Luc Courchesne Explained

Luc Courchesne
Birth Date:20 May 1952
Birth Place:Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec
Occupation:artist, professor
Notable Works:Portrait One, Family Portrait

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

Life

Luc Courchesne was born May 20, 1952, in Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec. 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.[2] [3] Courchesne was a member of the MIT Media Lab at its inception in 1985.[4]

Courchesne was a professor of industrial design at the Université de Montréal.[5]

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,[6] and since has produced many installation works and image series. In his early works such as Family Portrait and Portrait One (1989),[7] the viewer interacts with the a human image programmed to engage in a lifelike conversation with the viewer.[8] [9] His later work Landscape One (1997)[10] surrounds the viewer with a 360 degree immersive and interactive video projection of a park.[11] [12] [13]

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 was made available at CBC/Radio-Canada's archives.[14]

In 1994, he exhibited his work in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York titled Project 47: Luc Courchesne.[15] 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.[16] He is represented by gallery Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal.

He has been awarded several artist-in-residence positions internationally.[17] 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,[18] [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

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artist/Maker Name "Courchesne, Luc". Canadian Heritage Information Network. 31 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624075137/http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app;jsessionid=C6CFCCA6479B41907D40F9EFCD9A9238?rID=22927&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=223&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC. 24 June 2016. dead.
  2. Web site: Luc Courchesne (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Daniel Langlois Foundation. 31 May 2016.
  3. Web site: Luc Courchesne. Vitheque. 31 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624073858/http://www.vitheque.com/Enprimeur/Topchoices/tabid/169/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1163/language/en-US/Luc-Courchesne.aspx#. 2016-06-24. dead.
  4. Book: Hartmut Koenitz. Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice. 10 April 2015. Routledge. 978-1-317-66868-8. 41–.
  5. Book: Louise Poissant. Pierre Tremblay. Prolife ́ration Des E ́crans. 2008. PUQ. 978-2-7605-2196-4. 131–.
  6. Web site: Elastic Movies . vimeo.com . 21 April 2011 . Vimeo . 17 June 2022.
  7. Book: Timothy Scott Barker. Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time. 2012. UPNE. 978-1-61168-301-1. 136–.
  8. Book: Michael Heim. Virtual Realism. 13 April 2000. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-535009-8. 33–.
  9. Book: Raivo Kelomees. Chris Hales. Expanding Practices in Audiovisual Narrative. 16 October 2014. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-6906-5. 129–.
  10. Book: Harrison, Dew. Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies. 31 March 2015. IGI Global. 978-1-4666-8206-1. 6–.
  11. Book: Stephen Wilson. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. registration. 2002. MIT Press. 978-0-262-73158-4. 826–.
  12. Book: Margot Lovejoy. Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age. 2 August 2004. Routledge. 978-1-134-39729-7. 172–.
  13. Book: Steve Dixon. Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. 2007. MIT Press. 978-0-262-04235-2.
  14. Web site: Attentats au World Trade Center . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090926002735/http://archives.radio-canada.ca/c_est_arrive_le/09/11/ . 2009-09-26.
  15. Web site: Exhibition Archive . www.moma.org . MOMA . 17 June 2022.
  16. Web site: Luc Courchesne: Observer of the World . www.google.com . Université de Montréal . 17 June 2022.
  17. Web site: Luc Courchesne . www.fondation-langlois.org . Langlois Foundation . 18 June 2022.
  18. Web site: Luc Courchesne . www.gallery.ca . National Gallery of Canada . 15 June 2022.
  19. Book: Martin Rieser. Andrea Zapp. New Screen Media: Cinema/art/narrative. 2002. BFI Pub.. 978-0-85170-865-2.
  20. Web site: Luc Courchesne . collections.mnbaq.org . MNBAQ . 18 June 2022.
  21. Web site: Collection . zkm.de . centre for art and media, Karlruhe . 17 June 2022.
  22. Web site: Examination result. ICC Biennale 1997. NTT Inter Communications Centre, Tokyo. 31 May 2016.
  23. Web site: 1992 Prix Winners: Interactive Art. Ars Electronica. 31 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160808143206/http://www.aec.at/prix/en/winners/1992-prix-gewinner-interactive-art/. 8 August 2016. dead.
  24. Web site: Luc Courchesne . prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca . Government of Quebec . 15 June 2022.
  25. Web site: Luc Courchesne . www.youtube.com . Governor General of Canada . 17 June 2022.
  26. Web site: NSCAD UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES ITS 2022 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS . nscad.ca . 11 April 2022 . NSCAD . 15 June 2022.

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