Speculative Life Research Cluster

Planetary Design, Reclaiming Futures--Conference coming October 23-26 at the ICI Berlin, Organized by a great group of people including Sudipto Basu, Nadia Christidi, and Eylül Iscen myself, as part of Governing Through Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought

Planetary Design Reclaiming Futures - ICI Berlin Today, many people are experiencing the uneven impacts of climate change, pandemics, wars, market crashes, biodiversity loss, and supply chain disruptions on a global scale. That a shared planetary future is, at best, uncertain is widely accepted. Governments, corporations, consultancies, and design...

Podcast | Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell, "The Smartness Mandate"… Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell, "The Smartness Mandate" (MIT Press, 2023)

The Speculative Life Research Cluster's Machine Agencies group along with the Algorithmic Media Observatory are pleased to host Dr. Louise Amoore’s lecture on Machine Learning Politics on May 16th at Milieux Institute.

☞ Registration to the event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dr-louise-amoore-lecture-on-machine-learning-politics-tickets-623706110767

☞ For more information on the event click the link bellow ☟

Dr. Louise Amoore Lecture on Machine Learning Politics Dr. Amoore introduces the concept of machine learning politics.

We are excited to share the release of the .able journal in the frame of • able Journal : A journal A new free and peer-reviewed image-based journal at the intersection of art, design, and sciences.

This international event will take place in Paris, Barcelona and online.

able was created at the initiative of Chaire « arts & sciences » of the École polytechnique, the École des Arts Décoratifs - Paris and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, .able journal is published by Actar Publishers and supported by some thirty international academic partners, brought together to publish innovative interdisciplinary research.

For more information, click the link bellow.

[March 23rd - 29th] .able: A new free and peer-reviewed image-based journal at the intersection of art, design, and sciences — Speculative Life From March 23rd until the 29th, participate in a week-long series of online and in-person activities to explore new forms of visual publications investigating contemporary sociopolitical, anthropotechnical, and environmental issues.  How can we go beyond text in communicating practice-bas

Today in preparation of Dr. Sophie Chao talk : More-Than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus (March 23rd, online), the Critical Anthropocene Research Group will host a readin group from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM to discuss Dr. Sophie Chao's work in preparation of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series.

The group will be reading Dr. Chao's paper titled "Plantation" available on the Environmental Humanities website.

To join this preliminary session, please use this zoom link: Meeting ID: 925 048 7498

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On Thursday, 23rd March, Dr. Chao will join us virtually from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM to speak about "More-than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus."

All details about this event are on the link below.

[March 23rd] Dr. Sophie Chao: More-Than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus — Speculative Life Recent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological interest in the topic of the plantation–an industrial formation and enduring logic that has been instrumental to the rise of colonial racial capitalism and the construction of modern nations and natures. In this talk, Dr Chao will draw on long...

The Milieux Biolab, the Concordia University Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality, and the City of Montreal will host a one-day workshop to explore different avenues to measure and understand atmospheric pollution on the scale of the city in an approach of research creation.

Participants will experiment with biotechnologies and bio-filtering materials for materializing air particulate matter, build a DIY monitoring kit, and visualize indoor and outdoor air pollution using microscopy techniques.

Information and registration here:

[March 24th] [re]capture: Bio-Materialization of Air Pollution — Speculative Life 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 In urban settings, the toxicity of the air, a milieu that is felt although invisible, is a growing issue. Particulate matter and gases generated

Do not miss Jean-Michaël Celerier's workshop on scoring interface Ossia.
This workshop will take place at Concordia University Speculative Life Research Cluster, 10th floor of the EV Building, room 10.625, (1515 Sainte-Catherine OuestMontréal, QC, H3G 2W1).

PLEASE REGISTER BY CONFIRMING YOUR PARTICIPATION AT: [email protected]

[March 2nd, 2023] Workshop Ossia by Jean-Michaël Celerier — Speculative Life 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

This Friday, the Ethnography Lab will host fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson for a talk: How can science fiction can contribute to doing social sciences otherwise ?

Kim 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.

Join us for this event animated by Marie Lecuyer and Carlos Velásquez, Concordia PhD candidates in Social and Cultural Analysis.

⇶ FOR REGISTRATION ↦ email lab coordinator, Maya Lamothe-Katrapani at [email protected]

[FEB 17th] Interview with fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson — Speculative Life Kim 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 ...

Join us today for artist in residency Tim Murray-Browne's talk at Milieux Concordia.

Information: 16:00 - 17:30 at Milieux Concordia University in the Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705).

The Speculative Life Research Cluster and the Performing Arts Research Cluster are glad to host Tim Murray-Browne as an artist-in-residence.

Tim will give an exciting artist talk: When we use a computer, do we have to think in the language of the computer?

Please join us on February 7th, 4pm at Concordia Milieux Institute!

[FEB 7th] Tim Murray-Browne: When we use a computer, do we have to think in the language of the computer? — Speculative Life Tim Murray-Browne will talk about his artistic practice of building embodied interactive systems. Particularly with dancers, he has found code introduces abstractions of the body, which can be more limiting than enabling. Recently, he has been using unsupervised AI to devise rather than design inter