Parallel Playground
Présentation de fin de résidence
26 septembre · 19 h – 23 h
4001 rue BerriUKAI Projects × World Creation Studio
Cette soirée offre un cadre informel propice à la découverte de nouvelles œuvres et à l’échange de points de vue. Rassemblant des artistes qui cherchent activement à appréhender les réalités complexes situées au croisement de la créativité et de la technologie, tout en naviguant dans l’écosystème en constante évolution du secteur culturel, les œuvres présentées se penchent sur l’IA, les pratiques numériques et matérielles, les technologies situées, les modes de narration et les infrastructures créatives.
Avec des œuvres de:
Arbor / Cadin Londono / Diyana Noory / flora hammond / Kiyo Nakatsuru / Vaiu / Vincent Isabel / Wenxi Wang
Arbor
Arbor is a media artist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher creating experimental and experiential interfaces and prototypes with an interest in found physical and digital materials. He develops makeshift systems to transform spaces through sound and light. His works blur the boundaries between performance, installation, and artifact across diverse environments and contexts, and often yield new tools that serve as both means and forms of expression.
Cadin Londono
Cadin Londono is a Colombian digital artist born in Medellín and based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). He is interested in looking at technology through an anti-colonial lens. His works consist of ludic interactive experiences that seek to look at agency, alternative history, the digital divide, and technological accessibility.
Diyana Noory
Diyana Noory (she/her) is a lawyer, writer, photographer, and community organizer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, of Kurdish-Iraqi heritage. She cares deeply about ensuring that creativity can flourish, and that tech serves people rather than profit alone. As Copyright & AI Counsel at Creative Commons, Diyana co-leads CC Signals, which aims to keep open knowledge and creativity accessible in the age of AI while foregrounding consent, attribution, and reciprocity. Previously at Canadian Heritage she developed platform regulation and copyright policy, and she has also worked as a freelance music and culture journalist with bylines in Noisey/Vice. In her creative practice, Diyana wades through the weird and wondrous nature of being. When writing she is conversational and attentive, drawn to deconstructing things and examining them like it’s her first day on earth. Her 35mm camera often captures dappled light, mystical minutiae, bright smiles, and alleyway oddities throughout the world.
flora hammon
flora hammond is an artist and designer living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Their practice oscillates between paper making, metal work and silversmithing and is grounded by history, digital archives and hands on material culture research. They build magical realist installations which seek to acts as bridges to the quieter parts of our nervous systems.
Kiyo Nakatsuru
Kiyo Nakatsuru is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Their practice is primarily focused on sound, spanning across moving image, drawing, and performance. As a Yonsei (fourth-generation) Japanese-Canadian and genderqueer person, their work is shaped by experiences of transition and in-betweenness, drawing them toward unconventional, experimental ways of working. They use sound as an expansive site of relation and speculative storytelling.
Vaiu
Vaiu is a performer-composer and sound artist. Her work explores the acoustic ecologies of underground bodies of water, microscopic worlds, and the relational bond between voice, deep listening, and technology. Through her music, she lulls collective dreamscapes of magic realism.
Vincent Isabel
Vincent Isabel is a tinkerer, sound artist, and performer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. His practice explores the web of relationships connecting human bodies, the environment, and technology. Using assemblages of electrical circuits, salvaged objects, and organic materials, he creates noise-based instruments and installations. In his work, he provokes and harnesses loss of control as a key element; spaces of error and glitch become moments of shifting identity, challenging the power dynamics between the human and the non-human. The imaginaries he explores aim to propose alternative relationships with technological objects. He works in an artisanal manner, playing with the arrangement of raw materials and new media. He leads workshops on DIY electronics, programming, and the use of microcontrollers to make technology-related skills more accessible to everyone.
Wenxi Weng
Wenxi Wang (thimble) is a writer, photographer, and cultural producer based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. Her practice centers on observing shifts in cultural ecology—writing “anti-climax” fiction, photographing still lifes (including people placed within spaces), making zines, and walking the city as a way of looking. She relies on the subtlety of language and the lens. Psychoanalysis is one of the thinking directions that shape her daily output. From early on, she has been drawn to the playfulness of things, approaching the “player” as a narrative perspective. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Cultural Arts Management at HEC Montréal. She founded Zhēn de and co-initiated the Viens faire un tour! series with Soft Gong, while maintaining an ongoing inspiration archive on Are.na.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
