Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art

Events

May 22, 2019

TAG | Microtalks (MAY)

On May 22nd TAG will be hosting another session of MICROTALKS where TAG students will be sharing their work in the shape of super fast pecha-kucha style presentations. Join us and get up to date on the research TAG members have been conducting this year. The eight speakers featured in this first session will talk […]

Past Events

May 15, 2019

FLOP WORKSHOP: Twisting Puzzle Mechanics with Puzzlescript

May 09, 2019

5a7 – A Fractured Discourse

May 02, 2019

5a7 – Would you like to ‘MAKESENSE’ together?

Apr 04, 2019

5a7 – Critical Theatre Games

Apr 04, 2019

Press Play East (workshop)

Mar 27, 2019

TAG MICROTALKS 2019

Mar 04, 2019 - Mar 08, 2019

Arcade 11 – 2019

Feb 07, 2019

5a7 – Guest: Asad Chishti

Jan 25, 2019 - Jan 27, 2019

Global Game Jam 2019

Dec 11, 2018

TAG Holiday Potluck and Movie Screening

Nov 29, 2018

5a7 – Reflective Game Design Playtest

Nov 28, 2018

TAG MICROTALKS

Nov 22, 2018

5a7 – Hibiscus & Ruthless Movie Night

Nov 10, 2018 - Nov 11, 2018

GAMERella Game Jam 2018

Nov 02, 2018 - Nov 09, 2018

Black Room | HTMlles Vernissage & Exhibition @ TAG

Nov 01, 2018

5a7 – HSH-Go! demo & talk

Oct 25, 2018

5a7 – What We Do in the Shadows Movie Night

Oct 19, 2018

Milieux Expo

Oct 15, 2018

Larissa Hjorth Talk – Careful surveillance & digital wayfaring

Oct 09, 2018

Comic Book Club: Colonialism

Oct 04, 2018

5a7 – Philosophy Conversation Game

Aug 09, 2018

CRITICAL HIT 2018 Playtest

Jul 26, 2018

5a7 – Jurassic Park Movie Night

Jul 19, 2018

5a7 – Let’s Play Folk Games

Jun 21, 2018

5a7 – “Changing Destination” w/ Ingeborg Govaart

Jun 18, 2018 - Jun 22, 2018

Society for Animation Studies Conference

Jun 14, 2018

TAG Comic Book Club

Jun 08, 2018

ROOFTOP ARCADE

May 28, 2018

Playtesting ‘Common!’

May 17, 2018

5a7 – VR Interactive Documentary Filmmaking

May 10, 2018

5A7 – Game Designer in Residence Intro: Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan

Apr 26, 2018

5a7 GUEST SPEAKER: Sarah Schoemann with “Games for Every Wave”

Apr 25, 2018

Minecraft Modding Workshop (RSVP)

Apr 20, 2018

Games as Research Symposium

Apr 19, 2018

5a7 – Global Pedagogies and Politics: Teaching in the West and the East

Apr 12, 2018

TAG Movie 5à7 – Summer Wars

Mar 29, 2018

Comic Book Club II: Monsters

Mar 15, 2018

TAG Movie 5à7 – Thor: Ragnarok

Mar 02, 2018

ArtCade 2018

Feb 09, 2018

Level Up : Economy balancing workshop

Feb 08, 2018

TAG Movie 5à7: Your Name

Jan 26, 2018 - May 13, 2018

INTERPLAY: Thinking Through Games

Jan 25, 2018

Comic Book Club 5a7

Nov 17, 2017

5-7 | Better Games for Silver Gamers

Nov 01, 2017

LEVEL UP X GAMERella present Makey-Makey Workshop

Oct 27, 2017

LEVEL UP X GAMERella present Construct 2 Workshop !

Oct 26, 2017

LEVEL UP X GAMERella present Pixel Art Workshop !

Oct 24, 2017

LEVEL UP X GAMERella present Game Design and Planning Workshop

Oct 13, 2017 - Oct 14, 2017

TAG Presents MISSING – An Urban Game For One Player

Oct 05, 2017 - Oct 07, 2017

Bat Is Not Originally Reserved – GUEST ARTIST: Cha Ji Ryang

Sep 29, 2017

Brett Gaylor artist talk

Sep 27, 2017 - Oct 01, 2017

SIGHT & SOUND 2017

Sep 22, 2017 - Sep 23, 2017

Pleasure Consuming Games Workshop

Sep 14, 2017

5a7 — Playtest : Archaeology of Meaning

Jul 13, 2017 - Aug 31, 2017

Summer workshops at the Library Tech Sandbox

Jun 03, 2017 - Jun 10, 2017

Health Game Jam @ Breathing Games

May 18, 2017

5a7 – Settling Minecraft: Tactics and strategies at the player frontier

May 04, 2017

5a7 – Why We Play Hard Work: Some Theses on Simulation

Apr 27, 2017

5a7 – Zombies, Vaults & Violence: Collective Memory and the Representation of Atomic Fears in Resident Evil & Fallout

Apr 25, 2017

LEVEL UP Presents: Blender Workshop!

Apr 13, 2017

5a7 – VR: Deep Performance Dwelling

Apr 13, 2017

Data : Salon XXX – 13th April, 7PM @ Eastern Bloc

Apr 12, 2017

LET’S TALK GAMING! – REPRESENTATION IN VIDEO GAMES (April 12)

Mar 31, 2017

The Play and Politics of Pokémon GO: A No-Go?

Mar 31, 2017

Guest speaker Adriana de Souza e Silva on “Mobile Culture in Brazil”

Mar 30, 2017

5a7 – The Game Clinic: The PLAYground for E-health

Mar 23, 2017

5a7 – The Truly Terrific Traveling Troubleshooter: Ludic Reflections on Emotional Labour

Mar 22, 2017

BAD NEWS!

Mar 16, 2017

5a7 – Haptic games: research-creation with Vibropixels

Mar 08, 2017 - Mar 10, 2017

ARCADE 11

Mar 02, 2017

5a7 – Motion Capture & Movement Theory

Feb 23, 2017

5a7 – Going Next Gen: international reseach-creation and games for health

Feb 18, 2017 - Feb 19, 2017

Health Game Jam @ Breathing Games

Feb 16, 2017

5a7 – How to Lose Your Anime Boys in Eleven Days: a Primer on Otome Games in English

Feb 13, 2017

LEVEL UP Presents: Unity Workshop!

Feb 09, 2017

5a7 – Digital Humanities: Who, How, Whaaat?

Jan 20, 2017 - Jan 22, 2017

Green Global Game Jam at TAG in 2017

Jan 19, 2017

5a7: Game Weavings

Dec 15, 2016

5a7: Art Up Speakers Hangout 2

Nov 25, 2016

I/O Symposium on Computational Subcultures – November 25th

Nov 14, 2016

Guest Speaker Katerina Cizek on Interactive Documentary Filmmaking

Nov 03, 2016

HTMlles: Montreal’s Feminist Festival of Media Arts and Digital Culture

Oct 18, 2016 - Nov 04, 2016

LEVEL UP! Presents: GAMERella 2016 Workshops!

Oct 11, 2016 - Nov 22, 2016

SAUVAGE – Workshop series by David Calvo

Sep 29, 2016

Ardunio Masterclass with Massimo Banzi

Sep 28, 2016

University of the Streets Café @ TAG

Sep 15, 2016

5a7: Art-Up Speakers Hangout

May 12, 2016

TAG 5a7: Games as Film/Literary/Art/Game Criticism

Apr 21, 2016

TAG 5a7: Presenting Troubled Lands by Tom Fennewald

Apr 18, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Camera Tricks in Construct 2!

Apr 18, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Camera Tricks in Construct 2!

Apr 14, 2016

TAG 5a7: Playtesting Tariel VI by Roby Provost

Apr 07, 2016

TAG 5A7: Studying Game Worlds

Mar 29, 2016

LEVEL UP! Construct2 and Dress-Up Dolls

Mar 29, 2016

LEVEL UP! Construct2 and Dress-Up Dolls

Mar 02, 2016 - Mar 04, 2016

ARCADE 11

Feb 29, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Experimental Art in Unity with Paloma Dawkins!

Feb 29, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Experimental Art in Unity with Paloma Dawkins!

Feb 01, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Arduino and Circuits!

Feb 01, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Arduino and Circuits!

Jan 29, 2016 - Jan 31, 2016

Global Game Jam 2016

Jan 21, 2016

TAG 5a7: On Speedrunning

Jan 18, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Unity for Beginners!

Jan 18, 2016

LEVEL UP! Workshop – Unity for Beginners!

Dec 03, 2015

TAG 5A7: December Edition

Nov 14, 2015 - Nov 15, 2015

GAMERella 2015

Oct 26, 2015 - Nov 12, 2015

LEVEL UP! GAMERella Workshops

Oct 26, 2015 - Nov 12, 2015

LEVEL UP! GAMERella Workshops

Oct 23, 2015

TERI RUEB LISTENING TO LAND: LOCATIVE MEDIA AS PLACE-BASED KNOWING

Oct 22, 2015

Locative Platforms – Which way do we go? : Another TAG Shinposium – Oct 22 at 1:30pm

Oct 16, 2015 - Oct 17, 2015

Humorous > Disruptions Colloquium

Oct 08, 2015

TAG 5a7: BeAnotherLab

Sep 24, 2015 - Oct 04, 2015

Transitio MX Exhibition and Panels

Sep 10, 2015

TAG 5a7: Come Meet Squinky!

Aug 20, 2015

CRITICAL HIT – FINAL SHOWCASE

Jul 21, 2015 - Jul 22, 2015

Princess of Arcade

Jul 16, 2015

Critical Hit Playtest

Apr 30, 2015 - May 03, 2015

Error 404 Not found: Jonkonnu / Gens inconnus (exhibition)

Apr 16, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Games as Musical Toys

Apr 16, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Games as Musical Toys

Apr 02, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Manga

Apr 02, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Manga

Mar 26, 2015

FEMSHEP: CROWDSOURCING A FEMALE HERO IN BIOWARE’S MASS EFFECT

Mar 25, 2015

ENCOURAGING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN LARGE AND VERY, VERY LARGE GAMES CLASSES

Mar 25, 2015 - Mar 29, 2015

SCMS 2015

Mar 11, 2015

East meets West

Mar 06, 2015

CANCELLED: QUESTIONABLE TASTE: A PUBLIC TALK WITH ANNE JAMISON

Mar 04, 2015 - Mar 06, 2015

ARCADE 11

Feb 28, 2015 - Mar 01, 2015

Critical Hit: PRE-JAM

Feb 26, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: 2D GAME DEVELOPMENT IN UNITY

Feb 26, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: 2D GAME DEVELOPMENT IN UNITY

Feb 18, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Sketchup + Unity = How to make weird stuff?!

Feb 18, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Sketchup + Unity = How to make weird stuff?!

Feb 16, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Stencyl

Feb 16, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Stencyl

Feb 13, 2015

Minecraft Colloquium

Feb 09, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Dating Sim & Visual Novel

Feb 09, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Dating Sim & Visual Novel

Feb 05, 2015

Thursday, Feb 5th. Salon Ludique 3: Dreams

Jan 29, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Intro to Character Design in Photoshop

Jan 29, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Intro to Character Design in Photoshop

Jan 26, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: GAME DESIGN 101

Jan 26, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: GAME DESIGN 101

Jan 23, 2015 - Jan 25, 2015

Global Game Jam 2015

Jan 23, 2015

Sonic Pi / Live Coding Workshop! Make music with algorithms!

Jan 15, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: VECTOR ART

Jan 15, 2015

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: VECTOR ART

Dec 04, 2014

December 4th. 7pm @Espace Fibre. Salon Ludique 2: Freqencies.

Nov 17, 2014

Visiting Scholar Talk: Torill Mortensen

Nov 08, 2014 - Nov 09, 2014

GAMERella 2014

Oct 28, 2014 - Nov 04, 2014

GAMERella WORKSHOPS

Oct 25, 2014

Utopia Arcade. Saturday, October 25th. 5pm.

Sep 26, 2014 - Sep 28, 2014

BoobJam 2014

Sep 15, 2014 - Sep 19, 2014

Alt CTRL Online Game Jam

Aug 14, 2014

Critical Hit Final Showcase

Jul 05, 2014

Critical Hit Playtest & Celebration – July 5th

Jun 27, 2014 - Jun 28, 2014

Game History Annual Symposium

Jun 16, 2014 - Aug 29, 2014

Critical Hit 14

May 11, 2014

Contemporary Game Culture: Experimental and Independent Video Games

May 06, 2014

Heather Kelley’s Welcome Party

May 02, 2014

The Ability Jam

Apr 15, 2014

Tuesday Tea with Kaho Abe

Apr 09, 2014

LEVEL UP! workshop: VECTOR ART

Apr 09, 2014

LEVEL UP! workshop: VECTOR ART

Apr 07, 2014

Erkki Huhtamo: Arcadeology, or an Archaeology of Amusement Arcades

Apr 01, 2014

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Sketchup + Unity = How to make weird stuff?!

Apr 01, 2014

LEVEL UP! WORKSHOP: Sketchup + Unity = How to make weird stuff?!

Mar 18, 2014

Mia Consalvo’s talk @ GDC

Mar 14, 2014 - Mar 16, 2014

Dawson Jam

Mar 08, 2014

ARCADE 11 microtalks

Mar 06, 2014 - Mar 08, 2014

ARCADE 11 & TAG OPEN HOUSE

Mar 01, 2014 - Mar 02, 2014

Critical Hit: Jam Factory PRE-JAM

Feb 27, 2014 - Mar 04, 2014

Talk and play: L’Histoire du jeu vidéo – jeux commentés

Feb 08, 2014

QUILTBAG Jam

Feb 07, 2014

Arthemis Lecture Series 2013-2014

Feb 06, 2014

February 6 5a7 Symposium – Arcade 11 Preview

Feb 05, 2014

Mia Consalvo on Cheating and Social Network Games @ VANIER

Feb 01, 2014

Twine Workshop by Pixelles

Jan 24, 2014 - Jan 26, 2014

Global Game Jam 2014

Jan 16, 2014

January 16 5a7 Symposium – Welcome Back!

Dec 05, 2013

December 5 5a7 Symposium – Games and Grime

Nov 15, 2013 - Nov 16, 2013

McGill’s Participatory Condition Conference

Nov 11, 2013 - Nov 12, 2013

Montreal International Game Summit 2013

Nov 11, 2013

Prince of Arcade 2013

Nov 08, 2013 - Nov 11, 2013

GAMERella

Nov 07, 2013 - Nov 08, 2013

IAN BOGOST – lectures and workshop

Nov 03, 2013

Play Joust at Le Mood

Nov 01, 2013

Videogames: A New Literary Genre?

Oct 31, 2013

Lina Eklund on Youth school networks and digital gaming

Oct 29, 2013

Crusader Kings II Workshop

Oct 15, 2013

Toward a Positive Game Culture: Rethinking Meritocratic Game Design (a talk by Christopher A. Paul)

Oct 10, 2013

October 10 5a7 Symposium – Introducing the MLAB

Oct 03, 2013

October 3 5a7 Symposium – DTGMA and Boob Jam Game Showcase

Sep 28, 2013 - Sep 29, 2013

The Boob Jam

Sep 26, 2013 - Sep 28, 2013

Propinquity in Brussels

Sep 19, 2013

September 19 5a7 Symposium – Going Beyond Gender and Games

Sep 14, 2013

Propinquity at Boston FIG

Sep 14, 2013

Jason Lewis at TEDxMontreal

Sep 12, 2013

September 12 5a7 Symposium – The Tetris Copyright Case

Sep 05, 2013

September 5th 5a7 Symposium – FIELD TRIP! To the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Aug 26, 2013 - Aug 29, 2013

TAG at DIGRA

Aug 24, 2013 - Aug 25, 2013

Skyrim Modding Workshop – Making Strange

Aug 23, 2013

Critical Hit Final Showcase

Aug 22, 2013

August 22 5a7 Symposium – Farewell Party for Jane

Aug 08, 2013

Critical Hit Playtest 5a7

Aug 01, 2013

August 1 5a7 Symposium – Critiquing Games for Change

Jul 11, 2013

July 11 5a7 Symposium – Free For All

Jul 04, 2013

July 4 5a7 Symposium – Games That Mobilize

Jun 27, 2013

June 27 5a7 Symposium – Corporate Responsibility in the Games Industry

Jun 26, 2013

Curious Games Studio Playtime

Jun 23, 2013 - Aug 17, 2013

critical hit games collaboratory 2013

Jun 21, 2013 - Jun 23, 2013

Jason Begy and Cindy Poremba will be participating in the History of Games International Conference.

Jun 13, 2013

June 13 5a7 Symposium – Using Minecraft in Higher Ed

Jun 04, 2013 - Jun 05, 2013

TAG at CGSA

Jun 01, 2013 - Jun 08, 2013

David Waddington at Congress

May 27, 2013 - Jun 14, 2013

SKINS 4.0

May 24, 2013

The Cosmonaut

May 24, 2013 - May 26, 2013

Will Robinson presents at the “International Conference on Japan Game Studies” Kyoto, JP.

May 23, 2013

May 23 5a7 Symposium – Star Wreck in the Screening Room

May 14, 2013 - May 17, 2013

Mia Consalvo and Jen Whitson at FDG

May 14, 2013 - May 18, 2013

TAG at the GRAND conference

May 09, 2013

May 9 5a7 Symposium – Meet Pippin Barr (and play ToJam games)

May 01, 2013 - Jun 21, 2013

Curious Games Studio – summer course

Apr 27, 2013 - May 02, 2013

Mia Consalvo presenting at Chi

Apr 26, 2013 - Apr 27, 2013

Different Games Conference

Apr 17, 2013 - Apr 20, 2013

Tracy Fullerton comes to TAG

Apr 11, 2013

April 11 5a7 Symposium – Intro to Procedural Rhetoric

Apr 04, 2013

April 4 5a7 Symposium – Japanese Theme Night

Apr 02, 2013

U of Alberta Skype Presentation – PlayPR

Mar 28, 2013

March 28 5a7 Symposium – Gendering Games

Mar 22, 2013 - Mar 26, 2013

Basic Unity GUI Workshop

Mar 22, 2013

Get Water! Launch Party

Mar 16, 2013

LudicVoice – JARBLES Sound Puzzle Jam

Mar 15, 2013

RocKonférence sur la création et les hybrida…

Mar 14, 2013

March 14 5a7 Symposium – Game (Concept) Jam

Mar 13, 2013

Talk by Miriam Verburg at Technoculture Art and Games (TAG)

Mar 07, 2013

March 7 5a7 Symposium – Get Water! Playtest

Mar 04, 2013

PlayPR Skype Presentation – OCAD presents Logger

Feb 28, 2013 - Mar 01, 2013

Workshop : World Building for Videogames

Feb 28, 2013

Eric Zimmerman Speaking at Execution Labs this Thursday Feb 28

Feb 07, 2013 - Feb 10, 2013

‘Gaming Beyond Screens’ February 7-10, 2013

Jan 31, 2013

January 31 5a7 Symposium – Skipping Stones Demo

Jan 25, 2013 - Jan 27, 2013

Global Game Jam 2013 | Montreal | Concordia University

Jan 17, 2013

January 17 5a7 Symposium – Welcome (Back)!

Jan 10, 2013

The Transmedia Generation: Spreadable Media, Fan Activism, and Participatory Learning

Dec 12, 2012

December 12 5a7 Symposium – End of Semester Party

Dec 01, 2012 - Dec 02, 2012

Propinquity at Come Out and Play San Fran

Nov 28, 2012

November 28 5a7 Symposium – Wii (U) Party

Nov 23, 2012 - Nov 25, 2012

Recursion 2012 Demoparty at Concordia

Nov 23, 2012

Fabulously Procedural: Braid, Temporality, and the Videogame Sensorium – Nov 23, 2012

Nov 23, 2012

FABULOUSLY PROCEDURAL: BRAID, TEMPORALITY, AND THE VIDEOGAME SENSORIUM

Nov 21, 2012

November 21 5a7 Symposium – The End of the World as we Know it

Nov 13, 2012 - Nov 14, 2012

Propinquity at MIGS

Nov 13, 2012

Prince of Arcade

Nov 09, 2012

Playing the Past – PlayPR Skype Presentation – “Hypertext and Hypermedia Lab”

Nov 09, 2012

Book Club Meeting

Nov 07, 2012

November 7 5a7 Symposium – Interactive Discussion on Games and Ethics

Nov 02, 2012

Gestural Games Book Project Meeting

Nov 01, 2012 - Nov 03, 2012

Flow Conference

Oct 31, 2012

October 31 5a7 Symposium – Dwarf Fortress Tutorial

Oct 17, 2012

Sunny Handa Talk

Oct 11, 2012

PlayPR Skype meeting

Oct 04, 2012 - Oct 07, 2012

Lynn Hughes and Cindy Poremba at IndieCade

Oct 03, 2012

October 3 TAG 5a7 Symposium

Sep 27, 2012 - Sep 30, 2012

Adam Van Sertima at Arse Elektronika

Sep 26, 2012

TAG – Obx – AbTeC Welcome / Back Event!

Jun 21, 2012 - Aug 12, 2012

TAG at the Gaîté-Lyrique

Jun 01, 2012

Random Hacks of Kindness

Feb 04, 2012 - Feb 06, 2012

Mixcade

Jan 27, 2012 - Jan 29, 2012

Global Game Jam 2012 at ConU

Nov 13, 2011 - Nov 14, 2011

Montreal Game Summit

Nov 05, 2011 - Nov 09, 2011

Media Literacy Week

Nov 03, 2011 - Nov 05, 2011

J.E.U.X

Oct 01, 2011 - Oct 02, 2011

Experiencing Stories with Digital Games

Jul 16, 2011 - Jul 29, 2011

SKINS 2.0

Jun 01, 2011 - Aug 31, 2011

Montreal Games Incubator