn anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems\, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. \nThe discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation\, as it happens\, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology\, Output\, thoughtfully selected\, introduced\, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort\, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include text generated by research systems\, along with reports and utilitarian texts\, representing many general advances and experiments in text generation. \nOutput is first and foremost a collection of outputs to be encountered by readers. In addition to an overall introduction\, each of the excerpts is introduced individually and organized by fine-grain genre including conversations\, humor\, letters\, poetry\, prose\, and sentences. Bibliographic references allow readers to learn more about outputs and systems that intrigue them. Although Output could serve as a reference book\, it is designed to be readable and to be read. Purposefully excluded are human–computer collaborations that were conceptually defined but not implemented as a computer system. \n🔗 More about the book here \n  \nThis event is supported by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) https://www.crihn.org/ \n  \n🗓 March 17\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 6 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-evening-of-output-with-nick-montfort/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel Discussion
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