[ f r a n ç a i s ]

Formation

  • Doctorate (PhD) of Communication – Research-creation at l'UQAM [in progress]
    ~ directed by Diane Poitras (School of Media)
  • M.A. of Communication Studies: Research-creation in Experimental Media at l'UQAM
    ~ directed by Jean Décarie (School of Media) and Alain Steve Comtois (Kinanthropology/Body Sciences)
    * highest mention of excellence, without corrections
    – Prix Philippe-Ménard of the Best Creation-Master's thesis (UQAM Foundation)
    – AéMDC research-creation scholarship (graduate students)

    – Bourse de célérité of the UQAM Faculty of Communication

  • B.A. of Communication and Media Studies: Cinema at l'UQAM – Directing

Continuing education

  • Course Certificate - Minds and Machines at MITx
  • David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film - Masterclass
  • Werner Herzog Teaches Filmmaking - Masterclass
  • Internship at Cinélande/Quatre Zéro Un/ALT

Affiliations

  • Graduate member of Hexagram :
    International network dedicated to research-creation in media arts, design, technology and digital culture
  • labdoc member
  • ACFAS member
  • Vidéographe member
  • Member of RCMN/CNMN - Canadian New Music Network
  • Member of GMMQ - Guilde des musiciens et musiciennes du Québec


Sound design / composition

  • Mistral Spatial (2022)
    Sound design feature film
    105 minutes
    Dir. Marc-Antoine Lemire
    Les Films de la méduse
  • Sainte-Rose : immersive sound journey from 1750 till today(2021)
    Ambisonic audio piece
    8 minutes
    Réseau ArtHist - City of Laval

Music

  • Variations I II III IV (2020)
    EP - 4 tracks + visuals
    28 minutes
    November 2019 @ Off-Festival Bach - Montreal, Canada


Performances / audiovisual

  • presentation MIAN/IMDA @ELEKTRA 18 | BIAN (2017)
    University mémoire, brainwaves, relaxation + tests
    with Hexagram
    June 2017 - Montreal
  • 還記得中國 - Souvenir de Chine - 五 (2017)
    Visuals and projections, audio
    For Hypømnema no.4
    Audiovisual performance in 5.1
    Collaboration with Sofía Matus Cancino

    December 2017 at the Encuentro Internacional de Arte Sonoro y Exploración Audiovisual - Mexico City
    November 2017 at the Conservatorio de Música del Estado de México - Toluca
    November 2017 at OFF_Festival - Bratislava
    May 2017 at INTAC: International Art Collaborations - Osaka
  • Festival Visiones Sonoras 12 (2016)
    Invitation Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras
    Audiovisual performance in 4.1
    (Ministry of Culture and Communications - Hexagram)
    Morelia, Mexico
  • Essayer de pas trop prendre sur soi (2016)
    Sennheiser Awards Concert
    Audiovisual performance in 4.1
    September 2016 at l'Agora Hydro-QC - Montreal
    – Sennheiser Canada Excellence Award/Grant in Sound Creation and New Media 2016
  • Outsider (2015)
    Visuals and projections, electronic audio and voices
    Audiovisual performance
    Collaboration with Jules Treize
    Composition Ailie Robertson
    Perfomers Ailie Robertson and George Jones

    December 2015 at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts - London
    December 2016 at the Eastern Bloc - Montreal (+ improvised performance)


Installation / interactivity / digital

  • Vers une sensation de «détente» par l'expérience médiatique immersive (2018)
    Installation/immersive and autoorganized device/biofeedback
    UQAM/Hexagram
    Artist, research and creation; algorithms, interface, composition...
    Summer 2018 tour in Maisons de la culture art centers - Montreal
    June 2018 at Festival Longue vue sur le court - Montreal
    April 2018 as part of Printemps Numérique at l'Agora Hydro-Québec - Montreal
  • Invisible or as You like it or Data station or Which one? (2017)
    " نامرئی همانطور که دوست دارید یا ایستگاه یا هر چیز دیگری؟ "
    Digital art performance / Network art
    Collaboration with Jafar Hejazi, appearances and conversations
    January 2018 at Fadjr International Theater Festival 2018 - Tehran
    Automn 2017 at RooBeRoo Mansion - Tehran


Film / video / visual

  • J'apprends avec Végényse (2020)
    Short/sketch; 2 min
    Les yeux du coeur
    NICE TRY (bel essai)
    Director, editor
    June 2020 Festival Émergence - Montreal
    April 2020 as part of NICE TRY (bel essai), Usine C [online] - Montreal
  • La Pastorale des Santons de Provence (2014)
    Theater show
    Directed by Michel Forgues
    Visuals and projections
    December 2014 at le Gesù - Montreal
  • Concerto pour Chair Tendre (2014)
    Short art film / Performance; 6 min 22
    Collaboration with les Mêmes-Cacaïstes, imbrezarrio
    Exhibition Paramètres '14 : Place-des-Arts - Montreal

    – Omer DeSerres Award of Excellence
    Festival SOIR 2016 - Montreal

  • Sacre du Printemps - 사물의모양 – 2015 (2014)
    Experimental short / Performance; 11 min 50
    Vidéographe
    Le Sacre

    Director, editor, composer
    Les Percéides – International Art and Film Festival of Percé, QC
    Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques / Great Meeting of Media Arts, Gaspésie
    Special screening at Saint-Édouard Church - Montreal

  • Message de mon oncle Jacques H. Bissonnette (2010)
    Documentary short; 10 min
    Director, director of photography, editor, composer
    – Audience award - God’arts 2010 - Montreal
     – Jury grand prize - God’arts 2010 - Montreal
     – Best documentary - Intercollégial du cinéma 2010 (QC)


Curated'_organisation---of_exhibitions


  • Temporal Voidness #3 : Réminiscences (2019)
    Collective exhibit/concerts/talk; +/- 25 artists
    Co-curator
    Fall 2019 @le Livart - Montreal
  • Temporal Voidness #2 : The Phenomenon of the Present Tense (2019)
    Collective exhibit/concerts/talk; +/- 25 artists
    Curator
    Summer 2019 @le Livart - Montreal
  • Temporal Voidness #1 : the FUTURE (2019)
    Collective exhibit/concerts/talk; +/- 30 artists
    Curator
    Winter 2019 @le Livart - Montreal
    - Vernissage + Nuit blanche à Montréal 2019


Professional experiences

  • Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
    Academic support
  • CSSDM
    Art teacher
  • le Livart
    Director - Programming and Development / Curator
  • Cinelande Group
    Media research and video library, casting, internal management, assistance, filming preparations, versatile tech…
  • Coopérative Le Sacre
    Vice-president and tresurer, collaborator, artist
  • Shortfilms, feature films, ads, television… (AQTIS/IATSE)
    Various positions;
    set managing, art department, sound department, lighting department
  • Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) + Concordia + Hexagram
    Research assistant,teaching assistant, projection tech
  • Mak/Jesse Mac Cormack
    Coordinator, advisor and web strategist
  • OBOX
    Writer
  • Acting, figuration/extra (ACTRA/UDA)
    Feature films and series - apprentice

  • Various and disparate projects
    Consultation, support, writing, direction, creation...


Current projects

  • Writing of a fiction feature film
  • Second LP/collaborative album
  • Freelancing, projects, stuff
  • Trying to live better and be good

  • XD


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