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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Ghostly Image\, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \n Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n\nThis workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs\, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice\, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing\, lifting\, folding\, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper\, cardboard\, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood\, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition. \n\nParticipants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film\, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process.\n  \n                                                   \n  \nABOUT CASPER SUTTON-FOSMAN:\n  \n\nCasper Sutton-Fosman is a curator\, artist and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, also known as Montreal. Their work engages with queer and disabled relationships to lens-based art and image capture technology\, moving through complex temporalities and webs of connection. They hold an MFA from OCAD University and are a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University.\n\n  \n  \n\n April 23\, 2026 \n 1 – 4 PM \n MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-the-ghostly-image/
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Virtual Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Virtual Gallery\, the second workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE VIRTUAL GALLERY WORKSHOP: \nThis first workshop invites participants to reimagine and transform their images into extrapolated 3-D renderings using local AI\, then install them in a shared virtual gallery built in Blender & Unity. \nThis is a highly introductory workshop designed to explore possibilities and create a fun collaborative shared virtual gallery space\, and to spark discussions regarding authorship\, and is open to all Milieux Cluster members! \n  \n  \nFrom 2D to 3D using AI \n📍 MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825 \n⏱️ 11:30-1:30 PM \nThe first part of the workshop will be facilitated by PhD student François Lespinasse of Machine Agencies\, who will guide participants through the process of rendering 2-D images into 3-D renderings using the local AI computer at Machine Agencies\, and briefly introduce other methods of generating 3D content with AI sources.  \nBe sure to bring your own images of little things to transform into 3-D! \n  \n  \nFrom 3D to Virtual Reality\n📍 Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631 \n⏱️ 1:30 – 3:30 PM \nThe second part of the workshop will be led by Part-time Faculty Marco Luna Barahona\, VR technologist at the Immersive Storytelling Studio\, who will walk participants through the basic processes of creating a virtual space (the gallery)\, formatting the 3-D elements and populating the gallery\, discussing different options for expressing a specific narrative and creating a truly immersive experience. \n  \n👉 Participants are invited to bring their own work in the form of short videos\, existing 3-D renderings & images whose 3-D renderings they are happy to include in a shared VR gallery space. \n  \nSpots are limited!  \nTo book your spot\, RSVP to Marc Beaulieu at marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-virtual-gallery/
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Coded Biophilia
DESCRIPTION:Special Edition Thursday Experiential Working Workshop at Milieux to start off May! \n\nThis special end-of-term session is ‘Coded Biophilia’ taught by special guest gi!\nThursday May 2nd 2024 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm.\nwith gi (Giulia Tomasello) & Alexandra Bachmayer. \nCoded Biophilia is a workshop designed to learn basics of soft wearables and the exploration of biological textiles. A space where participants will explore the potential of bacterial cellulose for textile futures in terms of growing living materials and creating speculative scenarios for second skins\, sensors\, and adaptive responsive structures. Learning new methods of making sensory surfaces for wearables and to envision how biotechnology and new materials will shape our environment. At the end of the workshop\, participants will be able to identify state-of-the-art soft wearable and bio-textiles applications and produce e-textile and bio-textile samples and if there is time a small prototype. \nCan soft technology expands the ways our bodies sense and interact with the environment? \n*Please email to reserve a space as slots are limited. Contact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Coded Biophilia’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days. \n_____ \n\nGiulia Tomasello is an interaction designer and educator committed to female intimate care and its innovation. \nFounder of ALMA Futura\, a research and consulting studio where design\, science and anthropology combine to co-create tools for a cultural and radical change in womxn’s bodies. In 2018 with the project Future Flora\, she won the STARTS Prize\, a European award assigned to projects representing “innovative alliances between technology and artistic practices”. Her multidisciplinary work has also received other awards at European and international levels such as the World Omosiroi Japanese Award in 2020. \nGiulia offers a new deeper understanding in female’s wellbeing and prevention\, developing innovative tools at the intersection of medical and social sciences. She is co-founder of the Bruixes-Lab collective [nomadic lab of bio-hacking\, sx-tech and witchcraft rituals]\, Hogar [cultural association focused on gender health and performance] and Tides project [sexual wellness brand for women in mid-life]. Coded Bodies is her teaching platform designed to learn the basics of wearable technology\, materials innovation and the exploration of biological textiles. Since 2017\, she has been teaching in several Italian and European universities such as Politecnico di Milano\, Royal College of Arts in London and Head in Geneva. She currently lectures at the Domus Academy in Milan\, the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and the Kunstuniversität in Linz. \n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-coded-biophilia/
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Tactile Sound
DESCRIPTION:Friday Workshops at Milieux continues after Reading Week! \n\nThe third session will be: ‘Tactile Sound’\nFriday March 8th 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.\nwith Ryth Kesselring & Geneviève Moisan. \nThis workshop aims to explore the senses\, by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? We will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textiles and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \nMulti-disciplinary artist and recent MFA graduate Ryth Kesselring will discuss her research and recent projects\, along with other work in this field. She will then demonstrate the use and capabilities of several components that can facilitate the inclusion of sound into a textile wearable / artwork. We will also look at different textile speaker coils and magnet configurations in relation to the body to experience the sound in different ways. \nPlease email to reserve a space as slots are limited.\nContact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Tactile Sound’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days. \n  \n\nPart of Milieux’s Winter experiential learning workshop series\, exploring themes relating to AI & microbial agency\, issues of sustainable practices\, and intimacy and alternate senses\, splicing traditional craft techniques with creative new ways of working. This season’s workshop series in development include: AI Poetry Embroidery\, Exploring Archiving with Bio-Plastics & Resins\, Bacterial Portraiture\, Alternative Pigments (Algae\, Rust & Plant Matter) and Tactile Sound! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-tactile-sound/
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SUMMARY:Milieux experiential learning workshop series | Embroiderverse: Interfacing AI Text and Textile
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Workshop season continues! \nThis winter we are hosting an experiential learning workshop series\, exploring themes relating to AI & microbial agency\, issues of sustainable practices\, and intimacy and alternate senses\, splicing traditional craft techniques with creative new ways of working. This season’s workshop series in development include: AI Poetry Embroidery\, Exploring Archiving with Bio-Plastics & Resins\, Bacterial Portraiture\, Alternative Pigments (Algae\, Rust & Plant Matter) and Tactile Sound! \n  \nThe second session will be: ‘Embroiderverse: Interfacing AI Text and Textile’\nFriday February 23rd 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.\nwith Morris Fox & Geneviève Moisan and guest Zeph Thibodeau.\nCome create with bots (& other people)!\n \n‘Fusing traditional and machine embroidery methods to stitch decorative poem slogans\, we explore language as code through textile and text’s shared Latin root texere (to weave). Noting the long entwinement of computational and textile histories and techno-cultures\, we will engage chat-bot models to play with material and experiential text and decorative threads. Using the Tajima industrial embroidery machine’s design software database of typefaces as data inputs\, we generate textured poem words. How is AI both a threat and a thread of narrative language? How can poetry hack language-based chat AI’s\, and produce playful failure? This peer-guided experiential learning workshop shares these questions and through tactile processes\, we speculate on what it means to collaborate with AI?’ \nPlease email to reserve a space as slots are limited. Contact marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca\, and be sure to include ‘Embroiderverse’ in the subject line.\nConfirmations will be sent out within a couple of days.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-experiential-learning-workshop-series-embroiderverse-interfacing-ai-text-and-textile/
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SUMMARY:Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are happy to invite everyone to join us for the first workshop in the Soft & Squishy Sensing Switches series: Fabric pressure sensors and soft switches workshop\, with lee wilkens & Alex Bachmayer. \nWhen? Monday\, March 13th 2:00 – 5:00 pm \nWhere? MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)\nIn this workshop you will learn how to use e-textiles to make soft fabric-based switches and pressure sensors. We will demonstrate techniques on how to layer conductive fabric and velostat to create components that respond to a push\, press\, squish\, or bump using a pre-programmed Gemma microcontroller. \n*No experience required\, but spaces are limited.**Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu (marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca) with ‘Soft Switches Workshop’ in the subject line. Be sure to include your name\, ID and research cluster if applicable.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/soft-squishy-sensing-switches-workshop/
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