{"id":4960,"date":"2021-04-01T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topo.art\/chantier\/?post_type=programmation&p=4960"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:18:06","slug":"leviathan-paolo-almario","status":"publish","type":"programmation","link":"https:\/\/topo.art\/en\/programmation\/leviathan-paolo-almario\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e9viathan<\/em> | Paolo Almario"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inaugurating the third cycle of programming on the theme of Frontiers, \u201cGeopolitics, Variable Spaces,\u201d TOPO presents, starting Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the project\u00a0L\u00e9viathan<\/em>\u00a0by artist Paolo Almario.<\/p>

This digital work refers to the thinking and book of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes,\u00a0L\u00e9viathan, Trait\u00e9 de la mati\u00e8re, de la forme et du pouvoir de la r\u00e9publique eccl\u00e9siastique et civile<\/em>, where he defines nation states as giants called Leviathans. What defines Hobbes' Leviathans are the units that compose them (humans) and the interactions between them.<\/p>

Originally designed as a robotic installation where plotters draw lines on a canvas, the work\u00a0L\u00e9viathan<\/em>\u00a0has been adapted for online distribution in the form of an interactive website where visitors are invited to leave their mark. The data captured by the computer's camera\u2014facial movements, date, and duration of presence\u2014is used to create tracings that offer a topology of the interactions that take place there collectively. No other data is stored, leaving only what constitutes the\u00a0L\u00e9viathan<\/em>\u00a0by Paolo Almario: virtual paintings of lines and dots resulting from audience interaction with digital capture systems. For this web version, the paintings created from the captured data will be regularly frozen in time and archived in the website's virtual gallery.<\/p>

Play your part in Paolo Almario's Leviathan by registering your tracks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Activate your computer's camera and let it follow you, capturing the movements of your face and composing, in real time, the traces of multiple interactions that are superimposed and amalgamated in a virtual, collective map.<\/p>

With\u00a0L\u00e9viathan<\/em>In this pandemic context, where virtual communication endlessly feeds huge databases, Paolo Almario invites us to reflect on some of the challenges of today's cyberspace: surveillance, privacy, big data, and the omnipotence of networks...<\/p>

\"The main political bodies, states, are compositions of individual units. Indeed, we must think of political societies as artificial compounds, automata made up entirely of human animals.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

(Thomas Hobbes, 1651)<\/p>

The Leviathan is a colossal monster, dragon, serpent, or crocodile, whose form is not specified; it can be considered as the evocation of a terrifying cataclysm capable of altering the planet and disrupting its order and geography, if not destroying the world.<\/p>

Leviathan is said to be one of the main demons of hell. Depicted in the Middle Ages as an open mouth swallowing souls, it symbolizes the entrance to hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>

D\u00e9finition du L\u00e9viathan librement adapt\u00e9e de Wikip\u00e9dia<\/p>

Thomas Hobbes (Wikipedia)<\/a>

L\u00e9viathan (Wikipedia)<\/a><\/p>

Meeting with the artist<\/h2>

Tuesday, April 27,<\/strong>\u00a0Paolo Almario presented his work\u00a0L\u00e9viathan<\/em>\u00a0and its various iterations, in the company of author and curator Mirna Boyadjian and mediator Nathalie Dion from the artists' center.\u00a0Caravans\u00e9rail<\/a>, in Rimouski, which hosted the original robotic version of the\u00a0L\u00e9viathan<\/em>\u00a0de Paolo Almario.<\/p>

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