NEWS AND ACTIVITIES
News
Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses
Call for proposals
Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses will be taking place May 1–4 2020 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Submissions are invited from scholars across the social sciences, humanities and arts interested in exploring the future of the senses in a changing world.
The call for proposals closes on November 15 2019. Proposals will be peer-reviewed and decisions rendered in mid-December 2019.
Events
LASER8 Art exhibitions inflected by science
LASER 8 Hexagram Montreal
Co-Chairs Nina Czegledy and Gisèle Trudel
Tuesday November 5th, 7 pm
Biological Sciences Pavillon (SB)
141, avenue du Président-Kennedy
4th Floor, Room SB-4105
Metro Place-des-arts
In French
Free admission
How do the arts and sciences inflect each other or perhaps even coalesce in an exhibition format? The LASER Hexagram Montreal’s 8th edition will address this topic through a selection of themes, including organ transplant as explored in artworks and the role of design in communicating scientific discourse and knowledge to different publics.
Members news
Point D.origine | Nicolas Reeves
POINT D.ORIGINE est une installation sonore interactive qui transpose en timbres sonores et en musique, par l’entremise d’un objet mathématique appelé « harmonique sphérique », l’architecture du donjon du Château de Chambord. Version contemporaine et poétique de l’harmonie des sphères, repensée à la lumière des modèles actuels du cosmos et des représentations que donne la physique du son et de la musique, elle invite le visiteur à se munir d’un casque d’écoute et d’un petit module lumineux appelé « lanterne harmonique », puis à déambuler entre les différents lieux de l’édifice. La transposition s’effectue en chaque point de l’espace en prenant pour centre la position du visiteur.
HEXAGRAM NETWORK
SCIENTIFIC ORIENTATIONS
Research-creation
Research-Creation is a developing research trend in Canada’s academic milieu, linking the interpretive disciplines (humanities and social sciences) with creative ones (art and design). This involves the creation of knowledge in and through creative material and performative practice.
Research axis
The 2014-2020 research program is centered on three axes: (1) Senses, Embodiment and Movement; (2) Materiality; (3) Ubiquity. These axes reflect the changing landscape of media arts, design and technology research with the inclusion of researchers from sociology, art history, anthropology, game studies, philosophy and communication/media studies in addition to artists and designers into the network.
DOCUMENTARY CHANNELS AND PUBLICATIONS
Hexa_Wave and Hexagram original creations
A 48-episode radio series presenting 48 Hexagram researchers in 1-hour interview format. Hexa_Wave objective is to promote Hexagram research within the scientific community and to the general public. Hexa_Wave will be available in podcast format directy on Hexagram website and will also be broadcast on wikiradio.ca and on CKUT.ca.
Hexagram Podcasts
Recordings of Hexagram network activities are now available through podcasting. Access directly to an extensive collection of lectures and discussions captured from Distinguished speaker series, Hexa_out, L.A.S.E.R., Workshop and Symposium. Subscribe for free via iTunes to receive new recordings.
