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ANDRÉ ÉRIC LÉTOURNEAU [CA], ANNA FRIZ [CA], ANNE-FRANCOISE JACQUES [CA], AURÉLIE BESSON [CA], CHRISTOPHER HAWORTH [UK], DANIEL JOLLIFFE [CA], ÉMILIE MOUCHOUS [CA], EMMANUEL LAGRANGE-PAQUET [CA], ERIN SEXTON [CA], ESTHER BOURDAGES [CA], ISABELLE CHOINIÈRE [CA], JOSEPH PERRAULT [CA], LOUISE BOISCLAIR [CA], MARKO TIMLIN [FI], MARTIN HOWSE [UK], MYRIAM BLEAU [CA], NATALIYA PETKOVA [BG-CA], NICOLAS DION [CA], NICOLAS MAIGRET [FR], PHILLIP DAVID STEARNS [US], RIE NAKAJIMA [UK/JP], SIMON LAROCHE [CA], VINCENT CHARLEBOIS [CA]


Sight & Sound is an annual festival that brings together Canadian and international new media artists. Now in its seventh year, the festival presents digital artists working with hybrid, interactive and networked approaches. The goal of Sight & Sound is to provide a privileged dissemination platform for emerging digital artists, alongside well-established, world-renowned artists.

This year, the festival hosts four performance events, three performative actions in public space, a week of installations and public interventions, and a series of workshops and panel discussions, all related to the theme selected for this seventh edition.

The theme for this 2015 edition is “Hyperlocal”. We wish to explore the horizontality of networked art production and its contextualization within an ultra-localized setting. We invited artists whose practices engage in dialogic processes occurring in real time; whose work creates dislocation between real and virtual spaces; who create non-linear distributed narratives; and who act on and within the “network” as their medium. In an era where global connectivity supersedes local action, we consider the multiplicity of networks not simply in terms of people, places, and machines; rather (and also) in terms of diverse geographic, political, social, and economic realities ingrained within. Today, our networked society is constructed around (and functions because of) the circulation of information.

In this regard, we are interested in how artists experiment with distance, while operating in localized networks; how they create open, participatory networking structures that exist independently of institutional structures; and how they engage with and challenge notions of distance and proximity, centre and periphery.