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In
the context of
CITÉ INVISIBLE/INVISIBLE CITY
7E MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE,
MONTRÉAL (MIVAEM)
September 20 - October 1,
2006
On-site at the
Grande Bibliothèque
www.champ-libre.org/citeinvisible
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PRESENTED
BY CHAMP LIBRE
in collaboration with the
Montreal contemporary art magazine PARACHUTE
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THEME AND REFLECTIONS OF THE SYMPOSIUM
In the context of Champ Libre's 7th Biennale, to take place
at the Quebec National Library in Montreal, the CITY - ART
- TECHNOLOGY symposium will reflect on interrogations concerning
the INVISIBLE CITY, linked to changing paradigms in today's
cities and between remote regions. We will attempt to analyze
how new global cities - defined by accelerated transformations
and new critical masses due to changing economies, populations
and demographics, political and social transformations - may
nourish a different concept of the city as well as new art
practices, which in turn reveal the city's ‘invisibility’
in imperceptible ways.
The Quebec National Library [inaugurated
in April 2005] is still today one of Quebec’s most ambitious
cultural projects, product of an international architectural
competition, won by Patkau Architects, Vancouver, Canada.
Built of wooden rooms and architectural promenades on 7 levels,
and with original points of view on the city, the Quebec National
Library becomes a true urban reference within Montreal’s
landscape with 10000 visitors daily.
The INVISIBLE CITY project discloses, through
its scenography and the presented works, hidden architectural
and urbanistic aspects of the National Library. Architectural
installations and national and international multimedia artworks
will be placed throughout the Library’s site, as multiple
micro-interventions in both its interior and exterior spaces.
CHAMP LIBRE
CHAMP LIBRE*, founded in 1992, (www.champ-libre.org)is
a nomadic electronic arts organization and research laboratory
that presents in situ events, inserted in the community and
putting in relation current practices of contemporary art,
of architecture, of urban planning and of new technologies.
During each event, Champ Libre transforms a different public
space and building and proposes to the visitor an original
intervention, a sensitive experience and knowledge of these
places stamped with new urbanity.
The MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE,
MONTRÉAL (MIVAEM) is a unique and major event on the
international scene of electronic art and urban architecture.
* Champ Libre, was a finalist in the 2005 Prix d'excellence
handed out by the Quebec Order of Architects for his scenographic
intervention at the Carrières Incinerator at Montreal
in fall 2004.
PARACHUTE
PARACHUTE, (www.parachute.ca)
a magazine published in both English and French, is a site
of interrogation and analysis of contemporary art in the world.
It seeks to foster the emergence of innovative art criticism
that makes strong use of conceptual and historical tools in
order to analyze new forms of art emerging in our time.
Founded in 1975 in Montreal, PARACHUTE has, since its inception,
striven to develop new critical methodologies and broaden
geographical and cultural horizons. By virtue of its transnational
perspective, PARACHUTE has become a reference for artists,
critics, researchers and curators; it is, according to the
daily Le Monde, “a model of the genre.”
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SYMPOSIUM
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22,
2006
10 am - Words of Welcome
François Cormier and Cécile Martin - Champ
Libre
Chantal Pontbriand - Parachute
10: 30 – 11:30 am - Saskia Sassen (England) –
Keynote Speaker
Making Public Interventions in Today's Massive Cities
THE GLOBAL CITY
11:45 – 12:15 pm - Narendra Pachkehede (India / Canada)
In Visible Cities: The Politics and Locality of New Spaces
12:15 - 12:45 pm - Louis Jacob (Quebec)
Commentaire sur la mort de Groethuysen à Luxembourg
1 pm - Lunch
THE INTERSTITIAL CITY
2:30 - 3 pm - Fabrice Raffin (France)
De la friche industrielle à la réinvention
urbaine de la culture
3 - 3:30 pm - David Tomas (Quebec)
Anonymous Monuments to Ordinary Man and Woman: The Strange
Case of Berlin's Ampelmännchen
3:30 - 4 pm - José Louis Brea (Spain) – Villes_RAM
[text reading]
4:20 - 5 pm - Francisco Lopez (Spain)
Blind City and the Exploration of Sonic Realities and Virtualities
5 - 5:40 pm - Michael Awad (Canada) – Entire City
Project
5:40 pm - Questions
10 pm – Performance Francisco Lopez – BLIND
CITY
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER
23, 2006
THE SENSITIVE CITY
10 – 10:45 am - Luc Bureau (Quebec) – L'Érotique
urbaine
10:45 – 11:45 am - Antoine Picon (France / United
States)
Scénarios pour une ville numérique : Événements
et individus
12 – 12:30 pm - Jonathan Sterne (Quebec) – Inaudible
City
1 pm - Lunch
THE BORDERLESS CITY
2:30 – 3:30 pm - Stefano Boeri (Italy) – Pour
un certain code génétique local [teleconference]
3:30 – 4 pm - James Partaik (Quebec)
Visiblement invisible : Quelques réflexions sur la
pratique technomade de James Partaik
4:20 – 5:20 pm - Chantal Pontbriand (Quebec)
Tectonica : art contemporain, villes et mondialisation
5:30 pm - Discussion with the public and symposium guests
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GUEST LECTURERS
MICHAEL AWAD, Architect
- Canada
Michael Awad holds
degrees in both Architecture and Urban Design. His practice
is a combination of art, architecture, design and urbanism.
He was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Architectural
Biennale in 2002. His current research project, Urban/
Aboriginal, examines possible relationships between Canadian
Aboriginal culture and urban design. His architectural practice
has been published widely in the academic, professional and
popular press. He currently holds the Chair of the Board at
The InterAccess New Media Art Centre.
LUC BUREAU, Geographer and Professor – Quebec
As a geographer, Luc Bureau specialises in the study of spatial
and temporal representations as well as in the relations of
reason and imagination in Occidental culture. He is currently
professor at Laval university in Québec city. He teaches
Cultural Geography.
STEFANO BOERI, Architect
and Professor of Urbanism, Theoretician – Italy
Stefano Boeri teaches Urbanism in Venice [Italy] and Lausanne
[Switzerland]. Architect, theorist and director of the Italian
architecture publication Domus, he also founded Multiplicity,
the research group on architecture and urbanism.
JOSE LUIS BREA, Professor and Art Theoretician
– Spain
Jose Luis Brea is a professor [Ph.D] specialising inEsthetics
and Contemporary Art Theory at the University Carlos III in
Madrid. He is also editor of the magazine Estudios Visuales.
LOUIS JACOB,
Sociologist and Professor – Quebec
Louis Jacob teaches in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Quebec-Montreal. Since several years, he is
interested in new artistic practices and their insertion in
public space. He is an associated scholar at the INRS (Institut
National de Recherche Scientifique - Québec) Urban
Planning and Culture.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ, Sound
Artist – Spain
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one
of the major figures of the underground experimental music
scene. He has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely
personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of
the world.
NARENDRA PACHKHEDE, Commonwealth Fellow, Theorist,
Media artist - India/ Canada
Narendra Pachkhede has been active as a programmer, theoretician,
curator and ethnographer. He straddles policy, practice and
praxis in the realm of transnationalism. He has been invited
to speak at various national and international forums on cinema,
culture, technology and new media. He currently works on micro-cinema
and accented technologies.
JAMES PARTAIK, New Media
Artist and Instuctor – Quebec
James Partaik’s truly hybrid creative practice embraces
a range of non-mainstream contemporary art forms and media
– audio, video, electronic site specific installations,
performance art and installActions. He is a founding member
of ARQHÉ, a multidisciplinary collective which examines
the relationship between art, architecture, landscape and
multimedia. Partaik lectures at Laval University in Québec
City, where he teaches Video, Audio and New Media Art.
ANTOINE PICON, Architect
and Professor – France / United States
Antoine Picon is Professor of the History of Architecture
and Technology at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard,
where he directs doctorate programs. His works deal with the
transformation of territories, cities and architecture, in
relation to the evolution of technical means. Besides numerous
historical works on the 18th and 19th centuries, he is author
of the essay: The City, Territory of Cyborgs. He
is currently preparing a book on digital culture, the city
and architecture.
CHANTAL PONTBRIAND, Director
PARACHUTE - Quebec
Chantal Pontbriand, art critic and curator, lives in Paris
and Montreal. She is the editor of PARACHUTE contemporary
art magazine, which she founded in 1975. She has organized
several contemporary art events: some twenty exhibitions,
fifteen international festivals and twelve international conferences.
She is currently finishing a book on Jeff Wall.
SASKIA SASSEN, Sociologist
and Professor – England
Saskia Sassen, eminent sociologist, has published numerous
works on urban sociology dealing with global cities, as well
as others on migration, feminism, information technologies
and social disparities, notably: The Mobility of Labor
and Capital (1998). Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis
Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial
Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
FABRICE RAFFIN, Sociologist, Researcher
- France
Fabrice Raffin, PhD in Socio-Anthropology and Director of
Research at S.E.A Europe in Paris, is a specialist in the
analysis of artistic and cultural practices and the city.
Since more than 10 years, he leads work on the reconversion
of industrial and commercial wastelands into cultural spaces.
He teaches Social Sciences, is co-author of Les fabriques
: lieux imprévus (L’imprimeur, Paris,
2000) and author of Les ritournelles de la culture
(L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006).
JONATHAN STERNE, Theoretician,
Writer, Professor – Quebec
/ United States
Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and
Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science
Program at McGill University, Montreal. He is author of The
Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
as well as numerous articles on media, technologies and the
politics of culture.
DAVID TOMAS, New Media Artist and Theoretician
- Quebec
Professor at the University of Quebec-Montreal and author
of Transcultural Space and Transcultural Beings,
David Tomas questions interculturalism, new technologies and
imaging systems.
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