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[ACTIVITY] 🌊We Carry the River — On the banks of the St. Lawrence River, practice listening to your environment. Natalie Doonan draws inspiration from Pauline Oliveros’s “Worldwide Tuning Meditation” to guide a sound-making and deep listening experience attuned to the site.

📆 Friday, August 14, 2026
🕐 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
📍 Maison Nivard-de-Saint-Dizier, Verdun

Would you like to take part? Let us know: 👇
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We Carry the River - Event registration Event Timing: August 14th, 1:00pm Event Address: Maison Nivard-de-Saint-Dizier, 7244 Boulevard LaSalle, Montréal, QC H4H 1R4 Contact the artist at (514) 343-6111 ext. 55514 or natalie.doonan(at)umontreal.ca

[CALL] Hexagram Network’s Chantier XR/Games invites anyone who is currently leading—or has previously taken part in—a research-creation project to submit a statement of intent for the proposal of a special issue at journal Captures.

Captures. Figures, théories et pratiques de l'imaginaire is a French-language peer-reviewed academic journal that also publishes articles in English. Although the call itself is not available in English, proposals in English are welcome.

⏳Deadline: August 16, 2026
🔗Check out the call https://hexagram.ca/en/appel-r***e-captures/

Appel à textes : dossier thématique à la r***e Captures - hexagram.ca Les contributions reçues au plus t**d le 16 août doivent porter sur la recherche création.

[ACTIVITY] 🎤 The ACM - Association for Computing Machinery FAccT conference is making a stop at Concordia for a special evening featuring a workshop and book launch on AI. This great networking opportunity is offered by the teams of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia and Abundant Intelligences.

📆 June 27, 2026, from 5 p.m.
📍 Milieux Institute
🎟️ Free registration: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/facct-milieux

PROGRAM

5–6 p.m. │ Workshop “From Formal Benchmarks to Street-Smart AI Certifications: Community-Grounded Approaches”
Define and expand benchmarking and evaluation practices from industry-defined performance measures to participatory and interdisciplinary approaches.

6- 8 p.m. ● Book launch and party on the Milieux Institute’s Terrace,
Celebrate the launch of Fenwick McKelvey’s book “SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers.”

FAccT @ Milieux Join us at FAccT for an evening of AI events and programming at Concordia University's hub of fine arts, digital culture and information technology, the…

Will artists soon be replaced by machines?

For its series “Teaching, learning and creating in the age of AI,” UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal spoke with co-researchers Sofian Audry and Jean Dubois, as well as professor Pier-Luc de Chantal.

“Jean Dubois does not subscribe to alarmist scenarios about the future of human creativity. Like Sofian Audry, he believes the most interesting question is how artists will adapt to this new technology.”

An article by Marie-Claude Bourdon to read here (in French)👇
https://actualites.uqam.ca/2026/repenser-creativite-heure-intelligence-artificielle/

Repenser la créativité à l’heure de l’intelligence artificielle | UQAM Les artistes seront-ils bientôt remplacés par des machines?

[NOS MEMBRES] 👏Toutes nos félicitations à Shirin Abu Shaqra, dont la recherche doctorale sur la restitution d’objets volés et la décolonisation des musées se voit financée par le Fonds de recherche du Québec.

Félicitations à notre doctorante Shirin Abu Shaqra, récipiendaire d’une bourse de doctorat des Fonds de recherche du Québec! 👏

À travers son projet de recherche 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒-𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑒́ 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑒 𝑑'𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒́𝑠 : 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑒́𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑒 𝑑𝑒́𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒́𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟 𝑙𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, Shirin explore de nouvelles façons de raconter l’histoire d’objets culturels contestés grâce aux technologies immersives.

Découvrez son parcours, son projet novateur et ses conseils aux personnes qui souhaitent se lancer en recherche.

👉 Pour les détails : https://www.nad.ca/actualites/reinventer-lhistoire-des-objets-contestes-grace-a-une-museographie-decoloniale-immersive

[OUR MEMBERS] ☀️ Concordia Researchers Create a Solar-Powered Minecraft Modpack & SMP ━ Step into a server where gameplay aligns with real-world solar cycles.

This modded experience was created by the team behind "For the Trees," a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded project led by co-investigator Bart Simon and Darren Wershler.

🎮 Join the experience

For The Trees- A New Modded Minecraft SMP For The Trees: A Reclamation RemixLaunching May 24, 2026What wil...

[DEMO71] 🪩 When a musician improvises with AI ━ “Résonance Latente” is a series of interactive audiovisual (A/V) improvisational stage performances between David Drouin—electronic musician and student member—and an artificial intelligence agent responsible for the visual counterpart.

The performances took place in the context of a research creation project exploring the potential of machine learning techniques to augment A/V improvisational capacities.

This project was conducted as part of a master’s degree at the Faculté de communication de l'UQAM.

🔗 Read more: https://hexagram.ca/en/demo71-david-drouin/

DEMO71 David Drouin – Résonance latente - hexagram.ca "Résonance latente" est une série de performances scéniques d’improvisation audiovisuelle (A/V) interactive entre un musicien et un agent d’intelligence artificielle.

[MEMBERS] ☀️ Under the Baltic midnight sun, Nancy Bussières (École supérieure de théâtre de l'UQAM) and Julie Trudel (École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'UQAM) will present their work at the prestigious Finlayson Art Area Festival in Finland, from June 13 to August 16.

Their universes converge in ’Saillie II”, a motorized sculpture that unfolds a hybrid language of light and matter. This work was made possible through Hexagram Network’s Support Program for Collective Initiatives and developed during a research residency at Hexagram-UQAM.

Discover more👇
https://hexagram.ca/en/briller-en-finlande-a-lexposition-deux-soleils/

Briller en Finlande à l’exposition « Deux soleils » - hexagram.ca Cet été, Nancy Bussières et Julie Trudel présenteront une œuvre inédite dans une exposition au prestigieux festival Finlayson Art Area 2026.