{"id":3454,"date":"2013-05-27T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topo.art\/chantier\/?post_type=production&#038;p=3454"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:15:04","slug":"la-societe-de-conservation-du-present","status":"publish","type":"production","link":"https:\/\/topo.art\/en\/production\/la-societe-de-conservation-du-present\/","title":{"rendered":".(La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Conservation du Pr\u00e9sent)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3454\" class=\"elementor elementor-3454\" data-elementor-post-type=\"production\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37eb692 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"37eb692\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73dfe6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73dfe6d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><em>.(La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Conservation du Pr\u00e9sent) 1985-1994<\/em><br \/><em>Moreover, those who come after them will not remember it either.<\/em><br class=\"none\" \/><\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4173\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.agencetopo.qc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/eiichcaa-289x300.jpg?resize=289%2C300\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.agencetopo.qc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/eiichcaa-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.agencetopo.qc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/eiichcaa-144x150.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.agencetopo.qc.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/eiichcaa.jpg 659w\" alt=\"eiichcaa\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" \/>On June 13, 2013, at the Formats bookstore, Agence TOPO launched a flagship publication on\u00a0<strong>.(La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Conservation du Pr\u00e9sent),<\/strong>\u00a0a pioneering digital arts collective in Quebec that worked actively during the decade from 1985 to 1994 to bring about a symbiosis between the arts, technology, and archives. Led by\u00a0<strong>Sonia Pelletier<\/strong>\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0<strong>Michel Lefebvre<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Bernard Sch\u00fctze<\/strong>, the publication highlights the importance of this collective and pays tribute to\u00a0<strong>Philippe C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/strong>, philosopher and conceptual artist who died in 2011, one of the three founding members of the .(SCP) with\u00a0<strong>Alain Bergeron<\/strong>, software developer, and\u00a0<strong>Jean Dub\u00e9<\/strong>, photographer, pamphleteer, and writer.<\/p><p>Critical, alert, humorous, and sometimes irreverent, the .(SCP) reflected a new intellectual, artistic, and social dynamic. The world order, the twentieth century, language, technology, museology, the free circulation of archives, and Third World debt were among the fields of research that guided its positions and actions. Often elusive but prolific, it made its mark with its stamped imprints, slogans, pictograms, untimely use of punctuation in numerous printed materials, and large production of laminated conceptual cards illustrating its favorite themes. At the dawn of new media, the .(SCP) was also a pioneer in the field of electronic networks and computer programming.<\/p><p>Partially bilingual (French and English) and richly illustrated with photographs and archival documents from the Philippe C\u00f4t\u00e9 Collection, the monograph includes a comprehensive chronological account of the collective's activities led by the author\u00a0<strong>Bernard Sch\u00fctze<\/strong>\u00a0based on interviews with Philippe C\u00f4t\u00e9 prior to his death. The authors\u00a0<strong>Denis Lessard<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Andr\u00e9-Louis Par\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Micha\u00ebl La Chance<\/strong>\u00a0write respectively on one of the collective's three founding principles: 1. the principle of archives, 2. the art of promise, and 3. idleness. The author\u00a0<strong>Sonia Pelletier<\/strong>\u00a0writes the preface and reprints a text published in the journal\u00a0<em>Inter art actuel<\/em>\u00a0on the practice of cartography by Philippe C\u00f4t\u00e9. Nearly a hundred maps are reproduced in the publication to illustrate a sample of this important work. As privileged witnesses,\u00a0<strong>Philippe B\u00e9zy<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Fran\u00e7ois C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Guy Sioui Durand<\/strong>\u00a0reveal some traces of the SCP based on real-life events that provide insight into the context and some of the SCP's flagship projects. The authors\u00a0<strong>Andr\u00e9 \u00c9ric L\u00e9tourneau<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Philippe B\u00e9zy<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Michel Lefebvre<\/strong>\u00a0describe the scope of the collective's technological achievements, including .(Rrose), a chat program, (La \u2018Calembredaine), a generative random poetry program, and the Standard Museum, one of the world's first virtual museums. A timeline and bibliography complete the book.<\/p><p>The book will be launched at Formats bookstore and distributed by \u00c9dipresse, distributor for the Regroupement des centres d\u2019artistes autog\u00e9r\u00e9s du Qu\u00e9bec (RCAAQ). The launch of this publication marks the first activity highlighting the research undertaken on the .(SCP) in Philippe C\u00f4t\u00e9's archive, with the collaboration of his brother Fran\u00e7ois. Through a fun and informative website to be launched in fall 2013, Agence TOPO plans to make a large selection of these archival documents available to the public.<\/p><p><em id=\"__mceDel\">The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the support of the\u00a0<strong>Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong>\u00a0and at\u00a0<strong>Conseil des arts du Canada<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3455,"template":"","type-de-production":[39],"class_list":["post-3454","production","type-production","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-de-production-publication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>.(La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Conservation du Pr\u00e9sent) &#8226; 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