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Isabelle
CHOINIÈRE, Ph.D., is an international specialist in research-creation and new
hybrid contemporary performative scenes integrating technology, as well as a
transdisciplinary artist. She is also a professor-researcher, author and is
regularly invited to participate in research projects on the impact of media
on the body in Europe, Canada and Latin America for her expertise as an
artist and researcher. She holds a Ph.D. from the Planetary Collegium ‒
Transdisciplinary Space Research/Center for Advanced Inquiry in the
Integrative Arts, Plymouth University, UK, and a Postdoctoral
Transdisciplinary Degree (Faculty of
the Arts) (Award FRQSC 2017-19 ‒ Fonds de recherche du Québec ‒
Société et Culture) from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).
Currently
a professor integrated in a transdisciplinary and intersectoral co-teaching
team at the FESP-Faculty of
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of Laval University in Quebec, she was also
integrated as an academic member by the same faculty (FESP) in the programme committee of the
customized master’s degree (maîtrise sur-mesure) in Arts and Technology. The mission of this programme committee is to design a relevant curriculum
and to mentor graduate students (2nd and 3rd cycle ) in
this field. She is a transdisciplinary researcher for a project in ethics and
management at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences/FSA. She also
(co)directs students in the PhD program in Arts Studies and Practices at the
Faculty of Arts of UQÀM. She has been also
a Visiting Professor at the Universidade de
Chile (2017) and has taught at UQÀM, the University of Toronto, Universidade de Caldas/Colombia, Universidade Federale do Rio
de Janeiro‒UFRJ/Brazil and CÉGEP
du Vieux Montréal. She
was an Affiliate Professor (2016-2019
School of Media, Faculty
of Communication, UQÀM) and Keynote Speaker in Quebec and abroad
(2020 Université Laval (Quebec/Canada); Experiences of Innovation
in the Teaching and Learning of the Artistic Disciplines and Dance Education
Colloquium: Sensibility and Creativity in Education Process 2017 Universidade de Chile (Chile); 2013
METABODY EU Research Project/CynetArt (Germany); UK
Somatics and Technology Symposium 2012
University of Chichester (UK)). She has just written a book – a pedagogical tool
– entitled: Through the Prism of the Senses: Mediation and New Realities
of the Body in the Performing Arts. Technology, Cognition and Emerging
Research-Creation Methodologies - as principal author, in collaboration
with Enrico Pitozzi and Andrea Davidson, with an
afterword by Derrick de Kerckhove and
"Endorsement" by Roy Ascott. It is
published by Presses de l'Université
du Québec, Collection Esthétique (Canada) (French
version, October 2, 2019) and Intellect Books (UK)/The University of
Chicago Press Books (USA) (English version, January 13, 2020). She is the
initiator, main organizer and designer of an international inter-university
research-creation project: the first steps being this publication project and
the international colloquium Cybercorporéités : subjectivités nomades en contexte numérique (UQÀM/Montréal,
27-29 September 2018). Choinière's
research has been published widely in English, French, and Portuguese. English publications include articles for
Intellect Press, UK (2006, 2013, 2015,
2019), The IATC Journal‒Critical Stages #16, US/Europe (2017),
ISEA2017 Manizales, Colombia
(2017), Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
UK (2009, 2014), Journal of
Transdisciplinary Knowledge Design, Korea (2009). Publications
in French include articles for CNRS Éditions, France (2021), Sillages
critiques‒Revue numérique Université Paris-Sorbonne 3 (2021), criv.online/eunoïa, Canada (2020), Revista Repertório,
Brazil (2017), Revue Art&Fact 36, France (2017), Archée, Canada (2016, 2017). Publications in
Portuguese include articles for Revista Vis #17:1 (2018) and CENA #17, Brazil (2015). Other research activities include an invitation by Roy Ascott as Guest Chief-Editor for a double issue of Technoetic Arts, Intellect Journals, UK (2015) which examines the consequences and
impact of ‘moistmedia’
in the emergence of new artistic practices, and a collaboration with Derrick
de Kerckhove as an invited author for the book The Point of Being (2014). Her
main works to date include Communion,
Le partage des peaux II (1994‒99);
La démence
des anges (1999‒2005); Meat Paradoxe
(2005‒10); Flesh Waves
(2010‒13); and Phase #5 (2016
‒), productions that have toured Europe, Latin America
and North America in major international festivals, exhibitions and art
institutions. Festivals include the official openings of Cynetart04_Areale/Germany;
Les rencontres internationales danse et arts numériques, Centre des arts d'Enghien-les-bains/France; Crash/Danemark; Future
Moves/Rotterdam; and E-Phos/Athènes. Exhibitions
include 2do Festival
Internacional de Video y Artes Electronicas of Buenos Aires (FIV)/Teatro San
Martin/Buenos
Aires and Tercera Bienal
de Video y artes Electronicas/Museo
de Arte Contemporáneo/Santiago de Chile. Art
institutions include 40e anniversaire de la Délégation du Québec à Paris,
Paris; Museum de Arte
Moderna Da Bahia/Teatro Castro Alves/Salvador/Brazil;
and UNAM/Mexico).
Her works have also been
referenced as case studies for research groups in universities around the
world since 1994. Her practical research-creation work has been considered a
pioneering work since 1994, until today, by the international press (Le Monde, Paris; Digimag, Italy; Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten, Germany, etc.), as well as more recently (2017), including also the
theoretical one (essays) (cover pages The
IATC Journal/Revue de I'AICT,
Critical Stages, US-Europe; and Revista Repertório, Brazil). In 2014, Choinière
was awarded the Prix Reconnaissance
Desjardins 2014 for her ‘remarkable
career, her innovative work of
high artistic quality and to encourage her to continue research
in this unique way of creating' (Conseil des arts de Longueuil, Canada). |
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