Adam Basanta

Adam Basanta (born 1985) is a Montreal-based artist and experimental composer[1][2] whose practice investigates manifestations of technology as a meeting point of concurrent and overlapping systems.

[13] He focuses on the organisation of changeable choreographies using found technologies, including microphones, speakers, kinetic systems and customised software.

[14] Artist Survival Station is a 60-day performance and a series of YouTube videos created in response to the financial, social, and emotional context of the COVID19 pandemic in 2020.

[15] It is a living sculpture that pays tribute to the process of DIY microgreens from building, seeding, harvesting, and even personal bicycle deliveries to members of Montreal’s artistic community.

This project, as a long-term performance, is an exercise of “re-commitment to sustainability in an era of late capitalism, knowledge gathering, and sharing in the atmosphere of online saturation, and to care and exchange with people in a moment where physical contact is not possible”.

Each artwork is created from the pixels of existing digitized landscape paintings or photographs sourced from the online permanent collections of major Museums.