A Look Back at the #intersections VOL.7 Experience zone

For this fifth season, Printemps numérique opened at the Canadian Centre for Architecture with Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Premier of Québec, the Mayor of Montréal and many Belgian andCanadian dignitaries. The #intersections VOL.7 conference on algorithmic governance raised major social questions, also echoed by the Belgian collective Gluon through interactive installations

Humour, Fear and Utopia. In the Experience zone, the discovery section ofthe #intersections series, Gluon’s works appeared especially promising. The collective’s artists and researchers used the occasion

reflection on what formal machine intervention might become in scientific, social and artistic fields. Pavilions of Memory by Taline Temizian, created with neuroscientist Béatrice de Gelder, presents an MRI of family history. The dissected brain of Pavilionsof Memory displays a panel of images that evoke memory, perception and identity. Other works in the zone

anxiety and hope, inviting audiences tomove beyond abstract debates and experience algorithmic questions through images, interfaces and interaction. By bringing together researchers, artists and the public, the Experience zone showed how digital creativity can make complex issues tangible and open space for critical discussion.