Wednesday, June 29 to Saturday July 2
For FIMA’s 12th edition, two visual artists from Montreal, Francis Théberge aka TIND (Thisnotdesign) and Joseph Lefèvre aka Jocool are uniting their forces and their talent to take over a store front on Ste. Catherine Street, and project on it their wild vision of the street and of the festival, as an homage to art and creativity. The artistic video installation will both play with the visual identity of the FIMA and with instant images of the street, to which textures, video sounds and colourful variations will be added. www.jocoolmultimedia.ca / www.thisisnotdesign.com
BIO / JOSEPH LEFÈVRE a.k.a VJ jocool Joseph Lefèvre is a new media artist, arts administrator and teacher. Born in Verdun, France, he emigrated to Montréal, Canada in 1977. Lefèvre has a master’s degree in visual arts and another one in multimedia. He has created numerous interactive installations, Web sites and CD-roms. His projects include Le café de l’abattoir presented at Siggraph 1992; Il pleut sur le temple, part of the Images du futur event in 1987; Traces et contrastes presented at the ISEA conference in Montreal in 1995; and L’espace du chamane which won the 2000 Québec-Canada Möbius Prize. Lefèvre is the director’s artist-in-residence program for the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] in Montreal, where he has been a member of the board of directors since 1995. BIO /FRANCIS THÉBERGE a.k.a TIND Founding member and director of the collective TIND (thisisnotdesign), Francis is a graduate in design from UQAM. His works include numeric and analogue videos, as well as experimental videos using the film scratching technique and the manipulation of compression artefacts. The artist uses the rhythmic relationship between images and music to create dynamic compositions that have contrast. |
