The Roundtable Residency

Our Showcases come to a close today with the work of our 2023 Resident Tansy Xiao ... Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator and writer based in New York. Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives that often extend beyond the fourth wall. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people. ... “The genesis of this project was The Circumlocution Machine, a basic web-based program that automatically replaces all the nouns in user-input content with the dictionary definitions of the nouns then uttering it back out. It uses a natural language processing (MLP) algorithm to analyze a user's input sentence, then "translates" it to redundant nonsense, creating a convoluted and nonsensical version that satirizes the use of evasive language. Then it evolved into The Circumlocution Chamber — a networked chatroom version of the program that actively invites the viewers to engage in real-time conversations via the algorithm. Similar to its predecessor, this interactive program substitutes nouns in user input sentences with their dictionary definitions and then reads them aloud using randomly assigned synthetic voices, as a means to deliberately obscuring the identities of individual users and centering the language itself. Moreover, specific keywords within these sentences trigger sonic visual events within the virtual space. As a consequence, viewers collaboratively construct a non-linear virtual theater experience..." ... #chatroom #naturallanguageprocessing #AI #linguistics #newmediaart #webart #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the work of our 2023 Resident Ciar O’Mahony ( @mr.wonderf.ul  ) ... Ciar O’Mahony is an artist-curator based in Tkaranto. They hold a BFA in studio practice from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA in curating from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). They use contemporary art to explore education, labour, and the greater economy. They have exhibited work, developed programs, and curated exhibitions across Canada, the USA, and the UK. Their work is carried by Art Metropole and archived by Xpace. They have been published by e-Flux journal, Eater, Liminul Magazine, the Blackwood Gallery, and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. ... “Against Intelligence (AI) is an ongoing project that explores various uses of and cultures surrounding the word "intelligence" in the west. O'Mahony's interest in the word intelligence comes from living with a learning disability. Growing up, they struggled in school often performing at a "below average" level for their age group. This led them to feel lesser than others during their childhood and teen years. Today, O'Mahony is interested in how intelligence as a concept is applied to individuals as a symbol of power, agency, and personhood. In their work for Roundtable, O'Mahony researched the recent history of intelligence as a mental capacity by reading three books, given to O'Mahony by their father, a practicing psychoanalyst, who read them during his medical training... ...Trigger Warning. This work contains quotations expressing ableist and racist views relating to intelligence as a mental capacity. These are not O'Mahony's own views. They are being displayed in this work in the hope that ableist and racist prejudices from the recent past still lurking within current applications of the word intelligence can be seen more plainly." ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the work of our 2023 Resident Maddie McNeely  ( @infinitefruitloop   ) ... Maddie Mcneely is a visual artist working mainly with sculpture and installation, centered conceptually on physical and psychological relationships to objects and lived spaces. She is based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. ... “This document is an ongoing collection of images taken from selected film and television series which feature portals into alternate realities, worlds, and eras. In these examples, commonplace objects or architectural features are connected to otherworldly realms, and so plants the seed of the idea that even your own front door might hold expanded potential, for connection, adventure, or escape. This selection has been chosen through research, which has relied on memory and personal associations." ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the Archive of Corporate Apologies prototype, by our 2023 Resident Margot Machado ( @jenesaiswha ) ... Margot Machado is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher from the Canary Islands and the United States. She is interested in the effects that sound and the act of paying attention have, as well as in their role when it comes to generating affection and sensations of liminality. Her digital and material pieces and performances tend to be interactive and make use of humor, unease, and soundscapes. Above all, Margot loves experiences of playfulness and pleasurable apprehension. ... “Is an apology just a recognition of wrongdoing or does it have to be more than that? Can something that is not human and does not feel remorse apologize? I used to work in sustainable development and came across a lot of corporate apologies. They led to thinking about the fact that a company does not feel guilt or empathy, does not regret anything, and is therefore engaging in a pantomime of sorts. And still, it was obvious that people craved their contrition. Victims or their loved ones would frequently talk about how they just wanted an apology, a recognition that what they had been put through was wrong. Receiving an apology, someone making amends, can be an integral part of healing from trauma or grieving. This just makes it all the more tragic that generally, the more grave an offense, the less likely you are to receive a satisfactory apology or an apology at all, due to the risk of legal liability for the corporation and its agents. ... When approaching the archive for the residency, I wanted to lean into the absurdity of corporate apologies by having AI generate the images that accompany each entry. I like the contrast of having a rigorous archive (with research behind it, references, and a taxonomy system) paired with the alternately bland and madcap images that the AI produced based on the prompts that referred to the specific apologies.” ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the work of our 2023 Resident Ramolen Laruan ( @ramolenlaruan ) ... Ramolen Laruan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto, ON. Her non-medium specific practice explores displacement, migration, and politics of knowledge with questions relating to notions of truths, memory work, and failure tactics. Laruan has received support from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts and has exhibited throughout Ontario. Laruan holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queen’s University, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Western Ontario. ... “Over/Out reflects on the legacies of colonization through the physical infrastructures that define how bodies that have inherited histories of loss, unbelonging, and violence move. In the physical semblance of vertical brick dividing areas of formerly Spanish-colonized land matched with collage processes and machine learning technologies, Over/Out examines the processes of deterritorialization, and the subsequent oversaturated Spanish reterritorialization of its own aesthetic, architectural, and cultural narratives. In these elemental artifacts, orders of power, commodity, permanence, as well as resistance and survival become fragments of hundreds of years of influence and a passage to investigate the legacies of Spanish conquest and colonialism in the Philippines and Latin America. A wall gives form to contradictory concepts of division and support; in Over/Out, the concept of the wall is neither broken down or transformed into something other but becomes a passage that must be walked into and through–that the structures of power hold the desires to dismantle these very structures." ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the work of our 2023 Resident Natasha Faye Jensen ( @natashafayejensen  ) ... Natasha Faye Jensen is a visual artist and filmmaker from Moh’Kins’Tsis/Calgary, treaty 7 territory in the southern Alberta region, Canada. Jensen has exhibited in galleries, and festivals in the USA, Canada, Finland and the UK. ... “In my roundtable residency project, I wanted to look at the local history of Calgary, Alberta and the history of the site of the Glenmore Reservoir which is fed by the Elbow River. If you aren't aware of Calgary's landscape, Calgary is located at the base of the Rocky Mountains, about a 40-minute drive away. Calgary's main water sources are 2 major rivers, the Bow is the largest and most dominant in the landscape and the Elbow River which is the smaller river that feeds into the Glenmore Reservoir. The research-led project that I explored is how we shape the land through development for economic purposes, more specifically focusing on the section of the river that was filled by the dam in 1933. If we no longer see the river does it still exist? Are rivers a palimpsest? How can we honour the land of the past so that we can provide more respect and care for it in the future? These are questions I wanted to explore as I create a new risograph zine based on my research into the Glenbow Western Research Centre at the University of Calgary and the site of the Glenmore Reservoir" ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the work of our 2023 Resident Rylee Henson ( @ryleehenson  ) ... Rylee Henson is an artist and educator based in Lubbock, Texas. She received an mfa in photography and digital media from the University of Houston and is currently pursuing a ph.d. in fine arts at Texas Tech University. Her research and creative practice focus broadly on themes of memory and human motivation, as well as the impact of the awareness of mortality and pursuits of immortality. ... “We exist in an era where the boundary between the physical and virtual is often blurred. In many ways, we have become both creators and subjects of particular digital narratives. Because of the assumed eternal nature of digital media, there is a similar assumption that the creator and subject of those narratives can also persist eternally. The desire for immortality, at its core, is a desire for a continued connection with what has been lost or will be lost. Digital immortality aims to maintain a passageway between the known world of the living and the unknown world of what comes after. I Am Forever What I Am is a series exploring the pursuit of immortality in the digital age. The term digital immortality can refer to many things, but it generally describes the possibility of continuing “the essence of your being through the vast reservoirs of data left behind in the digital realm.” Along with our “digital remains” or the left behind data, many companies providing platforms for digital immortality rely on questionnaires to better replicate the personality behind the data. This series aims to both perpetuate and complicate the creation of digital immortality" ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

Our Showcases continue with the work of our 2023 Resident Tifaine Coignoux ( @tifaine.coignoux ) ... Tifaine Coignoux is an artist-researcher residing in France. During her studies at the national school of art in bourges, she cultivated an interest in themes, such as: physical and spiritual displacement, transformation/metamorphosis and fiction. Her plastic practice allows her to develop ideas under many shades. She captures images, sculpts sandstone, plaster, writes and activates her texts orally, in order to multiply the possible entrances to the chimerical visions. ... “At A Time When The Sirens Sing is a poetic and pictorial triptych currently in production. I wanted to write a fiction around the job of home help that I had the opportunity to practice. During this work, I was able to meet around ten elderly people per day at their homes. I cooked for them, cleaned the house, washed them and did other services. Even though I was working throughout the house, one space remained full of mysteries: the first floor. Indeed, given the age of the people, they no longer climb the stairs, so a whole part of the house is abandoned. The fiction is located in this space where the furniture ends up coming to life and the universe is in total distortion..." ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

For the next 9 days we’ll be doing showcases of each of our 2023 Remote Residents, sharing a preview of their work with you all. ... Our first Showcase is of our 2023 Resident Yoona ( @yo0n___a  ) ... Yoona (b. 2002) is a cyberfeminist multimedia artist based in Dallas, Texas. Her academic and artistic practice exists in the liminal space between cyberspace and the offline world — a framework through which to remediate and recontexualize her lived experiences and the ever-shifting contexts of her queer Korean American identity. yoona experiments with code, the body, and alternative modes of performance as mediums for autoethnographic storytelling and poetic worldbuilding. She is also a DJ, facilitator of a fashion theory book club, and zine-maker — amongst other things. ... “이곳은 ___ 이런 의미였어 [translated as 'this place ___ meant'] is a browser-based piece of hypertext literature responding to the theme of passages... ... hyperlinks as passages ... the body as a passage ... passages as a liminal space, a body itself, a body between. The artist explores her being as a passage and ancestral (re)birthsite — birth as not simply a process of spawning onto the earth but of one that the artist feels is the act of becoming living proof of 고생, her ancestors’ selfless sacrifices, and the turmoil that transpired in their lives as a consequence of geopolitical forces beyond their control. Simultaneously autobiographical and speculative,이곳은 ___ 이런 의미였어 exists as a collective memory of the artist’s own diasporic experiences interwoven with anecdotes about her grandmothers to unearth the intergenerational correlation between land, place, and womanhood. The work ultimately is a reflection on how the artist’s Korean American identity renders the existence of her body as a passage — one imbued in colonial and imperial relations, remnants of war, of a motherland split in half, and of diasporic dysphoria..." ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

REPOST FROM Feature Creep @_feature_creep_ ... OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS … This call is open to all artists, writers, musicians, game makers, or other creatives, working in any and all media, who feel that their work would fit within the theme of Hypermodern Horror. ... What is Hypermodern Horror? ... Hypermodernity, put as simply as possible, refers to an extreme intensification and acceleration of Modernity, as well as to an aesthetic which reflects this intensification. As an ideology it is profoundly utilitarian, viewing all aspects of society, technology, history and psychology as merely tools towards the construction of a single minded (and deeply Capitalist/Neoliberal) future. It is technocratic, atemporal, and self-replicating at all levels, and its proponents would have it become the new default state of our existence. ... Hypermodern Horror is a subversion of this mode of thinking, using the primalness of fear, unease and disgust as lenses through which to view and critique the bleeding edges of technology, sociology and psychology as they exist within our Hypermodern and Capitalist present. It seeks to show the anti-human, anti-nature and anti-reality motives of the current dominant systems, reframing them in new, visceral and appropriately terrifying ways. ... Full SUBMISSION GUIDELINES can be found on the Feature Creep site. ... Submissions are due by DECEMBER 24th, 2023, by 11:59pm EST. Please include the word ‘Submission’ in the subject line of your application email. … For any questions regarding the call, you can reach out to Feature Creep (@_feature_creep_ ) anytime here on Instagram, or through the Contact page on their site. ... #callforsubmissions #opencall #callforart #callforartists #featurecreep #hypermodernhorror #hypermodern #horror #webart #artblog #newmediaart #contemporaryart #emergingartists #anticapitalist #anticapitalisthorror

❤ Our 2023 Online Exhibition Space is now live! ❤ ... As most of you already know, this will be Roundtable's final year, so it is with especial pride, but also a somewhat bittersweet excitement, that we're ready to share the work of our incredible 2023 Remote Residents. ... You can access the 2023 Online Space from the link in our bio, or by using the link provided below: ... /2023/Home.html ... A Huge thanks to all of our 2023 Residents, who more than lived up to everything Roundtable has stood for this past decade, as well to everyone who has taken part or supported Roundtable all these years. You are all greatly appreciated. ... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ ... #art #canadianart #torontoart #contemporaryart #residency #artresidency #artistresidency #remoteresidency #onlineresidency #artistrun #artistrunspace

This is Margot again, with a few more pieces: 5. Graves, flowers and other discounts. Guitar improvisation over an audio recording of the 2021 volcano eruption in La Palma. Visuals created in Touchdesigner. One set of responds to the volcano´s sounds, which include lava flow, the ocean, and birds. The other set of visuals reacts to the guitar. 6. same 7 & 8. I love running workshops. It's so fun to see the weird pop out of people's brains. Here are some images from one where we worked with found archives and created artifacts and experimental shorts for a fake archive. 9. Spinning Walks (2022)- interactive digital poem-experience published by Quarterly West (made with Madeleine Campbell, Amanda Hodes ( @amanda_hodes ) and Zoë Quick (@quick.zoe ). @jenesaiswha