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INSTALLATIONS PROGRAM BY YAN BREULEUX : [RE]GENERATION


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.


  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.

    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.


 

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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DESERT : 6th MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE
MONTREAL - SEPTEMBER 20 TO 27, 2004 - PRESENTED BY CHAMP LIBRE