séminaire syncretic transcodings 2010

UQAM Coeur des Sciences, Montreal, 4-5-7 Mai 2010

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Daria Parkhomenko

LABORATORIA Art&Science Space - www.newlaboratoria.ru - (Russia)

LABORATORIA Art&Science Space is the first nonprofit research centre in Russia focused on constructing the platforms of interdisciplinary interactions between contemporary art and science as well as between contemporary art and social psychology. It is aimed at establishing a new type of relationship between art, science and society in which new forms and currents of creative energy are redirected and reset. LABORATORIA is the space for commun creation, intersection and movement of scientists and artists, and is the starting point for developing an international autonomous Art&Science space.

Venzha Christiawan

HOUSE OF NATURAL FIBERS (HONF) - www.natural-fiber.com - Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

Venzha Christiawan is one of the founder and initiator of the house of natural fiber (HONF) in 1999 in Yogyakarta. HONF is a New Media art laboratory which concentrates on the principles of critique and innovation. Since the beginning, the HONF has consistently focused on cultural development and New Media art, running numerous New Media art projects and workshops. In every project they concentrate on interactivity with people and environments. Thinking forward, positive and creative is becoming a vision for this community. In the implementation of this vision, in every program, they work towards the development of art with technology. This desire to contemplate the future of technology and art, is an important endeavour for the technology itself.

Marcos Cuzziol

ITAULAB - www.itaucultural.org.br - Saõ Paulo (Brazil)

Itaulab is a laboratory of interactive media, and a research center for academic and artistic productions. Itaulab was launched in 2002, during the first Brazilian Media Art Biennial (Emoção Art.ficial), and quickly established contact with several media centers, weaving a worldwide network. Its major goals include the exchange of knowledge with academic institutions and the research of emerging technologies applied to artistic and educational areas.

Karen Dermineur et Maria Luisa Angulo

TRIAS CULTURE - www.triasculture.net - Dakar (Senegal)

Karen Dermineur and Maria Luisa Angulo coordinate TRIAS CULTURE, whose objective is to promote and support digital creation in Africa and Latin America. TRIAS CULTURE organizes conferences, trainings, workshop practices on advanced digital screenings, exhibitions, competitions and festivals with works using these technologies, in Dakar and elsewhere.

Grégory Chatonsky

INCIDENT www.incident.net - Paris

Gregory Chatonsky founded incident.net, a group of netartists, in 1994. Incident is an experimental platform located in France, Canada, Senegal and on the Internet since 1994. Its members organize activities promoting new technologies in art in different countries. They created incident.res, a place to live, a production workshop, a place to meet and to discuss about these new technologies.

Daniel Dion

OBORO - www.oboro.net - Montreal

Daniel Dion is the general director and artistic director of OBORO. Founded with the conviction that living transcultural artistic experiences contribute to the betterment of humankind, OBORO is an artist centre that favours the development of art practices locally, nationally and internationally. OBORO’s sphere of activity encompasses visual and media arts, performing arts, new technologies and emerging practices.
OBORO organises concurrent research, production, presentation, dissemination and training activities. They take the shape of residencies, work commissions, exhibitions, live performances and concerts, visual, sound and multimedia presentations, lectures and meetings, panel discussions, publications, workshops and experimental labs, on-line performances using information and communications technologies, as wells as large-scale special events.

Jocelyn Robert

AVATAR - www.lenomdelachose.org - Quebec

Avatar is an artist-run centre specializing in the study, creation and dissemination of audio and electronic art. Since its founding in 1993, it has organized activities that encourage meetings and discussions along with creation and production, thus promoting collaboration between artists using a local and international network. Located in the Méduse centre in Quebec City, it houses a research and recording studio equipped with professional audio equipment, a computer laboratory and an electronic laboratory.

Alain Thibault

ELEKTRA - www.elektramontreal.ca - Montreal

Alain Thibault is a composer, sound designer and electronic music artist. He worked on festival Elektra. Elektra presents an opportunity for all lovers of digital culture to experience digital art in all its forms, proposing a specialized and diverse selection of the latest in contemporary creation: audiovisual and immersive perfomances, interactive installations, conferences, launches, and video projections. Over thirty local and international artists and professionals from the digital domain will present ground-breaking works, gathering the hottest works in electronic music and visual creation in the festival's various partners venues.

Sandeep Bhagwati

MATRALAB - www.matralab.hexagram.ca - Montreal

Matralab is a research space of inter-x art at Concordia University in Montréal. Matralab is dedicated to using interdisciplinary art practice to bridge the gap between emerging art forms and their aesthetic reflection. Their research is leading to the establishment of a practical and theoretical framework for the creation and evaluation of interdisciplinary, intercultural, intermedia and interactive art.
Canada Research Chair Sandeep Bhagwati studies how these bewildering new art forms work. He believes that the separation of the arts into disciplines is out of date. In our everyday lives we manage to juggle so many different forms of experience, using most of our senses most of the time. Bhagwati asks why shouldn’t our art be like that too? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we make this new art accessible to everyone?

Lynn Hughes et Jean Dubois

INTERSTICES - www.interstices.ca - Montreal

Interstices is a Montreal based research group with a core of artists. The group focuses on producing new media works that explore the aesthetic and poetic potential of interaction with the screen. These works are frequently installations or immersive environments which imply multimedia programming and the development or adaptation of innovative interfaces.