The project involved over 90 interviews with Canadian and international digital artists and media theorists thinking out loud about their work and its implications. The DVD-ROM features artists who work digitally in image and/or sound, or using sensors in installations, as well as in the realm of robotics. In the ELECTRICANADA section, Canadian artists comment Read more »
An interactive journey guided by intuition – a game of perception and experimentation. Nine realms shaped by imagination, chance and encounters with André Breton, Alberto Giacometti, Paul-Émile Borduas, Joan Mitchell and many others. An exploration of art in the 20th Century. An intimate look at the unconfined and grandiose approach of Jean-Paul Riopelle. Salut, Riopelle! Read more »
Phony is an interactive CD-ROM which explores the history and culture of the telephone in order to reflect on contemporary communications technologies. Based on a multisite public art exhibition by the author, Phony explores an ensemble of typical telephone situations on a dramatic mode. AUTHORS • Creation : Susan Schluppli • Technical assistants : Dana Read more »
ILLUMINATIONS: A BOOK OF LETTERS is a CDROM artwork which models book form. The twenty-six ‘pages’ or screens, one for each letter of the alphabet, contains continuous loop video material, graphics, and interactive still images and text. Illuminated Manuscript meets computer technology. Science, religion and art re-merge today as in (Leonardo) Da Vinci’s times. Flaming. Read more »
A is for Apple is an INTERACTIVE ARTwork that investigates a cryptography of the apple. Using an ever expanding series of associative links, the work looks for hidden meanings, coincidences and insights that stem from the apple. This leads to a vast web of references from western metaphysics, popular culture, the history of cryptography, ideas Read more »
Liquid medias. The computer uses generative processes, based on random, which recalls Mallarmé’s Coup de dés, to the quantas’ theory and “chance operations” of Cage. PHARES GAMMA is a self generated work, infinite by nature, where words, images and sounds are posted together. AUTHORS • Creation: Jacques Donguy • Images / sound / texts: Jacques Read more »