Norimichi Hirakawa - The Indivisible (Prototype N.1)
The duo Purform - Enigma - Audiovisual installation
Adam Basanta - A Truly Magical Moment
Jaehyuck Bae & Junbong Song (KR) - Light Wave
ELEKTRA Festival will once again delight Montreal with a program full of exhibitions, installations and a participative, immersive performance from June 28th to June 30th. With the theme, THE BIG DATA SPECTACLE, this year’s local and international artists will explore phenomena emerging from digital technology that affect our social reality, such as machine learning and data mining as well as the use that hybrid human-machines make of them, especially in contemporary art.
This new 2017 edition will focus on these promises, sustained by these important advances in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, data mining and the use made of hybrid human-machine devices, particularly in art.
On the program of these 3 days of performances, the ELEKTRA festival will invest many emblematic places in Montreal such as Usine C, the Cinémathèque Québecquoise and also for its opening on June 27, the Société des arts technologiques – SAT. For this new edition, Elektra will also give international artists the opportunity to access a platform of unique artistic expression that has been growing since the creation of the festival.
• INFERNO – Collaborative and Robotic performance and A/V Shows at Usine C / June 28-29, 2017
For this 18th edition, ELEKTRA will host some incredible artistic universes, such as the robotic performance entitled INFERNO by Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn. This singular performance gives 49 people per evening the chance to enjoy a unique experience in which their bodies are controlled by machines, following the rhythm of electronic music and lights. On the agenda you will also find the incredible interactive piece called “A Truly Magical Moment” by Adam Basanta (QC), the duo Purform (Yan Breuleux and Alain Thibault) (QC-CA) with their audiovisual installation “Enigma”, the Japanese artist Norimichi Hirakawa (JP) with his large-scale audiovisual installation “The Indivisible (Proto- type No.1)”, Jaehyuck Bae and Junbong Song (KR) with their piece “Light Wave” and the robotic installation “Chair Walker 2.0” by Korean artist YoungKak Cho (KR).
• INVERSO MUNDUS – An immersive video installation at Cinémathèque Québécoise from June 29 to August 20
“Inverso Mundus”, by the Russian collective AES+F, will be exhibited at the Cinémathèque québécoise until August 20 (free entry). AES+F is a well-known group of artists, whose pieces are featured in a lot of important permanence contemporary art collection, such as the one of the Centre Pompidou. A 38-minute surreal digital show: a multi-channel video creates a long image inspired by medieval engravings that presented absurd situations which, at the time, where used by no less than the painter Jérôme Bosch as a base for his creations. The artists have thus transposed amusing and tragic scenes of our time, presenting them with their usual surreal signature, the classical music.
• 11th International Marketplace for Digital Arts at Cinémathèque québécoise / June 28-29, 2017
The 11th edition of the International Marketplace for Digital Arts – IMDA will take place at the Cinémathèque Québécoise. In 10 years, the professional stream of the ELEKTRA Festival has become the most prominent platform for local digital artists to take their work around the world. For this new edition, people will have possibilities to enter into new media market world.
More information on Elektra Festival’s website here
Tickets here
