Juliette Lusven

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Inspired by bathymetric archives related to the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, Juliette Lusven explores our relationship to the world and to technological interconnectivity through the current undersea Internet infrastructure.

Evoked as the backbone of our connectivity, since almost all of our digital exchanges transit through this vast network of fiber optic cables installed at the bottom of the ocean, this infrastructure seems just as imperceptible, also referring to an often inaccessible undersea environment that is still being mapped.

Produced in the context of the doctoral research-creation project Exploration.135, this exhibition questions this phenomenon of invisibility and circulation from the Atlantic Ocean and the Web, by articulating different materialities and scale relationships in the implementation of an installation corpus.The cable routes become a geoperceptive and computational exploration of our hyperconnectivity, interacting flows, data visualization, undersea topography and satellite imagery with microscopic captures of technological residues, sediments and microfossils from the ocean floor.

In collaboration with Max Boutin and Marc-André Cossette.

Juliette Lusven is a student member and a recipient of the Hexagram-ELEKTRA project call 2021. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art Studies and Practices at UQAM.

About the Hexagram-Elektra call for projects

The partnership between the Hexagram Network and ELEKTRA aims to encourage exchanges between practice-based and academic communities. The ELEKTRA Gallery creates a space conducive to aesthetic and discursive research through digital artistic production. Consequently, this program values experimental or critical research-creation projects and supports the development of emerging artist members of the Network.

Cover image : Juliette Lusven, détail d’installation.

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