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170:. Each artwork is created from the pixels of existing digitized landscape paintings or photographs sourced from the online permanent collections of major Museums. The collected pixels are then arranged as a mosaic by means of custom software and machine learning to recreate the aura of an artistic period. This process reveals “specific details of historically significant works as well overarching statistical features” in the new image. In an era of overflowing digital images, 20: 188:
is a mixed-media installation composed of three flatbed scanners laid on their side and facing each other. The trio generates digital images independently of human input by scanning each other’s surface. The ambient light and shadows produced by the environment or the audience impacts the scanning
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arranged as a 3 meters high curtain or waterfall. Patterns of white noise move across the curtain evoking “organic memories of waves, wind, rain, and insects.” In this sound installation Basanta reorganises the ubiquitous earbuds, without altering their materiality, and creates a context where
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videos created in response to the financial, social, and emotional context of the COVID19 pandemic in 2020. It is a living sculpture that pays tribute to the process of DIY microgreens from building, seeding, harvesting, and even personal bicycle deliveries to members of Montreal’s artistic
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works. His artistic process is intuitive and relies on finding a poetic union between the technical and the conceptual. He focuses on the organisation of changeable choreographies using found technologies, including microphones, speakers, kinetic systems and customised software.
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page and a dedicated website. This experimental photographic installation touches on issues of copyright because the protection is granted according to justifications that cannot be applied to machines or
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Since 2015, his works have been exhibited in galleries and institutions internationally. He is represented by ELLEPHANT Gallery, Montreal, and his work can be found in the institutional collections of the
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Remaining active as an experimental composer and performer, his concert music, live performances, and sound recordings are presented worldwide. His music has been released on Kohlenstoff Records (
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in 2020, one of the most prestigious awards in Canadian art. In 2018, he received the Pierre-Ayot Prize for the best contemporary artist under 35 years of age working in Montreal.
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whose practice investigates manifestations of technology as a meeting point of concurrent and overlapping systems. He uses various media (installation,
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Every newly generated image is studied by a series of deep-learning algorithms and compared to 1.5 million artworks issued from the database of
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highlights the pressing digital preservation of a disappearing natural world. Basanta’s impressions are summaries of artworks made into art.
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ready-made technologies allow the audience to retreat from the external world into a single sound instance of temporality.
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result. A software then randomizes contrasts, luminosity, saturation, and colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow).
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logic in terms of efficiency, growth, and sustainable production while letting go of profit and power.
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of New York. When it matches an existing artwork beyond a 80% match, it is uploaded to a
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and lives and works in Montreal since 2010. He holds a BFA in music composition from
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Collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM), Quebec, Canada.
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Winner ex-aquo, Sobey Art Awards 2020 (Quebec region), Ottawa, Canada.
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Longlisted (Quebec region), Sobey Art Awards 2018, Ottawa, Canada.
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Winner, Edith-Russ-Haus Awards for Emerging Media Artists 2014,
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Adam Basanta is the recipient of numerous awards, including the
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is a sound installation made of 240 pairs of white earbud
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Collection of the Ville de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
1322:"Curtain White, the white-noise within us | Neural" 603:Winner, Prix Pierre Ayot 2018. Ville de MontrĂ©al - 586:Collection of the Museum of Transitory Art (MoTA), 941: 464:. "Data Dating" curated by Valentina Peri. IMAL, 1368: 950:"Adam Basanta Composes with perceptive extremes" 438: 915: 824:"Cynthia Girard-Renard et Adam Basanta honorĂ©s" 155: 307:. ELLEPHANT Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 128: 574:Collection Majudia, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 86:, and the Ville de MontrĂ©al, amongst others. 1002:"Adam Basanta – Circular Arguments | Neural" 668: 1022:"Adam Basanta | Art & Technology | PHI" 605:Association des Galeries d’Art Contemporain 1319: 1121:Henriquez, Rose Carine (5 February 2019). 999: 974:Henriquez, Rose Carine (5 February 2019). 896:Henriquez, Rose Carine (5 February 2019). 434:. Galerie B-312, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 1334: 1120: 973: 895: 328:. FOFA Gallery. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 240: 216: 1123:"Adam Basanta et la parole des machines" 1046:"Adam Basanta - Artist Survival Station" 976:"Adam Basanta et la parole des machines" 898:"Adam Basanta et la parole des machines" 676:"Adam Basanta: The sound of empty space" 260:All We’d Ever Need Is One Another (Trio) 186:All We’d Ever Need is One Another (Trio) 179:All We’d Ever Need is One Another (Trio) 144:community. This project, as a long-term 139:is a 60-day performance and a series of 18: 1320:Cianciotta, Aurelio (20 October 2017). 1149:"Passionnante Biennale d'art numĂ©rique" 1146: 693: 569:MusĂ©e national des beaux-arts du QuĂ©bec 80:MusĂ©e national des beaux-arts du QuĂ©bec 1369: 1068: 1296:"Sound artist wins Aesthetica prize" 1271:"Sound artist wins Aesthetica prize" 1224:"Adam Basanta et la machine Ă  crĂ©er" 1199:"Adam Basanta et la machine Ă  crĂ©er" 1174:"Adam Basanta et la machine Ă  crĂ©er" 1000:Cianciotta, Aurelio (24 July 2020). 947: 562:MusĂ©e d’art contemporain de MontrĂ©al 76:MusĂ©e d’art contemporain de MontrĂ©al 921: 613:Winner, Aesthetica Art Prize 2017, 250:The Unknown Future Rolls Towards Us 13: 450:. Maison des arts de Laval, Salle 294:A Large Inscription, A Great Noise 14: 1413: 424:. 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Montreal
artist
composer
kinetic sculpture
Tel-Aviv
Vancouver
Simon Fraser University
Concordia University
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Canada
Italy
Germany
Sobey Art Award
sound sculptures
sound installation
YouTube
performance
capitalistic
landscape paintings
Artsy
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Twitter
AI
headphones
Braunschweig
Toronto

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