RESIDENCES

Emily Hermant
Lies, lies, lies [http://projets.studioxx.org/residente]
Dates: November, December 2004 and January 2005
Length : 8 weeks
Format: interactive website

Lies, lies, lies is an interactive website where viewers are invited to enter a virtual lying booth and submit their lies. Participant submissions will continually generate woven networks of lies that will in turn produce and sustain a virtual community. However, Lies, lies, lies intends to make systematic alterations to the virtual world(s) that these lies attempt to construct in order to question and challenge the power structures that are built with these words, and which in turn govern our everyday interactions. Lies, lies, lies explores Donna Haraway’s notion of the ‘cyborg as ether’ by examining the political and social implications of these ‘invisible’ interactions.

This residency not only falls within the framework of this year’s annual theme of science fiction (or, the invention of space-time), but will also be developed with the idea of exhibiting it as part of the Art's Birthday Art Network event, which finishes on 17 January 2005.

The Western Front Gallery’s worldwide invitation to twenty centres of art production was inspired by the science fiction novel The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling and proposes the construction of an imaginary metropolis from a critical point of view, with special importance being given to acoustic works.

>> Details on the Art's Birthday 2005 network art piece :
Reverie: noise city

Emily Hermant was born in Toronto in 1980 and is now a Montreal-based textile and installation artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, in Studio Arts and Religion, from Concordia University. Her work has been shown both locally and abroad.