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Cyborgs in the Mist is an enquiry which takes the form of a movie, a soundinstallation, photo prints, and a book. The film presents the LOPH research laband its utopian proposals to struggle against the planned obsolescence ofhumankind. Taking into account the development of robotics and artificial formsof intelligence, the LOPH research lab experiments with ways to help humansadapt to their new environment, and to put them in a position to fight against their planned obsolescence. How can we anticipate this shift in the logic of evolution?How can we adapt to this change with a minimum of violence? Academic teams,science-fiction writers, and new forms of artificial intelligence work together toanticipate the most disastrous scenarios.

(source: description from the schedule)

To Montréal” was first written using pen and paper while paddling a packraft from Toronto to Montréal. It was subsequently written into an Android app with hope of monetization. The hope proved futile, but did lead to experimentation with alternative formats. These are the results of those experiments: An app, a movie, a web page, and a portable wifi book.

Code Movies are made with hex, ASCII, and binary codes extracted from JPG images. Saved as simple text, they are reworked and edited in Flash. They are part of a larger project I've been working on since 2004 (//**Code_UP). The submitted work (Code Movie 1) is made of hexa code. The project interrogates the role of the code in meaning construction and the new forms of translations that digital languages embody. It questions: Now that the Cybertext confuses itself with the notion of Place (a web address, for example) and that Image only reveals itself through a "hyperinscription" (a URL), can we think in a poetics of transcodification between media and file formats? Can we keep talking about "WYSIWYG" utopias? How does it affect our ways of reading, seeing, and perceiving?

(Source: Author's description in the ELC 1)