Each day during the festival, informal artist presentations will take place, offering and facilitating privileged meetings between artists and the public. With representation from countries as diverse as Australia and Argentina, these women will expose their creative processes and motivations regarding technological and digital innovation and exploration.

MONTREAL
[1] Johanne Chagnon, Stéphanie Lagueux and Laura Barrón
[2] Odile Trépanier, Caroline Gagné, and Gabriela Golder
[3] Danielle P. Roger, Christa Erickson, and Mariela Yeregui

QUEBEC CITY
[1] Caroline Gagné, Stéphanie Lagueux, Gabriela Golder, and Laura Barrón
[2] Christa Erickson, Mariela Yeregui, and Odile Trépanier

 

 

Christa Erickson, United States
Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist and occasional writer who investigates the politics, pleasures, and pains of spaces mediated by electronic technologies. She weaves together combinations of video, tactile materials, physical interface devices, performance, and the Internet in installations. She also makes work specifically for the web. Her individual and collaborative works have been presented internationally and her essay "Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier" is included in the Routledge volume Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis. She is Assistant Professor of Art at SUNY Stony Brook where she teaches electronic media.

Danielle P. Roger, Canada
Danielle Palardy Roger is a percussionist, composer and improvisational musician. Active since 1980 in the avant-garde music community, she is a member of the Justine, Wondeur Brass and Les Poules ensembles and has collaborated in numerous improvisational music projects as well dance and theatre. She has composed for the Montréal Ensemble. She has participated in many international tours where she has appeared in various prestigious festivals. Danielle P. Roger has recorded several albums with the Ambiences magnétiques label, including Tricotage, a duo with contrebassist Joëlle Léandre.

Mariela Yeregui, Argentina
Mariela Yeregui (Argentina, 1966) graduated in Arts from the University of Buenos Aires and the Film School of the National Institute of Cinematography. She spent seven years on the Ivory Coast where she also obtained a Masters Degree in Literature. As a recipient of a year-long grant from the Antorchas Foundation, she worked in the Hypermedia Studio Department of Film and TV at UCLA. She has also effected a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada), where she produced a number of works related to digital and telematic arts. Epithelia has been exhibited around the world and has received numerous awards. Her reflection and artwork is focused on systems of dialogue and interaction, sensory environments and the construction of identities within such contexts.