Wednesday
December 3, 2025
5 to 8 p.m.
Free
Hexagram-UQAM Experimentation Room
Room SB-4105 (4th Floor)
Sciences biologiques Building
141, du Président-Kennedy Ave
Place-des-arts Metro
Directions
MÉDIANE, the Canada Research Chair in Arts, Ecotechnologies of Practice and Climate Change (2020-2025), led by artist and professor Gisèle Trudel [co-investigator member, UQAM] and her teams, is happy to invite you to the launch of its new bilingual publication “Cartographie quatre : sept/seven questions”.
This new edition presents an overview of the site-specific installations, these relational zones included collecting peoples’ comments to a semi-structured interview consisting of seven questions. Key collaborators of the Chair were invited to participate, and their responses are included in this publication.
This event will be the occasion to celebrate and thank actants, researchers, artists, students, collaborators, and partners who contributed to the Chair’s activities throughout the entire research-creation. The approach is based on a collaboration between technological arts and forest sciences, to explore the extraordinary operations of trees and forests in changing climates.
Cartographie quatre :sept/seven questions
Texts by: Anonymous, Antoine Caron, Blandine Courcot, Christoforos Pappas, Daniel Kneeshaw, Gisèle Trudel, Kévin Pinvidic, Laurence Dauphinais, Marc-André Cossette, Mélodie Claire Jetté, Marie-Eve Morissette, Nicolas Bélanger, Nicolas Paulette, Stéphane Claude, and Susan Turcot.
Cover photo: Zoé Fauvel, 2021. Station de biologie des Laurentides.
Photographic credits: Alexis Bellavance, Caroline Pierret, Denis McCready, Gisèle Trudel, Richard-Max Tremblay, and Zoé Fauvel.
Graphic designer: Marion Schneider
Publication consultant: Jacques Perron
Copy editing: Colette Tougas
Printer: Imprimerie Maxime
32 pages
©MÉDIANE, les Éditions de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM, artists and authors.
ISBN 978-2-922392-80-7
About MÉDIANE Chair
The MÉDIANE Research Chair (2020–2025) artistically explores data from the Smartforests Canada research program at the Université du Québec à Montréal, led by forest ecologist Daniel Kneeshaw. This is a pan-Canadian scientific network documenting the effects of climate variations on the country’s water, soil, and forests. The Chair also collaborates with the DOT-Lab, directed by forest ecologist Nicolas Bélanger (Université TÉLUQ).
The Chair develops “relational spaces” to experience and discuss the phenomenon of changing climates. MÉDIANE offers interdependent and iterative activities: an annual public art installation (2021–2024), workshops, performances, presentations, a mobile station with a bicycle, guest encounters, semi-structured interviews with the public, communications, articles, and publications in both print and web formats.
MÉDIANE conducts research-creation in Tiohtià:ke · Mooniyang · Montréal. It acknowledges the financial and logistical support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Fonds de recherche du Québec — Society and Culture sector, Hexagram-UQAM, Smartforests Canada (UQAM), DOT-Lab (Université TÉLUQ), the Forest Research Centre (UQAM), and the School of Visual and Media Arts, Faculty of Arts, UQAM.
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Image: At the Station de biologie des Laurentides (2021). Photo: Zoé Fauvel.
Published on November 6, 2025
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Français (French)
