collaborations
Serious Computer Group
Serious Computer Group (SCG) is a duo formed by Nina Bouchard and Evan Montpellier. Founded in 2018 and based in Montréal, SCG works across a range of physical and digital disciplines, including interactive installation, photography and filmmaking, programming and electronics, and sound and video art. SCG's aim is to synthesize these practices into new hybrid aesthetic languages, balancing formal experimentation with an accessible sensibility and an appreciation for narrative.
SCG's first project, Nova, was produced in 2019 and exhibited at the FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, from November 4 to December 13, 2019. Nova was later selected for ISEA 2020.
From December 2, 2021 to February 27, 2022, in collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal and the Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles, SCG presented a new version of Nova on the façades of the Président-Kennedy Pavilion and the Wilder Building, as part of the 2021-2022 edition of Luminothérapie de Montréal.
In 2021-2022, SCG carried out a six-month research project, Nexus,, on the historical and practical links between magical traditions and computing, supported by a research and creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Circuits of Sand and Water
Circuits of Sand and Water is a project by Prachi Khandekar that raises questions about privacy at a time of growing interest in, and unease about, artificial intelligence.
The project uses fiction, binaural audio and slow-motion video to picture the way the machine looks at us. It explores the shades of comfort, obsession, apathy and vulnerability we feel online.
For this first version, I made the videos that accompany the audio project.
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Canicule
Short film by Fanny Perreault / 2019 / 15 min / Canada
I was the director of photography on this short film.
Summer 1997: young Léa's plans fall apart. With a leg in a cast and little enthusiasm, she faces the July heatwave shut inside an ugly bungalow in a dull suburb. When a gap opens onto her older sister's bedroom, Léa slips into a world that becomes, for her, a door onto adolescence and its first desires.
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Poli[s]ound
Poli[s]ound is a multichannel sound mapping of the urban soundscape that opens out everyday chatter, conversations and noise into an immersive sound installation. The project invites city dwellers to record, on the spot, the sounds and messages that stand for particular places or features of the city, then to walk around the installation and hear their own voices blend into the wider soundscape and add to it, contributing to the collective memory of daily urban life. The installation becomes a symbolic speakers' corner, a pirate radio, an activist platform and a temporary means of communication that unfolds through the city in space and in time.
The work is built on a portable setup that can easily be reproduced in other places and contexts. The system has two parts. First the recording station, which works as a broadcast station, moderated if need be, where people record their voices and messages. Then the distributed multichannel sound installation, which weaves the recordings into the existing soundscape, a soundscape that decays and renews itself as new entries enter the system.