[-empyre-] introduces Valérie Lamontagne and Sylvie Parent

["empyre-admin" <empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au>]

-empyre- is pleased to introduce our guests for July Valérie Lamontagne and
Sylvie Parent, both form Montréal, Canada who will discuss different aspects
of gallery and online curation, web history and factors relating to the
visibility of web.art. They have collaborated  on projects such as the
Location / Dislocation show, and they will each discuss their individual
projects, Valérie hosting -empyre- forum the first two weeks of the month ,
with Sylvie becoming the guest host from 15 July.

---> Valérie Lamontagne - a Montréal artist, freelance art critic, and
curator, will present the collectively produced online zine MobileGaze which
looks at new media arts, providing in-depth online video interviews with
media artists, and live Webcast events; and Location / Dislocation, a
net.art exhibition, curated in collaboration with Sylvie Parent, and
presented in the context of the Saison du Québec à New York at the New
Museum of Contemporary Art.Valérie will also discuss the current show online
at MobileGaze "Matter + Memory".

---> Sylvie Parent is a free lance curator and art critic. She was editor of
the CIAC Electronic Magazine (Centre international d'art contemporain de
Montréal) from 1997 to 2001, an on-line publication dedicated to the
promotion of net.art, and curated the net.art component of the Biennale de
Montréal in 2000. Last year she co-curated Location/Dislocation with Valérie
Lamontagne, and is currently engaged in investigating the history of web art
in Québec, and artistic content for mobile phones and pda's. Sylvie will
discuss the importance of an historical point of view on web art, and
consider projects that had less visibility on the web for reasons of
geography, networking, language, etc.

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Valérie  Lamontagne
http://www.mobilegaze.com/valerie/valerielamontagne.html
MobileGaze                   http://www.mobilegaze.com
Location  / Dislocation       http://www.deplacement.qc.ca
CIAC Electronic Magazine    http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/
Biennale de Montréal in 2000   http://www.ciac.ca/biennale2000