AOPA-Retrospective Hinged

Weeks to Launch: 5

Whether you’re celebrating with loved ones, braving seasonal deadlines, slowing down and taking stock, or just trying to survive the crazy winter weather, we truly hope you’re able to take time and enjoy yourself. Tis the season!

This week, in honor of cuffing season, we thought it’d be a good time to unwind and invite you to get to know AOPA from another angle. We here at AOPA have enlisted the help of ChatGPT to generate some prompts inspired by those on the popular dating app Hinge. I hope it’ll show you why AOPA-Retrospective could be your perfect match!

So pull up with a cup of hot cocoa, cozy up by the fire (or wireless speaker), and enjoy. (btw, the artworks are by me :-)!)

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Match & Create

Meet the AOPA-Retrospective platform.

• Based in Montréal, QC but looking forward to travelling to meet you
• 10 years in the making but really, still the new kid on the block!
• Seeking committed long term relationships
• No philistines please
• Interested in unexpected connections

Getting to know Retrospective

“I recently discovered that…”

An online retrospective can be more than a gallery—it can be a living, evolving catalog raisonné, capturing every aspect of an artist’s career.

“My simple pleasures…”

Putting your oeuvre on a pedestal and watching your finished online archive transform into a beautifully designed, digital retrospective.

“I’m weirdly attracted to…”

Artists who know their work deserves a space that can tell their story for years to come.

“Your passion…”

Having your artistic legacy documented in a way that feels personal, purposeful, and completely custom.

“Dating Me Is Like…”

Spending time with a favourite work of art.

Until next week…

So… do you think it’s a match?

Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful holiday from all of us here at AOPA! You’ll be hearing from us again in the New Year. In the meantime, stay warm, and stay excited! I’ll be looking forward to keeping you apprised of all the platform’s developments as we get closer to AOPA-Retrospective’s 1.0 launch.

Have a suggestion? Maybe a question? Get in touch! We’d love to hear from you.

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Artworks in order of appearance: Mya Fernandes-Giles, After Hours (detail), acrylic on canvas; Community Platter (detail), majolica on terracotta

Mya Fernandes-Giles, AOPA Dedicated-Curator Assistant

Master’s student in Art History at Concordia University, working on a project that relies heavily on alternative archives. Has a great appreciation for record-keeping and cultural preservation, especially amongst little-known artists and communities. Recipient of the Concordia Merit Scholarship, the Guido Molinari Prize in Studio Arts and the Sarah Leaney Award in Ceramics and Fibers.

Artist Online Presence and Archiving (AOPA), provides professional online archiving and web-development services to mid- to late-career contemporary visual artists. AOPA was founded in 2023. It grew out of the freelance work of Don Goodes, who was an art critic and curator in Canada for a decade before moving over to web development in the cultural sector. AOPA delivers its services via a growing team of freelance writers, curators and designers spread across Canada. Over the past 2 years, the core team has been developing a flexible and comprehensive online platform called AOPA-Retrospective, a key tool in delivering AOPA’s services. AOPA-Retrospective is designed to fulfill the needs of contemporary artists, for both archiving and the online presentation of their oeuvre in the spirit of the catalog-raisonné.

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