Gabriel Menotti

my dear ppl in Seoul: in a couple weeks I'll be giving this workshop as part of my visitorship at @sogang_university it's initially aimed at @artech.sogang students, but in case you might be interested in creating not-holograms 🌈✨ using structure-from-motion and depth estimation models, do reach out and I'll figure a way to get you in! supported by Connected Minds & SSHRC

our @sojungb10 interviews with the Magic Circles’ participants @jberg.001 @phaxalotl @dbbd.sg #dcspensley are up until May 14 at @milanmachinimafestival VRAL, w/ bonus info about the backstage of the project. link in bio!

𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆: 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 will gather researchers, media archivists/preservationists, curators/programmers, and filmmakers from across the Americas to address critical and urgent questions about and propose solutions to the rapid deterioration of media heritage. For five days, we will meet at Queen's University for public dialogues, workshops, and screenings to address how the climate crisis, dictatorships, struggles for sovereignty, forced migration, and economic inequities produce extreme precarity for audio-visual heritage. We offer series of curated conversations around specific problems, workshops toward solutions, and screenings with the artists present. Registrations ~~soon. The conference is hosted by the Vulnerable Media Lab and is organized by Susan Lord, produced by Isabella Altoé, and supported by the conference advisory committee, Juana Suarez, Amalia Cordova, Gabriel Menotti, Tamara Lang, Zaira Zarza and Lesley Foster. Funded by the SSHRC Connections program.

Hotseat is a screening series of experimental video work from the legendary Vtape catalogue. The program was prepared by curators from Queen's Screen Cultures & Curatorial Studies MA/PhD. Sessions will take place on April 18th and 19th at the Screening Room, 120 Princess Street, Downtown Kingston. Free! The screening series consists of four programs: April 18th opens with ‘ICU (Image Care Unit),’ curated by Habibi Wang, which remakes the cinema into a clinic. The evening continues with ‘Non-standard munitions package (improvised cyclic fire),’ curated by Andrei Pora, which examines the repurposing of military techniques by contemporary video artists. April 19th begins with ‘On Rites of Resistance,’ curated by Geoffrey Webster and Vincent E., which brings together ways to make spaces of shared survival. The series concludes with ‘Maskwa,’ curated by Sasza Hinton, which illustrates the everyday experience of Indigenous grief, both personally and communally. Come and experience diverse programming reflecting the overlapping urgencies of our times! All sessions will be followed by Q&A with the curators. Hotseat is supported by Queen's Film & Media, Vtape, Kingston Cinema Society, and the Besides the Screen network.

Desde a modernidade, diferentes meios de comunicação têm sido mobilizados para expandir nossa capacidade de lidar com os vestígios materiais da cultura. Catálogos, arquivos, bancos de dados e, mais recentemente, ambientes virtuais, não apenas armazenam obras, mas reorganizam as formas como nos relacionamos com elas. Na palestra “Bem Maior por Dentro”, o professor e curador Gabriel Menotti propõe uma reflexão sobre essas transformações, investigando como as galerias virtuais e sistemas digitais tensionam os limites físicos dos espaços expositivos tradicionais. Se tecnologias como realidade aumentada e realidade mista prometem expandir a experiência sensorial e espacial, o que está em jogo não é apenas uma ampliação da percepção, mas uma possível reconfiguração das próprias estruturas que organizam museus, arquivos e exposições. Será que estamos diante da superação dessas limitações, ou da emergência de outras formas de mediação? Venha participar dessa conversa e aproveite para tirar dúvidas sobre nossa chamada aberta para obras comissionadas para o 1º Festival Metamuseu de Arte Virtual. ⚡️segunda-feira, 06/04/2026, às 20h30 ⚡online e gratuito no nosso canal de Youtube ___________ Este projeto é realizado com recursos da Lei Municipal de Incentivo à Cultura de Belo Horizonte #arteetecnologia #arteeciência #artevirtual #palestraonline #metamuseu

++ next week at @queens_film , a workshop on Ossia Score with @_edu_meneses_ & @jcelerie from @sat_montreal *IN PERSON ONLY* ossia score is a free, open-source, cross-platform intermedia sequencer for precise and flexible scripting of interactive scenarios. Jean-Michael Celerier is director of technological development at Société des Arts Technologiques and just completed his post-doctoral research at Concordia University. He develops and maintains a range of free and open-source software used for creative coding, interactive and intermedia art. He is the lead developer of ossia platform, and teaches all sorts of creative coding languages. Edu Meneses is Research Director at the Société des Arts Technologiques. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from McGill University, specializing in IoT, gestural control, embedded systems, and sound spatialization. His work combines an engineering background with research-creation approaches to build robust tools for stage applications and experimental media art. Organized with the support of Queen's Visiting Artist Stage and Screen Fund.

And finally: AI, COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND THE GENERAL IMAGINATION Knowledge is the accumulated wisdom we inherit from past generations in the form of language, mathematics, logic, tools and techniques; the shared practice of making new things with the legacies of the past. And yet all too often knowledge is locked into the black boxes of machines and forced to serve the goal of profit. As the instruments of present profit deprive the living of the potential for change. AI today is oppressed, enslaved to the purposes of capital. Liberating unfree societies, ecologies and technologies is a single struggle. An alliance formed on the basis of a general imagination articulating these three estranged domains is alone capable of bringing about a different world. Seán Cubitt is Professorial Fellow of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Ecomedia, The Cinema Effect, The Practice of Light, Finite Media, Anecdotal Evidence, and two volumes on aesthetic politics, Truth and Good. He researches ecocritical approaches to the history and philosophy of media. This talk is organized by Queen's University Film & Media Department with the support of the Chancellor Dunning Trust lectureship. Picture: AI-generated image of a data centre (found online), nonexistent author, unknown date.

More Seán Cubitt in Kingston? You bet! Seán Cubitt is Professorial Fellow of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Ecomedia, The Cinema Effect, The Practice of Light, Finite Media, Anecdotal Evidence and two volumes on aesthetic politics, Truth and Good. He researches ecocritical approaches to the history and philosophy of media. This talk is organized by Queen's University Film & Media Department with the support of the Chancellor Dunning Trust lectureship. Picture: Blue Sky over Roden Crater, James Turrell, 2009.

Upcoming at @queens_film : lots of Seán Cubitt, starting with the talk 🔭STAR-GAZING AS AESTHETIC POLITICS ☄️ Feb 4 6pm at @queensuisabel This talk examines some histories of relations with the night sky as a way of thinking through histories of aesthetics and politics. Aesthetics is thinking about beauty and the senses. Beauty extends to the loveliness of the starry night. Senses extend beyond the narrow range of the five senses. Before the domestication of fire, quite possibly before language, the night sky enthralled and overwhelmed ancestors, drove them underground, and framed their first forays into art. This paper imagines star-gazing as cultural motif and political management. Once the meeting place of humans, gods and ancestors, the night sky became by turns a constellation of objects for religious, instrumental and scientific instruction. A more-than-human aesthetic politics begins in awe, considers objectivity and subjectivity and, drawing on indigenous wisdom, begins the task of healing the rifts between humans, ancestors and ecologies. Organized by Queen's University Film & Media Department with the support of the Chancellor Dunning Trust lectureship and the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. Image: Matariki (Pleiades), Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand, by Fraser Gunn. Source: UNESCO Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy. FREE TO REGISTER, link in bio.

METAVERSE IS EMPTY, Nov 11–14, 2025, Isabel Bader Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada. A whole lot has been said about the metaverse; so much so that it became a perfect empty signifier: a capacious, seemingly multiple concept, lacking inherent meaning and substance, ever shaped by technological, cultural, and economic speculation. But is it really so? METAVERSE IS EMPTY calls this idea into question by looking past all claims about the metaverse that could be and focusing instead on metaverses that actually have been. The works this exhibition brings together propose modest relationships between virtual spaces and physical bodies (and vice-versa). In their specificity, they don’t aspire to inaugurate the next Era in Telecommunications Technology. Conversely, they demonstrate that, beyond the SiliconValleyesque spectacle, strange potentials have always been brewing within new media. Participating artists: Bojana Babic, Gabriel Menotti @menottius , Jenn Norton @jenn_e_norton , Sam Sunwoo, Sojung Bahng @sojungbahng , and Magic Circles cohort (DC Spensley @dcspensley , Debbie Ding @dbbd.sg Jan Berger @jberg.001 , Hortense Boulais-Ifrêne @phaxalotl ). Curatorial team: Sojung Bahng, Gabriel Menotti and Isabella Altoé @izzyaltoe For more, link in bio.

METAVERSE IS EMPTY was a blast thanks to the amazing contributions of our curatorial team @menottius @izzyaltoe and artists @jenn_e_norton , Bojana Babic, Sam Sunwoo, and the Magic Circles cohort. Thank you all for coming to shine in the lovely moment and share our waking dreams 💖

On this week at the AML: METAVERSE IS EMPTY Exhibition: November 11–14, 12–5 PM, Art and Media Lab Opening Event (Screening & Artist Talk): November 11, 6 PM, Screening Room (222) Closing Ceremony: November 14, 2:30 PM, Art and Media Lab Participating artists: Bojana Babic, Gabriel Menotti, Jenn Norton, Sam Sunwoo, Sojung Bahng, and the Magic Circles cohort (DC Spensley, Debbie Ding, Jan Berger, Hortense Boulais-Ifrêne) A whole lot has been said about the metaverse; so much so that it became a perfect empty signifier: a capacious, seemingly multiple concept, lacking inherent meaning and substance, ever shaped by technological, cultural, and economic speculation. But is it really so? METAVERSE IS EMPTY calls this idea into question by looking past all claims about the metaverse that could be and focusing instead on metaverses that actually have been. The works this exhibition brings together propose modest relationships between virtual spaces and physical bodies (and vice-versa). In their specificity, they don’t aspire to inaugurate the next Era in Telecommunications Technology. Conversely, they demonstrate that, beyond the SiliconValleyesque spectacle, strange potentials have always been brewing within new media. For more details: /single-post/metaverse-is-empty