Luc Courchesne

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Luc Courchesne
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Born (1952-05-20) May 20, 1952 (age 71)
Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec
Occupation(s)artist, professor
Notable workPortrait One, Family Portrait
Website courchel.net

Luc Courchesne RCA D.F.A. (1952) is a Canadian artist and academic known for his work in interactive art. [1]

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Life

Luc Courchesne was born May 20, 1952, in Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec. [2] He received a bachelor's degree in design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1974. In the 1980s, he received a Master of Science degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] [4] Courchesne was a member of the MIT Media Lab at its inception in 1985. [5]

Courchesne was a professor of industrial design at the Université de Montréal. [6] [7]

Work

Courchesne is known for his interactive video installations and environments. He began working in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies, [8] and since has produced many installation works and image series. In his early works such as Family Portrait and Portrait One (1989), [5] [9] the viewer interacts with the a human image programmed to engage in a lifelike conversation with the viewer. [10] [11] His later work Landscape One (1997) [5] [12] surrounds the viewer with a 360 degree immersive and interactive video projection of a park. [13] [14] [15]

On September 11, 2001, while he was on assignment in New York City for a "Québec–New York" cultural event, Courchesne happened to be videotaping the smoldering North Tower of the World Trade Center as the second plane hit the South Tower. The 23-minute video of his experience on that fateful day was available at CBC/Radio-Canada archives .

In 1994, he exhibited his work in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York titled Project 47: Luc Courchesne. [16] and has had numerous later solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally. In 2022, Luc Courchesne - Observateur du monde, an exhibition, was shown at the Carrefour des Arts, Université de Montréal. [17] He is represented by gallery Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal.

He has been awarded several artist-in-residence positions internationally. [18] Since 1996, he has been a member of the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2005, then Vice-Chairman from 2005 to 2008.

Collections

Courchesne's work is included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, [2] [19] Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [20] and elsewhere as well as in many institutions internationally such as the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. [21]

Awards

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  2. 1 2 "Luc Courchesne". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Luc Courchesne (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)". Daniel Langlois Foundation. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Luc Courchesne". Vitheque. Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 Hartmut Koenitz (10 April 2015). Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice. Routledge. pp. 41–. ISBN   978-1-317-66868-8.
  6. 1 2 3 "NSCAD UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES ITS 2022 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS". nscad.ca. NSCAD. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  7. ↑ Louise Poissant; Pierre Tremblay (2008). Prolife ́ration Des E ́crans. PUQ. pp. 131–. ISBN   978-2-7605-2196-4.
  8. ↑ "Elastic Movies". vimeo.com. Vimeo. 21 April 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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  11. ↑ Raivo Kelomees; Chris Hales (16 October 2014). Expanding Practices in Audiovisual Narrative. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 129–. ISBN   978-1-4438-6906-5.
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  13. ↑ Stephen Wilson (2002). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology . MIT Press. pp.  826–. ISBN   978-0-262-73158-4.
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  15. ↑ Steve Dixon (2007). Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-04235-2.
  16. ↑ "Exhibition Archive". www.moma.org. MOMA. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  17. ↑ "Luc Courchesne: Observer of the World". www.google.com. Université de Montréal. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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