{"id":19450,"date":"2026-03-13T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/diffusion\/adam-basanta-publication-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:10:18","slug":"adam-basanta-book-2026","status":"publish","type":"standish_evenements","link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/broadcast\/adam-basanta-book-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Basanta | Book Launch Algorithmic Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sporobole is proud to announce the release of Adam Basanta\u2019s Algorithmic Disobedience<\/em> as part of the exhibition How You Produce Eternity, Soft Collisions Amongst Machines<\/a>!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the occasion, the artist will speak with Georges Azzaria<\/strong>, Professor of intellectual property and methodology at the Faculty of Law at Laval University in Quebec City, and Maxime St-Hilaire<\/strong>, Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Algorithmic Disobedience<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What if we understood law not as a system of rules, but rather as a computational algorithm ? Or a biological membrane ? Or an artistic medium ? In this book, artist Adam Basanta<\/strong> reimagines law through the lenses of computation, evolution, and art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researcher and curator Martin Zeilinger<\/strong> presents a tactical manifesto for artists engaging with generative AI, and legal scholar Maxime St-Hilaire reveals that contemporary art and legal theory may be fundamentally interchangeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As AI reveals \u00abpoints of weakness\u00bb in law and artists develop new tactics of resistance, these three perspectives converge on urgent questions: How can we reclaim agency when algorithms disintermediate human processes? What paradigm-shifting work could transform our understanding of law itself? What happens when artists, technologists, and legal thinkers collaborate at the edges of their disciplines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published with Juste titre editions<\/a>, Algorithmic Disobedience<\/em> is a volume of critical writing and artworks by Adam Basanta that explores the relationship between art and law. By examining how the two fields converge through structural \u201cconvertibility\u201d \u2013 where law becomes an artistic material or subject, while contemporary art adopts contractual and institutional forms, this book raises questions and redefines the notion of authority and ownership.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Content<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In his essay \u201cUnusual Encounters: Law as _,\u201d Adam Basanta proposes four thought experiments that redefine law as an algorithm, as different levels of abstraction, as a virtual interface (or biological membrane), and as an artistic medium. For his part, Martin Zeilinger analyzes how artists can resist the grip of AI companies through tactical practices such as prompt injection and collective drift in a text titled \u201cToward a Tactics of Disintermediation in AI-Generated Art.\u201d Finally, the reflection at the heart of \u201cContemporary Art and Law: A Convertibility Beyond Function\u201d by Maxime St-Hilaire explores the structural similarities between law and contemporary art, and suggests that they have become mutually convertible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colophon<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Direction and Publishing<\/strong>
Vicky Chainey Gagnon, director of artistic programming at Sporobole
Margot Cittone , editor at Juste Titre publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conception and Collaboration<\/strong>
Julie Espinasse, graphic designer at Atelier Mille Mille<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accompagnement \u00e0 la <\/strong>recherche<\/strong>
Maxime St-Hilaire, Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of University of Sherbrooke and project coordinator
Anne-Sophie Hulin, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke
Alexandra Popovici, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Languages<\/strong>
French and english<\/p>\n\n\n\n

183 pages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This publication was made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, and the City of Sherbrooke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maxime St-Hilaire<\/strong> (LLB, LLM, LLD, Certificate in Classical Studies) is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, where he was the principal initiator and coordinator of Adam Basanta\u2019s artist residency in 2024\u20132025. He teaches and conducts research in constitutional law and legal philosophy, which has led him to examine the conditions of artistic and literary freedom. His publications include Les positivismes juridiques au XXe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle<\/em> (Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2020; 2nd ed. 2024; Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke Award for Research and Creation), La lutte pour la pleine reconnaissance des droits ancestraux<\/em> (Yvon Blais, 2015; Minerve Prize), as well as some thirty articles and book chapters, including two short texts in the contemporary art journal Inter. He currently serves as Director for French-Canada of the Runnymede Society and has been a visiting professor or research fellow at the Louvain Global College of Law, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, the Paris Sciences Po Law School, the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, and the former Centre for Research in Ethics at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, where he also taught comparative constitutional law as a lecturer. He was an intern with the Venice Commission and a law clerk to the Honourable Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada. (Photo : Michel Caron)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Georges Azzaria<\/strong> is a Professor of intellectual property and methodology at the Faculty of Law at Laval University in Quebec City. His early research focused on the relationship between art and copyright, as well as the socioeconomic status of artists. In recent years, he has focused particularly on digital technologies and artificial intelligence, from the perspectives of copyright, privacy, and legal regulation. From 2017 to 2025, he served as director of the School of Art at Laval University.<\/p>\n\n\n

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