le piment rouge

Victorianator!

2011-08-25T19:22:00.004-04:00

Elocution Solution

If you wish your cellphone banter sounded less like something overheard on Jersey Shore and more like an evening with Ian McKellen, then a new iPhone app developed by a team of poets, graphic designers and computer scientists at Concordia University in Montreal could be just the thing to improve your oratory flair.

The Victorianator is a game in which players score points for how well they master the techniques of Victorian elocution, from giving words their proper inflection to accenting their delivery with appropriate gesticulation.

The game has two stages. First, players have to recite a famous Victorian poem in perfect monotone as a spindly needle flickers up and down measuring how accurate they are. Next, a steampunk robot instructs the player in a series of gestures that they’ll be adding to the poem.

As the player performs the gesture, the iPhone 4’s accelerometer tracks the movement of their arm and scores them on how well they emulate the robot. A successful gesture produces a synthetic effect on the poem just recorded. So if you hold your arm out to signal a prolongation, the sound of the word will be extended.

If you raise your hand skywards for emphasis, the pitch will rise on your recording. You soon find yourself madly gesticulating and shaking your phone as your own prerecorded voice quivers in response.

The project was put together by LudicVoice, a research group led by Jason Camlot, who teaches Victorian literature at Concordia.

“Rock Band was the initial model. We wanted to do Recitation Hero,” he jokes. The team collected hundreds of examples of oratory techniques from Victorian elocution manuals and it studied the diagrams and diacritical marks that authors invented as they attempted to systematize a language of voice and gesture.

The team wanted to make a historical game, but weren’t too concerned about verisimilitude. But it was important for Camlot that all the gestures used came straight from the Victorian source material. Likewise, the effects the movements have on the voice are meant to resemble the epic intonation found in early poetry recordings from the 1890s.

“That’s why it’s called Victorianator. Through the gestures you’re Victorianating a recording. You’re triggering these synthetic vocal actions that are supposed to be modelled after Victorian elocutionary actions and you’re turning a non-Victorian performance of the poem into a Victorian one.”

The Victorianator can be downloaded on iTunes.

Special to The Globe and Mail

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 5:30PM EDT

Last updated Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 6:00PM EDT

theblacklistcommittee's photostream

2011-08-18T16:50:00.001-04:00

theblacklistcommittee's photostream on Flickr.

Backstage at TSC

Campy students

2011-07-31T13:26:00.001-04:00

Broke camp

Spending the summer sleeping outsideis a different kind of activism for CEGEP students worried about fee hikes

by MATT JONES

July 28, 2011

TENTS AGAINST TUITION: Léo Bureau-Blouin
Photo by SHARON DAVIES

With tuition rising fast in Quebec, you might have to forget about that second degree in pornographic cyber-feminism. Or you could follow the example of some determined CEGEP students from the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec (FECQ) who, after a year of protesting and petitioning for lower tuition, have decided to spend the summer camping outside the Minister of Education’s office.

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The Morning After interview

2011-07-29T14:04:00.000-04:00

Me talking about The Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist. Interviewed by Ken McMurray and Craig Sauvé for The Friday Morning After show on CKUT 90.3fm.

Flying Anarchist - Cast Photos

2011-07-17T19:13:00.001-04:00

Flying Anarchist - Cast Photos, a set on Flickr.

Video: Summer theatre preview: Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist

2011-07-17T11:24:00.001-04:00

Video: Summer theatre preview: Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist

Rob Ford loves gays and bicycles

2011-07-15T13:07:00.001-04:00

Rob Ford loves gays and bicycles, a set on Flickr.

Spider Pilots rock the Fringe beer tent

2011-07-15T13:06:00.001-04:00

Spider Pilots rock the Fringe beer tent, a set on Flickr.

Trailer: Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist

2011-07-01T11:31:00.000-04:00

More info at: http://blacklistcommittee.wordpress.com/rob-ford/

The Fruixi: good eats, good bikes and great potential slapstick

2011-06-30T12:29:00.001-04:00

Fresh food on the move

Montreal’s open air markets are blooming and going mobile

by MATT JONES

June 23, 2011

PEDAL-POWERED PRODUCE: Fruixi
Photo by GUILLAUME DARNAJOU

Bad eaters of Montreal beware! You may be running out of excuses to justify your diet of Pogos, poutine and 99-cent pizza. This summer, farmers’ markets selling locally grown fruit and veg will be popping up everywhere you turn. And if that’s not enough, meet the Fruixi. A bicycle-drawn mobile fruit stand, it’s everything you hated about smarmy Bixi riders and killjoy vegetable enthusiasts rolled into one. So if you’re reading this while dripping choucroute onto the pages from the three steamés you bought for a dollar and tried to consume in a single mouthful, maybe it’s time you put the dog down and paused to consider the merits of organic produce.

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Where are they now? Jaggi Singh and Philippe Duhamel

2011-06-16T11:10:00.002-04:00

from le temps qui fuit

Ten years ago, in the lead-up to the protests at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Jaggi Singh and Philippe Duhamel represented polar opposites of the debate over protest tactics. While Duhamel's Operation SalAMI insisted on total non-violent civil disobedience, Jaggi and the CLAC argued for confrontation with the security perimeter using a "diversity of tactics." Some of us tried to have the best of both worlds: I marched with the Groupe opposé au mondialisation des marchés, who wanted to build the kind of broad-based movement against the summit that Duhamel had in mind, but also wanted to confront the fence like the CLAC, albeit it in a slightly less arrest-provoking way.

In a weird coincidence, I interviewed the two of them this week about campaigns they're working on. Kind of makes for an accidental where-are-they-now moment.

Jail time for Jaggi?

Jaggi Singh—consistently voted the city’s loudest activist in the Mirror’s Best of Montreal—may have directed his loudness at too sensitive a target this time. Singh will be in court this week in Toronto, where he’s facing a potential six-month jail sentence for his high profile verbal abuse of the G20 security fence in Toronto last year. “I’m here today to support those who want to take down the fence,” he told the media at the time.

Last April, Singh agreed to plead guilty to charges of counselling people to commit mischief over $5,000 (the fence was apparently worth $5.5-million) in exchange for the Crown dropping three counts of criminal conspiracy.

Singh still stands by what he said: “The fence for me was a potent symbol of how fences and walls are built virtually and literally to separate the dominant class from the rest of us who work to survive. It was a literal representation of the policies of austerity and global apartheid that the G20 is responsible for.”

Anti-G20 organizers are looking for support for Singh and 17 others who are facing conspiracy charges that threaten to literally fence them off with two-year prison sentences.

For information about the case, see: clac-montreal.net/en/jaggi.

—MATT JONES

No fracking way

An intrepid troupe of anti-shale gas campaigners have spent the last month marching along the shore of the St-Lawrence River from Rimouski to Montreal, covering much of the area proposed for future drilling in what could become Quebec’s contribution to the new generation of lucrative-though-environmentally-destructive solutions to the oil crisis.

The marchers of One Generation Moratorium are calling for a full moratorium on shale gas drilling. Although a partial moratorium is now in place, they see this as a publicity move.

“We don’t expect that the Quebec government will relent because it’s clearly aligned with interests of the shale gas industry,” says coordinator Philippe Duhamel. If the moratorium doesn’t hold, he says their next march might be less passive.

“In 2013 we might do this walk again, but have acts of non-violent civil disobedience all along the way.”

The marchers will meet up with a demo against shale gas on Saturday, June 18 at 2 p.m. at the offices of Hydro Quebec (René-Lévesque and St-Urbain). Enthusiastic anti-frackers can also meet the group at Longueuil metro station at 1 p.m. to join them as they cross the Cartier Bridge with a 100-metre banner signed by supporters they’ve met on the march. Visit rimouskimontreal.net for information or to follow their progress.

—MATT JONES

http://www.montrealmirror.com/wp/2011/06/16/the-front-40/

cast pictures

2011-06-15T17:25:00.001-04:00

Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying , a set on Flickr.

First cast picture for Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist

Pyongyang

2011-06-10T11:24:00.000-04:00

Just read Guy Delisle's Pyongyang. Why is this piece of latter-day orientalism such a respected graphic novel? Delisle goes to North Korea, lives among ex-pats, doesn't get to know any Koreans and, not surprisingly, decides they're all crazy, naïve and decidedly unhip.

Delisle scores points by ridiculing the absurd dynasty of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, but he does so from such a smarmy privileged perspective that he comes off as an obnoxious tourist. He is not only irritated by the constant propaganda of the regime, but also with people’s bad taste. Their music is weird and they have never heard of Daft Punk. There aren’t enough shopping malls, clubs or good restaurants. Why aren’t they more like us? Their attempts at ostentation are undermined by their lack of cash: he is dismayed that the marble walls of a museum are adorned “with light switches in cheap plastic housing.” How uncivilized!

The book neatly demonstrates a point Slavoj Žižek makes about ideology. Delisle wants to show us that North Koreans are, in his not subtle terms, brainwashed by the ruling ideology. This form of ideology works like the phrase: “They don’t know they’re doing it, but they’re doing it.” If they would only listen to Delisle, they would wake up, realize what they are doing and stop it.

But Delisle himself is submerged in what Žižek would call postmodern ideology. Imagining himself to be beyond ideology, Delisle is even more submerged in normative Western liberal values. By then end of the book the Koreans are well aware that he won’t be convinced about the greatness of their country, but he becomes increasingly evangelical in his exhortations to them about the value of free speech, democracy and free market prosperity.

Delisle’s main flaw is that he caricatures North Koreans on the basis of the officials he interacts with, who are guides and translators, in other words, people trained to present the regime’s official face to the outside world. I’m sure it’s not easy to find dissidents in the country, especially when you don’t speak the language, but it’s strange to imagine they don’t exist.

Bloody Cars

2011-06-10T09:51:00.002-04:00

Car still king, daddy-o

The Turcot project’s foes claim the new plan for replacing the aging interchange is something straight out of the 1950s

by MATT JONES

June 2, 2011

THINKING AHEAD: Mobilisation Turcot’s Pierre Brisset (L) and Shannon Franssen
Photo by MICHEAL MEAULIEU

The 50s get a bad rap. Occasionally we remember the innovations that produced rock music, meat-and-Jell-O dishes and eerily un-self-conscious horror movies, but mostly the decade gets marched out as a metaphor for a naïve time when the sexes stuck to their own spheres, communists were intent on destroying our way of life and the automobile reigned supreme. Such is the criticism currently being levelled against the Quebec government and the Tremblay administration for their plans to reconstruct the Turcot interchange in St-Henri. “This whole project is based on principles that were maybe modern in the 1950s but are completely retro in 2011,” says Shannon Franssen, spokesperson for Mobilisation Turcot, a coalition of organizations that want to see a more environmentally friendly plan for the interchange.

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The Conker

2010-12-06T22:17:00.001-05:00

The Conker: A film by Susanna & Matt Jones

Amnesty for artists

2010-12-06T22:06:00.001-05:00

Art for charity’s sake

A miserable market and laughable living wages bring Amnesty International and local artists together to generate some much-needed revenue

by MATT JONES

November 25, 2010

COLLECTORS WANTED: Eric Bolduc
Photo by MICHEAL BEAULIEU

Montreal: city of art, right? Although the city broadcasts its artistic prowess through high profile perpetual festivals and hazy late-night lite-brite displays at the Quartier des spectacles, Montreal can be a tough place for an artist to make ends meet. Alana Riley, who won the Pierre-Ayot Prize for her photography last week, has an idea of what the problem is: “There’s no market for art in Montreal,” she says. “I feel like we’re beggars. There’re only a handful of collectors in the city who deal in contemporary art. We need more collectors!”

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Gorgeous George in Montreal

2010-11-15T12:15:00.002-05:00

Stomping into Canada

Formerly banned British politician George Galloway finally begins his cross-country speaking tour
November 11, 2010

SUCK ON IT, JASON KENNEY: Galloway

Adored by some for his firebrand polemics, reviled by others who see him as clowning his way towards superstardom, former British MP George Galloway is one of the most controversial polit
ical figures in the world today. Much to the dismay of the Harper government, who tried and failed to have him kept out of Canada as a security risk, Galloway rolls into Montreal on Wednesday, Nov. 17 as part of a cross-Canada tour to help launch the Canadian Boat to Gaza, delivering a cargo of humanitarian supplies to the beleaguered Palestinian territory next spring. The Mirror spoke to him on the phone from London.

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Tim Miller

2010-11-11T11:54:00.000-05:00

Below is a blurb on performance artist Tim Miller from the Mirror, plus some pretty awesome highlights from the interview I did with him.

Virus talks

California-based performance artist, gay rights protester and frequent arrestee Tim Miller is no stranger to controversy. His semi-autobiographical works gained international attention in 1990 when he and three colleagues got their National Endowment for the Arts funding vetoed by a chairman who thought their work was too gay. Although an eight-year struggle that led to the Supreme Court finally got them their money back, Miller spent much of the ’80s and early ’90s, the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, engaging in direct action against a government that didn’t want to have anything to do with gay issues.

“I was making pieces in a country where our then-president Ronald Reagan did not say the word AIDS once until 80,000 Americans had died,” he says. “Civil disobedience was incredibly central. It is a transformative experience, especially for nice middle-class white kids, to be arrested and kept for 72 hours. I felt that on every level, the U.S. government was trying to destroy my community by doing nothing while tens of thousands died and trying to stop safe sex education in public schools.”

Miller performs his Sex/Body/Self/Virus piece as part of Concordia’s HIV/AIDS lecture series tonight, Thursday, Nov. 11 (1455 de Maisonneuve W., H-110), at 6 p.m., for free. For details, see aids.concordia.ca.

—MATT JONES

In 2002 you were thinking of leaving the US because your partner Alistair couldn’t get status here. Has that situation changed?

We actually started our process to immigrate to Canada a while ago, because we thought there was no future in the United States for a couple like us. The US is the only Western country not to allow same-sex citizens to sponsor their spouses for immigration purposes in the way that dozens of my friends have done for their partners. So Alistair can sponsor me to immigrate to the UK or Australia. Canada would be the most likely – it’s the perennial place where Americans go when they’re fleeing the insanity of the United States. He’s on a year-to-year visa. If he weren’t Australian he’d have had to leave years ago. Australians, as a reward for Iraq, get treated like Canadians now.I’m not dramatizing it. His visa’s running out in a few months and we don’t know what’ll happen. He hasn’t seen his family in thirteen years.

It seems strange that marriage is such a focus for activism. Here in Quebec, almost no one gets married unless they’re gay.

I know marriage makes people uneasy. But in the US, it’s clear to me that marriage is the main place where civil rights gets acted out. That’s why, until 1967, it was illegal for a heterosexual couple who weren’t of the same race to get married in 33 states. So Barack Obama: his marriage was a felony and he could have been taken into state custody. Looking deeper at it, slaves weren’t allowed to marry because marriage made you a human being and then you couldn’t be sold and your children as well.

Changing the definition of marriage is about who gets seen as a human being, so I think it’s actually really important, though I have to admit that my 19-year-old punk-rock, radical Marxist self would find this all very bourgeois.

In 1990, you had your federal funding stripped by a homophobe on the National Endowment for the Arts. Twenty years later, do you think the same thing could happen again?

Well, it wouldn’t happen again because now there’s no funding at all for individual artists in the United States. It was a giant constitutional eight-year battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court and we won back our grants, but the principle was lost there. I work with a lot of undergraduate and college-level kids comparable to me. None of them have any illusion that they’ll ever be supported by the federal government. You might get funding from the city or a particular state, but if you’re working on issues around politics or sexuality you simply won’t get money from the federal government.

You were involved in direct action protests in the eighties and nineties. Were those kind of performances an extension of your work as an artist?

AIDS activism really created this new template around guerrilla theatre, highly visual, telegenic media savvy protest strategies that were borrowed from other movements but then really set a new standard which then alterglobalists added to and built on. Post-9/11 it’s much more difficult: there’s more security, the terrorist label is thrown around. I still think whenever I have a19-year-old message me, “I was just protesting our Congressman’s office, I got arrested, I feel so empowered.” I think that’s really important and is real.”

The was a period in which civil disobedience was incredibly core and central. And it is a transformative experience, especially for nice middle-class white kids, to be arrested and kept for 12 hours or 72 hours. That doesn’t mean it’s an amusement park ride, but it has powerful changing affect on people. Especially at the time I felt that on every level the US government was trying to destroy my community by doing nothing while tens of thousands died and trying to stop safe sex education in public schools, which doomed any number to die. And the struggles around the AIDS stuff, the immigration struggles which are a poisonous alphabet soup of NEA, HIV. So myself and 200 artists in L.A. tried to arrest the federal government for crimes against humanity. There’s a fun performance which I’ll do at Concordia which ends in a gay orgy that overthrows the US government.

You’ve said that it’s easy to get depressed about homophobia but it’s also important to remember the wonders that gay life can bring. Do you think that, given the political situation in the US, there’s much to be hopeful about?

There’s been this horrible rash of queer suicides in the US. But today gay people are much more visible in this country, in some states. You can feel almost like you’re treated like a human being in Massachusetts, or California or New England. It’s just three fourths of the country where gay people have no rights under their state laws: they can be fired, they can be kicked out of their house. God forbid, I don’t want to have any kids, but it’s estimated that in the US there are more than 2 million being raised by gay people in this country. What does that do? Maybe they’re going to hate their gay parents so much! I don’t think so: they’ll have grown up knowing gay people and they’ll be huge change agents. I was doing a residency at a military university in Texas: a third of the students are in uniform. And to see queer students making visibility in their performances is so inspiring and exciting and moving. They’re these amazing secret weapons. It’s a national project and an international project.

What happened in Canada with marriage equality challenges the US to do better. When Argentina votes and signs full marriage equality, what an amazing achievement. Those are pretty inspiring examples of queer people transforming their country.

For more information about Tim Miller see: http://www.timmillerperformer.com/

Pictures of the crisis

2010-11-09T12:07:00.000-05:00

Recession in paradise

Montreal photographer Neal Rockwell documents the fickle financing of tourism and capitalism in a new exhibit

by MATT JONES

November 4, 2010

IT HAPPENED IN MONTERREY: Crossing the Rio Santa Catarina
Photo by NEAL ROCKWELL

Just before Christmas 2008, photographer Neal Rockwell was broke and eager to get out of the cold. On the Internet, he came across a remote part of Mexico where you could camp for free on the beach. On a whim, he and a friend packed up a tent, scraped together enough cash for bus tickets and set off on a low budget North American road trip. Riding Greyhound from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico in the months following the economic crisis turned out to be not just a frivolous adventure, but gave him insight into the arbitrariness of borders and the way communities were living the recession. The result is a show called Frontier that features 30 photos and texts written by Rockwell documenting the Greyhound view of North America.

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Revolution in the Library

2010-10-28T13:18:00.000-04:00

Your guide to lefty data

Radical Reference librarians unlock treasure troves of information for social justice seekers

by MATT JONES
October 21, 2010

STACKING POINTS: Megan Fitzgibbons and Robin Kelley
Photo by RACHEL GRANOFSKY

Radical Reference is a growing movement of librarians and other bookish radicals who want to use their various cataloguing skills to not only efficiently replace stacks of used hardbacks on the right shelves, but also make the world a more socially just place. If you’re an activist looking to poke a hole in the system, they’ll point you to the books, stats, databases, microform and esoteric library collections that can help you transform your manifesto from dismal diatribe to revelatory report. A Montreal chapter has been in the works since the summer and is set to be unveiled this weekend.

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Trans without homes

2010-10-18T09:31:00.002-04:00

A room of their own

Transsexual and transgender homeless say they’re being turned away from sex-specific shelters

by MATT JONES

October 14, 2010

ROOF ACCESS DENIED: ASTT(e)Q’s Jackson Ezra and Bianca Aponte
Photo by RACHEL GRANOFSKY

Changes in health funding last February have made it easier to get sex reassignment surgery in Quebec, but transsexuals and transgender activists say trans people in the province continue to face discrimination that can make it difficult to hold down housing and employment. Even homeless shelters are not always a refuge, as their gender-segregated dorms don’t always know where to put trans people, say frontline workers at the Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec (ASTT(e)Q, pronounced “aztec”). The group, run by and for trans people, is currently raising cash for an emergency housing fund that helps provide for trannies with nowhere to go.

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Sweet Crude

2010-09-28T12:34:00.000-04:00

Black gold blues

Sandy Cioffi’s Sweet Crude documents the havoc wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger Delta

by MATT JONES

September 23, 2010

ANGER FLARING: Sweet Crude
Photo by KENDRA E. THORNBURY

In November of 2005, filmmaker Sandy Cioffi travelled to southern Nigeria to document the opening of a library intended as a friendship gesture in a region scarred by ethnic warfare. What she saw there made her switch her plans entirely and turn her focus to the oily elephant dripping in the corner of the room. The Niger Delta is Africa’s biggest producer of petroleum, a commodity behind most of the country’s wealth, pollution and violence. Her film Sweet Crude (sweetcrudemovie. com) is the product of four years of research and interviews that brought Cioffi into close contact with the resistance movement that’s fighting for a say in how the oil companies use their land.

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Dave Zirin interview

2010-09-21T14:00:00.003-04:00

Fair ball and foul

Journalist Dave Zirin on the mendacious effects of publicly funded stadiums, corporate ownership and boring baseball

by MATT JONES

September 16, 2010

ALL FUNDING AND GAMES: Zirin

In the last year, pro sports have taken a hefty beating from the Left. It was hard to love the colonialist Olympics, painful to watch South African runner Caster Semenya’s gender identity interrogated by sports pundits, and to many World Cup watchers, vuvuzelas lost their charm pretty quickly. But if there’s one person who’s able to sift through the layers of spin that drown the artistry of great athletes in so much corporate paraphernalia, it’s Dave Zirin, a sportswriter for Sports Illustrated’s website and The Nation magazine, and author of Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love. The Mirror spoke to him on the phone from New York.

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Cinema Politica 2010 Season

2010-09-16T17:25:00.004-04:00

From Bas: Beyond the Red Light

There’s only so much documenting of the world’s audacious political atrocities that can be done before filmmaking starts to feel morose, so to pull us out of that potential rut, Cinema Politica has chosen the theme of resilience and resolutions for their upcoming season.

“The documentary genre is very good at investigating and revealing the world’s problems but they don’t always offer up stories of solutions. There’s a more positive aspect to the political and social issues that are explored in those films,” says Ezra Winton, the organization’s founder and Director of Programming.

This year’s 16 films follow activists who have been able to produce concrete results, from Maude Barlow’s work on keeping water public to activists in the Niger Delta struggling against Shell Oil to the satirical prankstering of the Yes Men.

The season kicks off September 20 with Bas: Beyond the Red Light, a Quebec film about a rehabilitation arts project for 13 girls who were previously sold into the sex trade industry in Mumbai. Wendy Champagne, the film’s director, will be present at the screening which is also a fundraiser for project in Mumbai.

For the full program see: cinemapolitica.org

Open Data in Montreal?

2010-09-11T12:55:00.006-04:00

Hot data

Montréal Ouvert wants the city’s facts and figures in open format

by MATT JONES

September 1, 2010

DEMOCRATIZING NUMBERS: Jonathan Brun (L) and Michael Lenczner
Photo by WILL LEW

Over the past couple years, city administrations around the world have begun to take various types of public data they’ve been sitting on—the kind that’s usually on display in the basement filing cabinet of City Hall—and upload it onto the Internet in open format. The result is a software developer’s wet dream: pages and pages of unorganized data just waiting to be pieced together, measured, graphed, made into parabolas, sexed-up and put online as user-friendly applications to make our increasingly tech-heavy lives more convenient. That’s a fantasy the four founders of Montréal Ouvert hope to see realized in Montreal as soon as possible.

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le piment rouge

Victorianator!

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 5:30PM EDT

Last updated Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 6:00PM EDT

theblacklistcommittee's photostream

Campy students

Broke camp

Spending the summer sleeping outsideis a different kind of activism for CEGEP students worried about fee hikes

by MATT JONES

July 28, 2011

The Morning After interview

Flying Anarchist - Cast Photos

Video: Summer theatre preview: Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist

Rob Ford loves gays and bicycles

Spider Pilots rock the Fringe beer tent

Trailer: Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist

The Fruixi: good eats, good bikes and great potential slapstick

Fresh food on the move

Montreal’s open air markets are blooming and going mobile

by MATT JONES

June 23, 2011

Where are they now? Jaggi Singh and Philippe Duhamel

No fracking way

cast pictures

Pyongyang

Bloody Cars

Car still king, daddy-o

The Conker

Amnesty for artists

Art for charity’s sake

A miserable market and laughable living wages bring Amnesty International and local artists together to generate some much-needed revenue

November 25, 2010

Gorgeous George in Montreal

Stomping into Canada

Formerly banned British politician George Galloway finally begins his cross-country speaking tourNovember 11, 2010

Tim Miller

Virus talks

Pictures of the crisis

Recession in paradise

Montreal photographer Neal Rockwell documents the fickle financing of tourism and capitalism in a new exhibit

November 4, 2010

Revolution in the Library

Your guide to lefty data

Radical Reference librarians unlock treasure troves of information for social justice seekers by MATT JONES October 21, 2010

October 21, 2010

Trans without homes

A room of their own

Transsexual and transgender homeless say they’re being turned away from sex-specific shelters

by MATT JONES

October 14, 2010

Sweet Crude

Black gold blues

Sandy Cioffi’s Sweet Crude documents the havoc wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger Delta

by MATT JONES

September 23, 2010

Dave Zirin interview

Fair ball and foul

Journalist Dave Zirin on the mendacious effects of publicly funded stadiums, corporate ownership and boring baseball

by MATT JONES

September 16, 2010

Cinema Politica 2010 Season

Open Data in Montreal?

Hot data

Montréal Ouvert wants the city’s facts and figures in open format

by MATT JONES

September 1, 2010

Formerly banned British politician George Galloway finally begins his cross-country speaking tour
November 11, 2010

Radical Reference librarians unlock treasure troves of information for social justice seekers

by MATT JONES
October 21, 2010