Notre directeur Éric Desmarais a pondu un texte TL;DR (cet acronyme est tellement complexe) tout droit sorti des entrailles de sa boîte crânienne. Le sujet abordé? L’efficacité du noeud Palomar pour attacher son bas de ligne dans la pêche aux salmonidés de lac en mode trollage Les arts, la culture et l’IA : les avancées…
This blog post is taken from Michael Eddy’s Gratitude.me project, created during a residency at Sporobole as part of the Chantier ia. Q: Sorry—can we rewind a second? I don’t understand why you wanted to make a fake patent registration. A: This is not a fake patent registration. It is a potentially real patent registration….
Artificial intelligence in artistic creation: Much ado about nothing or a real paradigm shift? By Yan St-Onge, AI Project (Chantier IA) documentation officer ** This text was the subject of a presentation in Montreal as part of the Symposium “AI Companionability / Compagnonnage IA” on March 6, 2025 at Hexagram. INTRODUCTION I work with artists…
Ben Bogart is a Canadian media artist with a career spanning some 25 years, 20 of which have been dedicated to machine learning (ML) processes and AI. Residing on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Peoples (aka Vancouver), Bogart holds master’s and doctorate degrees from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology…
In the first year of the Chantier IA, several artists had the opportunity to test and experiment with artificial intelligence in the context of artistic creation. Here’s a brief overview of what was accomplished.
[ “Driverless Car Afterlife”, digital print (2017).] The following text is divided into two parts: first, an in-depth interview with the artist François Quévillon, the very first to have taken part in Sporobole’s Interface art-science residency; then a short reflection on the exhibition “Algorithmic Drive”, presented at Sporobole in November 2018. From the Interface residency…
The following text takes as its starting point my visit to Ars Electronica last September where, it seemed to me, bio-art had a strong presence, one would almost have thought it was a sub-theme. Following this observation, two projects in particular have made their place in my art-science reflections: Future Flora by Giulia Tomasello and…
In the first post in this series (available here), we explored the difference between art and science. Science is an art with constraints, we said. There are three such constraints: science = art + a subject + a method + a report We have analysed some of the consequences of the existence of a record…
Why give time and attention to the coupled art-science? After several months of reflection and writing on aspects that link – or do not link – art and science, one observation emerges: their relative complementarity. If this complementarity seems to us to be self-evident (to us, contributors to this blog and the sporobolian community),…
Bioart work embraces the ephemeral: investigates it, navigates it and ultimately succumbs to it. Bioart has this life cycle and thus is the venue for probing deep questions around living bodies, life processes and the sublime through materiality. Recently I conducted more laboratory experiments using the enzymes that Denis and I had produced from our samples of isolated B….
Fig 1. Olafur Eliasson, The unspeakable openness of things (2018) Artist Olafur Eliasson exhibited his work at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, China, from May 18 to August 12, 2018. This exhibition was entitled “The unspeakable openness of things”. This title is not only charming. It is deep. He says something essential not only…
WhiteFeather Hunter Salivam 30.11 — 21.12 / 2018 Vernissage 30 November 2018 – Please note that dates are subject to change Salivam is the culmination of several months of collaborative laboratory research between WhiteFeather Hunter, Sporobole’s (bio)artist-in-residence and Dr Denis Groleau, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microorganisms and Industrial Processes at Université de Sherbrooke….
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