Critical Media Lab - CML

05/13/2024

In case anyone wants to hear a talk about the politics of "accelerating AI adoption" (who wouldn't?!), it's not too late to sign up for this event tomorrow also featuring Ian Bogost.

04/19/2024

Great to be back at R-CADE with Jim Brown and friends at Rutgers-Camden.
https://rcade.camden.rutgers.edu

09/01/2021

The Critical Media Lab is pleased to announce the return of its live and in-person XDM boot camp at the Communitech Hub.

WHEN: Tuesday, September 7 at 5:00 p.m.

WHERE: Critical Media Lab at the Communitech Hub, 151 Charles St. West, Kitchener

Please sign up here: https://uwaterloo.ca/english/events/xdm-boot-camp

This event is open to any English grad student who is interested in learning about critical design -- with or without digital media. No skills in coding or circuit-bending are required. The boot camp will introduce participants to various methodologies (critical making, speculative design, applied media theory), which will be applied to the creation of a smartly critical and anti-pandemically FUN object-to-think-with.

WHEN: Tuesday, September 7 at 5:00 p.m. WHERE: Critical Media Lab at the Communitech Hub, 151 Charles St. West, Kitchener The Critical Media Lab is pleased to announce the return of its live and in-person XDM boot camp at the Communitech Hub. This event is open to any English grad student who is int...

05/31/2021

At this year’s CAFKA Art Exhibition, "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost", Professors Marcel O’Gorman (CML Director) and Jennifer Clary-Lemon (CML Faculty Collaborator) present "Hirondelusia: A Creative Turn Towards Species at Risk".

To learn more about their project, check out the CML website:

CAFKA 21 CML Project Posted on May 31, 2021 by j_lajoie At this year’s CAFKA Art Exhibition, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Professors Marcel O’Gorman (CML Director) and Jennifer Clary-Lemon (CML Faculty Collaborator) present Hirondelusia: A Creative Turn Towards Species at Risk. As their pr...

11/18/2020

A reminder that tomorrow at 4 pm, Waterloo English PhD Student Lillian Black will be presenting in the Digital Scholars Lecture series on Transgender Narrative Reclamation in Overwatch.

Register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/y645meab.

And don't forget to register for December 3 as well, when PhD Student Alexander Fleck will be presenting on the status of Video Game Preservation.

A lecture series featuring emerging digital scholars from McMaster University, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo.

11/09/2020

Register today for the emerging Digital Scholars Lecture series, Thursdays @ 4 pm. November 19 is Waterloo English's own Lillian Black, followed by Alexander Fleck on December 3.

This series is organized by Dr. Paul Barrett from the University of Guelph, Dr. Lai-Tze Fan from the University of Waterloo's Critical Media Lab, and Andrea Zeffiro, Academic Director of the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship.

11/20/2019

Another amazing music workshop with Matt Borland tomorrow, Wed Nov 20 @ the Critical Media Lab in Communitech. Open for everyone; no previous skills required

If you come, you could have a wistful, marvelous Marcel 'mirin you like this, like a proud father:

PS Bring your laptop!

10/07/2019

You, a UW arts student:
I'd be useless for the tech Workshops @ CML on Wed
Other arts students just like you:
No.(See comments)

10/07/2019

10/02/2019

Join us tomorrow night for Week 2 of the CML's collaborative workshop with the UW Music Tape Club (UWTMC). Matt Borland? He's the best.

07/19/2019

MAKING. MEDIA. THEORY.
A Critical Media Lab Showcase
Wednesday, July 24, 4 - 7 p.m.
Communitech Hub, Area 151, 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener
Refreshments will be served.

The students of ENGL 799: Making Media Theory are pleased to present the results of their course-based work at the Communitech Hub. These hacked-together, interactive projects reflect on complex theories such as brainwave storytelling, conductive upcyclying, technosexuality, automated genocide, dirty media, digital devolution, and the value of uselessness.

In addition, XDM MA student Brian Freiter will be presenting his immersive Major Research Project, which explores tactics for deflecting surveillance capitalism. Professor O’Gorman will also showcase his new video installation, “Treachery,” which premiered at Propellor Gallery in Toronto this summer. Finally, CML co-op interns Sridevi Kundurthi and Shelby Rose with display an eye-opening animation that introduces high school students to responsible device usage.

03/29/2019

The CML is pleased to co-host an evening with JARON LANIER at the CIGI Auditorium in Waterloo. Lanier is best known for his pioneering work in Virtual Reality, but what makes him unique is his critical thinking about technology and culture. His book You Are Not a Gadget, for example, calls for a technocultural future that fosters a "deepening of meaning" rather than "wave after wave of juvenilia." Lanier is also a musician, and he plans to showcase this talent at the event.

Details about the event can be found here:

A Renaissance Man for the 21st century, Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, artist, and author who writes on numerous topics, including high-technology business, the social impact of technology, the philosophy of consciousness and information, Internet politics, and the future of humanis...