Paris – Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Public Art – Place des arts

I am very pleased to announce that I have been selected to create public art project for 35 vidoe screens at Espace Culturel Georges-Emile-Lapalme at Place des Arts in Montreal in 2024. This work is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and place des arts.

Exhibiton date: 7:00am – 11:00pm, June 19 – October 19, 2024
Address: place des arts
175 Sainte-Catherine Street West
Montreal, Quebec H2X 3X5

for the announcement at the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, please visit here.

for the announcement at place des arts, please visit here.

International Digital Art Biennale Montreal

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

For more info about the Biennale, please visit here
For more info about “Skin Deep” at my website, please visit here

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.

Solo Exhibition – Galerie Charlot Paris

I am very pleased to announce that I am having a solo exhibition, The Flow, at Galerie Charlot in Paris from April 5 to May 25, 2024. I am showing my two recent projects, “ For You I Will Be An Island,” and ” Unmask Opera.” This exhibition includes performance photograph, photographs with AI component and augmented reality (AR), AI animation, and 3D printed sculptures.

Galery: Galerie Charlot
Date: April 5 – May 25, 2024
Address: 47 rue Charlot 75003 Paris – France
OPening: April 5, 2024, 6:00 -9:00pm

THE FLOW

Chun Hua Catherine Dong, originaire de Chine et établie au Canada, se distingue en tant qu’artiste pluridisciplinaire explorant des thématiques profondes telles que l’identité, la migration, le genre et le corps. Son travail s’exprime à travers une palette variée de médias, allant de la performance à la vidéo, en passant par la photographie et l’installation, pour susciter la réflexion et remettre en question les normes sociales et culturelles.

Elle joue avec les attentes de genre et navigue entre différentes identités, défiant ainsi les frontières physiques et psychologiques. Ses œuvres captent des instants intimes et troublants, révélant souvent des aspects négligés ou tabous de l’expérience humaine. À travers une mise en scène soigneusement élaborée et une manipulation habile de l’image, elle tisse des récits visuels captivants, invitant le spectateur à remettre en question ses propres perceptions sur des sujets tels que l’identité culturelle, le pouvoir et la marginalisation.

Engagée socialement, Chun Hua Catherine Dong utilise son art comme un moyen de sensibiliser le public aux problèmes contemporains et d’encourager le dialogue et le changement. Son travail incite à la réflexion et à une remise en question constructive de notre société.

Untitled Art Fair – with Galerie Charlot Paris

I am very pleased to announce that I will participate Untitled Art Fair, in Miami, represented by Galerie Charlot.

Date: December 6-10, 2023

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.

Participating artists: Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Kika Nicole, Lauren Moffatt, Sabrina Ratte

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Exhibition – Canadian Culture Centre Paris

I am very pleased to announce that I will participate a group exhibition “En d’infinies variations/Endless variations,” at Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, as part of Némo – Biennale internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France, curated by Catherine Bédard, Dominique Moulon, and Alain Thibault, produced by CENTQUATRE-PARIS, in partnership with Elektra (Montreal).

Date:

December 7, 2023 to April 19, 2024

Opening event:

December 6, 2023 at 18:00pm – 21:00pm

The world accelerated as one industrial revolution after another produced societal and aesthetic changes. It was in the 19^thcentury 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.

For more info about the exhibition, please visit here

participating artist: Nicolas Baier, Salomé Chatriot, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, George Legrady, Caroline Monnet, Oli Sorenson, Nicolas Sassoon, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Timothy Thomasson.

Group Exhibition – Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us

Exhibition: Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us
Date: February 05th, 2020 – April 17th, 2020
Opening: February 4th, 2020 6-8pm
Gallery: Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
Address: 130 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris

Produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris as part of the official programme of Nemo, the Biennial of Electronic Arts Ile-de-France, in partnership with Elektra (Montreal) and with the support of Région Ile-de-France.

Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us is an exhibition that documents the world using the technologies that shape it. The works in the exhibition feature a large variety of styles: interactive devices that make us learn their playabilities, generative installations whose processes are entirely autonomous and digital creations made out of digital forms.

The concept of artificial intelligence emerged in the 1950s. It served as a vehicle for an imaginary world immediately adopted by science-fiction writers who endowed machines with the ability to “think”. In the 1980s, the idea that machines could themselves learn, by deduction, appeared. This is known as “machine learning”. Finally, since the turn of the millennium, the term “deep learning” has been used for the processing of vast quantities of data by computers.

We have taught everything to machines and continue to supply them so that they pursue the “desire” for autonomy we would like to grant them. Isn’t it time that we started thinking that we, too, learn from them by observing their specificities or qualities? If there is one community that observes the world to give us its interpretations of its transformations, it is the artistic community.

Artists have always made use of the tools and materials of their times. Thus, more and more of them are turning to the creative potential of digital technologies, which are also used by researchers in their laboratories. In doing so, they accept what the machines offer them while adding an element of unpredictability to their creations. Sometimes, they distance themselves from their works, which run so that their modes of actions may be observed better. Machines or robots are also the subjects of photographs or films that other artists produce to encourage new forms of empathy in us. It is not an application or a service that does not work as soon as it opens. From the special-effect filters of mass-market software to the networks of artificial neurones that artists share with researchers. They both learn and appropriate these technologies by rubbing shoulders with them.

We have a certain proximity with the works that emerge from the use and/or observation of the technologies that shape our relationship to the world, to others and to ourselves. Recognizing the technologies of our daily lives in an artistic context makes us envisage them differently. Knowing that it is through contact with others that we build ourselves, it is about time to think about the “mechanical” other we increasingly frequent without being too aware of it. Dedicating an exhibition to machines and ideas or the resulting aesthetics amounts to accepting their teachings.

Works by Matthew Biederman, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Grégory Chatonsky, Douglas Coupland, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Emilie Gervais, Sabrina Ratté, David Rokeby, Justine Emard, Louis-Philippe Rondeau, Samuel St-Aubin, Skawennati, Xavier Snelgrove & Mattie Tesfaldet, with an exterior installation by Olivier Ratsi.

Guest curators: Dominique Moulon and Alain Thibault
Associated curator: Catherine Bédard

Exceptionally open on Saturday April 4, from 10am to 6pm for Paris Art Fair.

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