Productions

Vue de la rivière Bidasoa avec des personnes qui y naviguent en kayak.
Featured
A work about life at the border between France and Spain, following a creation residency in the Basque Country at the invitation of TOPO and Bitamine Faktoria.

Web Artworks

A work about life at the border between France and Spain, following a creation residency in the Basque Country at the invitation of TOPO and Bitamine Faktoria.
This work explores Fréchette's major works since the early 1980s. The fluidity between the artistic universes of Bleu diode and Jean-Yves Fréchette is represented by the three spaces involved: the Internet, TOPO's exhibition window, and Fréchette's Saint-Ubalde headquarters, where his creations were produced and documented.
Artist Isabelle Gagné presents a hypermedia web work, CYMX, the 4-letter acronym for the infamous Mirabel airport, north of Montreal.
Transposed for online dissemination with TOPO, On the Border is a proposal by artist Michel Huneault who documents a segment of the Canada-United States border and puts it through a narrative.
In this video proposal adapted for the web, artist Leila Zelli lines up excerpts from mainstream media reports made in Syria's conflict zones, from 2011 to the present day.
Initially conceived as a robotic installation in which tracers inscribe traces on a canvas, Leviathan has been adapted for online distribution, in the form of an interactive website where visitors are invited to leave the imprint of their passage.
Initially an immersive virtual reality work by artist Stéphanie Morissette, Méandres has been adapted to offer an online experience in the comfort of your own home. The experience offers an incursion into the connections of the brain's white matter.
Mes Mots, Mon Quartier (My Words, My Neighborhood) is a geolocated poetry trail created in 2019 in Montreal's Old Rosemont district.
Spectrographies du territoire takes an insider's look at an area undergoing rapid change, with the UdeM MIL Campus at its center.
A cabinet de curiosités(cabinet of curiosities) is a place where carefully selected and arranged objects are brought together to illustrate a theme, a story... Explore Verdun's Rue Wellington through a body of work created in creative workshops with Centre Wellington customers.
The website Hourra pour la pitoune! by artist Nathalie Bujold integrates new technologies with a dose of the rustic and vernacular. As a digital echo of her exhibition En Wing en Hein, the artist proposes a playful site based on the staging of folkloric objects and animations using words from the Québécois language.
Détours: Poétiques de la ville invites you to explore the streets of Montreal through a series of transportation maps of the city, reworked with photos, video, theater, poetry and iconography to explore the personal links created with the city.
Bêta-cité is an interactive audiovisual mapping project on the web. The site enables the creation of audio-guided urban itineraries, which users can design and experience in two Montreal neighborhoods, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Saint-Laurent boroughs.
In Spectrum Survey, Biederman takes the measure of the electromagnetic waves that surround us. In Circulation, Chatonsky makes urban traffic the driving force behind a dialogue between a man and a woman. In Public Address System, Poonawala lets us discover the world through the voice of loudspeakers, and Sourkes proposes GeoTag, a web version of the game Geography.
Eight ready-made fish have been digitized and animated for the Web, allowing anglers to catch fish and send them to their friends with a message of their own. Have fun fishing and sharing your fish!
In this project, visitors contribute to the creation of dialogical entities, or veves, by holding a conversation based on the simple exchange of words. From this dialogue, the vévés learn, become more complex and evolve. They seem to have a will of their own.
One lost telephone, four fictitious identities. Brought together by curator Élène Tremblay, artists Marie-Josée Hardy, Maryse Larivière, Marcio Lana-Lopez and James Prior present their plausible identities.
An e-poetry project based on a reflection on astronomical black holes and the death of supernovas.
A web art project by Isabelle Bernier based on a 1937 painting by Mexican artist Antonio Ruiz, known as "El Corcito".
A collection of texts, photographs and videos featuring artist portraits by Swedish visual and media artist Magnus Bärtås.
Mix, network, lab, exchange - Inspired by the circulation of the musical object, its iconographic markers and its serial productions (compacts, vinyl, flyers), Post-Audio NetLab is a space for interaction, exchange and socialization that stages the codes of today's musical culture.
Civilités is a modular, collective fiction piece featuring ten Montreal artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, who offer different perspectives on "living together". The guest artists explore possible spaces of trust, reconciliation and cohabitation between individuals, peoples and religions.
Vilanova is a continuation of the exhibition Tour de Villeneuve, by the photographic collective FOVEA, presented as part of Montreal's Mois de la Photo in September 2001. Thirteen artists/photographers take over small local businesses and outdoor spaces with images, objects and photographic installations.
The FiXions corpus pairs five photographers with five writers to produce five original photoromans for the web. In each project, the guest artists take up the challenge of collaboration, producing works made of agreements and discrepancies between texts and images, transcending the exclusive domains of literature and photography.
Held at Metissacana, West Africa's first cyber-café, the project brings together five creative projects by some twenty artists working in the disciplines of audio, visual arts and literature.
Follow Agence TOPO in LIQUIDATION, a multimedia photoroman by Michel Lefebvre and Eva Quintas, set in the heart of a baroque city where liquidation never ends. Launched simultaneously on the Internet and on Radio-Canada's FM radio program Les Décrocheurs... d'étoiles in January 1998, this web-radio drama of three half-hour episodes combines still images with sound performed by some fifteen performers.

Websites

The culmination of a Quebec-Mexico digital literature co-creation program initiated by TOPO in collaboration with the Andamio arts collective and CCD.
It's under the theme of the border that TOPO has produced a cycle of exhibitions and online projects, from 2019 to 2022. The publication FRONTIÈRE | Réflexion artistique et théorique, looks back on it, through 7 essays and multimedia content (photos, videos, podcasts).
The mutationsdulivre.ca website brings together all the videos from the Mutations :: Le livre à l'ère numérique forum webinars we ran from March to June 2021, plus information on the program, speakers and projects discussed.
INTER@MÉRIQUES is a training program in digital arts for professional artists from the cultural plurality of the Americas. This website features the training program, as well as profiles of participating artists and trainers.

Publications

It's under the theme of the border that TOPO has produced a cycle of exhibitions and online projects, from 2019 to 2022. The publication FRONTIÈRE | Réflexion artistique et théorique, looks back on it, through 7 essays and multimedia content (photos, videos, podcasts).
The digital publication "Habiter l'incertitude d'une vitrine" covers the first two years of its new exhibition space at Pôle de Gaspé, in Montreal's Mile End district.
A major monograph on a pioneering digital arts collective in Quebec, which actively pursued the symbiosis of art, technology and archives during the 1985-1994 decade.
Bilingual publication retracing 5 years of TOPO's career (2008-2013) through a corpus of web creations and media performances.
This publication marks 10 years of Agence TOPO's presence on the Internet, experimenting with the narrative and interactive potential of this medium.
This 2-DVD set, featuring over 150 minutes of video, is a compilation of audiovisual works by Montreal artists, and bears witness to the effervescence of practices that combine sound and moving images.

Mediation

The culmination of a Quebec-Mexico digital literature co-creation program initiated by TOPO in collaboration with the Andamio arts collective and CCD.
Mes Mots, Mon Quartier (My Words, My Neighborhood) is a geolocated poetry trail created in 2019 in Montreal's Old Rosemont district.
INTER@MÉRIQUES is a training program in digital arts for professional artists from the cultural plurality of the Americas. This website features the training program, as well as profiles of participating artists and trainers.
Dans la tête is a set of virtual reality projects that were created after workshops with a whole team of artists in 2017 and 2018.
Spectrographies du territoire takes an insider's look at an area undergoing rapid change, with the UdeM MIL Campus at its center.
A cabinet de curiosités(cabinet of curiosities) is a place where carefully selected and arranged objects are brought together to illustrate a theme, a story... Explore Verdun's Rue Wellington through a body of work created in creative workshops with Centre Wellington customers.
Eight ready-made fish have been digitized and animated for the Web, allowing anglers to catch fish and send them to their friends with a message of their own. Have fun fishing and sharing your fish!