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The HTMlles 10: Risky Business, Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture, Montréal, 10-18.11.
The 10th edition of The HTMlles, Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture from 10-18th November in Montréal, will take up the notion of risk.
To risk: to gain or to lose (it is uncertain), to expose oneself to a possibility... Risk is a potential. Whether used positively or negatively, the idea of risk implies that of evaluation, action and distribution, and thus, power. While the term "risk" evolved with the development of capitalism, the concept of "risk society" is about twenty years old and has been used by scholars to describe how modern society organizes around the idea of risk, that is, in response to a future (which society should be able to manage). By simply invoking or imagining the future, one immediately engages in risky behaviours. Anything and everything can become risky...
In such a critical moment, it is perhaps crucial to ask (ourselves) some questions. How does the language of risk articulate itself today? What is at risk today? How can one take risks today? What are the different levels of risk in our various (trans)actions? What is the relationship between risk, technology and power? How is risk both managed and created? How is it distributed? Since when does one "invest" in one's future and what does it actually mean? Do "crises" serve to pacify the communities being affected by these "crises"? Who are they? What do artists have to say about these so-called risks and crises? How is making art risky today? Who speaks? To whom and in the name of what?
The festival features exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, panels, conference, speedshow, hackathon and publication, more than 50 local, national & international artists.
The HTMlles is a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture produced in Montreal by Studio XX, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. Initiated in 1997, the HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women's, trans and gender non-conforming artists' independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation.
To risk: to gain or to lose (it is uncertain), to expose oneself to a possibility... Risk is a potential. Whether used positively or negatively, the idea of risk implies that of evaluation, action and distribution, and thus, power. While the term "risk" evolved with the development of capitalism, the concept of "risk society" is about twenty years old and has been used by scholars to describe how modern society organizes around the idea of risk, that is, in response to a future (which society should be able to manage). By simply invoking or imagining the future, one immediately engages in risky behaviours. Anything and everything can become risky...
In such a critical moment, it is perhaps crucial to ask (ourselves) some questions. How does the language of risk articulate itself today? What is at risk today? How can one take risks today? What are the different levels of risk in our various (trans)actions? What is the relationship between risk, technology and power? How is risk both managed and created? How is it distributed? Since when does one "invest" in one's future and what does it actually mean? Do "crises" serve to pacify the communities being affected by these "crises"? Who are they? What do artists have to say about these so-called risks and crises? How is making art risky today? Who speaks? To whom and in the name of what?
The festival features exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, panels, conference, speedshow, hackathon and publication, more than 50 local, national & international artists.
The HTMlles is a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture produced in Montreal by Studio XX, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. Initiated in 1997, the HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women's, trans and gender non-conforming artists' independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation.