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Data_Connection Jean-François & Jérôme Blanquet [FR] 29 September 2017, 21:00 - 23:00
“Data_connection,” referring to the film “The French Connection” directed by William Friedkin, is a data stream performance. With a downloaded set of texts encoded in digital signal on audio cassettes and an apparatus of...
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Digital Colonialism DISNOVATION.org [FR] / Morehshin Allahyari [IR, US] / Rasheedah Phillips [US] 28 September 2017, 19:00 - 21:00
This panel will explore the political dimension of the techno-scientific realm in relation to the giants of the digital revolution, specifically with regards to notions of digital colonialism and emancipatory appropriation. Conference in English...
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Xenopolitics [Intervention] Aliens in Green [US,SI,FR] 27 September 2017, 18:00 - 23:00
The participatory performance of Aliens in Green examines the alienating impact of endocrine disrupters through a DIY extraction ritual of the collective hormones secreted in the urine. By observing the active substances of various origins that cross us, it...
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Sight & Sound Opening Aliens in Green [US, SI, FR] - Audrey Samson [CA] - Dardex [CA] - Demolecularisation [FR] - Emma McCormick-Goodhart [UK] - Ernesto Oroza [US] - Exonemo [JA] [US] - Gwenola Wagon & Stephane Degoutin [FR] - James Bridle [UK] - Kelly Andres [CA] - Liam Young [UK] - Morehshin Allahyari [IR, US] & Daniel Rourke [UK] - Nicolas Nova [CH] - Peter Moosgaard [AT] - RYBN [FR] -Thomas Bégin [CA] - Yann Leguay [BE] 27 September 2017, 18:00 - 23:00
The opening event of the 9th edition of SIGHT + SOUND 2017, will feature interventions by Aliens in Green and Thomas Bégin, the vernissage of the exhibit and the chance to meet the local and international artists! INTERVENTION – ALIENS...
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Robotic Trolley THOMAS BÉGIN [CA] 27 September 2017, 18:00 - 23:00
"Robotic Trolley" is a remote-controlled motorized shopping cart with a robotic arm capable of grabbing products off of store shelves. Equipped with numerous cameras and operated by a neural network from an off-site control station, the robot goes...
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Data Ghost 2 : Golem RYBN [FR] 27 September - 1 October 2017
Python programs, Computer, Networked installation 2017 "Dataghost 2" is an introspective, kabbalistic, and recursive computational machine. It tirelessly studies the written traces of its internal activity, its logs, the exegesis of which gives...
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Technological Disobedience [Tactical Interior Design] ERNESTO OROZA [US] 27 September - 1 October 2017
"Special Period in Times of Peace" was how the Cuban government termed the country’s crisis in 1990. The country’s centralized economy imploded at its inner core: the home. The family became an autonomous economic unit. Workers,...
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World Brain STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN [FR] & GWENOLA WAGON [FR] 27 September - 1 October 2017
"World Brain" proposes a stroll through motley folkloric tales: data centers, animal magnetism, the Internet as a myth, the inner lives of rats, how to gather a network of researchers in the forest, how to survive in the wild using Wikipedia or how...
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Hello, City! LIAM YOUNG [UK] 27 September - 1 October 2017
Join speculative architect Liam Young and an all-seeing smart city operating system, as they take a tour in a driverless taxi through a network of software systems. They go through autonomous infrastructures, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches and...
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LogforData DEMOLECULARISATION (FR) 27 September - 1 October 2017
“LogforData” is an audio tape composed of several digital audio coding protocols like modem 56k, FAX, 80's personal computers. These audio data contain a copy text from an IRC channel, online secure conversations between several members. The...
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The Extraterrestrial Botanist KELLY ANDRES [CA] 27 September - 1 October 2017
Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. “The Garden of...
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Refonte DARDEX [CA] 27 September - 1 October 2017
"Refonte” is a series of rudimentary spears and weapons, made from electronic waste material. The scrap metal is melted and poured into moulds, echoing the ancient techniques of primitive weapon-making - using copper alloys, aluminum, and gold....
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Fireplace EXONEMO [JA] [US] 27 September - 1 October 2017
"Fireplace” is a video piece presenting scenes of burning optical mouses and keyboards as would tinder in a fireplace. In the old days of "hearth and home," the fireplace was the center of a family's living space and the primary...
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Supercargo PETER MOOSGAARD [AT] 27 September - 1 October 2017
Peter Moosgaard develops a speculative future, in which electronic devices have become fossils, brands have evolved into totems, and consumer goods are replicated only for ceremonial purposes. Our present usage of commodities and tech products is mirrored in...
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Autonomous Trap 001 JAMES BRIDLE [UK] 27 September - 1 October 2017
A self-driving car is trapped by a salt circle on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The circle’s pattern of closed and broken lines forms a continuous no entry mark, preventing the automated vehicle from moving forward. Occupying a physical and cognitive...