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Hugo and I are helping out the organizers of the Artivistic conference prepare for the start on thursday. I was on the jury, helped out a bit the last two years and know the organizers somewhat.

I don’t really have time to write this post, but I meant to say something earlier.

Check out the program, see if there’s stuff that you want to check out. And definitely the closing party on Saturday night is going to be pretty cool. The space they have is in one of those enormous industrial buildings behind Ubisoft and it’s trippy just to be in. I’m anticipating one of those diverse but young, fairly arty / activisty and underground style party that starts early(ish) and lasts late. High hopes but I’ve got a good feeling bout it.

I’m rounding up some cool technical people that I want to attend so we’ll be hanging out talking cool geek projects with some of the presenters from Europe on Saturday early evening before the party. No web people allowed, just embedded systems and actual programmers. ;-) It’s not the kind of place to sit around talking about how cool Facebook is.

Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate.

For the third edition of Artivistic, the expression [ un.occupied spaces ] was chosen to stimulate new ideas in response to the hidden confusions caused by the infinite networks of 21C globalization and neo-liberalism. [ un.occupied spaces ] dares to link the charged issues of environmentalism, indigenous and migrant struggles, and urban practices together through the angle of occupation. In an interconnected world, critical thought and action cannot but become flexible and uncompromising at once. To think with occupation consequently becomes a strategy for approaching these issues in a way that will reveal their interdependence, and fuel creative and tactical collaborative actions between “co-artists” (artists and non-artists). Built around three interrelated questions, the event consists of roundtables, workshops, interventions, exhibitions, performances, and screenings at our temporary headquarters at 5455 av. de Gaspé, #701 and in different venues and spaces of Montreal.

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