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Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (Montreal) December 15 2022 – March 5 2023 Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas This exhibition revolves around the intricate, unresolved, and contradictory nature of human identities, and the secrets we can still keep from search engines and social media. Artists Adam Basanta, Sophia Brueckner, Dayna Danger, August Klintberg, and Cheryl Sim explore…
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MTL Connect Exhibition @Anteism Books [Montreal] October 18-30, 2022 Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas MTL Connect’s 2022 Art Programme engages the present ecological moment and creative imaginaries for the future. From October 18th to the 30th, 2022, local and international artists and researchers explore hope, a powerful stimulus for rethinking relationality, community-building and multi-species survival on Earth.
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DRAC (Drummonville) Exhibition: July 9 – August 28 2022 Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas Do you remember the first time you saw the ocean? Or do you remember what it is like to return to a coast and observe the sea expanding before your eyes? What does your memory sound like? Does it have a smell? Do…
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Book Launch + Round Table + Exhibition May 24 2022 Anteism Books [Montreal] Authors Christopher Salter and Sofian Audry got together to discuss their recent publications, respectively, “Art in the Age of Machine Learning” (MIT Press, 2021) and “Sensing machines: How sensors shape our everyday life” (MIT Press, 2022). Round table with authors Christopher Salter,…
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Patel Brown Gallery [Toronto] Exhibition: May 14 – June 18 2022 “In Night Blossoms, Montreal-based artist Katherine Melançon invites us to see nature as living and blooming everywhere, close to us, and never separated from culture or technology. The body of work presented here started more than ten years ago, when the artist lived in…
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Conférence par : Erandy Vergara Programme ICI à la Fondation de l’UQAM [online/en ligne] February 2/ 2 février 2022 Lors de sa conférence, Erandy Vergara discutera des enjeux éthiques du commissariat. Elle présentera les méthodologies, stratégies et politiques liées à la présentation des arts médiatiques dans un contexte international.
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Eastern Bloc, Sight + Sound Festival [Online] Artist talk and Q&A with Olia Lialina and Erandy Vergara August 25 2021 Exhibition: June – August 2021 For decades, net art forerunners had explored the internet, a space like no other, where gravity is irrelevant, and references such as vertical/horizontal, bidimentional and three-dimensional are outdated. Olia Lialina,…
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Treinta mil cuadernos constituyen la obra titula da “30 (Treinta)” de la artista argentina Andrea Fasani. A través de una serie de instalaciones, acciones colectivas y performances, la artista recuerda la dictadura militar Argentina y crea un archivo que aspira alcanzar el mismo número de desaparecidos: 30,000.
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This chapter focuses on four case studies which use remix to revise the smooth flowing or the unsteady flickering of the plague of images circulating online and offline on a daily basis: Ximena Cuevas’ Cinepolis (2003); Graciela Fuentes’ To Protect (2003); José Alejandro Restrepo’s Viacrucis (2004); José Toirac’s Opus (2005).
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This exercise is based on the general idea that we can elicit solutions to personal and social conflicts when we engage in debates, recognize heterogeneous and non consensus based opinions, and are accountable for own own positionality.
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Eastern Bloc, Sight + Sound Festival [Online] June – August 2021 “Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground,” wrote Hito Steyerl in The Wretched of the Screen (2012). I often dream about that. I’ve also daydreamed that I would love to experience an artwork defying Cartesian space, linear perspective and figurativism – where…
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Online exhibition produced by OBORO [Montreal] March 15 – May 14 2021 I don’t share personal things online; here is something I am sharing. This exhibition is the result of an invitation to curate an online show for OBORO. Throughout the pandemic, many artist friends have shared their creative works and personal social media posts,…
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Goethe Institut Montréal [Virtual Reality meetup] November 20 2020 A Virtual Reality meetup series for women and gender-marginalised people in the field of immersive technology. This meetup focused on topics related to the Goethe-Institut Montreal’s project New Nature, an international exchange between contemporary artists, filmmakers, immersive and VR creators, technologists, and climate scientists from Canada,…
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Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain [Montreal] November 2019 – March 2020 With humour and irreverence, Eva & Franco Mattes dissect, test, and redefine the boundaries of art and the Internet. Since the mid-1990s, the artistic duo has probed and engaged with the way contemporary societies have shaped the networked world and, perhaps more importantly, how…
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On the eve of the opening of ISEA2020 in Montreal, Makery spoke to Erandy Vergara, Programming Director and Artistic Co-Chair of this year’s edition. ISEA2020 will be online from October 13-18, 2020…
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ISEA2020 Online and Onsite Programme October 13 – 18 2020 ISEA’s 2020 artistic program explores the infinitely large and the infinitely small worlds of Sentience — feeling-sensing-making sense. There were to be seven exhibitions across various venues for the ISEA2020 artistic program, until the city’s shutdown in March 2020, here as elsewhere, of all non-essential…
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Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design [New York] February 7 – April 14 2019 Curators: Tina Sauerländer, Peggy Schoenegge and Erandy Vergara-Vargas Cultures have never existed in a set state. They are all in constant flux brought about by social, economic, and technological developments. The global flow of people forges change, adaptation…
