Jocelyn Allan
Born in Birmingham, UK, in 1988, I am an artist who mainly works with photography, text, and performance.
I completed my first self-portraiture project in 2010 and have been primarily using myself within my personal work since then. The themes that I often explore are motherhood, mental health, identity, representation, and hiding &revealing. My practice is very therapeutic for me and through it I am learning to accept myself while building my confidence. It also helps me to process my thoughts and feelings, as well as document my life.Véronique Béland
Originally from Quebec (Canada), Véronique Béland has lived and worked in France since 2010, where she graduated from Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains in 2012. She also holds a master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Her artistic practice, which revolves around media arts and literature, explores both the autonomous machine as a creative entity and elusive phenomena on a human scale. Drawing on the languages of digital technology and artificial intelligence, she designs devices that, although devoid of intelligence themselves, generate a unique imaginary and open up an alternative space to our usual ways of conceiving the world. Through various translation and transcoding protocols that weave links between art, science, and publishing, her works seek to establish contact between the perceptible and the imperceptible, giving rise to new forms of narration. Since 2005, her work has been widely shown in international contemporary art institutions through solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Japan, and numerous European countries (France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal). In 2014, she published the book of photographic correspondence “Elles collectionnent des mondes” with Éditions du Renard. She is also the author of the poetry collection “Le vide de la distance n’est nulle part ailleurs” (2016) and “Malgré les collines – égarements cartographiques dont vous êtes le héros” (2017), both published by sun|sun. Her works have won several awards, including the Prix Jacques de Tonnancour and the Prix d’excellence des Ateliers Roland-Proulx in Montreal in 2007, the Prix des Amis du Fresnoy in 2012, and the Révélation livre d’artiste mention at the Salon Multiple Art Days in Paris in 2017. His career has also been recognized with the Marguerite Moreau Prize in 2021 and the prestigious World Omosiroi Award (Osaka, Japan) in 2022, an international and interdisciplinary prize celebrating innovation in knowledge, awarded to individuals whose ideas and activities are inspiring and revealing. véroniquebéland.artSara Bezovšek
Sara Bezovšek (b. 1993) is a visual artist working in the fields of internet art, experimental film and graphic design. Her artistic practice is characterized by reappropriation of online and pop cultural materials. Using a dense visual language of references, she taps into the collective imaginarium and constructs engaging narratives that are both a critique and a celebration of the highly saturated online media landscapes we navigate daily. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, among others in Slovenia at Aksioma, Kino Šiška, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Osmo/za, DobraVaga, P74, SCCA-Ljubljana, MSUM, MFRU, BIO, Kiblix, and IZIS; in Switzerland at Fotomuseum Winterthur; in Poland at The Zachęta National Gallery of Art; in Austria at viennacontemporary and Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab; in Spain at the MMMAD festival and Fundación Foto Colectania; in Germany at panke.gallery; in Sweden at NSFW/SVILOVA; in Italy at the galleries Metronom and Foto Forum; in Serbia at the Danube Dialogues Festival; and online on platforms such as Open Systems by the Singapore Art Museum, Are You For Real by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Feral File, and The Wrong Biennale. Her projects have also been featured on online platforms such as Do Not Research, Linked Spheres, and in ETC magazine, among others. She is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana. In 2018, she received the Prešeren Award for Students and was nominated for the OHO Young Artist Award in 2022. She received the Grand Prix at the Ljubljana Short Film Festival (FeKK) in 2021 and the Vesna award for the best Slovenian experimental film at The Festival of Slovenian Film in 2022. In 2024, she received a Special Mention for her film The Future… Is Just Like You Imagined at the Festival of Slovenian Film. Since 2023, she has been working on a project for the research platform [permanent beta] of the gallery Fotomuseum Winterthur. She is also part of the curatorial team behind KRES, an exhibition series initiated in 2023 with Dorijan Šiško and Lara Mejač and produced by Atol. www.sarabezovsek.comCatherine Boisvenue Ménard
Catherine Boisvenue Ménard's artistic approach is part of a constant search for dialogue between different disciplines, where painting serves as both an anchor and a laboratory for visual and conceptual explorations. While canvas remains her primary creative medium, she enjoys combining it with other mediums: photography, video, performance, and installation, in order to multiply possible viewpoints and enrich the viewer's sensory experience. Her work draws on the observation of nature, humankind, and the silent transformations of everyday life. Abstraction coexists with the figure, seeking less to represent than to suggest, to touch on the inexpressible that permeates lives. She explores the effects of materials, the fluidity of color, the trace of gesture, but also the possible interactions between the body, form, and sound in a given space. For her, interdisciplinarity seems obvious, a way to question the classic boundaries between the arts and to offer new readings of the world. Through this blending of media and languages, she aims to create open works, porous to otherness, capable of arousing curiosity, emotion, but also reflection on our time, our environments and our relationship to the sensitive. Catherine Boisvenue completed a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2015) and a master’s degree in painting at Concordia University (2021). She participated in the Despina artist residency program in Rio de Janeiro (2017) in Brazil and the Frauenmuseum in Bonn in Germany (2022). She presented her creations in more than twenty solo and group exhibitions, then she held her first solo in an artist center in November 2023.Ben Bogart (they/them) is a neurodivergent non-binary agender adisciplinary artist working for 25 years with generative computational processes (including physical modelling, chaotic equations, feedback systems, evolutionary algorithms, computer vision and machine learning) and has been inspired by knowledge in the natural sciences (quantum physics and cognitive neuroscience) in the service of an epistemological inquiry. Ben has produced processes, artifacts, texts, images and performances that have been presented at galleries, art festivals and academic conferences in Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, Turkey, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Brazil, Hong Kong, Norway, Spain and Colombia.
Notable exhibitions include shows at Transmediale in 2017, the Surrey Art Gallery in 2018, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022. They have been an artist in residence in Canada at the Banff Centre, New Forms Festival, Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Deer Lake Park and internationally at Montalvo (United States of America), Videotage (Hong Kong) and the Quantum Information Centre Sorbonne (France). Their research and practice have been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Laurent Bouchard was born in 1952 in Val-Paradis, Abitibi, Quebec, Canada. He is a renowned and versatile visual artist who expresses himself through painting, sculpture, installation, and video. He lives and works in Montreal. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and from 2000 to 2019 held a position as coordinator of the Galerie d'art d'Outremont, a renowned public institution.
Over the years, Laurent Bouchard has distinguished himself by participating in more than twenty solo exhibitions and no fewer than eighty-three group exhibitions around the world, notably in Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Los Angeles, Boston, and Hong Kong. His work has been supported by several prestigious grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Laurent Bouchard's works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Musée du Québec, the City of Montreal, the Musée de Joliette, Air Canada, Cirque du Soleil, the University of Toronto, and many others. His artistic career has also been recognized in numerous articles in specialized magazines such as Vie des arts, la Revue etc., Vanguard, as well as in print media such as Le Devoir, La Presse, and the Gazette. Laurent Bouchard's work is distinguished by a profound exploration of geometric forms and the symbolism that underlies his work, inviting the viewer to reflect on infinity, reality, and human subjectivity.Xavier Dallet
Xavier Dallet, aka Chan Somethingstar, is a visual artist and net artist, living in Paris.
Born on August 5, 1980, in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, he spent his childhood in Senegal and his teenage years in Normandy. He studied at the art school of Cherbourg as well as at the École supérieure d'art et design in Le Havre, later moving to Paris, where he attended the EFET school of photography for a year.
Parallel to his painting practice, Dallet initially created ready-mades taking inspiration from the mystique of African objects. This led him to net art through the creation of a “ready-made” avatar on Facebook. Since then, he has devoted his practice exclusively to net art, where he developed his project, Baobab Users, through text exchanges using online messaging platforms. For example, over five years he exchanged 200,000 images on Facebook Messenger and 15,000 images in three years on Telegram with the group, Perfect Users. He created over 2000 videos in four years using TikTok where he developed a method of looping videos, image by image from a mixture of videos in the feed.
Dallet is interested in image censorship and he studies composition through columns of digital albums.
Invited by Perfect Users, Noemata, Michaël Borras, and Andres Manniste, he has participated, in the Wrong Biennale since 2017.
"The net is a flow of images, net art is about giving them meaning."
Joseph DeLappe
Joseph DeLappe is an artist/activist and has been with electronic and new media since 1983. He is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, activist/political art, drawing, painting, participatory and social practice, sculpture, and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. DeLappe has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China, and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among many others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. DeLappe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts in 2017. Website: http://www.delappe.netNegin Ehtesabian (Lichty)
multidisciplinary artist, freelance illustrator and designer Exploring Human identity, technology, nature and ascetics through various experimental techniques and disciplines Has been shown in several international art exhibitions (including in Germany, Italy, USA, Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Japan, the UAE, Cyprus, India and Iran) Education:Nika Fontaine,
Nika Fontaine is a french-Canadian artist based in Berlin and the mountains of Valencia. She graduated from her masters in painting from the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee in 2013. Since, she exhibited largely across Europe and North America.
Her practice is pluridisciplinary centered around painting and extending to sculpture, poetry, video, installation, and performance. Complementing her artistic endeavours Nika has been creating spaces and communities for artists in Berlin with the T-10 studios, and in Spain with the Aurigin Center for creators. Her passion for spirituality and mysticism has fueled the content of her work as well as being the cornerstone for Aurigin’s mission to connect art, spirituality and nature. Her artistic and social engagement are working hand in hand to inspire holistic living.Katherine Frazer
Katherine Frazer is a designer and artist developing and subverting everyday technology. Frazer's design practice focuses on developing applications for creativity, working on several popular and free to use applications like Apple's Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform, and design tool Figma. Her artistic practice utilizes these productivity tools for alternative means – creating collages, animations and digital paintings using source material from her ikebana practice and her iPhone. The combination of these tools and her self-made digital, photographic, and photogrammetric assets serve as a way to develop and evolve an expansive personal lore.
Her work has been included in the Rhizome Artbase and Museum of Crypto Art collection, featured in Codame Art and Tech Festival, Dazed Digital, Nylon Mag, and PAPER Magazine, with commissions for RefractionDAO, NewHive (RIP) and MTV. She was invited to be one of the first fifty artists on NFT platform Foundation, and spoke at the 2021 edition of the New Museums' Net Aesthetics panel. She graduated with degrees in Communication Design and Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. Frazer is based in Brooklyn, New York.Valéry Grancher
Born in 1967, Valéry Grancher is a French-born artist, theorist, curator and lecturer, living and working in Paris and Hong Kong since 2014.
He first became well known in the mid-1990s for being one the first net artists (online art) and for his “Google paintings” but his artistic practice is vast and covers internet art, video, photography, painting, AI painting and VR installation. Valéry Grancher is an explorer. His curiosity leads him to investigate all kinds of territories such as the different media and new technology to define new forms and concepts. In 2014, the French public collection National Fund for Contemporary Art, National Centre for Visual Arts (FNAC) acquired his video installations "Geopol" (a 24-hour tracking shot of the horizon at the North Pole) and "Tanguntsa" (a 6-hour shot in deep Amazonia). His productions are included in several public collections such like Cartier Foundation for contemporary arts (Paris), Maison Européenne de la photographie (Paris), Carillo Gil Museum (Mexico), Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Bandjoune Station (Cameroon), VMAC (Hong Kong) and many others... Valéry Grancher has exhibited and gave performances in institutions worldwide, and his work is in numerous private and public collections.born in newburyport massachusetts, grew up in the seacoast region of new hampshire, after high school he studied tv broadcasting and video production at new england institute of arts and communications in boston in 2000-2001 and studied filmmaking at rockport college in maine 2001, had solo exhibitions at buoy gallery in kittery maine (2014, 2019) he currently lives and works in kentucky with his wife the artist and musician kasper melted.
At the crossroads of visual arts and literature, Montrealer Julie Hétu has been presenting sound, visual, literary and performative works influenced by her anthropological research since 1998. With a doctorate in art, literature and anthropology from Concordia University, she is passionate about different ways of writing and first writings. In 2020, she published L’écrivain préhistorique. Naissance du chant et de l’écriture dans la préhistoire (Nota bene).
Since 2021, she has been exploring new narrative and artistic avenues as part of the collective L'humanité qui ouvre (Véronique Béland and Mario Côté), whose research has been presented as part of the international colloquium L'humain qui vient at Le Fresnoy (France) and Hexagram (Montreal). In 2006, she completed a Master's degree in creation (visual and media arts) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (CA), integrating programming into a hybrid practice combining novels and media arts. During this period, she presented her performance work, books and interactive videos in Quebec, France, Brazil and Mexico. In the literary world, she made a name for herself with her audiobook Baie Déception, for which she won the public prize La plume de paon (2011) at the Centre national du livre in Paris. Next came her novel Mot (éditions Triptyque), a finalist for the Prix France-Québec and the Prix Ringuet from the Académie des lettres du Québec, and in 2018 her novel Pacific Bell (éditions Alto), which will be adapted for film by director Sandrine Béchade, with whom she co-wrote. She is also a contributor to various collective works, including Dans le ventre: histoires d'accouchement (éditions XYZ, 2019), Terre-Neuve (La Revue Littéraire, no. 177, Éditions Léo Scheer, 2019), Le Livre, " produit culturel "? De l'invention de l'imprimé à la révolution numérique, Paris, Éditions Orizons, 2012). In 2023, she turns her attention to novels co-written by authors and AIs. She took part in a workshop with Nadia Seraiocco, knowledge mobilization and sharing advisor at the Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l'AI et du numérique (OBVIA), and benefited from a mentorship that laid the foundations for an artificial imaginary writing project with artist Véronique Béland, crossing text generation, artificial intelligence, machine building and prehistoric signs.Faith Holland
Faith Holland is an artist, curator, critic, and educator whose multimedia practice focuses on gender, intimacy, and technology. In works that exaggerate our physical and embodied relationships to technologies, Holland uses equal measures of humor and tenderness in sculpture, performance, video, animated gifs, and net art works.
She has exhibited at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), NRW Forum (Düsseldorf), Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder), Human Resources (Los Angeles), and DAM Gallery (Berlin). Her work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times UK, Elephant, Hyperallergic, Broadly, and The Observer. She has been a NYFA Fellowship Finalist in Digital/Electronic Art, an artist-in-residence at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Harvestworks, and a finalist for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Post-Photography Prototyping Prize.
She is the recipient of a 2021 New York State Council on the Arts grant. She has presented solo exhibitions with TRANSFER (Miami), L’Unique (Caen, France), and Microscope Gallery (New York). She is represented by Microscope Gallery.
Hildegard Holland Watter
Hildegard Holland Watter is an emerging child artist who works across performance, drawing, and installation. She performed as part of Faith Holland’s Hard/Soft installation at Spring/Break Art Show New York 2020 and produced a performance-video work for Vicarious Touching, the online version of the exhibition at TRANSFER. She has also exhibited her work at De:Formal Gallery in Mozilla Hubs, at juniin in Guayas, Ecuador, and Wake Windows online at MacKenzie Art Gallery.
Renata Janiszewska
Renata Janiszewska paints on an electronic canvas. Her artwork demonstrates how the organic human universe, art history, and the machine realm of technology merge to create a new form. In her moving image works disparate narrative elements are married both to each other, and to her original musical scores. She is an active member of the Techspressionism group. Her works treat chance, intoxication, bio-degradation, and feminism. Janiszewska lives in Lion's Head, Canada. Twitter Instagram Vimeo channelDina Kelberman
Dina Kelberman’s work is a unique intersection of curation, observation, and playful engagement with the mundane. Through her exploration of digital and everyday materials, she recontextualizes the familiar, highlighting the beauty in the often overlooked. Kelberman’s accumulation projects, such as her best-known work, "I’m Google", demonstrate an almost obsessive attention to patterns in the world, connecting seemingly unrelated images into a stream of visual associations. Her approach blurs the lines between art and curation, inviting the audience to reflect on the randomness and interconnectedness of daily life and the digital sphere. Kelberman has produced large-scale commissioned pieces for the New Museum, Marina Abramovic Institute and Fotomuseum Winterthur among others and exhibits internationally. Her work has been written about by The New York Times, Art21, NPR, art theory books and textbooks. She is currently ranked 9th in the world for Most Lines in Tetris for the NES."Mark Klink has been and done many things: Swept floors, worked in a factory, been an athlete, a minor government official, a life guard, a computer programmer, and a traditional print maker. For twenty years he taught children and other educators how to use computers. But the thing he likes best (beside family) is making curious pictures."
Patrick Litchy
Patrick Lichty is a multifaceted artist known for his work in various technological media. Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1962, his career spans over three decades, during which he has established himself as a media artist, writer, curator, designer, and educator. Lichty's artistic practice explores the impact of media and technology on society. He has an interest in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), generative and telecommunications art, and machine drawing. His work critically examines how media shapes human perceptions of reality. He was a CalArts/Herb Alpert Fellow and exhibitor at the Whitney Biennial.Jess MacCormack
Jess MacCormack is a queer, mad artist working in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Their practice engages with the intersection of institutional violence and the socio-political reality of personal trauma. Working with communities and individuals affected by stigma and oppression, MacCormack uses cultural platforms and distribution networks to facilitate collaborations which position art as a tool to engender personal and political agency. Working in various mediums – graphic novels, digital art, performance, installation, community art and video – their work explores queer politics, embodiment and criminalization. Jess Mac’s digital art has been shared through various platforms, such as Artforum International, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art, VICE Creator’s project, White Hot Contemporary Art, Bitch Magazine, PAPER Magazine and Art F City. Their animations have been screened internationally at festivals such as the Ottawa International Animation Festival, MIX-26 the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, LA Film Fest at UCLA, Transcreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, Inside Out Film and Video Festival (Toronto) and Mix Brazil Film Festival of Sexual Diversity (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, BR). Their interdisciplinary practice has been supported and exhibited by the Academie der Künste der Welte (Cologne, Germany), arbyte (London, UK), articule (Montréal, Canada), Western Front (Vancouver, Canada) and many other local and international galleries. They have an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University (2008) and were an Assistant Professor of Studio Arts at Concordia University (2010-2013). Jess is currently an instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is working towards their PhD in Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University.I make art from the intersection of the physical and the digital, treating the internet both as a tool and as a distinct space. I think that all relevant art is somehow linked to the central processing unit, network architecture and digital culture. I work with a dialogue that I construct by selecting pictures from random digital contexts and working with the now latent images as if they were discrete bits of pigment from which I build new landscapes of thought processes.
What I do on internet feels like the same process as painting in a studio. I deal with most of the same issues that I have on canvas and conceptually I feel that I get the same results so I have never separated the approaches. In the flood of information that I am exposed to daily, all images begin to have the same value. It is through the experience of this phenomenon that my work is created. I am living in the noise of internet. If images were sound, my work would be white noise. Manniste's works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, notably in Montreal, Quebec City, New York, Brisbane, and Italy. His work is represented in several public collections, including the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Library and Archives Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, and Rhizome ArtBase (New York). In 2006, he received a special mention in the Drunken Boat PanLiterary Awards in New York, recognizing the originality and impact of his practice in digital art.Mikelle Männiste is a multidisciplinary artist and animator based in Montreal, Canada. She completed a BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2018 and is currently completing a second BFA in Film Animation. Männiste creates artworks through various mediums such as painting, digital art, as well as 2D and 3D animation.
Alessandro Mangiarotti
Architect, designer, painter, photographer, videographer, poet, world traveller and forever a soul searcher, Alessandro Mangiarotti has always pursued to upend the status quo, reinvent himself and inspire others through his tireless creativity.
Alessandro Mangiarotti has always lived from his art. His works can be found in private collections in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, United States and Canada.Lynn Millette
Sometimes life happens between events that generate the possibility of many interpretations of reality. Fantasies arise from our daily experiences. Illusions created through electronic networks and video game culture are gradually eroding belief systems. There is also a manipulation of language at the heart of current politics that confuses our perception of truth. I express what I perceive as a mixture of reality and fantasy and the place that information and communication technologies have in changing the perception of reality.
Lynn Millette works with painting and electronic media. She has a comprehensive background in disciplines related to culture including the new technologies, philosophy, psychology, literature, and the humanities. Millette has participated in individual and group exhibitions including the solos, Road Trip, at the Mdc Janine-Sutto, Montréal and Les Fenêtres sur l'eau, Mdc Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montréal. Recent group shows include, I Rave, the 6th Wrong Biennale, Art was only a substitute for the Internet, Epicentre, Valencia, Spain, the main show of the 4th Wrong Biennale and Uncommon at the John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto.Website: lynnmillette.rsight.net
Katherine Melançon
Katherine is a multidisciplinary artist interested in making visible nature’s agency to transform our relationship to non-human beings. Her work takes the form of living connected installations, augmented tapestries, printed and moving images, objects that intertwines traditional, obsolete and emerging tools - oftentimes made in collaboration with other humans and non-human beings. The starting point is often a location and its organic specimens “scanogramed” in order to create new seeds that are “planted” in various materials, exploring images’ fluidity through cycles of metamorphosis between physical and digital soils.
Katherine holds a master’s degree in fine arts from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London and a bachelor’s degree in interactive media from UQAM in Montreal. Her work has been exhibited at Joliette Museum (2023), Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement (2022), Patel-Brown Gallery (2022) and Phi Foundation (2019) in Canada and at the Max Ernst Museum (Cologne 2023), the Biennale de l’image tangible and Biennale NovaXX (Paris 2023 and 2021) and Arcadia Missa Gallery (London 2011) amongst others. In 2021 she received the Galerie Charlot Award at Biennale NovaXX and in 2022, she was named on the Sobey Art Award long list, the contemporary art awards in Canada. She’s a Patel-Brown gallery collaborator in Canada.Petra Mueller
Photography & algorithms, books. Worked on the Last Film Search project at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Taught "Women and Technology" at Concordia University. Her works in public collection include Simon Fraser University; Tate Library and Archive Tate Britain; and Collection des Photographes, Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Nico is an ex-artist, ex-internet addict, and aspiring casualty. Currently undergoing rehabilitation in rural Maine with no phone or internet, they are spending 8 hours a day pulling weeds by hand, savoring the sensation of being uprooted. They communicate once a month through gas station wifi, carrier pigeon, and through subliminal messaging in advertisements.
Elisabeth Nicula
Elisabeth Nicula is an artist and writer in San Francisco. Her essays have appeared in Momus, Small Press Traffic’s The Back Room, SFMOMA’s Open Space, New Life Quarterly Magazine, PAPER Magazine, and elsewhere.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Alexander Pilis currently lives in Toronto and has studios in and works in, Montreal and São Paulo. Pilis has lived in Brazil, Germany, France and Spain. He is an un-disciplined architectural investigator, artist, curator and publisher working under the aegis of Architecture Parallax – a methodology that displaces sight as the singular verification of reality.
Furthermore, Pilis instigates a multimedia project exploring issues and questions raised by “the blind architect” as a critique of the modernization of vision and the collapse of the depth of field. In addition, Pilis founded and directed Archimemoria and Architecture Parallax, Non-Profit Architecture, Art, Perception, Exhibiting & Publishing Organizations. He has previously taught in the MFA department at Concordia University, University of Toronto Architecture and Fine Arts departments, and he was Director of the Global Architecture São Paulo Program in the John H. Daniels, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto. Pilis has also taught at the Metropolis Master Program in Architecture and Urban Culture – Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabre, Ramon LLul University Barcelona and Escola da Cidade São Paulo. Pilis has exhibited, taught, lectured, delivered workshops and published internationally. He has exhibited at various Art/Architecture Biennials, Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, Tapiés Foundation Barcelona, IFA Stuttgart, Tate Modern London, Contemporary Museum São Paulo, Power Plant Toronto, Place Ville Marie Observatoire 360 Montreal and Galerie Joyce Yahouda. Alexander was invited in 1984 by Lina Bo Bardi to curate/organize the exhibition for the inaugural public opening of the SESC da Pompéia in 1986, São Paulo Brazil. http://alexanderpilis.com/Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes
Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes is a Canadian-Costa Rican multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal. Moving between digital tools and processes – including 3D softwares, digital printing, multi-channel video and narrative devices – her practice materializes in various forms, ranging from interactive installations, and digital prints to sculpture and augmented reality. In these works, dystopian futures intermingle with science fiction and Latin American folklore. Through her installations, Arroyo-Kreimes explores speculative fiction premises as a way to examine and embody humanity’s complex and often contradictory relationship with the natural world. Her work has been exhibited across several venues, such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Brisbane, DANAE in Paris, William Morris Gallery in London, PRIOR Art Space in Barcelona, MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Whippersnapper Gallery in Toronto, and OPTICA: centre d'art contemporain in Montréal. Her recent awards include Grantham Foundation's Visual Artist’s Prize, RBC Bank’s Emerging Artist Grant, and EQ Bank’s 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award.Jan Swinburne
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: Gallery oriented installations, and time based experimental forms. Her practice holds a fondness for process; taking things apart and reinventing their expression. Her recurring themes include: sound image, speech as landscape, and degenerating images and sounds into new forms. Swinburne has exhibited and screened internationally. She was recently commissioned for 150 Media Stream’s unique video wall, Chicago. Other exhibitions and screenings of note are: Greenwich England (Stephen Lawrence Gallery), New York City, Brooklyn (Brooklyn Art Museum), (Experi-MENTAL Festival 6), New Jersey (Filmideo/Index Art Centre), South Hampton (TECHSPRESSIONISM: Digital & Beyond),Washington DC (RhizomeDC), Croatia ( fu:bar 2k23) and in Canada (MUFF, Vector, Art On The Screens, Trinity Square Video, Photophobia, Pleasure Dome TNW tour, Long Winter and more) Her sonic works have been published in The Wire Magazine and through Alrealon Musique record label. Swinburne works and lives in Toronto, Canada.Systaime
Multimedia and Internet artist, Michaël Borras AKA Systaime has continued to dissect our brave new digital world since the end of the 1990s. His works are distinguished by their pop, if not trash, aesthetic and constant technological updates linked to new uses of social networks; whether it is a diligent practice of audiovisual collage, animation in GIF format or even the tools that artificial intelligence now offers us. Systaime has distinguished himself, both as an artist and as a curator, in numerous international institutions and events, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Georges-Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, the Electromuseum in Moscow or the Athens Digital Art Festival. Artista multimedia e internet Michaël Borras, también conocido como Systaime, ha continuado analizando nuestro nuevo y valiente mundo digital desde finales de la década de 1990. Sus obras se distinguen por su estética pop, si no trash, y sus constantes actualizaciones tecnológicas vinculadas a los nuevos usos de las redes sociales, ya sea mediante la práctica diligente del collage audiovisual, la animación en formato GIF o incluso las herramientas que la inteligencia artificial nos ofrece ahora. Systaime se ha distinguido, tanto como artista como curador, en numerosas instituciones y eventos internacionales, como el Museo Whitney de Arte Americano, el Centro Nacional de Arte y Cultura Georges-Pompidou, el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, el Electromuseum de Moscú o el Festival de Arte Digital de Atenas.Céline B La Terreur
Céline B. La Terreur loves shiny things: cars, shoes, crystal, diamonds. She also likes skeletons, dead hair and pulled teeth. She likes everything creamy and soft, but also things that make a lot of noise, like (red) cars and electric guitars. The work of Céline B. La Terreur was first presented at the “Foufounes Électriques” in 1998, and since then she has been desperately trying to enter into a mystical symbiosis with her mentor Joyce Yahouda, a woman she considers sublimely sublime in every way. You can find her on the Internet at www.laterreur.com.Cynthia Lund Torroll
I cannot remember a time when I wasn't drawing or creating. It's a daily practice and necessity for me. Due to crippling agoraphobia, I left college, so everything I've done is either self-taught or learned on the job. I spent 45 years in corporate America as a commercial artist all the while pursuing my own personal visions. I have always been fascinated by the human state - the odd duality of being both physical and ephemeral simultaneously. This is my core inspiration and obsession. Since high school most of my work has been done with pencil. Now, near 70, I'm experimenting with collage, video and other media, but still, alongside it all, I continue to draw. I present to you my latest pencil drawing, “Helmet For Hard Times.”Born in France, of Canadian nationality, Shaoul Y divided his time between Italy, Brazil, Canada, and England, where he completed his studies in interior architecture, before adopting Brazil as his primary home.
Since a young age, Shaoul Y created artworks, primarily drawing. His artistic production evolved towards designing interior spaces, by working with the architecture of the space as well as through furniture that he designs and produces. Recently, Shaoul Y has dedicated himself exclusively to the creation of digital drawing. His work is a refreshing mix of characters that play with ideas of seduction, voyeurism, identity and vulnerability, combined with a sense of playfulness and humor. His imagery is inspired by interactions witnessed in the everyday, reimagined as fictional narratives. His signature round sun, airplanes and birds inhabit each image as a testimony of a life constantly in movement. His works are a part of private collections in Brazil, Canada, United States, St Martin and Switzerland.Kerim Yildiz
Kerimbonia is the artistic persona of Kerim Yildiz, a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist whose practice spans AI-generated photorealism, 3D modeling, animation, motion design, and live visual performance. With over two decades of experience across design, animation, and creating visuals for international festivals and concerts as well as VJing for live music events, Kerimbonia merges the technical with the poetic to craft surreal, comedic, and hyper-detailed narratives that question identity and culture in the algorithmic age. In addition to his work with high-profile clients including Warner Bros., Cirque du Soleil, and major touring artists, Kerimbonia has extensive experience as a technical artist and 3D consultant for visual artists, contributing to dozens of winning “1% for art and architecture integration” public art projects across Quebec and Canada. His practice blends Turkish-Canadian-Québécois influences with a commitment to craft, humor, and experimentation, inviting viewers to explore the contradictions of contemporary life and the uncanny warmth found within digital spaces.Laurent Bouchard
From 2000 to 2019 Laurent Bouchard was Director of la Galerie d’art d’Outremont, for the City of Montréal. He actively participated in the selection process for art shows and organized more than 190 contemporary art exhibitions and events. He oversaw the logistics of the exhibitions and was in charge of publicity including press releases and social media coordination. He played a key role in the organization of meetings where he conveyed an understanding of the exhibiting artist's vision and art both during the selection process and in public outreach and school programs.Laurent Bouchard is a practising artist who has a B.F.A and M.A. ès arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal. With an attention to details, his art reflects a sense of humour through a mixture of figuration, unexpected combinations of found materials and surprising cultural references. In his career he has exhibited widely, his work included in several public and private collections in Canada, the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.
Andres Manniste Andres Manniste is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice, rooted in digital art since the 1990s, explores web art, virtual environments, and digital networks. He is interested not only in creating digital artworks but also in the conversations, collaborations, and networking that emerge within this milieu.
An active figure in online digital art, he has participated in organizing several editions of The Wrong Biennial, including I Rave for the 6th edition (2023), Art Was Only a Substitute for the Internet (2021), and Peregrination.info (2019). As a curator, Manniste—together with Allan Pringle—established the Dawson College Faculty of Fine Arts Biennial in 1992, fostering exchange among colleagues and students. He has organized major exhibitions for the Warren G. Flowers Gallery in Montreal, including Trade/Gift/Purchase: Artists Collect (2015) and Interference with Audrey Davis, Jinny Yu, and Christina Mancuso (2004). Alongside his curatorial and digital work, Manniste has continued his practice in painting, printmaking, and media arts. Inspired by media imagery, his work examines the materiality of information and the effects of technology on perception and lifestyle. His practice highlights how technology shapes our behaviors and relationships with the world, exploring its transformations of communication, thought, and experience. Whether producing interactive pieces, curating collective artist projects, or rethinking the gallery as a hybrid environment, he seeks to expand the contexts in which art exists. Manniste’s goal is to work with physical, digital, or liminal spaces where diverse audiences can encounter art in diverse ways.
Joyce Yahouda
Since 1981, Joyce Yahouda who is based in Montreal, has been dedicated to promoting the careers of established and emerging artists of all disciplines. From her galleries, the J. Yahouda Meir Gallery and the Joyce Yahouda Gallery, as well as through her work as an independent curator, she presents a dynamic range of engaging, often offbeat exhibitions, with a focus on the human condition. The driving force behind Yahouda's project is a desire to cultivate, intuitive, creative, and even lateral approaches and encourage thinking outside the box. She has also produced artistic events such as performances, roundtables, conferences, and launches for publications and artists' books. She curates exhibitions both on her own and in collaboration with local and international partners. She has organized exhibitions in Geneva, Ischia, London, Lyon, Miami, New York, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in Canada. She has also participated in art fairs in Canada, the United States and Europe. Joyce Yahouda is involved in several collective projects with a strong digital focus. As far back as March 2011, at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery, she presented Life on the screen, an online art program curated by Perry Bard, a New York-based Canadian artist and curator exploring Web Art, whose videos and installations have been shown at the Guggenheim and MOMA. In 2021, she organized the double exhibition Transmission and ReTransmission, in which artists used QR codes to link to online video and audio content. In 2023, she is one of the curators of the international virtual biennale, The Wrong Biennale. In 2019, she created The Society of Lateral Thinking, to encourage exchanges of creative ideas. Subsequently in 2023, her interest in writing exhibition texts inspires her to found the Joyce Yahouda Gallery Publishing – The Society of Lateral Thinking. In 2012, Joyce Yahouda won the "Gallerist of the Year Award", at the Visual Arts Gala organized by the AGAC (Contemporary Art Galleries Association of Montreal).
