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SUMMARY:Faculty Reflections on Research-Creation at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion featuring Concordia faculty members Kregg Hetherington\, VK Preston\, Joanna Berzowska*\, and Rilla Khaled*. Drawing from their diverse backgrounds and experience\, the speakers will reflect on the institute’s key role in supporting and fostering research-creation projects. Panelists will share insight into how Milieux’s infrastructure and collaborative culture have supported their respective career milestones\, while offering perspectives on the institute’s enduring institutional value. \nThis panel discussion will be moderated by JoDee Allen*. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nJoDee Allen is a PhD Candidate in the Humanities research/creation program at Concordia University. JoDee’s art practice ranges from dance-on-stage to dance-on-screen. Her roots begin in biomechanics and choreographic practice in breakdance and contemporary performance/fusion\, and span to using visual and interactive mediums as a lens through which to interrogate the body in motion. \nHer choreographic work has toured Canada and Europe and she has been a movement designer for the production of dance-inspired video games and research. In 2021\, JoDee collaborated with choreographer Katie Ward to design a hybrid show—live streaming/live performance with large-scale projections for which she remixed the visuals in real-time. And\, in 2023\, she produced and was lead-designer for a game-like participatory performance called The Other Market (Montreal)\, soon to be remounted in London\, UK. \n  \nJoanna Berzowska is the founder and research director of XS Labs\, a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments that can enable computationally-mediated interactions with the environment and the individual. A core component of her research involves the development of enabling methods\, materials\, and technologies – in the form of soft electronic circuits and composite fibers – as well as the exploration of the expressive potential of soft reactive structures. Her art and design work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC\, the V&A in London\, the Millenium Museum in Beijing\, various SIGGRAPH Art Galleries\, ISEA\, the Art Directors Club in NYC\, the Australian Museum in Sydney\, NTT ICC in Tokyo\, and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. She lectures internationally about the field of electronic textiles and related social\, cultural\, aesthetic\, and political issues. She was selected for the Maclean’s Honour Roll as one of “thirty nine Canadians who make the world a better place to live in”. She is the Head of electronic textiles at OM signal\, a Montreal startup developing a line of bio-sensing clothes\, which connect seamlessly to iPhones and offer a variety of engaging biofeedback to help improve personal wellbeing. She is Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. \n  \nKregg Hetherington is the co-director of Speculative Life Research Cluster at Milieux and Director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. He’s Associate Professor in Concordia’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. \nHis research is specialized in environment\, infrastructure and the bureaucratic state. Kregg’s long-term ethnographic work in Paraguay chronicles how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrarian transition have experienced that country’s halting transition to democracy\, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practising government. His recent book\, The Government of Beans (Duke 2020) was awarded the Book Prize in Critical Anthropology from the Association of Political And Legal Anthropology\, and the Julian Steward Award from the Environment and Anthropology Society. \nHe supervises graduate students working ethnographically in a wide range of areas\, including environment and infrastructure studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, Latin American agrarian politics\, and the ethnography of bureaucracy. \n  \nRilla Khaled is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal\, Canada\, where she teaches interaction design\, design theory\, programming\, and more. She is the co-director of the Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG) Research Centre\, Canada’s most well-established games research lab\, in the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology. Dr. Khaled’s research is focused on the use of interactive technologies to improve the human condition\, a career-long passion that has led to diverse outcomes\, including designing award-winning serious games\, developing a framework for game design specifically aimed at reflective outcomes\, creating speculative prototypes of near-future technologies\, working with Indigenous communities to use contemporary technologies to imagine new\, inclusive futures\, and establishing foundations for materials-based game design research. \n  \nVK Preston is an artist and cultural historian of performance traversing art and critical practices of enquiry (movement\, texts\, images\, cultural expression). Their research includes performing arts and archives\, improvisation\, and intersectional historiography. VK works alongside artists and scientists in dance studies\, health\, and research creation\, investigating histories of the senses in experiential\, often narrative approaches to embodiment and artistic practices. VK’s recent research addresses performance and early modern archives in Francophone\, Atlantic-world contexts\, Turtle Island (North America)\, and long histories of French colonization. Their work at intersections of historiography and artistic research reckons with archives\, difficult histories\, institutions\, and the performative. VK is currently working on their first book manuscript and on documentary visual literature\, improvisatory writing\, collaborative composition\, poetry\, and illustration. Most recently\, their work on health care crises during the pandemic appeared in The Iowa Review (Fall 2025) \nVK is a Co-director\, with Lilia Mestre\, of LePARC\, the Performing Arts Research Cluster at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology and visiting artist-scholar at Bennington College’s low-residency Dance MFA. VK was a Core Fellow of the Camargo Foundation in Cassis\, France (Winter 2024). VK is presently a collaborator on the New Frontiers in Research Fund Project “The Sub-Measurable is Not Unreal” with fellow Concordia faculty scientists Re Mansbach (PI) and Claudine Gauthier (PI) and journalist Aphrodite Salas. They also work in collaboration with dance artist Caroline Gravel as dramaturg and as a writing and movement collaborator in Lilia Mestre’s Meeting Through Materialities\, Movement and Words. \n  \n*Hexagram members \n  \n📅 November 4\, 2026  \n⏱️ 1:30-3 PM  \n📍 Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/faculty-reflections-on-research-creation-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Collaborative & Interdisciplinary Projects at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:For the past 10 years\, the Milieux Institute has served as a hub for creative experimentation. Drawing members from across Concordia University\, Milieux fosters interdisciplinary work through both its programming and its infrastructure. While research clusters regularly host their own activities (workshops\, book launches\, guest talks\, roundtables\, etc.)\, the Institute’s broader mandate is to support and initiate cross-cluster activities and organize institute-wide events that connect our research community. This vision extends to the infrastructure itself: working and common spaces are designed to encourage and facilitate these connections. At Milieux\, cluster spaces and research labs are open and designed to bring together researchers from different backgrounds. \nIn this panel discussion\, we invite members to highlight three collaborative projects made possible by Milieux’s model: the Montreal Waterway Collective\, the NOSTAGAIN Network\, and\, more recently\, the Orange Shirt Day Workshop hosted by IFRC in collaboration with Textiles and Materiality and the MaSH Lab. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Dr. Bart Simon*. \n  \nABOUT THE PROJECTS: \nPolina Shubina and Patrizio McLelland* will present the Montreal Waterways Collective\, an ethnographic research-creation group based in the Concordia Ethnography Lab within Milieux’s Speculative Life Cluster. The Montreal Waterways project aims to reconnect Montréal with its surrounding waters\, treating water as a dynamic thread connecting past and future\, environment and infrastructure. In bringing ethnography closer to home\, the group conducts research into the various “water objects” that shape the city’s past\, present\, and future. \nDerek Pasborg*\, Richy Srirachanikorn*\, and Zo Makivna will discuss the NOSTAGAIN Network\, a student-led research collective formed at the Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG) Research Centre in 2022. Since its inception\, the collective has brought together artists\, writers\, designers\, and researchers to explore and reflect on the generative potentials of nostalgia. \nHanss Lujan Torres\, curator of The Earth We Carry (currently on view at the FOFA Gallery) and PhD candidate and Research Support Technician Geneviève Moisan* will talk about the Orange Shirt Day Workshop\, a collaborative initiative that was developed in partnership with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC)\, the Textiles and Materiality Cluster\, and the MaSH Lab. \n*Hexagram members \n  \n November 4\, 2026  \n 3:30-4:30 PM  \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-conversation-collaborative-interdisciplinary-projects-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:Learning by Doing: Student Leadership at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:In higher education\, internships are often seen as the sole pathway to building professional skills. However\, being involved in a dynamic research community can open up a much wider range of hands-on professional experiences. \nThis roundtable explores how this hands-on approach plays out in student leadership and translates beyond the university. From coordinating large-scale events and managing budgets to hiring\, promoting events\, and leading workshops\, community leadership cultivates versatile skills that employers value well beyond academia. \nTo explore these dynamics\, we are bringing together members with diverse backgrounds and leadership experiences to share their journeys\, insights\, and lessons learned: Shahrom Ali\, Marc Lajeunesse\, Brennan McCracken and Geneviève Moisan. \n\n November 5\, 2026  \n 10:30 AM-12 PM  \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/learning-by-doing-student-leadership-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:Public Engagement and Impact in Research-Creation
DESCRIPTION:Driven by a growing institutional focus on outreach and impact\, researchers must navigate the dual challenge of producing meaningful work and communicating its significance beyond academia. Within the context of research-creation\, where outputs can take various forms (exhibitions\, performances\, podcasts\, public-facing activities\, etc.)\, these questions of research dissemination and community engagement are approached in unique ways. In fact\, the nature of the creative output shapes the research-creation process itself\, making research communication an integral part of the inquiry. This roundtable will bring together researchers from diverse fields and backgrounds to explore these dynamics and share experiences from their own practices. \nJoin us for an engaging roundtable bringing together PhD candidate Richy Srirachanikorn*\, Dr. Scott DeJong*\, Dr\, Hilary Bergen and Dr. Aurélie Petit to share experiences\, discuss how creative forms drive public engagement\, and explore the evolving landscape of research dissemination. \n  \nThis panel will be moderated by Fenwick McKelvey*. \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTERS: \nRichy Srirachanikorn (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Social and Cultural Analysis program. \nRather than studying nostalgia as a historical concept or as a backwards-looking emotion\, Richy looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was\, but the way it could have been. Can we remind ourselves of the futures we had hoped for\, but never came to be\, in the past? What do these “lost futures” mean for the present? \nRichy is a founding member of the Nostagain Network\, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. Founded at the Milieux Institute in 2022\, the network meets annually at the 4TH SPACE for its symposia and research-creation expo. \nAurélie Petit is a Montreal-based researcher of animation and technology\, working between the National Film Board of Canada’s Innovation Lab and the Chaire de recherche du Québec sur l’intelligence artificielle et le numérique francophones (IANF) where she is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the (Re)Generative AI for Culture project. She has held positions at the Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation in Work and Life\, the AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa\, and the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research\, building a body of work that moves fluidly between critical inquiry and creative practice. Her intermedia research-creation projects have been presented at MUTEK Forum 2024\, MUTEK Forum 2025\, and HTMlles 2026. \nHilary Bergen is currently on faculty in the English department at Dawson College. Her research\, which is influenced by her professional dance training\, is on the historical intersection between dance and emergent media. She recently held an FRQSC postdoctoral fellowship at the New School in New York City\, and she is the organizer of the international Dance and/as Technology conference\, held most recently at UQAM in Montréal in 2024. She is a 2022 graduate of Concordia’s Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program. Her first book\, titled Dance Anima: Techniques of Vitality\, was published with Oxford University Press earlier this year.  \nScott DeJong holds a PhD in Communication studies from Concordia University where his research examined the relationship between playfulness and disinformation. His work bridges research and design to explore how alt communities use playful devices like memes to spread false content\, how games are being used to teach the public about disinformation\, and how interventions can incorporate play to re-evaluate critical thinking. This work has led to large-scale analysis of fake news games\, various studies on political memes and content within Canadian social media\, and the design of media literacy boardgames. In addition to his dissertation research\, Scott actively studies class precarity and videogames\, digital labour markets\, relationships between humour and games\, tabletop community cultures\, and simulation design. \n*Hexagram members \n  \n  November  5\, 2026 \n 1:30-3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/public-engagement-and-impact-in-research-creation/
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SUMMARY:The Sound of Misunderstanding: Dhvanivala's Sonic Explorations
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Sandeep Bhagwati for a lecture-performance inspired by the story of a young Indian student who arrived in Darmstadt to pursue a Ph.D. in physics in the early 1960s. Navigating a new environment\, the young physicist would explore unfamiliar sounds and develop radical new ideas.\n  \nSYNOPSIS:\n\nA young Indian student arrives in Darmstadt in the early 1960s to do a doctorate in physics. Cold War. Atomic physics is the order of the day. It is the time of post-colonial sovereignty struggles. And what is going on in Darmstadt? After the horrors of National Socialism\, efforts are being made to regain international face\, experimenting with technical devices for generating sound. How does this electronic music sound to the Indian physicist?\n\nIn ‘The Sound of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala’s Sonic Explorations’\, composer\, theatre maker and conductor Sandeep Bhagwati sets out in search of the traces of this student. They lead directly to the contradictions of that era\, that conflict-ridden time saturated with repulsive particles and energies. The young man returned to India as a doctor of physics – but also as a sound tinkerer\, inspired by his experiences in Darmstadt. Living this multiple identity requires several names. For Bollywood\, he is Dhvanivala\, the sound supplier.\n\nSandeep Bhagwati follows his tracks as they branch out\, dissolve. As Dhvanivala becomes increasingly elusive\, the contours of his environment become clearer\, the movement between continents\, classes\, musical traditions and listening comprehension. The back-and-forth between contexts\, life in a post-colonial situation\, is not without misunderstandings\, not without violence; the back-and-forth requires masks and a sense of the imaginary.\n  \nABOUT SANDEEP BHAGWATI:\n\nSandeep Bhagwati is a composer\, artist\, curator and writer. Born in Mumbai to a German mother and Indian father\, Bhagwati grew up in Germany from the age of 5. He studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg\, the Musikhochschule Munich and IRCAM/Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris. He is a composer of contemporary music\, develops trans-traditional musical ways of working out\, explores new performative forms using electronic media works in multimedia performance and installation.\nHe publishes texts on the current situation of the arts and writes radio contributions. The theoretical and artistic examination of the musical cultures of Asia is a focal point of his work. He was a professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and since 2006 has held the Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada.\n \n  \n November 5\, 2026  \n 6-7 PM  \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-sound-of-misunderstanding-dhvanivalas-sonic-explorations/
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SUMMARY:Where Are They Now? A Milieux Alumni Reunion Chat
DESCRIPTION:As part of our 10th anniversary extravaganza\, we are bringing together former Milieux members for an informal roundtable discussion to chat about life after Milieux and how their time at the Institute shaped their professional paths. \nJoin us on November 6 as Allison Moore*\, Sandra Huber*\, Ida Toft\, Ceyda Yolgörmez*\, Gina Hara\, and Will Robinson share stories from their time at Milieux and discuss their current endeavors. \n This discussion will be moderated by Lynn Hughes*. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:  \nAllison Moore is new media artist working with immersive and expanded cinema based in Montréal. She studied interdisciplinary arts and film production at Concordia University. For the past years\, she has crafted an independent practice participating in residencies\, workshops\, and exhibitions internationally. Her work has been programmed at Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan)\, 39art (Japan)\, OBORO Gallery (Montreal)\, Traverse Video (France)\, Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil)\, Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal)\, FIFA Experimental (Montréal)\, and the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides. Her series of multi-screen video panoramas depict improbable landscapes referencing scenic dioramas. Her latest work Wunderkammer\, a 35-screen video wall can be seen in Place-Des-Arts (Québec). Moore works as a freelance editor\, compositor and animator as well as teaching workshops in New Media practices.  \nSandra Huber is a writer\, researcher\, and educator based on unceded Indigenous land in Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang (currently called Monteal\, Quebec). She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University and is a Lecturer and Area Head of Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices in Fine Arts at Concordia. \nIn her work\, Sandra Huber approaches questions concerning esoteric\, occulted\, or underrepresented ways of knowing and being through embodied research in the areas of interdisciplinary (in)humanities\, feminist material culture\, witchy pedagogies\, ritual and performance\, occult media studies\, disability studies\, and poetics. \nShe works especially with theories and practices of night knowledge (including witchcraft\, sleep\, dreams\, scent\, spirit worlds)\, alter-abilities (including spellcasting\, divination\, ritual practice)\, and wild writing (including sleep writing\, spirit writing\, spider writing\, collective writing\, new media writing).  \nIda Toft is an organizer\, curator\, cultural worker\, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. They hold a PhD from Concordia University\, researching digital art and experimental games. Since 2010\, their curatorial practice has focused on digital art\, with a particular interest in video games and sculptural forms. Before moving into curating and organizing full-time\, they developed experimental video games that were presented in galleries\, festivals\, and game events across Europe and North America. They are currently Curator and Production Director at ELEKTRA\, where they develop exhibitions and professional initiatives. Their work also includes developing the ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)\, curating professional programming—including talks and panel discussions—and developing international collaborations between artists\, institutions\, and cultural partners. \nCeyda Yolgörmez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Concordia University\, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies to create a framework for considering how our conceptions of the social are changing through human-machine relations. She works with quirky robots\, old machines\, broken technologies\, and others that do not conform to common sense\, to form a rich conception of agency and play. Often thinking through the art and technology intersection\, Yolgörmez hopes to create more vocabulary around the kinds of machinic relations that contemporary moment potentiates.  \nGina Hara is an artist\, filmmaker\, and activist\, working in various media including film\, video\, new media\, games\, and design. Her work explores marginalized narratives within the context of technology\, specifically social media and gaming culture. Hara’s feature documentary\, Geek Girls (2017)\, an exploration of nerd culture through the lens of women’s experiences\, was screened in theatres in Canada and Australia. Hara is also known for her machinima videos: Sidings of the Afternoon won the Critics’ Choice Award at the Milan Machinima Film Festival 2021. Hara is the Co-Founder of the GAMERella Game Initiative\, which is known for organizing the world’s longest-running inclusive game making marathon. \nWill Robinson is Partner and Head of Capital Formation at Alliance\, a crypto and fintech accelerator. He completed his PhD in Humanities at Concordia University in 2018\, studying how game rules communicate ideas and produce unexpected meanings. At Milieux and TAG\, he combined research with game-making\, including Cabinet Shuffle\, a card game about political representation developed with David Waddington. Before joining Alliance\, he worked in blockchain risk management at Grant Thornton. His career connects game design\, emerging technologies\, and the people and institutions building around them.  \n *Hexagram members \n  \n📅  November 6\, 2026  \n⏱️ 10-11:30 AM  \n📍 Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/where-are-they-now-a-milieux-alumni-reunion-chat/
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SUMMARY:Keynote by Darren Wershler:  Milieux and the Extended Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:This talk considers the Milieux Institute in terms of the Extended Lab Model in Darren Wershler\, Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson’s THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (U of Minnesota Press\, 2022). The Extended Lab Model was developed\, in part\, with Milieux as a core example; on Milieux’s 10th anniversary\, this talk considers what has changed in both the model and Milieux. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nDespite their sudden visibility due to the burgeoning of the digital humanities\, media labs have a surprisingly long history. As part of the historical avant-gardes\, media arts labs were the sites where the new materials and aesthetics of technical modernity were developed. They often share a common ideology\, tied not just to the neoliberal drive to privatize\, innovate and disrupt\, but to long-standing modernist ideas about creative destruction\, quantification and the value of scientificity. The Lab Book will thoroughly document and explicate this significant cultural force. \n📖 Learn more about the Lab Book \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDarren Wershler is Associate Professor at Concordia University\, where he holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature and is cofounder of the Media History Research Centre and director of the Residual Media Depot. Darren is author of several books\, including Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg and The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting. Dr Wershler specializes in media history and media archaeology\, with a particular interest in the material culture of analog and early digital technologies. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓 November 6\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/keynote-by-darren-wershler-milieux-and-the-extended-laboratory/
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