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by [[Rowan Lynch]] & [[Simon Fuh]]
by [[Rowan Lynch]] & [[Simon Fuh]]


Simon Fuh, in collaboration with Rowan Lynch, will deploy the digital as a site to explore the flora and fauna he is quarantined in proximity to in order to consider relationships with the non-human. This project will consist of a “goose cam” livestream broadcasting a section of Wascana Lake in Regina, a man made lake created by intentional flooding. The area hosts many Canadian geese, as well as an avian conservation centre.
Goose Cakes deploys the digital as a site to consider our relationships with the non-human. The project is based on a series of field notes and writing compiled collaboratively throughout the months of quarantine as we attempted to learn more about geese in order to gift them a cupcake specific to their dietary needs and wants. This work will conclude with a live-streamed artist talk and goose feeding on July 19th, 2020.
 
Beginning with observation of geese near Wascana Lake in Regina, a man-made lake hosting a migratory bird sanctuary, the project followed Simon’s own COVID influenced migration to Toronto. The second half of this project was then marked by an active search for the geese in this second city, and an interest in the implications of the new patterns of movement COVID has introduced to our lives.


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Introduction

What does it mean to live together in digitally mediated isolation? What You See is What You Mean considers the potential of the internet as a public space for community gathering, while widening our understanding of ‘community’. As communicative operations move online, the entrenchment of disciplinary capitalist politics within these spaces becomes increasingly apparent. This project considers the ways we can circumvent the individualizing, commodifying qualities of our online spaces to explore otherwise positive forms of relationality, intimacy and solidarity.

What You See is What You Mean is an online project consisting of projects by artists Oscar Alfonso, Simon Fuh, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Sophia Oppel and Hearth - a new artist-run space in Toronto, co-directed by Benjamin de Boer, Rowan Lynch, Sameen Mahboubi and Philip Leonard Ocampo.



Goose Cakes

by Rowan Lynch & Simon Fuh

Goose Cakes deploys the digital as a site to consider our relationships with the non-human. The project is based on a series of field notes and writing compiled collaboratively throughout the months of quarantine as we attempted to learn more about geese in order to gift them a cupcake specific to their dietary needs and wants. This work will conclude with a live-streamed artist talk and goose feeding on July 19th, 2020.

Beginning with observation of geese near Wascana Lake in Regina, a man-made lake hosting a migratory bird sanctuary, the project followed Simon’s own COVID influenced migration to Toronto. The second half of this project was then marked by an active search for the geese in this second city, and an interest in the implications of the new patterns of movement COVID has introduced to our lives.


A Hostility Index

by Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel

Sophia Oppel, in collaboration with Benjamin de Boer, will create a navigable webspace that examines online environments as sites of hostile architecture, manufacturing desire in the hyper-capitalization of online interfaces. hostility index seeks to create the equivalent of a digital public space in which to loiter and consider the politics of the background, and the supposedly transparent or invisible.


I’m not sure I remember all of our names / No estoy seguro en nuestros nombres

by Sameen Mahboubi, Oscar Alfonso & Relations

I’m not sure I remember all of our names / No estoy seguro en nuestros nombres is a reflection on expectations and relationships: about the family members Oscar missed out on as a kid in Vancouver, of the friends he left to move to Toronto, and of all of the other folks who have entered, left, remained, or moved on, into so many other directions. Honestly, I’m not sure I remember all of our names. Living through a pandemic no one wants, he currently rents and owns nothing that can be called home, is still in school, and has no child. In Mexico City, he at least has his avocado trees. Relations were invited to provide stories for these trees by responding with narratives that connected with ideas of travel, diaspora, expectations, obsolescence, or stationariness. As with all diasporic storytelling, responses came from various unexpected sources: close friends, mentors, adoptive aunts, and the occasional hook-up. For now, and forever, our children they will be.



I'm Feeling Lucky

by Philip Leonard Ocampo & Matt Nish-Lapidus

Essay by Philip Leonard Ocampo

Poems of Relation

Using an image recognition relations dataset as the basis for automated found image assemblage, I'm Feeling Lucky creates unique real-time image sets for each of the 15000+ in the dataset. The set of terms is laid out on a single page as links, flowing to fill the screen. Each link leads to a collage/assemblage of images found through using the phrase as an image search, and arranging the results.

Matt Nish-Lapidus, in collaboration with Philip Leonard Ocampo, addresses the human labour behind machine learning, specifically aggregated data-sets that quantify and itemize the different types of relationships between objects/subjects in images online. I'm Feeling Lucky considers (and unravels) the linguistic poetics of code, and address the implications of addressing the human on an in-human scale.