INSTALLATIONS
PROGRAM BY YAN BREULEUX : [RE]GENERATION
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I8U
Burden
2004
I8U's audio art can be qualified as "sound-sculpture".
It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments
where the analog and digital meet. Her web art can
be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both
musical and visual elements. I8U's musical path is
rather special. From classical music to the blues,
it took only one chance meeting with David Kristian
to get her involved in electronic music. I8U has participated
in various music and new technology festivals across
Canada, Europe and the US. Her CDs have been released
on Canadian and European labels such as bake/staalplaat
(Nehterlands), Oral (Montreal), Piehead records (Toronto)
as well as a collaboration with Goem, Amsterdam on
the Mutek label. She recently took part in the compilation
"60 sound artists protest the war" on the
Japanese label ATAK. I8U's particular interest in
music, sound and web art enabled her to produce her
first web art project. I8U's latest web art project,
gate, is part of the exhibit <PAUSE> curated
by the collective Mobile Gaze. www.i8u.com
I8U explores the insitu concept in a radical way.
For the creation process she shows up with a camera
a sound recorder and captures a brief moment, an object,
and sounds from the site. These sounds and images
then become the formal basis for a symbolic reinterpretation
of the site based on materials taken form it. Inspired
by a fable on the desert from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke
Zarathustra the formal material of the incinerator
thus takes on another meaning.
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Luc
Lavergne, Vj Many-2
Projet : Plante Robotique
2004
Luc Lavergne, also known as VJ Many-2, works in the
fields of real-time video manipulation, Vjing and
3D graphics, video games and multimedia art.
His favored research fields are interactivity and
multi-screen projections.
Luc Lavergne's (Vj Many-2) project consists of the
development of a robotic plant, a sort of artificial
organism that grows in relation to the site. The formal
verticality of the video image and the theme of Re[generation]
inspired the artist to work on the organic aspect
of information. A sort of artificial life that borrows
its imagery from video games, these plants grow according
to a life cycle. These bio-cybernetic machines reproduce,
multiply, change shapes and spread out in different
places. All the while telling a story, which can be
accessed from any point, Luc Lavergne's robotic plants
evolve in the sterile universe of the incinerator.
At the boundary between artificial and biological
life, the real and the virtual, the dead architecture
of the incinerator and the movement of the video image,
Luc Lavergne's video images unfold in the hybrid in-between
of an uncertain world dominated by the machine.
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Frédéric
St-Hilaire,Vj Cinetic
Interférence
2004
Frédéric St-Hilaire, a.k.a Vj Cinétik,
has been an active participant in the Montreal electronic
scene since 1998. Founder of the Paranostudio, he
was the resident VJ at the Sona afterhours club from
1999 to 2001,and has since moved his video activities
to the Aria afterhours club. Since 200 he has worked
on performance projects such as the Chemical Brothers
record launch in Frankfurt. He also works on advertising
videos.
Cinétik, whose artistic work mainly focuses
on interference, will work with a contortionist for
the image shoot. Broadening his artistic explorations,
the artist will not enter into communication with
the site but into a relation of interference brought
by a contrast effect. It is the through the limits
imposed by the massiveness of the incinerator and
the heaviness of the space on the human body that
he interprets the idea of Re[generation]. The body
will attempt to adapt, to communicate, and to extricate
itself from the gravity exerted by this immense surface
of reinforced cement. In order to adapt itself to
the frame, the body must twists itself into extremes,
almost to the point of breaking. Nothing could be
more anti-kinetic than the contorted position of a
body twisted in half. The body's steadiness, however,
hints at the idea of a breakaway, a potential catastrophe
that would release it back into movement. It is this
powerful contrast, a contrast amplified by the projection
space, that gives the body its dramatic aspect.
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LIPS
Entropie
2004
René-Luc Desjardins
He is presently completing a Master's degree in
architecture at UCLA. His academic background and
his work experience have given him the opportunity
to create and finish a series of multidisciplinary
works. He is a member of the company Elastika and
he develops his own architecture and design projects.
Frédéric Caplette
After studies in architecture, Frédéric
Caplette works mainly on the design of movie theaters
and show venues for a Montreal firm. He currently
teaches computer assisted drawing and design all
the while carrying out his personal projects which
combine architecture with other disciplines.
Jean Couture
Born in Sherbrooke to a designer father, he grew
up in a milieu that was always creatively stimulating,
After receiving his Bachelor degree in environmental
design from UQAM he began a successful career as
a corporate and commercial designer. He now divides
his time between teaching design workshops at the
Université de Montréal and his private
practice.
Itaï Azerad
Itaï Azerad is an industrial designer. He explores
the themes and relationships of the object/user.
His multidisciplinary work often leads him to collaborate
with artists, architects and other designers. His
works have been presented in various international
shows such as the Biennale Intérieur in Belgium
and the Tokyo 100% Design.
Entropy Project
LIPS (Ligue d'improvisation et de performance spatiale/League
of spatial improvisation and performance) is an
artist collective made up professional architects,
designers and visual artists. Within the project
RE[generation] "Entropy" manifests itself
as a spontaneous construction that uses a recycled
bottle of water as a unit of measure. |
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