Biennial ELEKTRA - Illusion
7th International digital art biennial
Tickets on sale - April 30th, 2024
Presented by ELEKTRA since 2012, the largest exhibition dedicated to digital art in North America returns to Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal.
The 7th edition of Biennial ELEKTRA addresses ILLUSION, a reflection on the post-factual, post-truth and alternative reality era of current society, a subject that is shaking up the news. Indeed, the proliferation of digital communication technologies and tools from artificial intelligence (AI) contribute to disinformation, notably deep fakes. This denial of reality is already negatively impacting the lives of billions of people and even more problematic consequences are to be expected.
For this fifth collaboration in partnership with Arsenal contemporary art, curator Alain Thibault invites around twenty artists from three continents to study this issue of the perception of truth and falsehood, while exploring the field of speculative fiction.
The public will be led to question the very existence of certain works, due to their ephemeral, immaterial or even invisible nature, on the basis of a necessary, unfailing credulity towards the artist.
Key dates :
May 31 - launch event (on invitation)
June 1st - official opening
PR + Media requests :
Press preview - May 30, 11am
Sophie Marsolais, SMAC Communications
sophie@smaccom.com
