MYRIAM BLEAU |
Myriam Bleau (CA) is a composer, digital artist, and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, she creates audiovisual performances, video works, installations, and interactive interfaces that articulate sound, light, and movement. Her work is mainly channeled through performance, embracing ephemeral and elusive contexts. From code and machine learning to physical computing and devices, she considers technology as another agency that co-creates the output. Her hybrid practice explores porous spaces between the physical and the virtual world, between the natural and the synthetic. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally in festivals and events such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Sónar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), Elektra (CA), Mutek (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), ACT (KR), L.E.V et LABoral (ES), Scopitone (FR), Café Oto (UK)..
NIEN TZU WENG |
Nien Tzu Weng is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary dance artist and lighting designer based in Montreal. She builds bridges between disciplines with an experimental approach to contemporary performance, and a laboratory approach to lighting design. As a choreographer and lighting designer, she focuses on presence and interactivity. She is curious about the relationship between movement practices and new media. She plays with the balance between reality and fantasy, working with light and multimedia materials to influence perspectives. For Nien Tzu, performance is a process of transmitting dialogues between internal and external spaces, where presence and image construct multiple, overlapping conceptions of time.
Nien Tzu received her BFA in contemporary dance from Concordia University in 2018. She has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the danceWEB scholarship in 2023 (AUT), the Mécènes investi-es pour les arts award and a CAM/La Chapelle residency in new artistic practices in 2019, the OFFTA Hybridité award, a research and undergraduate scholarship and an award in contemporary dance in 2018, and the James Saya award in 2015.
Her projects have been presented abroad at Sónar Festival (Barcelona, ES), Flipchart (The Hague, NL), Node Digital Festival (Frankfurt, DE), Biennale Némo (Paris, FR) and Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), as well as in Canada at IN/ON/OUT INTERARTS (Winnipeg, MB), SummerWorks (Toronto, ON), 1-ACT Fest (Vancouver, BC) and in Montreal at M.A.C.E. (Montreal, QC). B.) and in Montreal at Mutek, OFFTA, Elektra, Akousma, Tangente Danse, La Chapelle, and Montréal, arts interculturels.
Photo credit (portrait, right): Vjosana Shkurti