October, 2014

New Technology and Art: Conversation with Herman Kolgen at EM15

Seismick / Herman Kolgen from Graphite on Vimeo. In May 2014, Quebecois multidisciplinary artist Herman Kolgen presented Seismik Performance at EM15, the fifteenth Mutek Festival in Montreal, Canada. The software developer and sculptor offered a spectacular combination of sounds and images, reflecting a fresh interpretation of the connection between humanity and nature….

This week through my headphones #2

Dear lone reader of the interwebs, Tonight this playlist is dedicated to you. Late nights. 2am coffee runs. Getting kicked out of the library. Thoughts and debates between me, myself and I. Books on books on books. This is a pretty accurate summary of my week. When life is going…

This week through my headphones #1

Every morning I leave my house still groggy from the night, longing for the hugs only my pillow knows how to give me. I rush out, shoving the keys in my pocket, shielding myself from the cold wind corridors that are so characteristic of Montreal. Still unable to find the…

Maotik: Artist of the Sensory

Art is fragile because it’s always a quest for a new medium that we tame as one goes along Not so long ago, Mutek and Elektra fused in one festival: EM15, that offered a wide range of events for the spectator to have a multidimensional experience. Montreal lived up to…

Conversation with Robert Lippok at EM15

  1. Good morning! Can you tell us a bit about your music? What marked the beginning of your art? I started to make music in 1983-84 in East Germany. As a teenager, I was influenced a lot by these avant-garde and industrial bands like Flying Lizards or Throbbing Gristle…

Thematic Week: Postscript

We have a problem. A big one. A generation-defining one. What do we do? How do we do it? And where do we go from here? If you’re like Jacques Fresco, you quit the air force and quite literally design the future you wish to live in. Or perhaps you…

Hidden Appetites: Mais

Montreal is rated in the Top 50 Most Livable cities and the Top 50 Eco-Cities, according to the Mercer Quality of Living city ratings. The eco-friendly and sustainable character of this city is in part linked to the initiatives identified in the 2010-2015 Sustainable Development Plan for the Montreal Community,…