XX FILES: interview with Montreal
media artist Gisèle Trudel
by Catherine McGovern
| "For the past six years, my work is almost
exlusively of an experimental nature and is concerned with the fugitive
and formal aspects of electronic media, not as a self-reflexive
tautology, but as an interrelation with other paradigms of understanding,
such as visual, spatial and temporal perception. Through a phenomenological
approach, I attempt to combine elements of science and spirituality."
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| Timepiece: Kiss The Future (1995-97) An experimental stereoscopic video apparatus, successfully uniting video and 3D computer animation to create the illusion of spatial depth.Three women, perceived as the living symbol of time, are juxtaposed with emblematic images from the history of painting. A 19th-century photographic technique is coupled with present-day equipment. (stereo) |
 (Timepiece: study) |
 (Timepiece: diagram) funded by Canada Council, media arts section |
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Apesanteur / Zero gravity (1996-97) Sustaining a momentary record of a shifting history, stones have witnessed many events, endowed with a silent symbolic potential. The work consists of a large-scale insitu video projection adapted to each new architectural proposition, it is projected directly on this textured surface. A 3D animated structure becomes an allegory of n-dimensional time, where different "windows" reveal various periods and places. (silent) Exhibition venues v.1 Montréal, Québec 1996 (site shown here) v.2 Casablanca, Morocco, March 1997 v.3 Mexico City, Mexico, November 1997 funded by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qc |
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