Copacabana Machine Sex; Slow-Motion Car Crash; Cloud Face; One of Them Is a Human (2022) by Bill Vorn, Jonathan Schipper, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Maija TammiELEKTRA
Presented by ELEKTRA since 2012, the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) was back for a 6th edition at Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal. Our major exhibition, entirely dedicated to contemporary digital art, was held from December 1, 2022 to February 5, 2023.
To close this cycle around the actual metamorphosis of our world, 27 artists from 4 continents will address the process of MUTATION, through the mobility and movement of human beings, ideas or identities. This exhibition offers a reflection on the transition that we must accomplish in this post-pandemic era disrupted both geopolitically and climatically.
Exo-Performance/Beio; Copacabana Machine Sex; Slow-Motion Car Crash (2022) by Tianzhuo Chen, Bill Vorn, Jonathan SchipperELEKTRA
By taking a look at our time while trying to anticipate the consequences of our past and future decisions, these artists are in a way pathfinders, messengers.
BIAN 6, curated by Alain Thibault in the METAMORPHOSIS series which was co-curated with DooEun Choi, guest curator of BIAN 5.
Slow-Motion Car Crash (2009) by Jonathan SchipperELEKTRA
Slow-Motion Car Crash, Jonathan Schipper
Slow-Motion Car Crash: at one millimeter per hour, what normally happens in just a moment is now almost too slow to comprehend.
Slow-Motion Car Crash (2009) by Jonathan SchipperELEKTRA
Slow-Motion Car Crash (2009) by Jonathan SchipperELEKTRA
Slow-Motion Car Crash (2009) by Jonathan SchipperELEKTRA
Blowback, Michel De Broin
In Blowback, Michel de Broin appropriates the codes of war, conceived as the armed confrontation between two opposing powers, by diverting the destructive power of two cannons linked by a tube.
Blowback (2013) by Michel de BroinELEKTRA
Blowback (2013) by Michel de BroinELEKTRA
Copacabana Machine Sex; Slow-Motion Car Crash; Cloud Face; One of Them Is a Human; RÉSONANCES (2022) by Bill Vorn, Jonathan Schipper, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Maija Tammi & Louis-Philippe RondeauELEKTRA
RÉSONANCES (2021) by Louis-Philippe RondeauELEKTRA
RÉSONANCES, Louis-Philippe Rondeau
RÉSONANCES is a metaphor for the passage of time.
RÉSONANCES (2021) by Louis-Philippe RondeauELEKTRA
RÉSONANCES (2021) by Louis-Philippe RondeauELEKTRA
Retina (2021) by Herman KolgenELEKTRA
Retina, Herman Kolgen
Through this biological filter of sight, Herman Kolgen is exploring the coexistence of the human and its intermediate territories.
Retina (2021) by Herman KolgenELEKTRA
Retina (2021) by Herman KolgenELEKTRA
Copacabana Machine Sex, Bill Vorn
Copacabana Machine Sex is a 30-minute burlesque musical robotic performance involving solely biomorphic machines as actors.
Copacabana Machine Sex (2018) by Bill VornELEKTRA
Copacabana Machine Sex (2018) by Bill VornELEKTRA
Exo-Performance/Beio, Tianzhuo Chen
Chen Tianzhuo and Andrew Thomas Huang’s Exo-Performance/Baby Chinayu and Exo-Performance/Beio interprets the classical dual phases of mythological afterlife: Heaven and Hell, in a 3-channel video installation.
Breathing patterns, Salomé Chatriot
This video diptych represents a breathing memory recorded by the artist during the confine- ment in 2020 and used to animate these two organs.
Postcolonial Dilemna #Track4 (Remix mix) (2019) by Kongo AstronautsELEKTRA
Postcolonial Dilemna #Track4, Kongo Astronauts
The video Postcolonial Dilemma #Track4 (Remix mix) is a non-narrative journey that opens with a metaphor of “extractivism”.
Untitled [-5] & Untitled [-9]
Nature Morte 7, Baron Lanteigne
Nature Morte 7 presents a window - unique but fragmented - composed of several screens. This suspended sculpture turns its back to the viewer, in order to highlight its internal workings.
Nature Morte 7 (2022) by Baron LanteigneELEKTRA
Cybernetic Gardens (2020) by Donatien AubertELEKTRA
Cybernetic Gardens, Donatien Aubert
Technoscientific modernity has disrupted the relationship humans have with life and the environment in which they live. Les jardins cybernétiques provides an overview of these disruptions and highlights the consequences for the development of contemporary societies.
Doku The Self (2022) by Lu YangELEKTRA
Doku The Self, Lu Yang
Doku The Self is Lu Yang’s first narrative film along in the ongoing Doku series. Lu Yang’s digital avatar experiences a crumbling world and impending doom along with the general inhabitants of the world.
Amorph, Yunchul Kim. In Amorph, a mixture of water and glycerine in motion moves around the periphery of a circle illuminated by LEDs. What is important for the artist here is to reveal the dynamic processes by which reality presents itself to us, in contrast to the fixed entities - atoms, molecules and DNA - privileged by classical scientific models.
Restless (2022) by ALMA (Alexandre Saunier & Marc-André Cossette) & Axelle MunezeroELEKTRA
Restless, ALMA & Axelle Munezero
Restless is a virtual generative choreography that displays bodies of different ages moving to the powerful rhythm of street dance and electronic music. The piece is inspired from Los Angeles-born krumping and waacking dances.
Restless (2022) by ALMA (Alexandre Saunier & Marc-André Cossette) & Axelle MunezeroELEKTRA
One of Them Is a Human, #1–4, Maija Tammi
One of Them Is a Human is a conceptual work that presents three androids (human-looking robots) and possibly one human. It is not told which image depicts a human, if any.
One of Them Is a Human, #1–4 (2017) by Maija TammiELEKTRA
Coeus, Prometheus, Tetrad & Ichor (2022) by Ian SpriggsELEKTRA
Coeus, Prometheus, Tetrad & Ichor, Ian Spriggs
Questioning what makes us human and what defines us is a subject that has always been explored through art. This series of portraits demonstrate the possibilities of the digital human and uses it to reframe how we perceive and define ourselves.
Ichor (2022) by Ian SpriggsELEKTRA
Bilateral Time Slicer, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. A biometric tracking system finds the axis of symmetry of members of the public using face detection. With each new participant time slices are recorded and pushed aside. When no one is viewing the work, the slices close and rejoin creating a procession of past recordings.
Lightning Ride (2017) by Émilie Brout & Maxime MarionELEKTRA
Lightning Ride, ÉmilIe Brout & Maxime Marion
Lightning Ride is made up of amateur material found online of Taser certifications, training courses whose purpose is to obtain the right to use the weapon in question.
Lightning Ride (2017) by Émilie Brout & Maxime MarionELEKTRA
2 5 2 6, Ying Gao
2 5 2 6 is an exploration of materiality in fashion design, with robotic garments that simulate the effects of virtual clothing.
2 5 2 6 (2022) by Ying GaoELEKTRA
Tomorrow’s Borrowed-Scenery: 90’s Pick-Ups Foreground Proposition (2022) by Paul DuncombeELEKTRA
Tomorrow’s Borrowed-Scenery, Paul Duncombe
The installations of Tomorrow’s Borrowed-Scenery: 90’s Pick-Ups Foreground Proposition (2022) series are made of vegetated wrecks of vehicles, evoking the passage of a wave, or the blast effect of an explosion.
Tomorrow’s Borrowed-Scenery: 90’s Pick-Ups Foreground Proposition (2022) by Paul DuncombeELEKTRA
Tomorrow’s Borrowed-Scenery: 90’s Pick-Ups Foreground Proposition (2022) by Paul DuncombeELEKTRA
Tomorrow’s Borrowed-Scenery: 90’s Pick-Ups Foreground Proposition (2022) by Paul DuncombeELEKTRA
Twisted Dump Truck Clockwise; Exo-Performance/Beio; Slow-Motion Car Crash; Postcolonial Dilemna (2022) by Wim Delvoye, Tianzhuo Chen, Bill Vorn, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Maija Tammi, Jonathan Schipper, Kongo AstronautsELEKTRA
Twisted Dump Truck Clockwise (2011) by Wim DelvoyeELEKTRA
Twisted Dump Truck Clockwise, Wim Delvoye
Twisted Dump Truck is an aptly titled sculpture by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye that depicts exactly what you’d think with a Gothic aesthetic. The architectural influence is undeniable, making for an intriguing amalgamation.
Twisted Dump Truck Clockwise (2011) by Wim DelvoyeELEKTRA
Twisted Dump Truck Clockwise (2011) by Wim DelvoyeELEKTRA
The Soft Porcelain, Chun Hua Catherine Dong.This soft inflatable bear is inspired by Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. The artwork is part of the exhibition At the Edge of Two Worlds that explores new digital possibilities for bridging gaps between memories and experiences, whilst mediating culture and identity through the lens of gender and diaspora.
Cloud Face – Real Time (2022) by Shinseungback KimyonghunELEKTRA
Cloud Face – Real Time, Shinseungback Kimyonghun
Cloud Face – Real Time - Installation, live camera from Seoul, face detection algorithm, custom software, 4 square screens, 3 computers and the Internet. This is the real time version of Cloud Face (2012) which are cloud images recognized as faces by AI.
BIAN 2022: MUTATION
Held at Arsenal Contemporary Art (Montreal), December 01, 2022 to February 05, 2023
BIAN 6, curated by Alain Thibault in the METAMORPHOSIS series which was co-curated with DooEun Choi, guest curator of BIAN 5
All photos and video: Gridspace
with animations by: Baillat Studio
Partners:
Arsenal Contemporary Art
Canada Council for the Arts
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Conseil des arts de Montréal
Canadian Heritage
Gouvernement du Québec
Ville de Montréal
Filaction
Korea Foundation
Embassy of the Republic of Korea
Korean Cultural Centre Canada
Consulat de France à Québec
Némo - Biennale internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France
Coopération France-Québec
Ministère de l'Europe et des affaires étrangères
Station Mir ]interstice[
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Collection Lune Rouge
The West Collection
Paradise Art Space
Zinc
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