Masquerade features a series of 7 large-scale black and white digital photographs inspired by and utilizing film stills from Louis Feuillade’s 1915 film series Les Vampires. The project’s conceptual intention is to reveal innovative forms of female representation within a silent-film aesthetic.
VALÉRIE LAMONTAGNE
AboutPosition, contact, profile
Position
Current
Faculty, Concordia University: Design & Computation Arts
Affiliations
3lectromode
Hexagram
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media
Contact
info@valerielamontagne.com
Profile
Valérie Lamontagne is a digital media designer-artist, theorist and curator researching techno-artistic frameworks that combine human/nonhuman agencies. Looking at the rich practice of performance art, social intervention and interactive installations – she is invested in developing responsive objects (specifically wearables) and interactive media scenarios which interlope the public-at-large, the environment and matter as “performer”. She is the Founder and Director of 3lectromode, a design group invested in developing wearables which combine D-I-Y technology with current fashion research. Her work has been showcased in festivals, galleries and musuems across Canada, the United States, Central and South America and Europe. She holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in visual arts and is presently a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University investigating “Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables” where she teaches in the Department of Design & Computation Arts. [CV-english] [CV-français]
Links:Wearables :: Locative :: Teaching :: Biblio :: PhD
NewsConferences, exhibitions, publications
Danish international visiting Artist
Residency. Aarhus University, Digital Urban Living, Denmark.11/01/2011-31/12/2012
ISEA2011
Conference. Istanbul. Panel: Open Design + Wearables. Workshop: Open Design + Wearables Skillshare.09/14-21/2011
Copenhagen Artist in residence
Residency. Copenhagen.09/01-11/01/2011
Think Magazine
Press Coverage. Interview. 3lectromode.07/2011
Pauline van Dongen
Interview. Fashioning Technology.07/06/2011
Jean Paul Gaultier
Review. wonderMode.07/05/2011
Grado Zero Espace
Interview. Fashioning Technology.06/29/2011
Christien Meindertsma
Interview. Fashioning Technology.06/27/2011
Carole Collet
Interview. Fashioning Technology.06/24/2011
Emily Crane
Interview. Fashioning Technology.06/22/2011
EUREKA!
Festival. Montreal. 3lectromode06/17-19/2011
Clothing without Cloth
Curious Corner Part 3. Rotterdam. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media.06/2011
Clothing without Cloth
Curious Corner Part 2. Rotterdam. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media.06/2011
Clothing without Cloth
Curious Corner Part I. Rotterdam. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media.06/2011
Performance Studies international 17
Conference. Utrecht. Materiality, Posthumanist Performativity, and Wearables.05/27/2011
Clothing without Cloth
Event. Test_Lab. Rotterdam. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media.05/26/2011
Future Textiles
Conference. Herning, Denmark. International Expert Summit.05/11-13/2011
Jennifer Darmour
Interview. Fashioning Technology.04/04/2011
Future Fashion / El Futuro de la Moda Book
Publication. Spain. Peau D'Âne.03/29/2011
Moon Berlin
Interview. Fashioning Technology.03/15/2011
SXSW
Exhibition. 3lectromode. Curated by Syuzi Pakhchyan from Fashioning Technology.03/11-20/2011
Piem Wirtz
Interview. Fashioning Technology.03/07/2011
Instructables
Showcased. 3lectromode.02/10/2011
Curve Magazine
Press Coverage. Spotlight. 3lectromode.(pdf)03/2011
V2_ institute for the unstable media
Stage. Rotterdam.01/01-05/01/2011
More news
ArtPerformance, interactive, photography
Featured projects
Masquerade
Peau d'Âne
This project is part of a body of research that focuses on relational and ubiquitous performance. Investigating historical performance-centric contexts and adapting new scenarios for wearable and sensing technologies, “Peau d’Âne” seeks to create links between the symbolic percipience of fairy tales and current technological innovation. In particular, this project explores the potential for wearables to become agents of performativity.
Other art
CuratorialWearables, net.art, audio/video
Featured projects
Electromode @ Code Live
From research in science and art, wearable microcomputers and smart fabrics transform the body through dynamic, kinetic and shape-shifting garments that expand the body’s possibilities.
Sartorial Flux @ A+D
Sartorial Flux reflects on the changing nature of clothing and fashion in light of modern society’s increasingly nomadic and technologically ubiquitous lifestyle.
FLOAT: Sabrina Raaf @ OBORO
Sabrina Raaf’s exhibition Float playfully queries the relationship between humans and imaginative technological systems.
Other curatorial
Ellipse @ Musée national des beaux arts du Québec
Location / Dislocation @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
A Prendre ou à laisser: Irit Batsry @ OBORO
Hybrid Cultures @ OBORO
Location / Dislocation @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
A Prendre ou à laisser: Irit Batsry @ OBORO
Hybrid Cultures @ OBORO
