All of the programming

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 »

TOPO announces the destruction of one million digital works, between Monday, August 22nd, 2022 at 5pm and Saturday, September 3rd at 1pm. The destruction of the works, programmed by LopLop at a rate of one per second, will be visible continuously, day and night, in TOPO’s exhibition window on the first floor of 5445 de 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 l’AGA 2022 Nous avons eu le plaisir de vous convier à l’assemblée générale annuelle (AGA) des membres de TOPO, qui Read more »

Starting August 9th, TOPO launches a new season of its programming under the theme of fluidity with the generative work Selfgen by Quebec artist Marion Schneider (she/they). The work will be exhibited simultaneously on TOPO and Mutek websites for one month. Selfgen evokes the idea of queer identity and self-representation through advanced artificial intelligence and Read more »

Isabelle Gagné CYMX Summer is often synonymous with travel. To mark the occasion, TOPO proposes a little trip back in time with a new hypermedia web work by artist Isabelle Gagné, CYMX, the 4-letter acronym for the infamous Mirabel airport, north of Montreal. In 1969, the Canadian government expropriated 97,000 acres of farmland and forcibly Read more »

TOPO a le plaisir de vous convier au forum FRONTIÈRE – Pratiques artistiques transfrontalières, un événement en collaboration avec le centre d’artiste montréalais DARE-DARE et Bitamine Faktoria – Fabrique de création et production culturelle transfrontalière du Pays basque espagnol. Cette rencontre a lieu à l’occasion du lancement de la publication Frontière, qui revient sur la Read more »

Lire en Français Join the digital literature incubator, ILINU / ILIDI Incubateur de littérature numérique / Incubadora de literatura digital   → A program of virtual Quebec-Mexico co-creation workshops in digital literature. → Call for participation for 10 artists from Quebec & 10 artists from Mexico. → Participation is free, based on a statement of Read more »

Leer en Español Join the digital literature incubator, ILINU / ILIDI Incubateur de littérature numérique / Incubadora de literatura digital   → A program of virtual Quebec-Mexico co-creation workshops in digital literature. → Call for participation for 10 artists from Quebec & 10 artists from Mexico. → Participation is free, based on a statement of Read more »

TOPO is pleased to invite you, on Saturday, March 5th, from 4 to 6 pm, to a discussion about the new Holy Grail of digital art buying: NFT (Non Fungible Token). This free and open meeting will take place via Zoom. Artist Johann Baron Lanteigne will present an overview of his work and research on Read more »

Rob Feulner and Sam Meech will be running an end-of-show workshop on Saturday 18th at 1 PM at TOPO’s studio. The artists will go through the installation with the participants, then invite them to create video samples with analogue video gear and re-combine them using interactive video software (Isadora). The workshop should end just in 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. De mars à juin 2021, TOPO présentait le forum virtuel Mutations :: Le livre à l’ère numérique. 24 webinaires autour des enjeux Read more »

    Crédit de l’image : Jesse Aidyn, Critter LiAm (2021) et Andréanne Parent (éditrice) Le 19 novembre en après-midi, TOPO participera à la 9e édition du Colloque Arts & Médias de l’Université de Montréal qui se déroulera du 17 au 19 novembre 2021. C’est une initiative des étudiant∙e∙s en histoire de l’art, du cinéma Read more »

Watch the artwork live, filming itself. Beginning November 11, 2021, TOPO announces a new exhibition in the showcase with a media proposal by artists Rob Feulner and Sam Meech, Unstable Intermediated Forms. The artists suggest a series of generative video feedback and analog glitch works exploring fluid dynamics, pattern generation and interactivity. The installation connects Read more »