We need a holiday to justify the offal in our bowl and so we invented one. The charivari and its long legs and extra fingers have been invited to take a seat in the quire. This is not a battle to be won or lost, but a site of reversal where the possibility of change might be celebrated. The vulgar and the erudite shall share their fetid breath and for two days we will uncrown our algorithmic masters.We spend most of the year inside a monstrous marvel, a pulsating mass of gears, wires, and the gnashing teeth of an insatiable hunger, devouring all in our path, belching forth a rancid fog of margins and metrics. It’s all tremendous fun, but a rest, at times, is deserved.Carnival is inversion and mixture. We happily tithe the counting machines and we demand in return our moments of overflow and excess. The illegible, the joyous, the grotesque, and the uncertain organize our efforts. We bear no malice but rather advocate mirth. We celebrate the body and its needs, the earth and its gifts, and our ancestors and the stories that they give us. We do not hate the artificially intelligent but we would be remiss in not finding the humour in it.

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Free Admission
10:00 - 16:00

In this joyous epoch, the grand carnival square shall offer unrestrained revelry, with abundant opportunities to indulge in the enchanting allure of installation art and the craft of fashioning splendid masks, all to be relished without the burden of cost.

Mask Making
10:00 - 16:00

Come hither and partake in the merry gathering of mask crafting for Carnival, where thou shalt join the Oracle's whimsical troupe to embellish, unite, or defy a mask with prints, stitches, and tears, entwining thy essence with its visage for the revelry to come.

Ticketed Events
17:00PM - 01:00AM

In this festive period, the Carnival shall unveil itself as a ticketed affair, wherein mirth and revelry abound. Be entertained by a splendid array of performances and shows, all splendidly enumerated hereunder. To partake in this jubilant spectacle, procure your admission by a simple act of clicking upon the Buy Tickets button, situated conveniently to the right.

Tools

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00

Tools consists of tools that are the result of questioning and speculating on the role of the maker and the utility of customization in the context of consumer as designer. The generative algorithm used for creating these tools passes variables through itself to produce new 3D geometry in the form of power tool bodies, providing an unclear sense of utility if not more suggestive potential purposes.

Connor MacKinnon is a sculpture artist originally from London, ON. He has explored the physical and conceptual reconstruction of fragmented histories and historical objects in his practice, which has taken him to residencies in Italy and Portugal. Recently, he has applied this historical fictionalization closer to home in his exhibition A Fragmented History: Port Moody (2022) at PoMo Arts. MacKinnon currently lives and works in Kelowna, BC where he is a studio technician at UBC Okanagan.

Connor MacKinnon

ERROAR!#4 The Oral Logic

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


ERROAR!#4 The Oral Logic, an artwork composed of stock videos, contemplates the cannibalistic nature of acultural and technological assimilation. It features a generative poem titled “Past Said Lore”, co-authored with a recurrent neural network. Through a webcam and a mirror, the software misrecognizes human faces as objects, creating an infinite feedback loop between the two. This loop performs a metaphorical autophagy, likening it to a human skeleton eating tailbone.

Xuan Ye 叶轩 (a.pureapparat.us) is an interdisciplinary artist, who currently spends most of their time living the recursive being and cosmic becoming on Turtle Island. They compose multimedia publications, installations, and performances through various technologies, straddling improvisation and computation.

Xuan Ye 叶轩

TrustIn_AI

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00

TrótTin_AI is an interactive installation which draws parallels between AI and traditional beliefs, prompting reflection on the potential biases of algorithms and their impact. It encourages participants to engage with the installation directly and personally, fostering a closer understanding of the relationship between AI and human beliefs. Through the detector's personalized visual output, the installation blurs the line between the physical and digital worlds, creating a thought-provoking experience that encourages dialogue around the carnival theme.

Cẩm-Anh Lương is a Berlin-based multimedia artist from Vietnam known for her work centered around experimental storytelling, digital media, and the politics of memory. Using storytelling as a strategy, Cẩm-Anh examines forgotten memories resulting from the impacts of western colonization, propaganda of regimes, and stereotypes that have been imprinted on East Asian bodies. Her artistic practice is complemented by her work as an educator for outreach projects, advocating for alternative voices that empower marginalized communities by challenging dominant narratives.

Cẩm-Anh Lương

Re-embodying the Garden

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


Embedded within the soil lies an intricate network of conversation, a language of roots and interactions that has long eluded our gaze. By unravelling the secrets of the subterranean worl in my transparent garden, I gain insight into the profound connections between plants through their roots.

My garden serves as a stage for reembodying and merging gardening with art-making. It become a space for experimentation and observation, where the boundaries of conventional thoughts are transcended. As I explore the potential of gardening for remediation and revitalization of ou relation to the land, I bear witness to the earth's inherent power to heal itself. In this symbioti dance, I embrace each individual's role as a collaborator, working alongside nature to find a way to survive...to shape a sustainable future for all...

In this project, I reimagined gardening as a catalyst for change and to save our planet from th clutches of capitalism. By focusing on regenerative practices that breathe new life into the earthand the cultivation of store-bought products and legumes, I created a sanctuary of reproduction and regeneration. My garden becomes a vibrant testament to the decentralization of human and the resuscitation of land, where the relationship between humans and nature is revitalized.

Hooria Rahimi

Soundscapes of an Earthly Community

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


Soundscapes of an Earthly Community is inspired by Bernie Krause’s soundscape ecological approach, which sees sonic environments as equally constituted by biological sounds, such as plants (biophony), geophysical sounds, such as wind (geophony), technological sounds, such as machines, (technophony) and human-made sounds (anthrophony). These categories are not fixed but rather intersecting and relational. While some sounds might be distinctively human, others might only emerge when different spheres meet. For instance, the sound of the geophonic wind emerges when it brushes the leaves of the biological tree. It is these intersections then, where we intend to find the in-common that does not deny the uniqueness of its parts.

The project employs the Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder (RAVE) AI model developed at IRCAM by Antoine Caillon and Philippe Esling. To be presented as a surround sound installation each speaker is fed by a distinct, generative RAVE model trained either on biophonic, geophonic, or anthrophonic sounds mediated by the technopohnic sounds of AI to jointly represent the speculative soundscape of an Earthly Community. The installation is interactive, as a series of microphones pick up any sound in the space including that of the AI-driven speakers and the audience and feed these as inputs into the RAVE model, thus creating interactive feedback loops.

Maurice is a curator, producer, and critical AI researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. He's a PhD student at Concordia University, Montréal, under Dr. Fenwick McKelvey, where he investigates cross-cultural perceptions of AI and public participation in technology governance. Since 2016, he is the Artistic Director of MUTEK.JP festival of electronic music and digital arts in Tokyo. In 2021, Maurice joined MUTEK’s Montréal headquarters in developing the program of the professional MUTEK Forum and leading the transnational Future Festivals research project.

Maurice Jones

Control

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


Control is a gesture-controlled interactive video choir constituted by 16 clips each featuring mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland’s mouth singing to a graphic score that directly reflects the high and low of a significant stock chart from the beginning of the pandemic till present times (2020-2022). The score includes charts of typical YOLO investing strategy stocks (Gamestop, AMC) that represent an attempt of individual opportunists trying to push the change of the economy; monopolistic corporations that raise ethical concerns (Facebook, Amazon) and pharmaceutical companies that are visibly profiting from the pandemic (Pfizer, Moderna). By moving their body to the motion capturing webcam based on the choreography preassigned via machine learning (ml5.js), the audience experiences a fake sense of control of the choir--but do they really? This project is a satire against capitalism and a bitter laugh at the awkward economic state that a lot of people find themselves in post-pandemic.

Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator and writer based in New York. Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives that often extend beyond the fourth wall. Her work examines the power and inadequacy of language, furthermore, substantiates the multiplicity of being human through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects.

Tansy Xiao

Bodywork II

Installation: 10:00 - 16:00
Activation: 12:00 - 15:30

In Bodywork II, the body is used as a conduit to create and augment a soundscape through participating in a leg of the Tour de France on a stationary bike. This performance demystifies the connection of the physical body to digital production and its tangents, showing the body's role in hacking, modulating, and reifying towards new models of being.

Chase Young is an American artist (b. 1999) based in London. His work is concerned with the built and natural environment, emergent culture, and speculative futures. He works with computation to make sculptural and durational installation and investigative video.

Chase Young

Arboreal Intuitions

Installation: 10:00 - 16:00
Activation: 12:30 - 14:00

Arboreal Intuitions is a speculative ecosystem which couples humans with machine learning to explore emotions of sorrow from the loss of urban forests. During Carnival, the audience will be welcomed into the ecosystem through twinkles, movements, whirrs & vibrations, producing a nonverbal experience that brings understanding about the life cycle of trees.

Over the past 20 years Erika-Jean has been challenging conventional knowledges and ideologies embedded in symbols, systems, and objects. Her method of art making speaks from a perspective of cognitive difference in the style of non-conformity, undoing, miss-fitting, and troubling. She is currently researching artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) framed by the concept of criptechnoscience.

Erika-Jean Lincoln

The Great Algorhythm: From Chorus to Carnival

Performance: 17:30 - 19:00

The Toronto Experimental Translation Collective (TETC) consists of Benjamin de Boer, Yoyo Comay, Nicholas Hauck, Eddy Wang, Fan Wu, and Ami Xherro. They are a group of scholars and artists who challenge hegemonic systems of language through strategies of play and protest. They use methods of homophonics, algorithmic distortion, and cross-disciplinary hybridity to create spaces for heterotopic pedagogy. Their first LP, hot tub, is now out.

B Kell is a Toronto-based sound creator. Their work explores non-traditional compositional approaches which integrate digital and analog technology. Their work rearranges and manipulates pre-recorded improvisations to arrive at unlikely sonic evolutions. They have worked with several bands/musicians, including Charles Glasspool (The Silver Hearts, The Burning Hell) and the smooth rock collective, Vandeleur.

Fueled by their shared love of algorithmic art and Brian Eno, Eddy and B began to collaborate in the summer of 2022. After several nights of conversations and jams, the two created an experimental algorithmic work of sound poetry and ambient music. They knew that they needed performers to enact such a strange composition. Eddy brought in TETC to help perform the idiosyncratic polyvocalizations he and B developed. TETC, known for its willingness to go to the experimental edge of any medium, embraced the project. Thus, the collaboration between TETC and B was born.

B Kell + Toronto Experimental Translation Collective (tetc)

Longing

Performance: 19:15 - 19:45

Having started her piano studies at 9, Paria developed a passion for music and entered Tehran Music School. After completing 6 years of academic classical music education, she completed her diploma and later received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance at the College of Fine Arts of Tehran University. She has been trained by numerous Musicians and Pianists in Classical, Jazz, and Contemporary styles of music and has also gained various experiences in different professions in the music industry after completing her education in Arts Management, in Toronto.

"Longing" is an elegy that tells the story of a journey away from one's homeland, as it bravely embraces the path of healing and the echoes of past pains. For this project, the focus is on exploring prolonged exposure to highly rhythmic music which affects brain dynamics and perception that helps to induce trance, and assists with the 'disconnect'. Rhythmic stimulation and repetitive aspects of music is a powerful tool to improve temporal prediction and parsing of the auditory signal, therefore it can aid that individual to very quickly achieve the 'disconnected state' and slip into the desired imaginative and heightened experiential state, walking between the world of the conscious and subconscious mind.

In the vast realm of our psyche lies a profound divide, where the rational mind stands as a shield against the depths of the unconscious. Within this hidden domain resides a multitude of anguish, neurosis, and haunting remnants of unhealed wounds. Yet, behold the transformative rapture of ego's demise, a wondrous passage into realms uncharted, granting us the courage to unravel the veiled fragments of our being that our egos have long evaded. The performance includes pieces by some of the most prominent minimal composers such as John Cage, Moondog, and Arvo Pärt.

Paria

The goat will bring a photo.

Bad AI

Performance: 19:45 - 21:00

Bad AI is an installation that performs comedic, musical, theatrical and absurd content inspired by topics from the audience. It is an exploration of how a badly-coded AI might respond to user queries, creating unique and unpredictable results.

Using a midi keyboard, a looper pedal, a mic, and hundreds of virtual instruments, Bad Machine makes beats from scratch based on suggestions from the audience. Your ideas come to life. Things get weird. Genre tags: Funk, Hip-Hop, Comedy, Jazz, Lo-Fi, House.

Hi. Welcome to Bad AI. I'm a comic, musician, and improviser, and this installation aims to emulate a janky early-stage artificial intelligence. The performances I'll be doing involve conversing with the audience about things you're passionate about, briefly exploring the topics with you in conversation, and using each topic to inspire a short improvised performance (3-10 mins). These performances are comedic, musical, theatrical, and absurd in nature--often more than one.

BadMachine

Vampire Lounge Club: PROXI | El Ekeko x Ashorii | KHAN | CASSRAA

DJ/Live Friday Party: 21:00 - 1:00

Vampire Lounge Club is coming from Montreal to grace us with the curated beats for closing the first night of UKAI Projects Carnival of Algorithmic Culture!

“Enter the Vampire Lounge Club, Occupied in a west end warehouse. Feel your pulse slow down and fade in the eternal mist. A collaboration between Montreal and Toronto crews to bring you a deep and hard dance floor.”

PROXI (MTL)
El Ekeko x Ashorii (LIVE)
KHAN (MTL)
CASSRAA

***Free for UKAI Projects Carnival ticket holders or $15 at the door for others! No one turned away for lack of funds!!!

Vampire Lounge Club

The goat will bring a photo.

Scholarly Goats: Artscape Daniels Launchpad

9:30 - 16:00

Come, partake in a merry gathering of minds at Artscape Daniels Launchpad, where we shall delve into a day brimming with audacity, camaraderie, inspiration, and enlightening workshops. Behold, the rapid stride of artificial intelligence, its progress leaving us in awe. Yet, amidst this fervent rush, let us ponder upon the untapped prospects and the neglected nuances that elude the all-consuming, divisive discourse that reigns supreme in the digital realm.

Opening
10:00 - 10:30

Jerrold McGrath, a merry Carnival host hailing from the exuberant realm of UKAI Projects, shall deliver his inaugural oration, endeavoring to refrain from bellowing at the boisterous assemblage.

Manal Siddiqui

The goat will bring a photo.

Copy That: The Emergence of Artifax

Workshop: 11:15 - 12:00

Artificial intelligence is harvesting our cultural artifacts for optimization, prompting us to rethink how we commodify our digital contributions. Appropriation in art, the rise of hip-hop through sampling, and memeing reveal our collective desire for a more collaborative society. Can this moment unlock a future of collective creative potential, rather than individual capabilities? Are we willing to transcend conventional boundaries?

Kadrah Mensah is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist. Her practice is an exploration of technological intimacy as a site of freedom, escape, and identification. By leaning into the frictional paradoxes inherent to survival, she uses humour as a source of relief and resolution to confront mounting absurdity. The internet is her foundational instrument.

Kadrah Mensah 

The goat will bring a photo.

Eat and Connect
12:00 – 13:00

In this festivity, we shall temporarily pause our discourse and scholarly gatherings to indulge in feasting and mirthful banter among ourselves.

Earthly Community

Talk: 13:00 - 13:40

Technology is destroying the environment it is made of, creating an existential crisis, and Achille Mbembe calls for a re-envisioning of human-non-human relations to address this issue. How can we welcome technology amidst us in cohabitation if it is raised towards a god-like status of techno-solutionism? Most importantly, how do we bridge between biological, geological, technological, and human life, when centuries of scientific knowledge making in the West tried to neatly separate nature and culture?

Maurice Jones

Envisioning Creation with Non-Human Collaborators

Workshop: 13:45 - 14:25

As the technological landscape rapidly evolves and the role of AI and non-human collaborators in art production increases, the need to reimagine live performance becomes ever more pressing. This workshop explores a forward-looking template for the future of performance, emphasizing collaboration with non-human entities and drawing on emerging research in animal consciousness and ethics.

Michael F. Bergmann

The goat will bring a photo.

Uncanny Alliances with Artificial Lives

Talk: 14:30 - 15:10

Folk tales are not a new phenomenon. However, with the rise of digital culture and the increasing integration of machines into our daily lives, this anxiety has taken on a new form. In this talk, Albertine explores anxiety surrounding artificial lives and intelligence by putting together examples from industrial revolution and our current context. Albertine also questions what a radical alliance between digital workers and artificial intelligence could look like.

Albertine Thunier

Closing and Connect
15:15 – 16:00

After indulging in a multitude of discussions and educational activities, the festivity shall embrace its denouement through the pronouncement of concluding observations.

Free Admission
10:00 - 16:00

In this joyous epoch, the grand carnival square shall offer unrestrained revelry, with abundant opportunities to indulge in the enchanting allure of installation art and the craft of fashioning splendid masks, all to be relished without the burden of cost.

Mask Making
10:00 - 16:00

Come hither and partake in the merry gathering of mask crafting for Carnival, where thou shalt join the Oracle's whimsical troupe to embellish, unite, or defy a mask with prints, stitches, and tears, entwining thy essence with its visage for the revelry to come.

Ticketed Events
16:00PM - 4:00AM

In this festive period, the Carnival shall unveil itself as a ticketed affair, wherein mirth and revelry abound. Be entertained by a splendid array of performances and shows, all splendidly enumerated hereunder. To partake in this jubilant spectacle, procure your admission by a simple act of clicking upon the Buy Tickets button, situated conveniently to the right.

Tools

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00

Tools consists of tools that are the result of questioning and speculating on the role of the maker and the utility of customization in the context of consumer as designer. The generative algorithm used for creating these tools passes variables through itself to produce new 3D geometry in the form of power tool bodies, providing an unclear sense of utility if not more suggestive potential purposes.

Connor MacKinnon is a sculpture artist originally from London, ON. He has explored the physical and conceptual reconstruction of fragmented histories and historical objects in his practice, which has taken him to residencies in Italy and Portugal. Recently, he has applied this historical fictionalization closer to home in his exhibition A Fragmented History: Port Moody (2022) at PoMo Arts. MacKinnon currently lives and works in Kelowna, BC where he is a studio technician at UBC Okanagan.

Connor MacKinnon

ERROAR!#4 The Oral Logic

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


ERROAR!#4 The Oral Logic, an artwork composed of stock videos, contemplates the cannibalistic nature of acultural and technological assimilation. It features a generative poem titled “Past Said Lore”, co-authored with a recurrent neural network. Through a webcam and a mirror, the software misrecognizes human faces as objects, creating an infinite feedback loop between the two. This loop performs a metaphorical autophagy, likening it to a human skeleton eating tailbone.

Xuan Ye 叶轩 (a.pureapparat.us) is an interdisciplinary artist, who currently spends most of their time living the recursive being and cosmic becoming on Turtle Island. They compose multimedia publications, installations, and performances through various technologies, straddling improvisation and computation.

Xuan Ye 叶轩

TrustIn_AI

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


TrótTin_AI is an interactive installation which draws parallels between AI and traditional beliefs, prompting reflection on the potential biases of algorithms and their impact. It encourages participants to engage with the installation directly and personally, fostering a closer understanding of the relationship between AI and human beliefs. Through the detector's personalized visual output, the installation blurs the line between the physical and digital worlds, creating a thought-provoking experience that encourages dialogue around the carnival theme.

Cẩm-Anh Lương is a Berlin-based multimedia artist from Vietnam known for her work centered around experimental storytelling, digital media, and the politics of memory. Using storytelling as a strategy, Cẩm-Anh examines forgotten memories resulting from the impacts of western colonization, propaganda of regimes, and stereotypes that have been imprinted on East Asian bodies. Her artistic practice is complemented by her work as an educator for outreach projects, advocating for alternative voices that empower marginalized communities by challenging dominant narratives.

Cẩm-Anh Lương

Re-embodying the Garden

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


Re-embodying the Garden is an exploration of the potential of gardening as a tool for saving the planet and breaking free from capitalism. The artwork is made of recycled materials and focuses on regenerative gardening methods in order to create a space that embodies reproduction and regeneration. By exploring the roots, conversations, life of plants, and power of gardening, the artist seeks to rediscover and reimagine our relationship with nature to create a sustainable future.

Hooria Rahimi transforms reality into a luminous harmony. Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Hooria Rahimi is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary/light artist, currently pursuing her MFA in Intermedia at the Concordia University. She believes in the materiality of Light, and in her practice, she uses it as a bridge between the intangible and physical space. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Art University of Tehran, and her works have been shown in various exhibitions, art residencies, and festivals around the world.

Hooria Rahimi

Soundscapes of an Earthly Community

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00


Soundscapes of an Earthly Community is inspired by Bernie Krause’s soundscape ecological approach, which sees sonic environments as equally constituted by biological sounds, such as plants (biophony), geophysical sounds, such as wind (geophony), technological sounds, such as machines, (technophony) and human-made sounds (anthrophony). These categories are not fixed but rather intersecting and relational. While some sounds might be distinctively human, others might only emerge when different spheres meet. For instance, the sound of the geophonic wind emerges when it brushes the leaves of the biological tree. It is these intersections then, where we intend to find the in-common that does not deny the uniqueness of its parts.

The project employs the Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder (RAVE) AI model developed at IRCAM by Antoine Caillon and Philippe Esling. To be presented as a surround sound installation each speaker is fed by a distinct, generative RAVE model trained either on biophonic, geophonic, or anthrophonic sounds mediated by the technopohnic sounds of AI to jointly represent the speculative soundscape of an Earthly Community. The installation is interactive, as a series of microphones pick up any sound in the space including that of the AI-driven speakers and the audience and feed these as inputs into the RAVE model, thus creating interactive feedback loops.

Maurice is a curator, producer, and critical AI researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. He's a PhD student at Concordia University, Montréal, under Dr. Fenwick McKelvey, where he investigates cross-cultural perceptions of AI and public participation in technology governance. Since 2016, he is the Artistic Director of MUTEK.JP festival of electronic music and digital arts in Tokyo. In 2021, Maurice joined MUTEK’s Montréal headquarters in developing the program of the professional MUTEK Forum and leading the transnational Future Festivals research project.

Maurice Jones

Control

On Going: 10:00 - 16:00

Control is a gesture-controlled interactive video choir constituted by 16 clips each featuring mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland’s mouth singing to a graphic score that directly reflects the high and low of a significant stock chart from the beginning of the pandemic till present times (2020-2022). The score includes charts of typical YOLO investing strategy stocks (Gamestop, AMC) that represent an attempt of individual opportunists trying to push the change of the economy; monopolistic corporations that raise ethical concerns (Facebook, Amazon) and pharmaceutical companies that are visibly profiting from the pandemic (Pfizer, Moderna). By moving their body to the motion capturing webcam based on the choreography preassigned via machine learning (ml5.js), the audience experiences a fake sense of control of the choir--but do they really? This project is a satire against capitalism and a bitter laugh at the awkward economic state that a lot of people find themselves in post-pandemic.

Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator and writer based in New York. Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives that often extend beyond the fourth wall. Her work examines the power and inadequacy of language, furthermore, substantiates the multiplicity of being human through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects.

Tansy Xiao

Bodywork II

Installation: 10:00 - 16:00
Activation Two: 12:00 - 15:30

In Bodywork II, the body is used as a conduit to create and augment a soundscape through participating in a leg of the Tour de France on a stationary bike. This performance demystifies the connection of the physical body to digital production and its tangents, showing the body's role in hacking, modulating, and reifying towards new models of being.

Chase Young is an American artist (b. 1999) based in London. His work is concerned with the built and natural environment, emergent culture, and speculative futures. He works with computation to make sculptural and durational installation and investigative video.

Chase Young

Arboreal Intuitions

Installation: 10:00 - 16:00
Activation Two: 12:30 - 14:00

Arboreal Intuitions is a speculative ecosystem which couples humans with machine learning to explore emotions of sorrow from the loss of urban forests. During Carnival, the audience will be welcomed into the ecosystem through twinkles, movements, whirrs & vibrations, producing a nonverbal experience that brings understanding about the life cycle of trees.

Over the past 20 years Erika-Jean has been challenging conventional knowledges and ideologies embedded in symbols, systems, and objects. Her method of art making speaks from a perspective of cognitive difference in the style of non-conformity, undoing, miss-fitting, and troubling. She is currently researching artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) framed by the concept of criptechnoscience.

Erika-Jean Lincoln

Verses of Dance

Performance One: 13:30 - 14:00
Performance Two: 16:30 - 17:00

Ragamalika Mohanraj, Pallavi Maity and Avani Ashok Shirbur will be performing two dances at Carnival. The first being a Bollywood upbeat dance, and the second being more focused on classical Indian dance forms.

Ragamalika Mohanraj is an IT engineer and passionate classical dancer. She has trained in Bharatanatyam from the age of 4, Odissi for 4 years, and Kathak and other styles more recently. She is the co-founder of Team Lasya, and has performed at various corporate events and temples. She has also traveled to perform at festivals and events in India, the US, and Canada.

Pallavi Maity has been trained in Odissi since the age of 9, and is highly praised for her unique style. She has received awards for her dancing, and has performed at many prestigious platforms.

Avani Ashok Shirbur is a trained Bharthnatyam dancer, and also performs folk, semi-classical, and Bollywood dances. She has performed at various events in India and Canada, and is continuing her journey as a dancer.

Team Karika: Ragamalika Mohanraj, Pallavi Maity and Avani Ashok Shirbur

The goat will bring a photo.

Frog is loading title

Performance: 17:15 - 18:00

Borelson is an award-winning renaissance polymath based in Toronto. After formative years spent between Gabon,Congo and France, he took a leap of faith and relocated to Canada.

His particular music is mostly hip-hop infused, mixed with other music influences such as afrofusion/afrobeats, rock, classical music, etc.

During Fall 2021 he released his sophomore album titled ‘Building Bridges’, a reflection of his international journey, and included the hit "Fearless', featured on Spotify editorial's playlist Northern Bars, and listed as Top 100 Canadian songs of 2021 by CBC Music, and was also used for the national campaign for their show TheBlock.

Borelson has performed in Paris, London, Miami, Austin (SXSW 2018), Ghana (Year Of Return), as well as Montreal and Toronto (Afrofest, Nuit Blanche, Toronto Biennale, Fashion Art Toronto, etc.).

In February 2022, he was booked to open for U.S. rapper D Smoke, and open for Sean Paul's sold out show at History Toronto on August 3rd.

Borelson

Jute

Performance: 18:15 - 18:45

Sam Risser is an artist and researcher currently living and working in Montréal, Quebec. He uses sound to examine the interlocking relationships between art, technology, power and the lived environment. He does not believe computers will save us from ourselves.

Since 2017 he has been recording and performing under the moniker Jute, in which he uses he uses repurposed electronics and other everyday objects in conjunction with his body to generate dynamic and unstable cascades of harsh electroacoustic sound.

He has issued recordings through labels such as Absurd Exposition, New Forces and Detachment Programs as well as presented his research to audiences in Colombia and Mexico and the United States. 

JUTE is Noise. Noise is Information.
Code.
JUTE is Sound. Sound is Vibration.
Information.
Environment. Ears. Bodies.
Decode.
JUTE is Using Technology To Experiment.
        Using Technology To Explain.
JUTE is a Warning.
          Warning.
          Warning.
Warning.
JUTE is Just Utterly Terrified of Existence.
JUTE is Jailed Under Terrible Environment.
Understanding Terminal Erosion.
JUTE is Just Utterly Trying to Escape.
JUTE is Just Using Technology Effectively.
JUTE is an Example.
JUTE is Just Under The Exterior.
Hiding.

Sam Risser

The goat will bring a photo.

komite presents : Afterparty*

DJ/Live After Party: 22:00 - 4:00

Come and revel in our ultimate spectacle, where mirth and music unite in a glorious afterparty featuring renowned DJs hailing from both MTL and Toronto.

*Separate tickets. Free for full goat-passes or ticket holders. Tickets available at the door.

Pravik (DJ set)
Mykhaylo (Live Set)
D.Blavatsky (Hybrid Live + DJ)
E-Saggila
Koohyaar (DJ)