I am very pleased to announce that I will participate International Digital Art Biennale Montreal this year. I am presenting “Skin Deep”, a photographic series with augmented reality (AR).
Where: Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal Date: May 31 – July 21, 2024 Address: 2020 William St, Montreal, Quebec H3J 1R8 Opening: May 30, 2024, 7:00 -10:00pm
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Presented by ELEKTRA since 2012, the International Digital Art Biennial is back for a 7th edition from May 31 to July 21, 2024 in collaboration with Arsenal contemporary art Montreal. The Biennale ELEKTRA is the largest exhibition dedicated to digital art in North America.
It is under the theme ILLUSION that it presents a reflection on our post-factual, post-truth and alternative reality era, a subject that is shaking up the news. Indeed, the proliferation of digital communication technologies and tools from artificial intelligence (AI) contribute to disinformation, notably deep fakes. We can already measure the serious consequences of this denial of reality on the lives of billions of people on our planet. This 7th Biennial is intended, once again, to reflect our societies, which are increasingly enveloped and infiltrated by digital technology.
Curated by Alain Thibault, more than thirty artists from three continents are brought together in a unique way. Under the theme ILLUSION, certain installations will reflect this idealized parallel life in the Metaverse while leading the public to question the very concept of reality and simulation. Thus, visitors are invited to question the existence of certain works, due to their ephemeral, immaterial or even invisible nature, and thus to refine their perception of reality or illusion in an increasingly enveloped and infiltrated society by digital.
For over thirteen years, Galerie Charlot has been a pioneer in the field of contemporary art, focusing on digital technologies that bring together science, art and technology. We work alongside artists who explore artistic creation through digital tools that challenge our perception and speculate on the future in contemporary art. For this edition, we propose a booth that highlights the work of four mid-career female artists from around the world: Chun Hua Catherine Dong (USA/China), Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Lauren Moffatt (Australia) and Sabrina Ratté (Canada). In line with this year’s theme «Curating in the post-digital age», Galerie Charlot’s booth will explore the trace – both material and immaterial – left by humans through today’s technologies.
The world accelerated as one industrial revolution after another produced societal and aesthetic changes. It was in the 19thcentury that the serial treatment of subjects became widespread in painting, as if to better grasp every aspect of them. In an age of unbridled use of artificial intelligence algorithms in industry and art alike, it is more appropriate to approach many works through their multiple versions. Increasingly, artists are literally collaborating with programs capable of generating their works in infinite variations. When the results are striking, it is up to them to interrupt the autonomous processes they had initiated. But what has been new in recent years is that we can all use such interfaces to, for example, refine our multiple online profiles. In this way, we have a certain closeness to the creations that come out of iterative or generative processes. This exhibition should be seen as a studio where the works are in the process of being made.
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participating artist: Nicolas Baier, Salomé Chatriot, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, George Legrady, Caroline Monnet, Oli Sorenson, Nicolas Sassoon, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Timothy Thomasson.
