city art technology

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
CITY - ART - TECHNOLOGY

MONTREAL, CANADA / 22 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2006 / 10 A.M. - 6 P.M.
AUDITORIUM, QUEBEC NATIONAL LIBRARY
475 DE MAISONNEUVE EAST, MONTREAL

“In the context of Champ Libre’s 7th Biennale, to take place at the Quebec National Library in Montreal, the CITY - ART - TECHNOLOGY symposium will reflect on interrogations concerning the INVISIBLE CITY, linked to changing paradigms in today’s cities and between remote regions. We will attempt to analyze how new global cities - defined by accelerated transformations and new critical masses due to changing economies, populations and demographics, political and social transformations - may nourish a different concept of the city as well as new art practices, which in turn reveal the city’s ‘invisibility’ in imperceptible ways.”

CHAMP LIBRE is “is a nomadic electronic arts organization and research laboratory that presents in situ events, inserted in the community and putting in relation current practices of contemporary art, of architecture, of urban planning and of new technologies.”

The news come via PARACHUTE, “a magazine published in both English and French, is a site of interrogation and analysis of contemporary art in the world. It seeks to foster the emergence of innovative art criticism that makes strong use of conceptual and historical tools in order to analyze new forms of art emerging in our time.”