Artists

NeuROM-X

NeuROM-X was a company specializing in interactive communication. The core team consisted of experts trained in programming, communication, visual arts, and museology.

NeuROM-X's expertise has developed through various artistic projects, some of which have been exhibited and awarded prizes abroad. Experience in university teaching and research enables its members to take a critical look at computer communication and develop an approach that combines aesthetic sensitivity and communicational effectiveness. Driven by a desire for innovation and realism in terms of the benefits of interactivity, NeuROM-X intends to devote itself to intelligent communication projects.

The NeuROM X team responsible for producing the CD-ROM Palomar ou le regardeur actif (Palomar or the Active Viewer) consisted of: Joseph Lefèvre, Eric Mattson, and Alain Mongeau.

Boris Dionne

Boris Dionne first worked in the film industry before turning his attention to other audiences and bringing the new media industry closer to the needs of users. In 1999, he began a master's degree in communication, specializing in interactive multimedia, at the University of Quebec in Montreal, which led him to specialize in interface design.

Combining a deep understanding of the user perspective with a passion for simplicity, he strives to implement best practices while creating accessible and enjoyable digital experiences.

Since 2020, he has been putting his expertise to work at Radio-Canada, where he continues to hone his craft.

zéro_degré

zéro_degré is composed of three multimedia authors who met at university. Coming from backgrounds in film, radio, and electronic music, Boris Dionne, Mario Lelièvre, and Yuani Fragata formed a trio interested in the possibilities and limitations of interactivity.

Pierre Zovilé

Canadian artist of French origin who emigrated to Canada in 1978.
Graduated with a degree in architecture from Laval University in 1982.

Collaborator of « Centre de Recherche Neoiste » 1980 & of « .(La Société de Conservation du Présent) » 1985. He received an “Integrated Media” grant from the CAC for « Syntaxe error in 84 » [ video collection of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art ].

Known for his multimedia and new media works, exhibited in galleries in Toronto, Montreal, and New York, where he has also presented performances.

1997 Directed « La vitesse du mensonge », 3D animated film, presented at the Montreal International New Cinema Festival (FINCM)

1998 Product « Plastinoïdz ][ le Retour » presented at FINCM & in November, it is featured on the cover of Beaux Arts magazine, “The Digital Revolution.”

1999 Presents the « Dinosaurium Technologique » at the SAT.

2008 Joined the GRUHM (Groupe en recherche urbaine) to participate in the development and dissemination of alternative solutions to the Turcot Interchange reconstruction project proposed by Transport Québec.

2009 Founded the “Urban Simulation Laboratory” to continue the communication experiment around digital urban models as a source of imagery to stimulate debate on the evolution of urban form.

2013 Collaboration with architect Luc Durand on the Décarie Expressway cover project. An initial statement of intent is presented to the borough council. Following the death of Luc Durand (2018), he completes the proposal and distributes « Prolonger le tunnel Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ».

"Pierre Zovilé's exploration of art and technology continues to enrich the Canadian cultural landscape." ( MS.Copilot )

Photo credit :
Benoit Aquin
 

Daniel Canty

Daniel Canty's early writing career at the end of the 20th century coincided with the digital revolution, of which he was one of the first players. Since then, he has pursued a career as a writer and director marked by invention. In 1999, he created the web adaptation of the book Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman and, in 2001, created the online space in collaboration with the Banff New Media Institute. Horizon zéro, Canada's first portal dedicated to digital creation. With the trilogy consisting of Livre de chevet (2009), de La Table des matières (2007) and of Cité selon, he applies digital lessons to the publication of collective works with complex visual forms. Wigrum (2011), a veritable “paper interface,” distills the potential of fiction and breaks down the form of the novel. He is also the author of Sept proses sur la poésie (2021), La société des grands fonds (2018), Les Etats-Unis du vent (2014), Mappemonde (2007), and the “book adapter” of VVV (2015) and of Curieux manuel (2024), among other works. He continues to produce books under the banner of his creative company, La table des matières, as well as films, theater productions, interfaces, exhibitions, installations, tours, and all kinds of smaller projects that are more or less unclassifiable.

Yannick B. Gélinas

Yannick B. Gélinas has been directing documentaries, reports, and multimedia projects for nearly 25 years. She has produced interactive video works and published multimedia poetry with Planète rebelle in the 2000s. She has made videos for the NFB, Fortier Danse Création, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the City of Montreal. She won a Gémeaux Award for the documentary From Montréal in 2013. She has produced more than fifteen video projects for Fab Labs and Fab Cities between 2019 and 2022. Involved in Montreal's cultural scene for 25 years, she has been an active member of Culture Montreal's Digital Commission. Her keen interest in environmental issues has led her to develop projects that are consistent with her values.

Frédérick A. Belzile

Frédérick A. Belzile lives and works in Montreal. She creates experimental videos that explore, in part, how speech and sound affect images—and how editing techniques and digital manipulation transform narratives. Her approach, sometimes documentary, sometimes performative, is inspired by myths and oral and popular culture. Her work has been presented in Canada and abroad.

Photo credit :
Rolline Laporte
 

D. Kimm

An interdisciplinary artist active since 1987, D. Kimm is known for her avant-garde and daring creations. She has published four collections of poetry, including La Suite mongole. Her performance and electronic music duo Mankind (with Alexis O’Hara) has performed at various festivals and produced the album Ice Machine (2009). She has also directed several short films, all of which have been screened at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois. D. Kimm has been collaborating with photographer Caroline Hayeur since 2014, notably on the exhibition Abrazo, a photo and video project on tango, and on the film Un Jardin la nuit, shot over a period of five years with hunting cameras.

D. Kimm is the general and artistic director of Les Filles électriques, a company she founded in 2001. She has directed the Festival Voix d’Amériques and has been directing the Festival Phénomena since 2012. Previously, she was the artistic director of the Union des écrivains et écrivaines québécois (UNEQ) literature festival, for which she staged dozens of literary and interdisciplinary performances.

Photo credit :
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.

Photo credit :
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.