LASER 13 | Imaginaries in Changing Climates

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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?
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Cochairs : Nina Czegledy and Gisèle Trudel
Moderator : Brice Ammar-Kodhja, artist, designer and PhD student*, Concordia University and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris - Université PSL
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
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