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  • Art Impact, Collective Retinal Memory includes several parallel subject matters. The exposition La Beauté en Avignon ('Beauty in Avignon') constitutes the work’s material. The public online or in the Pompidou Centre can actually see some
  • Stupid Robot -
    Designed to annoy, reminiscent of a legless beggar, Stupid Robot shakes a can of metal parts noisily when approached.
  • Pride of our young nation is a meditation on machines of war and the psychology which motivates their construction. Its material construction echoes the archetype of a piece of field artillery, unchanged since the napoleonic era, while its control
  • Petit Mal -
    Although much work has been done in the field of screen-based interactive art, the mode of interaction in these works is confined by the very existence of image material on a screen, the so called "graphical user interface". I am particularly
  • Lo Yo Yo -
    Lo Yo Yo is about the enormous volume of electromagnetic information which invisibly permeates the space we live in. The piece randomly scans the radio broadcast bands producing a real time five channel mix. Scanning controlled by an arbitrary,
  • Inspired by Pier-Paolo Passolini's 1969 film Theorema and by a dream Courchesne's daughter had when she was 10 years old. In the installation, visitors are planted somewhere in the Japanese countryside. From there they will try to make a
  • Landscape One -
    Four walls of a space are "painted", with video projectors, into a single photo realistic 360º landscape representing a public garden. The space, set in Montreal's Mont-Royal Parc, is being visited by real and virtual characters. If the
  • The Landscape Room -
    The Landscape RoomArtist: Jane ProphetComment:
  • The Internal Organs of a Cyborg CD-ROM tells the story of two characters whose lives and identities collide in a hospital emergency room. The story is told in the form of a science-fiction-style comic strip using stock photographs from
  • "An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War" is an interactive CD-ROM and computer-media installation project that explores the inscription of historical narrative through the process of archive construction. This non-linear index, or narrative features