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SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for the fourth Epistemological Foundations Conversation\, delving into the fusion of Neuroscience\, AI\, and Indigenous Knowledges. EF04 invites you to join Dr. Karim Jerbi (Université de Montréal)\, Dr. ‘Ōiwi Parker Jones (University of Oxford)\, and Dr. Melanie Cheung (Cheung Consultancy Ltd) as they share their perspectives on knowledge creation within this intersection. \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations\, feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team to explore the construction\, validation\, and utilization of knowledge frameworks within various fields. The conversations offer an in-depth exploration of the integration of Neuroscience\, AI\, and Indigenous Knowledges. \nThis is a hybrid event. In-person attendance requires RSVP confirmation by email at abint-coordinator@concordia.ca. \nTo join the conversation online: Zoom link  \n🗓️ July 10\, 2024\n📍Speculative Life Research Cluster\, EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Milieux X CCA : "Propositions: Designing through Land"
DESCRIPTION:To conclude the 2024 edition of Milieux May Madness\, the Milieux Institute will host a conversation titled “Propositions: Designing through Land” on May 31st. Co-organized with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)\, the event will convene nine scholars to reflect on how design disciplines and their associated practices can better align with the concept of land. Following the presentations\, Speculative Life members Brennan McCracken\, Priscilla Jolly\, and Sarah Yems will share brief\, questioning responses to the propositions. \n“Propositions: Designing through Land” will bring together nine researchers who are embarking on an eighteen-month collective project: “In the Hurricane\, On the Land.” Funded by the Mellon Foundation and organized by the CCA\, “In the Hurricane\, On the Land.” aims to explore land-dependent design as a collaborative approach to addressing the tangible effects of the climate crisis\, indigenous land revitalization\, and related concerns\, including developing methods to document and engage with land-driven sites\, histories\, and communities. Through their research\, these scholars will examine and redefine the societal and professional boundaries of architecture and landscape architecture\, working towards a collective strategy for navigating the aftermath of natural and human-made disasters. \nAt this upcoming event\, the nine scholars will present brief propositions that address the themes of navigating\, coexisting with\, and experiencing land to enhance design practices. These propositions will provide insight into the scope\, concerns\, lands\, and peoples the project will engage with over the coming months. \nAll are welcome! \n📅 May 31st | 4-6 p.m \n📍Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n📸 Lee Friedlander\, Mount Royal\, Montréal\, Québec\, 1993. PH1994:0242\, CCA Collection\, © Lee Friedlander”
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-x-cca-propositions-designing-through-land/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240418T170000
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SUMMARY:A SOLARPUNK Lab: Eco-anarchism and micro-power to the people & PicoPower and Energy Transition Residency demo and discussion.
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, April 18th\, between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm\, at the Milieux Speculative Life Cluster for TeZ’s artist talk – SOLARPUNK Lab: eco-anarchism and pico-power to the people – and the Pico Power and Energy Transition residency demo and discussion. \n\n\nFrom April 3rd until April 19th\, transdisciplinary artist and independent researcher TeZ will work with Milieux Biolab researchers and students on the next phase of the Pico Power and Energy Transition project (with Alice Jarry\, Bart Simon\, Mike Cassidy\, Audrey Coulombe\, Sarah Al Mamoun\, and Matt Halpenny). They will develop biomaterials\, composites\, and technologies for alternative energy futures\, such as biophotovoltaic cells\, crystal or graphene batteries\, and conductive bioplastics toward wearables and site-specific interventions. \n\nABOUT THE TALK: \nThe talk will first introduce TeZ’s personal perspective on the Solarpunk movement\, particularly examined under the lens of creative DIY practices that he initiated in 2021 with his SOLAR PUNK Lab project. The presentation will conclude with a demo and group discussion around the experiments conducted as part of his residency at the BioLab. SOLARPUNK Lab is a project aimed at promoting the practical side of Solarpunk philosophy\, exploring and experimenting with methods that enable citizens to social and sustainable resistance\, against an ever growing sense of dystopian impotence\, agonizing capitalism and ecological catastrophe. The series of events organised with and by SOLARPUNK Lab\, are aimed at promoting “fluid” DIY strategies and at educating\, informing and enabling the general public to simple\, affordable and practical actions that put together renewable energy sources (solar\, eolic\, geothermal)\, physical computing\, digital fabrication\, eco-passive and morpho-eco-logical architecture\, natural and artificial photosynthesis\, bacterial fermentation\, mycelium culturing and other interdisciplinary practices to re-invent the present and re-design the future. \n  \n\n\nABOUT TeZ:\n\n\nTeZ (aka Maurizio Martinucci) is an interdisciplinary artist\, musician and independent researcher\, living and working in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. Guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty in Den Haag\, Minerva Academy in Groningen\, Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok\, TeZ is regularly showing his work and giving lectures at both academic and artistic contexts. His installations and performances have been featured at major venues and festivals worldwide including Ars Electronica Linz\, BIAN Montreal\, Gropius Bau Berlin\, Chronus Art Center Shanghai among many others. He’s been running the ‘Optofonica’ Lab for Synesthetic ArtScience in Amsterdam since 2006. \nTeZ explores the boundaries between human perception and all physical phenomena associated to vibrations. He crafts custom generative software and instruments for sound and light propagation\, as well as specific architectural structures where subtle oscillations can reach the body and stimulate  \n  \n: April 18\, 2024 | 3-5 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n🔗: solarpunklab.org | speculativebiolab.com | materials-materiality.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-solarpunk-lab-eco-anarchism-and-micro-power-to-the-people-picopower-and-energy-transition-residency-demo-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Performance as research - A conversation with André Lepecki and Lília Mestre
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 12th\, 2024\, from 5-7 PM\, at the Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625)\, for conversation between Lília Mestre and André Lepecki hosted by LePARC. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nThis conversation will focus on the relationships between performance practice and academic research. Participants will be invited to discuss how performance-based actions shape alternative academic processes and outcomes\, offering insights into envisioning and crafting sustainable futures. \nProposed questions include: What is the range of practices and strategies that challenge prevalent norms of how artists and academics approach research? How do these other strategies relate to issues of collectivity\, embodiment\, and process? What kinds of practices of co-imagination are resisting authorial individuality as privileged figure of knowledge in the humanities and the arts? And how can performance as practice of research generate anticolonial\, inclusive\, multiverse\, and unpredictable material and immaterial manifestations of relationality? \nThe conversation will be based on an example of performance to encourage interactions. Participants are invited to read two texts prior the event to have a common departure point. \n\n📖 Chapman\, Owen and Kim Sawchuk. 2012. “Research-Creation: Intervention\, Analysis and “Family Resemblances”” Canadian Journal of Communication 37: 5-26 \n\n\n\n📖 Desideri\, Valentina\, and Denise Ferreira da Silva. 2022. “Another Image of Existence.” Performance Philosophy 7(1): 132-145 \n  \n\n\n\n \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nAndré Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies\, curatorial practice\, performance theory\, contemporary dance\, and visual arts performance. He is a Professor and the chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He has published widely and edited several anthologies. He has also curated numerous festivals and exhibitions including the award-winning re-staging of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts. In 2010 he co-curated the Archive on Dance and Visual Arts since the 1960s for the exhibition Move: Choreographing You at the Hayward Gallery\, London. He is the author of the books Exhausting Dance (2006) and Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016) and the editor\nof Dance (2013)\, Planes of Composition (with Jenn Joy\, 2009)\, The Senses in Performance (with Sally Banes\, 2007)\, and Of the Presence of the Body (2004). \nLília Mestre (she\, her) is a performing artist\, dramaturge and researcher working in collaborative formats mainly in the fields of contemporary dance and choreography. She is interested in forms of organisation created by and for artistic practice as alternative study processes for social-political reflection. She has been working on the concept of ‘artificial friendship’ which has been the source for the creation of methodological structures (scores) for exchange and collaboration in artistic research settings\, which have been documented in various publications. She was artistic coordinator of a.pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels and is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and Co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She was granted the The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2023 for her research on expanded choreography “Through Materialities\, Movement and Description”. \n  \n\n\n\n\n: April 12\, 2024 | 5-7 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performance-as-research-a-conversation-with-andre-lepecki-and-lilia-mestre/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240410T140000
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to invite all Milieux members for a gathering at the Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 next Wednesday! Join us for lunch and conversation for our Annual General Meeting! \nWe will be sharing the latest proofs of the Milieux Annual Report (2022-2023). We warmly encourage everyone to join us\, regardless of your interest in the report\, we are simply eager to connect with you\, hear about latest projects\, and simply enjoy each other’s company! \n  \n: April 10\, 2024 | 2 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T180000
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SUMMARY:The Hologram: Towards an Anti-capitalist Care Practice
DESCRIPTION:On April 9th\, Machine Agencies of Speculative Life Cluster is hosting a 4-hour hands-on workshop on The Hologram\, a viral distribution system for non-expert healthcare\, led by Cassie Thornton. \n  \nWHAT IS THE HOLOGRAM? \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hologram serves as a mythoreal viral distribution system for accessible healthcare\, operating across the globe. Its concept is straightforward: 3 individuals\, known as the ‘Triangle\,’ convene regularly\, either online or in person\, to prioritize the physical\, mental\, and social well-being of a fourth person\, referred to as the ‘Hologram.’ In turn\, the Hologram imparts knowledge on both offering and receiving care to these participants. As they become proficient\, the Hologram guides them in establishing their own triads\, thereby perpetuating the system’s growth. \nThis social innovation draws inspiration from the experimental care models pioneered in the Social Solidarity Clinics in Greece during the peak of the financial and migration crises. The outcome of  The Hologram process is the establishment of a resilient multidimensional health network\, community-focused social rituals\, and a sense of trust capable of enduring beyond the era of capitalism. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP:  \nThis workshop introduces “incomers” to The Hologram practice with an introduction to its history and underlying principles\, along with a chance to actively engage in its methods. Originating from moments of crisis and designed for navigating them\, The Hologram combines personal reflection\, collective action\, and anti-capitalist strategies. The workshop consists of one-third presentation and two-thirds interactive participation led by two facilitators\, supplemented by experienced practitioners as necessary. Participants can expect support\, stimulating challenges\, and an invitation to join the broader global community of Hologram practitioners! \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nCassie Thornton (b. 1981 US) is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown\, for disobedience\, and for unanticipated collectivity. She uses social practices including institutional critique\, insurgent architecture\, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay\, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario\, Canada. \n  \n  \n  \n: April 9\, 2024 | 2-6 p.m \n: Speculative Life Research Cluster E.V 10.625 \n🔗: Make sure to register HERE as there are only 16 spots available!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-hologram-towards-an-anti-capitalist-care-practice/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240322T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240322T170000
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SUMMARY:Rendering Desired Spaces: Crafting Methods for New Digital Geographies
DESCRIPTION:On March 22nd\, The DIGS lab is hosting a research talk to explore the work of Lotte de Jong and Antonia Hernández. This will be followed by the screening of Fantasy Lane at 5 p.m. \n\n  \nAbout the talk: \nThis research talk will explore the work of Lotte de Jong and Antonia Hernández addressing the spatial construction of desire on sex webcam platforms and real estate role-playing pornography. \nThrough an overview of different artworks created between 2018-2024\, the authors highlight how these digital spaces serve as unique sites for investigating issues related to housing anxiety and desire\, the governance of visibility\, and the representation and inhabitation of virtual environments. They will also address the benefits and challenges of using arts-based methods and interdisciplinary collaboration to explore rapidly changing phenomena. \nThe talk will be followed by a screening of Jong’s and Hernández’s Fantasy Lane (work in progress) at the Vizualization Studio (Webster Library\, LB-314.00). See you there! \n  \nAbout the speakers:  \nLotte Louise de Jong is a Rotterdam-based multidisciplinary artist with a film and lens-based media background. Through website-based works\, VR\, and video installations\, she explores identity\, intimacy\, economy\, and sexuality in the digital realm. Lotte’s research-driven approach combines humor with critical reflection to shed light on our hidden online lives and societal impact. \nAntonia Hernández is an artist and assistant professor in the Communication department at Concordia University\, Montréal. Her work explores the poetic dimensions of governance and the domestic aspects of platforms. Currently\, she is developing a video opera addressing the financialization of water in Chile. \nThis talk is presented in partnership with Concordia University’s DIGS Lab. \n  \nWHEN: March 22\, 2024 \nWHERE: Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rendering-desired-spaces-crafting-methods-for-new-digital-geographies/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T150000
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SUMMARY:Drawing and Ethnography Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Ethnographic methodologies include a wide range of approaches\, many explored in the book A Different Kind of Ethnography (2016). One that has been neglected\, while having been a tool for expression and documentation for ever\, is drawing. Kuschnir (2016\,105) says “ Both anthropology and drawing are ways of seeing and also ways of knowing the world. Placing these two universes in dialogue helps shed light on some of the important issues faced by anthropological practice today\, such as the need to express both the “inner and outer worlds” that intersect in our research”. \nFor this workshop we’ll be going on a walk together to explore the city (location tbd) accompanied with our pencils and paper and invite you to reflect on the following questions together: \nHow is our gaze shifting when the practice of drawing is introduced in our observations/experience? \nHow is imitation\, reproduction and interpretation present in our observation? \nWhat does it reveal about our conscious and unconscious assumptions? \nWhat are some ethnographic insights in paying attention to the technique of drawing as a practice? \nThe workshop will be co-facilitated by Pelin Karaaslan\, a visual artist based in Montreal and Irmak Taner\, ethnolab alumnus. \nPlease email concordia.ethnography@gmail.com to register and to stay updated about the chosen location for the event.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/drawing-and-ethnography-workshop/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T140000
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SUMMARY:Repurposed Methods with Anna Harris by The EthnoLab & The Centre for Sensory Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Ethnography Lab and Centre for Sensory Studies are hosting a brown bag lunch on Repurposed Methods with Anna Harris\, Associate Professor of the Social Studies of Medicine at Maastricht University and an Affiliated Researcher with the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia. \nRepurposing is a term and practice growing in popularity\, whether in reference to the repurposing involved in upcycling\, the repurposing of pharmaceuticals\, or data repurposing\, to name a few. In the context of a new project on upcycling in hospitals\, Anna would like to consider with the attendees what it means to think about repurposing in regards to the project’s mythologies both for her work and that of those who attend. \nDuring the lunch she’ll introduce her research project\, and we’ll discuss one or more of the methodological approaches being developed. \nRe-use: what it means to make ethnographic materials available to other to use\nRecycling: what it means to use the open data sets shared by other researchers in our own ethnographic works\nUpcycling: how as ethnographers we can bring making methods (e.g. workshops\, exhibitions) into our research projects. \nWhen: 22nd November\, 12.30-2pm\nWhere: Speculative Life Research Cluster (EV 10.625) \nBRING YOUR LUNCH! \nPhoto Credit: Maastricht University
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/repurposed-methods-with-anna-harris-by-the-ethnolab-the-centre-for-sensory-studies/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T143000
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SUMMARY:Pizza Lunch and Website Launch at Speculative Life Research Cluster
DESCRIPTION:The Speculative Life Research Cluster of the Milieux Institute is thrilled to invite you for a slice of pizza to celebrate the launch of their brand new website with content focused on their latest projects and diverse breadth of research interests! After launching the site\, the directors and coordinators of the various research groups will be available to discuss their work in a fair-like style to curious students and faculty visiting the space. Spread the word! \nAbout Speculative Life: Based out of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, we place emphasis on science and technology studies\, ecology and environment\, scale and networks\, and have a commitment to futurity and imagination as being critical to design\, art\, and scholarship. This cluster of artists\, designers and scholars engages with multiple technical ecologies\, from bio-media to urban planning\, in order to foster creative ways to think about the future of the planetary scale transformations currently occurring as a result of human action and technical developments. \n*No registration is required
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pizza-lunch-and-website-launch-at-speculative-life-research-cluster/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Info Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T160000
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SUMMARY:[re]capture: Bio-Materialization of Air Pollution
DESCRIPTION:A one-day workshop hosted by the City of Montreal\, the Milieux Biolab\, and the Concordia Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality \nIn urban settings\, the toxicity of the air\, a milieu that is felt although invisible\, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated by transport and construction activities have significant impacts\, in particular on pulmonary and heart diseases\, rising temperatures\, plant photosynthesis\, and vegetation growth. While air participates in global interchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide at the planetary scale\, more intimate metabolic processes such as breathing also underline the porous and precarious boundaries between the living and its surrounding milieu\, raising social and political questions pertaining to the accessibility to a healthy environment. \nWhile ‘to recapture’ means ‘’to reclaim’’ and ‘’to re-experience’’ something or a situation\, what kind of artistic interventions can make us more attuned to the microscopic invisibility of atmospheric pollution and the macroscopic dimension of their socio-environmental issues? In this workshop\, Ville de Montréal’s Service de l’environnement will introduce participants to issues of air pollution\, its impacts on the urban environment\, and how air is monitored and measured. Participants will then experiment with  bio technologies and bio-filtering materials for materializing air’s particulate matter\, build a DIY monitoring kit\, and visualize indoor and outdoor air pollution using techniques of microscopy. \nWhen? Friday March 24th\, 10 am – 4 pm \nWhere? Speculative Life Cluster\, EV 10.625 \n*Free\, no technical skills needed \nREGISTER HERE\nIf you have questions\, please write to alice.jarry@concordia.ca \nThis workshop\, hosted in Partnership with Ville de Montréal’s Service de l’environnement – Réseau de surveillance de la qualité de l’air\, is part of the research project ‘Membranes souples dynamiques: la filtration de l’air comme processus d’échange matériel\, interdisciplinaire et socio-environnemental agissant’ (FRQ-SC). The activity will be documented by video\, audio\, and photography for research and publication purposes. Upon registration\, participants will be contacted to discuss documents and protocols pertaining to documentation procedures.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/recapture-bio-materialization-of-air-pollution/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230302T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230302T200000
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SUMMARY:Workshop Ossia by Jean-Michaël Celerier
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will give an overview and teach the participants how to use the free\, open-source\, cross-platform software ossia score\, starting from the ground up\, and with the goal to enable them to create installation work\, displays\, interactive music. The workshop will be given by the software’s principal author\, Concordia postdoc Jean-Michaël Celerier. \nDubbed “interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts”\, ossia score is a system which combines both the non-linear time-lines and the data-flow paradigms to allow artists to create rich evolving multimedia artworks\, musical pieces\, museum installations\, etc. At its core a sequencer with support for many communication protocols such as OSC\, Web Sockets\, DMX\, MIDI or serial protocols\, it supports real-time audio and video pipeline\, live-coding for Javascript\, GLSL\, C++\, support for tempo\, musical metrics\, hierarchical polyrythms\, distributed and collaborative edition and execution and interactive & looping features inits timeline\, along with an expanding set of interactive processes and library of effects and presets. The workshops will also cover how one can create artworks that leverage for instance embedded platforms (Raspberry Pi\, Arduino) or web pages. Learn more about the software here. \n* Jean-Michaël will also present a short demo of OSSIA on Wednesday\, March 1\, 2023\, at Art & Code meetup at SAT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE REGISTER BY CONFIRMING YOUR PARTICIPATION AT: PRODUCTION.HEXAGRAM@GMAIL.COM\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS\n– Users must bring their own computers and check beforehand that the latest version of ossia score runs on their machine. The software is free and available for recent versions of Windows\, macOS and Linux. Download it here.\n– Be motivated and ready to learn a completely new way to work on media art installations / performances / shows ! \nTARGET AUDIENCE\nMedia artists who use software such as Max/MSP\, PureData\, Unity3D\, TouchDesigner\, etc. and are interested in discovering a new free software system which allows to create interactive timelines for their works and learn how to introduce more time-based elements in media artworks. \nPRESENTER BIOGRAPHY\nJean-Michaël Celerier\, born in France in 1992\, is interested in art\, code\, computer music and interactive show control. He studied software engineering\, computer science and multimedia technologies at Bordeaux\, and obtained his doctorate on the topic of authoring temporal media in 2018. He develops and maintains a range of free and open-source software used for creative coding and intermedia art. Most of his work is centered on the ossia platform forwhich he is the lead developer. He enjoys organizing events on programming and media art. He teaches all sorts of creative coding languages (PureData\, Processing\, OpenFrameworks\,etc).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-ossia-by-jean-michael-celerier/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Interview with Fiction Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:How can science fiction contribute to doing social sciences otherwise? \nOn February 17th\, 2023\, the Ethnography Lab will be welcoming fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss fiction writing in relation to ethnographic practices. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a world renowned science fiction author\, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards\, who’s work centers mostly on the imagination of distant and proximate futures affected and dealing with what we might now identify as an inevitable climate crisis. KSR’s work on this matter stands out for his combination of uptodate developments in the scientific and social understanding of this crisis\, with fictional situations which more than illustrate an imagined future\, illuminate and map the present. KSR is today a principal figure in ecosocialist debates and an undoubted reference in arguments about the restrictions that the capitalist mode of production imposes on finding effective solutions to this crisis. \nThis event will aim at crafting speculative practices by which to envision experimental ways of performing and writing research through fiction. Beside pushing for innovative research tools\, the event will seek to explore the activist potential of imagining and existing otherwise\, through fiction\, and rendering research and knowledge differently accessible to larger audiences. \nScience fiction\, as a speculative genre\, has for years provided readers with the space to imagine other forms of social relations themselves determined by the existence of imaginary technological developments and scientific advances. In projecting imaginary futures\, particularly in a dystopian form\, science fiction exposes the limitations of existing discourses over economic and technological development and\, more importantly\, draws a thread from the contradictions of the present to imagined catastrophes of the future. Moreover\, in its inability to overcome certain oppressive views\, forms of gender and racial inequality\, even in its utopian imaginations\, science fiction projections allow us to reflect on the deep structural character of many of these social injustices. \nThe speculative method of science fiction provides social research with a critical tool for exposing inherent problems of existing social structures as well as the limitations of current policy in addressing these issues. Furthermore\, as Ruth Levitas suggests when speaking of utopias\, these speculative efforts facilitate “genuinely holistic thinking about possible futures\, combined with reflexivity\, provisionality and democratic engagement with the principles and practices of those futures” (2010). \nThe talk will be animated by Marie Lecuyer and Carlos Velásquez\, Concordia PhD students in Social and Cultural Analysis. \nTo register\, please contact lab coordinator Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at m_amoth@live.concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/interview-with-fiction-writer-kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Workshop with Dr. Kristina Lyons
DESCRIPTION:The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to a workshop with Kristina Lyons (UPenn) on January 27 th at 1:00 pm: Rivers and Reconciliation: Elaborating the Sociological Memory of War Through Science and Arts-based practices.  \nDuring this workshop\, Dr. Lyons will present an ethnographic and participatory action research project to reconstruct the “socioecological memory” of the Mandur River watershed in the Colombian Amazon. The objective of this project was to create conditions for community dialogues over the territorial ordering\, recovery\, and conservation of the watershed in the midst of ongoing socio-environmental conflicts. Dr. Lyons will discuss the proposal to engage in what grassroots organizations call “profound reconciliation” along with the ethical stakes of reconciliatory processes that tend to human and more-than-human relations damaged by the interconnected dynamics of structural violence and decades of war. She will also share the environmental humanities-based methodologies that emerged in our collective process to elaborate the memory of the Mandur\, as well as facilitate a cosmopolitical exercise to highlight the importance of fostering spaces for bettering (rather than transcending) conflict. We will also converse about the challenges posed for public engaged scholarship during times of transition that may shift toward the perpetuation of violence\, injustice\, and militarized forms of conservation. \n*For more information and questions please email EthnoLab Coordinator Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at mlamothekatrapani@gmail.com \nKristina Lyons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds affiliations with the Center for Experimental Ethnography and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.  Kristina’s research is situated at the interfaces of socio-ecological conflicts and science and legal studies in Latin America.  Her manuscript\, Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics\, was published by Duke University Press in 2020 and the Spanish translation in 2021 with the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá\, Colombia. It was awarded honorable mention by the Bryce Wood Book Award by the Latin American Studies Association. Kristina has also worked on the creation of soundscapes\, street performances\, photographic essays\, graphic novels\, community radio programs\, digital storytelling platforms\, and various forms of literary and journalistic writing. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-with-dr-kristina-lyons/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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