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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

  2014.05.05

• tongues of living flame (2003)

  Audio program with live voice
  Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal
  nov 19 2003
  Commissioned in the context of Projet Bulbes par Artificiel.
  MIDI-synchronized matrix of 8×8 oversized light bulbs

  We would like to thank: Sophie Bellissent for her insight, Pascal Dufaux for La machination sonore, M/S sound recording by Ælab during his exhibition Des mesures dévastées, presented at La Maison de la culture du plateau Mont-Royal, Nikola Tesla for his words (adapted from My inventions,The Electrical Experimenter magazine, 1919), Louise Ismert for her warmth and support, and Artificiel for their superb impulsion apparatus.

  2003.11.19

• 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.

  

  2001.07.01

• 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

  2001.03.15

• 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

  

  1999.11.07

• 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.

  

  1998.05.15

• 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
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  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
  

  1998.01.01