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  • I am fascinated by human/techno/plant relations in dynamic systems and networked assemblages. Working with new technology against the grain, my research takes a positive yet critical approach, framed by new materialism and posthumanism. I have
  • The 090909 UpStage Festival took place on 9 September 2009 (with bits on the 8th or the 10th depending on where you were in the world). 14 performances by artists across 9 time zones were presented over the 20 hours of the festival, with audiences
  • Sensitive Painting -
    Sensitive Painting is an interactive installation where a projector linked to a computer, casts images on a large size picture representing the eternal flux between Eros and Thanatos. The images projected on the painting consist of the internal
  • Resonance of 4 -
    Resonance of 4 (1994) is a collaborative music-creation artwork consisting of four adjacent stations, each comprised of a small podium bearing a computer mouse, a 16-by-16 grid projected onto the floor from a video projector above, and a cursor
  • artTrap -
    In the main gallery of a contemporary art museum. A big one... A cubic room de 4 x 4 x 3m.No ceiling. The top of the box is open. This room is surrounded by 4 walls. In the middle of each wall : a door. At the beginning the door height is
  • Dust -
    The work “Dust” bind generative HD video projection with kinetic camera. Since some months I am collecting dust particles on a pice of black plexiglass. Monthly, I photograph the collected set, clean the surface and start from the beginning. The
  • "Autopoiesis", 2010 mirror, surveillance camera, laser projector, proximity sensor, computer running custom face-tracking algorithms 20" x 14" x 7.5" / 51 x 36 x 19 cm edition of 6, 1 AP When people look at themselves in this small mirror they see
  • José is a robot who doesn’t respond normally to external stimulation, showing autistic symptoms of social reject and lack of communication. The robot’s performing depends directly on its level of fear related to the amount and behavior of the
  • So.So.So. is an interactive installation by Maurice Benayoun that plunges the onlooker in the middle of the moment the one of photography which reveals a complex network of characteristic signs from our own experience of reality. What the visitor
  • The journey by a fleet of small vessels under way between Québec City and New York City on the St-Laurent and Richelieu Rivers, Lake Champlain and the Hudson River is being photographed using a technique developped by Luc Courchesne and a his