A starting point: computer animation videos by the duo St-Pierre and Gauthier revisited and assembled, cross-hatched. Fires of color and drips of arrangement. Hue, saturation, value and color change are the imposed pilots of an assembly of synthesized sounds. A surge, alternating video themes with purely sonic and noisy improvisations. Theme, improv, theme, improv, color, improv. Keeping the rhythm in the surge. Navigating as best you can through this syncopation of the ear and the eye.
Only Philippe-Aubert Gauthier will be performing tonight.
Philippe-Aubert Gauthier is a professor at UQÀM's École des arts visuels et médiatiques, a mechanical engineer, master of science and doctor of mechanical engineering and acoustics. He works at the crossroads of art, science and technology. His works take forms ranging from installation, sound and digital arts to performance and music. He has produced over fifty sound and digital artworks. His work has been presented in Quebec, Canada, the United States, Mexico, France, England, Germany and Japan. As a researcher and artist, he has published more than 80 articles and lectures, and has given 30 workshops and conferences specializing in the arts and technology. He is associate director of artistic research at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology.
Since 2003, he has also worked as a duo with Tanya St-Pierre. Their work takes the form of installations, performances and videos.
Tanya St-Pierre is a visual, sound and digital artist. By exploring the possible relationships between the visual and digital arts and narrative, she transforms various systems for altering narrative into poetic and conceptual proposals. As part of a more general scheme, these proposals thwart and question notions of representation and cultural artefacts. Her works take the form of collages, installations, videos and performances. Her work has been shown in Quebec, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France and Japan.
Since 2003, their approaches have come together in collaborative projects. Their respective interests and commitments are addressed in exchanges that lead to hybrid artistic proposals resulting from self-critical jousting and duo inventions.
