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° Valérie Lamontagne is a Montréal-based performance and digital media artist, freelance art critic and independent curator. She received an MFA from Concordia University (Montréal) where she presently teaches in Design and Computation Arts and she is a co-founder, with Brad Todd, of the media arts collective MobileGaze. She is presently a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University with the Topological Media Lab investigating “Relational and Ubiquitous Performance Art”.

° Valerie Lamontagne's area of inquiry is nestled between performance art, technology and media theory. She investigates the resonance of somatic/digital presence through costume, live performance, networked environments and photography.

° Her Advice Bunny performance has been featured at: Open Space (Victoria, 2003); Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane (Torino, 2002); Plein Sud (Longueuil, 2000); Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton, 2000); Helen Pitt Gallery (Vancouver, 1999); Concordia University Bourget Gallery (Montréal, 1999); 48 Rooms/48 Hours (Montréal, 1999); and in New York as part of A Day in the Park organized by May Day Productions (New York, 1998); and upcoming in the "Mad Cow" exhibition at NURTUREart (Brooklyn, 2006).

° Her exhibition/performance The Snow Flake Queen was presented at: Neutral Ground (Regina, 2003); Forest City (London, Ontario, 2002); Truck (Calgary, 2001); and the group show Circus Deviations presented at the Torre de los Vientos (Mexico City, 2001).

° Other performances/exhibitions include: Sense Nurse presented in Vital Signs at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montréal, 2000); Flutter presented in Compulsion at the Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts (Montréal, 1999); Mermaid of the Future presented at Visualeyez, organized by Latitude53 (Edmonton, 2001); and Treatment Centre at the Concordia University VAV Gallery (Montréal, 2001).

° Web-based projects include: Better Homes presented within the context of the Science Fair exhibition at Studio XX (Montréal, 2002); Sister Valerie of the Internet presented at MAWA Gallery in "Grrls, Chicks, Sisters & Squaws: Les citoyennes du Cyberspace" exhibition curated by Skawennati Fragnito (Winnipeg, 2006); Performance Studies International Conference “Becoming Uncomfortable” (Providence, 2005); FILE (Sao Paulo, 2004); Horizonzero Magazine #13 Perform (Banff, 2004); [probingintothedistance] at the Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener (Kitchener, 2003); Year Zero One (Toronto, 2003); La Chambre Blanche (Quebec City, 2003).

° Recent projects include the photo/performance project Becoming Balthus presented at: Abrons Arts Centre (New York City, 2007) in the "Posing" exhibition, curated by Joelle Jensen and Andrea Cote; VU (Québec City, 2004); Articule (Montréal, 2004); Artspace (Peterborough, 2003); a photo/video/performance project, Spiritualist Embrace, presented in the switched>ON< exhibition, curated by localStyle (Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim) at Klein Art Works (Chicago, 2004); and Papie presented in the GPS-enabled taxi/video exhibition Teletaxi organized by Year Zero One and presented by Dare Dare (Montréal, 2005).

° Current projects include Masquerade, a photo/performance work situated at the juncture between performance art and photography, revisiting Louis Feuillade’s 1915 film series Les Vampires.

° Also in progress is Peau d’Âne, a wearable project based on Charles Perrault’s fairy tale exploring the dynamic possibilities of 3 dresses representing the sun, sky and moon presented in: Sartorial Flux exhibition at A+D Gallery, Columbia College (Chicago, 2006); SIGGRAPH (Boston, 2006); Edge Intermedia (St.John’s, 2006); Say It Now! exhibition at Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Gent, 2006); InterAccess (Toronto, 2005); Galeria del Centro Cultural PUCP (Lima, 2007) ; Oboro (Montréal, 2007); and upcoming as part of SEAMLESS: Computational Couturat the Museum of Science (Boston, 2008) and at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles as part ofArt and Technology Festival Zero One (2008).