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Digital screenshot of website interface structured into three-column format with dark vertical sidebar at left, central main content area, and slim navigation column at right. Site header identifies subject as “Alex Boya” with profile page dedicated to projects and activities. Top of main content column displays horizontal banner illustration in monochrome ink depicting humanoid bust with turbine-like engine head, seated behind bar counter with bottles and shelves, composition framed within architectural interior. Beneath banner, page organizes content into three stacked article previews.

First article titled “Dernier verre avec Justine” features illustration identical to header, paired with text excerpt beneath. Second article presents photographic scene from Festival 2019, crowd of people gathered at Café Court event with Espresso signage visible in background; article caption emphasizes return of Espresso program and festival continuation. Third article highlights portrait of individual in front of abstract colorful backdrop with arms crossed, title reading “Café court – Alex Boya.” Each article preview block includes thumbnail image, bold red title text, excerpt paragraph, and red link button labeled “Lire la suite.”

Right-hand column lists related navigational links and tags, including author name, article references, and thematic categories. Sidebar on left displays structured menu hierarchy: homepage link, thematic categories such as “Actualités,” “Articles,” and “Entretiens,” as well as search bar and social media icons. Footer region of page displays multiple logos of partner organizations, including Telefilm Canada, SODEC, ONF/NFB, Conseil des arts du Canada, and media partners, arranged in horizontal row against dark background.

Visual layout emphasizes clear separation of functional zones through background contrast: dark grey sidebars flanking white central content, red highlights marking interactive buttons and category labels. Typography employs sans-serif fonts for body text and headers, consistent with contemporary web design standards. Images alternate between illustrative artwork and documentary photography, creating balance between artistic representation and event documentation. Overall webpage structure functions as professional portfolio and news archive presenting Alex Boya’s artistic contributions, public events, and institutional associations within structured digital interface.
Digital interface screenshot displays raster graphics software workspace, specifically Adobe Photoshop brush configuration panel positioned within upper left quadrant of the screen. The active environment indicates the brush tool settings dialog where adjustable parameters are presented, including circular preview icon, pixel-based size value, and hardness slider. Size is configured at eighty pixels as indicated numerically and graphically, with hardness control set to zero percent, producing a soft-edged application profile. Below the primary configuration area, a horizontal strip of thumbnail previews illustrates brush tip options with dimensions labeled in pixel increments, ranging from smaller units to larger coverage values. Cursor hover reveals tooltip identifying "Kyle’s Dry Media – Scraper (modified) (Smudge Tool)" as currently highlighted selection, signifying user customization of an existing preset to function within smudge blending operations.

Expanded library beneath the strip includes categorized section labeled "Dry Media Brushes," containing multiple preset entries such as "KYLE Ultimate Pencil Hard," "KYLE Ultimate Charcoal Pencil 25px Med2," and additional specialized graphite, chalk, and charcoal simulations. Each entry displays visual preview stroke indicating texture, edge dynamics, and opacity flow characteristics, allowing comparative assessment of surface behavior. The inclusion of "Kyle" identifiers denotes brushes originating from the Kyle T. Webster brush collection integrated into Adobe Creative Cloud library system, specifically emulating analog drawing instruments through digital vectorized rasterization algorithms.

Interface layout further displays contextual menus with top bar navigation including File, Edit, Image, Layer, Type, Select, Filter, and 3D categories, along with subordinate options for Mode set to Normal blending and additional adjustable opacity and flow fields not visible in the cropped frame. Yellow bounding line around screen edge suggests presence of Wacom Cintiq or equivalent external pen display device, where software window is maximized against hardware border. Reflected glare appears on protective surface overlay, producing specular highlight distortion consistent with photographic capture of emissive display under environmental lighting.

Overall, the image represents digital painting workflow environment in which artist selects from a curated set of smudge and dry media brushes to achieve textural realism, tonal modulation, and analog-style rendering in a digital workspace. Structural details visible in the panel reveal both interface hierarchy and parameter granularity, illustrating contemporary hybridization of traditional drawing technique emulation with computational control systems.
Mobile device screenshot displays professional profile webpage hosted on vp.eventival.com. Upper segment contains circular portrait photograph depicting individual with neutral facial expression, bald head, and digitally altered overlay across eyes resembling horizontal metallic slats or mechanical fins. Portrait background is uniform light grey, isolating subject without contextual environment.

Beneath image, bold typographic heading identifies name “Alex Boya.” Paragraph text below outlines career trajectory and philosophical framework. Content describes decade-long experience as creator affiliated with National Film Board, emphasizing engagement with cultural institutions as mechanisms to foster environments supporting human-computer co-development, artificial intelligence exploration, and human-computer interaction. Additional statements highlight Boya’s films as platforms for incubating experimental interactions, establishing innovative spaces where artistic media intersect with computational processes. Philosophical core articulated within text asserts that humanity remains central guiding force in technological progress, ensuring future development aligns with collective wisdom and ethical values.

Webpage design employs minimal layout, utilizing centered alignment, sans-serif typography, and monochromatic scheme. Text is arranged in justified blocks, ensuring clean margins and legibility on mobile interface. Bottom section contains interactive buttons rendered as outlined icons with corresponding functions: “More about,” envelope symbol for email contact, and circular icon for sharing or secondary action. Background remains plain white, reinforcing emphasis on textual and photographic content.

Visible browser interface elements include secure site lock icon, URL bar displaying vp.eventival.com, system status indicators for mobile signal and battery, and navigation icons for back, forward, share, and tab overview. Time reading “13:01” appears within top status bar. Scroll bar visible along right margin suggests additional content beyond current frame.

Overall presentation combines portraiture, biography, and digital interface components, functioning as institutional professional introduction situating individual’s creative practice within context of cultural, technological, and ethical discourse.
Photograph captures panel session held in conference environment with five speakers seated in front of projection screen. Session is part of MAPP PRO program dated 28 September, scheduled from 10:30 to 12:00 at Mila (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute).

Projection screen behind panel displays event details. Title indicates focus on augmented creation, examining how artificial intelligence transforms artistic practices and reshapes perception of digital culture: “Création augmentée: comment l’IA transforme l’expression artistique et la perception culturelle numérique.” Speaker images and names are arranged on right side of slide, while event branding and partner logos are visible at edges.

Panel composition includes five individuals seated in single row with handheld microphones. Participants wear casual to semi-formal attire. Rightmost speaker, dressed in dark jacket and glasses, is actively speaking while holding microphone. Central figures are seated with neutral postures, one clasping notes or device. Leftmost participant wears patterned shirt, contrasting with darker clothing of others.

Foreground includes Mila logo in large semi-transparent purple lettering projected digitally onto photograph’s corner, linking event to host institution. Surrounding environment includes exposed ceiling infrastructure, suspended lighting fixtures, and minimalist industrial-style interior common to academic or research venues.

Overall, the photograph documents public discourse on intersection of artificial intelligence and artistic expression within institutional framework, highlighting collaborative exploration of cultural and technological integration.
Image presents a dense visual collage composed of numerous individual artworks in mixed techniques including ink drawing, watercolor, digital painting, and pencil sketching. The arrangement combines figurative studies, architectural renderings, surreal hybrids, and narrative sequences. Prominent recurring motifs include anthropomorphic heads resembling loaves of bread, oversized animal figures such as bears, mechanical and architectural hybrids, and urban ruin environments. Upper-left quadrant contains large stylized portraits with exaggerated cranial forms, adjacent to a circular clock-face head and a windmill scene rendered in painterly strokes. Central zone includes sculptural bread-like heads drawn in various perspectives, alongside a bear-like creature painted with layered brown tones and visible fur texturing. Lower sections feature ink-intensive urban landscapes, with detailed cross-hatching depicting collapsing buildings, scaffolding, and chaotic environments. Several panels include process sketches of humanoid figures, articulated with jointed limbs and simplified block-like heads. Repetition of bread-headed forms occurs across multiple scales, integrating sculptural objects with drawn renderings. Mechanical imagery is also present, including turbine structures, scaffolding towers, and architectural domes. Tonal range alternates between muted sepia, rich browns, and full-color painted segments, producing contrast between monochrome drafts and more saturated finished works. The composition situates fantastical, grotesque, and architectural elements together in a non-linear layout, resembling a storyboard or reference archive. Overlapping arrangement of sheets, without uniform spacing, reinforces the impression of a working collection of studies and finished pieces assembled for thematic continuity. The collage as a whole emphasizes iterative exploration of hybrid identities, material transformations, and surreal environments.
The figure presents comparative ultrastructural and quantitative analyses of axonal morphology between control and experimental groups. Panels A–F show high-resolution electron microscopy images of myelinated axons across three anatomical regions: optic nerve (ON), lumbar spinal cord (LSCC), and thoracic spinal cord (TCSC). Control samples (A, C, E) display axons with circular profiles and uniform myelin sheaths, while experimental samples (B, D, F) exhibit variability in axon diameter and sheath thickness. Images highlight cross-sectional differences in fiber density, packing, and myelin compaction. Panels G–I provide scatter plots of axon diameter measurements, with regression lines indicating distribution relationships between conditions. Each scatter plot plots individual axon diameters (µm) against frequency counts, showing that experimental groups tend toward altered size distributions relative to controls. Panels J–L present histograms of axon diameter frequency distributions for ON, LSCC, and TCSC, respectively, with distinct peaks indicating shifts in axonal populations between groups. Panels M and N summarize quantitative comparisons in bar graph format: panel M shows mean axon diameter differences in the optic nerve, while panel N compares diameters across spinal cord regions. Statistical indicators (asterisks) denote levels of significance, with *** representing p < 0.001 and ** representing p < 0.01. The collective dataset illustrates region-specific and statistically significant differences in axon diameters between control and experimental conditions, integrating structural micrographs with quantitative morphometric analysis.
Image depicts a person standing in front of a wall with multiple sheets of paper pinned in a horizontal sequence. Each sheet contains a hand-drawn sketch executed in pencil or similar medium, showing simplified figures, anatomical outlines, or gestural forms. The arrangement of papers is linear, resembling a storyboard or visual sequence used for planning or instruction. The presenter is gesturing toward the sketches with one hand extended, while facing slightly toward the camera. The person is dressed in a textured sweater, and the setting suggests an interior workspace or studio environment with neutral-colored walls. The drawings vary in complexity, from minimal line outlines to more detailed anatomical or gestural representations, likely depicting different stages of movement or conceptual exploration. The overall setup indicates a process of visual explanation, collaborative review, or instructional demonstration within an artistic, educational, or research-based context.
The image is a densely layered collage combining drawings, photographs, and reference images to document the conceptual development of a bread-headed humanoid figure. At the center is a hand-drawn sketch of a figure labeled “TEST MAN,” annotated with red arrows pointing toward different design details and references. The annotations link aspects of costume, head design, and props to surrounding photographic documentation.

On the right side, multiple images depict bread-like sculptural head prototypes, photographed from various angles. One large close-up highlights the texture of a baked surface, while a sequence of smaller photographs shows iterative variations in form. On the left, photographs of mannequins, wooden apparatus, and armature elements illustrate supporting mechanisms. Additional smaller insets show textures, anatomical references, and alternative design explorations, including close-ups of heads, objects, and construction details.

The collage functions as both a mood board and a production sheet, unifying character construction, material testing, and visual inspiration. It merges hand-rendered illustration with practical material prototypes, situating the design process between concept art, sculpture, and cinematic previsualization. The layering of disparate sources emphasizes iterative experimentation, mapping the transformation of abstract design into tangible sculptural reality.
The image is a composite layout containing five distinct visual panels, juxtaposing digital 3D modeling with hand-drawn and digitally manipulated conceptual illustrations.

In the upper left, a screenshot of a 3D modeling software interface shows a red blocky structure consisting of rectangular forms, cylindrical pipes, and a large vertical tank. The interface resembles Autodesk 3ds Max or a similar modeling program, with a grid workspace and viewport tools. Adjacent to this, in the upper right, is a technical drawing rendered in fine lines and cross-hatched textures. The sketch depicts a complex industrial structure with towers, ladders, scaffolding, and pipes, blending architectural precision with imaginative elaboration.

The lower row contains three images. On the left, a collage integrates text, textures, and graphic overlays with photographic inserts, suggesting an experimental document or ID-like design. In the center, a dense hand-drawn composition features organic and mechanical hybrid forms radiating outward from a central symmetrical mass, mixing anatomical and machine aesthetics. On the right, a close-up photograph captures the blades of a large turbine or fan, emphasizing industrial engineering and mechanical scale.

Together, the collection emphasizes the interplay between digital 3D visualization, analog drawing, and experimental collage. The arrangement highlights a workflow where design concepts transition from sketch to digital modeling, and from photographic reference to speculative hybrid imagery, situating the practice at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and surrealist visual research.
The photograph shows a hand holding a slice of rustic bread covered with a creamy yellow spread embedded with dark seeds, likely poppy or chia. The bread’s irregular texture, air pockets, and artisanal crust emphasize its handcrafted quality. Above the bread, superimposed digital text reads “Omg so good!” accompanied by a folded-hands emoji, suggesting a social media-style caption or story post.

In the background, the wall is covered with layered artworks, printed images, and stickers. A central oil painting depicts a bread-like object or figure, executed in warm tones with expressive brushstrokes that highlight the loaf’s organic surface. Surrounding the painting are collaged references including photographic studies of bread textures, surrealist bread-related imagery, and illustrative stickers, one featuring a cartoon bread mascot labeled “TOASTER.” The collection functions as both mood board and exhibition-style arrangement, emphasizing bread as cultural object and creative motif.

The juxtaposition of the eaten slice in the foreground and the bread-inspired art in the background merges consumption with representation, collapsing the boundary between food as sustenance and food as artistic subject. The photo embodies a hybrid of culinary documentation, artistic research, and social media expression.
 
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