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Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC

  [Fall 2013] The transition to the digital image regime entails a series of permutations that noticeably modify our relations with a common public space and how art is produced. Our experience of concrete spaces and temporality, as well as the distinctions between private sphere and public exhibition, between amateur and professional productions, are totally […]

Broadening the Public Space

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

The thematic section CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC examines some of the issues related to the digital regime of images and their circulation on networks. It explores the many correspondences and reciprocities that are being woven between concrete spaces and various technological devices, whether portable (smartphones, applications of all types, geolocation instruments) or anchored in […]

Guest editor: Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Suzanne Paquet

With essays by Suzanne Paquet, Élène Tremblay, Christelle Proulx, Daniel Fiset, Christine Ross, Janine Marchessault and works by Dominic Gagnon, Jon Rafman, Karen Elaine Spencer, Janet Cardiff et George Bures Miller and the exhibition Land/Slide: Possible Futures Even though, in the view of many authors, it seems that we are now living only in the […]

Reciprocities: Some Reflections on Not-so-illogical Conjunctions – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Suzanne Paquet

June 6, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — Roland Barthes once attempted to define the nature of photography as “a new category of space-time: spatial immediacy and temporal anteriority.” In the photograph, he wrote, was produced “an illogical conjunction between the here-now and the there-then.” Some thirty years later, Francis Jauréguiberry remarked that there is always a great deal of elsewhere in our here; he was talking about the portable telephone…

Dominic Gagnon, La trilogie du Web – Élène Tremblay, Cameraless remote documentaries

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Élène Tremblay | Artists: Dominic Gagnon

June 4, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — In his Web trilogy – the films RIP in Pieces America, Pieces and Love All to Hell, and Big Kiss Goodnight (2009–13) – Dominic Gagnon finds video excerpts on the Internet, which he describes as a cinémathèque or film archive, and recombines them to produce what he calls “films about people who film themselves.”

Jon Rafman, 9 eyes – Christelle Proulx, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Christelle Proulx | Artists: Jon Rafman

May 30, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — The “nine eyes” in Jon Rafman’s project refer to the photographic device mounted on the roofs of Google cars. These cars have been travelling the world’s roads since 2007, equipped with cameras with nine lenses, taking pictures of streets – images automatically in street view – for use with the Google Maps tool…

Karen Elaine Spencer, Hey! Mike – Daniel Fiset, Textualizing Space, Spatializing Discourse

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Karen Elaine Spencer

May 28, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — In the autumn of 2012, a large brown envelope addressed to me arrived at my apartment. Inside it was a signed inkjet print of a colourful typographic exercise, announcing via an enigmatic sentence – hey mike please wipe up any spills that may occur – the genesis of the latest project by Montreal artist Karen Elaine Spencer…

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Alter Bahnhof Video Walk – Christine Ross, The Affective Historicization of Public Spaces

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Christine Ross | Artists: George Bures Miller, Janet Cardiff

May 23, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — Since the 1990s, spatial art – a category that has broadened to include installation, architectural environments, relational interventions, (…) – has led to a major redefinition of the relationship between art and the public space…

Land/Slide, An exhibition on possible futures – Janine Marchessault, Activating the Archives

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Janine Marchessault | Artists: Dave Colangelo, Jean-Michel Crettaz, Jennie Suddick, Mark-David Hosale, Michael Snow, Patricio Davila, Philip Hoffman

May 22, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — Images are connected to our physical environments more dramatically than ever before – literally opening up new spaces of interactivity and connection that transform the experience of being in the city, its semiotic forms, and its modes of public gathering, navigation, and movement…

John Gossage, The Photobook: Reflections on Several Recent Projects – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: John Gossage

May 16, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — If there is one category that seems to have escaped the crisis in the book-publishing sector engendered by the rise of digital publishing, it is photobooks, which are currently appearing at such a rate that it is legitimate to think they will eventually supplant exhibitions as the main means of dissemination of photography and, especially, photographic creativity…

Donald McCullin, Collision, Helen Doyle, Representing War and Social Conflicts? – Pierre Dessureault

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Donald McCullin, Helen Doyle, Michael Mitchell

May 14, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — By a strange coincidence, two exhibitions – a Donald McCullin retrospective and Collision: Conflict and Its Consequences – at the National Gallery of Canada, as well as a film, Dans un océan d’images, featured at the recent International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal, have presented a wide range of practices related to how photographs portray war and social conflict…

Lynne Cohen, False Clues: Space Within Place – Philippe Guillaume

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Essays
Authors: Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Lynne Cohen

May 9, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — Lynne Cohen’s recent exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents much more than a display of captivating and masterful large-size photographs of interior spaces. At first glance, False Clues could be described as an imposing photographic project documenting ordinary interior spaces. However, the titles of the twenty-five chromogenic prints and fifteen gelatin-silver prints selected for the show (like those of most of her photographs) discourage any documentary connotation…

Collection Black Star and Alfredo Jaar, Human Rights Human Wrongs / The Politics of Images – Laurent Vernet

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Laurent Vernet | Artists: Alfredo Jaar

May 7, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sébastien Cliche, La doublure – Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Sébastien Cliche

May 2, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Pratte, Des morts exemplaires – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Alain Pratte

April 30, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — Obituaries, I am told, become a part of everyday life once you reach a certain age. At one point, these public announcements of death made in local newspapers on a daily or weekly basis take on more significance as you begin to recognize, either literally or figuratively, the names and faces of those who have died. Regularly reading obituaries is a way to both defy and ease oneself into death…

Isabelle Hayeur, Vraisemblances – Christian Roy

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Isabelle Hayeur

April 25, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Chih-Chien Wang, Aussi loin que nous soyons, aussi près que je peux – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier | Artists: Chih-Chien Wang

April 23, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Nicolas Lévesque et Stéphane Pichard, Notes et documents sur le saisissement – Emmanuel Simard

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Emmanuel Simard | Artists: Nicolas Lévesque, Stéphane Pichard

April 18, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jessica Auer, Studies on How to View Landscape – Anne Pilorget

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Anne Pilorget | Artists: Jessica Auer

April 16, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ariella Azoulay, Civil Imagination, A Political Ontology of Photography – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Book Reviews
Authors: Erika Wicky

April 11, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Picturing Atrocity, Photography in Crisis – Jean-François Thibault

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Book Reviews
Authors: Jean-François Thibault

April 9, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Book Reviews
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Fall 2013] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Luis Jacob, Tromper l’œil (Londres, R.-U., Black Dog Publishing, 2013, 224 p., fr.) Glamour is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea 1969-1978 (Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2013, 256 pp.,Eng.) […]

Paul Wombell, Drone: The Automated Image – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, Paul Wombell

April 4, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You have articulated the theme of Le Mois de la photo à Montreal around the title Drone: The Automated Image, and you have written, “The camera is a sophisticated instrument with its own laws and its own agency” and “The artists raise an important question: do cameras have a life of their own?” Can you elaborate on the implications of these statements? …

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