INFORMATION
LOOP
LOOP is an interactive work created by Olivier Girouard, Jonathan Villeneuve and ottoblix, that plays short flipbook style movies inspired by Québec literature translated into German. LOOP takes the old-school, 19th century technologies of the zoetrope, music box and handcar, and fuses them into a retro-futuristic motion picture machine. The artwork consists of twelve giant cylinders in which audience members are invited to discover how their own movements turn a series of still images into an animation enlightened by its real time generative soundtrack. The images, tinted by a strobe, are reminiscent of the earliest movies. The speed of the experience is all determined by how fast you move the bar.
- The creators -
Concept and execution: Olivier Girouard and Jonathan Villeneuve
Illustrators : Gérard DuBois, Marianne Ferrer, Estelle Frenette-Vaillières, Éléonore Goldberg, Jacques Goldstyn, Pinabel, Camille Pomelo, Mathieu Potvin, Todd Stewart, Amélie Tourangeau, Marie-Hélène Turcotte, Urban9
Design of animations and video projections : Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard, Trina Daniel, Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Daria Pelsher, Mathieu Tremblay (Ottoblix)
Industrial design: Sébastien Dallaire (generique design)
Electronic design and programming: Thomas Ouellet Fredericks
Technical support: Adsum Lab
Mechanical consultant: Jérôme D. Roy (Terrafirma)
Audio programming: Dominic Thibault
Sound: Olivier Girouard
Engineers: Concept paradesign
Production: Quartier des Spectacles Partnership (Montréal, Canada) and Ekumen
-Suppliers-
Pierre Fournier Workshop
The Papineau machining workshops inc.
PSL Custom Metal Boxes inc.
Canevas Design inc.
C.B.R. Laser inc.
Cintub Ltd.
Extrudex
Finncraft
FTR Design
Line Breton, CPA, CA
Place Dickson
R.H. Peinture inc.
Rapido Metal
Skull Transport inc.
SoftBox Integration
Thermoform L.R. inc.
Usinage Eurotech (2000) inc.
Usinatek Mr inc.
Version Image Plus inc.
SODEC would like to thank: Sarah Spring, José Dubeau, Camille Legault-Moffett, Magali Lauverjat, Élaine Dumont, Morgane Marvier, Jozef Fleury-Berthiaume, NODE, Marie-Michèle Cyr, L'antenne québécoise à Berlin (Nicole Koufou and Friederike Schroeter ), Creos, Claudia Marcoux, Roxanne Dumas-Noël, Chloé Lafrenière, the MCC, ANEL, Brigitte Asselin, Sébastien Lefebvre and Katharina Meissner
Ekumen would like to thank its assembly team: Danny, Julien, Jonathan, Sophie, Baoshi, Mariko, Maria, Jeff, Layla, Victor
And all these people without whom the project would not have seen the light of day: Alexis, Robert, the 180g, Dominic, Ève, Paul, Carl, Marie-Christine, Egest, Danielle, Marion, Stefan, Fabio, Nolin, Jean-Luc , Olivier, Yannick, Rebecca, Jakob, Pavitra, Fanny, Oliver, Trina, Mélanie, Mathieu, the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership team, the SODEC team and the Quebec delegation team - Berlin Antenna.
- The creators -
Concept and execution: Olivier Girouard and Jonathan Villeneuve
Illustrators : Gérard DuBois, Marianne Ferrer, Estelle Frenette-Vaillières, Éléonore Goldberg, Jacques Goldstyn, Pinabel, Camille Pomelo, Mathieu Potvin, Todd Stewart, Amélie Tourangeau, Marie-Hélène Turcotte, Urban9
Design of animations and video projections : Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard, Trina Daniel, Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Daria Pelsher, Mathieu Tremblay (Ottoblix)
Industrial design: Sébastien Dallaire (generique design)
Electronic design and programming: Thomas Ouellet Fredericks
Technical support: Adsum Lab
Mechanical consultant: Jérôme D. Roy (Terrafirma)
Audio programming: Dominic Thibault
Sound: Olivier Girouard
Engineers: Concept paradesign
Production: Quartier des Spectacles Partnership (Montréal, Canada) and Ekumen
-Suppliers-
Pierre Fournier Workshop
The Papineau machining workshops inc.
PSL Custom Metal Boxes inc.
Canevas Design inc.
C.B.R. Laser inc.
Cintub Ltd.
Extrudex
Finncraft
FTR Design
Line Breton, CPA, CA
Place Dickson
R.H. Peinture inc.
Rapido Metal
Skull Transport inc.
SoftBox Integration
Thermoform L.R. inc.
Usinage Eurotech (2000) inc.
Usinatek Mr inc.
Version Image Plus inc.
SODEC would like to thank: Sarah Spring, José Dubeau, Camille Legault-Moffett, Magali Lauverjat, Élaine Dumont, Morgane Marvier, Jozef Fleury-Berthiaume, NODE, Marie-Michèle Cyr, L'antenne québécoise à Berlin (Nicole Koufou and Friederike Schroeter ), Creos, Claudia Marcoux, Roxanne Dumas-Noël, Chloé Lafrenière, the MCC, ANEL, Brigitte Asselin, Sébastien Lefebvre and Katharina Meissner
Ekumen would like to thank its assembly team: Danny, Julien, Jonathan, Sophie, Baoshi, Mariko, Maria, Jeff, Layla, Victor
And all these people without whom the project would not have seen the light of day: Alexis, Robert, the 180g, Dominic, Ève, Paul, Carl, Marie-Christine, Egest, Danielle, Marion, Stefan, Fabio, Nolin, Jean-Luc , Olivier, Yannick, Rebecca, Jakob, Pavitra, Fanny, Oliver, Trina, Mélanie, Mathieu, the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership team, the SODEC team and the Quebec delegation team - Berlin Antenna.
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EKUMEN
www.ekumen.com
EKUMEN is a Montreal-based production company working in the audio and media arts. For the last decade, the organization has been highlighting sound in a variety of settings, including concerts, installations and stage productions.
OLIVIER GIROUARD
www.oliviergirouard.com
Composer, artist, sound designer and artistic advisor, Olivier Girouard combines projects on and off stage. It was by chance during an open house at the Montreal Conservatory of Music that he discovered the magnetic tape. The evocative power of sound, its length, in meters. He steals the tape recorders from the attic of his school to make a first soundtrack for the dance. Concrete music. Sound recording. Assembly. He then studied classical guitar, musical writing and singing at the University of Montreal before studying electroacoustic composition at the Montreal Conservatory of Music. His relationship with the world is through listening. Make the link between two concomitant ideas, taste the relief of a transforming sound. Since then, his interactions with different art forms have prompted him to question the mode of presentation of art. He acts as artistic advisor on several projects of a diverse nature (installations, scenographies, design, sound designs for the performing arts) He is the recipient of several prizes, including the Luminothérapie prize (2016-2017, the 1 st Hughes prize -LeCaine (2008) from the Socan Foundation and the 1st JTTP Prize (2009.) His works have been shown in North America, South America and Europe.
With the organization Ekumen, which he has headed for almost 10 years, he questions the environmental impact of art. He creates works to beautify and transform public space by trying to define what it means: to live together.
JONATHAN VILLENEUVE
www.jonathan-villeneuve.com
For more than ten years, Jonathan Villeneuve has created installations and public works of art that activate digital and electromechanical technologies. His works move, emit light and produce sound, letting the visitor assume their imaginary function. Sometimes subtle, other times very obvious, the technological dimension is nevertheless always at work. He graduated from the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQÀM (2006) and completed an MFA / Open-Media at Concordia University (2009). His solo work has been presented regularly in Québec and Canada. In addition to participating in numerous collaborative digital art projects broadcast at various festivals and events in Europe, in June 2014 he presented his solo work at the Arts and New Media Triennial at the National Museum of China in Beijing. Since 2015, he has devoted himself mainly to the realization of public art projects, notably for the École de cirque de Québec, the Centre Vidéotron and the Bureau d'art public de Montréal. More recently, he was invited to create permanent works for the National Assembly of Quebec and the Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal. Recipient of numerous creation grants, he has also carried out creation residencies in Canada, Finland and Germany. Born in 1980, he lives and works in Montréal.
OTTOBLIX
www.ottoblix.com
Founded in 2004, the company has more than a decade of experience with multidisciplinary projects. Ottoblix has built a loyal clientele by being creative, attentive to client needs and by creating custom teams for each project.
CONTACT
info@ekumen.com
