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Luc Courchesne
http://www.din.umontreal.ca/courchesne/
Luc Courchesne took part in the gradual inception of media arts twenty five years ago working as a video director having taken his inspiration from a whole generation of experimental film-makers like Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton, when he became initiated into information technology.
His work essentially involves interactive portraiture, a well established artistic tradition on the look-out for new means of expression. More recently he has been more involved in another significant genre, namely landscape, Having invented a device allowing visual immersion, via his « panascopic » installations and images, which intervenes by transforming the person looking at the work into a actual visitor who, like Carroll's Alice is then able to pass through the mirror.
He has carried out thirty or so installations since the beginning of the nineteen eighties in the context of 83 exhibitions shown in 45 towns in 17 countries throughout four continents. In this respect he is one of the most noted and shown media-related artists on the international scale. Notably an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art de New York in 1994 was devoted to him and he has participated in important events at the Kwangju'95 Biennial in Korea, at the invitation of Nam June Paik.
His Paysage no. 1 Installation was awarded the Biennial 97 Grand Prix at the NTT Inter Communication Centre de Tokyo. His portraits are part of the collections of the Museum of Fine Art of Canada (Ottawa), the ZKM (Karlsruhe) and the ICC (Tokyo) as well as the Canadian Centre for architecture (Montreal). Luc Courchesne lives and works mainly in Montreal.
