Monument du vide: a work-in-progress

In Montreal at Studio XX, 338 Terrasse Saint-Denis and at the Laboratoire de poche, 5505 Saint-Laurent boulevard./ In Trois-Rivières at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Benjamin-Sulte Pavillion, 3351 Des Forges Boulevard, suite 1006BS./ In Hull at Daïmon, 205 Montcalm street.

Invited artists : Élisabeth Mathieu, Julie Lapalme, laura-jeanne lefave, Andrée Préfontaine and the Daïmon members, Claire Piché and I8U.

This 8th and final Alica Manouvre, Le Monument du Vide is a collaborative Web art piece. Artists from three different cities have been invited to participate in the creation of a living web creature. Artists will collaborate and build the Web creature's heart. This piece will represent and contain the essence of it's Web specificity. The public is invited to send heart related imagery via the organ donor page at (www.ontogenetic.org).
More information on this project as well as a cyber report can be found on line at (www.3e-imperial.org). The Webcreature will be visible via the (www.ontogenetic.org) web site. The public is invited to all the physical locations to view the process live.

Marie-Christiane Mathieu has received grants from the Canadian arts council as well as from the Quebec Arts council . Her work focuses on questions pertaining to digital media and holography. Marie-Christiane Mathieu is acting as interim Director at Studio XX. She is finishing her doctorate degree in art at the University of Quebec in Montreal as well as teaching media arts both there and at Concordia University.

Alica has been produced by 3e imperial . Le monument du vide has been coproduced with Studio XX among other centers. Studio XX is a media arts and multimedia ressource center dedicated to women. The Studio is proud to participate in the co-production of projects that examine and reflect the studio's mandate.