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SYNOPSIS OF THE PRESENTED WORKS
 1.
Mitchell Akiyama
En Mauvaise Herbe
10 mins
2003
Québec
Toronto born, Montreal-based composer and visual
artist Mitchell Akiyama has performed, recorded and
exhibited widely in North America, Europe, Japan and
Australia. His work explores notions of classification
and its consequences. Trained in classical music and
jazz, Akiyama has since become involved with video art
and its integration with sound composition, fusing the
organic and the digital.
En mauvaise herbe, Akiyama’s most recent work,
is a meditation on the processes of selection and ordering
that go on in urban environments; the judgments that
seek to eliminate certain forms of life while privileging
and supporting others.
Contact : mitchell@intr-version.com
 2.
Pierre Bongiovanni
Œuvre collective
06 min
2004
Québec, Australia, France
Artiste de l'art numérique, commissaire, fondateur
et directeur jusqu'en juillet 2004 du CICV PIERRE SCHEFFER
(l'un des centres d'art numérique les plus importants
en Europe qui a récemment cessé ses activités).
PIERRE BONGIOVANNI demeure une figure très influente
de la culture numérique française et internationale.
Il a récemment programmé trois installations
du chorégraphe américain WILLIAM FORSYTHE
lors de l'édition des NUITS BLANCHES tenue à
Paris à l'été 2003 qui fut un succès
public de grande envergure. En plus de présenter
une oeuvre vidéographique lors de la dernière
biennale CHAMP LBRE - DÉSERT – 6E MIVAEM
- intitulée NEXT TO NOTHING, PIERRE BONGIOVANNI
a présenté une conférence sur l'art
numérique aujourd'hui intitulée LES SURVIVANTS.
Atelier de création ciné-vidéo
: "la splendeur qui nous appartient".
Lors de son séjour à Montréal à
l’automne 2004 ; Pierre Bongiovanni était
président d’honneur de la biennale de Champ
Libre – DÉSERT – 6E MIVAEM. Durant
son séjour il a réuni 10 artistes, équipées
de caméras numériques ou appareils photos
numériques, fortement motivées pour passer
une semaine avec lui dans les rues et les quartiers
de Montréal.
Chaque demi-journée un membre du groupe devenait
le directeur artistique et tous les autres travaillant
sous sa direction et sur le même thème
: "la splendeur".
Cet atelier de création d’art numérique
avait pour but de renouer avec le sens politique et
poétique de l’urbanité et de prendre
conscience du regard de l’autre sur soi. Les artistes
participants venaient d’Australie, de France et
du Québec. L’œuvre collective a été
présentée lors de la soirée de
clôture de DÉSERT : 6E MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE
VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE , MONTRÉAL
(MIVAEM), à l’incinérateur des Carrières
en présence du public et des artistes.
Artistes participants :
Christine Wilmes, Patrick Mascaux, Naomi Oliver, Danilo
Villaflor, Pierre-Jean Grattenois, Sophie Solnychkine,
Thomas Fontin, Diana, Pascale Malaterre.
Contact :
pierre@bongiovanni.info
Pierre@encore-et-encore.biz
4.
Christian Boustani
Cités Antérieure : Bruges
1995
11mins 30 secs
France
Christian Boustani est artiste et professeur de l’art
numérique en France depuis une vingtaine d’années.
Il a fondé en 1982 un centre de création
et de production numérique - GRAND CANAL - à
Paris qui a contribué de manière exceptionnelle
à promouvoir la création vidéo
en France en produisant des œuvres d’une
très grande qualité artistique.
CITÉ ANTÉRIEURES est une œuvre forte
et ondoyante ou architecture et peinture se fondent
dans le sens le plus pur de la poétique des cités
anciennes. Par l’alchimie et la peinture, un peintre
cherche à percer le mystère de la ville
médiévale de Bruges en Belgique. Ce voyage
enchanteur à travers le temps suit les activités
quotidiennes des habitants de la ville pendant qu’ils
déambulent à travers des paysages oniriques
et poétiques.
Contact: http://www.grandcanal-video.net
 5.
Bull & Miletic
Whir
00 :12 :00
2002
USA
Synne Bull is a graduate in Theatre Theory at the Oslo
University.
Drajan Miletic is a graduate from the San Francisco
Art Institute. Their work has been presented in various
cities, notably in: Turin, Hong-Kong, Tijuana, Munich,
Belgrade, Hiroshima, Graz, Rotterdam, Liverpool, Dortmund,
Saint Petersburg, Baltimore and Kassel.
1. A sound of buzzing or vibration: the whir of turning
wheels.
2. Excited, noizy activity; bustle: the whir of busy
shoppers.
Contact : mail@bul.miletic.info6
6.
Dan Calin
Sample City
2003
11 mins 45
Romania
With an MA in Art History & Theory Dan Calin began
his career as art journalist, free lance curator and
cultural manager (with the Soros Foundation, Romania).
Currently based in Amsterdam, Calin holds various teaching
positions (notably the Art University Bucuresti and
the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht) and acts as
Creative Director for rich media platforms, most notably
the Lost Boys Interactive in Amsterdam.
“Sample City” video (2003) tries to recount
the anthropological dimension of a city situated at
the crossroads between European identity and Jewish
Diaspora, gypsy folklore and Stalinist aesthetics.
Contact : calin@euronet.nl
7.
Graham Clayton Chance
I think i'd like it on the other side
00 :06 :46
1997
England
Based in Manchester, UK Graham is a video, installation
and performance artist. For his upcoming release with
C0C0S0L1DC1T1 he will be collaborating with UK based
sound artist Ian Heywood.
Contact : champ@champ-libre.org
 8.
Gordon Matta-Clark
City Slivers
1976
00 :15 :00
USA
Born in New York and trained in architecture at Cornell
university Gordon Matta-Clark presents a multi-disciplinary
perspective on the arts, focuses his work on photography,
film, video, performance, drawing, photo collage, and
sculpture in the form of large-scale interventions into
existing architecture.
City Slivers presents a formal investigation of New
York’s urban architecture. The film was planned
to be projected on the exterior facade of a building,
and was shown for the first time in the open air exhibition
ARCADES and later in the Holly Solomon Gallery.
Contact :
Electronic Arts New-York, New York: www.eai.org
9.
Adam cohen
Blind Grace
1993
00 :21 :00
USA
Adam Cohen is a New York City born Film/Video maker,
working in a territory somewhere between film, photography,
painting and video. He takes the city as a place to
explore themes of memory and forgetting, time and ephemerality.
He has exhibited at numerous festivals and museums around
the world.
Blind Grace, shot between 1989 and 1993, presents a
personal street document; New York City caught on the
verge of disappearance, wherein presence becomes absence
and poetry was the only thing left.
Distributeur : Vidéographe : www.videographe.qc.ca
10.
François Girard
Le jardin des ombres
1993
00:35:00
Québec
Quebec-native François Girard has achieved world-wide
fame in the film-industry with such fims as Thirty two
short film about Glen Gould, which won four Genies including
best director and best picture, and The Red Violin (1998)
which won eight Genies and an Oscar for best original
soundtrack. He has also explored more experimental sides
of video and film and new media’s relation with
architecture.
JARDIN DES OMBRES is a sensitive and poetic work about
the Quebecois architect ERNEST CORMIER.
Contact : champ@champ-libre.org
 11.
Nelson Henricks
Fenêtre
1997
00:03:00
Québec
Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta . He
moved to Montréal in 1991 and received a BFA
from Concordia University, where he now teaches. Henricks
has also taught at the Université de Québec
à Montréal and McGill University. A musician,
writer, curator and artist, Henricks is best known for
his videotapes, which have been recently presented at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Over the course
of one year, the author shot footage from the front
window of his third floor apartment.
WINDOW explores notions of repetition and variation
in the process to knowledge. Experience is “the
sum of all sight and sound. The sum of all motion.”
Contact :
www.videographe.qc.ca
 12.
Jowita Kepa
Static Decharge (for Bleeding Eyes)
00 :02 :00
2001
Canada
Jowita Kepa is a video artist based in Toronto. Her
work has screened in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Zurich,
Novi Sad, Chicago, Vancouver, Quebec City, Montreal,
Ottawa and Toronto.
Static Discharge is a composition of video noise that
creates a pulsating tension, as
electricity grinds with flesh, revealing the harsh beauty
inherent in the mechanical medium.
Contact: jowitakepa@hotmail.com
 13.
Thomas Köner
Banlieue du Vide
2003
00:05:00
Germany
Thomas Köner, a native of Germany, trained in film
and sound engineering has a special interest in exploring
the combination and interaction of visual and auditory
experiences. His work "Banlieue du Vide" was
given the NORMAN prize 2004 ("Best Film")
at the Filmwinter Stutgart and nominated for the "MuVi
award 2004" (best german music video) at the International
Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Thomas Köner's installation Banlieue du Vide refers
to an existential quality of everything that is in the
process of disappearing. Waiting and absence define
our existence: what we are looking at is always fading
away from us. Using webcam pictures of winter landscapes
and a soundtrack consisting of grey noise and traffic
sounds created from memory Koner produces an ephermeral
portrait of time passage and a moment’s decay.
Contact :
http://www.koener.de/bdv.html
thomas@koener.de
 14.
Paul Landon
Zoo
2004
00:02:00
Québec
This video showcases Berlin`s Zoologischer Garten train
station. The movement of a train arriving in the station
renders our perception fuzzy and dazing. Zoo speaks
about the effect of destabilization one feels upon arrival
in a large city. The soundtrack is created from the
noises made at the beginning of a vinyl disk, noises
which announce the arrival of music.
Contact : landon.paul@uqam.ca
 15.
Francis Leclerc
Tokyo Maigo
1997
Length
Québec
Francis Leclerc was born in Quebec City in 1971. While
studying communications, he began to develop an interest
in film, and subsequently directed more than 20 short-
and medium-length works during the 1990s. He has been
working in Montréal since 1995 shooting music
videos for a variety of well-known Quebecois artists.
Tokyo Maigo presents Francis Leclerc’s impressionist
pictures of the Japanese metropolis with dominating
night vision. By means of a game views and to panoramic
jerky plans, Tokyo is transformed into a futuristic
city. A voice out of the field anchors the furtive and
fleeting pictures into a narrative which poetically
underlines the city itself.
Contact : zaclerc@sympatico.ca
16.
Chloé Leriche
Comme une ombre allongée sur l’asphalte
2001
00 :03 :00
Québec
Chloé Leriche is a Montreal videographer and
a member of the Kino collective. She creates ironic
experimental narratives of urban life.
Images of old matresses and leftover voice messsages
as much
of layed down shadows on asphalt.
Contact :
chloeleriche@hotmail.com
17.
Franck Magnant
Édifice
1994
9 mins
France
Franck Magnant est un artiste vidéo d’origine
française. Il a produit une série de vidéos
en collaboration avec le Studio Grand Canal à
Paris incluant « le nu » 1989, « Qui
n’a jamais rêvé avoir été
» 1990, « Épilogue » 1990 et
« Alchémie pour une image » 1991
pour lequel il s’est mérité le 1er
prix Hérouville St-Clair en 1992. Synopsis
La bibliothèque, lieu empli de confusion, au
croisement des peuples et des langues, se déploie
dans son infinie complexité. Dans le chuchotement
de ses salles, au hasard de ses allées, se fige
dans le silence le regard de lecteurs d’un autre
temps. Les écrits, les projections de la pensée
qui se forment dans ce lieu cimentent cet impossible
édifice.
Contact : http://www.grandcanal-video.net
 18.
Francis Montillaud
Décharge Maximale
00 :11 :00
2003
Québec
A native to Quebec, Montillaud is inspired from his
experiences with the outside world, whether it be that
of mass culture or the life of a mere individual. Working
often with digital technologies Montillaud turns the
camera on everyday life.
I am interested in the different strata of society,
from those who control, those who execute and those
who hang on to those that drop out. Digital technologies
have been very useful to express this representation
of the world. I work a lot with photographs taken during
my travels or everyday life. These are fragments of
reality which surprise me and which I afterwards rework
into my videos.
Contact : hellatruckers@yahoo.com
19.
Guylaine Seguin
“Lieux-Objets”
2mins 30
Québec
Guylaine Séguin détient un baccalauréat
en arts visuels de l'UQAM. Elle a
participé à plusieurs expositions collectives
et a deux expositions
personnelles à son actif. Son travail d'installation
vidéo et de
photographie s'articule autour des notions d'objectivité
et de subjectivité
dans la perception de l'espace.
Collection d'objets vidéographiques statiques,
à l'intérieur desquels se
déploient des lieux visités par une caméra
subjective. Les images vidéos
sont "pliées" afin de reconstruire
la géométrie de lieux et d'objets
imaginaires. Montage effectué à partir
d'extraits vidéo provenant
d'installations de l'artiste.
 20.
Julio Soto
Invisible Cité
2002
00:06:13
USA
Born in Spain, Julio Soto has graduated in Fine Arts
from the Pratt Institut, NY. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Imagine a ubiquitous camera evolving through landscapes
of surreal imagery in a post-apocalyptic generic urban
center and the nature taking over every space around.
Best Experimental Film at the 5th Brooklyn International
Film Festival.
Contact :
www.lunapictures.com
jsotogur@yahoo.com
21.
Suzan Vachon
Les Heures d’argent (des illuminations)
2002
21 mins
Québec
Née en 1953 Suzan Vachon vit et travaille
à Montréal. Elle est chargée de
cours à l’Université du Québec
à Montréal et à l’Université
de Montréal. Artiste interdisciplinaire elle
conçoit sa pratique comme espace polyphonique
de recherche.
Pour Les Heures d’argent (des illuminations),
j’ai cherché à installer les conditions
d’apparition d’images subites, à
interroger certains phénomènes oscillatoires
tels la présence, la disparition, la réapparition
et à représenter ces phénomènes
de façon lumineuse.
 22.
Chris Wainwright & David Bickerstaff
Channel 14
2004
00:07:30
England
David Bickerstaff: Working with new technologies and
lens-based media, David works and lives in London and
has exhibited in the UK and internationally. He is the
founder of atomictv.com and creative director of newangle.co.uk.
Chris Wainwright: Chris Wainwright is an artist, curator
and Dean of the School of Art at Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design, at the London Institute,
and vice-president of ELIA (the European League of Institutes
of Art).
Running through London's centre is the once majestic
river Thames. It is no longer a vital trade route as
its wharfs, warehouses and factories are now making
way for exclusive leisure and residential conversions.
The river's calm is however misleading as this is a
landmark in decline where adjoining space is either
contingent or exclusive and human presence is speculative.
Contact :
chris@mvrocktheboat.co.uk,
david@atomictv.com
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