Through 3D-rendered black and white images, Moni Omubor creates a fictional museum where Yoruba artifacts exist beyond colonial possession. This artist project, titled “The Backroom” employs speculative fiction and Afro-Surrealism to interrogate Western museum practices and imagine new possibilities.
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In conversation with Lodoe Laura, artist Annie Macdonell discusses her recent exhibition “The Beyond Within,” which delves into the history of psychedelic therapy. She explores her collaborative films with Maïder Fortuné and the historical ripples that help us read our fractured moment, sustaining an uncynical belief in art even as its institutions falter.
Yaniya Lee advocates for a critical approach grounded in material practice. Drawing on her recent work with textile artists in Edmonton, Lee makes a case for criticism that attends to how black artists work, focusing on their materials, methods, and processes, while calling for more diverse voices to engage with these practices.
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Nine artists share responses to prompts that aim to interrogate and help situate digital arts practice.
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“The Archive on Ice is a solar-powered digital micro-archive. A miniature database of Ice Follies’ history. The website archiveonice.ca was coded on a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which is then hosted by a remote server, and powered by PV solar panels. Our digital networks, data centres and technological devices contribute a massive 4% of greenhouse gas emissions. Using solar-power to build a digital archive celebrates a reciprocal relationship with the land, the sun, the lake, and the digital technology. The Archive on Ice is only available to the user as long as the sun shines.” -Imogen Clendinning and Ice Follies