Étant données – roundtable discussion

Roundtable : Étant données, VOX, 2017.11.10.

Roundtable at VOX
On Friday, November 10, 2017
at 3:00 pm

Free admission

⋅ Étant données que l’empathie n’est pas encore un algorithme…
⋅ Étant données que le Globe se fait des selfies à plus de 270 km d’altitude avec au moins 1500 caméras…
⋅ Étant données que la surface mondiale est couverte à 70% par les océans, celle des continents à 33% par des déserts et que les zones urbaines représentent presque 0,5% de l’espace qui reste…
⋅ Étant données que DATA peut rimer avec DADA…

⋅ Consid(a)ring that empathy is not yet an algorithm…
⋅ Consid(a)ring that the Globe takes selfies at an altitude of over 270 km, with at least 1500 cameras…
⋅ Consid(a)ring that the world’s surface is 70% ocean, that of the continents 33% desert, and that urban areas represent almost 0.5% of what remains…
⋅ Consid(a)ring that DATA can rhyme with DADA…

… a group of artists-researchers invites the public to share ideas before completing an exhibition that will take place at VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine next spring. New ways of making art using methodologies inspired by the détournement and deconstruction of information technologies will be addressed. Around the table on this occasion: Alexandre Castonguay, Alice Jarry, André Girard, Caroline Bernard and Damien Guichard, William Bourdon, Guillaume Pascale, Jean Dubois, Thomas Ouellet Fredericks, Nans Bortuzzo.

This event is organized as part of UQAM’s research-creation program “Au-delà des images opératoires”, for an exhibition to be presented at VOX from April 26 to June 30, 2018.

The presentations will be in French.

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Exhibition

Étant données
2018.04.26 - 06.30

In this age of Digital Everything, a new infrastructure is gradually framing our perception and reconfiguring our experience. With that in mind, the group exhibition Étant données – in collaboration with “Au-delà des images opératoires” research-program – brings together art experimentations that…

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