Friday evening, while exhausted from an escalating cold, I took a planned-detour on my way home in order to be immersed in beauty. I went to DAÏMÕN, where a compilation of Montreal-based artist, Étienne de Massy‘s work was being screened. From beginning to end I sat with an audience of captivated fans, as de Massy’s […]
Squatter un satellite… Étienne de Massy at DAÏMÕN
February 5th, 2013#BustOutYOW… it’s Maker: Nigel Vezeau
January 16th, 2013This month I caught up with Nigel Vezeau, an Ottawa-based maker. This post is part of the #BustOutYow series which aims to showcase people and projects that are creatively intervening in and engaging with the architecture of our surroundings; that are discussing or revealing public stories –publicly. They are people who are playing and learning […]
Why *make*? To affect quality of life.
November 29th, 2012Signs of Ear Infection in Cats & What To Do Are your cat’s ears red and irritated? Perhaps there is discharge in your kitty’s ear that looks a bit like coffee grinds? Could be an ear infection. Today’s post delves into the causes of ear infections in cats, symptoms to watch for, and available treatments. […]
Contemporary Art World – please drop the “”s around New Media and help establish the artists of this aesthetic.
October 31st, 2012Time and life has changed radically in the last 20 years. Most people are now vested in, and depend on, multiple forms of digital technology in their day-to-day routines. Starting a post with this argument, even sounds antiquated, as Western dependency on the digital is woven in to so many elements of life and the […]
Art technically/ a sample of Nuit Blanche Ottawa artists
September 20th, 2012On Saturday September 22nd, Ottawa will host its first Nuit Blanche, an all night event which sees artists take to the streets to animate them in new ways and to temporarily alter the pedestrian path into a new culturescape. Here are a few projects that are of particular interest to me for their sophisticated uses […]
#BustOutYOW → The Laser Musicbox
August 8th, 2012It’s perhaps fitting that my last post opened the ‘#BustOutYOW’ project with an ambitious aim ‘to beam your content to the world’ and this post picks up the challenge with a tangible laser-based opportunity. Christopher Smeenk, a researcher working between the University of Ottawa and National Research Council within the Joint Lab for Attosecond Science […]
#BustOutYOW/ I want to beam your content to the world.
July 10th, 2012As Critical Resident Blogger across Artengine and Apt613 I want to initiate a project to get to know the readers, makers, and doers within these spaces and this city. I want to draw on the public mandates, philosophy’s and social nature of my hosts – Artengine and Apt613. And, I am keen to push the […]
4 days of magic in the dark/ ELEKTRA & the BIAN
May 14th, 2012What ELEKTRA has left me with is a sense of warning. New media can be harnessed by creatives and technologists and then pushed to new potential, but overall I’m uncomfortable, in some instances, with using it to produce aggressive works. The world is volatile and I feel the artists role within this situation is to reveal truths and to decode data in order for the public to see it in new ways. If we relay aggression in our work we may perpetuate existing problems and ultimately have difficulty with accessibility to our work.