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| Luc Courchesne was born in 1952 in St-Léonard d'Aston, Québec. 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), and Rendez-vous (1999). In July 2000, he premiered at Siggraph the Panoscope 360, the first single channel panoramic viewer. 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 information design at Université de Montréal and president of the Technological Art Society . Contribution: The Construction of Experience A survey of works by Luc Courchesne between 1985 and 2001 that characterize early development in new media art and the quest shared by many artists of this generation for an increasingly interactive and immersive genre. Courchesne will also try to position new media art as we know it within a larger project that started with the panorama artists of the 19th century and whose ambition is to turn spectators into visitors. |
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