Medium is The Message Manifesto
07:36 2021 |
Alexa Rhynd
The digital quilt is immaterial - a metaphorical space to consciously engage with and consider our relationship to technology, and how it mediates our modes of communication. It is a reminder that our passive participation is a choice; a reiteration of Marshall Macluhan’s words that “there is no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” Urging the viewer to reconnect with themselves and those around them, the concept of the digital quilt provides a framework of how we may learn to better exist under a late-capitalist, technologically-reliant society. |
Sprawl
01:46 2020 |
Ana López Vázquez
Sprawl is a drawing with charcoal and pastel set on newsprint which explores the idea of spread without limits or constraints (e.g., frames and edges), a concept juxtaposed with intra-compositional connectivity. It is an intuitive work meant to break the recently realized limits that have come from chronically working from home, and presents a non-conventional freedom of creation on the two-dimensional plane of typical household on-hand resources. I invite you to immerse and/or lose yourself in Sprawl. |
How to Imprint the City onto Oneself
0:51 2021 |
Jean-Philippe Poirier
My idea for this project was to find connection with the surrounding environment, focusing on alleyways as my main source for imagery. Going off the beaten path, I explored the backstreets with my analog camera, capturing the mundane and overlooked urban paths. I used the cyanotypes to record the shadows of objects that littered these sites Working with the physicality of the cyanotypes and the photographs, I placed them together, connecting them with the lines and shapes present in each of them. The turn-off into Ruelle Verte, the old fire department on St-Dominique turned artist residence that is now closed, the Vie d'Ange gallery slated for destruction last year to make place for the AI campus in Mile-End, the parking lot that belonged to the Moishe on St-Dominique which is now vacant - are significant urban spaces that informed this work. |
Interaction - I
3:22 2021 |
Denyse Daoust
This video endeavours to create a space where we can take the time to interact and connect with others and… ourselves. |