ÉCRAN TOTAL / TOTAL SCREEN:
Artist and Curators Talk

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    • Arts Letters & Numbers founding director David Gersten and Louise Pelletier, director of the UQAM Design Centre and Arts Letters & Numbers visiting artist, are pleased to collaborate in presenting this public panel discussion of the exhibition ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN. The Artist and Curators Talk will be the opportunity to hear Penelope Umbrico describe her latest work: Out of Order / eBay (Broken Screens on Screen and Broken Screens), a multimedia installation that confronts us with the materiality of the screen as a solid interface between the ‘here’ of our physical being and the ‘there’ of intangible information. Through multiplied screens, it appears to us as a projection surface that we gaze upon, but that we are never quite able to see.

    About ÉCRAN TOTAL / TOTAL SCREEN:

    Presented at the UQAM Design Centre in Montreal, Canada, the exhibition ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN features Jean Baudrillard’s photographs in conversation with pieces by Penelope Umbrico, Mishka Henner + Vaseem Bhatti, Adam Basanta, as well as Charlie Doyon, Clint Enns, and Xuan Ye. Through photographs, projections, and installations, the ÉCRAN TOTAL/TOTAL SCREEN exhibition offers three distinct experiences of mediation that articulate critically Baudrillard’s concepts of virality, simulation, surveillance and implosion. The first mediation is a very « real », physical exhibition at the Design Centre; the second is an outdoor installation; and the third is a partially re-mediated online exhibition. In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of international conferences, round tables, and workshops will be available online.

    Director, UQAM Design Centre:
    Penelope Umbrico

    Curators:
    Amandine Alessandra, Carole Lévesque, Katharina Niemeyer, Magali Uhl