Artists

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Benoit Aquin
 

Daniel Canty

Les débuts dans l’écriture de Daniel Canty, à la fin du 20e siècle, ont été contemporains de la déferlante numérique, dont il a été un des premiers acteurs. Il poursuit depuis un parcours d’écrivain et de réalisateur marqué au sceau de l’invention. Il signe, dès 1999, l’adaptation Web du livre Einstein’s Dreams d’Alan Lightman et crée, en 2001, avec le Banff New Media Institute, l’espace en ligne Horizon zéro, premier portail consacré à la création numérique au Canada. Avec la trilogie composée du Livre de chevet (2009), de La Table des matières (2007) et de Cité selon, il applique les leçons du numérique à la mise en livre d’ouvrages collectifs aux formes visuelles complexes. Wigrum (2011), véritable « interface de papier », distille les potentialités de la fiction et éclate la forme du roman. Il est également l’auteur de Sept proses sur la poésie (2021), La société des grands fonds (2018), Les Etats-Unis du vent (2014), Mappemonde (2007), et le « metteur en livre » de VVV (2015) et du Curieux manuel (2024), entre autres ouvrages. Il continue de fabriquer, sous l’enseigne de sa compagnie de création, La table des matières, des livres, mais aussi des films, du théâtre, des interfaces, des expositions, des installations, des parcours et toutes sortes de petites formes plus ou moins inclassables.

Yannick B. Gélinas

Yannick B. Gélinas est réalisatrice de documentaires, reportages et projets multimédias depuis près de 25 ans. Elle a réalisé des œuvres de vidéo interactive, et publié de la poésie multimédia chez Planète rebelle dans les années 2000. Elle a fait des vidéos pour l’ONF, Fortier Danse Création, le Conseil des arts de Montréal et la Ville de Montréal. Elle a remporté un Gémeaux pour le documentaire From Montréal en 2013. Elle a réalisé plus d’une quinzaine de projets vidéos pour le milieu des Fab labs et des Fab City entre 2019 et 2022. Impliquée dans le milieu culturel montréalais depuis 25 ans, elle a participé activement à la Commission numérique de Culture Montréal. Son vif intérêt pour la question des enjeux écologiques l’amène à développer des projets en cohérence avec ses valeurs.

Frédérick A. Belzile

Frédérick A. Belzile vit et travaille à Montréal. Elle réalise des vidéos expérimentales explorant, en partie, comment la parole et le son affectent l’image – et comment les artifices du montage et les manipulations digitales transforme le récit. Son approche parfois documentaire, parfois performative est animée par les mythes, la culture orale et populaire. Son travail a été présenté au Canada et à l’étranger.

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Rolline Laporte
 

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.

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Life by Selena
 

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

Maude Veilleux is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Beauce, Canada. She develops a practice at the intersection of writing, digital literature, and performativity. She writes poetry collections and novels. Over the years, her work has been showcased in various institutions and festivals across Canada, Europe, West Africa, and Asia. More recently, Le Marchand de feuilles published an anthology of her poetic texts.

Maxime-Alexandre Gosselin

Artist-programmer Maxime-Alexandre Gosselin holds a degree in computer science and digital arts from Concordia University, exposing him to the latest avenues of development and exploration in artificial intelligence. His research into augmented agriculture, interactive machine learning and image generation has put him at the forefront of new technologies, their possibilities and the issues surrounding them. What's more, Maxime-Alexandre Gosselin has worked with a number of artists on their projects, so he's well versed in the technical requirements of atypical projects. He also holds a degree in photography from Concordia University and has been technical director of the TOPO artist-run centre since 2019.

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Dania Rioux
 

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.

Boris Tia

Boris Tia is Chief Accessibility Officer at CBC/Radio-Canada. He plays a key role in ensuring that the organisation is accessible to both its audiences and its employees. He also has 14 years' expertise in business intelligence. Passionate about emerging technologies, he has covered the annual Consumer Electronics Show for the past 10 years and completed a certification in artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ariane Plante

An independent artist and curator, Ariane Plante develops projects in the visual, media and technological arts with a wide range of artists and organisations. For nearly 15 years, her reflections have focused on the conditions of our coexistence with the living world, the territory and the environment, and have been embodied in non-linear works and narrative forms. In 2024, as principal creator, she completed a project of sound, narrative and interactive installations produced by the National Film Board of Canada - studio interactif and the City of Quebec. Entitled Ce qui brille dans le noir, the work has been designed to be as accessible as possible. It will be on display at the Gabrielle-Roy library until 2025.

Cécile Petitgand

Cécile Petitgand is president and founder of Data Lama, a Quebec-based company specialising in data management and AI training for digital democratisation. She provides AI training for public and not-for-profit organisations in the cultural (INIS, ANEL, etc.) and scientific (IVADO, CHUM, etc.) sectors. She is also a data management consultant at the CHUM research centre and manager of the Réseau Santé Numérique du Québec. Cécile Petitgand holds a doctorate in management science from the Université Paris-Dauphine and the Université de Sao Paulo (Brazil), and did her post-doctorate at the Hub santé : politique, organisations et droit (H-POD) at the Université de Montréal on the theme of AI implementation in hospitals.

Emilie Peltier

With a degree in Language Sciences, Emilie Peltier is a communicator, accessibility consultant and film-maker. She is self-taught in photography, film, writing and printing techniques. Her deafness from birth influences her relationship with the world, and she is drawn to visual and aesthetic projects that are instinctively and necessarily militant. She has made three short films, including the poetic Matin Ecchymose, presented at some thirty festivals around the world, and a medium-length documentary for television.

Anne Jarry

Anne Jarry is a member of the Board of Directors and the Cultural Access Committee of the Regroupement des Aveugles et Amblyopes du Montréal Métropolitain (RAAMM). She holds a master's degree in adult education, a 2e cycle in visual impairment rehabilitation and a BA in psychology. After losing her sight at the age of 24, she devoted her adult life to helping blind and partially sighted people cope with the world and facilitating their access to information. She held the position of Executive Director of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB Quebec) from 2001 to 2007, and then that of Professor in the 2e cycle option Intervention en déficience visuelle at the Université de Montréal School of Optometry from 2008 to 2020.
Thomas Gaudy has a doctorate in computer science and is co-founder of Ludociels pour tous, a Montreal-based social economy enterprise dedicated to promoting digital inclusion. He is interested in all forms of digital projects with a social vocation, as well as the accessibility of video games. The organisation contributes to the creation and promotion of inclusive, participatory and collaborative digital leisure activities and cultural facilities.