Marie-Helene Parant
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Marie-Hélène Parant is a multidisciplinary visual arts, media arts and new interactive media artist. She is from Quebec City. Marie-Hélène holds a bachelor's degree from Laval University and a master's degree from the University of Quebec in Montreal in visual and media arts with parallel training in dance and music.
From a practice at the start of painting and drawing, she moved towards video, performance and installation (with counterpoints in dance, electroacoustic music, radiophony and literature) then towards digital media for their possibilities. combinations and vast fields of discovery.
She develops interactive video programming tools based, among other things, on movement. Her practice focuses on concepts of transformation (transition) of the body and the environment and is expressed through audio or video interventions, dance, installation and interactive performance. Her photo and video work is often the first step in a journey of exploration that will later lead her to installation projects.
Marie-Hélène also co-founded SHARE MTL, a nomadic organization for sharing and improvised digital encounters, which she coordinated from 2005 to 2010. SHARE MTL, partner of SHARE in NY has partnered with several cultural organizations including Vidéographe, LABO and iMAL in Belgium. SHARE as its name suggests allowed the sharing of ideas, knowledge and discoveries between artists. Several special events, often in streaming, have allowed the concept of SHARE to spread through new cells and to create links between international players.
His work of installations, performances, videos and photos has been presented in various national and international events, in Europe (WÖRM, iMAL, Club Transmediale, VidéoFormes, Traverse Vidéo), in Asia (INIAF 809, Zendai MOMA), in Canada (International Symposium of Contemporary Arts of Baie St-Paul, Agence Topo, HTMlles, InTheMix, OFF Montreal Jazz Festival, Society for Arts and Technology, ChampLibre, Festival du nouveau cinema, ISEA, Galerie de l'UQAM, Galerie du National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), in the United States (Optosonic Tea, Experimental Intermedia, ArtSpace Gallery) as well as in Morocco (Casablanca International Video Art Festival).
From 2010 to 2018, she was actively involved in environmental causes. In particular, she adopted the cause for the protection of Anticosti Island, from which the work Fluxus∞ is based.
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Grants, competitions
2021 Production Grant, Digital Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Research and Creation Grant, Digital Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2018 Research and Creation Grant, Digital Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2015-2016 Winner, National Competition "Interactive Work Commission", video wall Canada Council for the Arts
2010 Travel grant, Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec
2009 Research and Creation Grant, Media Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2008 Travel grant, Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec
2008 Grant trip, Canada Council for the Arts
2004 Development grant, media arts, Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec
2003 Travel Grant, Media Arts Section, Canada Council for the Arts.
2003 Research and creation grant, media arts, Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec
2002 Research and creation grant, media arts, Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec
2001 Production Grant, Media Arts Section, Canada Council for the Arts.
2000 Travel grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2000 Subvention Travel, Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec
1999 Travel grant Canada Council for the Arts.
1998 Co-Production Grant, PRIM Center for Media Arts.
Residential homes
2022 Experimental residency laboratories Chambre Blanche, Quebec
2018 Residence International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie St-Paul
2010 Residency Videographer Production, interactive digital arts
2010 Residence AIR, WÖRM, Rotterdam, interactive digital arts
2009 Videographer Production residency, PARC room, interactive digital arts,
2008 Residence, 809 INIAF, Yichang, China, interactive digital arts
2008 Residence Elsa Vieira Lisbon, Portugal
2000 PRIM, co-production & residency, Montreal, Canada
1999 PRIM, residency, Carte Blanche Casablanca, Montreal, Canada
1995-1997 AVID Technology, sponsorship in the form of a residency, Montreal
1995 Digital creation residency, Center NAD, Montreal Quebec
Exhibitions and concerts
2020 Equality: Interconnection, NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble NY, USA, weekly live network event
2020 OptoSonic Tea [UnLock] (BYOTea): Online, collaboration NowNet Arts & Parrish Art Museum, NY, USA
2019 Intersections, Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montreal, Canada
2018 International Contemporary Art Symposium of Baie St-Paul, Charlevoix, Canada
2018 Solo, TOPO Agency, Montreal, Canada
2016 Solo, commissioned work, video wall, grand hall of the Canada Council for the Arts & Unesco, Ottawa, Ca
2015 Luminous Surface 2, Salisbury University Art Galleries, Maryland, USA
2014 Luminous Surface, The Mission for Temporal Art, North Carolina, USA
2012 Solo, Espace Musée Québécor, curator Manon Blanchette, Montreal, Canada
2011 Solo, Presentation and residency exhibition, Videographer, Montreal, Canada
2010 Performance digital, HTMlles Festival, StudioXX Geordie Hall, Montreal, Canada
2010 Digital performance, Son&Vue event, EasternBloc, Montreal, Canada
2010 Solo, Foo bar, Wörm center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009 Digital performance, Sight&Sound Event, EaternBloc, Montreal, Canada
2009 FERNFELD, 1st edition, online Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 Experimental Intermedia, Screen compositions 5, New York, USA
2008 Solo, iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), Brussels, Belgium
2008 Performance digital, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai, China)
2008 Spring of Quebec, Contemporary Art Center of Meymac, Haute-Corrèze, France
2008 809 International New Image Art Festival, Yichang, China
2008 Performance digital, La Quarantaine, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Performance digital, Slash-tmp, Hexagon series, Berlin, Germany
2008 Performance digital, O Seculo centro cultural, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 Center Bellegarde, Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
2007 Performance digital, Optosonic Tea, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, USA
2007 Performance digital, Spin gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Share Lab, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada
2007 Concert, duo Groupe Pierre Labbé & MHParant, OFF Montreal Jazz Festival, Canada
2007 Share.Mobile, CTM.07 Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2006 Performance digital, Land in Sight, Indigenous Presence, MixSessions SAT, Montreal, Canada
2006 SHARE at Nuit Blanche, Festival en Lumière, Montreal
2005 Performance digital, Closing night Mkyoto, SAT, Montreal, Canada
2005 Experimental Intermedia, Screen compositions, NY, USA
2005 Share Roundtable, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA
2005 SHARE NY, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2005 Artequinox 12:33 PM, Montreal,Canada
2005 Share NY, East Village, New York
2005 Solo, Val-d'Or Exhibition Center, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada
2005 SHARE NY, BPM, Brooklyn, USA
2004 Interactivity, Park, Videographer, Montreal
2004 Materiality of Sound in Image, Art NeXus gallery, Williamsburg, USA
2003 Interactivity, Park, Videographer Production, Montreal
2003 Time Out (videography), dance duo, choreographer Michèle Rioux, Espace Tangente. Montreal
2003 Lumki (videographic), kinemusical performance, Maxime Rioux composer, Clark workshop, Mtl
2003 Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
2003 Web cam intervention, Digital-club, Clermont-Ferrant, France
2001 Solo, Prim Center for Media Arts, Montreal
2000 Performance, VideoForms, 15th International Video Art Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2000 The transmusicales of Rennes, VideoFormes, France
2000 Tram'Video Lyon, France,
2000 Club Saw Video in collaboration with Daìmon, Ottawa, Canada
2000 In phase, Caen, France
2000 Outerlimits, Artist Space Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Emergence Zone, In View & Videographer, Videographer Space, Montreal, Canada
2000 Emergence Zone, Sequence Gallery. Chicoutimi, Canada
2000 Action Art Actuel Gallery, St-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu, Canada
1999 Tranz-tech: First Toronto International Media Art Biennial, Toronto, Canada
1999 Zone d'Emergences, Antitube, Quebec, Canada
1999 Zone d'Émergences, 4th International Video and Electronic Art Event, ChampLibre. Montreal
1999 Performance, Video Art Festival of Casablanca, Morocco
1999 Solo, National Exhibition Center of Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
1998 Perte de Signal, Café La Nagra, Quebec Cinematheque, Montreal, Canada
1998 Public Confessions, Prim, Media Arts Center Montreal
1996 "Love Mother Earth", World's First International Graphic Design Competition, Tokyo, Japan
1995 ISEA'95 Montreal, Canada
1994 JAZZBIT 94 Multimedia Festival, Pori, Finland
1994 BIT.MOVIE'94 International Computer Art Festival, Riccione, Italy
1993 BIT.MOVIE '93, Festival Internazional di Computer Art, Riccione Italy
1992 Living Memories, International Computer Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
1989 Arts & Computers, curators L.Marchand & L.Poissant, UNESCO International Colloquium, Galerie UQAM,
Montreal, Canada
Public Art - permanent or ephemeral creations
2016-2017 Anticosti, 8 panoramic format photos on aluminum, permanent exhibition, Villa Médica, Montreal
2015-2016 Work order Fluxus∞, National competition in interactive media for the video wall of the grand hall of the
Canada Council for the Arts and UNESCO, Ottawa, Canada
2007 Fountain Liquidity Luxor Hotel Las Vegas, permanent, MaxMSP Jitter programmer for Réalisations.net2003 L'immortelle, video installation 3 synchronized DVDs, ephemeral, Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
Public Art - Finalist
2018 Preparatory study and model, Interactive Public Art Competition, Center Aquatique de Granby
2012 Finalist in 2nd selection, preparatory study and model, Digital Public Art Competition,
Rio Tinto Planetarium, Montreal, Canada
2012 Finalist Work of Digital Public Art, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital
2011 Consultant, orientation works of art context public art (visual and digital arts), CGA Architects
2005 Finalist in the 2nd selection, Ephemeral Landscape Competition, Preparatory study interactive showcase Montreal
1996 Model sculpture & digital photos on Duratrans, collaboration Sylvie Girard architect,
Ste-Justine Hospital, Montreal
Conferences, speeches
2019 St-Laurent College, visual arts department, art history, presentation of my approach
2018 Presentation in the studio, Symposium International d'Art Contemporain de Baie St-Paul
2016 Composite #3, Agence Topo and Conseil des Arts de Montréal, Fluxus∞ installation presentation
2015 Inauguration installation Fluxus∞, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (Nov 10)
2007 SHARE Roundtable @ MIT5 (Media in Transition 5) conference Creativity, ownership and collaboration in the
digital age, MIT, Boston, MA, USA
2007 SHARE GLOBAL MEETING, reading & presentations, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Club Transmediale 2007, Berlin 2005 SHARE Roundtable discussion @The IDMI Lab, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA
Event planning
2009 SIGHTandSOUND, May 29, 2009, in collaboration with Eastern Bloc, Montreal
2008 SHARE BRUSSELS / launch participation, iMAL and Cimatics Festival, Brussels. Belgium
2008 SHARE MTL/Nomad/Chile/Vancouver streaming from BerlinGalerie Slash-tmp, Berlin, Germany
2007 SHARE LABO event, Nuit Blanche de Toronto, partnership Laboratoire d'Art, Toronto
2007 SHARE in the Park, Open Work Event, PureData Congress, SAT & Videographer
2007 SHARE GLOBAL, SHARE MTL in Berlin and streaming from Montreal, Club Transmediale, Berlin
2006 SHARE GLOBAL ISEA 2006, streaming Montreal, New York, San Diego, Paris, Estonia, SAT, San José, USA 2006 SHARE at Nuit Blanche de Montréal, partnership Elektra, Place des Arts, Vidéographe Prodruction, Festival
in Light 2006, Montreal, Canada
2005 SHARE NY special, VJ demo, special guests - Ilan Katin, Daniel Vatsky and Michael Liegl of Share
NY, Montreal, Canada
2005 SHARE MTL launch, in collaboration with Vidéographe Production, Bain St-Michel, Montreal