Creating in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Artificial Intelligence could remedy our shortfalls and help us to surmount our hesitations and fears? If it could relieve us of the burden of existence. If AI could become human and even more than human. But let’s not get carried away. Could AI one day (…)
Adam Basanta, Collaged 19th century photographic landscapes with trees, palms, and observers, 2019
Using various mediums, Adam Basanta explores technological practices as socially-mediated performances, distributed and intertwined throughout a variety of human, cultural, material and computational agencies. His work (…)
Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage (about a round table on Dominique Blain’s exhibition).
[text available in French only] Ariane Lemieux is a doctor of art history specializing in the history of museums and publishes here a review of “Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage”, a round table on November 5th, 2019 with artist Dominique Blain (…)
COZIC. Over to You. From 1967 to Now
[text available in French only] Michelle Drapeau is a candidate for the Master’s degree in Art History at Laval University, an independent curator and cultural worker from Moncton (NB), based in Quebec City and publishes here a review of the MNBAQ’s exhibition “COZIC. Over to You. From 1967 to Now“.
Alexis Bellavance, Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux at AXENÉO7
[text available in French only] Anna Brunette is a master’s student in art history at UQAM and publishes here a review on the two recent Axeneo7 exhibitions: Alexis Bellavance’s “Compressions : tables préparées” and Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux’s “Quelque part dans l’inachevé“.
Dialogues avec l’histoire
[text available in French only] Laurent Vernet holds a Master’s degree in art history and a doctorate in urban studies and publishes here a review on the forum entitled “L’art public à l’épreuve de la commémoration corrigée” at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec on October 7, 2019.
Transparency
Clearly, the word “transparency” is increasingly present now in the discourse of public administration, business ethics, and in all forms of goods and services. Not a day goes by without this notion (…)
Rencontres photographiques en Gaspésie : une 10e édition éclectique et conviviale
[text available in French only] Sophie Guignard, a doctoral student in art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) publishes a review of the 10th edition of the Rencontres photographiques en Gaspésie.
FTA 2019 | Stefan Kaegi: Granma. Trombones from Havana
In Granma, history, of the grand forward-marching and/or circle-turning variety, and narrative threads of the everyday and mundane sort overlap, intertwine and interweave to form a tapestry centred on the heritage of the Cuban revolution. At once intimate and (…)
FIMAV 2019 | L’art sonore au Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville
[text available in French only], the art critic Karine P. Bouchard publishes a review of the different sound art installations in public spaces as part of the 2019 edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV).
