In November 2011, I will pursue the development of the networked interactive installation Dérive during a Vidéophonic residency at AADN (Lyon, France).

http://www.aadn.org/accompagnement-artistique/videophonic-17-derive.html

The installation will be presented on November 11th and 12th at Maison Pour Tous - Salle des Rancy during the Expériences Numériques festival.

http://www.aadn.org/evenements/festival-experiences-numeriques.html
http://www.salledesrancy.com

Dérive is a networked interactive installation that invites the public to explore 3D models of urban spaces that are transformed according to environmental data collected in real time on the Web. A video tracking interface enables the public to interact with a large scale projection.

The installation presents 3D point clouds of cities in Canada (Sherbrooke and Montreal), USA (New York) and France (Lyon and Orleans). Other locations will be added in the future. These models are realized by the use of photogrammetry and geomatic data.

In a time where the reality of urban territories hybridizes with the digital world, the installation uses fluctuating data provided by the network to translate the evolution of meteorological and astronomical phenomena affecting the locations shown at the moment of the public's experience. Connecting the actual and the virtual, Dérive inquires the phenomenology of mixed realities and probes into the changing nature of our perception and representation of the world.

Collaborator

Software development : Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit.

Acknowledgement

Thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for its support, to Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit for the software development, Géographies variables, Labomédia, Sporobole, AADN, Galerie Verticale and Perte de Signal for their involvement in the project's realisation and presentation.

Presentations

Outdoor interactive screen near the Marché de la Gare during Espace [im] média.
Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) September 6-18 2011.

Presentation at Salle des Rancy (Lyon, France), November 11-12 2011.

Solo exhibition at Galerie Verticale
Laval (Quebec, Canada) in March 2012.

L'atomisation du temps.
Solo exhibition at Occurrence.
Presented in collaboration with Elektra.
From May 7th to June 18 2011.

L'atomisation du temps (The Atomization of Time) draws together images, videos and media installations that use the matrix structure of the digital image to visualize spatiotemporal phenomena. Retracing events lasting between one hour and one year, each representation is the result of a process in which pixels have individually captured fragments of successive moments. This temporal dislocation operation generates stratigraphic images which reveal the randomness, rhythms, intensities and transitory moments of a reality in constant flux.

The exhibition also includes 3D Point Clouds related to an interactive installation in which these photogrammetric 3D models of urban spaces will be transformed according to the fluctuation of environmental data captured in real time on the Web.

In the works shown at Occurrence, the pixels of images and the points of 3D environments are used as space-time units in order to translate the variability of environmental conditions while questionning the threshold of perception, the vague area where «noise» becomes a source of information.

Occurrence
5277 Avenue du Parc
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
H2V 4G9

Tuesday - Saturday, 12PM to 5PM.
Friday, 12PM to 8PM.

45.5019, -73.5710 [2010-11-12T11:28:52/13:35:29], from the series Chronoscopies. 187 x 107 cm digital print presented in a LED lightbox. 2010.

Intersection of Sainte-Catherine West and McGill College.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2010/11/12 - 11:28:52AM > 01:35:29PM

47.9013, 1.9027 [2010-04-30T16:45:53/18:51:07], from the series Chronoscopies. 83 x 150 cm digital print presented in a LED lightbox. 2010. De Gaulle tramway station. Orleans, France. 2010/04/30 4:45:53PM > 6:51:07PM

One year sampling of Montreal's sky used for the media installation Ciels variables (Variable Skies).

2010 Cycles. Images from the video loops of the cities of Sparks (Nevada, USA) and Tromsø (Norway). The top left pixel of each image captured January first 2010 at midnight, the bottom right pixel December 31st at approximately 11:54PM.

I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.

Thanks to Occurrence, Perte de Signal, Elektra, the Lombart family, Alexis Bellavance, Centre Sagamie, Labomédia, Géographies variables, Nelly-Ève Rajotte, Sonny Harrisson, Benoit Quévillon, Maude Meury-Benoit, Ralf Pickart and Oliver for the videos.