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Fringe ArtsResonant Automata Take Centre Stage at the SAT
The current Société des arts technologiques installation Empty Vessels presents 30 minutes of neural nets, robotics, and ominous vibrations.
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Fringe ArtsAkousma Festival’s XVI Edition Reworks Perceptions Through Immersive Electronic Music
It’s fitting that Montreal-based electroacoustic music organization Akousma hosts its festival in late October. The season, like the festival’s listening environments, are both marked by darkness.
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Fringe ArtsElectroacoustic Music & Immersive Digital Art Converge At the SAT
The bar is set high from the first act.
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Fringe ArtsNever Apart Presents Diverse Pieces of Surrender, Homage, and Engagement
“We love bringing different kinds of artists together, showcasing different mediums, so this is a real testament this year to that,” said Never Apart executive director Michael Venus.
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Fringe ArtsArt Matters: ‘Interface’ Exhibit Enfolds a Digital Future
Interface as part of the Art Matters festival, is an intricate exhibit featuring haptics and digital art.
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Fringe ArtsThe Société des arts technologiques Festival: A Conglomerate of Immersive Art
The Société des arts technologiques Festival is a melange of immersive digital art, challenging our technical habits through screening select pieces of “vidéomusique” and short films from around the world.
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Clinging to the Nostalgic Hum: Getting Lost Within Wire Forest at Art Matters
This year marks the first opportunity to observe electroacoustics as an integral part of an exhibit within Art Matters.
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Fringe ArtsThe Link’s Top Picks From Art Matters 2017
Vernissages and shows will be taking place over the next few weeks, giving everyone a chance to check out the student-curated shows in their own time. For this year’s edition of the festival viewers will have the unique opportunity to experience performances, video and audio installations, sculptural pieces, photo series and, of course, artwork through traditional mediums like painting and drawing.
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Fringe ArtsArtist Panel Explores Mobility and More
Many artists are left with this thought when their time as undergrads has finished. You might be at the end of your rope. Pining for a secure job doing what you love; your vision doesn’t include waiting tables or bagging groceries, but you need some sort of income to keep creating.
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Problematic Activism in Angry Inuk: A Critique On Ethical Politics
Alethea Arnaquq Baril’s documentary film, Angry Inuk, discusses the topic of seal hunting, the controversy that surrounds it, and why some forms of activism may cause more problems than solve any.
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Fringe ArtsCurating the Art Matters Festival
Art Matters, a Concordia-based festival that started in 2000, is a culmination of undergrad effort to organize several unique exhibitions throughout Montreal. Planning for the festival starts months in advance. A team of people from the artistic community, including Dean of Fine Arts Rebecca Duclos, selected this year’s student curators in October 2016,
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Matter and Emotion: Myriam Boucher’s Waves of Sound and Light
Artist Myriam Boucher discusses how she got interested and invested in the art of electroacoustics and the creative process she undergoes to produce her work.
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Fringe ArtsAvenues Within Akousma XIII
If you feel like testing the limits of your ability to discriminate between mind and matter, the Akousma festival is running this week for its 13th edition.
