Category: Talks and Presentations (Page 2 of 6)
The 18th International Images Festival of Manizales in Colombia invited Santiago Tavera in collaboration with textile and performance artist Laura Acosta, and civil engineer and media artist Milton Riaño to develop an experimental workshop in June 10th, 2019. This workshops invited artists and researchers to collaborate on a series of 360° video productions using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, interactive motion interfaces and live image alterations. This projects explored the expanded body as a virtual cyborg – a being composed of artificial and human components. Through cross-discipline interactions between bodies, spaces and digital media, the project investigated the effects these connections have on social and personal processes of identification and representation.
Furthermore on June 14th, Santiago Tavera and Laura Acosta gave an artist talk on their collaborative project, The Novels of Elsgüer, which has recently been exhibited in Montreal at Articule and in Colombia at the Cultural Center Rogelio Salmona in 2018. Their participation in this international festival has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Artist and professor, Paul Landon, was recently invited to present Elastic Spaces’ incorporation of indigenous knowledge into our teaching and research, more specifically during our most recent collaboration with the Pacheedaht community on the West coast of Canada. This talk was given on a bus from Rovaniemi to Lake Inari, Finland, during the Land of Midnight Sun- Bridging event / Field Trip to Inari on June 1st, 2019.
From December 5 to 7, 2018, the Climate Clock was projected at the corner of De Maisonneuve Boulevard and MacKay Street, thanks in part to Elastic Spaces member, Damon Matthews, professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and Concordia Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability.
The Climate Clock is a visualization tool developed by Matthews and David Usher, founder of the Human Impact Lab. It harnesses data, art, technology and interactivity to add to the conversation about climate change. “If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, we will reach 1.5°C of global warming in less than 16 years. This is the direction we’re headed right now, but it’s important to stress that this is not the direction we need to take,” Matthews says. “There are actions all of us can take to reduce our carbon emissions and add time to the clock.” The projection of the clock coincided with COP 24, a United Nations climate change conference in Poland. The event also marked the release of new data about carbon emissions, to be published by the Global Carbon Project.
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IMAGE: Generativity 2016, Installation: Nanda D’Agostino Corps collectif: Isabelle Choinière. Crédit Photo: Brian Foulkes
Thursday 27 September 2018, 09:30 – Saturday 29 September 2018, 17:00
DR-200, Pavillon Athanase-David, UQAM, 1430 rue Saint-Denis, Montréal
Organization:
On Friday September 28, 2018 as part of the Colloque Cybercorporéités: Subjectivités Nomades en Contexte Numérique, Elastic Spaces’ Leila Sujir and Paul Landon will be presenting their research Elastic spaces: archaeologies and practices of image, space and body The talk will take place from 10:30am to 11:00 am as part of the “De la relation au corps interface vers une expérience de cybercorporéité” séance.
Présentation du colloque
Ce colloque bilingue présente des réflexions sur la reconfiguration des identités et la transformation des expériences subjectives à l’ère du numérique. Abondamment documentée et commentée depuis le milieu des années quatre-vingt-dix, la série d’innovations techniques qui a fait que nous vivons maintenant à l’ère du numérique a eu pour conséquence un important changement de paradigme quant aux régimes de corporéité de nos sociétés. La corporéité étant un mode d’être, c’est un état de corps qui ne peut plus être référé à sa seule réalité biologique. À l’ère du numérique, elle devient une réalité en transformation, mobile, instable, faite de réseaux d’intensités et de forces, contraignant le corps à se reconfigurer, à se réorganiser et à devenir autre dans son contact avec la technologie.
Le programme du colloque se déroule autour de quatre axes transdisciplinaires en interrelation. Le corps figure désigne la représentation et mise en scène du corps et de sa relation aux technologies numériques dans les fictions littéraires, les arts médiatiques et arts vivants. Le corps interface interroge la relation du corps avec les dispositifs interactifs ainsi qu’avec les environnements immersifs, et pose la question du rôle que le corps en mutation joue en tant qu’interface lorsqu’il est en contact sensori-perceptuel avec la technologie. Le corps savoir désigne la valeur épistémologique et critique des matérialités numériques et prend sa source dans l’idée que les outils du Web participatif et sémantique transforment les pratiques de la recherche. Le corps sensible et somatique interroge des enjeux émergents, tant au niveau pratique que théorique, dans le contexte des nouvelles scènes performatives contemporaines intégrant la technologie. D’ordre multisensoriel et multimodal, ces pratiques exigent des chercheurs une réévaluation de cette relation du corps sensible/somatique à la technologie.
For more information on the Colloquium check out the link below:
As part of the 3rd Edition of Festival International du film Canada Chine this September 21- 27th 2018, we are happy to announce that Elastic Space´s Leila Sujir and Santiago Tavera will be giving a talk on September 27th as part of the Entertainment Technology Summit and Exhibition.
Where: Salon Crystal, Salles de bal Le Windsor, 1170, rue Peel, Bureau 110, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 4P2
When: September 27th, 2018 at 1:00pm
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AGGV_10290_Offsite_Insight_forest breath JUNE 17
Date: SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 | 2–4PM
Location: PORT RENFREW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 6633 DEERING ROAD
Join artist Leila Sujir for a video screening of Forest Breath: A Portrait In Progress, a 3D stereoscopic video installation filmed with an IMAX rig with two Sony F65 8k cameras in the south Walbran. Experience this innovative work in development, meet the artist, and contribute insights towards a broader understanding of these unique forests.
GALA – July 23–30, 2018
This July 23- 30th Concordia University is pleased to host both a conference and an International Graduate Summer School in partnership with GALA.
The Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) is a select international community of institutions, faculties, programmes, and research centres that seeks to develop new kinds of research and teaching collaboration, to support enhanced international mobility among staff and students, and to reimagine liberal arts education for the twenty-first century.
This event will be featuring three of our Elastic Spaces members, Anthony Head, Gary Sangster, and Leila Sujir.
Schedule:
July 27
11:00 – 12:30 – Sensations, Spaces, and Spectacles: Shaping Experience for Audiences, Now and in the Future – Gary Sangster (Bath Spa)
13:30 – 15:00 -Co-Creation and the Public Role of Liberal Arts: Workshop developing a single piece of digital media, and an associated description or reflection, intended to make their research accessible to public audiences and highlight an important social issue – Anthony Head and Leila Sujir
For more information check out the link below:
http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/academics/summer/GALA2018/GALA-Conference.html