This part talks about how artists are reusing digital objects, similar to what Marcel Duchamp did with everyday items. But now, instead of physical objects, they use things like 3D models from online libraries. It also mentions tools like Google Earth, which turn the real world into a digital version that feels complete but also kind of empty. To me, this chapter feels a bit lonely. Everything looks perfect and frozen in time, but there are no real human connections, just avatars moving through space.
McLeod is a visual artist, primarily focused on transitional matter, simulation, and empathy. He uses new media tools such as digital animation, 3D rendering, and rapid prototyping to produce his work. McLeod graduated from the Masters of Digital Media program at the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University in 2016 and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design University from 2007. McLeod is represented by Division Gallery in Toronto and Montreal.
Through storytelling and translation, Kanarek reshapes cultural associations of language. Her work enters spaces of meaning determined by global networks and her observation of the Internet as a metaphorical space written in human and computer languages. In recent years, her creative practice centers on the dynamics and form of multilingualism and the synchronization of narrative with standard time.
Sabrina Ratté is a Canadian artist based in Montreal, who also lived and worked for six years in Paris. Her practice explores the perceptual and material potentials of digital media through 3D animation, analog video, print, and installation. Drawing from technology, philosophical thought and speculative ecology, her work maps liminal zones where relationships between material and virtual worlds are reconfigured. Through immersive and interactive installations, she develops hybrid cosmologies that question the evolution of our environments and the narratives that shape them. Her works evoke possible futures, both sublime and unsettling, in which the organic, the synthetic, and the spectral coexist within a single continuum.
