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PRESENTATION
Champ Libre is pleased to announce
their laboratory event ONDES/CITE that will take place on
May 8, 2002. It will be held on the three floors of the LIDO
tavern, located at 2101 St-Catherine Est, on the corner of
De Lorimier street, near the Jacques Cartier Bridge, in Montreal.
On an invitation by Champ Libre this first insitu laboratory
will be directed by Stephen Kovats, an architect, curator
of media arts and, for the last ten years, a researcher years
at the BAUHAUS school of architecture in Dessau, Germany,
www.bauhaus-dessau.de.
Continuing its research on urbanism, architecture, art and
new technologies, Champ Libre will present ONDES/CITÉ,
an idea- laboratory inspired by the project: CITÉ DES
ONDES. "Cité des ondes" is the main theme
of the 5E Manifestation Internationale
Vidéo et Art Électronique (a biennial event
by Champ Libre), to take place in Montreal from the 16 to
the 23 of September 2002. The location of the event—and
its source of inspiration —is the CRAIG Pump House a
designated historic site located at 2000 St-Antoine Est in
the Centre Sud neighbourhood of Montreal.
Conceived as an idea incubator ONDES/CITÉ, will be
Champ Libre's first activity on the territory of the "Cité
des Ondes. " It will be the occasion to unveil the preliminary
program and to initiate a dialogue around the chosen theme
of the Manifestation. The event will be composed of a series
of talks about new approaches in urbanism which are intricately
connected to the role and importance of media in the city,
particularly as it pertains to the current development of
new technologies The event ONDES/CITÉ will also be
the opportunity to present a section of the international
and national artistic program of electronic art that touches
upon the fields of architecture, performance, electronic music,
dance, literature, poetry and new media.
On May 8th philosophers, artists, writers, urbanists, sociologists,
architects, academics, researchers, scientists, neighbourhood
residents, students, journalists, politicians, economists
from Montreal and abroad, will be invited to share their ideas,
perspectives, points of view and thoughts for the upcoming
Cité des Ondes event to take place in September 2002
in Montreal.
In the evening Montrealers and international guests will be
invited to the LIDO tavern, 2101 Ste-Catherine Est, for a
presentation of multimedia artworks related to the laboratory
event ONDES/CITÉ.
exerpts from the press release
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