Educational Activities

Ada X develops educational activities designed to offer young audiences an opportunity to discover media art creation. For more information about our workshops and to use our services, please contact mediation[at]ada-x.org

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Allo Ada: Still life, Food waste – Katherine Melançon

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1 October 2023

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This still life of food waste turned playground is a work adapted from several collaborations with the experimental music group Mue, through which we wanted to raise awareness of food waste. The work seeks to magnify leftover, forgotten, ugly, overly bitter or smelly food to give it a…

Allo Ada: what’s brewing in the corners – Anne-F Jacques

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1 October 2023

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Small constructions of swarming, chaotic, chattering objects: a soft silicone tube, light bulbs rolling around on the floor, a rubber band here and there… in the corners of a room both too real and out of proportion. Find your bearings / become disoriented by the obstinate activity of these objects.

Allo Ada: Tidal Rhythm – Olivia McGilchrist

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1 October 2023

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Tidal Rhythm explores virtual submersion through WebVR. Users can move through layers of video frames, arranged in concentric circles, or choose to experience the tidal rhythms from the same coordinates. An experiment in circular navigation. Conceived in the post-pandemic context, the Allo Ada project enabled 8 artists and a…

Allo Ada: Diagenèse – Isabelle Gagné

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1 October 2023

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Through her reflections on archives and the transformation of the landscape, Isabelle Gagné invites you to explore digital geological excavations. We will use virtual reality to explore a field, discovering subterranean secrets like geologists surveying the ground to draw historical strata. These virtual geological cores were originally created from…

Allo Ada: Progression – Salima Punjani

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1 October 2023

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Progression transforms biological data such as brainwave signals and scans from being tools that find abnormalities to opportunities for listening, connection and empathy. Conceived in the post-pandemic context, the Allo Ada project enabled 8 artists and a collective to integrate and adapt their work on the XR Mozilla Hubs…

Allo Ada: Réimaginer tes electronics – Lou Fozin

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1 October 2023

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This work results from a workshop carried out with students of Jean-Grou High School who were invited to reimagine an electronic device using clay, crystals and electronic parts. These objects were digitized using a 3D scanner and are now immortalized in a mine-like virtual environment on the Allo Ada platform.

Allo Ada: Wandering the Gentle Bot’s Cycle – Liane Décary-Chen

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1 October 2023

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This virtual world mirrors Gentle Bot Seeks Same’s original development as a physical installation spanning all four walls of the Ada X gallery. Here, the experimental framework for developing an AI is represented as a 3D world rather than a flat image. Each island represents a distinct phase in the…

Allo Ada: GHOST – Josée Brouillard

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1 October 2023

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GHOST addresses the theme of rupture, the line where the break is located, the end of the cycle, the suspended temporal zone that belongs neither to the before nor the after. A break is marked not only by absence and physical distance, but also by mental space. “Ghosting” is…

Multisensory listening with Salima Punjani at Campus Fab City

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15 June 2023

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Ada X presents Salima Punjani’s work in two parts as part of Campus Fab City. Discover the digital art initiation project carried out with youth from Rivière-des-Prairies as part of les courants program. With the help of Echofab, students from École Jean-Grou built a multisensory listening cushion, with which they presented…

In the name of the Moon, I won’t forgive it​ – workshop at Campus Fab City

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16 June 2023

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Friday June 16 – 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Location : **Eastern Bloc, au 55 rue de Louvain Ouest, suite 480, Montréal Register here This workshop aims to create a wearable accessory to manage everyday microaggressions. During their residency at Ada X, artist Ahreum Lee produced samples,…

LES COURANTS : Soft Input

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1 April 2023

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This exhibition is the seventh phase of Les courants, an introductory digital arts program for young people and families in Rivière-des-Prairies. Exhibition from April 1 to May 21 2023 OPENING * Saturday, April 15, 3-5pm At the Maison Pierre-Chartrand 8000 Boulevard Gouin E, Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal Collaborators selina…

LES COURANTS : Dismantling your électroniques – Workshops – Lou Fozin

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13 October 2022

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As part of the educational program Les courants, in the fall of 2022 a group of teens from the community centre Le Phare in Rivière-des-Prairies took part in digital arts workshops with Lou Fozin, hosted at the chalet in Armand Bombardier Park. Participants were introduced to the Dismantling your électroniques…