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Denis Farley (1956– ) is a Canadian photographer and artist based out of Montreal, Quebec. His body of work engages with concepts of technological advancement, nature, transmission, and physical and digital space. Farley completed a master’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University in 1984 and currently teaches part-time at the Université du Québec in Montreal (UQÀM). 

Farley’s practice has developed over the past 30 years with a focus on technologies and their impacts on the Earth through climate change and what he deems the colonization of public spaces by technostructures. As well, he engages notions of telecommunications and technologies as ubiquitous, constantly existing in the air all around us. 

Farley has exhibited his work across Canada, the United States, and parts of Europe, and has works in numerous private and public collections. He has works in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, and the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris.