Luc Courchesne
Acitivités récentes / Nouvelles
Les Vases communicants : Nouvelles technologies et art contemporain
Dix ans d'action de la fondation Daniel Langlois
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e-art/f/index.php
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Noël Desmarais
Du 20 septembre au 9 décembre 2007
Luc Courchesne took part in the emergence of media arts twenty-five years ago, when, as a video artist inspired by a generation of experimental filmmakers including Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton, he discovered computer technologies. First delving into interactive portraiture — a great artistic tradition re-articulated in a new mould — his work has recently turned to another important genre, that of landscape. With his installations, "panoscopic" images, and a device of his own making used to create a sense of visual immersion, he transforms the spectator into a visitor whom he leads, like Alice, through the looking glass.
Luc Courchesne was born in 1952 in St-Léonard d’Aston, Québec. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (1974), and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1984). Courchesne began his explorations in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies, one of the earliest experiments in the field. He has since produced about 30 installation works and image series including: Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous… (1999), Panoscopic Journal (1999-), Panoscope 360° (2000), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001), Untitled (2004) and Where are you? (2005).
His work is part of major collections in North America, Europe and Asia and has been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide including: Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo’s InterCommunication Center (ICC), Paris’ La Villette, Karlsruhe’s ZKM/Medienmuseum, Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona. For more information on Luc Courchesne's work, consult: http://www.din.umontreal.ca/courchesne
January 28 - March 4, 2006
Luc Courchesne: Lieux/Places
The Panoscopic Journal, undertaken by Courchesne in 1999, documented moments of Courchesne whereabouts as he traveled to exhibit his interactive portraits and developed immersive projection systems of his own. His goal with the Journal was, essentially then, to get familiar with the novel point of view offered by the catadioptric lens he was using. In this exhibition, Courchesne continues his Journal to questions more directly this time the concept of place, of the observing subject and of the novel nature of the worlds one is now invited to step in. Nothing is less certain than these « locations » presented as « switchable » realities. We are also very pleased to present Where are you? (2005); an immersive existence simulator and tele-presence apparatus in which visitors are invited to fly, as in dreams, through a world of many dimensions, between past and future, light and darkness, the public and private. This immersive display uses a custom designed 'panoscopic' projector above, that projects in real time a rendering of the entire horizon onto the hemispheric screen in which one person can participate at a time.
Luc Courchesne was born in 1952 in St-Léonard d'Aston, Québec. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (Bachelor of Design in Communication, 1974), and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (Master of Science in Visual Studies, 1984). He began his explorations in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies, one of the earliest experiement in the field with Ellen Sebring, Benjamin Bergery, Bill Seaman and others. He has since produced several installations including Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous (1999) and The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001). His work has been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide: Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo's InterCommunication Center (ICC), Paris' La Villette, Karlsruhe's ZKM/Medienmuseum, Montréal's Musée d'art contemporain... His instalaltions are part of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the ZKM/Medienmuseum (Karlsruhe), the NTT Intercommuncation Center (Tokyo) and of the Museum of Communication (Bern). Luc Courchesne was awarded the Grand Prix of the ICC Biennale '97 in Tokyo and an Award of Distinction at Pris Ars Electronica 1999 in Linz, Austria. Based in Montreal, Luc Courchesne is professor of design at Université de Montréal and president of the Society for Art and Technology.
November 19 - December 20, 2003
Luc Courchesne: Images panoscopiques
Luc Courchesne developed a panoramic projection technology for which he uses disc shaped images that are projected onto a hemispheric screen to immerse the viewer. In this exhibition, Courchesne presents some of these circular anamorphic photographs in their raw form as simple rotating prints. The work featured is from a series titled Panoscopic Journal, anamorphic panoramas he has photographed since November 1999. They mostly document moments in the author's life.
Born in 1952 (Québec), Courchesne studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (Bachelor of Design in Communication, 1974), and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (Master of Science in Visual Studies, 1984). He began his explorations in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies, one of the earliest experiement in the field with Ellen Sebring, Benjamin Bergery, Bill Seaman, Glorianna Davenport and others. He has since produced several installations including Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous (1999), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001) and Untitled (2002). His work has been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide: Sydney 's Art Gallery of New South Wales, New York's Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo 's InterCommunication Center (ICC), Paris ' La Villette, Karlsruhe 's ZKM/Medienmuseum, Montréal's Musée d'art contemporain... His instalaltions are part of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada ( Ottawa ), the ZKM/Medienmuseum ( Karlsruhe ), the NTT Intercommuncation Center ( Tokyo ) and of the Museum of Communication ( Bern ). Luc Courchesne was awarded the Grand Prix of the ICC Biennale '97 in Tokyo and an Award of Distinction at Pris Ars Electronica 1999 in Linz , Austria . Based in Montreal. Luc Courchesne is professor of design at Université de Montréal and president of the Society for Art and Technology (SAT). We also invite you to consult the electronic journal www.horizonzero.ca.