{"id":24024,"date":"2026-04-09T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexagram.ca\/dans-la-cuisine-de-lia-creative-une-conversation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:58:05","slug":"dans-la-cuisine-de-lia-creative-une-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexagram.ca\/en\/dans-la-cuisine-de-lia-creative-une-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Goes On in the Kitchen of Creative AI? : A Conversation with Erin Gee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026<\/strong>
4: 15\u20135: 15 p.m.*
Free
In English
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Milieux Resource Centre<\/strong>
Concordia University
EV Building, Room 11.455 
1515 Sainte-Catherine Street W.
Montreal
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*The schedule was updated due to changes to the event.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How does one cook an AI? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens in the kitchen when one is preparing ingredients for different kinds of agencies? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it mean to move beyond instrumentalism; and what does an interaction look like when its design comes from a place of joy, curiosity, and experimentation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We invite the Montreal community of creatives and thinkers who are interested in questions of machine agency, design process, and interactivity to join in on this event where they can share the details and experiences of working with machines\u2014in their wonky, restless, and still delicious encounters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event is presented as part of Hexagram Network\u2019s 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 p.m.<\/span> (Cancelled)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The first part takes inspiration from MFK Fisher\u2019s The Art of Eating<\/em> to explore how cooking with machines engenders life worlds with heterogeneous agencies and sociability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4: 15 p.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The second part will be a Keynote presentation by Montreal-based artist Erin Gee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss\u2019 notion of the \u201craw\u201d and the \u201ccooked,\u201d and its feminist reinterpretation in sound studies by Jonathan Sterne and Tara Rodgers, Gee examines AI through a sonic lens to argue that when real-world phenomena are recorded as sound or data, they are never captured in a \u201craw\u201d state. Grounded in her work on the documentation of musical biofeedback systems, the talk explores how processes of capture, selection, and transformation shape what can be heard and what can be known through technology. She contrasts musical AI systems, which tend to obscure or abstract these operations, with classic biofeedback practices that foregrounded them\u2014revealing how different technologies organize, conceal, or expose their own forms of \u201ccooking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please join us at 5:30 p.m. for the official launch event<\/a> of the Interdisciplinary Encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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