Daniel Canty
Yannick B. Gélinas
Frédérick A. Belzile
D. Kimm
Artiste interdisciplinaire active depuis 1987, D. Kimm est reconnue pour ses créations avant-gardistes et audacieuses. Elle a publié quatre recueils poétiques, dont La Suite mongole. Son duo de performance et musique électronique Mankind (avec Alexis O’Hara) a performé dans différents festivals et a produit le disque Ice Machine (2009). Elle a aussi réalisé plusieurs courts métrages, tous présentés au Festival du Nouveau Cinéma et aux Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois. D. Kimm collabore avec la photographe Caroline Hayeur, depuis 2014, notamment pour l’exposition Abrazo, projet photos et vidéos sur le tango, et pour le film Un Jardin la nuit, filmé sur une période de 5 ans avec des caméras de chasse.
D. Kimm est la directrice générale et artistique de la compagnie Les Filles électriques qu’elle a fondée en 2001. Elle a dirigé le Festival Voix d’Amériques et dirige le Festival Phénomena depuis 2012. Auparavant elle fut la directrice artistique du Festival de littérature de l’Union des écrivains et écrivaines québécois (UNEQ) pour lequel elle a mis en scène des dizaines de spectacles littéraires et interdisciplinaires.
Sofian Audry
Sofian Audry is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Co-Director of the mXlab studio-lab for Beyond-Human Media Creation, and Co-Director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Art, Culture and Technology.
Their work explores the behavior of hybrid agents at the frontier of art, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, through artworks and writings. Audry’s book Art in the Age of Machine Learning examines machine learning art and its practice in art and music (MIT Press, 2021). Their artistic practice branches through multiple forms including robotics, installations, bio-art, and electronic literature.
Audry studied computer science and mathematics (BSc, 2001), machine learning (MSc, 2003), and communication (interactive media) (MA, 2010) before completing a PhD in Humanities from Concordia University (2016). In 2017, they were a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and between 2017 and 2019, held Assistant Professor positions at the University of Maine and at Clarkson University. Sofian is an honorary member of artist-run center Perte de Signal (Montréal, Canada) which they led as president of the board in 2009-2017, and is actively involved in many open source softwares for new media.
Sofian Audry’s work and research have been shown at major international events and venues such as Ars Electronica, Barbican, Centre Pompidou, Club Transmediale, Dutch Design Week, Festival Elektra, International Digital Arts Biennale, International Symposium on Electronic Art, LABoral, La Gaîté Lyrique, Marrakech Biennale, Nuit Blanche Paris, Society for Arts and Technology, V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Muffathalle Munich and the Vitra Design Museum.
Maud Joiret
Maud Joiret was born in 1986 in Brussels. She is a poet and performer (on stage, on video, sometimes in front of a camera), and a literary columnist.
Cobalt, her first book of poetry (published by Tétras-lyre) received the First Work Prize of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in 2020 and was adapted to video. Her second book, JERK, published in 2022 by l'Arbre de Diane, was brought to the stage in a production that combines text, music and dance. Marées vaches, her third book of poetry, is published by Le Castor astral in 2023. Her poetry is a willing hybridization of registers and genres, seeking the limits of sensations and narratives, to give rhythm to a quest for meaning.
Maude Veilleux
Maxime-Alexandre Gosselin
Léa Boudreau
Léa Boudreau (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal who works with electronics, sounds and places. Her work questions interspecies relationships by considering nonhuman existences (nonhuman animal life, artificial life, the non-living, etc.) as ground for reflections on hierarchies dividing our world. She works following a DIY approach (do it yourself) favouring knowledge sharing and a critique of consumerism.
Among other places, her work has been presented in the Symposium International d'Art Contemporain of Baie St-Paul, FIMAV (Victoriaville), OTTOsonics Festival (Ottensheim, Austria), Akousma Festival (Montréal) and Sonorities Festival (Belfast). She holds a bachelor's degree in Digital music from Université de Montréal and a MFA (Studio Arts, Intermedia) from Concordia University.