Events at: Vitrine TOPO

For this new window display exhibition, TOPO brings nature back to the forefront with the interactive installation Ecosystème Alpha, by Aude Guivarc’h, which allows visitors to interact and play with the balance of nature. With a simple wave of the hand, the public can create climatic disturbances that shatter the tranquillity of a virtual mountain Read more »

A new artistic video game by pixels·collectif, Brume, opens TOPO’s 2024-26 programming, which explores the themes nostalgia, ecology and simulacra. Beginning at 5:00 p.m. on 29 February 2024 this new installation in TOPO’s window display will stage a welcoming warm future – but troubling – to conclude the month of February 2024 similarly warm. The Read more »

For its final window display exhibition of 2023, TOPO announces a poetic work that gives voice to rocks chosen or imagined by Cléo-Palacio Quintin. At the launch on Friday November 3, the Quatuor Bozzini, who created the music for the project, will be invited to interpret the musical voice of a few rocks chosen by Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

TOPO relaunches its program of exhibitions in the window display by starting a new thematic cycle under the theme of ~fluidity~. Starting September 8, the Rimouski artist Fernande Forest will exhibit her project Fantasmagorie de semences potagères, an audio-visual exploration magnified from the very nature of three seeds: onion, cabbage and salsify. Following a research Read more »

At the heart of this second wave of our exhibition program on Frontiers, entitled “Remixes and Networks: Defying Boundaries” TOPO welcomes Oli Sorenson’s installation Landscapes of the Anthropocene from November 11 to December 19, 2020. With this project, Sorenson initiates a new body of works which borrow from the neo-geo visual language of American artist Read more »

To inaugurate the 2020-21 season and, at the same time, the second phase of our Frontier programming, “Remixes and Networks: Defying Boundaries,” TOPO welcomes the multimedia artist Sven’s immersive and interactive installation Plongeons from September 9 to October 10, 2020. Conceived using photographs of historic events, the project came to fruition by means of the 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. Du 20 février au 28 mars, TOPO présente l’installation de poésie numérique et visuelle Niyolchoca de l’artiste Rodrigo Velasco dans sa vitrine Read more »

Pour inaugurer la nouvelle décennie, TOPO accueille du 16 janvier au 15 février 2020 l’installation tactile, auditive et contemplative Conversation with Falling Spheres, de l’artiste ULO, mettant en scène deux instruments sonores interactifs dans sa vitrine d’exposition au rez-de-chaussée du 5445, avenue de Gaspé. Cette exposition propose une expérience immersive, le public étant invité à Read more »

As of November 1st, 2019, the installation La Ofrenda by artist Martín Rodríguez opens the next programming cycle of TOPO’s Showcase under the theme of Frontier, which will run until 2021. The program includes exhibitions in the ground floor showcase of the Pôle de Gaspé, workshops, performances, projections and artist presentations. The first cycle, « Read more »

Eduardo Pérez & Sophie Kuijper Dickson Le Great White North Vernissage // 6 septembre 2019, 17 h 30 // Rendez-vous au local 608 du 5445, avenue de Gaspé //   Pour l’exposition inaugurale de l’automne 2019, TOPO présente Le Great White North dans sa vitrine d’exposition du Pôle de diffusion de Gaspé, une installation mise en Read more »