Indeterminate Set, Dana Cupkova, 2017
The UQAM Centre de Design presents an exhibition that takes a historical and contemporary look at the role of digital tools in the process of generating forms in design and architecture.

The Vers un imaginaire numérique exhibition showcases a selection of photographs, films, high-quality reproductions, interactive software reconstructions, and works by present-day practitioners.

Thirty designers, architects and artists are exhibited, including Kristy Balliet and Kelly Bair, Phillip Beesley, Joanna Berzowska, Dana Cupkova, Felicia Davis and Delia Dumitrescu, Golan Levin, Zach Lieberman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Leslei Mezei, Frieder Nake, George Stiny, Jer and Diane Thorp, and Elizabeth Vander Zaag.
Historical records include over 150 items from personal and archival collections of research institutions, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon in the United States, the University of Cambridge in England, the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Bell-Northern Research in Canada.
The show examines the confluence of technical developments in graphics and software with the emergence of new aesthetic languages and theoretical sensibilities in design, architecture, and other creative fields.

According to the UQAM Centre de Design?s website, the exhibit explores how design such as software, materials, images and action have become computerized.

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