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Luc Courchesne «Portrait One» | CD-ROM-Version (1995)
Luc Courchesne, «Portrait One», 1990
CD-ROM-Version (1995) | Screenshot | Photograph: ZKM | © Luc Courchesne
 


 
 
Montreal | Canada | 305*245*67 cm (W*H*D) | Monitor, semi-transparent mirror, Apple Macintosh SE/30, laserdisc player, video/audio on laserdisc, speakers, amplifier, trackball, 1 user, monitor on a rostrum with an arch-shaped gateway, HyperCard | Concept: Luc Courchesne | Photograph: Jason Levy | Camera: Jason Levy | Participants: Paule Ducharme (script, cast) | Software: Holger Jost, Volker Kuchelmeister, Sylvia Molina Muro (Interface Design) | Programming: Courchesne, Henry See, Fortner Anderson | Edition / Production: Luc Courchesne / Canada Council | Archive / Collection: ZKM, Karlsruhe
 

 Luc Courchesne

b 1952 in St-Léonard d'Aston, Québec (CDN); 1974 Bachelor of Design and Communications am Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (CDN);1984 Master of Science in Visual Studies am MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA).
Since then he has been exploring the field of interactive video one of his first productions being «Elastic Movies» which he co-authored in 1984. Several installations including «Portrait One» [1990], «Family Portrait» [1993], «Passages» [1998], and «Rendez-vous» [1999] followed. His works have been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide. Luc Courchesne was awarded the Grand Prix of the ICC Biennale 1997 in Tokyo and an Award of Distinction at Pris Ars Electronica 1999 in Linz, Austria.
Luc Courchesne is professor of information design at the Université de Montréal and president of the Technology Art Society.