Events

Art, numérique et mieux-être

TOPO a organisé une rencontre professionnelle autour de l’inclusion culturelle à travers les médias numériques, le vendredi 24 mai 2024. Ce forum a mis en valeur des projets qui incarnent différentes approches artistiques dans l’accompagnement et la compréhension des handicaps. Ces propositions reposent sur des partenariats inédits et engagent des processus d’innovation, ouverts et participatifs, Read more »

Portion de relief montagneux en couleurs vive sur un fond noir Écosystème Alpha | Aude Guivarc’h

For this new window display exhibition, TOPO brings nature back to the forefront with the interactive installation Ecosystème Alpha, by Aude Guivarc’h, which allows visitors to interact and play with the balance of nature. With a simple wave of the hand, the public can create climatic disturbances that shatter the tranquillity of a virtual mountain Read more »

Brume | pixels·collectif

A new artistic video game by pixels·collectif, Brume, opened TOPO’s 2024-26 programming, which explores the themes nostalgia, ecology and simulacra. Beginning at 5:00 p.m. on 29 February 2024 this new installation in TOPO’s window display staged a welcoming warm future – but troubling – to conclude the month of February 2024 similarly warm. The window Read more »

Des vraies roches et des fausses roches en papier sur fond blanc ALÉAS : Échos et reflets des éolithes​ | Cléo Palacio-Quintin

For its final window display exhibition of 2023, TOPO announces a poetic work that gives voice to rocks chosen or imagined by Cléo-Palacio Quintin. At the launch on Friday November 3, the Quatuor Bozzini, who created the music for the project, will be invited to interpret the musical voice of a few rocks chosen by Read more »

Cross-platform bootcamp – 9th edition

This workshop will be given in french – consequently, this article is only available in french. Sorry for the inconvenience. Offert pour la 9e fois, ce programme vise à accompagner une cohorte de 10 artistes dans la définition d’un projet interactif en devenir, avec une diversité de spécialistes de la création numérique. Au terme d’un Read more »

Photogrammetry – introduction to object and space scanning

This workshop will be given in french – consequently, this article is only available in french. Sorry for the inconvenience. Libérez la puissance de l’acquisition de données spatiales tridimensionnelles à travers le prisme de la photogrammétrie dans notre cours complet. La photogrammétrie est une technique de pointe qui combine les principes de la photographie, de Read more »

Strategies for digital gamification in litterature

This workshop will be given in french – consequently, this article is only available in french. Sorry for the inconvenience. Le milieu de l’édition numérique est en évolution constante et en quête accélérée de savoir-faire. TOPO porte un intérêt spécifique pour les formes nouvelles d’expression du récit et leur diffusion à travers des médias numériques. Read more »

Aperçu de l'oeuvre Rêverie sympoëtique Sympoïetic Reverie | Isabella Salas

A troubled summer comes to an end, and for TOPO, a cycle. As the autumn season approaches, a reminder of the inevitable change of seasons, TOPO closes its Fluidité thematic cycle with a timely work. With Sympoietic Reverie, Isabella Salas guides our imagination between fragile ecosystems and ephemeral urban landscapes. On view in our window Read more »

VerdunReality : Riparian Play | Natalie Doonan

Natalie Doonan VerdunReality : Riparian play TOPO is pleased to support VerdunReality by Natalie Doonan, to be discovered under July’s sun. This 90 minutes multimedia performance was designed to for the St. Lawrence waterfront in Montreal’s Southwest borough of Verdun. VerdunReality: Riparian Play is a journey along the St. Lawrence waterfront in Montreal’s Southwest borough of Read more »

Call for projects 2024-2026 programming

TOPO, the Montreal-based artist-run center for the digital arts, has launched a new call for projects for its 2024-2026 artistic programming. Both established and emerging artists with a digital arts practice were invited to submit a project in one of the following three options: OPTION 1: an installation project for TOPO’s window display, OPTION 2: Read more »

N-h9 | Sandrine Deumier

By weaving imaginaries in the mode of biomimicry, Nh-9 is an immersive poetry experience that attempts to develop notions of interrelationships between humans and non-humans. The aim of this project is to allow to be immersed in a state of sensory modifications (and/or mutations) in order to construct interconnected landscapes by imagining a living world – made Read more »

ILIDI – Exhibition launch | Digital literature incubator

Leer en Español   ILIDI | Digital Literature incubator Exhibition launch When : Thursday, March 16th 2023, from 7 to 9 pm, Montreal time. Where : On the web (Mozilla Hubs) Price : Free Language : Mainly in spanish, but also in french, and english. Facebook Event   ILIDI is a Quebec-Mexico cocreation program of Read more »

Pinch to awaken | Yesica Duarte

Yesica Duarte Pinch to Awaken From February 6, 2023, TOPO hosted a residency for the Argentine artist Yesica Duarte. During her residency, Yesica proposed a virtual reality project that communicates with the entire body, including the breath of the person experiencing it. She built her own system to capture the breath of the helmet wearer. Read more »

Talk with Baron Lanteigne about Cinématographie de la matière virtuelle

On Thursday, February 16, a meet-and-greet was held with our artist-in-residence of the moment, Baron Lanteigne, about his work in progress. His residency work was titled Cinématographie de la matière virtuelle and was on display in our exhibition window from January 26 to March 11, 2023. It was also possible to follow his experiments online Read more »

Cinématographie de la matière virtuelle | Baron Lanteigne

Starting Thursday, January 26, 2023, TOPO hosted artist Baron Lanteigne in an open residency as part of its thematic programming Fluidity. The work metamorphosed over the course of this experimental residency and was shown live in TOPO’s showcase. This residency formula combined with the window exhibition gave Johann Baron-Lanteigne the opportunity to work with the Read more »