Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia

05/07/2026

[CALL FOR ARTISTS] Got a research-creation project in development? Milieux is offering funding to support student projects developed over the Summer.

This funding is intended to cover all the costs, including honoraria, materials, and small equipment.

Plus, selected works will also be considered for inclusion in Milieux's 10th anniversary showcase this Fall.

🚨Only current cluster members can apply.

📅 Deadline to apply: May 18, 2026

👉 https://milieux.concordia.ca/call-milieux-support-funding-for-research-creation-projects/

05/05/2026

[FRIDAY] Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Closing Remarks

Together with the Speculative Life Research Cluster, the Hexagram Chantier Ecotechnologies warmly invites you to join us for the closing remarks of the knowledge mobilization series Environmental Materials and/as Methods. This series has […]

05/05/2026

[FRIDAY] Environmental Materials and/as Methods Keynotes and Roundtable

How to mediate the banal? Inspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air, this two-day workshop invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of […]

05/05/2026

[THURSDAY] LePARC Tech Workshop
Le PARC Milieux

We will be looking at the light board, the audio mixer, and how to use these with some of the software that is accessible on the iMac computer in your […]

05/05/2026

[WEDNESDAY] Interdisciplinary Encounters Launch Evening

On Wednesday, May 6, 2026, the Hexagram Network will launch the 4th edition of the Interdisciplinary Encounters.   This will be the opportunity to discover the program, which will unfold […]

05/05/2026

[WEDNESDAY] What goes on in the kitchen of creative AI?: A conversation

How does one cook an AI? What happens in the kitchen when one is preparing ingredients for different kinds of agencies? What does it mean to move beyond instrumentalism; and […]

05/05/2026

04/29/2026

[May 7-8] Speculative Life - Environmental Materials and/as Methods

A series of engagement events by the Speculative Life Cluster and Hexagram

Conference is free and open to the public.

Interested participants for the workshop must register online by ordering a free ticket on this page.

• May 7 (1pm-5pm)
Talks and roundtables

Heather Davis, Producing Plastic Air
Director and Associate Professor of Culture and Media
Eugene Lang College, The New School

Juliette Bibasse, Creating at Large — prototyping off the grid and slowing down
Artist, Independent curator & studio director, Lemercier Studio, Brussels

Hexagram’s Ecotechnology Cluster
Site-responsive materials and methods: a water reservoir and its sediments
Martin Beauregard, Jean-François Côté, Natalie Doonan, Alice Jarry,
Marie-Christianne Mathieu, Gisèle Trudel

• May 8 (2.30pm-4.30pm)

Book Launches and Authors’ Roundtable
at 4th Space (1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W)

Sense-Making, Sheryl Boyle et al.
La poutine, Geneviève Sicotte
Eating the Urban Wild, Natalie Doonan

• May 8 (9am-5pm)
Public workshop

How to mediate the banal? Inspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air, this two-day workshop—organized by grad students from the Speculative Life research cluster at Concordia’s Milieux Institute—invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together, we will engage using critical walking, cartography, microscopy & biomaterial imprints.

The workshop is free, no experience is required. Max of 20 participants.

Interested participants must register online.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/speculative-life-environmental-materials-andas-methods-tickets-1987280439290?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

All events take place at the Speculative Life Research Cluster Commons
Concordia University, Milieux Institute
1515 St-Catherine West, Montreal, H3G 1M8, Room EV 10.625

Information: [email protected]
Réseau Hexagram

04/27/2026

Speculative Life - Environmental Materials and/as Methods [May 7th + 8th]

A series of engagement events by the Speculative Life Cluster and Hexagram

Conference is free and open to the public. Interested participants for the workshop must register online by ordering a free ticket online.

May 7 (1pm-5pm)
Talks and Roundtables

Heather Davis, Producing Plastic Air
Director and Associate Professor of Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College, The New School

Juliette Bibasse, Creating at Large — prototyping off the grid and slowing down
Artist, Independent curator & studio director, Lemercier Studio, Brussels

Hexagram’s Ecotechnology Cluster
Site-responsive materials and methods: a water reservoir and its sediments
Martin Beauregard, Jean-François Côté, Natalie Doonan, Alice Jarry, Marie-Christianne Mathieu, Gisèle Trudel

May 8 (2.30pm-4.30pm)
Book Launches and Authors’ Roundtable
at 4th Space (1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W)

Sense-Making, Sheryl Boyle et al.
La poutine, Geneviève Sicotte
Eating the Urban Wild, Natalie Doonan

May 8 (9am-5pm)
Public Workshop

How to mediate the banal? Inspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air, this two-day workshop—organized by grad students from the Speculative Life research cluster at Concordia’s Milieux Institute—invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together, we will engage using critical walking, cartography, microscopy & biomaterial imprints.

The workshop is free, no experience is required. Max of 20 participants. Interested participants must register online.

All events take place at the Speculative Life Research Cluster Commons
Concordia University, Milieux Institute
1515 St-Catherine West, Montreal, H3G 1M8, Room EV 10.625

Information: [email protected]

04/21/2026

[THURSDAY] [WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image

Join us for The Ghostly Image, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!
From 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.

Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu [email protected] and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”.

Join us for The Ghostly Image, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series! From creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries, exploring creative structures through origami, examining archiving […]