Photo credit: Sandeep Bhagwati. Zwitschermusik (Twittering Music for Birds and Humans). June 21, 2022 at 4:45 am. Hobrechtsfelde bei Berlin, Festival Klanglandschaften. Photo: Deniza Popova.

LASER Talks in Montreal at Hexagram: Imaginaries in Changing Climates

Artistic and scientific imaginaries are crucial for explorations in times of changing climates.

LASER Co-chairs: Nina Czegledy and Gisèle Trudel

EVENT INFO

When: March 25, 2024 6-7:30 pm EDT (UTC -4) Find your timezone here

Where: Hybrid event
Location: Agora du Cœur des sciences de l’UQAM, 175, Av. du Président-Kennedy
Situated behind the Président-Kennedy Pavilion, Metro Place-des-arts. Bus 55, 80
Universal access, Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang | Montréal H2X 3P2

Online: Registration via ZOOM

Website: https://hexagram.ca/en/laser-13-imaginaires-des-climats-changeants/

Imaginaries play transformative roles in artistic or scientific practices, by influencing the way ideas can be expressed materially. Imaginaries are actions. They impact how research unfolds, which in turn can operate as cultural critique.

The focus of LASER 13 is to counter dominant doom-and-gloom discourse about climate change, notwithstanding the urgent need to act in this complex situation. How can concerns, local and global, spatial and temporal, provide imaginative explorations through physical experimentations, enabling boundary processes in each field to be pushed? How do interdisciplinary alliances between fields foster new platforms for challenges, dialogues, and reflections?

With
- Ana Rewakowicz, artist and professor in residence, School of Visual and Media Arts, UQAM
- Carly Ziter, assistant professor, Department of Biology, Concordia University, Concordia Research Chair in Urban Ecology and Sustainability
- Martin Beauregard, artist and professor-researcher-creator*, Teaching and Research Unit in Creation and New Media, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Sandeep Bhagwati, composer and professor* of music, Concordia University, director of matralab

Respondent and moderator: Brice Ammar-Kodhja, artist, designer and PhD student*, Concordia University and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris - Université PSL (*Hexagram member)

SPONSORS

Hexagram gratefully acknowledges funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture.

Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities and 5 continents worldwide.

Hexagram is an interdisciplinary network in Montreal dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts, cultures and technologies. It comprises around forty co-researchers, forty collaborators, and a little over 200 students from various artistic disciplines related, in particular, to living arts, visual arts, design, and media arts, while also touching disciplines in the social sciences and humanities or natural sciences and engineering.