Bill Vorn Explained

Bill Vorn
Birth Name:Yves Bilodeau
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:Artist, musician, professor
Years Active:1981-
Known For:Robotic art, Rational Youth

Bill Vorn (born 1959) is a Canadian artist, musician and professor known for his robotic artworks.[1] [2] Vorn was also a member of the band Rational Youth from 1981 to 1983.[3]

Life

Vorn was born Yves Bilodeau[4] [5] in 1959 in Montreal, Quebec.[6]

In 1981, Vorn was a founding member of the Montreal electronic music group Rational Youth.[7] The group is considered to be one of the first electronic music groups in Canada.[8] Vorn left the band at the beginning of 1983[9] to complete a Master's degree and PhD in communication studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[10]

Vorn is a full professor in the studio art department of Concordia University.[11]

Work

Since 1992,[12] Vorn has worked in the area of robotic artworks and installations that employ artificial intelligence.[13] [14] He has created numerous works in collaboration with Louis-Phillippe Demers.[15] [16] [17] These robotic artworks have been widely exhibited internationally, in both installation and performance contexts.[18] [19] [20]

Inferno

Inferno (2015) is a robotic installation that where performers don harnesses that control their arms in synchronization with music and light.[21] [22] [23]

Awards

In 1996, Vorn received an award of distinction at Prix Ars Electronica.In 1998 he received the Leprecon Award for Interactivity, and in 1999 Vorn received the Life 2.0 award for his robotic artworks.[2] [24] For his work Inferno with Louis-Phillippe Demers,[22] he received an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica in 2016.[25]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artist/Maker Name "Vorn, Bill". Canadian Heritage Information Network. 1 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624113513/http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_ind-artist_detail_ind.app;jsessionid=89E918FD6A2894236FA66EC9E29B83AF?rID=51182&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&anm=Vorn%2C+Bill&sort=AM_ASC&ps=50&pID1=1060&ps1=50&ansf=TAM&sort1=ascending. 24 June 2016. dead.
  2. Book: Christoph Lischka. Andrea Sick. Machines as Agency: Artistic Perspectives. July 2015. transcript. 978-3-8394-0646-5. 185–.
  3. Web site: Rational Youth. CBC. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 June 2016.
  4. Web site: Gedeon-Matusky. Julia. Where artists' dreams come true. Concordia University. 1 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20101001233957/http://magazine.concordia.ca/2001-02/march/features/Hexagram.shtml. 1 October 2010. dead.
  5. Web site: Bill Vorn Biography. Societe des Arts Technologiques. 1 June 2016.
  6. Book: Gerfried Stocker. Christine Schöpf. Memesis. 1 January 1996. New York. 978-3-211-82846-5.
  7. Book: Michael Barclay. Ian A. D. Jack. Jason Schneider. Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995. 2011. ECW Press. 978-1-55490-968-1. 173–.
  8. Web site: A Canadian minimal wave retrospective: Rational Youth's Cold War Night Life (1982). CKUT blog. 1 June 2016.
  9. [Canadian Pop Encyclopedia]
  10. Web site: Marletta. Donata. Bill Vorn: Immersed in a world of robots, metaphors, and paradoxes. Digicult.it. 1 June 2016.
  11. Web site: Bill Vorn. Concordia University. 1 June 2016.
  12. Book: Daniel Ichbiah. Robots: from science fiction to technological revolution. registration. 20 September 2005. Harry N. Abrams.
  13. Book: Falk Heinrich. Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture. 21 March 2014. Routledge. 978-1-317-75518-0. 110–.
  14. Book: Decentralized Performance: An Exploration of Agent Behaviors in Metacreative Musical Systems. 2008. 978-0-549-74757-4. 115–.
  15. Book: Todd Winkler. Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max. January 2001. MIT Press. 978-0-262-73139-3. 298–.
  16. Book: Chris Salter. Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance. 2010. MIT Press. 978-0-262-19588-1. 295–.
  17. Book: Stephen Wilson. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. registration. 2002. MIT Press. 978-0-262-73158-4. 465–.
  18. Book: Luppicini, Rocci. Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society: Identity in a Technological Society. 31 October 2012. IGI Global. 978-1-4666-2212-8. 684–.
  19. Web site: Bill Vorn. Daniel Langlois Foundation. 1 June 2016.
  20. Web site: Bill Vorn . 1 June 2016 . V2_NL institute for Unstable Media.
  21. Web site: Dufétel. Camille. www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/06/02/elektra-biennale-dart-numerique-au-cur-de-lart-robotique. Journal de Montreal. 7 June 2016.
  22. Web site: Cloutier. Mario. Inferno: L'âge de la machine. La Presse. 7 June 2016.
  23. Web site: Weber. Jennifer. "Inferno" – oder die Kontrolle an Roboter abgeben. Tele Basel. 7 June 2016.
  24. Web site: Robot love. The Gazette. Canada.com. 1 June 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924042120/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=62b0925a-54d6-4744-9313-1d496d65945b&k=48013. 24 September 2015.
  25. Web site: Winners 2016. Ars Electronica. 1 June 2016. https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20130701103541/http://www.aec.at/prix/en/gewinner/. 2013-07-01. dead.

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