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  • beech tree teachings (2024)

    Beech Tree Teachings of Resilience in Heat Waves and Flash Droughts.
    Video 3m15s

    The beech tree’s resilience is tested by disturbances in heat waves and flash droughts. Research by physicist and environmental data scientist Blandine Courcot at DOT-Lab’s forest research site (Quebec, Canada) shows that these trees, a living being, can withstand brief dry periods under moderate stress. However, excessive stress can be fatal. From 2017 to 2020, water potential, soil temperature and weather data were collected to understand this resilience. Courcot’s findings demonstrate American Beech trees in a northern climate maintain stable soil conditions despite high hydric stress and heat. Her research inspired the outdoor art installation ”devenir-hêtre (beech-becoming)” at the Fondation Grantham in May 2023 (Quebec). Ælab and MÉDIANE’s research team presented her data as sensory experiences in an outdoor art installation in a rural forest. It explored the beech tree’s delicate balancing between stress and strength amid changing climates, blending scientific insight with creative expression for public engagement.

    Commended Entry with Prize attribution

    Creative Climate Challenge no. 5 Heat Waves
    https://www.climatecreativeschallenge.com/challenge05

  • going with the flow (2023)

    going with the flow: exploring ecotechnologies in practice (click)

    An visual essay by
    Acer saccharum, cameras, Christoforos Pappas, computers, Daniel Kneeshaw, data loggers, dendrometers, electricity, Gisèle Trudel, heat, humidity, Manon Huberland, maple grove, Marie-Eve Morissette, MÉDIANE, microphones, Québec, rain, Sainte-Émélie-de-l’Énergie, sap flow sensors, SmartForests Canada, software, soil, sugar bush, sun, time, TouchDesigner, water, wind & 60 frames per second

    Published with an image-based multi-platform journal at the intersection of art, design, and sciences. A peer-reviewed journal exploring the full potential of multimedia and multi-platform publishing, .able’s aim is to deliver visual essays to the academic sphere and beyond, to bring this research and creation to as wide an audience as possible.

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  • 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)

  • these machines have the ability to self-organize (2009)

    Documentary, 12 min, color, stereo
    Original English version with French subtitles

    This documentary is a small sampling about the life work of biologist Dr. John Todd (recipient of the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award) and the ecoactivist writer Nancy Jack Todd.

    It is part of the process-oriented cycle of microevents entitled
    light sweet cold dark crude LSCDC (2006-ongoing) that includes  immersive sound, moving image, drawing and light that is informed by the transformations of waste water in various states of composition, decomposition and recomposition.

    Credits
    Documentary segment, interviews with Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd
    Jacques Perron _interview camera (video, photo)
    Stéphane Claude_interview sound
    Gisèle Trudel _interview, editing
    Catherine Béliveau _English transcription
    Jacques Perron _French translation

    Presented in
    Berlin, Germany (2009)
    Montreal (2009 and 2010)
    Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2011)
    EcoBio Festival, Prague, Czech Republic (2011)

    Produced with the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts 
and PAFARC-UQAM (Programme d’aide financière à la recherche et à la création de l’Université du Québec à Montréal).

  • in/fluencing (2005)

    Permutational media installation
    with 4 sensors : 
light, temperature, frequency of movement, proximity

    “Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.” – Nikola Tesla

    Originating in visual research* from the project DATA, this installation investigates the translation of magnetic phenomena of image visualisation at nano and micro levels.
The intuitive understanding that Tesla had of the potential of zero point energy, the idea of taping into the ambiant medium as a source of energy which is self-regulated and self-sustained, is initially evoked through a cantilever tip (as used by the AFM — Atomic Force Microscope), a point of contact unto a micro flowing surface, a never-ending exchange of magnetic/voltage coordinates.
The invisible becomes readable as the « needle » meets the random deviations of matter.

    With the collaboration of
    Carey Dodge _MAX/MSP programming
    Mathieu St-Arnaud _MAX/Jitter programming
    Andrew Watson _MAX/sensor programming
    Roméo Gongora _production assistance
    Christian Miron _sensor display design

    *Micro/nano imagery produced in a previous project/residency at the Nanolab, Chemistry Departement, McGill University, with Dr. Vicki Meli and Dr. Bruce Lennox, with financial assistance from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for art, science and technology.

    Produced specifically for
    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)

    Produced with the financial assistance of PAFARC-UQAM (Programme d’aide financière à la recherche et à la création de l’Université du Québec à Montréal)

  • 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

  • environ/mental (2002)

    Ælab, curators for video programme
    Commissioned by Katastrophe programme : Florian Wüst, Head Curator

    Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
    May 2-8 2002

    – Basic Bucky: Dymaxion House/Car, Robert Snyder, USA, 1966/90
    – WTO in Seattle, Adbusters, Kanada, 2001
    – San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake, Edison, USA, 1906
    – Björk – Jóga, Michel Gondry, Frankreich, 1997
    – Basic Bucky: Geodesic Domes, Robert Snyder, USA, 1966/90
    – Dirt Site, Alexander Hahn, USA/CH, 1991
    – Water, Water, Everywhere…, Gilles Blais, Kanada, 1971
    – Untitled: 002, MK12, USA, 2001
    – Basic Bucky: Roofs over cities, Robert Snyder, USA, 1966/90
    – Uranium Hex, Sandra Lahire, UK, 1987
    – GDP, Adbusters, Kanada, 2001
    – My heart the meteorologist, Deborah VanSlet, Kanada, 2001
    – Karao_k.mov, A. Frédérick Belzile, Kanada, 2000
    – Apple Grown in Wind tunnel, Steve Matheson, USA, 2000
    – Basic Bucky: Fly’s eye dome, Robert Snyder, USA, 1966/78/90

  • 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.

  • 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

  • sylva_au naturel (1999)

    Web project and vidéothèque

    Sylva
    A process-oriented web project (QTVR) concerned with the concept of nature and representation.

    Collaboration with German artist Florian Wüst, preliminary hosted by THING server in New York City.
    Final version produced in residency at TechnOboro, April 1999.

    Cover photo : Denis Farley

    Au naturel
    A continuation of the web project Sylva, an international videothèque programme about the landscape theme, including experimental and documentary works by Alexander Hahn (Switzerland), Tony Hill (G.-B), Marcel Schwerin (Germany), Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie (Québec), Crawley Fillms (Canada) and Gianni Toti (Italy).

    Co-curated with Florian Wüst.

    Presented at Oboro, Montréal, April 1999.