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 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.
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.
A collective study program and collaborative space for artists to radically imagine culture and society as they should be.
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.
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.
The Digital Economies Reader was an evolving dossier produced over the course of the Digital Economies Lab.
Yolande Laroche’s “Journal d’Enfance” was co-presented with Debaser as part of their amazing multi-sensory series Pique.
Architectures of Hiding is the first symposium organized by Carleton Research | Practice of Teaching | Collaborative (CR|PT|C).
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_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.
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’ is a distributed sculpture that includes three identical objects that can be located in three different locations, anywhere in the world.
The Cromotograph created by the multidisciplinary design studio La Camaraderie.. This innovative artwork, a fusion of technology and artistic expression, invited participants to create personalized, real-time visual masterpieces through movement and light.
The Jormungand (Midgard) and Julunggul (Rainbow) serpents sit between 2 worlds; the old world that needed and revered them and the present which has shunned such monsters as fears metamorphosed into mythical form.
Orchestrer la perte / Perpetual Demotion is an interactive installation comprising a feeding robot, human eaters, bacterially activated foods, a refrigerator, and a human slave. OLP/PD draws attention to the systemic, performative nature of eating.
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.
An immersive sonic trip through the streets of Ottawa.
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.
Hack the symphony with audacious new explorations of sound and symphonic classics through science and technology.
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 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.
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.
On the eve of Arduino Day [#ArduinoD17] media artist and designer Anne Niemetz, discussed creative applications of wearable technology using the Arduino platform.
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.
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.
Drinkbot Dress allows its wearer to decide who to serve a shot to (and who to leave dry). A playful take on the cocktail dress, Drinkbot is made of leather and electronic components housed inside a 3D printed dress through a process called sintering.
Rolls of sod are laid end to end along a narrow aluminum structure. A wheeled light assembly continually moves across the grass as if scanning it, this is occasionally interrupted by the rapid entrance of a reel mower that cuts back any growth of the last twenty minutes. The lights again return to its methodical sweeping. Periodically, a watering-boom also enters the stage misting the grass according to the atmospheric conditions.
The Woman’s Tears Machine Gun is a gun to end all wars. With bullets filled with woman’s tears, it completely deflates the desire for violence and is the first gun created for peace.
Necropolis is a vast media installation, a memento mori which encapsulates a decade of video experiments in a tactile and immersive environment.
This is a debate about the state of the moving image and the names we need to discuss them.
SoundTrack was created out of a 6 month program curated by Art Engine for emerging artists and designers culminating in a feature presentation at the 2015 Maker Faire in Ottawa.
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.
We are the city. Collectively we form the fabric from which the city is woven. Outside of shopping malls, office blocks, restaurants, cafes, condo towers and government houses there is a common space we all navigate.
Agit POV is a simple LED device for the spokes of your wheel that makes clever use of your pedal power, turning your bicycle wheel into a personal billboard.
Jesse Stewart created this project for our festival event We Make The City! We Are The City!. Stewart asks you to step out into the city and to listen and play.
LandLine is an app-based creative city intervention that discusses the region’s culture and current social stance.
A simple ride around the canal becomes a crowd-sourced concert by way of radios, gears, LEDs, pedals, processors and a mobile sound system.
The Dynamic Maze is a play structure designed to inspire imaginative spatial play. The brightly coloured towering reeds and giant inflatable balls transform Waller Park into a playful landscape—a playscape—for both children and adults.
Our collaboration with the dance music innovators A Tribe Called Red continues with a new edition of our urban Pow Wow events. More than your average club night, SPIRIT TRACKS creates a celebratory space.
In the performance Symbiose, the architecture of the space will come to life with its own live sounds and performed images. Vibrations captured from within the space and from the city surroundings are made audible and mixed live into an ambient soundscape. These sounds are joined by multiple projections echoing through the space in a performance that marks the passage of time.
Juno winner Jesse Stewart presents his latest audiovisual work in a geodesic dome build specifically for this occasion. A unique immersive experience!
Digital Territories, an audiovisual exploration at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, will take you on a journey through uncharted sonic landscapes and new media artistry. Experience the fiery intensity of “Lucifer” by Szkieve and This Is Not Design, the mechanical symphony of “La Chambre des Machines” by Nicolas Bernier and Martin Messier, and the cosmic electronic universe of “Le Révélateur” by Roger Tellier-Craig and Sabrina Ratté. This event promises to be a playful, disorienting, and wondrous exploration of the digital realm.
Electric Pow Wow 2011, an electrifying event held at the Museum of Civilization’s Grand Hall, celebrated the fusion of indigenous culture and modern electronic music. A Tribe Called Red, a renowned First Nations DJ collective, headlined the event, blending traditional Pow Wow music with cutting-edge electronic beats.
“Church Music” event transformed St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts into more than just a venue; the basilica’s unique architecture became an integral part of the performance.
Swim Sound, a unique and immersive musical performance, took place at the historic Champagne Baths pool as part of the Electric Fields festival. This collaboration between composer and percussionist Jesse Stewart and new media artist Rob Cruickshank explored the relationship between sound and space in the unique acoustic environment of a public pool.
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.
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.
“Solid Vision” is an art installation showcasing independent Canadian artists’ work in stereoscopic video production. The exhibit explores various creative approaches to 3D, from traditional animation to custom shooting rigs.
Founded in 2002, V-Atak is a label dedicated to audio-visual art. Made up of a hybrid of VJs, movie makers and musicians, our label has grown to develop an uncompromising aesthetic. When performing live or producing video music, our crew is at its best when taking risks.
The Philosopher Cube was an interactive art installation created for the 2010 Electric Fields festival in Ottawa. It featured a 3D projection of an alien cube on the Rideau Centre wall, posing philosophical questions to passersby and displaying their answers, gathered through Twitter.
Electronic art can be fluid and elusive. Ideas are often ahead of technology. An artist’s work is always evolving. Can we create a presentation environment that allows artists to express the tension between these parts of the creative process?
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.
Six musicians attempt to reproduce the sound emanating from a recording of Dan Flavin’s work comprised of six fluorescents tubes. The staging of a futile and excessive listening.
artinjun.ca is a open site for ndn interventions and projects for and by artists in any discipline who self identify as indigenous. it is also a site for indigenous art organisations dedicated to supporting art activities. artinjun.ca is devoted to the propagation of art on the internet and the artistic exploration of new technologies.
Video Music highlights work by Canadian and international artists with a distinct focus on the moving image as an instrument for musical composition.
Artengine transformed a decommissioned church into an electrifying haven for electronic audio-visual performance art. “Electronic Evangelicals” was a testament to Artengine’s commitment to pushing artistic boundaries while embracing the symbolic power of unconventional spaces.
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!
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.
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.