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7th INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL
ART BIENNIAL

31.05.2024 - 21.07.2024

© Jean-François Mayrand

BIENNALE ELEKTRA
7th International Digital Art Biennial — ILLUSION


At Arsenal Contemporary Art

05.31.2024 – 07.21.2024

Presented by ELEKTRA since 2012, the International Digital Art Biennial is back for a 7th edition from May 31 to July 21, 2024 in collaboration with Arsenal contemporary art Montreal. The Biennale ELEKTRA is the largest exhibition dedicated to digital art in North America.

It is under the theme ILLUSION that it presents a reflection on our post-factual, post-truth and alternative reality era, 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. We can already measure the serious consequences of this denial of reality on the lives of billions of people on our planet. This 7th Biennial is intended, once again, to reflect our societies, which are increasingly enveloped and infiltrated by digital technology.

Curated by Alain Thibault, more than thirty artists from three continents are brought together in a unique way. Under the theme ILLUSION, certain installations will reflect this idealized parallel life in the Metaverse while leading the public to question the very concept of reality and simulation. Thus, visitors are invited to question the existence of certain works, due to their ephemeral, immaterial or even invisible nature, and thus to refine their perception of reality or illusion in an increasingly enveloped and infiltrated society by digital.

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ARTISTS

Adad Hannah

Adad Hannah

Reversing

Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Skin Deep

Collectif Obvious

Collectif Obvious

Illusive Appearance / Elusive Essence

Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman

The Transfiguration

Lee Jaehyung

Lee Jaehyung

Face of City

Louis-Philippe Rondeau

Louis-Philippe Rondeau

Veillance²

Navid Navab, Garnet Willis

Navid Navab, Garnet Willis

Organism + Excitable Chaos

PHC collective

PHC collective

Posthuman Cinema

Timothy Thomasson

Timothy Thomasson

Slow Track

Adam Basanta

Adam Basanta

ROUGH BEAST

Cinzia Campolese

Cinzia Campolese

Could you take a picture?

David Rokeby

David Rokeby

Voice Scroll

Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman

Mary

Lorraine Oades, Ryan Clayton

Lorraine Oades, Ryan Clayton

Manhattan Project Revisited

Matthew Biederman & Pierce Warnecke

Matthew Biederman & Pierce Warnecke

A QUICKIE IN THE BOUNCY HOUSE

Nicolas Baier

Nicolas Baier

Vases communicants

Robbie Cooper

Robbie Cooper

Immersion

Timothy Thomasson

Timothy Thomasson

I'm Feeling Lucky

Boris Eldagsen

Boris Eldagsen

Pseudomnesia & Mirror serie

Collectif Hidden Edges (Lucas Paris, Myriam Bleau)

Collectif Hidden Edges (Lucas Paris, Myriam Bleau)

Persistence of Fiction

Eric Vernhes

Eric Vernhes

MEETING PHILIP

Kurt d‘Haeseleer

Kurt d‘Haeseleer

Animal Locomotion

Louis-Philippe Demers

Louis-Philippe Demers

A Monocular Dialogue

Matthew Biederman & Pierce Warnecke

Matthew Biederman & Pierce Warnecke

Who is Afraid of Dreaming of Red, Yellow and Blue

Oli Sorenson

Oli Sorenson

Climate Death

Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang

Virus Becoming

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)

Opening hours

Monday : closed

Tuesday : 10am - 6pm

Wednesday : 10am - 6pm *
Thursday : 10am - 6pm 
Friday : 10am - 7pm 
Saturday : 10am - 7pm 
Sunday : 10am - 5pm

 

* Exceptional extended schedule:
Wednesdays June 5, 12 & 26, 10am - 9:30pm.

Prices 

Regular: 24 $

Student, 65 +: 18 $

6 - 12 years old: 10 $

0 - 5 years old: Free

Group (10 et +): 18 $ / person

Student Group Discount
Contact groupe@arsenalcontemporary.com to purchase and coordinate a student group visit which includes mediation services adapted to any age group.

Satellite events

Satellite events are extensions of the Biennale ELEKTRA. Find the NEST exhibition at the ELEKTRA Gallery, Falling [in love] again at Produit Rien and c-six at the Maison de la culture de Verdun.

NEST

Iregular

NEST

 c-six.

Ælab & MÉDIANE

c-six.

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