[acc-cca-l] Hexagram AI Chantier Activities in Montreal this Spring

[Fenwick Mckelvey]

[△EXTERNAL]


Hi all,
As part of the Rencontres interdisciplinaires 2026, the AI Chantier of the Hexagram Network invites researchers, artists, writers, designers, and students to participate in a series of workshops and conversations exploring creative, critical, and situated approaches to artificial intelligence.

The full program can be found here: https://hexagram.ca/fr/rencontres-interdisciplinaires-2026/

🍲 Cook‑Out Session #1 — Méthodologie de la recette en IA
📅 Tuesday, April 21, 2026 | 1:00–3:30 PM
📍 Speculative Life Common Room, Concordia University
🗣 Bilingual | In person
This writing workshop, led by Many Many Machine Agencies, introduces the recipe methodology as a way of engaging critically with machine agencies and AI. Participants are invited to think through AI via recipes, instructions, and games, foregrounding questions of interaction, agency, and encounter.

🍳 A Keynote Presentation with Erin Gee about AI and Research-Creation
📅 Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 4:00 PM
📍 Milieux Resource Centre, EV 11.705, Concordia University
🗣 In English | Free

May 20 — Keynote AI Panel as part of the Hexagram Interdisciplinary Days
📍 May 20, 2026

The AI Chantier will also host a panel discussion with Etienne Grenier and Marc-Olivier Ducharme (Sporobole) examining contemporary questions around AI practices, imaginaries, and infrastructures (details forthcoming in the full Rencontres interdisciplinaires program).

🔥 Cook‑Out Session #3 — Discursivité et dramatisation
📅 Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 1:00–3:30 PM
📍 Speculative Life Common Room, Concordia University
🗣 Bilingual | In person

This third cook‑out extends the recipe methodology toward discursive strategies and dramatization. The session focuses on how writing, narrative voice, and performative framing shape our engagements with AI.

📧 Registration / info: nicole.debrabandere at gmail.com<mailto:nicole.debrabandere at gmail.com>


Be good
Fenwick McKelvey

Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Graduate Program Director, MA in Media Studies – Accepting Applications Until 15 January 2026
Associate Director, Milieux Institute - https://milieux.concordia.ca/
Coordinator, Machine Agencies - https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/

New book out in June 2026,  SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers –  https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/
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