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Project name AElab
Organisation
Persons Gisèle Trudel, Stéphane Claude
City Montreal
Country Canada, Quebec
Period 1996
URL http://www.aelab.com/
Tags crew, artists, new media, electronic medium, lab, publications, performance, essays, technology, ecology, installation, science, art, video,
Text In the summer of 1996, Æ was initiated as an artistic research unit based on a philosophical exchange between artists Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude, with the regular participation of other collaborators. Through a more anonymous framework, Æ cristallizes their interest for an ecological awareness in the use of technology, as echoed in the arts, science and shamanic traditions. Æ prepares audiovisual essays, electronic performances, databases, in-situ installations, publications, psycho-geographic walks, audio recordings to be listened in the dark... Æ is striving to reintroduce a certain figuration of the mineral/vegetal/animal world into the electronic medium, as a concrete and enlarged view of the human condition, with the objective of breaking down a generally anthropocentric societal view.