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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T123000
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
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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
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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/
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251120T120000
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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
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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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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/
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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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SUMMARY:Guest Talk: Extreme Design with Evgeni Puzankov
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on March 14th for a talk on extreme design and game narrative with Evgeni Puzankov. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nExtreme Design Spaces are wonderful. These are design contexts and tools\, not necessarily physical environments. This practice is an exercise in failure to approach every interactive project as its own medium in an industry that’s constantly in chaos. Playing with explorations of extremes is useful for your game development practice\, general creativity\, and it’s simply so much fun. It’s a wonderful response to an industry that loves telling you “you can’t do it” or “you have to do it this way”. The talk will cover creative constraints\, semantics\, dead genres\,  and artificial exceptionality. It will also include quite a bit of spite\, ideological and not. The talk will feature practical advice as well as a general overview. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nEvgeni “Zhenia” Puzankov is an award-winning narrative designer and game developer (as All Worms) with 17+ years of experience in the industry and 70+ released titles.  He is also a teacher\, curator of a microfund Briefs\, and a PhD candidate at York University.\n \nhttps://linktr.ee/all_worms \n  \n  \n  \n📅:March 14\, 2025 | 3-4 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-extreme-design-with-evgeni-puzankov/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:A Byte-Sized Welcome with Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Byte-Sized Welcome\, the exciting kick-off event for the new semester with Machine Agencies! \nCome on down\, grab some lunch\, and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations.  \n This is your chance to learn about our ongoing projects and hear about the upcoming activities and events we’re hosting! \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  \nMachine Agencies is part of the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Machine Agencies draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-byte-sized-welcome-with-machine-agencies-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Info Session
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series/Workshop] Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impact
DESCRIPTION:Alison Donnell\, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol\, will give a workshop for graduate students titled “Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impact.” This workshop coincides with a graduate course (HUMA 889 – Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies) but is open to all graduate students. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nThe workshop will use Donnell’s Caribbean Literary Heritage and the A-Z project (which started on Facebook) as prompts for greater reflection. To prepare for the workshop\, an annotated bibliography of resources in the public humanities will be shared with participants. In addition\, students will be given a question guide ahead of time to consider their particular projects\, research methods\, and key audiences\, and to share and learn in an interactive format. \n \n  \nABOUT ALISON DONNELL: \nAlison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature\, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture\, recovery research of women authors\, and Caribbean literary archives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: March 7\, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:30 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-workshop-who-cares-public-humanities-methods-and-building-impact/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 06
DESCRIPTION:Epistemological Foundations returns this Winter to continue the conversation around knowledge practices and their implications. EF06 will bring together Kari Noe\, Jason Leigh\, and Sara Diamond to reflect on their approaches to knowledge-making and elaborate on the implications of data visualization for community governance\, science communication\, and archiving. The session will be moderated by our co-director Hēmi Whaanga\, and hosted by Abundant Intelligences postdoctoral researcher Ceyda Yolgörmez. \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 Visualization to Indigenous Knowledges and AI. \nThis will be a hybrid event. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nKari Noe is a PhD research assistant at Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa\, and co-leads the emerging media lab\, Create(x)\, at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaiʻi at West Oʻahu. \nHer research includes: Human Computer Interaction\, Extended Reality Technologies\, and video game development for both serious and entertainment games. More specifically\, she is interested in the ways emerging media can support learning. As a mixed Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholar\, she focuses on projects that involve Hawaiian cultural heritage. \nHer research has been published in numerous conferences such as ACM CHI and ACM SIGGRAPH\, and her work has been featured in both local and international venues such as the Bishop Museum on Oʻahu or the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) in Montreal. \n  \nJason Leigh is the Director of LAVA: the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & applications\, Co-Director of the Hawaii Data Science Institute\, Director of Create(x) at University of Hawaii at West Oahu\, and Professor of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. \nHe is also Director Emeritus of the Electronic Visualization Lab and the Software Technologies Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, where he was previously Professor of Computer Science and Affiliated Professor of Communications. \nIn addition he was a Fellow of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and has held research appointments at Argonne National Laboratory\, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. \nHis research expertise includes: Big data visualization; virtual reality; high performance networking; and video game design. \nHe is co-inventor of the CAVE2 Hybrid Reality Environment\, and SAGE: Scalable Amplified Group Environment software\, which is the most widely used platform for information-intensive collaboration. \nIn 2010 he initiated a new multi-disciplinary area of research called Human Augmentics – which refers to the study of technologies for expanding the capabilities and characteristics of humans. \nHis research has also received numerous press from News media including: the AP News\, New York Times\, Popular Science’s Future Of\, Nova ScienceNow\, NSF Science Now\, PBS\, and Forbes. \nLeigh also teaches classes in Software Design\, Virtual Reality\, Data Visualization and Video Game Design. In 2010 his video game design class enabled the University of Illinois at Chicago to be ranked among the top 50 video game programs in US and Canada. \nJason Leigh explores the intersections between big data visualization\, virtual reality\, and high-performance networked computing. A UH computer scientist\, he founded LAVA: Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications and Create(x)\, a lab exploring how to harness advanced computational technology to advance Hawaiian cultural practices. He will contribute to harnessing ancestral knowledge-driven AI for immersive visualization. \n  \nDr. Sara Diamond\, President Emerita of OCAD University has led institutional transformation within arts\, digital media/ICT\, and post-secondary institutions for over 30 years. Diamond was President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University from 2005-2020\, leading its transformation to full university status. She was founding director of the Banff New Media Institute (1995 — 2005). As a historian\, media artist and computer scientist\, Diamond brings a deep interest in the relationships of human practices\, culture\, and technologies and a profound commitment to equity and Indigenous rights. She has been co-PI on major research networks such as Am-I-Able (wearable technologies and IoT) and the Centre for Information Visualization and Data Driven Design. She has undertaken NSERC\, SSHRC\, Ontario Research Excellent Fund\, Mitacs\, and foundation funded research in data analytics and visualization\, urban and transportation planning\, public art\, cultural analytics\, and wearable technology to support seniors’ wellbeing. Current funded scholarship includes acting as co-PI for the iCity2.0 project (ORF-E)\, applying AI tools such as generative design to complete community planning (ORF-E\, Mitacs); developing a Machine Learning qualitative analytics framework to understand the impact of screen media on audiences (Mitacs); creating mobile affective computing solutions to support mood analysis and mental health in the workplace (Mitacs); reassessing archives through visualization and metadata analysis (SSHRC)\, and ongoing considerations of human\, animal and machine agency. True to her early training as a social historian she continues to write about the history of media arts and technologies. \nRecognitions include the Order of Canada\, Order of Ontario\, Doctor of Science\, honoris causa\, Simon Fraser University\, 2020; the 2020 Exceptional Women of Excellence from the Women’s Economic Forum and two New Media “Pioneer” awards. She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College and Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin and UCLA. Diamond acted as a reviewer for the 2021 mid-term CFREF assessments and for the NFREF competition. \nShe is co-chair of Toronto’s ArtworxTO\, the Year of Public Art and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche; is the chair for the Toronto Arts Foundation and of the new Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. Diamond is an Expert Panelist with the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation and a Thought Leader with Lord Cultural Resources. \n(OC OO RCSA)\, President Emerita OCAD University\, has led collaborative efforts to strengthen equity and diversity and to support Indigenous cultures\, research\, and decolonization in the academy. She contributes expertise in data visualization and wearable technology\, research-creation methodologies\, and integration of Indigenous research methodologies into academic contexts. \n  \nCeyda Yolgormez is a Postdoc at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster\, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies\, such as large machine learning models or social robots\, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities\, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Hēmi Whaanga is a Professor and Head of Massey University’s School of Te Pūtahi-a-Toi – School of Māori Knowledge. He has worked as a project leader and researcher on a range of projects centred on the revitalization and protection of Māori language and knowledge (including Mātauranga Māori\, digitization of indigenous knowledge\, ICT and indigenous knowledge\, ethics\, traditional ecological knowledge\, language revitalisation\, Māori astronomy\, and linguistics). He affiliates to Ngāti Kahungunu through his father\, and Ngāi Tahu\, Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha through his mother. \nProfessor Whaanga is recognized as a leading scholar researching the revitalization\, protection\, distribution\, and development of Māori knowledge and language\, and incorporating mixed-method approaches\, processes\, and technologies to analyze\, develop\, present\, and protect new and sacred knowledge in different linguistic\, cultural\, ethical\, and digital contexts. His leadership in Māori digital initiatives earned him an invitation from the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge to lead and develop the conceptual framework for ‘Ātea’\, a multi-million-dollar spearhead project to conduct and share impactful research with experts in AI\, VR and AR\, NLP\, ML\, Indigenous and Māori data sovereignty\, and digital repositories \n  \n  \n🗓: March 6\, 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-2/
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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Alison Donnell: Mapping missing Caribbean women narratives in Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural 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. \nIn this first event\, Alison Donnell\, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol\, will present a seminar based on her upcoming book Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean. She will focus on the life and work of Barbara Althea Jones\, a Trinidadian poet and physicist at McGill\, author of Among the Potatoes. \nParticularly relevant for undergraduate and graduate students\, (and mandatory for students enrolled in GEOG 418 (Postcolonial Geographies)  the seminar will encourage reflection on the Caribbean diaspora within Montreal’s localized context\, as well as the broader postcolonial dynamics shaping the community today. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nAlison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature\, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture\, recovery research of women authors\, and Caribbean literary archives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nLost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region’s rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers – such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson – whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others – Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete\, for example – whose work has never been properly recognised. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these ‘lost’ writers\, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: March 5\, 2025 | 1:15 – 3:15 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n📖 A reading will be circulated in advance of the seminar. \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  \n                            \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-alison-donnell-mapping-missing-caribbean-women-narratives-in-montreal/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:A byte-Sized Welcome with Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Byte-Sized Welcome\, the exciting kick-off event for the new semester with Machine Agencies! \nCome on down\, grab some lunch\, and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations.  \n This is your chance to learn about our ongoing projects and hear about the upcoming activities and events we’re hosting! \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. Our research group encourages cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. We engage with posthumanism\, experience design\, and public policy to find new formats\, methods\, and commons to sustain just\, fair\, and better worlds. \nPractically\, that means Machine Agencies is a collection of researchers investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \nMachine Agencies is part of the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Machine Agencies draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: February 17\, 2025\n🕒: 12 – 1 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 More about Machine Agencies \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-byte-sized-welcome-with-machine-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Oral History in the Ruins of Industry
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media & Materiality Cluster for the second-to-last talk in our series of public talks and discussions on recent media history. In this presentation\, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia\, Steven High\, will reflect on how visual approaches have shaped his oral history practice over the past 35 years. Focusing on his ongoing research into the structural violence of deindustrialization\, High will explore the profound impact on working-class communities since the 1970s\, and how industrial ruins are often aestheticized during gentrification. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSteven High is an award-winning historian whose research on the structural violence of deindustrialization has put Canada at the centre of important global conversations about what a “just transition” might look like after past failures. His use of oral history ensures that his interpretation is grounded in the lives of working people. He has published many books and articles on this topic\, including Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class (2022) and Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003). His next book\, The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class\, to be released in February 2025\, considers how social democrats responded to the unfolding industrial crisis. He is currently leading a large transnational project investigating the politics of deindustrialization (see the website: deindustrialization.org). \n  \n🗓: February 14\, 2025\n🕒: 3 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Register here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/visualizing-oral-history-in-the-ruins-of-industry/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:LASER 15 – Artificial Intelligence\, Human-Computer Interaction\, and New Approaches to Musical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Co-chairs : Nina Czegledy and Ricardo Dal Farra\n  \nPresented as part of the LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks series and supported by Hexagram\, this event explores how AI and human-computer interaction are reshaping creative practices.  \n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are revolutionizing creative practices\, offering innovative tools and methodologies for artists\, designers\, and technologists. These advancements challenge traditional workflows and open up new possibilities in sound\, music\, and interactive media.  \n\n\n In this session\, Gabriel Vigliensoni\, Assistant Professor in Creative Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University\, and Marcelo M. Wanderley\, Professor\, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)\, and Area Coordinator for Music Technology at McGill University\, will explore cutting-edge research and practices in AI\, HCI\, and musical interfaces.  \n\n\nData- and Interaction-Driven Approaches for Sustained Musical Practice: \n\n\nGabriel Vigliensoni will present his research on the control and steerability of neural audio synthesis models through data- and interaction-driven approaches. His talk will emphasize how small datasets enhance performers’ creative agency and how interactive machine learning techniques improve expressivity and coherence in generative audio models. These concepts will be illustrated with examples from his creative practice\, demonstrating the potential for rich\, sustained musical engagements.  \n\n\nInterdisciplinary Research on New Musical Interfaces: \n\n\nMarcelo M. Wanderley will discuss interdisciplinary research on new interfaces for musical expression (NIME)\, highlighting the interplay between music technology\, HCI\, and engineering. His presentation will include an overview of early NIME designs\, recent advancements from the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University\, and insights into creative AI opportunities within this field.  \n\n\nTogether\, these talks showcase how AI and HCI are transforming music technology and performance\, opening new horizons for creativity and innovation in sound and interactive media.  \n\nMODERATION: \nNina Czegledy\, Adjunct Professor\, OCAD\, and Co-Chair Leonard/ISAST LASER Talks. \nRicardo Dal Farra\, Professor\, Music Department\, Concordia University. \n  \nSPEAKERS: \nGabriel Vigliensoni\, is Assistant Professor in Creative Artificial Intelligences\, Design and Computational Arts at Concordia University. His  work currently explores the creative affordances of the machine learning paradigm in the context of sound- and music-making. His practice merges formal musical training with extensive studies and experience in sound recording\, music production\, music information retrieval\, human-computer interaction\, and machine learning to explore and develop novel approaches to music composition and performance. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarcelo M. Wanderley holds a Ph.D. in acoustics\, signal processing\, and computer science applied to music. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of novel interfaces for music performance. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on new interfaces for musical expression (NIME)\, including the co-edited volume Trends in Gestural Control of Music and the textbook New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard. As the director of the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University\, he leads research in gestural control of sound synthesis\, new instrument design\, and analysis of performer-instrument interaction.  . \n  \n  \n\nLeonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is a program of international gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations\, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities and 5 continents worldwide.  \nHexagram gratefully acknowledges funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture.   \nHexagram is an interdisciplinary network in Montreal dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts\, cultures and technologies. It comprises around forty co-researchers\, forty collaborators\, and a little over 200 students from various artistic disciplines related\, in particular\, to living arts\, visual arts\, design\, and media arts\, while also touching disciplines in the social sciences and humanities or natural sciences and engineering.  \n  \n📅: February 4\, 2025 | 6-8 PM \n📍: Milieux Institute Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Hybrid event: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/lpl0qWm2SSes1g5OHVBb2Q \n\nAfter registering\, participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nThis event will be held in English \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/laser-15-artificial-intelligence-human-computer-interaction-and-new-approaches-to-musical-practice/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:2024-25 Undergraduate Fellows Introductory Presentations!
DESCRIPTION:It’s that time of year again!\nWe’ve just announced the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Fellows cohort\, and now it’s their turn to introduce themselves\, share their projects\, and discuss the topics that inspire them. \nTo welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community\, we invite all members (faculty\, students and staff) to join us for a special event on January 29th\, 2025. We are thrilled to foster their creativity and support their endeavours as they begin their research journey at the institute! \nJoin us for an informal gathering and presentations from these outstanding emerging researchers—plus\, enjoy some coffee and snacks! \nThe presentations will be held in-person. \nIn the meantime\, get to know this year’s talented cohort: \nhttps://milieux.concordia.ca/announcing-milieux-institutes-2024-25-undergraduate-fellows/ \nWe can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n📅: January 29\, 2025 | 3-5 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2024-25-undergraduate-fellows-introductory-presentations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Reception
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SUMMARY:Workshop on AI & DH (part 2)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day conference exploring the intersection of AI and Digital Humanities. \nThis event is organized by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) in collaboration with the Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique (GREN) and the Milieux Institute. \n  \nProgram:\nWednesday 15 January 2025:\n\n10am-10.30m — Welcome and coffee\n10.30am-11.15am — Paper #1 — Leonardo Laurence Impett (University of Cambridge): « The visual cultures of AI »\n11.15am-12pm — Paper #2 — Douglas Reside (New York Public Library): « Using Generative AI to Learn from Archival Performance Photography »\nnoon-1.30pm Lunch break\n1.30pm-2.15pm — Paper #3 — Mohamed Cheriet (École de technologie supérieure\, Montréal): « Unlocking the Past: AI-Based Visual Language Processing of Ancient Manuscript Collections »\n2.15pm-3pm — Paper #4 — Umair Rehman (Western University): « Generative AI in Automating Think-Aloud Protocols and Heuristic Evaluations »\n3pm-3.30pm — Coffee break\n3.30pm-4.15pm — Paper #5 — Marianne Reboul (ENS Lyon): « Detecting intertext between Latin and Greek authors through LLMs »\n4.15pm-5pm — Paper #6 — Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University) and Susan Brown(University of Guelph): « Tag Team: AI and TEI in LEAF Commons »\n\n\nThursday 16 January 2025:\n\n9.30am-10am — Welcome and coffee\n10am-10.45am — Paper #7 — Bart Simon (Concordia U): « A Tale of Machine Agencies: AI as a Toy\, not a Tool »\n10.45am-11.30am — Paper #8 — Faith Majekolagbe (University of Alberta): « Copyright Ethics and Artificial Intelligence »\n11.30am-11.45am — Coffee break\n11.45am-12.30pm — Paper #9 — Sil Robert Hamilton (Cornell University): « On Structuring Data for the Digital Humanities »\n\n\n📅: January 15-16\, 2025 | 10-5 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-on-ai-dh-part-2/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Join us Monday\, December 2\, 2024 for the 4th Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture. Hosted by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) this conference will feature a keynote delivered by Dr. Isabel Pedersen.  \nEntitled “Create Me\, Break Me\, Remember Me: Art and AI in an Age of Reinvention” this talk will focus on embodied computing\, algorithmic culture\, augmented reality\, emergent media\, and AI ethics. \nThe talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell with three graduate students. \n  \nABOUT ISABEL PEDERSEN: \nDr. Isabel Pedersen\, Professor of Communication Studies\, is an expert in the field of emergent embodied technologies. She is the founding Director of the Digital Life Institute (www.digitallife.org) at Ontario Tech University. She investigates emergent and future digital technologies. She concentrates on social\, ethical\, and cultural implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, social implications of extended reality (XR)\, AI ethics\, standards\, and policy related to AI technologies. As an entrepreneur and co-owner\, she has built and sold two successful software start-up companies. \n  \n  \nABOUT GEOFFREY ROCKWELL: \nDr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta\, Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College\, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and worked at the University of Toronto as a Senior Instructional Technology Specialist. From 1994 to 2008 he was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre (1994 – 2004) and he led the development of an undergraduate Multimedia program funded through the Ontario Access To Opportunities Program. He has published and presented papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and ethics\, philosophical dialogue\, textual visualization and analysis\, humanities computing\, instructional technology\, computer games and multimedia. He was the project leader for the CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) funded project TAPoR\, a Text Analysis Portal for Research\, which has developed a text tool discovery portal at tapor.ca. He has published a book Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet with Humanity Books and a book titled Hermeneutica (with Stéfan Sinclair) with MIT Press. This book is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant\, an award winning suite of analytical tools. \n  \n📅: December 2\, 2024 | 9-11 AM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room | EV 11. 705 \n🌐 The event will be streamed here ( advance registration required) \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/fourth-annual-stefan-sinclair-lecture/
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