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  • data (2003-2009)

    Photo cover : Paul Litherland

    media installations

    DATA is research on the “forces” of the image at different scales of perception, produced through an artist residency with  Dr. Vicki Meli at the Nanolab of McGill University’s Chemistry Department (Dr. Bruce Lennox, Chair and Director).

    A relationship blossomed over the 8-month period (July 2003-Feb 2004) with both scientists, which led us to discuss issues around imaging, education, ethics, ecology, and the relationship between art and science.

    We were able to work with various digital micro and nano imaging technologies, the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope), the AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) and the STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope), view physical samples and subsequently record them as 2D files, 3D mappings of surfaces and live video output.

    Funding from The Daniel Langlois Foundation for art, science and technology.

    Presentation venues
    National Gallery of Sofia, Bulgaria Sept-Oct 2003, group exhibition Radical:Vaguely, Rossitza Daskalova, curator.
    Solo exhibition, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, curated by Sylvie Gilbert, Dec 2004-Jan 2005.
    DATA, video, Gala evening, ACFAS, Salle Pierre-Mercure, Montréal, 10 May 2004
    DATA: Transfers, oeuvre Web, Horizon Zéro, numéro 14 RÊVER, Banff new media institute, Banff 24 April 2004
    InterAccess, group exhibition SCALE, curated by Camille Turner, June 2006.
 Presented by Subtle Technologies 2006
    Millenium Museum, group exhibition INSIDE, curated by Sylvie Parent, Beijing, China, July 2006.
 Presented by Groupe Molior
    Maison des artistes, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Groupe exhibition REGARDS curated by Kevin Kelly, March-May 2007
    Paço das Artes, group exhibition INSIDE, curated by Sylvie Parent, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May-July 2008.
 Presented by Groupe Molior
    Exposition collective, Le 25e printemps d’OBORO, 18 avril – 2 mai 2009

    Solo exhibition, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, curated by Sylvie Gilbert, Dec 2004-Jan 2005. Photos : Paul Litherland.

    National Gallery of Sofia, Bulgaria Sept-Oct 2003, group exhibition Radical:Vaguely, Rossitza Daskalova, curator

  • green (2001)

    3D study by Gisèle Trudel

    Web project

    The project consists of visualizing the city of Montréal in a sci-fi eco-architecture scenario for today.

    A hommage to Frederick Law Olmsted, the American founder of landscape architecture, who designed both Central Park (NYC) and Mount-Royal Park (Montréal), in 1858 and 1876 respectively.

    Presentation venue

    This Web project developped especially for the group exhibition Emplacement/Déplacement, by curators Sylvie Parent and Valérie Lamontagne, presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, September 2001.

    We wish to thank Groupe Intervention Video for having webhosted this project.

  • selfsimilarity (2001)

    Web project

    In July 2001, we were invited by Boréal Art/Nature to research and do the pre-production for a new web project, based on graphic work of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century artist and biologist (1834-1919).

    Original objects and natural phenomena discovered and observed on site at La Minerve, Québec are digitized with a video camera and scanner onto a portable computer. The juxtaposition of these elements are grouped into a series of 2D computer studies for the web, including animations, video and text, inspired by the progression of associative and formal lithographic works which make up the KunstFormen der Natur series elaborated by Haeckel from 1899 to 1904.

    Our fascination for this portfolio of strange and beautiful imagery is because it is usually invisible to the naked eye.

  • hex_nanospace (2001)

    hex at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Photo : Gisèle Trudel

    hex _ nanospace
    2001
    media installation and audio-video performance

    Hex is an multichannel audiovideo installation initiated during winter 2001 during a residency at Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam. The installation is comprised of six (6) projection screens (1.5m x 3m each) made of fabric and resin modelled from low-reliefs, with three synchronized video programs and 5.1 surround sound.

    Nanospace is a live version of Hex (two soft-sync video channels mixed live and audio performance).
    Hex and Nanospace find their sources in minimalist design and the fascinating new imagery of nanotechnology.

    The two experimental works postulate that it is in the observation of nature that lie the technological solutions (recycling, bionics, green architecture, sustainable design) to  environmental problems.

    The works draw on the shape of the hexagon, utilized as a symbol as well as a structural system… a type of imminent trajectory of matter in transformation, and the ensuing imperceptible changes: from the molecular reality of carbon to a global planetary view.

    Presentation venues

    HEX
    Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2001

    Nanospace
    Mutek, Montreal, 2001

    Funding by Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

    Nanospace photos, AElab in rehearsal at Mutek (Ex-centris, Montréal) : LA Lauzière

  • s8p antennas, transmission (1998-2005)

    three versions
    performative audiovisual essay, multichannel audio and video, approx 45 minutes

    s8p antennas, transmission is a multi-channel performative essay integrating a central interpretative audiovisual component (20mn) which deals with the metaphorical interpretation of antenna principles and transmission. This piece engages a physiological response to the root subject of the project, the electromagnetic medium.

    s8p originates from the Sparks series. It is a mix of documentary facts within a larger experimental genre with shifting perspectives which include interviews, autobiographical texts, animations, archival sources, metaphorical interpretations and original sound design.

    Interviews with
    Jeffrey Stanley (screenwriter, New York),
    Velimir Abramovic (philosopher, Belgrade, Serbia)
    and Andrew Michrowski (director of PACE _Planetary Association for Clean Energy, Ottawa).

    Presentation venues
    Expanded media, HBK Braunschweig (Germany) 1998
    Elektra (Canada) 1999
    V2 (Holland)
 2000
    Mutek (Canada)
 2001
    Tesla-Berlin (Germany)
 2005

    Shot on location in New York, the Nikola Tesla Museum (Belgrade), Museum of Science and Technology (Belgrade) and Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (Varennes, Qc).

    Produced with the financial assistance of Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and The Canada Council for the Arts.

    Double screen configuration.


    At Expanded media, Braunschweig, Germany, 1998.


    At Elektra, Usine C, 1999.

  • sparks (1998-2005)

    Experimental documentary, color, NTSC, stereo
    total running time: approx 39 minutes
    Distributed by VTAPE

    Photo cover : Ælab at Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (Varennes, Qc). Photo : Sophie Bellissent.

    Sparks is a modular video series comprised of 5 video capsules which finds its inspiration in the life of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943).

    Sparks mixes documentary facts within a larger experimental genre with shifting perspectives which include interviews, autobiographical texts, animations, archival sources, metaphorical interpretations and original sound design.

    Interviews with Jeffrey Stanley (screenwriter, New York), Velimir Abramovic (philosopher, Belgrade, Serbia) and Andrew Michrowski (director of PACE _Planetary Association for Clean Energy, Ottawa).

    The 5 capsules can be seen independently, in clusters of two or three, or all together, and can be interspersed within a thematic video programme.
    s1 Tesla and his time (1999, 7 min), an overview of his life work and prodigious personality.
    s3 Colorado Springs (2005, 6 min), the wireless transmission of electricity/energy.
    s5 Niagara Falls (2005, 5 min), the war of the currents (AC vs. DC), and Edison’s rivalry with Tesla.
    s8 Wardenclyffe (1999, 10 min), his laboratory in Long Island, N.Y. where in 1901 he tried to establish the basis for his ‘World Broadcasting System”.
    s11 Tesla and the future (2005, 8 min), the legacy of the inventor and a reflection on the perception of time.

    Shot on location in New York, the Nikola Tesla Museum (Belgrade), Museum of Science and Technology (Belgrade) and Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (Varennes, Qc).

    Produced with the financial assistance of Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and The Canada Council for the Arts.

    Also part of the group exhibition Resonance. The Electromagnetic Bodies Project.
Curated by Nina Czegledy and Louise Provencher
    European tour: July 2005_September 2006
    OBORO (Canada)
    ZKM (Germany)
    Conde Duque Medialab (Spain)
    TENT _V2 (Holland)
    Ludwig Museum (Hungary)
    Maison européenne de la photographie (France)

    Presentation venues
:
    tesla-berlin, Germany, May and November 2005, Carsten Seiffarth, artistic co-director
    www.mobilegaze.com, no. 1, 2000
    Voices in my Head,Video Pool, Winnipeg, Feb 00, curated by Nicole Gingras
    PassArt, Rouyn-Noranda, March 00, curated by Monique Langlois
    Taste of Landscapes, Videomedjia, Novi Sad, Dec 99, curated by N.Czegledy

    Image composition  : Gisèle Trudel