Mathieu Le Sourd (Maotik)
3 April 2017 – 28 April 2017
The work of Montreal-based digital artist Mathieu Le Sourd (Maotik) focuses on the creation of immersive multimedia environments and generative visuals. His work has recently been presented at various festivals around the world such as Live Cinema in Rio de Janeiro, the Plums Festival in Moscow, Visiones in Lima, Mutek Festival (Montreal, Mexico City, Barcelona), the British Film Institute in London and ARS electronica in Linz.
As head of Moment Factory’s interactive team in 2011, Le Sourd produced major projects such as the multimedia experience at the new Los Angeles Airport terminal as well as the visuals for Nine Inch Nails’ world tour. In 2013 he produced the critically acclaimed immersive multimedia performance DROMOS which was presented at SATosphere in Montreal as part of the Mutek festival.
Always on the lookout for new challenges, Le Sourd designs his own tools by generating animations from algorithms and creating three-dimensional worlds to alter the perception of space. He collaborates with musicians, sound artists and scientists to further his research on the relationship between art, science and technology.
Montreal-based digital artist Mathieu Le Sourd (MAOTIK) will be in residence at LABoral Centro de Arte, where he will develop the work Aeryon.
Project in residence
Aeryon
Aeryon performs an artistic interpretation of the vision of a surveillance drone, whose story line develops according to the place of departure. It is an advanced visual navigation system that analyzes a multiple data source to recreate the beauty of a landscape seen from the air. Conceived as a performance and installation, its storyline gradually evolves to generate a multimedia environment that provides several levels of immersion and modifies the perception of physical space. The installation is an “open form”, offering the performer several combinatory options. The surround sound translates the visual into a sonic experience capable of transporting the viewer into the very heart of this electronic landscape. With these opposing forces of the virtual and the real, the public is invited to live a contemplative experience in which the visual composition changes with the virtual location of the drone, so that the experience is never the same.
The installation has been selected in a call of the ENCAC Network, led by LABoral and will be presented in the context of the LEV Festival on April 28th.
