The Post Image Cluster
1515 Saint-Catherine St W H3G 2W1 Montreal, QC, Canada

Join us tomorrow, February 4th at noon EST as we welcome Shubigi Rao for an artist talk moderated by Chih-Chien Wang. Shubigi Rao is an artist, an award winning writer and currently the artist director of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, a contemporary art festival in Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi-Muziris_Biennale Shubigi Rao will talk about her decade-long book project, Pulp, and her experience about curating the international biennale.... Register for the zoom event here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us//tZ0kdeGtrjwiHNU86ttbRfGTz0oi

Join us tonight at 6pm EST for an artist conversation between Pascha Marrow, Eve Tagny, and Nasrin Himada! Registration info below

We are thrilled to announce our undergraduate fellowship recipients for 2020-21! The 10 students in this year’s cohort hail from six different research clust...ers and are engaging in topics ranging from accessible medical design to textile exploration of astrophysical concepts. Each fellow is enriching the work of both their cluster, and Milieux at large. We are proud to welcome them as the next generation of critical and creative researchers. The fellowship recognizes undergraduate students who are advancing discussion and practice in their respective research clusters. Each student, nominated by Milieux’s faculty affiliates, will receive a $500 stipend, and access to Milieux resources to develop their projects over the academic year. In February, the fellows will take part in an online Pecha-Kucha presentation open to all Milieux members and staff. This is a great opportunity to reconnect with Milieux, and share some (digital) warmth and energy as we go forward into 2021 together. More details to come! Read more about the fellowship recipients on our website: TAG Research Center / Textiles & Materiality Research Cluster / AbTeC: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace / The Post Image Cluster / Le PARC Milieux / Speculative Life Research Cluster https://milieux.concordia.ca/welcome-undergraduate-fellows/

Tomorrow at 11:30 am, join The Post Image Cluster for our first event of the semester: an artist talk with Aanchal Malhotra (Concordia MFA '15) moderated by Marisa Portolese. Aanchal Malhotra is an oral historian and writer, living in New Delhi, India. She is the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory - a digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and antiques from the Indian subcontinent. Malhotra writes extensively on the 1947 Partition and its related topics. Her debut book traced a human history of the event through the mundane objects and heirlooms refugees chose to carry to either side of the border in 1947. She is currently writing an oral history on the generational impact of Partition. https://www.facebook.com/events/3767662096590355/

Join us for a talk with Aanchal Malhotra, moderated by Marisa Portolese, on Thursday, January 21st at 11:30am to learn about Aanchal’s current project and how her MFA at Concordia (’15) impacted her career. REGISTER here to receive a Zoom invitation: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us//tZMkduiuqT0vE9FKVx6W9Z6glpuy

FILM PREMIERE Post Image member Sanaz Sohrabi’s film One Image, Two Acts is premiering as part of the RIDM festival, available until November 18th!... One Image, Two Acts unravels the multifaceted and intertwined systems of oil infrastructures spanned and accumulated across unlikely geographies and material temporalities. Examining the photographic and film archives of British Petroleum (BP) during its operations in Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait, this film traces the visual and media infrastructures through which oil has operated as an agent of power in the colonial episteme. It unpacks BP’s widespread construction of cinemas in the oil towns of South-Western Iran and follows the transformation of this emergent image economy in contouring the nationalization movement and the anti-colonial cinema between 1950-1980 in Iran." Viewing is accessible to those in the Montreal and broader Quebec region. More info here: https://ridm.ca/en/films/une-image-deux-actes #PostImage #Filmmakers #RIDM #MilieuxInstitute

Dive into the world of VR and immersive reality: Catch The Post Image Cluster Immersive Reality Lab members Allison Moore, Daniel Cross, Marco Luna, Liz Miller... and Olivia McGilchrest at the Colloque "Immersivité et innovations technologiques", jointly hosted this year by UQÀM and McGill. The colloquium runs for free online until Thursday, Oct 30 and features presentations on narratology in immersivity, affect theory, 2D rendering in 3D reality, and more. For full program and registration details: https://colloqueimmersivite.com/en/welcome/

Co-director Daniel Cross and Post Image members Marco Luna Barahona, Olivia McGilchrist, and Allison Moore are all presenting in TOMORROW’s Immersivity and Technological Innovations Conference! Tune into their round table discussions and presentations about VR practices and cinema See link below for event details. http://colloqueimmersivite.com/programme/... #VR #PostImageCluster

Curious about virtual reality? Join us this Tuesday for a two-day workshop learning the basics of VR! See event details below https://www.facebook.com/events/342367606832119/?event_time_id=342367606832119

**NEW WORKSHOP WITH VIRTUAL REALITY** Open to any students or artists curious about Virtual Reality. This two-day workshop is designed for artists with no previous experience developing VR projects. The goal is to learn VR pre-production development without a headset using free software. We will focus on scene scripting, quick prototyping and iterations using Steam VR 360 emulator. At the end of the workshop students will have a basic knowledge of Unity environment and a pl...ayable draft of their first VR project. See registration info below