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Confiture optronique
> the project launches with its 1st edition during de Gaspé Winter Art Party | January 17, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The first edition of Confiture Optronique offers an immersive electronic audiovisual improvisation experience at perte de signal’s rustine_lab. Open to all, regardless of skill level, this jam emphasizes active listening, being present with others, and fully engaging in the moment.
The event encourages the integration of electronic structures that, through their repetitions, dissonances, and transformations, resonate with oral experience. This approach promotes a form of collective improvisation where spontaneity and the emergence of new consensuses are at the heart of the creative process. The goal is to stimulate creative interactions and allow each participant to contribute to the real-time creation of a collective work.
This project is led by Danny Perreault and Alexandre Castonguay, members of Perte de Signal, in collaboration with the center, 3+3+3+4 collective, and mXlab at UQAM.
rustines_lab technical lead
> apply by february 10th!
perte de signal is looking for a passionate individual with a strong interest in digital and media arts, as well as experience in managing an artist-run center, to fill the position of rustines_lab Lead.
The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader capable of enhancing the artist residency experience at perte de signal, while stimulating engagement within the membership and its broader artistic communities. Additionally, the candidate will have skills in exhibition design and setup, inventory management, and be able to provide technical support in sound, video, projection, lighting, and robotics.
Compensation > $32.00 per hour
Schedule > 20 hours per week
bioLAB | interdisciplinary residency at the intersection of ecology and technology
> Submit your application by March 3rd!
perte de signal is proud to launch a new residency program in partnership with Concordia University’s Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Speculative Life BioLab of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. This partnership aims to initiate and enhance interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of new materials and technology, and to propel reflection and action on the multiple implications of socio-environmental issues.
Examining the impact of the technosphere on the status of the living, the Speculative Life Biolab is a hybrid, interdisciplinary research-creation laboratory (biosafety level 1) dedicated to the development and facilitation of conceptual and material exploration.
The residency program is open to applications from digital and new media artists who wish to deepen their reflections and research at the intersection of ecology and technology. It aims to support artist-researchers in their approach and/or research into new circular devices involving bio-electronics, living, semi-living and composite materials integrated into the fabrication of works.