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.
VALÉRIE LAMONTAGNE
AboutPosition, contact, profile
Position
Current
Faculty, Concordia University: Design & Computation Arts
Affiliations
3lectromode
Hexagram
Contact
info@valerielamontagne.com
Profile
Valérie Lamontagne is a digital media artist, designer, 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 across Canada, the United States, Central and South America and Europe. She is presently a Ph.D. researcher 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 :: Teaching :: Biblio :: PhD
NewsConferences, exhibitions, publications
INM - Institute for New Media
Conference. Frankfurt, Germany.10/12/2010
ISEA2010
Conference. Rhur, Germany. Panel: Enunciations of Nonhuman Performativity. Materiality, Posthumanist Performativity, and Wearables08/20-29/2010
Dis2010
Participant. Aarhus, Denmark. Handcrafting Textile Mice Workshop08/15-16/2010
CFRC 101.9fm
Radio Interview. Queen's Radio, Kingston, Ontario. 12th Annual Regional Juried Members' Exhibition08/11/2010
ModernFuel
Curatorial. 12th Annual Regional Juried Members' Exhibition08/07-09/04/2010
SIGGRAPH 2010
Exhibition. The Studio at SIGGRAPH 2010 curated by Syuzi Pakhchyan from Fashioning Technology.07/27-29/2010
Cycling 74
Press Coverage. Interview. Peau d'Âne07/13/2010
Performance Studies International 16
Conference. Toronto. Ecologies of Relational and Participatory Interactive Technologies06/9-13/2010
Uptown
Press Coverage. 3lectromode06/03/2010
Gilbert Simondon: Transduction, Translation, Transformation
Conference. Paris. Technical Individuation and Performative Wearable Art05/27-28/2010
Webelow Wear
Press Coverage. 3lectromode05/26/2010
Smart Fabrics and Textiles
Press Coverage. 3lectromode05/24/2010
Super Tech News
Press Coverage. 3lectromode05/24/2010
Electricfoxy
Press Coverage. 3lectromode05/24/2010
Talk2myShirt
Press Coverage. 3lectromode05/24/2010
Fashioning Technology
Press Coverage. 3lectromode05/24/2010
Metamorfosi / Metamorphosis Book
Publication. Italy. Peau d'Ane05/21/2010
Premier Pas
Exhibition. St.Boniface. 3lectromode05/20-06/23/2010
zoontotechnics
Conference. Cardiff. Panel: Hylozoic Performativity: From Passive Hyle to Material Agency in Recent New Media Practice05/12-14/2010
Etc Revue de l'art actuel: Bricoler/Brouiller #89
Review. Ars Electronica 200903/2010
Pecha Kucha Montreal #16
Talk. Montreal. Electromode & Wearables03/24/2010
Greenfudge
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane03/16/2010
Ecouterre
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane03/09/2010
Trend Hunter
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane02/27/2010
Neatorama
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane02/25/2010
Gizmo Diva
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane02/24/2010
Designboom
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane02/23/2010
Digital Aesthetics Research Center
Talk. Aarhus, Denmark. Wearables and Performativity02/25/2010
Fashioning Technology
Press Coverage. Peau d'Ane02/17/2010
CODE LIVE : Electromode
Exhibition. Vancouver. Wearables02/06-21/2010
More news
ArtPerformance, interactive, photography
Featured projects
Peau d'Âne
Becoming Balthus
Becoming Balthus is a project that attempts to create a bridge between the fields of painting and performance. Conceived as both a performance and digital photo series Becoming Balthus is based on extensive research into the work of the painter Balthus (Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola) and the representation of women and adolescents in his paintings. Becoming Balthus aims at analyzing and synthesizing the artists’ work within a tradition of feminist performance art.
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
