The relationship between technology and humanity is front and centre in a new exhibition opening this weekend at the New Media Gallery.
Trace features four pieces by six artists from Tokyo, Paris, London and Montreal. The pieces explore the relationship between humans and the technologies they create.
The installations trace human-technological interactions, either through the translation of an image or body into lines, marks or signals, to give the audience “insights into the way machines imagine, see, learn and remember us,” notes a press release.
Featured in the exhibition is 5RNP by Patrick Tresset, Deep by Gregory Chatonsky, SDM3 – Portrait by So Kanna and yang02 (Takahiro Yamaguchi), and Modulateur-Demodulateur by Bertran Planes and Arnauld Colcomb.
5RNP is an interactive installation consisting of five robots named Paul that draw a human model.
Deep recreates images by using software that allows the computer to learn.
Modulateur-Demodulateur uses a larger transmitter and receiver to take a pre-existing image and convert it into sound data consisting of changing patterns of lines, dots and marks.
SDM3 – Portrait is an abstract drawing system that uses a video camera to examine existing portraits that are to be recreated with a plotting machine. The machine, however, can also take in ambient sound and movement, which results in “errors” in the drawing process.
Drop by the New Media Gallery on Friday, April 27 for an opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Artists Gregory Tresset, Bertrand Planes, Arnauld Colcomb and Takahiro Yamaguchi will each give a brief talk starting at 6:30.
The New Media Gallery is located at Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St.
