WdKA Live from Montreal!

As part of Concordia's ongoing collaboration and exchange with the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (WdKA) 4th Space is thrilled to welcome artists and educators Michael Murtaugh and Lídia Pereira Malho Rodrigues to Montreal. 

As part of their week-long exchange here, we will welcome Michael and Lídia into the space for artist talks and conversation with our Pippin Barr. 

Pippin Barr is an Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts here at Concordia. He is part of this exchange, having visited WdKA in 2025 along with Surabhi Ghosh and Aaron McIntosh. Surabhi and Aaron both presented thier work from WdKA in October 2025 as part of our Live from Rotterdam! event.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Michael Murtaugh
Michael designs and researches community databases, interactive documentary, and tools for new forms of (collaborative) reading and writing online. He is course director of the Experimental Publishing Master XPUB at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

Michael Murtaugh is a member of Constant, an art and media collective based in Brussels. With Constant he has been working on Active Archives, a platform for diverse material ranging from texts to images and video. Seeing the project as both technical and cultural, the system facilitates, re-use of material while enriching content through metadata, vocabularies, and taxonomies. He is also a member of the Institute for Computational Vandalism, a collective that works at the intersection of the visual arts archive and new forms of narrative through algorithmic exploration

Lídia Pereira

Lídia is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on the political economy of the internet, algorithmic governance and labour in and around corporate social networks. She is currently a candidate in the PhDArts programme of the Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague where she is investigating the uses of videogames as feminist tactical media.

She has presented her work at Transmediale, Impakt, V2_, Spui25 and the Making Public Conference. She has given guest lectures and workshops at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Mz* Baltazar, and Baltan Laboratories. In 2019, her essay “Redirecting Responsibility: From Structural Insecurity to Systemic Depression” was published by the Institute of Network Cultures. (2022, 2022)