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Elysha Poirier

Elysha Poirier is a visual artist, designer and illustrator working in various forms of new media. Her techniques in painting and design have been adapted to video for live performance. This includes experiments in stop-motion animation, and translating the essence of painterly techniques into a digital environment. Elysha has produced several installations and has engaged in live performances locally and abroad. She has performed with a diversity of artists stemming from experimental music, film and dance.

Her work has been described as organic and playful and embraces strong relationships to sound, design, and movement. As an image collector, Elysha has been accumulating an ongoing reserve of image libraries – often collected from nature, society, and her own personal experiments in graphics, shapes and illustrations. 

Elysha holds a diploma in graphic design. Her love of design has given her a natural eye for composition and arrangement of imagery both in static and moving applications. She has taught various workshops, runs her own freelance business: Peartree Design, and is presently a Technology Strategist for Zata Omm’s Dance and Technology Research Lab, funded by the Metcalfe Foundation.

http://www.elyshapoirier.com/

Oana Suteu Khintirian

Oana Suteu Khintirian’s work encompasses films, installation and media scenography. A professional filmmaker and editor for two decades her work focuses on movement as well as on the human body and its correlation with the environmental elements, structures and dynamics. Oana’s films have screened in international film festivals around the world and she participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Montreal, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt and Image Forum, Tokyo, among others. She received prizes from ArtFIFA, Montreal, Moving Pictures in Toronto, Golden Prague and a Prix Italia for Creativity. She has equally been nominated by the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television for direction and editing. She is currently working on a highly personal project that deals with paper and memory.  She lives and works between Montreal and Paris.

http://khintirian.com/

TML OPEN HOUSE 2014

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OPEN HOUSE 2014

When : September 23rd, 2014, 3-6pm
Where: 1515 St. Catherine West EV 7.725The Topological Media Lab would like to invite you and your departments to come to our Open House on September 23rd from 3 to 6pmwhere our responsive environment will offer a peek at  new experiments and installations happening in the lab. We will also be celebrating the launch of a new academic year and welcoming new students and TML affiliates.  Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!

 

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TML CAMPFIRE 2014

 CAMPFIRE

When: Bi-weekly, starting September 9th 2014, 5-7pm
Where: 1515 St. Catherine West EV 7.725
Starting September 9th, the TML will be holding campfire meetings bi-weekly Tuesday at 5 o’clock to recapitulate the ongoing projects and to talk about the future ones. If you are interested in being a part of any of this year’s projects, the campfires are a good way to get involve and to meet TML people. Feel free join us any week !

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents vol 1 : “Space” in Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty 

Seminar Coordinator: Omar Al Faleh
Co-directed by Elizaveta Solomonova and MJ Thompson

 

The Table of Content is a cross-disciplinary, inter-departmental, and inter-university seminar that connects graduate and undergraduate students and researchers through a critical and cross-disciplinary reading in philosophy and other areas in humanities. The texts will be discussed from angles that relate to the expertise and interests of those who are taking part in the seminar rather than a classical reading of literary texts, and will be choreographed and enriched by environmental and networked computational media ambiences that allow for embodied experiences of remote participants by using Topological Media Lab’s Table of Content platform as a communication and interaction portal.
Location: Topological Media Lab (1515 Saint Catherine Street West, EV 7.725)
When: every second Wednesday starting on October 1st and ending on December 3rd 2014
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
 

Please contact Omar Al Faleh at admin@topologicalmedialab.net  if you have any questions.

 Schedule 

October 1st: Seminar 4-6  – “Up and Down” and “Depth” Don Landes translation: pp.253-279; Colin Smith translation: pp.283-311

October 15th: Presentation 4-6 – Mark Sussman, Bio: http://www.concordia.ca/finearts/about/dean/associate-dean-academic-student-affairs.html

October 29th: Seminar 4-6- “Movement” Don Landes translation: pp.279-294; Colin Smith translation: pp.311-327

November 12th: Presentation 4-6-TBD

November 26th: Seminar 4-6-“Lived Space” Don Landes translation: pp. 294-311; Colin Smith translation: pp.327-348

December 3rd: Presentation 4-6 – Adam Kinner

 

Ressources

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. “Space” in Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Colin Smith. Paris: Routledge, 2013: 283-348.
 
*preferred:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. “Space” in Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Donald Landes. Oxon: Routledge, 2013: 253-311.

 

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Topological Media Lab/Encuentro 2014

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The Topological Media Lab will host 3 workshops during the Encuentro festival the 24th, 25th and 26th of June 2014.

A series of three workshops directed towards exploring the lab’s philosophical and physical engagement with various streams of research, techniques and technologies used in the “enchantment of environments and matter” and the expression of that research in the real world.
The Encuentro is for registered participants only. 

 

JUNE 24 – 9:00 AM – OPEN LAB EV7.725
Navid Navab, Evan Montpellier, Nikolas Chandolias, Jerome Delapierre, Oana Suteu and Michael Montanaro

 

JUNE 25 – 9:00 AM – GESTURE BENDING WORKSHOP
MOVEMENT IN RESPONSIVE MEDIA,MB 7.265
Navid Navab, Jerome Delapierre, Michael Montanaro, Roger Sinha, Thomas Casey

 

JUNE 26 -9:00 AM – GESTURE BENDING WORKSHOP
ENCHANTED MATTER – MB 7.265
Navid Navab, Michael Montanaro

 
 

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About Encuentro: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Concordia University invite scholars, activists, and artists of all disciplines to examine the practical, ethical, aesthetic, theatrical, and performative dimensions of manifests and manifestations throughout the Americas at the ninth Encuentro, to be held in Montréal, Québec, June 21-28, 2014.

http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14/enc14

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Movements of Thought 4

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Movements of Thought 4

Thursday, May 15th,  12:30 – 14:30 – Usine C

In collaboration with Usine C, the Senselab has launched a serie of activities OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and FREE : Movements of Thought and Knots of Thought.


The next Movements of Thought will focus on Sound Art practices – through deep listening, gesture bending, and the sonic affordances of found / everyday objects. 

The activators for the session will be : 
Doug Van Nort (Topological Media Lab)
Navid Navab (Topological Media Lab)
Juliana Keller (Sonic Electric)

Movements of Thought considers ways of moving and thinking through embodied experience, and of thought itself as a mobile interplay across disciplines. What is a moving thought? How may it open bodies to modes of lived abstraction, becoming more-or-less human, comprising images, material entities, and affective compositions? What techniques may be drawn from diverse practices in physical movement, and how may these be assembled in discussion with scholars and practitioners from other fields? Working alongside Knots of Thought, this assembly of thinking-together invites participants to consider what may be at stake for performing an ecology of practices in the movements of thought.

Come and explore with us Movements of Thought, next Thursday May 15th at half past noon at Usine C (1345 av. Lalonde – metro Beaudry).

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1489992901216954/

T.I.:VOL 5.:MOVING SPACES

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When : May 1th, 2014

Where: 1515 St. Catherine West EV 7.725

Starts: 7:30 pm, PWYC

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Moving Spaces (2002) – Christian Wolff (b. 1934) – Christian Wolff wrote Moving Spaces in 2002 for Loose Time, a work by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The piece is rooted in improvisation, ruled by indeterminacy, and energized by noise, silence, and electronic manipulation.

Moving Spaces consists of eight sections to be played in no specific order by any combination of instruments. The music is for 2, 3, or 4 performers, dancers, and an eight-channel sound system. With an improvisatory approach to unconventional notation, each musician explores a unique sound world that pushes the limits of their instrument and challenges listeners’ expectations of beauty.

The piece will be performed by seven improvisers from the Montreal scene: Zach Hale (electronics), Emily Lair (french horn), Molly Wreakes (french horn), Duncan Campbell (trumpet), Felix Del Tredici (bass trombone). Joining them will be the dancers Bailey Eng and Samantha Rust.

 

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Molly Wreakes – French Horn

A native of Edmonton, Molly Wreakes began her horn studies with Allene Hackleman. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University where she studies under the tutelage of Jean Gaudreault. In 2012, Molly was chosen to represent Alberta at the Canadian Music Festival where she placed second in the Brass division. She has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Opera Nuova, the McGill Symphony Orchestra as well as other various groups. Aside from having a keen interest in orchestral and solo repertoire, Molly seeks to expand her horizons through improvisation and contemporary music.

 

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Duncan Campbell – Trumpet

Duncan Campbell, by time of your reading, will have finished his undergrad in Trumpet Performance at McGill. He is engaged in projects such as Little Suns (please visit www.littlesuns.ca for more information), solo contemporary repertoire and a recently formed baroque ensemble known as I Fiori dell’amore. His musical interests include early Russian liturgical polyphony, Balkan brass music, Karlheinz Stockhausen, German romantic songs for female voices, electronic dance music, north Indian classical music and punk rock. He aspires to write music for diverse instrumentations and with diverse approaches to genre.

 

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Emily Lair – French Horn

Originally from Gimli, Manitoba, Emily Lair is a horn player based in Montreal, Quebec, studying at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in the studio of John Zirbel. In addition to her studies in orchestral performance, Emily is an avid chamber musician and soloist who seeks to expand the role of the horn in contemporary and pop music. Emily is a three-time member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. She has performed in the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival, the Manitoba Underground Opera Company, and in masterclasses with James Sommerville, Julie Landsman, and Andrew Bain. She is a recipient of the Wirth Brass Scholarship at McGill University, as well as other awards from the Manitoba Arts Council and several organizations in Manitoba. After graduating from McGill University in Spring 2014, she plans to continue her studies at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, California.

 

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Felix Del Tredici – Bass Trombone

A native of Montreal, Felix Del Tredici strives to push the boundaries of the bass trombone through interdisciplinary collaborations, the commissioning of new works, and improvisation. The New York Times has described Del Tredici as an “extraordinarily versatile trombonist” who gives performances that are “disturbing yet fascinating” and “hair-raisingly virtuosic”. He has studied at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, and is a member of the Fonema Consort, the New York Trombone Consort, and Ensemble Moto Perpetuo.

 

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Zachary Hale – Electronics

Zachary Hale is a Montreal-based composer and percussionist who creates and performs music that deals with live-electronics and new interfaces. His interest lies in the possibilities when the performer and technician are one in the same, and also bridging the gap between classical musicians and technology. Recent highlight performances with live-electronics include Reflecting Space III by Kenji Sakai (North American premiere), Caprices 5-6 by Luis Naón(North American premiere), and Konakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen. His current projects include the SpectraSurface interface and N[i]Quest with oboist Krisjana Thorsteinson. More information can be found at www.zachhalemusic.com.

 

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Bailey Eng – Dancer

Inspired to challenge the physical capacity of the human body, Bailey is searching to develop a style of body movement influenced by circus and acrobatics – with and through contemporary dance. She is fascinated by objects as an extension of the body; objects, like the body, also as living and breathing structures. Whether it be a circus apparatus, a physical space, or the urban environment, she challenges the function of structures and explores (path)ways of negotiating movement with architecture. The ability to move is not limited to the learned habits of performing a task. Bailey is interested in transforming the spectacular into the accustomed. How can the body and movement be absurd and disorienting, yet habitual, natural, and human? She resists the quotidian, but seeks its essence. She str e e e tches interpretation. She thrives off of the (un)restrictions of gravity. Driven by (un)limited (im)possibilities, there is no upRight or upWrong. Movement is her way of life, Body Language is what she speaks – carried by the ideal of “translation not required”.

 

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Samantha Rust – Dancer

Samantha has been dancing since she was three years old, and has studied many different dance forms such as musical theatre, tap, ballet, jazz, contemporary, and hip hop. She has attended different workshops which include: The Pulse, Broadway Dance Theater, Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada and many others. She received a D.E.C in Dance at Cégep St-Laurent in 2012 and she is currently teaching her eighth semester of hip-hop to elementary students at Hill Crest Academy. Her work aids in social and motor skill development, benefiting those involved, and a part of the Mentally Handicap community of Montreal. Dance is her outlet, and the best way she feels she can express herself. As an artist, Samantha would like to show how art could be used to join a community, and help develop different skills in children and adolescents. Through movement, art and music, people with disabilities can be motivated and triggered in different ways to help with every day movement and relations. Simple exercises that require them to use speech and physical movement inspired by music and visual art help in their everyday communication facilitating their interactions with others. Creating different approaches to life through Contemporary art allow for people with disabilities a chance to learn life lessons in different ways and live freely amongst others. Samantha strives to encourage open mindedness and creativity in each individual.

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