ONGOING PRODUCTION PROJECTS

[IR]rationnel  > 

[IR]rationnel
by Michal Seta

2010, Interactive sound installation

ONGOING EXHIBITION PROJECTS

Matari 69200  > 

Matari 69200
by Rolando Sánchez

2005, video game

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Grand Canyon  > 

Grand Canyon
by Rodrigo Matheus

2008, Video, 4 min 12 s

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

South Pole  > 

South Pole
by Rodrigo Matheus

2008, Video, 3 min 3 s

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Tokyo  > 

Tokyo
by Rodrigo Matheus

2008, Video, 6 min 25 s

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Run>Routine  > 

Run>Routine
by Lucas Bambozzi

2007, 3 channels computer-based video projection

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Armas.Obj.  > 

Armas.Obj.
by Leandro Lima, Gisela Motta

2008, Paper objects, variable dimensions

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Alvo (Target)  > 

Alvo (Target)
by Leandro Lima, Gisela Motta

2008, Interactive installation

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Video #15  > 

Video #15
by Amilcar Packer

2008, Video installation

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Parálisis  > 

Parálisis
by Gabriel Acevedo Velarde

2005, Video animation, 2 min 15 s

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Satellite Cities  > 

Satellite Cities
by Nicole Franchy

2009, Interactive video installation

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

Stereo Reality Environment 3: Brutalismo  > 

Stereo Reality Environment 3: Brutalismo
by José Carlos Martinat

2007, Interactive installation
Tate Modern Collection

Curator's project: CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT

ARCHIVED PRODUCTION PROJECTS

PEAU D'ANE  > 

PEAU D'ANE
by Valérie Lamontagne

Through the processes of interactive wearable technology, Lamontagne constructs three dresses described in Charles Perrault’s fairy tale Peau d’Âne - of sky, moonbeams and sunlight.

Curator's project: TRANSITIONS/TRANSICIONES

CORDES  > 

CORDES
by Martin Leduc

Cordes - The Cordes project is a mobile instrument in which long strings suspended above spectators are made to vibrate and sound.

BULBES  > 

BULBES
by artificiel

A series of experiments with the sound and visual features of an array of sixteen giant light bulbs.

ARCHIVED EXHIBITION PROJECTS

EYE CONTACT, SHADOW BOX 1  > 

EYE CONTACT, SHADOW BOX 1
by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Eye Contact is the first piece of the ShadowBox series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system.

Curator's project: SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008

WHERE ARE YOU?  > 

WHERE ARE YOU?
by Luc Courchesne

In Where are you? visitors are invited to fly, as in dreams, through a world of many dimensions, between past and future, light and darkness, the public and private. The immersed visitors use a joystick to move in the X, Y and Z axis of an information/experience space where scale matters.

Curator's project: SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008

redTV  > 

redTV
by Brad Todd

redTV, a Brad Todd installation, uses a computer application to capture a television signal in real time and present a garbled image next to a miniature TV that displays the source of the image.

Curator's project: À l'intérieur/Inside

SYMPHONY FOR 54 SHOES (Distant Echoes)  > 

SYMPHONY FOR 54 SHOES (Distant Echoes)
by Ingrid Bachmann

By incorporating everyday objects into her work, Ingrid Bachmann interrogates the sublime often associated with technology. SYMPHONY FOR 54 SHOES (Distant Echoes) explores the pathos of technology by staging an unproductive act. Set out on four shelves, 27 pairs of shoes move and dance independently of each other.

Curator's project: B/R/T Le corps habité | The Inhabited Body

TAKE OFF YOUR LEGS  > 

TAKE OFF YOUR LEGS
by Natacha Roussel

Walking involves putting one foot in front of the other, trampling the ground underfoot. In a more figurative sense, to walk is to move towards some goal or objective. In Take off your Legs, Natacha Roussel examines the theme of walking through our experience of the other’s body by means of movement, which in this case goes nowhere because it is only movement.

Curator's project: B/R/T Le corps habité | The Inhabited Body

PERIPHERAL RESPONSE  > 

PERIPHERAL RESPONSE
by Jane Tingley

Peripheral Response uses the body’s peripheral nervous system as a launching point for an exploration of seeking-to-understand.

Curator's project: B/R/T Le corps habité | The Inhabited Body

POD  > 

POD
by Steve Heimbecker

64 movement sensors have recorded the wind blowing across a Montreal roof. In the Gallery, 64 light sculptures respond to this information as they present a constantly shifting visual patterning reflecting the wind’s velocity, direction and wave motion.

Curator's project: TRANSITIONS/TRANSICIONES

THE PORTABLE SUBLIME  > 

THE PORTABLE SUBLIME
by Ingrid Bachmann

Eight suitcases each open to their own singular, animate narrative.


Curator's project: TRANSITIONS/TRANSICIONES

SCRIBES  > 

SCRIBES
by Eric Raymond

Miniature robots embedded with radio wave receivers draw cartographic images derived from multiple emitting sources including cell phones, broadcast signals, and natural emissions.

Curator's project: TRANSITIONS/TRANSICIONES

TAKEN  > 

TAKEN
by David Rokeby

Taken is a surveillance installation tracks visitors within the Gallery space, and the images stream is presented in two large projections, each presenting a different reading of this activity.

Curators's projects: TRANSITIONS/TRANSICIONES, SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008

DATA  > 

DATA
by Æ

DATA consists of a collection of multimedia works that incorporate images obtained using highly specialized scientific instruments, that is, scanning electron and atomic force microscopes.

Curators's projects: INSIDE, À l'intérieur/Inside

DIGITALE  > 

DIGITALE
by Alexandre Castonguay

Digitale is an interactive installation comprising a wall projection and a bench on which an old still camera is placed.

Curators's projects: INSIDE, À l'intérieur/Inside

HABITGRAM  > 

HABITGRAM
by beewoo

Giving rise to an immersion environment and performances that vary with spectator involvement, habitgram presents a hall of mirrors reflection of the exhibition space.

Curators's projects: INSIDE, À l'intérieur/Inside

WAVE_SCAN  > 

WAVE_SCAN
by Brad Todd

wave_scan is composed of an extremely low frequency sensor, an antenna and a projection of water images taken from a video database.

Curator's project: INSIDE

RAFFI  > 

RAFFI
by Jean-Claude Bustros

Raffi, is a forty year-old New York resident. He is gay. More than fifteen years ago he has been diagnosed with HIV. Compelled to action he became involved from 94 to 98 with an AIDS awareness organization that he helped found and directed in London England.

MAGNITUDES  > 

MAGNITUDES
by François Quévillon

This interactive installation by François Quévillon forms part of his artistic mandate of exploring the evocative force of natural phenomena.

SAISISSEMENT  > 

SAISISSEMENT
by Clara Bonnes

Saisissement is a real-time interactive video installation that includes three silicon modules suspended from the ceiling.

FORMICA  > 

FORMICA
by Philomène Longpré

Formica explores the metaphor of liberation in an environment where tension is created through a progressive uncontrollable multiplication of links.

STILL  > 

STILL
by Adad Hannah

Still is an audience–responsive installation that focuses on the notion of stillness and explores the conscious and unconscious interaction of participants with other participants and with the screen.

PERVERSELY INTERACTIVE SYSTEM  > 

PERVERSELY INTERACTIVE SYSTEM
by Lynn Hughes, Simon Laroche

Perversely Interactive System consists of a life size video projection that is controlled by a participant with a biofeedback handset.

Curators's projects: INSIDE, À l'intérieur/Inside

TACT  > 

TACT
by Jean Dubois

Tact is an interactive video installation that can be controlled using a touch-sensitive screen. It sets up a meeting between the participant and an anonymous person located on the other side of the screen.

Curators's projects: INSIDE, À l'intérieur/Inside

ROTOSCOPIC MACHINES  > 

ROTOSCOPIC MACHINES
by Bill Vorn

The Rotoscopic Machines project consists of producing an interactive network of rotary automatons. This project was shown from April 27th, 2005 to March 26th, 2006 as part of the X-treme Rotation exhibit at the Montréal Science Center.

PREHYSTERICAL MACHINE  > 

PREHYSTERICAL MACHINE
by Bill Vorn

This project is conceived on the principle of deconstruction, suggesting dysfunctional, absurd and deviant behaviors through a functional machine.

TOTEM SONIQUE  > 

TOTEM SONIQUE
by Martin Leduc

Totem sonique, designed to be touched and played, invites visitors to explore and experience an innovative sound universe by activating metal strips grouped together into four keyboards around a vertical water-filled glass sounding-box, radiating light and reflections that move with the frequencies.

OCTOPUS  > 

OCTOPUS
by Philomène Longpré

A video is projected onto a moving structure where images and sounds explode with all of their poetic strength.

SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SAIGON  > 

SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SAIGON
by Françoise Lavoie-Pilote

Sous le soleil de Saigon is an interactive multimedia installation that tells the story of a new Quebecker, a ten-year-old girl who is originally from Vietnam.

ZONE  > 

ZONE
by Françoise Lavoie-Pilote

Zone tells the story of three women from the same family, from three successive generations.

CYBER_MONDRIAN  > 

CYBER_MONDRIAN
by Neam Cathod

Cybernetic audiovisual installation using a participant's brain waves as a compositional engine.

HALLUCINOTRON v1.0  > 

HALLUCINOTRON v1.0
by Neam Cathod

Cybernetic audiovisual performance using a participant's brain waves as a compositional engine, DEI production.

AUTEL  > 

AUTEL
by Éveline Le Calvez

Interactive installation, presented at OBORO, Montréal, May-June 2001.

MEMYLEE MILLER, portrait d'une femme photographe  > 

MEMYLEE MILLER, portrait d'une femme photographe
by Le Pont Bridge

A mosaic work freely based on the life and work of photographer Lee Miller.

On going...

Molior presents [IR]Rationnel by Michal Seta at Eureka! Festival: Science Here, There and Everywhere
 > posted on June 8 2010

In conjunction with the Montréal Science Centre and the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal, Molior presents [IR]Rationnel, the interactive sound installation by artist Michal Seta


Press release

A new partnership agreement between Molior and the Montréal Science Centre
 > posted on April 30 2010

Molior is delighted to announce the signature of a three-year strategic alliance with the Montréal Science Centre (MSC). The agreement will yield many projects that unite media arts and science.

Press release

Online catalogue Restraint
 > posted on December 17 2009

Thanks to an agreement with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art,
Science, and Technology, the Contrainte/Restraint exhibition catalogue will appear in a special publication.

Press release

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