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FESTIVAL ELEKTRA 2024
THURSDAY, JUNE 20th 2024
ELEKTRA BIRTHDAY:
25 Years of Digital Art
The year 2024 marks ELEKTRA’s 25th anniversary. We take this opportunity to invite you to ELEKTRA’s 25th anniversary which will take place on June 20 at Arsenal contemporary art from 8pm. During this celebratory evening, discover the performances of GAZAEBAL and Navid Navab. As well as the launch of Fisheye Immersive La Revue and Alessandro Ludivico’s latest book. More information below.
To get your 25th anniversary evening tickets, select June 20 at 8 p.m. in the Ticketpro ticket office.
PERFORMANCES
GAZAEBAL, UN/Readable Sound
June 20th 9pm (35 min)
At Arsenal Contemporary Art Montréal
UN/Readable Sound is an innovative audiovisual performance by GAZAEBAL. The performance combines real-time interactive sounds and visuals, utilizing computer programming to create a unique sensory experience. It features sine wave-based sounds and visuals crafted with the Unreal Engine, exploring themes such as urban life, human existence, nature, and machinery. The project received support from the Korea Arts and Culture Council's Performing Arts Creation Office
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GAZAEBA is a sound artist based in Seoul. As one of the pioneers in the Korean electronic music scene, he has expanded his spectrum as a sound engineer, techno musician, DJ, K-POP producer, and media artist.
Navid Navab, Organism: In Turbulence
June 20th 9:30pm (35 min)
At Arsenal Contemporary Art Montréal
Navid Navab's solo performance explores the intricate sonic possibilities of Organism, an installation centered around a century-old pipe organ modified for experimental sound production. Organism, designed by Navab and Garnet Willis, utilizes turbulence-modulated resonators to create unstable timbres and intricate sonic patterns. The performance features a 1910 Casavant pipe organ, rescued from neglect in Montreal and transformed by removing stabilizing modifications that previously eliminated natural turbulence in its sound.
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Navid Navab: concept, composition, performance, sculpture, programming, design, electronics, fabrication
Garnet Willis: engineering, design, sculpture, electronics, fabrication
Support: Canada Council for the Art, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Le Salon Richmond 186, SAT Montreal, Topological Media Lab
LAUNCH
Fisheye Immersive La Revue, launch
ELEKTRA supports the launch of Fisheye Immersive La Revue. An annual bilingual magazine dedicated to the strong trends in digital arts around the world. This first issue highlights a major report on Quebec, “a region at the forefront of digital arts for three decades!”
“For more than three decades Montreal has been home to a burgeoning artistic scene, symbolized by the creative frenzy of artists, studios, festivals, galleries and universities evolving together, in the heart a world-leading hub for digital arts.”
Article by Maxime Delcours to be discovered in La Revue #1.
To be discovered exclusively during the ELEKTRA 25th anniversary evening and available for sale online.
Launch of Alessandro Ludovico’s
latest book
ELEKTRA supports the launch of Alessandro Ludovico’s last book: Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century
“Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history.” In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital Print, Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media.
Ludovico shows how the radical and strategic use of print in the past can serve as the basis for our transition to the next phase of publishing. He argues that the new ecology of publishing should be based on three main elements: the stimulation of our senses, the role of software in forming the publishing infrastructure, and the importance of archives.
Alessandro Ludovico is a researcher, artist and chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He is one of the authors of the award-winning Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook).
ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY ART MONTREAL
2020, William Street
Montréal, H3J 1R8
(514) 931-9978
By STM bus and metro
Station Georges-Vanier (8 min. walk)
Bus 26, Notre-Dame and Des Seigneurs stop
Bus 57, William and Des Seigneurs stop
Access by car
Parking $15 + taxes (credit and debit cards only)