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Louise Poissant
Appliances and adjustments
Interactive cinema conjugates two elements developing along parallel lines: on the one hand technological advances derived from various fields have crystallised invention and research into the actual device expedients, unleashing new attitudes, and on the other hand, the initiation of the spectator and his motions manoeuvre him into alternative levels of awareness. Interactive cinema represents, in effect, a privileged place from which to examine the forum of technological engineering from the point of view of optics, mechanics, electronics, digitalisation and robotic automation, and the degrees of freedom which characterise anatomic, dynamic and cognitive organisation of the subject.
Cinema also modulates diverse forms of specialisation within the public itself, its physical expedients (attitudes) and its levels of awareness, springing from technological advance which it has itself sometimes elicited. Cinema encapsulates, catalyses (elicits and triggers) and anticipates technological developments. Besides, the catalogue of innovations having a bearing is quite unlimited, there being so many materials, techniques and processes involved.
It is therefore impossible to retrace them all and to measure the impact each has had. But within this brief story, certain moments seem to have encapsulated several resounding consequences, leading the spectator on and away to somewhere else.
Recent publications:
Books
1 La Prolifération des écrans, under the supervision of Louise Poissant and Pierre Tremblay, Ste-Foy, PUQ, 2008. 25 author collaborators.
2 Les Communautés virtuelles, dir. S.Proulx, L.Poissant and M.Sénécal, Presses U. Laval, Quebec, 2006. 22 international author collaborators.
3 Art & biotechnologies, Tome 1, supervised by L.Poissant and E. Daubner. Ste-Foy, St-Étienne, PUQ, and C.I.E.R.E.C. U. of St-Étienne, 2005. With 21 international author collaborators. Acompanied by a CD-ROM compiling the works of more than 110 artists (collaborative work of Jason Martin).
4 Interfaces et sensorialité, Ste-Foy, St-Étienne, de l’University of Quebec Presses, C.I.E.R.E.C. U. of St-Étienne, 2004. Project bringing together19 international contributors. 324 pages. Introduction: «Interfaces et sensorialité», pp. 1–17.
Articles
5 « L’Image numérique : quelques effets », in L'imprimé numérique en art contemporain, Alma/Montreal, Sagamie/Le Sabord, 2008.
6«Les écrans, des machines de vision», introductory chapter, in La Prolifération des écrans, under the supervision of Louise Poissant and Pierre Tremblay, Ste-Foy, PUQ, 2008.
7 «The Shift from Material to Interface», in Media Art Histories, MIT Press, 2006. Ed O. Grau.
8 «Interactivity : from gadget to interface», in Les Communautés virtuelles, dir. S. Proulx, L.Poissant and M.Sénécal, Presses U. Laval, Quebec, 2006.
10 «L’expérience de l’éphémère dans les installations sonores», in Figures de l'art, n° 12, L'art de l'éphémère, Pau, PUP, 2006.
11 «Le vêtement communiquant : pour une écologie médiatique», in Inter. Dossier, under the supervision of Christine Palmieri, 2006.
12 Editorial, Leonardo, Cambridge, MIT Press, June 2006. Jason Martin Translation.