A troubled summer comes to an end, and for TOPO, a cycle. As the autumn season approaches, a reminder of the inevitable change of seasons, TOPO closes its Fluidité thematic cycle with a timely work. With Sympoietic Reverie, Isabella Salas guides our imagination between fragile ecosystems and ephemeral urban landscapes. On view in our window Read more »

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Participez à notre AGA 2023   Nous avions le plaisir de vous convier à l’assemblée générale annuelle (AGA) des membres de TOPO, Read more »

Natalie Doonan VerdunReality : Riparian play TOPO is pleased to support VerdunReality by Natalie Doonan, to be discovered under July’s sun. This 90 minutes multimedia performance was designed to for the St. Lawrence waterfront in Montreal’s Southwest borough of Verdun. VerdunReality: Riparian Play is a journey along the St. Lawrence waterfront in Montreal’s Southwest borough of Read more »

TOPO, the Montreal-based artist-run center for the digital arts, has launched a new call for projects for its 2024-2026 artistic programming. Both established and emerging artists with a digital arts practice were invited to submit a project in one of the following three options: OPTION 1: an installation project for TOPO’s window display, OPTION 2: Read more »

Michel Huneault and Johann Mazé 4 Hours Following TOPO’s 2019–2022 programming theme, Frontier, TOPO is announcing the launch of a new project by artist Michel Huneault, 4 Hours, with an online experience and a window installation on Pôle de Gaspé’s ground floor, starting May 25, 2023. In June 2022, at the invitation of TOPO and Read more »

By weaving imaginaries in the mode of biomimicry, Nh-9 is an immersive poetry experience that attempts to develop notions of interrelationships between humans and non-humans. The aim of this project is to allow to be immersed in a state of sensory modifications (and/or mutations) in order to construct interconnected landscapes by imagining a living world – made Read more »

Leer en Español   ILIDI | Digital Literature incubator Exhibition launch When : Thursday, March 16th 2023, from 7 to 9 pm, Montreal time. Where : On the web (Mozilla Hubs) Price : Free Language : Mainly in spanish, but also in french, and english. Facebook Event   ILIDI is a Quebec-Mexico cocreation program of Read more »

Yesica Duarte End of residency talk To highlight the end of her residency at TOPO, Yesica Duarte had a public meeting Saturday, March 4th at 3pm during which she presented her work and the results of her residency at TOPO. Her creative research project entitled Pinch to Awaken uses breathing as a means of navigation: Read more »

Yesica Duarte Pinch to Awaken From February 6, 2023, TOPO hosted a residency for the Argentine artist Yesica Duarte. During her residency, Yesica proposed a virtual reality project that communicates with the entire body, including the breath of the person experiencing it. She built her own system to capture the breath of the helmet wearer. Read more »

On Thursday, February 16, a meet-and-greet was held with our artist-in-residence of the moment, Baron Lanteigne, about his work in progress. His residency work was titled Cinématographie de la matière virtuelle and was on display in our exhibition window from January 26 to March 11, 2023. It was also possible to follow his experiments online Read more »

Starting Thursday, January 26, 2023, TOPO hosted artist Baron Lanteigne in an open residency as part of its thematic programming Fluidity. The work metamorphosed over the course of this experimental residency and was shown live in TOPO’s showcase. This residency formula combined with the window exhibition gave Johann Baron-Lanteigne the opportunity to work with the Read more »

Build your project with professional support For the eighth consecutive year, TOPO offered a training and coaching program in multiplatform production. This bootcamp aims to support the development of creative projects by providing a context for exchange and learning with a variety of specialists in the field of digital project design, development and production. The Read more »

Get personalized assistance in a photographic project   This weekend workshop in digital photography was designed to help participants with their own projects. The increasing sophistication of cameras and the wide variety of accessories and lighting devices requires a constant update of practice. This workshop was led by photographer Alain Lefort, who answered participants’ problems Read more »

Léo Sanches Homesick Brasil From Thursday, November 24 to Sunday, November 27, 2022, TOPO hosted in its studio a photographic exhibition by Léo Sanches, Homesick Brasil. The title of Léo Sanches’ photographic project refers to the feeling of belonging to one’s country of origin that is deeply rooted in his integration process in Quebec. Driven Read more »

Following the launch of Marion Schneider’s web work Selfgen on both TOPO’s and Virtual Mutek’s websites for a month during the summer of 2022, TOPO has decided to continue exhibiting Selfgen through a window projection. On Thursday, November 17th at 5pm, during the launch of the video installation, we will offer you to experience simultaneously Read more »

On October 10, 1982, Jean-Yves Fréchette teamed up with some farmers from Saint-Ubalde to write the micro-poem “TEXTE TERRE TISSE” while plowing hay in a field with their tractors. Each letter was 91 m high by 76 m wide. The whole was spread over 1.6 km and even got its entry in the GUINESS book Read more »

Isabelle Gagné and Sven [Bleu diode] had been inspired by the multidisciplinary artist Jean-Yves Fréchette’s work for the past 10 years. As a digital art precursor, Fréchette’s research is rooted in the practice of performative writing, with a mathematical rigor, through data accumulation and the excavation of expression territories, whether they are technological (twittérature) or Read more »

Open residency : LopLop LopLop is a Montreal-based software programming company combining interactivity, augmented and fragmented reality. Since 2018, LopLop focuses on landscape modeling, design and animation of vegetal worlds aimed at generating creative and interactive experiences. A compelling example is the Garden app created for the Montreal Botanical Garden, which allows users to navigate Read more »