Category Archives: Affiliates

Jérôme Delapierre

Jérôme Delapierre is a visual artist and interactive designer working in Montreal, studied Computation Arts and Interactive design at Concordia University as well as Contemporary Arts and new media at IMUS University in France. Currently the artistic director of Active media inc and Anartistic, and a freelance visual designer and researcher at Topological Media Lab and Alkemie Atelier. He has collaborated with differents artists and researchers, like Pk langshaw, Sha Xin Wei, Michael Montanaro and Jean Derome, and have been presented at festivals and events in various countries. His research is based on the relationship between human and technology and non linear interactivity, focusing on the experiences of urban social behavior. He is interested in new ways to create visual sets and environments by exploring eclectic projections techniques. Jérôme work on responsive video, interactive installations, performances and scenography.

www.jeromedelapierre.com

Lina Dib

Lina Dib is an artist and anthropologist associated with the Topological Media Lab in Montreal and TX/RX labs in Houston. Her PhD (2013) in Anthropology from Rice University concerned the contemporary technologies of memory. Situated at the intersection of anthropology, contemporary art, and the social study of science, her work focuses on concepts of time, memory, the environment, and intimacy in the design of digital recording devices. She has received grants and awards from Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, AMIDA’s European training program, and Rice University’s Humanities Research Center. Recent publications include: “The Forgetting Dis-ease: Making Time Matter” (2012), “Of Promises and Prototypes: The Archeology of the Future” (2010) and “Memory as Concept in the Design of Digital Recording Devices” (2008). Dib’s installations and compositions range from the ethnographic to the experimental, and have been shown in Montreal, New York, New Orleans, Paris and Houston.

Tyr Umbach

Tyr Umbach is a scientist and student of mathematics, fine arts and philosophy. Since 2009, Tyr has been a contributor to the realtime video and state engine components of the TML’s Ozone media choreography platform, and the Il Y A video membrane installation, with much of his current TML efforts concentrated upon dynamical systems and continuous state machines. His fields of interest include algebra, topology, and geometry, and their applications to physics, chemistry, natural science, and philosophy.

Magdalena Isabela Victoria Olszanowski

Concordia University. She obtained her BA honours summa cum laude from the University of Toronto and an MA in Communication and Culture from York University. She has studied at the University of Amsterdam on full scholarship. A certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto school of Continuing Education also hangs on her mom’s wall.Born in Warsaw, Poland, she is a sujet-en-proces, existing within the contours of relations. Her work grounds itself in the multi-faceted topology of surveillance and process/movement. Magdalena’s research topics include the body as an ‘open system’ prepared for ‘abstract sex’, granular synthesis, process philosophy’s potential in re-framing mapping practices, melancholia, emerging media and the liminal spaces of the ‘not yet’ in immersive environments. By the by, she identifies as an arts-based researcher with lax hygiene and no social graces.

http://raisecain.net

Michael Fortin

Michael has expertise and interest in computer graphics, artificial intelligence and
artificial life. He has developed some core optimizations of the physics and time-based
video computation, as well as GL projects. He is working on some applications of
machine vision as part of the Ozone media choreography team. He received is MA in
Computer Science at Concordia University.

Navid Navab

Navid Navab | navidnavab.net | is a Montreal based composer, media alchemist, audio-visual sculptor, perSonifier, gestureBender, phono-menologist, and all around multidisciplinary artist.

Interested in the poetics of schizophonia, materiality, and embodiment, his work investigates the transmutation of matter and the enrichment of its inherent performative qualities. Making the imperceptible palpable, Navid uses gestures, rhythms and vibration from everyday life as basis for real-time compositions, resulting in augmented acoustical-poetry and painterly light that enchants improvisational and pedestrian movements. A graduate of Ontario Royal Conservatory of Music, Concordia University’s Electroacoustics and Computational Arts program, and McGill Music Technology, Navid has been leading experiments for the past several years creating deeply expressive intermedia instruments synthesizing his research at IRCAM, CRIMMT, CNMAT, Topological Media Lab and Matralab, while using phenomenological studies to inform the creation of computationally-augmented performance environments.

His pieces, which which take on the form of gestural sound compositions, responsive architecture, site specific interventions, theatrical interactive installations, kinetic sound sculptures and multimodal improv-based performances, have been presented internationally at diverse venues including Canadian Center for Architecture, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, eArts Shanghai, MUMUTH Austria, Roulette New York, Western Front Vancouver, McCord Museum, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Timisoara Romania, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, International Digital Arts Biennial, Musiikin Aika Finland, HKW Berlin, Festival International Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques, Suoni Per il Popolo Festival, CURRENTS Santa Fe,  CCRMA Palo Alto, CINARS Biennale, Electric Eclectics Meaford, and TANGENTE mtl among others.

His currently ongoing decade long series such as Practices of Everyday Life, and GestureBending interventions reflect Navid’s continued interest in the enactment of dynamic performative ecologies that allow for poetic and virtuosic improvisation with computationally enriched materials and environments. 

“Underlying this array imaginative creations is a playful awareness of the relationship between gesture, materiality, and sound. By enchanting the inherent properties of materials we know from everyday life with potential for play, Navid reacquaints us with the magic and wonder of our embodied experience.”   

-Rachel Elliott, international institute for critical studies in improvisation

 

Josée-Anne Drolet

Research Facilitator / BFA Computation Arts / Soft Architecture, Media, Management,
Communications / email

Josée-Anne graduated from the Computation Arts program after 3 years at Concordia
and an exchange program in Communication and New Media at the National University
of Singapore. 
She has experience in high level team sports, with the family enterprise
(RHUMART, Manoir de Neuville, Sushi Nagano) and team based, creative projects such
as the Grand Onion , Troglodyte and Cosmicomics .

Freida Abtan

After a first degree in maths (combinatorics) at Waterloo, a second in the DCART Fine Arts program at Concordia, and a Masters in music composition at Université de Montréal, Freida is now completing her Ph.D. in the MEME program at Brown University. Freida’s interests include videomusic, electronic music and video performance, and realtime responsive media.

Elena Frantova

Elena completed her BFA in Computational Arts and is currently enrolled in Master’s program in Computer Science at Concordia University. She is exploring the possibilities of using responsive environments to study human un/consciousness. Elena collaborates with Dream and Nightmare Laboratory since 2005.