Artengine is an artist-run media arts production and presentation centre located in Ottawa’s Arts Court. A leader in Media Arts development in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, we share our expertise in a number of open-source programming languages of interest to artists, participate in international networks of artist programmers, and provide tools and instruction to interested artists of all disciplines to develop their own work independently. Artists interested in digital media arts production now benefit from Artengine’s M70 Lab, offering a flexible workspace, technological tools for use on-site and in the field, as well as professional training in the use of Artengine’s technological tools and tool development.

  Artengine’s many programming events offer sophisticated, intelligent and entertaining programming to the largely professional population of the nation’s capital, and extending to youth of all social classes. These events garner enthusiastic media attention, no doubt encouraged by Artengine’s inclusive Artlist – an online promotion tool for use by all interested arts organizations, which boasts a 1500 member subscriber list and growing.

  In addition, Artengine’s critically acclaimed bi-annual media arts festival, Electric Fields/Champs électriques, has grown significantly, reaching larger audiences with local, national and international programming. It’s sister event, the Electric Fields symposium which is held in the Festival’s off-years, brings together a host of partners from the arts and research communities in Ottawa and Montreal, advancing critical discourse around technologically-based arts creation.

See more: https://www.artengine.ca

A new home and a new site!

  Artengine is currently working on the final stages of its new facility in the expanded and update Arts Court complex. A 3000 sq ft space including the Artengine Commons a place to learn, collaborate and exchange ideas about art, design, technology and society; the Studio a new space for integrating hand, industrial and digital fabrication technologies and our digital lab exploring the collision of synthetic and material realities.

  Starting this fall, we will experiment with new programming events and bring together artists and independent designers to help test out and refine our new space.

  Along with our new home we will be launching a new version of artengine.ca. After a long run, we will retire this version of artengine.ca and turn a new face to the internet. We have been building the solid foundations of a new site that will serve us as we develop a new community around our exciting new facility.