Marc Fournel holds an MA in communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His work in video, video installation and interactive media is both creative and research-based; along with physical and personal integrity, his principal themes include water as a symbol of the womb and of the vastness in which individuals can lose themselves and dissolve. His installations transform exhibition sites into symbolic spaces, granting visitors an at once visual, auditory and kinesthetic perceptive experience as they move around them. In addition to his involvement with the Daïmon artists’ centre in Gatineau, he is the founder and original director of PARC, an interactive laboratory affiliated with Montreal’s Vidéographe and devoted to researching and creating works of interactive media. He is also a research associate at LMI (Laboratoire des Médias Intéractifs) in the communications department at UQAM and a founding member of Vitamin Beziehungen, a collective of researchers and artists dedicated to cybernetics and its artistic applications. In 2007, he served as co-organizer and commissioner of the 2nd International Pure Data Convention, which was held in Montreal.
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« The Instrumentalists » by Jean Gagnon, ESPACE #92, p. 16.
