Project Archives

SuperFan

This unique exhibition brings five newly created works, and a special hockey themed screening, to a whole new environment for contemporary art – the sports bar.

anyWhere

‘anyWare’ is a distributed sculpture that includes three identical objects that can be located in three different locations, anywhere in the world. The ‘anyWare’ sculptures are connected to the Internet, and physically mirror each other (i.e. if a blue light lights up on one sculpture, that same blue will light up on all of the sculptures).

Words Found on an Empty Beach

Words Found on an Empty Beach employs a combination of large-scale touch screen interactives, mobile touch screen interactives, large-scale prints and micro-sculptures.

Video is Dead

As the collection of technologies producing moving images multiplies at an incredible rate, Artengine wondered about the supposed ascent of video. Has one of the defining mediums of the twentieth century truly come to dominate the twenty-first or did something else happen? While the word video is unavoidable and ubiquitous has it also become hollow and meaningless? It is everywhere and so perhaps nowhere?

Journal d’enfance

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.

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CanCon AV Index

August 19, 2023

Remixed

July 31, 2023

STRATA INC.

July 31, 2023

Thomas Ankersmit, Jessica Ekomane, & GOLPESAR

May 23, 2023

Fluid Light

November 25, 2022

Artengine is delighted to collaborate with Critical Mass on their first Illuminights – an outdoor projection for Port Hope, Ontario. Fluid Light brings a cross section of projects that combine analogue and digital technologies with both contemplative and playful video projections into the streets of this changing Ontario small town. With work from Johann Baron Lanteigne, Laura Taler and Mercedes Ventura.

Entanglements @ Karsh-Masson

October 20, 2022

Entanglements presents artworks, at the Karsh-Masson Gallery at City Hall, from Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Meryl McMaster, Sasha Phipps and The Macronauts. Together they explore stories of ecological change and entangled perspectives – of vulnerable and troubled spaces, people, and species, bound in a series of evolving relationships. See Below for details on programming and online content.

Art, Architecture, Craft

October 10, 2022

This exhibition explores the collaborations between architecture studio, artists and crafts people in the design and construction of the Mingei Museum in Sand Diego. Jennifer Luce and her design studio collaborated extensively with a number of artists and crafts people to create custom elements for the museum. These works combine both analogue and digital technologies and explore the potential or even necessity of collaboration in the design and production.

Machine Dialogues

June 27, 2022

This exhibition brings together three works by emerging artists who considering AI and machine learning technology. These technologies are not central to any of the artists practice, so they bring a curiosity of artists trying to understand the space that AI and ML are occupying in our culture. While image generation is one of the most high-profile accomplishments in recent AI press, language and dialogue remain one of the most widespread applications of these technologies.

Offer Need Machine (ONM)

March 10, 2022

The Offer Need Machine (ONM) is a digital platform in-the-making that aims to amplify the culture of generosity that already exists in local, discipline-based communities of creatives.

Digital Economies Reader

November 30, 2021

The Digital Economies Reader was an evolving dossier produced over the course of the Digital Economies Lab.

Journal d’enfance

October 23, 2021

Yolande Laroche’s “Journal d’Enfance” was co-presented with Debaser as part of their amazing multi-sensory series Pique.

Architectures of Hiding

September 25, 2021

Architectures of Hiding is the first symposium organized by Carleton Research | Practice of Teaching | Collaborative (CR|PT|C).

Digital Economies Lab

August 1, 2021

For our Digital Economies Lab, Artengine brought together a diverse group of artists, designers and other creatives to rethink the infrastructure of cultural production in the 21st century.

Artwork Local 404

May 12, 2021

Artwork_local404 looks to ask the artistic community what they would want from an artists union by prompting them with a serious of situation they might find themselves in.

Maker Faire

September 23, 2018

Artengine produced 7 Maker Faires over the course of a decade. We brought the first Maker Faire to Canada in 2010 and built up a community and audience around this fun celebration of making (in all it’s forms).

anyWare

July 4, 2018

‘anyWare’ is a distributed sculpture that includes three identical objects that can be located in three different locations, anywhere in the world.

Sonicity

March 31, 2018

Sonicity is an immersive sonic trip through the streets of Ottawa. Discover lush aural landscapes along the city’s bus routes created by some of the most talented local musicians.

Sonicity Showcase

March 31, 2018

An immersive sonic trip through the streets of Ottawa.

Future Cities Forum

February 24, 2018

Artengine and Impact Hub Ottawa brought together emerging young leaders from the technology, social impact, and creative sectors to explore and examine possible futures for our cities.

Symphony Hack Lab

February 3, 2018

Hack the symphony with audacious new explorations of sound and symphonic classics through science and technology.

Cloud

October 31, 2017

Cloud is a large-scale interactive work sculpted from 6,000 everyday domestic light bulbs by Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett.

Loop

October 31, 2017

Loop is a cross between a music box, a zoetrope and a railway handcar. The work is inspired by the zoetrope, an optical toy invented in the 19th century.

Ludic Fields

July 1, 2017

The Ludic Fields sculptures are innovative artworks designed to encourage new interactions in public space. They are equipped with sensors to track movement and translate that movement into lighting effects.

Creative Expressions in Wearable Technology

March 30, 2017

On the eve of Arduino Day [#ArduinoD17] media artist and designer Anne Niemetz, discussed creative applications of wearable technology using the Arduino platform.

Artificial Imagination

February 18, 2017

This symposium brings together a group of cutting edge artists working with new technologies to discuss and share their experiences, their practices and their perspectives on algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Unhanded

October 31, 2016

Underhanded is a symposium coming this fall exploring the relationship between making and digital technologies

Local Broadcast

May 31, 2016

This April Artengine begins a great new collaboration with the Youth Services Bureau (YSB), the West-End Youth Motivators (WE-YM) and CHUO 89.1FM to deliver a new program in the Michele Heights neighbourhood in the west end of Ottawa.

Necropolis

July 26, 2015

Necropolis is a vast media installation, a memento mori which encapsulates a decade of video experiments in a tactile and immersive environment.

Video is Dead

July 19, 2015

This is a debate about the state of the moving image and the names we need to discuss them.

BioART

May 31, 2015

The emerging field of bioART includes a diverse range of practices from the lab, the wilderness, and cities, which use cells, microbes, plants, and bodies (human and otherwise) in the production of art.

Words Found on an Empty Beach

April 10, 2011

Words Found on an Empty Beach employs a combination of large-scale touch screen interactives, mobile touch screen interactives, large-scale prints and micro-sculptures.

Bends Circuits and Rewires Minds

April 10, 2011

Jeff Morton performed live in a showcase that encapsulates many of the ideas and concepts behind All The Horses and The Egg, using DIY modified instruments to produce new and unexpected musical forms.

Electric Fields 2008

November 28, 2008

Electric Fields is a biennial festival dedicated to the presentation of new and significant performance and installation works created at the crossroads of art, science and technology.

YouTube Battle!

May 5, 2008

In honor of the launch of our new website, Artengine held Canada’s first ever YouTube Battle! Eight teams will battle it out to become Ottawa’s hippest nerds or nerdiest hipsters – the choice of title is theirs!

Winters of Discontent

April 4, 2008

A screening of two hockey themed video works: Valery’s Ankle by Brett Kashmere & Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets by L’atelier national du Manitoba.

Superfan

April 2, 2008

This unique exhibition brings 5 newly created works, and a special hockey themed screening, to a whole new environment for contemporary art – the sports bar. These works, commissioned by Artengine, will be presented for 3 weeks at locations in the Elgin Street area.