Concours national d’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement

Ludovic Boney

Ludovic Boney is from Wendake, Quebec. He works on large-scale public art projects and regularly exhibits his work in galleries and artist-run centres. More recently, his work has shifted toward sound and immersive sculptures. By inviting viewers to participate in his sculptural installations, he creates works in which the spectator becomes an integral part of the composition. His practice, which is formalistic by nature, embodies a discourse rooted in his Indigenous culture. As a multicultural artist from a hybrid cultural background, he brings together cultural tradition with contemporary aesthetics and, in so doing, actively participates in the conciliation of Canadian and Indigenous cultures. Boney recently exhibited works at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as well as at Nuit Blanche Toronto. Notable public art works include In Equilibrium, installed at the Anishnawbe Indigenous Hub in Toronto; Théâtralité contextuelle at the new HEC Montréal; the monumental Cosmologie sans genèse au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and Ahchiouta’ah, a digital and sound work currently exhibited at the Grand Théâtre de Québec. Boney’s works are included in numerous public and private collections.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Canadian artist from Mexico, creates platforms for public participation using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance and telematics networks, among other tools. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his interactive works are anti-monuments that allow people to self-represent. Lozan-Hemmer was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale in 2007, and his works are part of the collections of the MAC, MOMA, the Guggenheim, the Tate, the Reina Sofía and Hirshhorn, among others. Recent exhibitions include Unstable Presence, Common Measures, Translation Island and Unfinished Garden, a major solo exhibition at the Museo De Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

Sandra Volny

Sandra Volny explores the sensory dimensions of listening as a medium for knowledge, memory and our relationship to the world. At the intersection of art, scientific research and fieldwork, her work focuses on imperceptible vibrations and fragile environments. She completed her PhD in Art Sciences and Aesthetics at the University of Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is interested in the survival of sound spaces and the many ways in which sound persists through matter, bodies and environments. Her work has been presented at several institutions and art centres, including the PHI Foundation, the Fonderie Darling, the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and, more recently, at the Yvonne L. Bombardier Centre and the Goethe-Institute Paris. Volny’s works are included in public and private collections, including those of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Hydro-Québec, Desjardins Bank, the City of Laval and Majudia.

Steve Bates

Steve Bates is an artist and musician based in Montreal. Sound is at the core of his practice and it manifests through music, transmission, video, sound art and installation. He has exhibited and performed in Canada, the United States, Europe, Chile and Senegal. His work is released through his music and publishing project, The Dim Coast. Bates works in the field, on the airwaves and in museum, gallery and performance settings. These shifting territories also reflect the themes explored in his practice.

Alexandre Burton

As an artist and digital luthier, Alexandre Burton explores technology to reveal its unique sensibility. His approach focuses primarily on connecting sound, visual and somatic phenomena, which he orchestrates into devices in which the machine merges with sensory experience. His work is regularly presented at international digital art and electronic music events. A founding member of artificiel.org, Burton also collaborates with numerous artistic and cultural organizations as an architect of generative sound and visual processes, as well as a consultant in technology integration. His work combines technical rigour and formal research into a distinctive digital poetics.

Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt

Trained in comparative literature, Marc A. Reinhardt has developed a practice at the intersection of writing, installation and performance, using sound primarily as a poetic, speculative and sculptural medium. He has presented works in Quebec, Europe and South America. He lives in Gatineau, where he runs Le Clinique, a small experimental publishing house. He is currently guest curator at the DAÏMÔN centre and teaches at the École des Arts et des Cultures (ÉdAC).