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2024

Worldbuilding, The visual arts gallery of Laval University, as part of the activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the art school, one artist/graduate for each decade was selected to represent their decade. I represent the 1980s. Curator Lisanne Nadeau, Quebec City, QC.

Écoute participative décoloniale, LABART, collective audio performance with Alexandre Castonguay and art students from UQAC, University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, Le Lobe, artiste-run centre, Chicoutimi, QC.

Sound Transects_Chicoutimi, a new iteration of an interactive sound installation, inaugural exhibition, @Ubchihica, Chicoutimi, QC. Ubchihica is a new artist-run Center for Research and Creation in Digital Arts. The co-founding members of Ubchihica are James Partaik, Paolo Almario and Lisa-Marie Lapointe. Ubchihica's mission is to promote the creation, research, and national and international exposure of independent professional artists in digital arts.

2023
Asterism, interactive installation insertio, (James Partaik, main researcher, Nasif Rincón, research assistant & Jaime Patarroyo, collaborator), ARQDIS Pavillon 2023, Bogota, Colombie.
This international event highlights cutting-edge projects and research in various creative disciplines (design, architecture, art). The ARQDIS Pavilion 2023 features exhibitions, conferences, performances, and activities aimed at strengthening the creative ecosystem that connects these disciplines.

sculptureaday, January 14, 2023, https://sculptureaday.ca/2023/01/14/january-14-2023/

2021

sculptureaday, October 24, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/10/24/october-24-2021/
L'imaginaire du Data, IA, Machine learning et réseaux neuronaux déstabilisants, Workshop à l'École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Casablanca, FOCUS QUÉBEC, 27e Édition du Festival International d'art vidéo de Casablanca, en collaboration avec ArtLab (Blair Taylor)
sculptureaday, August 11, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/08/11/august-11-2021/
sculptureaday, June 12, 2021,https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/06/12/june-12-2021/
sculptureaday, May 31, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/05/31/may-31-2021/
sculptureaday, May 5, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/05/05/may-5-2021/
sculptureaday, April 23, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/04/23/april-23-2021/
sculptureaday, March 27, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/03/27/march-27-2021/
sculptureaday, March 16, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/03/16/march-16-2021/
sculptureaday, February 17, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/02/17/february-17-2021/
sculptureaday, January 27, 2021, https://sculptureaday.ca/2021/01/27/january-27-2021/

2020

2019

Sound Transects_Bogota, a new iteration of an interactive sound installation, Cumulus conference, Bogotá 2019, The Design After, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotà, Colombia

Mapping_Me, an interactive installation combining physical computing with immersive VR technologies with Yan Breuleux at ISEA2019,(International symposium of Electronic Arts), Gwangju, South Korea.

2018

Conference and demo of Mapping_Me, an interactive installation combining physical computing with immersive VR technologies with Yan Breuleux at ACFAS,(Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences (Acfas), au SCAN (Studio de création des aerts numériques) May the 11th at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, QC.

Atelier-workshop, CONCRETE CITY, Perte-de-signal, Montréal, ARTISTES EN LAB at the Fab Lab du PEC, with Thomas Ouellet Fredericks and James Partaik for the workshop CONCRETE CITY with the students of the high school, Louis Riel in Montreal.

Exhibition, Archive the Archive: if(), with Blair Taylor, 13th International arts workshop, Rajamangala University of technology Lanna, Chaing Mai, Thailand, production from the 14th to 17th of February, 2018, Exhibition from the 17th February to the 17th of March, 2018.

Publication Inter, Art Actuel 128, Technocorps et cybermilieu Julien St-Georges, insertio student researcher publishes a text about the 2017 summer residence at Insertio's Quebec city Lab exploring Terrain d'entente (Natalia Arbilla Torres), images. Co-edited by Jacques Donguy et Michaël La Chance. Québec, QC.

2017

INSERTIO in collaboration with Manif d'art presents the exhibition Les jours sans sommeil font rêver les plantes of colombian artist Natalia ARDILA-TORRES

James Partaik with Insertio presents ConcreteCITY, à la SOIRÉE F5
Events - Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City Immersion in digital artistic creation in Québec City as part of Quebec Digital Week in collaboration with LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE - L'art se connecte / Soirée F5, Apr 4 2017, 7PM to 10PM

Publication Inter, Art Actuel 125, Connectivities, 22 authors including Samuel Bianchini avec Alexandre Saunier et Amandine Bagou, Louise Boisclair, Constanza Camelo-Suarez, Natalie Côté, Luc Courchesne, Joe Davis, Jean-Maxime Dufresne, Charles Dreyfus, Guillaume Ethier, Giovanni Fontana, Claude Fortin, François-Joseph Lapointe, James Partaik, Projet EVA (Étienne Grenier & Simon Laroche) et Fanny Georges, Jean-Paul Quéinnec, Julien St-Georges, full-colour images. Co-edited by Luc Lévesque and James Partaik (Insertio). Québec, QC.

2016

Sound Transects_Quebec, a new iteration of an interactive sound installation originally conceived in 2008 was created with the addition of a sound automaton, Manif d'art, Méduse, Quebec City

ConcreteCity, workshop and and large scale urban intervention of Insertio, ISEA 2016, Hong Kong, May 16th to 22nd, 2016

Hyperaccelerated Immobility, new performance at Chiyoda arts centre, NIPAF, 21st edition of Nippon International performance art festival, Tokyo, Japan

The 11th hour, new performance piece, NIPAF, 21st edition of Nippon International performance art festival, Osaka, Japan

SnowCage, 4'33" under the snow, new performance piece, NIPAF, 21st edition of Nippon International performance art festival, Nagano, Japan

UnderControl2, new performance piece, NIPAF, 21st edition of Nippon International performance art festival, Nagano, Japan 29/02 -10/03, 2016

2015

Effet Papillon, 20 years of the coopérative Méduse, INSERTIO collaboration with Manif d'art the closing intervention of the residence of colombian artist JAIME PATARROYO

INSERTIO collaboration with Manif d'artt exhibition of colombian artist JAIME PATARROYO

The balance sheet; a financial understatement, performance created for the General assembly of CÉAR (Création d'Évènements Artistiques de la Relève), the financial statement was performed at the SCAN (Studio de creation des arts numériques at the Université of Québec in Chicoutimi, Feb. 2015

Member of the International Program Committee for the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2015, in Vancouver

2014

Transects, a new iteration of an interactive sound installation originally conceived in 2008 was created as part of an exhibition «New Forms» featuring the works of Constanza Camelo, Sirikanlaya Chotmanee, Anusorn Khabpet, Jaime Patarroyo et James Partaik at the Rumpueng LoudSpeaker Gallery, Chiang Mai, 2014

LOCATION/SPACE, Conference, Responsive Environments – On the Interrelation between Location, Atmosphere, and Digital Media, ISEA2014, with Peter Anders (Chair), Moderator: Christiane Heibach, Claude Fortin, Jan-Lewe Torpus, Andreas Simon, Scott Hessels, Gwenn-Aël Lynn, Ilze Black, Jan Torpus at Zayed University, Dubaï, UAE. Nov.2014

Sound Transects_Dubai, selected by the ISEA 2014 committee,a new iteration of an interactive sound installation originally conceived in 2008 was created as part of an exhibition «Electric Tradition» curated by Joshua Watts in the Al Fahidi Historical neighbourhood Dubai, Oct-Nov.2014

Collectif We Are Not Speedy Gonzales, Chutes / Caídas
9th Encuentro: MANIFEST! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas.
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University and Concordia University
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.21-28 june, 2014

Inauguration of the SCAN,Studio de création arts numériques, a unique infrastructure for teaching, researching and exhibiting digital and computational art, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, QC. 2014

Colloque international - International Symposium
Du dispositif sonore au renouvellement de la pratique scénique
From sound device to new forms of stage practice
La Chaire de recherche du Canada en dramaturgie sonore au théâtre à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Québec
En partenariat avec l'UQAC, le LANTISS-Université Laval, le CRIalt, la SQET et le CELAT.
In partnership with LANTISS (Laval University), CRIalt, SQET and CELAT

Reality Engine_Sherbrooke, ESPACE [IM]MÉDIA : arts et cultures numériques, 4e édition, août-septembre, 2013, Optiches, curator Sébastien Pesot, Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Québec. Performance sonore le 21 septembre,2014

2013

Reality Engine_Piotrków Trybunalsk, 15th INTERAKCJE 2013 festival, co-organized by The Centre of Artistic Activities (ODA) in Piotrków Trybunalski, Department of Intermedia Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, MOCAK

81e congrès de l’ACFAS, « Circuits et tactiques d’interventions dans l’espace public : l’art du dispositif TechNOMAD » Colloque du CÉLAT, Lieux de passage et vivre-ensemble, L’art, le citadin et le site : habiter l’espace public à l’ère de l’image??6 au 10 mai 2013, l’Université Laval (Québec, Canada).

Reality Engine_Casablanca, 19e Festival International d'art vidéo de Casablanca, performance, Centre culturel Moulay Rachid, avril, 2013

2012

Conference_ SCAN, Studio de Création Arts Numériques : enjeux, contenus et pratiques pédagogiques,
CRÉA NUMÉRICA, 2es rencontres professionnelles sur la création numérique dans l'espace méditerranéen et le continent africain, l'association EchosElectriques et l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, La Marsa, Tunisie, November 19 - 21, 2012

Wireless demons and electromagnetic disorder, DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art, Toronto, Ont. Solo performance, 2012

Conference, Forms of transmission art, Trans-X Symposium, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Toronto, Ont. May 25-27, 2012.

Laboratoires des virtualités concrets, 2011_ overture 2012
Laboratory of concrete virtuality, 2011_opening 2012

Lancement du site pour le SCAN, Studio de création Arts Numériques, à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Moteur de réalité_Québec, Le MoisMulti13 , performance, 2012

2011

Motor Realidade/Intergraçao | action, Échange Québec — São Paulo, SESC Pinheros, Sao Paulo, Brazil, résidence_ performance, 2011

Moteur de réalité_Mexico, 2011, Performance, IV Muestra Internacional de Performance, Exteresa Mexico

Exposition intinérante : 2011-2009, Ligne de site V, Installations by architects, University of Maryland, Washington, Parsons School of Design, Departement of Constructed Environmnts, New York City, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, University of Texas Austin, Austin Texas, Université Laval, Québec, University Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, McGill University, Montréal, Qc., Haus for Archtektur, Graz, Austria, AHO, Oslo, Suede, Waterloo University, Cambridge, Ontario