For the first Data : Salon in the series' second year, Jason Roussel present "chalkBot" and Sébastien Pesot, "A Cappella." True to its mandate, Data : Salon is an opportunity to discover works still in production and to meet the artists to discuss their creative process.CHALKBOT by Jason Roussel generates chalk drawings based on arbitraty, semi-random values. A tension, between the childish reference of the chalk and the strong geometrical, un-human composition, is left behind. CHALKBOT is a custom built vehicle using two servo motors and an Arduino. As the mathematical values change, the vehicle moves around the space, leaving behind a unique composition.
In A CAPPELLA, Sébastien Pesot questions the inherent difference between sounds which are integral to a language and those which reveal a certain musicality in the human voice. The video installation is composed of three television screens, each repeating a synchronized loop: the artist faces himself on opposing screens as he seems to entertain a cacophonic conversation with himself, bordering on song and whisper. The spectator hesitates between a desire to decode the incoherent sounds and accepting the pleasure of having encountered an intrinsic harmony.
Time
21 September · 19:00 - 22:00
Location
Eastern Bloc
7240 Clark
Montreal, QC
