Event description
As part of the Festival international de cinéma adapté de Montréal (FICAM), the digital creation centre TOPO will be transforming the MEM’s Workshop 1 into a demo area for you to try out accessible digital productions under the theme “Art, digital practices and well-being.”
It’s the perfect opportunity to discover:
Audio/video games
- Another Audio Maze – Minimalist experimental game with no visuals, in which the audio landscape consists of a single sound. Its simplicity makes it perfect for a first sound-based game experience.
- AVOXTURE – A sound exploration and adventure game with 10 levels. An avatar-spirit is wandering in limbo. To help it escape this gloomy place, you listen to bird songs and owl hoots, and move like a cursor in a table.
- HSH Go! – A one-key interactive and collaborative game. Here, you get to explore a setting in complete darkness by looking for teleporters to open all eyes and light up the room.
- VicDor – A simple exploration game with one key. Designed like a sound-based stimulation game for children who are blind or partially sighted, it can also be used as visual and hearing stimulation for children with a cognitive or motor disability.
A virtual reality experience
- Come and test Projet DPK, a virtual reality maze for individuals who are blind or partially sighted.
Websites
- Voix rêvées – Web-based work around the dreams of eight partially sighted individuals. The Turbine centre asked writer Réjane Bougé and sound artist Chantal Dumas to create portraits of each individual, inspired by their dreams.
- Montréal ville invisible – Podcasts by sound artists Chantal Dumas and Florian Grond revealing how partially sighted individuals experience the city.
Media installation
- Enjoy FICAM screenings in the MEM’s Cabaret and discover L’Astralopithèque, a crip art work by the collective Cummings&Pifko.
About TOPO – Digital Creation Centre
TOPO is an artist-run centre based in Montréal. Its mission is to assist and equip artists in their exploration of contemporary digital art and literature practices. Its training, creation, dissemination and outreach activities contribute to the development of its field of practice, which fosters interdisciplinary and intercultural connections through digital arts.