Diffusion

We know it, there is known knowledge. There are things we know that we know. We also know that there are known unknowns. That is to say we know that there are some things that we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, those that we don’t know we don’t know. Generated from…

A Line Has Two Sides (2017) – Three-channel AV performance / 18 minutes Using glitches from an Atari 2600 game console, A Line Has Two Sides is an audiovisual triptych performed in real time. By triggering hundreds of clips and positioning them in space and time, the audience is enveloped in a vibrant soundscape generated…

Du Mont-Mégantic aux exoplanètes (2019) – in performance version The film proposed by Jean-Pierre Aubé is the result of a one-year residency (2018-2019) – as part of Sporobole’s “Interface” program – at the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic, the iREx and the ASTROlab of the Parc National du Mont-Mégantic. Du Mont-Mégantic aux exoplanètes is presented as a…

Hektor (2019) – Digital installation, photo and video Hektor is a device – a bot – that creates works from photographs by Isabelle Gagné and those spontaneously proposed by citizens of the village of Saint-Camille. It diverts the use of a neural processing algorithm, normally intended for the transfer of artistic style, to use images…

308 lots (2019) – Photo, video and sound installation Mériol Lehmann’s 308 lots consists of a body of photographic, video, and sound works made from data and image collections on dairy farms in the Compton area. This process of observation, bordering on surveillance, traces the portrait of a community and a territory in transformation, affected…

Agit P.O.V. (Petit Objet de Vélo) is a microhacking project for bicycles, inspired by the optical effect POV or retinal persistence, the active propaganda practices of the Russian avant-garde (AGIT Prop) and the SpokePOV project of Limor Fried (LadyAda). A modest circuit of 12 LEDs, a microcontroller and a battery attached to the spokes of…

Du mont-mégantic aux exoplanètes (2019) – Movie The film proposed by Jean-Pierre Aubé is the result of a one-year residency (2018-2019) – as part of Sporobole’s “Interface” program – at the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic, the iREx and the ASTROlab of Mont-Mégantic. Du mont-mégantic aux exoplanètes is presented as a journey in three steps through all…

SCAMP (2019) – Interactive sound trail Scamp was my dog. She loved to run. When I ran, she ran. When I walked, she walked. When I stopped, she stopped. She was a good dog. She loved to play. She loved to be outside. She loved to walk by the lake. She would listen to the…

Silent Fictions is a sound work that unfolds like an augmented reality piece that we discover through our progression in space. Our position, direction or speed of movement induce the level of complexity of the work and the content of its different “musical” components. The elements of the sound composition are geolocated, dispersed in space,…

Identified by Hasher and Goldstein in a 1977 study conducted at Villanova University and Temple University, the Illusory Truth Effect is the tendency to believe that information is true after repeated exposure to it. This phenomenon is explored in Illusory Truth Effect, a sound installation by Pierre-Luc Lecours. Sentences containing ambiguous statements or definitions of…

Here Be Dragons (2019) – Real-time sound piece for 15 speakers Here Be Dragons is a real-time sound piece that converts malicious intrusion attempts on wireless networks into sound. “Honeypots” – Raspberry Pi computers disguised as enterprise servers – are exposed to the open Internet, attracting unsolicited network traffic. This data is collected, analyzed and…

INTERTYPES is an installation that looks at the cultural imprint of 3D printing in the evolution of printing techniques, investigating the historical and cultural continuity of these technologies. The work approaches the question of technological developments from a “remediation” perspective, that is to say, by the way past technologies influence those currently emerging, from the…