Commission launch

Jordan Bennett selected for Signature Piece

IOTA is proud to announce that Jordan Bennett has been selected for the creation of a new signature public artwork for the Dartmouth Sportsplex, and IOTA is SO incredibly pleased to be a project partner. Follow us on all social media platforms @IOTAinstitute to see the art in progress! You can find out more about

The wide sky – an archive – by Liz Solo

Liz Solo’s “The Wide Sky” is a story based on the fragmented memories of a scientist desperately trying to make sense of her deteriorating world. “During a recent archeological dig into the deep future, researchers discovered a damaged memory sphere embedded in the floor of an uninhabited forest planet. Though much of the sphere was corrupted some of the data was retrievable.

IOTA: DATA presents the commission Important Men – Jennifer Chan

Jennifer Chan’s “Important Men” looks like a lifestyle website and modeling portfolio. Chan was inspired by various popular, online initiatives to reform “toxic masculinity” and sought to create her own oeuvre of male portraiture, drawing from the important masculine influences in her life. Profiled are her current life partner, father, closest friends from different periods of her life, ex-lover and an acquaintance by which she is deeply inspired, all as idealized stock objects.

Three New IOTA: DATA Commissions

Canadian artists J.R. Carpenter (UK), Jennifer Chan (Toronto), and Liz Solo (St. John’s) will produce new web-projects in the genres of Digital Literature, Post-Internet, and Machinima respectively.