Artists

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Aude Guivarc’h

Aude is a French-Canadian Media Artist, Digital Artist and Director based in Montreal. She fuses her passions for nature, music, and science to shape immersive physical and digital experiences. Drawing inspiration from fractals and natural forces, she explores humanity's connection to nature through an eco-feminist, queer, and socially engaged lens. With a commitment to environmental sustainability and social justice, Aude's art intertwines circular economy principles, recycling, and reutilization. Her extensive skills in motion design, art direction, and industrial design fuels her hybrid creative process, blending digital prowess with physical artistry. She explores diverse mediums in her personal art practice, like 3D printing, mural paintings, motion design and interactive installations. Her artworks have been captivating audiences through several exhibitions and events like SXSW, Mutek, Osheaga and Polaris Music Prize. Her professional journey as a Creative & Multimedia Director for shows and concerts boasts collaborations with industry giants like Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Madonna, Muse and Ed Sheeran. Aude's pursuits extend beyond pixels. As a traveler, surfer, snowboarder, and climber, she draws from her global escapades to infuse her creations with both wonder and environmental consciousness. Aude's artistic evolution, from her academic foundation in sciences and design to her dynamic multimedia career, has cultivated a narrative that transcends mediums. Her art captivates, questions, and connects, weaving a story where creativity and conscience converge.

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Johann Mazé

Johann Mazé is a musician active in various French performing groups. A composer and sound artist, he develops documentary projects, radio plays, and field recordings, often with marginalized places or individuals.

Michel Huneault

Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and visual artist. His work focuses on development issues, trauma, migration and complex geographical realities, including the impacts of climate change. His artistic practice combines still images, oral histories, video and immersive elements, giving his projects both a humanistic and aesthetic dimension. Her works inform while questioning the act of documentation and representation.

Michel Huneault holds a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow, studying the role of collective memory in the aftermath of major trauma. Before devoting himself to photography in 2008, he worked for over a decade in international development.

In 2015, his work on the Lac-Mégantic tragedy was awarded the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and published the following year under the title La longue nuit de Mégantic by the Dutch publisher Schilt. In 2016, the Travers Fellowship enabled him to further his research into migration issues across five countries, in collaboration with their diasporas in Canada and their families in their countries of origin. In 2018, he adapted Roxham - his visual and sound project about the passages of asylum seekers from the United States to Canada - into a virtual reality experience with the National Film Board of Canada. In spring-summer 2020, he was commissioned by the McCord Museum to document the impacts of Covid-19 in Montreal.

Isabella Salas [she/her] is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director and producer who adopted artificial intelligence in 2020 as her main creative medium to create digital art and immersive experiences.

Recognized for questioning the use and bias of technology, identity, perception, and environmental practices through the use of ancient and new technologies, Isabella was nominated in 2022 for the first CIFO-Ars Electronica Award, which honours artists of Latin-American origin.

Co-founder of the International Digital Arts Alliance, a non-profit organisation that advocates for equal, open, and horizontal representation of digital artists worldwide, she also takes part as a jury member to the digital forum Composite held in Montreal since 2015.

Cléo Palacio-Quintin

Transdisciplinary artist eager to create, flutist-improviser-composer Cléo Palacio-Quintin (1971) takes part in numerous premieres as well as improvisational multidisciplinary performances and composes instrumental and electroacoustic music for various ensembles and media works. Her hyper-flutes, which she has been developing since 1999, allow her to compose interactive visual and electroacoustic landscapes with an embodied approach to electronic sensor technologies. In addition to her creative work, she performs regularly as a soloist an improviser, notably with Ensemble SuperMusique and the duo Beta Lyræ. Over the years, her works have been performed by herself or by various ensembles in several countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, U.K., U.S.A.. She is the first women to obtain a Doctorate in Electroacoustic Composition from the Université de Montréal (2012) and is a collaborator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), where she received the Director's Interdisciplinary Excellence Prize 2008 in recognition of her having created an innovative bridge between scientific/technological and artistic domains. Combining sounds, images and poetry, her works creates sensitive immersive ecosystems, which she invites listeners to discover.