Prolifération des écrans

Just publised at the University of Quebec Press in the collection Esthétique,

LA PROLIFÉRATION DES ÉCRANS

Under the direction of:
Louise Poissant (CIAM member researcher) from UQAM and
Pierre Tremblay from Ryerson University in Toronto

Our perceptions, our representations and our knowhow pass through screens. Through these channels of communication and exchange, we intervene and act in images, text, sounds and equations. In a word, the screen determines who we are and who we believe to be, the breadth and depth of our playground.

It allows, or more importantly, it enables several functions contributing to interactivity: display, framing, mediation, projection, modelling. Coupled with the mouse, it becomes the place of multiple interventions with others, with the environment and with oneself. Substitute and extention of the book memory, or as some say, its terminal phase, the screen is gradually becoming the ultimate path to knowledge and the construction road privileged, if not the forced passage, of new knowledge. In this sense, the screens become enmeshed in the most intimate aspects of thought and perception and also has a structurant epistemological influence.
 

See : Editor's book record

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Ying Gao - Walking City at ÉLEKTRA

  Walk 

Ying Gao - Walking City at ÉLEKTRA
(CIAM member researcher)

April 17th to May 11th 2008
Usine C
1345, ave Lalonde
Montréal (Québec)

In fashion creation, the challenge is to build clothes which volume remains fluid, offering the possibility of multiple and changeable forms which contrast with the unflexible shape of the traditional garment.

Ying Gao conceives pneumatic clothes as if they were animated by a breath. The air is light, immaterial and poetic; by breathing it in a garment, this one metamorphoses into another garment and seems inhabited by a body.

Inspired by this fluid, she tries to give an aesthetic shape to the immateriality by creating interactive clothes as a sort of game, linking them to the notion of bait.

The Wlalking City project is situated between the clothing creation and the media arts. It aims at the creation of dresses which, made with diverse fabrics, tissues and electronic components, react to their immediate environment.
 

Programmation ÉLEKTRA 9

Walking City

Grégory Chatonsky

Multiple expos for Grégory Chatonsky
(CIAM Collaborating Member)

Gregory Chatonsky is just everywhere.

May 8 to July 5 2008 - THE INVENTION OF DESTRUCTION II / SOLO / GALERIE POLLER (NEW YORK, US)
April 25 to 28 2008 - NEXTARTFAIR / SOLO / GALERIE POLLER (CHICAGO, US)
April 8 to May 24 2008 - PRESENT / GROUP / HP GARCIA GALLERY (NEW YORK, US)
April 15 to 30 2008 - HOLY FIRE : ART OF THE DIGITAL AGE / GROUP / IMAL (BRUXELLES, BE)
April 1rst to May 1rst 2008 - ENEMIES / PALAIS DE TOKYO (PARIS, FR)
March 15 to May 5 2008 - FLOW / GROUP / CCA (ANDRATX, MAJORQUE, ESPAGNE)

  Enemy II

Grégory Chatonsky holds a philosophy master’s from the Sorbonne and a multimedia advanced degree from the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He has worked on numerous solo and group projects in France, Canada, the United States, Italy, Australia, Germany, Finland and Spain. His works have been acquired by public collectors such as the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie.
In 1994, Chatonsky founded a net.art collective, incident.net, and has produced numerous works, such as the websites of the Pompidou Centre and Villa Médicis, the graphic signature for the Musée contemporain du Val-de-Marne, and interactive fiction for Arte. He has taught at the Fresnoy (national modern art studio, France) and at UQAM’s school of visual and media art.
Chatonsky’s body of work, including interactive installations, networked and urban devices, photographs and sculptures, speaks to the relationship between technologies and affectivity, flow that define our time and attempts to create new forms of fiction.

Fins all information at: http://gregory.incident.net