Squatter un satellite… Étienne de Massy at DAÏMÕN

February 5th, 2013

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 […]

#BustOutYOW… it’s Maker: Nigel Vezeau

January 16th, 2013

This 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, 2012

  ‘Making’, ‘to make’, ‘maker’ are more of those questionable terms like ‘new’ and ‘contemporary’ – used within the current cultural dialect with ambiguous and broad meaning. Most importantly though, like ‘new’ and ‘contemporary’ they all pack a powerful punch as far as representing evolving human creativity. While, making is still most often categorized as a […]

Contemporary Art World – please drop the “”s around New Media and help establish the artists of this aesthetic.

October 31st, 2012

Time 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, 2012

On 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, 2012

It’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, 2012

As 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, 2012

What 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.