Category: Projects

Guest Editors: Luciano Frizzera, Mónica Humeres, and Fenwick McKelvey. [English] This is a multilingual CfP. See the Spanish and the Portuguese versions below. [Español] Esta es una convocatoria multilingüe. Consulte las versiones en español y en portugués a continuación. [Português] Esta é uma chamada multilíngue. Veja as versões em espanhol e em português abaixo. Big… Continue reading Call for Papers: Model and the Reactor: AI as and against Environmental Media

As part of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference held in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Fenwick McKelvey, Jonathan Roberge, Mónica Humeres, Claudia López, Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro, and Luciano Frizzera organized a preconference on artificial intelligence infrastructure and public policy. Called The Model and the Reactor: Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure from Public, Private and Beyond. The… Continue reading The Model and The Reactor: AoIR 2025 Preconference Highlights

An unusual book involving many, many agencies edited by Ceyda Yolgormez, Bart Simon, and Fenwick McKelvey Applications open until 15 April 2026. Made possible through the Hexagram Network. Where is the artificial intelligence? With AI included in every job talk, abstract commentary, or refrigerator, our edited book, Many, Many Machine Agencies, challenges contributors to present… Continue reading Call for Chapters: Many, Many Machine Agencies Edited Book

Creative Engagements for Futures Literacies 20 November 2025Noon to 1:30pmMilieux Resource Room, EV 11.705 The ecological, social, and political challenges of our time require creative, more-than-human, and futures-oriented engagements. However, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative, caring, engaged, or collaborative thinking, making, or doing.… Continue reading Book Talk: Critical Design Research Methods

About the GenAI Studio The GenAI Studio aims to support Milieux and AI2 students, staff and faculty develop collaborative and personal research projects using generative AI. The studio’s technical and social governance is part of the ongoing research-creation of the studio itself and is subject to change. As a research-creation project, the studio privileges free… Continue reading 2024 Generative AI Studio Participants

Short Summary In the context of Concordia’s AI summer school and the critical AI conference, Unstable Diffusions, we held two related engagement workshops: one with students of the summer school, and one with Canadian civil society actors. Throughout the workshop we enrolled participants in joint futuring exercises using the strategic foresight method Three Horizons and… Continue reading AI + SOCIETY 2038

A 10-day public exhibition dissecting the role of art in the publicity of AI at the Society for Arts and Technology in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Dates: 15 – 24 May 2023 Daily 9:00 – 17:00 (Closed on the weekend) Free Entry Location: Café SAT (Society for Arts and Technology) Finissage May 23 18:00 – 22:00 19:00 ~… Continue reading (de)Stabilizing Diffusions

A two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations at Milieux Institute, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Rens Dimmendaal & Johann Siemens / Better Images of AI / Decision Tree reversed / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 May 23 to May 24, 9am to 5pm Online and in person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St WMontreal Quebec… Continue reading (un)Stable Diffusions

An Examination of AI Assisted Police Surveillance  Daniel Slapcoff, Camille Lapointe, Ali Usama Zreik and Warsame Isse