Biography /
Natacha Roussel

Natacha Roussel creates physical interfaces with poetic, surrealist, and sensorial qualities which closely involve the participant. Her interactive installations range from prostheses to interactive clothing. These interfaces have taken the form of manipulable sculptural objects and, more recently, clothing. Her work has received the support of the Canada Council for the Arts (2004, 2006) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2001) for the creation of installations while in artistic residence. While carrying out a master’s degree in interactive design (2004), under the supervision of Joanna Berzowska, she became interested in designing interactive clothing, her current focus of interest.

In 2003, she founded the collective Experientiae Electricae with a graphic designer, an electronics expert, and a programmer. Driven by the desire to go beyond their respective media, they use the potential made possible by their collaboration to incorporate technologies based on rudimentary electrical operations to create multimedia works.

www.natacharoussel.com