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  • milieux associés (2014)

    Permutational performative installation & night projection

    May 5-22, 2014
    cover photo : Lorna Bauer

    Milieux associés is a permutational and performative installation linking art, technology and residual matter. The installation and performances engage the public through a variety of physical environments distributed in zones. Consisting of video, a swirling membrane, proximity and movement sensors, digital drawing, tactile and immersive sound, it also spills out onto the street at night as an evening projection on the windows of the Phi Centre seen from Saint Paul Street. The work explores the relationship of humans to hidden and neglected materialities that still hold capacity for transformation.

    Curated by Cheryl Sim
    Presented at the Phi Centre
    The installation will be on view Monday to Saturday,
 noon – 6 PM
    Projections will be viewable from the street Monday to Saturday, 9 PM – midnight
    Performances will take place Thursday to Saturday between 3-4 PM
    Exhibition opening, May 3, 3 PM
    Free admission
    This is a co-presentation of DHC/ART, Ælab, Grupmuv, Phi Centre and BIAN, as part of the International Digital Arts Biennial.
    Funding: Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FRQSC)

    Credits
    Sensors and programming: Jim Bell / Technical Director: Jason Pomrenski / Production assistants: Johannie Séguin, Simon Rolland, Matthieu Gagnon Lamarre, Natalie Lafortune / Technical support: Hexagram-UQAM, Laboratoire nouveaux médias OBORO / Financial support: Fonds de recherche québécois sur la société et la culture (FRQSC)

    Thank you
    Cheryl Sim, Phoebe Greenberg, Phi Center, Brian Massumi, Jimmy Lakatos, Laurent Lamarche, Yan Breuleux, Grupmuv, BFI-Lachenaie, Martin Pelletier, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Daniel Courville, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier.

    
http://bianmontreal.ca/en/artists/aelab
    
http://dhc-art.org/aelab-milieux-associes/

    Photos : Léa Trudel et Lorna Bauer

    Sub-matter
    May 10 2014
    Curated and presented by Florian Wüst (Berlin)

    A special event presented as part of Ælab’s exhibition Milieux Associés.

    Through a selection of experimental, documentary and industrial short films, film excerpts, audio pieces, and fragments of text, Florian Wüst will reflect on processes of transformation in relation to residue and waste, energy and subsistence.

    Photo : Gisèle Trudel

  • dark room (2011)

    Photos : Toni Hafkenscheid

    Dark Room
    Tactile sound installation
    2011

    A dark room designed for blackness, tactile sound, the bones, muscles and nerve network in the body. It’s a way to get in contact with inner & outer space, death and the sensuous. The room is an installation where people interact with spatial cues and intimacy while lying down on an elevated platform. This work is concerned with direct and swift transduction of the sound program to different sensorial zones of the body, mechanical transmission without airborne audio transmission. A sound massage from the chthonic.

    Included in SPLICE group exhibition

    SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine presents a scientific gaze at the human body by showcasing traditional anatomical art, complemented and challenged by contemporary artworks. A large-scale public showing of anatomical images by Maria Wishart, Eila Hopper-Ross, Nancy Joy, Dorothy Foster Chubb, Elizabeth Blackstock and Margaret Drummond, selected from the extensive collection of Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto Mississauga and the Division of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, is included in the show. These artists utilized their traditional knowledge of art and science to achieve a balance between realistic rendering and an artistic vision of the human body. Lately, contemporary artists have been initiating a fresh discourse by experimenting with a wide range of representations. Today the body is frequently politicized and digitized in order to manipulate, dissect and provoke. Through the work of these artists SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine addresses how understanding the complexity of the human anatomy requires both a scientific approach and aesthetic interpretation.
    – Nina Czegledy, Curator

    Pratt Manhattan Gallery
    New York
    Sept 20-Nov 19
    2013

    Blackwood Galleries
    Toronto
    October 24 – December 1
    2012

  • riding (2011)

    CDr

    Connect the ride with the elements and life forces in flux.
Recirculate blood and oxygen, exchanging at pulsed speeds. 
Moving in alignment, your kinetic mindfulness. 
Building a new body of steel and wind.

    Riding was born upstream in January 2011, at the SCANZ residency in New Zealand. Artists, scientists, Maori scholars and water people gathered together to exchange and actualize their views and ideas about the re-imagining of relationships with nature. Stéphane Claude, along with Gisèle Trudel stayed in a traditional long house at Waitara Marae for 3 days. Here they began a 2 week research and creation residency, meeting amazing people and co-creating new contexts for artistic practices. The residency culminated for them in a one night performance at the Fernery House 1 of the Pukekura Park botanical gardens. They performed during the evening, in the dark, with a multi-speakers arrangement (studio monitors, battery operated speakers) and video projected onto the fern’s room.

    Riding is comprised of field recordings, synthesizer sequences and binaural beating oscillating sine waves gathered in an uninterrupted ride. Sparse processing was done to the original field recordings: volume movements, EQ and soundfield manipulations. The recordings were collected in a trance-like posture, when listening becomes the musical unfolding of a conversation between phenomena. Blending, giving and opening up to transduction, physically.

    Duration: 39:01
    Format: CD-R
    Edition: 200
    Release Date: December 1, 2011*
    Cover: Gisèle Trudel
    Dragon’s Eye Recordings (Los Angeles)

  • èdres de Chantal Neveu (2005)

    èdres livre
    èdres | dehors disque compact
    de Chantal Neveu

    Première publication de la maison d’édition É = É
    Lancement le jeudi 20 octobre 2005, 17 h à 19 h
    Librairie Gallimard   3700 boul. St-Laurent Montréal, 514 499.2012

    èdres

    Infra-dit de pensées, d’humeurs, d’agirs, visions, passions et sensations – apparition d’un polyèdre relationnel.
    Une série de six èdres en six feuillets de six strophes composées de six hexamètres. Télescopage d’échelles non-illustrative,
    non-naturaliste, à la faveur d’une considération du non-visible, une perception du réel par-delà les critères de probable et
    d’improbable – à la faveur d’un entendement inouï.

    èdres  |  dehors (DC)

    Les six èdres enregistrés en six sites extérieurs à Montréal captés à la manière du cinéma-direct – six plans-séquences audio – six duos composés de quatre voix d’homme et d’une voix de femme – alternés avec six arêtes sonores.

    Interprètes : Christian Calon, Pascal Dufaux, Mario Gauthier, Christian Giriat et Chantal Neveu.
    Conception sonore, prise de son, composition et mastering: Stéphane Claude.
    Direction artistique: Chantal Neveu.

    É=É et l’auteur remercient le Conseil des Arts du Canada, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Louise Marois et Benoît Gravel.

    É=É ( rébus, lire  « ET TEL EST » )
    À l’automne 2004, Sophie Bellissent et Gisèle Trudel formalisent une collaboration de sept ans en créant le collectif É=É.

  • 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

  • la chambre d’essais (2002)

    A project by Atelier insitu architects

    in collaboration with
    Ælab, sound design
    Axel Morgenthaler, light design

    Presentation venue
    Canadian Centre for Architecture, April/Sept 2002

    Photo: Michel Legendre

  • Trois textes de Chantal Neveu (1999)

    Cette lecture a été enregistrée en direct à Montréal, le 7 novembre 1999.

    Trois textes
    Chantal Neveu

    CD audio coproduit par Æ et Chantal Neveu

    1 Concret
    1998
    lu par l’auteur
    11’52”

    2 Dans la chambre blanche
    1997-99
    lu par Vénélina Ghiaurov
    15’24”

    3 Moi, l’immonde
    1999
    lu par Alain Pelletier
    21’03”

    © Chantal Neveu, 2000

  • 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