The HTMlles 11 is approaching!
The HTMlles 11 is approaching!
Catch a first glimpse into ZER0 FUTUR{E} with pre-festival events
Taking place in Montreal, The HTMlles is an international biennial festival that brings together artists, scholars and activists who are passionate about critical engagement with new technologies from a feminist perspective. Initiated in 1997, by the feminist artist-run centre Studio XX, the 11th edition of the festival will take place between November 7 and 15, 2014.
The theme for this year’s edition is “ZER0 FUTUR{E}. The future is obsolete.” and features projects that shed light on the perception of “today’s futures” by different generations, including critical and creative propositions inspired by (but not limited to) afrofuturism, cyberfeminism, feminist science-fiction and queer futurities.
Notopian Film Nights / “Pas de futur, pas de problème”
Screening of SYNTHETIC PLEASURES
by Iara Lee (1995, U.S.A.) 83 min.
September 25, 7pm
Studio XX
FREE ENTRANCE
Synthetic Pleasures is a time capsule of cyberculture as it it existed in 1995, chock-full of early 90’s 3-D animation and virtual simulation. Director Iara Lee embarks on a vast array of cultural, philosophical, and engineering questions brought about by what was then the fledgling infant cyberworld known popularly as “The Net”. The film canvasses a wide scope of techno terrain, from hyperreal environments, to mind and body modifications, high-tech nomadism, and cultural exchange on the information superhighway. Innovative and enigmatic figures such as Orlan, Jaron Lanier, Timothy Leary, and many many more appear in this film at the height of popular optimism for Virtual Reality and Cybernetic Futures.
The HTMlles 11: ZER0 FUTUR{E} : htmlles.net in copresentation with
Eyelight-Obscura : facebook.com/EOVDR
Suoni Per Il Popolo : suoniperilpopolo.org
Artists in residency :
Lisa E. Harris (Houston) & Alisha B. Wormsley (Pittsburgh)
As part of a co-presentation with the HTMlles festival, Studio XX hosts artists in residence Alisha Wormsley and Lisa E. Harris from 23 September to 16 November 2014. The fruit of this residency will be presented as a multimedia exhibition and performance as part of the festival, which will take place from November 7 to 15. Do not miss!
PROOF is a dynamic multimedia exhibition by Studio Enertia, a collaborative project by Houston-based performer and composer Lisa E. Harris and Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha B. Wormsley. The exhibition features a selection of sculptural installations, performance art, video and photography, bringing together five major bodies of work that explore the artists’ ongoing interest in themes of the African Diaspora, social justice and urban mythology.
Upcoming exhibitions as part of The HTMlles 11 pre-festival events
- Zone de transit / Nadia Seboussi (Montreal)
Dates : October 17 – November 8 , 2014
Venue : SKOL (372, Sainte-Catherine Ouest, #314) - Mareikura / Lisa Reihana (Maori/New Zealand)
Dates : October 18 – November 16, 2014
Venue : articule (262, Fairmount Ouest) - Prendre le pouls / Marlène Renaud-B. (Montreal)
Dates : October 31 – November 15, 2014
Venue : La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (4296, St-Laurent)