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Through her research-creation approach, Isidori’s interdisciplinary work engages with “difficult knowledge”, information and experiences that challenge the familiar pillars of our self-understanding and at-homeness in the world. The work focuses on feminicide, which is the ultimate link of a chain of violence entrenched in the mindset of a patriarchal, capitalist, neoliberal structure exploiting and desecrating the body as a disposable commodity. Isidori’s practice explores the genre of serious games as a medium to engage with her research.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Don Federico is an experimental video installation that juxtaposes YouTube footage of kids playing a hand game with an actual case of feminicide. It creates an unsettling dialogue that reflects on the naturalization of gender-based violence.
“Don Federico killed his wife,
he chopped her in little pieces
and put her in a frying pan,
people walking by,
smelled something stinky,
it was Don Federico’s wife,
dancing cha cha cha”

research-creation CONTEXT

Through her research-creation approach, Isidori’s interdisciplinary work engages with “difficult knowledge”: information and experiences that challenge the familiar pillars of our self-understanding and at-homeness in the world. The work focuses on feminicide, which is the ultimate link in a chain of violence entrenched in the mindset of a patriarchal, capitalist, neoliberal structure exploiting and desecrating the body as a disposable commodity. Isidori’s practice explores the genre of serious games as a medium to engage with her research.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

SOLA is a video game that embodies the climate of tension, discomfort and fear that can be experienced walking alone at night in cities where gender-based violence is embedded in everyday life. SOLA builds on the concept of play to explore a video game as an instrument for conceptual thinking and a tool to work through social issues.

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By generating intense multi-sensory experiences, Saunier’s research-creation approach focuses on temporal patterns and dynamics of light qualities. Exploring the physiological impact of digital technologies rather than their potential for representation, his work is located between the perceptible and imperceptible through the production of amorphous luminous forms, blurry effects and experimental rhythms. Saunier interrogates the expanded sensorium shared between human and machines by focusing on the manipulation of our perception of time and space.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Sensum is an instrument to experiment with the sensory effects of LED light. It consists of a helmet that triggers the sense of sight through dynamic patterns of color, intensity, and movement. The work explores how digital technologies offer new algorithmic possibilities to effect light that alters our physiological condition and generate new sensations. Sensum provokes lived experiences that range from visual illusions to complex cross-modal effects, haptic hallucinations, and time distortions.

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By generating intense multi-sensory experiences, Saunier’s research-creation approach focuses on temporal patterns and the dynamics of light qualities. Exploring the physiological impact of digital technologies rather than their potential for representation, his work is located between the perceptible and imperceptible through the production of amorphous luminous forms, blurry effects and experimental rhythms. Saunier interrogates the expanded sensorium shared between humans and machines by focusing on the manipulation of our perception of time and space.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Vitra is an ensemble of lively light sculptures that modulate the atmosphere of the space. It plays with rhythms of color and intensity that fluctuate from barely noticeable to nearly blinding. Both as an installation and a performance, Vitra unfolds a poetic of presence and absence to convey an experience of both spatial openness and temporal suspension.

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Layne and Osmond’s interdisciplinary work focuses on the development of intelligent cloth structures for the creation of artistic, performative and functional textiles. Natural materials as well as microcontrollers, sensing and electronics create surfaces that are receptive and responsive to external stimuli. In this particular context, their research-creation approach reflects on a historical exploration of James Clerk Maxwell’s archival texts and the practical application of his magnetic field theory through custom designed antennas.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Maxwell’s Equations consists of three garments that incorporate unique antenna designs that wirelessly connect the garments to one another. The designs draw inspiration from 19th century fashion and from physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s pioneering theories of electromagnetic fields. When physically aligned, the strength of the connection will change the texts, poetry and mathematical formulas scrolling through the LED panels. The antennas on the front of the dresses portray one of Maxwell’s diagrams.

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In her research-creation approach, Legault acknowledges more-than-human relations through gesture and resonance. From appropriated fragments of publicly available research documentation, she generates multisensorial installations. By approaching scientific experimentation of insect behavior, her artistic work reflects on our society through sustainable ecosystems and surveillance technology and envisions the future of technological applications through sensory and communication behavior between humans and non-humans.

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DRONE draws on research into the physical dynamics of insect flight and behaviour. The installation video merges documentation images of live bees with their robotic counterparts that are currently being developed by micro-robotics labs in the U.S. and Japan. In collaboration with participants movements, the projected light generates a live soundscape that is tuned to bee flight and communication behaviours, offering a speculative engagement with the tangible sonic experience of bee activities.

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Starting from visual self-narratives and the life of objects, Reznik explores and reconfigures the production of memory and its relation to culture. Her research-creation is based on the manipulation of material and immaterial identity traces carried by objects and memories. Thanks to her collaboration with Marichka Marczyk, Reznik forges explicit links between her socio-cultural heritage, artistic practice and ethnographic research in order to combine history and imagination.

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Un-weaving takes its origin from a linen fabric made by the artist's Ukrainian grandmother in the 1930s, a period of great famine in Ukraine. It was sent from Ukraine by mail with a letter explaining how it was made: from picking the plants and separating them into filaments, to spinning and weaving. For a long time the fabric remained in a drawer until the day when the artist decided to unweave it in order to make it disappear. Why? For it to be reborn in another form: that of the moving image where its threads become plants once again.

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As a mixed Anishinaabekwe, Faye Mullen is informed and invested in the political field of feminism, queer sensibilities and Indigenous epistemologies. Her approach considers the effect of imposed silences crossing generations, acknowledging that for settler colonialism such silence was (and remains) a tool for dispossession. By folding realities and drawing from past and future experiences, Mullen seeks to unearth these silences, coming to know them as the agent bodies they once were and which have the potential to still be.

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Vestige of colonization and political instrument since the Anthropocene, we have never been faced with more walls than today. Faye Mullen proposes the experience of reimagining that which seems to be an imposing limit as an accessible threshold. By way of architectural and especially political and psychological semantics, she navigates the state of the wall in the hour of multiculturalism, access to information and international communication by placing value on deconstruction.

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Lapointe and Cloutier explore both scientific and artistic methods to raise awareness of biodiversity in a world of scientific professionalization and sterility. By reinvesting ethical considerations, their research-creation work reclaims the recognition of individual choice in a medicalized environment. They adopt a DIY approach for sharing the results of their scientific research on microbiome transmission, by giving visibility to the seeding process.

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The Microbiome Rebirth Incubator is a device designed to seed babies born by emergency c-section with vaginal bacteria and breast milk essential to infant growth, either by dipping the newborn in the incubator, or by soaking a sterile compress in the probiotic cocktail to wash the baby’s mouth, face and body. The project symbolically explores the possibility of ​​repairing the microbiome, as a way to re-empower the mother and her child, and to erase the traumatic experience of caesarean birth.

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Captivated by the relationships between motion, electricity, the digital and the living, Arseneault's research-creation combines technologies to create interactive instruments. Through the mastery of materials, Arseneault engages in experimental processes to hijack or transform existing mechanisms. Recalling underground cinema methods, he develops digital environments that enable both kinetic and sound synesthesia through variations in electric current.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Working on the distinctiveness of sound signals such as phase, frequency and amplitude, Feedback Cycles for Oscillographs produces an audio-driven synesthesia of hypnotic lines drawn from the stereophonic disparity. Activated by movement on two wheels, this installative action seeks to reveal the ungrasped between void and short circuit.

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Promises is a part of a broader research-creation project that investigates processes of sensing and sense-making through the modality of vibrational patterns as artistic expression. Toft’s work focuses on the perception of movement and vibration of materials which results from the interaction between human and non-human agencies. Her experimentation investigates machine touch as the primary modality for choreographing social gatherings as game-like situations.

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While consumers of mainstream culture have developed refined literacies in screen-based media, the modality of vibration is less coded with meanings. Promises explores what local multiplayer games might look like when using algorithmically-driven vibration as primary material for expression. In Promises, objects circulate between the hands of the visitors. Objects and promises replace one another via the acts of trading, making attachments, and letting go. Preferences and meanings emerge.

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In their research-creation process, Marcotte and Squinkifer consider alternative forms of intimacy and relationships between entities not normally viewed as agents/subjects. Their work is inspired by concepts of vibrant material traditions and of kinship and otherness. Exploring the devices of a game, they create situations in which the codes of society are challenged in order to promote direct experience along with individual and collective sensibilities.

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In this screenless physical-digital hybrid game, the main interaction is caressing and stroking a plant gently. Using the natural conductance of both humans and plants, a soundscape with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) poetry is generated. Since conductance varies from human to human, and with the moisture in the plant and earth, each human has a unique relationship with their plant partner. This game asks questions about what it means to design from the perspective of an "other" that we cannot know the mind of.

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In his works, Rondeau develops devices that explore self-representation in a playful and unconventional manner. His research-creation approach reveals as much a search for simplicity of design for users, as an interest in the complexity of computer code and the execution of physical objects. While situating his research in the history of serial and sequential photography popularized in the 19th century, Rondeau’s works with digital images - unlike analog photography - do not stand for reality.

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REVOLVE/REVEAL is an interactive installation based on slit-scan photography, a marginal process which transposes temporality and spatiality within the image. Through distorted representations of the interactors, it seeks to transgress the photographic portrait’s conventions of fixity and single vantage point. Slit-scan stretches and spatializes time within a paradoxically static representation, requiring innovative modes of interpretation by the viewer.

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Research-creation is explored in Cossette and Munezero’s collaboration through urban dance and electronic music mixed with the universe of technological interactivity. They develop a choreographic practice that is characterized by connection and improvisation. Their interest in the sensory world, namely synesthesia, material agency and embodiment, is captured thanks to the sonication of movement.

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Temporalité Expressive questions the relationship between movement and sound on stage by created a choreography which is composed and expressed musically. The three performers were chosen for their diversity and mastery of the musicality in their movements in order to enrich the melodic research. In order to create this relationship, sensors positioned on the dancers influence in real time a musical generation algorithm and sound synthesis parameters which influences their expressivity.

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Theunissen's research-creation workshops focus on collective intelligence in a constantly changing environment. Thanks to her collaborations, this transdisciplinary project explores the intersection of performance and technologies (learning algorithms and image processing). Theunissen attempts to understand the "states" of a group interacting in a shared space and evolving without a central leader. This project seeks to challenge our apprehension of adaptation through a continuously evolving feedback loop between the machine and the performers.

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The "generative chorus" project is an artistic research laboratory on the role of chorus in movement. Acting as a "collective body", 15 performers move in an interactive apparatus that interprets its "states". The creation iterates its analysis with each experimentation, creating a kind of endless experiment. This choral approach values horizontal relationships between individuals and seeks leadership-less organizational strategies in a constantly changing environment.

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At the intersection of art, science and technology, Mc Gilchrist’s work reflects on how to stage embodied experience through an immersive VR installation. The sequence of the spectators' gaze creates an infinite reflection through 360 o performances, the imaginary universe of the island and the exhibition space itself. McGilchrist is concerned with new forms of performed and enacted storytelling, particularly the practice of auto-ethnography, and how these can be used to subvert racial, social and gender-based categorization, classification and discrimination.

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Islands are metaphors for a condensed physical space in which we are aware of the edges of our living environment. By transposing this notion to an immersive VR - sculptural installation, we invite participants to navigate through an archipelago of possible encounters through filmed 360 performances and deconstructed sounds, which inhabit these imaginary islands. Submerged in virtual reality, ISLAND’s embodied experience becomes a tool to decipher experimental practices within an immersive installation context.

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In an attempt to induce tingling sensations and pleasurable auditory-tactile synesthesia in the user, Audry and Gee’s research-creation approach aims to reveal the listener’s own cyborgian qualities. The use of human and non-human agencies seeks to blur the boundaries between time, cognition, language, and technologies of communication. The artists’ collaboration demonstrates media art as agent-based art practice and research regarding human voices and electronic bodies.

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to the sooe re-embodies the cognitive processes and creative voices of three agents into a tangible device: a deceased author, a deep learning neural net, and an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response performer. These agencies are materialized in the device, which transmits soft vocalizations of an AI-generated text: its vocalizations are intended to induce autonomous physiological sensations in the listener (ASMR), revealing the body as linked to the technological-sonic assemblage and initiating an intimate encounter with machine learning processes.

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By developing a spiraling feedback dynamic between performer and machine, Kite cultivates an integrated Indigenous and research-creation methodology approach in order to understand and articulate how the Lakota acknowledge and support truth-telling in a variety of forms: facts, lies, stories, spiritual channeling, family gossip, and community mythologies. She explores these mythologies and articulates how they can be conceptually, creatively, and pragmatically productive alternatives to the hegemony of Western epistemologies.

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Listener is a site specific performance artwork that engages with Lakota epistemologies through computational media and narrative. Lakota ways of knowing tell us that hair is an extra-sensory tool, operating in physically, metaphorical, and spiritual dimensions simultaneously. How can a Lakota understanding of hair influence the design of technology? What does a Lakota data visualization interface look like?

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Combining media art and physical theater, Chartrand's research-creation questions human presence by exploring the threshold of the shadow’s visibility. Her work seeks to offer a new apprehension of the body, different from its commonly recognized forms. A performer’s digital print is captured by the “translucidoscope” technique that Chartrand has developed - a process that favors unpredictability and the immersion of the subject within a broader inquiry into performativity and perception.

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The video triptych Study 1 presents three figures performing an asynchronous jumping whose slow motion reveals successive states of the figures’ metamorphosis. The work explores the shadow as an unpredictable doubling the body. A video capture of the sliding shadow on the moving body in contact with a translucent screen. The rebound of fabrics mixing their shadow with that of the body alters the human contours, generating these figures as labile as they are insolent at the risk of entanglement.

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Hunter promotes a research-creation approach that aims to raise critical awareness of scientific techniques and stimulate discussion of biotechnology outside the functional context of laboratories and hospitals. During her residency at the SymbioticA Center for Excellence in Biological Arts in Australia, she observed the behavior of cells in order to create new vital and aesthetic specimens through hands-on tissue engineering. By putting cells on a human visual scale, Hunter thus seeks to create a feeling of empathy.

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Aseptic Requiem presents a new scientific protocol for the compassionate disposal of in vitro semi-living organisms. The 24-hour time lapse image from digital micrography shows repetitive looping of 11 compressed seconds of live NIH3T3 connective tissue cells successfully engaging with and performing vital functions on silk filaments in cell culture media. Aseptic Requiem is presented on a small, intimate screen, with the accompaniment of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem Op. 48. The installation includes a handwoven Jacquard prayer rug, entitled, Metamaterial.