Artist's Talk

Luc Courchesne took part in the emergence of media arts thirty years ago when, as a video artist inspired by a generation of experimental filmmakers such as Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton, he adopted computer technologies. First delving into interactive portraiture, a great artistic tradition rearticulated in a new mould, his work has recently turned to another important genre, that of landscape. With his installations, "panoscopic" images, and a devices of his own making used to create a sense of visual immersion, he is helping transfom spectators into visitors, actors and inhabitants of the new artforms.Courchesne¿s work is part of major collections in North America, Europe and Asia and has been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide including: Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo's InterCommunication Center (ICC), Paris' La Villette, Karlsruhe's ZKM/Medienmuseum, Montreal¿s Musée d'art contemporain, the National Gallery of Canada, Barcelona¿s Fundacion La Caixa and Beijing¿s National Art Museum of China.Based in Montreal, Courchesne is professor of design at Université de Montréal as well as a founding member and interim director of research at the Society for Art and Technology. Courchesne is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal and the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York City.