MAKING TOMORROW'S CULTURE TODAY

Artengine exists to imagine and realize a better future.

We champion cultural production that explores the social, aesthetic and symbolic dimensions of our world.

To do this, we open transformative technologies to designers, artists, and thinkers. This requires a massive interdisciplinary effort, bringing together a broad swath of creatives to collaborate on new models, languages, systems, strategies and even infrastructures.

Journal d'enfance

11/09/2021

Co-presented installation at Pique Fall Edition

Yolande Laroche’s “Journal d’Enfance” was co-presented with Debasser as part of their amazing multi-sensory series Pique. This was the premiere of this intimate sonic experience mixing childhood memories and fantastical sonic experiments.

Architectures of Hiding

24/09/2021

Making and reflecting on what is hidden and revealed

Architectures of Hiding is the first symposium organized by Carleton Research | Practice of Teaching | Collaborative (CR|PT|C). The symposium, its online exhibition and the artistic dialogues Artengine collaborated on with CRIPTIC examined the idea of hiding in architectural design, construction and destruction, writing and drawing and of course in research. Artengine worked with CRIPTIC to produce a series of conversations with the creators presenting work in the online exhibition.

Digital Economies Reader

15/01/2020

In depth ideas about art and the digital economy

The Digital Economies Reader was an evolving dossier produced over the course of the Digital Economies Lab. Lead writer, Matthew Braga, was embedded with the DEL in Ottawa for its kick-off and followed along with the members and their projects as they unfolded over the course of the lab. The DER also includes reading recommendations and intersecting perspectives from beyond the lab.

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Welcome to New Team Members!

Artengine welcomes Najeeba Ahmed and Mercedes Ventura to our team as part of a new internship program.  Najeeba (they/them) is an artist and designer with a bachelor’s degree in biology and visual arts at the University of Ottawa. They are currently doing their Masters research on nakshi kantha in Bangladesh.  Mercedes (she/her/they) is an artist…

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Alpha Beta… something before 1.0

We are excited to share an early version of our new artengine site. This new space will be an ongoing and transforming space as we develop new features and refine our web presence out in public. The most exciting change is our new Ideas section. Here we are rethinking what it means to lead dialogue about art and culture in our time. It’s a bit publ…

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Indigenous Youth Mentorship

Thunderbird Sisters Collective was recently awarded an exciting grant from the Trillium Foundation to develop its mentorship program for youth. Artengine is excited to be working in mentorship and exchange over the three year arc of their project development. Their program is targeted at youth’s from 12-19 and they recently kicked off with an in de…

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Open Transformation

As with so many things, Artengine has undertaken a significant transformation over the last few years. Poised to open a new space in the Arts Court facility in early 2020, but plans changed. We are fortunate enough in this part of the world to be emerging from some of the challenges the pandemic brought. We are back at the Arts Court, in some ways,…

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Cabin/Traces

Cabinet is a theater piece set at the end of the world, unfolding for an individual inside an old telephone booth. 2359 Productions has been developing the work over a number of years, originally emerging from the Masters program in the Department of Theater at UOttawa, was included in the National Arts Center’s Zones Théâtrales Festival and this y…

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ARTENGINE IDEAS

ARTENGINE IDEAS

ARTENGINE IDEAS

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Caring + Sharing

Artengine’s Artistic Director Ryan Stec in conversation with Digital Economies Lab (DEL) participant, strategist, designer, artist and independent creative director, Julie Gendron, where they discuss Gendron’s work on the Need Offer Machine (NOM/ONM). Within this discussion Gendron addresses quantifying value by breaking down the mechanics of trust, recreating the ephemerality of chance interaction, and rating and evaluating with care. In addition, Gendron shares personal experiences that have inspired her work on the Need Offer Machine, such as Art City in Winnipeg and her recent residency in Iceland.

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Futures Imagined

Artengine’s Artistic Director, Ryan Stec, in conversation with Digital Economies Lab participant Suzanne Kite. Artist, educator and researcher, Suzanne Kite, discusses her project An Artist’s Almanac, the influence of Afrofuturist practices of collective imagining on her project and new ways of understanding knowledge itself. Suzanne discusses the workshop she led with Alisha B. Wormsley, Jas M. Morgan, and Lupe Pérez during the HTMLLES festival in Montreal and how it was shaped by Afrofuturist research and practice. She also reflects on the ethics of technology and how it shapes our way of knowing the world.

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$ Value and Values

Artengine’s Artistic Director, Ryan Stec, in conversation with Digital Economies Lab participant, artist, and foresight strategist, Macy Siu, where they discuss her collaborative project the Offer Need Machine (ONM/NOM). Within this discussion Siu addresses themes of anti-capitalist alternatives in relation to networks of decentralized reciprocity, eroding established attitudes around the value of artistic and cultural labour, time as currency, and culminates in a call for more-than-human design.