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2019
"The Dead Web – La fin" at the Mapping Festival in Geneva
Molior and Mapping Festival present the exhibition The Dead Web – La fin from May 23th to June 2nd in Geneva
Montreal, April 30th, 2019 – Following its recent success at the Mirage Festival in Lyon, where it was seen by more than 6,500 visitors, the exhibition The Dead Web – La fin put together by the Montreal curator Nathalie Bachand is continuing its European tour at the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. As part of the festival’s fifteenth edition, three works by Swiss artists have been added to the five projects by Quebec artists.
The Dead Web – La fin
The exhibition The Dead Web – La fin explores the eventuality of the World Wide Web’s death. In a context where the network could collapse even before the end of its “adultescence”— in 2023, the Web as we know it, will barely be more than 25 years old—we can try to picture the fall of the Web and the afterworld that would ensue: Empty server carcasses and a sea of electronic junk? A digital oblivion on all screens? Machines imitating the Web? A handcrafted Internet? In the wake of these reflections, the curator Nathalie Bachand has gathered artistic propositions that resonate with these considerations.
Julien Boily
Memento Vastum (2012) by Julien Boily is an oil painting on panel. The Chicoutimi-based artist draws inspiration from the old master painters of the Golden Age (17th century) and twists the pictorial codes of this period to represent contemporary scenes. Memento Vastum speaks of a lost memory. “Vastum” (waste in Latin) refers to the notion of loss, to what is left behind in favour of a certain idea of progress.
Julie Tremble
BPM 37093 (2014), by the Montreal artist Julie Tremble, is a short 3D animation that recounts the death of a star, similar to the sun, and the slow transformation of its materiality. Just as our sun will do in millions of years, this star is gradually turning into a diamond.
Frédérique Laliberté
Infinitisme.com Forever A Prototype, by the multidisciplinary artist Frédérique Laliberté, is an eternally “in progress” Web project. This autonomous collage machine generates semi-random virtual compositions by retrieving images, sounds, animated gifs, videos, text, etc. from a digital database of categorized and classified files.
Projet EVA
The Object of the Internet is an installation by the artist collective Projet EVA (Etienne Grenier and Simon Laroche) that evokes the idea of a mausoleum honouring the dead Web. By way of optical and kinetic processes integrated in a device into which the viewer inserts their head, the human face is broken down into a multitude of fragments.
Dominique Sirois and Baron Lanteigne
In Extremis, by the Montreal artist Dominique Sirois and Baron Lanteigne, based in Québec City, is the result of a recent collaboration between the two artists. Both a sculpture and a video installation—comprising passages between the two—, the work raises the question of the liminal space between the virtual and the real, the materiality of the digital, and obsolescence.
Lauren Huret
Swiss artist Lauren Huret's Praying For My Haters takes the form of two pieces: a video and an architectural sculpture. This artwork speaks of the traces that this web of taboos and prohibitions, violence and death leaves in its wake—traces whose forceful charge promises to endure well beyond its disappearance.
Lukas Truniger & Nicola L. Hein
Comprised of hybrid instruments made out of drumheads and electronic components, Membranes, by swiss artists Lukas Truniger and Nicola L. Hein, is a performative installation that transforms written text into luminous percussion. A dialogue between the various independent object-instruments takes shape and generates a network of dead agents—transformed algorithms—that testify both to a form of communication that is historically rooted in a cultural tradition and a hypothetical language spoken in a world after the Web’s demise.
Romain & Simon de Diesbach
[I], by the swiss artists and brothers Romain and Simon de Diesbach, is at once a screen and mirror, the smartphone, this identity box of each and all, is an object of memory and illusion. The mobile phone and the screen are markers of our era and they also bear the marks of our daily gestures. In the process, we have become bound to a form of instantaneousness that simultaneously distances us from the present moment: we are perched on the edge between the virtual and material world.
Nathalie Bachand, Curator
Nathalie Bachand is an independent writer and curator. She recently curated the 32 exhibitions Un million d’horizons project organized by Accès culture as part of Montréal’s 375th anniversary celebrations, and the interactive work Thresholds by Michel de Broin at the jagemô art space of the Canada Council for the Arts. She is currently the co-curator of the Espace [IM] Média Festival at the Centre en art actuel Sporobole.
Molior
Molior is an organization specialized in the production of exhibitions and artistic projects which make use of technologies as a creation, expression and action tool. Since its foundation in 2001, Molior has presented numerous innovative projects in Canada as well as on the international scene in collaboration with multiple dissemination partners.
Mapping Festival
Mapping Festival, dedicated to audio-visual art and digital culture, unfolds from May 23 to 26, 2019 in Geneva. The festival is a major event in the fields of image generation, technological creation and exploration, attracting both professional and general audience. Considered as a unique platform of production and diffusion in Switzerland, it also enjoys an international reputation thanks to the quality of its programming and diversity, which aims to encourage emerging artists of the field.
This project is produced by Mapping Festival and Molior. It has received support from the Quebec Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Molior recognizes the continued support of the Montreal Arts Council. The Dead Web - The End was presented for the first time at the Eastern Bloc Artist Center in Montreal in January-February 2017.
This project is also supported by the 67th Standing Committee on French-Quebec Cooperation (CPCFQ).
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