[spectre] CivicBright: 3rd Seminar of the SYNCRETIC TRANSCODINGS Series

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CivicBright: 3rd Seminar of the SYNCRETIC TRANSCODINGS Series
Friday February 22nd, 2-5PM and Saturday February 23rd, 2013, 10AM-5PM
Salle polyvalente, Coeur des sciences, Université du Québec à  
Montréal (UQAM)
Sherbrooke Building
200 Sherbrooke West
room SH-4800
Free admission
http://www.hexagramciam.org/syncretic.php


BrillanteCité-CivicBright, the third edition of Hexagram | CIAM's  
SYNCRETIC TRANSCODINGS international seminar series, will reflect on  
urban creativity. It is presented in association with the Lumières de  
la ville symposium, organized by the 5th Toronto/Montreal/Lille  
Biennial (http://www.torontomontreallille.org)

The projects presented during the seminar focus on the force of urban  
citizens' creative actions, both aesthetic and political. The  
seminar's theme engages with the etymology of the word aesthetic,  
which signifies "sensibility, sensations", by which "aesthetic acts  
generate new modes of sensing and give rise to new forms of political  
subjectivity?" (Rancière, Le partage du sensible, La Fabrique, 2000  
[our translation]). Thus, creativity generates multiple opportunities  
for renewed aesthetic configurations as acts of emancipation.

The seminar discusses the "sensible" links created between people,  
places, and technologies, bringing together participants from  
Vancouver, Montreal, Buenos Aires, while connecting with Juba and  
Berlin. Specific situations, combined with a wide range of  
technological resources, open up a new distribution of the sensible,  
linking citizens' creative media interventions and communities.

Participants
Stephen Kovats (Berlin) r0g-media.org
André Éric Létourneau (Montréal) hexagram.uqam.ca/node/515
Bernardo Piñero (Buenos Aires) iqlab.com.ar
Ana Rewakowicz (Montréal) rewana.com
Kim Sawchuk (Montréal) mobilities.ca/projects/virtual-day-lighting
Jesse Scott (Vancouver) graffitiresearchlab.ca

Moderators
Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Jean-François Prost (Montréal)
amarrages.com adaptiveactions.net

Organised by Ricardo Dal Farra (Concordia University) and Gisèle  
Trudel (Université du Québec à Montréal), Co-directors Hexagram | CIAM
Coordinated by Natalie Lafortune and Sophie Le-Phat Ho

For more than a decade, Hexagram | CIAM has been fostering an  
internationally recognized model of research-creation. It has over  
eighty members from its two main research centres, based at the  
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Concordia University. The  
centre also has agreements with researchers from the Université de  
Montréal (U de M) and École de technologie supérieure (ETS).  
Favouring a transdisciplinary approach, member researchers at  
Hexagram | CIAM initiate collaborative projects with researchers  
working in related and complementary disciplines. The centre also  
works with private arts and culture organizations in Quebec, in  
Canada and around the world.

http://www.hexagramciam.org