Thierry Beaupré-Gateau | Université du Québec à Montréal
Thierry Beaupré-Gateau is a professor in the Department of Management at the School of Management Sciences of UQAM. His work focuses on creativity and the imaginary of management. His approach is rooted in the arts and reflects alternative organizational practices. His previous studies in art history, literature and music, as well as his professional artistic practice in music, contribute to his intimate knowledge of research and creative environments.
Dany Beaupré | Université du Québec à Montréal
Biographie à venir.
Joanna Berzowska | Université Concordia
Joanna Berzowska is the founder and research director of XS Labs, a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments that can enable computationally-mediated interactions with the environment and the individual. A core component of her research involves the development of enabling methods, materials, and technologies – in the form of soft electronic circuits and composite fibers – as well as the exploration of the expressive potential of soft reactive structures
Johanna Bienaise | Université du Québec à Montréal
Biographie à venir.
Nicole de Brabandere | Université McGill
Nicole De Brabandere (PhD) is a visiting researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, working at the intersection of research-creation, experimental media practice and corporeality. Current research develops material practices alongside artifacts of computer vision that lend new insight into the generative animacies of A.I., including its affective and aesthetic effects. De Brabandere is the editor of Media, Practice and Theory: tracking emergent thresholds of experience, a volume with contributions spanning topics such as machine-learning, VR, film studies, critical sensory experimentation and performative archiving, forthcoming in summer 2022, Vernon Press.
Stéphane Claude | Oboro
Stéphane Claude is an electronic_acoustic composer and sound engineer. His research is based on integrating a conceptual and physiological framework of audio recording and sound installation for different diffusion contexts in the electronic arts. His interests gravitate around the communication of a formal aesthetic, of a transductive experience of the electronic medium, an exploration of digital signal processing, the parameters of acoustic and sound in spaces. His work has been published by ATAK(JP), LINE, DRAGON’S EYE RECORDINGS (US), ORAL (CA), among others.
Jean Décarie | Université du Québec à Montréal
Biographie à venir.
Manon De Pauw | Université du Québec à Montréal
Manon De Pauw is a professor at UQAM’s School of Visual and Media Arts and co-founder of Labo lumière [créations + recherches interdisciplinaires], an interdisciplinary research group on light. The manifest presence of the body in the work, the link between micro and macro and light as a source of affect are at the heart of her research-creation. Her photographic and video work, installations and public artworks are regularly exhibited at home and abroad. She has developed a singular approach to the performed image through numerous collaborations in the performing arts, literature and music, some of which have toured internationally.
Hélène Duval | Université du Québec à Montréal
Hélène Duval (PhD in Education, MA in Dance) is an associate professor in the Department of Dance at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a researcher at CRIFPE. Her research focuses on pedagogical practices in dance, on the arts as a means of academic and social inclusion, and on choreographic creation in plural contexts. She collaborates with David St-Onge, [co-researcher Hexagram member, ÉTS], with a puppet artist, dance movement artists, sound artist and a movement analyst, on a research-creation project (Prisme-art from FRQ) about humans and robots in interaction, crossing the notions of choreographic writing, intelligence of robotic swarms, expressivity, and recycled materials.
Simon-Pierre Gourd | Université du Québec à Montréal
Compositeur et Professeur en création sonore et média expérimental à l’École des médias de l’UQAM. Membre fondateur de l’Institut Universitaire des Nouveaux Médias qui deviendra par la suite l’Institut de Recherche et Créationen Arts et Technologies Médiatiques Hexagram. Membre fondateur du GRMS (Groupe de Recherche-création en Médiatisation du Son) et du Labo DEII (Laboratoire de Développement en Environnements Immersifs et Interactifs). Recherches et Intérêts : Création média et médias interactifs; Musique expérimentale et problématiques des nouvelles technologies; esthétique musicale et réception du langage sonore; Perception et phénomènes de représentation qui émergent des nouvelles pratiques actuelles, particulièrement en environnements immersifs.
Lynn Hughes | Professor Emerita – Studio Arts, Concordia University
Lynn Hughes is an artist and a researcher at Concordia University where she held the Chair of Interaction Design and Games Innovation from 2004 to 2018. In 2001 she was instrumental in the founding and financing of the Hexagram Institute for Media Art and Technology (now the Hexagram Network for Research Creation in Arts, Cultures and Technologies) In 2008 she founded, with Bart Simon, the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) Research Centre and, in 2015, the Milieux Institute for Art, Culture and Technology at Concordia University (with Simon and Christopher Salter). Her own production focuses on the collaborative design of hybrid physical/digital experiences – currently in the area between digital games, participatory theatre and larping. She also curates exhibitions of experimental games and has written a French manual on AI and its creative use, for high schools.
Martin L’Abbé | Université du Québec à Montréal
Formé en arts visuels, il s’intéresse à la production télévisuelle, la transposition du théâtre à la télévision et à la vidéo, la captation et l’archivage des arts de la scène. Il oeuvre dans les milieux des arts visuels, du théâtre, de la vidéo et de la télévision depuis plus de 35 ans. Il a réalisé des intégrations vidéo/théâtre et a travaillé à la création de plusieurs installations vidéo. Outre ses productions personnelles, il a produit de nombreuses émissions de télévision. Il a à son actif une centaine de captations en théâtre, danse et musique.
Anick La Bissonnière | Université du Québec à Montréal
Biographie à venir.
Benoit Melançon | UQAC-NAD
A former film technician, Benoit worked in post-production as a 3D animator and set supervisor. After several years spent in the field of videogames and visual effects, he joined the École NAD team in 2002. In 2006, he published Réaliser un film en animation 3D (Éditions Les 400 Coups), one of the first books written in French focusing on CGI cinematography. A specialist in digital previsualization, he completed a doctorate in film studies in 2020 at the Université de Montreal.
Armando Menicacci
After studies in dance and piano I obtained a degree in Music History and a PhD in dance and computer science. I’ve been teaching and doing research for ten years in Paris 8 University and five in Ecole Media Art in France. I create interactive installations, choreographic and theatrical works with several artists. I was associated artist in the National Theater “Le Manège” in Reims (France) between 2011 and 2014. Between 2015 and 2019 I have been a professor at Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada. My research is on gestural interaction design, dance and new media, visual arts, contemporary, interactivity, robotics and aesthetics.
Isabelle Miron | Université du Québec à Montréal
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Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon | École de technologie supérieure
Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon is a professor in the Department of Construction Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS). She holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Multifunctional Materials for the Circular Economy and Ecological Transition. She studied engineering at Dalhousie University, holds a master’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Montreal, a Ph.D. in geoenvironmental engineering from the University of Cambridge, and was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich. At ETH, she conducts research and teaches construction materials and technology management. Her current projects include functional materials, 3D printing of mortars, biobased materials, aerogels, wood and earth construction, scientific evaluation of industrial residues valorization in cement additives and other value-added materials, sustainable materials for greenhouses in a circular economy perspective, construction robotization, the environmental impact of materials, buildings, and cities.
Anne-Marie Ouellet | Ottawa University
Anne-Marie Ouellet was born in Alma, Lac-Saint-Jean. She is a theater professor at the University of Ottawa. In her research-creation, she seeks new modes of relationships between text, sound and bodies on stage. With Nancy Bussières and Thomas Sinou, she co-directs L’eau du bain, an organization that moves to create, getting out the theater to meet new landscapes and new characters. In recent years, they have presented White Out and The Children’s Room (FTA, CNA, Carrefour), an ambitious theatrical diptych as well as Solarium (Mois Multi, Big Bang, from Ottawa, Lille, Rouen and Antwerp), a botanical sound installation and Le Musée de la famille, a performative labarotary (Zones théâtrales, Maison théâtre).
Alain Paiement | Université du Québec à Montréal
Bio to be added soon.
Linda Paquette | Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Linda Paquette, Ph.D., is a psychologist and a professor of social and community psychology in the Department of Health-Sciences at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), as well as a regular researcher in the Centre Intersectoriel en Santé Durable de l’UQAC (CISD). She is interested in the integration of art and psychophysiology (biofeedback) as a way to facilitate and explore human interactions and emotions.
Diane Poitras | Université du Québec à Montréal
Biographie à venir.
Denis Poulin | Collège Montmorency
Denis Poulin was a dancer and choreographer before becoming a teacher of the art of dance at Collège Montmorency in Laval, where he founded the dance programs and Department of Dance in 1985, as well as a program of 3D animation based on human movement in 2007. He has been an associate professor in the Department of Dance since 2006. Fascinated by the art of dance on screen, Poulin has directed many films and videos intended to be shown on their own or as part of his choreographies for the stage or Martine Époque’s multimedia works.
Margot Ricard | Université du Québec à Montréal
Biographie à venir.
Kimberly Sawchuk | Université Concordia
Dr. Kim Sawchuk is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Mobile Media Studies, and is the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University.
Cheryl Sim | Fondation Phi
Dr. Cheryl Sim is the Managing Director and Curator at PHI Fondation for Contemporary Art. Recent exhibitions include GROWING FREEDOM by Yoko Ono and the group show RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting. Sim is also a media artist whose practice incorporates her background in media studies and research on post-colonial strategies in contemporary art practice.
Skawennati | Université Concordia, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Skawennati Tricia Fragnito is the Network Coordinator and Community Liaison for Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC). She is also Artist-at-Large with Urban Shaman gallery, as well as an independent curator, and occaisional writer. Though she has battled and vanquished past addictions to Tetris and SSX Snowboarding, she considers herself new to the gaming world.
Alexandre St-Onge | Université Laval
Alexandre St-Onge is an intermedia artist and a sonic performer exploring the mutation of the performative body through its sonic, textual and visual mediations. Philosophiae doctor (PhD) in art (UQAM, 2015) and assistant professor at l’École d’art of Laval University, he is fascinated by creativity as a pragmatic approach to the ungraspable and he has published over twenty works and he presented his work nationally and internationally. He founded éditions|squint|press with Christof Migone and he worked with collectives and artists such as : Marie Brassard, Simon Brown, Karine Denault, K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O., Lynda Gaudreau, Klaxon Gueule, kondition pluriel, Suzanne Leblanc, mineminemine, Line Nault, Jocelyn Robert, Second Regard, Shalabi Effect, undo et Unzip Violence amongst others.
Leila Sujir | Université Concordia
Leila Sujir is an artist, associate professor (Intermedia in the Studio Arts Department, Faculty of Fine Arts) and Chair of the Studio Arts Department, Concordia University. Her recent practice combines high definition video with stereoscopic technologies of image recording and projection. The monumental scale of her video projections and the “elastic depth” of the 3D images renders her work immersive, integrating the spectators’ corporal movements into its reception. Over the last thirty years, she has been building a body of video/video installation artworks exploring immigration, migration, nation and culture. Sujir’s works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NY and the Tate Gallery in England and are in collections including the National Gallery of Canada and the Glenbow Museum.
Alain Thibault | Elektra/Biennale internationale d’art numérique (ACREQ)
Alain Thibault is a composer, sound designer and electronic music artist. His works has been presented in several contexts, contemporary music and digital arts festivals, in Canada, Europe (Chatelet Theater and Radio- France in Paris, etc.) and Asia (Yamaguchi YCAM Japan, South-Korea, Taïwan, etc.). With media artist Yan Breuleux, he formed the duo PurForm. They are presently touring their new AV performance, abcd_light, in Europe and Asia. With American artist Matthew Biederman, he created the duo RAY_XXXX, whose PULSE performance was presented in Italy, France and Brazil. Thibault is presently artistic director of Elektra, an international digital arts festival, presented every year in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Julie Trudel | Université du Québec à Montréal
Julie Trudel is a visual artist who subscribes to an extended definition of painting and whose practice is part of a reflexive and conceptual painting approach. She seeks to update traditional concerns of abstract painting through a renewal of its technical means—in terms of the medium, support and spatial layout. Her most recent plexiglas works are an exploration of the effects of ambient light on colour. Her works have been exhibited throughout Canada, in Europe and the United States, and have also been included in two major survey shows of contemporary Canadian painting. She is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (Montréal). As a painting professor at Université du Québec à Montréal, she co-founded a research group focusing on light, the Labo lumière [créations + recherches interdisciplinaires].
