Contact
5445, avenue de Gaspé, local 608
Montréal (Québec)
Canada H2T 3B2
agence@agencetopo.qc.ca
514 279 8676
Mandate
The Montreal artist-run centre TOPO is a laboratory for digital writings and creations for web, performance, and installation spaces. Its mandate is to incubate, produce, and circulate original multimedia artworks that explore interdisciplinary and intercultural hybridizations through the digital arts.
History
TOPO was founded in Montreal on 1993. The centre grew out of the will of its founding members to develop a structure for the organization of collective and multidisciplinary projects that integrate the disciplines of photography and literature.
With the development of digital technologies, TOPO’s mandate has naturally grown to occupy the Web as a territory of creation and dissemination. In 1998, TOPO co-produced “Liquidation, a web-audio fiction” and started its Web activity. From that point on, the organization became active in an ongoing manner in the media arts sector. Since then, TOPO has created and produced Web art projects, most of them collective, with more than one hundred artists from the fields of visual and media arts, theatre, audio, and literature.
Team
| General director | Michel Lefebvre | direction@agencetopo.qc.ca |
| Assistant, communications and development | Anne Isabelle Leonard | diffusion@agencetopo.qc.ca |
| Technical coordinator and web developer | Now recruiting | techtopo@agencetopo.qc.ca |
| Trainee in digital editing | Gabrielle Forest-Lachapelle | production@agencetopo.qc.ca |
Board of directors
Julien-Robert Legault Salvail / Gabriel Galvis / Myriam Benzacour-Durand / Eva Quintas / Marie Eve Berlinger / Michel Jolicoeur / Louis-Richard Tremblay
| President | Louis‑Richard Tremblay | Producer, Interactive studio, National Film Board of Canada |
| Vice-president and secretary | Eva Quintas | Artist and consultant in cultural development |
| Treasurer | Michel Jolicoeur | President, Tram Media |
| Administrator | Myriam Benzacour-Durand | Coordinator, Café l'Exil |
| Administrator | Julien-Robert Legault-Salvail | Independent artist Video Phase |
| Administrator | Marie Eve Berlinger | Consultant in discoverability and audience development at BeGoodMTL |
| Administrator | Gabriel Galvis | IT project Manager at FTQ |
Committees
Artistic committee
Jean Gagnon / Michel Lefebvre / Eva Quintas
| Alexandre Castonguay | Jean Gagnon | Michel Lefebvre |
| Anne Isabelle Leonard | Eva Quintas | Mariza Rosales Argonza |