https://materials-materiality.ca critical practices in materials & materiality Mon, 06 May 2024 01:46:24 +0000 https://materials-materiality.ca en https://materials-materiality.ca/Main Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:33:33 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Main <img width="2897" height="1366" width_o="2897" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fa18d618e8ad77d16df6a15b736d616c38ed39d673dad5fcfff6e359ea98d12/banner_3.jpg" data-mid="136045487" border="0" alt="a patterned cylinder on a gradient background with text to the right" data-caption="a patterned cylinder on a gradient background with text to the right" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fa18d618e8ad77d16df6a15b736d616c38ed39d673dad5fcfff6e359ea98d12/banner_3.jpg" />3D Abaca filter by Jacqui Beaumont, Soft Membranes and Air Filtration project, dir. Dr. Alice Jarry. FRQ-SC, 2021 <img width="1904" height="220" width_o="1904" height_o="220" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1848247bc7d8990bf8fed5e63ed06a43816d852cd1638103cd55aeb045f302e/Research_Highlights.png" data-mid="135951117" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1848247bc7d8990bf8fed5e63ed06a43816d852cd1638103cd55aeb045f302e/Research_Highlights.png" /> https://materials-materiality.ca/Brice-Ammar-Khodja Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:54:44 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Brice-Ammar-Khodja <img width="2048" height="1538" width_o="2048" height_o="1538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/790b3ca54520e1fa71b89cf4ca5ccf27f689391337fc708f4d03c12f04eabbd8/366641582_10160766624399034_5423959802974216713_n.png" data-mid="220073194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/790b3ca54520e1fa71b89cf4ca5ccf27f689391337fc708f4d03c12f04eabbd8/366641582_10160766624399034_5423959802974216713_n.png" /> Brice Ammar Khodja is an artist, graphic designer, and Ph.D. student based in Montreal . His work examines active materials, residual matter, and low-technologies to explore the socio-environmental and political interconnections pertaining to materiality and visual information. He is currently pursuing a thesis jointly supervised in Concordia University – Montreal (Individualized Program) and EnsAD, EnsadLab – Paris (Reflective Interaction research group, SACRe program). He is a member of the Speculative Life Research Cluster (Milieux Institute), the Centre for Sensory Studies, and the Concordia’s Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities. Brice is a current member of the international research-creation network Hexagram. Co-director of the typography magazine Pied de Mouche, Brice Ammar-Khodja, creates workshops and educational tools for the general public. His works have been exhibited at Ars Electronica, MUTEK, Centre Pompidou, Biennale internationale du Design, la Cité internationale des Arts, V2_Institute for Unstable Media, Musée historique de la Ville de Strasbourg. https://materials-materiality.ca/Alexandra-Bachmayer Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:43:18 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Alexandra-Bachmayer <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7c05846380428fa9530d0a9a6abf1b4b8bf75489928543ab6edb50cfb28baa9/Alex-Bachmayer-headshot_01.jpg" data-mid="127406578" border="0" alt="Person with long hair tied up in a pony tail, wearing a black long sleeve shirt. In the background there is a concrete wall with dripping strips of paint." data-caption="Person with long hair tied up in a pony tail, wearing a black long sleeve shirt. In the background there is a concrete wall with dripping strips of paint." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7c05846380428fa9530d0a9a6abf1b4b8bf75489928543ab6edb50cfb28baa9/Alex-Bachmayer-headshot_01.jpg" /> Alexandra Bachmayer is a Montréal/Tiohtià:ke-based artist and researcher exploring hybrid materialities through her digital, textile, and bioart practice. Whether developing haptic performance garments or textile dyes from pigment-producing bacteria, her work is largely focused on empathy, playfulness, and the deep ecology of the materials.&nbsp; She worked at XS Labs and matralab, contributing to the fields of electronic textiles and music performance through the body:suit:score project and is the costume designer for Petrikor Danse’s Habitat, fusing soft electronics, bioplastics, and contortion dance. Her work has been presented at the Visual Voice Gallery, HCII 2019, and the Centre Pompidou. She is currently the technician for the Speculative Life BioLab at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University. https://materials-materiality.ca/Natalia-Balska Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:37:49 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Natalia-Balska <img width="1884" height="1884" width_o="1884" height_o="1884" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/114056a530aa468bc92ece4b0fb22d7fbedf5cdf4a26ed1adb028885b91975bf/Vanessa-Mardirossian_photoshopped-copy.jpg" data-mid="127800188" border="0" alt="Person wearing a silky light blue / purple long sleeved shirt with a collar. They are gazing directly forward with a slight smile. They have very long brown hair that in-front of one shoulder and behind the other shoulder." data-caption="Person wearing a silky light blue / purple long sleeved shirt with a collar. They are gazing directly forward with a slight smile. They have very long brown hair that in-front of one shoulder and behind the other shoulder." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/114056a530aa468bc92ece4b0fb22d7fbedf5cdf4a26ed1adb028885b91975bf/Vanessa-Mardirossian_photoshopped-copy.jpg" /> Natalia Balska graduated in Graphic and Media Design from the University of the Arts in London. In 2014, she obtained an MA degree from the Faculty of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Part of her degree work was B-612, an installation exploring the relations between plants and artificial intelligence, which was later displayed at the TEST EXPOSURE 2015 WRO Biennale, winning the Main Prize of the 1st Competition for Media Arts Graduation Projects. She is currently a student in PhD INDI program at University of Concordia.Instagram https://materials-materiality.ca/Jacqui-Beaumont Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:50:33 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Jacqui-Beaumont <img width="487" height="487" width_o="487" height_o="487" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/509e725ef5e711df9e141a013ce08791450c1a88430d9362da0745fcce0904e1/Jacqui-Beaumont-Headshot_cropped.jpg" data-mid="128104954" border="0" alt="A person wearing a black short sleeve top with dark black eye makeup and long brown hair tied back in a ponytail." data-caption="A person wearing a black short sleeve top with dark black eye makeup and long brown hair tied back in a ponytail." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/487/i/509e725ef5e711df9e141a013ce08791450c1a88430d9362da0745fcce0904e1/Jacqui-Beaumont-Headshot_cropped.jpg" /> Jacqui Beaumont is a transdisciplinary bio-artist, researcher and material practitioner based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Her practice investigates queer ecology, trans-theory, material transfiguation and genetics. She holds a BFA and fellowship status from Concordia University in Fibers and Material practices, Researcher status at the Milieux Institute in both Speculative life cluster and the Textiles and Materiality cluster. She has exhibited, lectured and collaborated internationally. Her research weaves together Artificial Reproductive Technologies (A.R.T), Trans theory and speculative life. It is from this intersection that her quest to transfigure biological fertility emerges, prototyping futurities in which kin of all genders, races, softwares and species can function as one and many - to beat the womb at its own game. Website https://materials-materiality.ca/Jean-Michael-Celerier Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:37:11 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Jean-Michael-Celerier <img width="443" height="443" width_o="443" height_o="443" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7800e517c366a17972274afd219833ed5e39ab9f07f224869a9ea0defa666eb3/Jean-Michael-headshot_cropped.jpg" data-mid="128106626" border="0" alt="Person smiling looking directly forward. They have a small beard and long brown hair. They are wearing a black-grey shirt." data-caption="Person smiling looking directly forward. They have a small beard and long brown hair. They are wearing a black-grey shirt." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/443/i/7800e517c366a17972274afd219833ed5e39ab9f07f224869a9ea0defa666eb3/Jean-Michael-headshot_cropped.jpg" /> Jean-Michael Celerier, born in France in 1992, is a freelance researcher, interested in art, code, computer music and interactive show control. He studied software engineering, computer science &amp; multimedia technologies at Bordeaux, and obtained his doctorate on the topic of authoring temporal media in 2018. He develops and maintains a range of free &amp; open-source software used for creative coding, digital and intermedia art, which he leverages in various installations and works; in particular, most of his work is centered on the ossia platform for which he is the main developer. He enjoys organizing events centered on programming and media art - most recently the Linux Audio Conference, and a C++ meetup in Bordeaux. He teaches all sorts of creative coding languages (PureData, Processing, OpenFrameworks, etc) to both computer science and graphics design students. Website https://materials-materiality.ca/Janice-Cheung Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:41:04 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Janice-Cheung <img width="1299" height="1299" width_o="1299" height_o="1299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d114f31ffaa7394555be00a9b12908826078354267c054cf75841f47d976d3c1/janice-Cheung-Headshot_cropped.jpg" data-mid="128106491" border="0" alt="Person wearing a stripped top with long reddish-brown hair blowing in the wind. They have a subtle smile looking straight ahead. " data-caption="Person wearing a stripped top with long reddish-brown hair blowing in the wind. They have a subtle smile looking straight ahead. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d114f31ffaa7394555be00a9b12908826078354267c054cf75841f47d976d3c1/janice-Cheung-Headshot_cropped.jpg" /> Janice Ka-Wa Cheung is an artist and researcher born in Hong Kong. She completed her studies in media art at the City University of Hong Kong in 2017.&nbsp; Janice is currently a Ph.D. student in the Humanities program at Concordia&nbsp; University. She continues to pursue research-creation study with interest in revealing the multifaceted digital self through installation art. Her work examines how digital technology provides multiple stages to explore and curate representations of self, and at the same time how the infrastructure&nbsp; and algorithms of the digital media twist one’s self-images and encourage or&nbsp; even impose upon one to see the self from certain ways. Her current work aims to&nbsp; reveal one’s postmodern, fragmented, and polymorphic identity by&nbsp; decontextualizing and dissolving one’s apparent representation. She believes&nbsp; that emphasizing fragmentation and ambiguity could encourage one to&nbsp; consciously feel and examine the ways of seeing self in a living world that is&nbsp; dynamically composed of assemblies of human and nonhuman actants. Website https://materials-materiality.ca/Audrey-Coulombe Mon, 06 May 2024 01:46:24 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Audrey-Coulombe <img width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faca47db61e4c47fb3795edc0828872ad7cd7ac4f7566e21747859af6e47fb08/photo_Audrey.jpg" data-mid="210329009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/faca47db61e4c47fb3795edc0828872ad7cd7ac4f7566e21747859af6e47fb08/photo_Audrey.jpg" /> Audrey Coulombe is a research assistant and undergraduate student in Computer Arts at Concordia. Through her research-creation practice, she explores how the use of digital technologies can extend traditional media, with a focus on how it alters meaning and fosters introspection and empathy in users. More specifically, her work critically addresses contemporary concerns raised by new media, such as algorithmic biases, the environmental impact of digital technologies, and the increasingly fast-paced lifestyle they induce. With a background in fashion design, Audrey Coulombe has also experimented with a wide range of techniques at the intersection of apparel and digital media. https://materials-materiality.ca/Allison-DuPont Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:31:00 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Allison-DuPont <img width="588" height="600" width_o="588" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80c4df5f55b3594041d652b935c75a50ed99b20ded2ba051d839206a6efa9bd0/Portrait---Allison-DuPont.jpeg" data-mid="192028944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/588/i/80c4df5f55b3594041d652b935c75a50ed99b20ded2ba051d839206a6efa9bd0/Portrait---Allison-DuPont.jpeg" /> Allison DuPont is Montreal based material designer. She is currently working on her PhD research relating bio-design for sustainable and healthy interiors. Her practice focuses on circular design with bio-based materials. She approaches her projects like experiments, through a hands-on and embodied approach using methods like harvesting natural and growing materials. Her ultimate objective is to ensure that the materials used in these spaces are sourced from responsible and sustainable sources, designed with durability and repairability in mind, and ultimately destined for circular reuse at the end of their life cycle. The goal of her research-creation is to iteratively create zero-waste filtering materials for the built environment that can return to the soil safely through developing alternative, sustainable solutions. At the core of her practice as a designer is her equally important role as an advocate for the voices of the underrepresented, both human and non-human. https://materials-materiality.ca/Matthew-Halpenny Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:41:49 +0000 critical practices in materials & materiality https://materials-materiality.ca/Matthew-Halpenny <img width="495" height="495" width_o="495" height_o="495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6980a677c20a2c8e41eaf7d0e026b2f220d9e6a31d0e72fa6df31e1468c752be/Matt-Halpenny-Headshot_cropped.jpg" data-mid="128099138" border="0" alt="A person with shoulder length light brown hair and a large mustache. They are wearing a black turtle neck, sitting with their legs crossed they looked relaxed as they gaze directly forward." data-caption="A person with shoulder length light brown hair and a large mustache. They are wearing a black turtle neck, sitting with their legs crossed they looked relaxed as they gaze directly forward." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/495/i/6980a677c20a2c8e41eaf7d0e026b2f220d9e6a31d0e72fa6df31e1468c752be/Matt-Halpenny-Headshot_cropped.jpg" /> Matthew Halpenny&nbsp;is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Montréal. Their work takes a hybrid approach to knowledge mobilization, combining critical making and experiential art installations. Currently this research examines the embodied material and energetic processes behind digital technologies. Their work approaches this topic through installation art and open-source, speculative design solutions that aim to improve the accessibility of sustainable energy technologies such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Their previous (and on-going) art-research is informed by systems theory, socio-biological ecologies, nonhuman temporalities, and relational aesthetics - leading to work exhibited at Ars Electronica, Elektra, ISEA, Le Centre Pompidou, Mutek, and Digital Ecologies. They are currently a graduate research member at the research-creation network, Hexagram, and before joining the Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality, they were a research member at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, &amp; Technology, where they worked within the Speculative Life Biolab. Website