Decision Making: The Decisive Instant

Works by Baron Lanteigne, Aram Bartholl, Adam Basanta, Véronique Béland, France Cadet, Naomi Cook, Pascal Dombis, Jean Dubois, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sabrina Ratté, David Spriggs, Maija Tammi, Varvara & Mar, and the European premiere of INCERTITUDE: an audio-visual performance by Matthew Biederman and Alain Thibault.

Guest curators: Dominique Moulon and Alain Thibault
Associated curator: Catherine Bédard

Produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, and presented as part of the official programme of Némo – International Biennial of Digital Arts of the Île-de-France Region produced by Centquatre-Paris, in partnership with Elektra (Montreal).

Decisions are the result of complex cognitive processes. Considering them collectively, as they involve our shared futures, makes them nothing less than crucial. But, more and more often, we include machines in such processes through decisional algorithms. Of course, this raises questions that artists know how to put into perspective. Because the age we are currently living in, a simple instant in the history of our planet, is decisive, considering the choices available, so we can move forward in a world ruled by the responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence.

It is now that human rights are at stake, that we can decide what will emerge from the use of our personal data. Experiencing artworks created from decisive processes extracted from the invisible propels us into an immediate future that, for now, still belongs to us.