Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland defined a demographic with his 1991 novel Generation X, the groundbreaking tale of twentysomethings gone astray. He's also a playwright and a sculptor. A show opening this week at Montreal's Canadian Centre for Architec-ture offers the keys to his mental city-scape. In it, pretty much everything is plastic. "Super City -- An Installation by Douglas Coupland: Building Kits and the Modern Imagination," opening June 9, explores the nostalgic power of building toys.... Read more

Picture a cyber geek, and a bespectacled teen or college-aged male is likely to come to mind. But girls can be geeks, too -- and Montreal's HTMlles Festival is doing all it can to help.

The seventh edition of the cyberart fest, May 18-21, presents works by women involving digital technologies.... Read more