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
Artiste canadien d’origine française émigré au Canada en 1978.
Diplômé en architecture de l’Université Laval en 1982.
Collaborateur du « 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 » [ collection vidéo du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal ].
Connu pour ses oeuvres multimédia et de nouveaux médias, exposées dans des galeries à Toronto, Montréal et New York où il a également présenté des performances.
1997 Réalise « La vitesse du mensonge », film d’animation 3d, présenté au Festival International du nouveau cinéma de Montréal FINCM
1998 Produit « Plastinoïdz ][ le Retour » présenté au FINCM & en novembre il fait la couverture du magazine Beaux Arts « La révolution numérique »
1999 Présente le « Dinosaurium Technologique » à la SAT.
2008 Rejoint le « GRUHM » (Groupe en recherche urbaine) pour participer à l’élaboration et la diffusion de solutions alternatives au Projet de reconstruction de l’échangeur Turcot proposé par Transport Québec.
2009 Fonde le « Laboratoire de Simulation Urbaine », pour poursuivre l’expérience de communication autour de la maquette urbaine numérique comme source d’imagerie pour stimuler les débats sur l’évolution de la forme urbaine.
2013 Collaboration avec l’architecte Luc Durand sur le projet de recouvrement de l’autoroute Décarie. Un premier énoncé d’intentions est présenté à la Mairie d’arrondissement. Suite au décès de Luc Durand, (2018) Il termine la proposition et diffuse « Prolonger le tunnel Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ».
"Pierre Zovilé's exploration of art and technology continues to enrich the Canadian cultural landscape." ( MS.Copilot )
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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.
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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.
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Life by Selena
Sofian Audry
Artiste et scientifique, Sofian Audry enseigne les médias interactifs à l’École des médias de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) et co-dirige le studio-laboratoire mXlab pour la création médiatique au-delà de l’humain ainsi que le réseau international Hexagram pour la recherche-création en arts, cultures et technologies.
Son travail explore les comportements d’agents hybrides à la frontière de l’art, de l’intelligence artificielle et de la vie artificielle, à travers des œuvres et des écrits. Son livre Art in the Age of Machine Learning se penche sur les pratiques artistiques de l’apprentissage automatisé (MIT Press, 2021). Ses projets artistiques se déploient à travers de multiples formes tels la robotique, l’installation, le bio-art et la littérature électronique.
Audry a étudié l’informatique et les mathématiques, l’apprentissage automatisé, la communication et les médias interactifs. Après l’obtention de son doctorat interdisciplinaire en Sciences Humaines de l’Université Concordia, Audry fut stagiaire postdoctoral au Massachusetts Institute of Technology à Cambridge en 2017. De 2017 à 2019, Sofian Audry fut Assistant Professor à l’Université du Maine et à l’Université Clarkson (États-Unis). Membre honoraire du centre d’artiste Perte de Signal (en assurant notamment la présidence de 2009 à 2017), Audry s’implique dans le développement de plusieurs logiciels libres pour les arts numériques.
Ses œuvres et ses recherches ont été présentées dans des événements et lieux d’exposition majeurs à l’échelle mondiale, tels Ars Electronica, Barbican, le Centre Pompidou, Club Transmediale, Dutch Design Week, Festival Elektra, International Digital Arts Biennale, International Symposium on Electronic Art, LABoral, La Gaîté Lyrique, Biennale de Marrakech, Nuit Blanche Paris, Société des Arts Technologiques, V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Muffathalle Munich et le 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 (née en 1993) est une artiste multidisciplinaire basée à Tiohtià:ke/Montréal qui travaille les circuits électroniques, le son et les lieux. Son travail questionne les relations inter-espèces en considérant les existences non-humaines (vie animale non-humaine, vie artificielle, le non-vivant, etc.) comme terrains de réflexion sur les hiérarchies qui divisent notre monde. Elle élabore ses œuvres suivant une approche DIY (do it yourself) dans un but de partage des connaissances et de critique de la société de consommation.
Entre autres lieux, son travail a été présenté au Symposium International d’Art Contemporain de Baie St-Paul, au FIMAV (Victoriaville), au festival OTTOsonics de Ottensheim (Autriche), au Festival Akousma (Montréal) ainsi qu’au Festival Sonorities (Belfast). Elle détient un baccalauréat en Musiques numériques de l’Université de Montréal et une maîtrise en Studio Arts (Intermedia) de l’université Concordia.
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.
