Curator Statement

Exhibition. Galerie Abstract Project, May 16 – 27

“Empreintes sonores” is an interactive installation that looks at the traces our daily lives leave in the digital space. Signs of the times, the installation uses a voice-activated assistant to record continuously. The sounds thus captured are triturated, remixed and played back in the environment. When significant vocalizations are detected, they materialize visually. It then becomes possible to navigate in the granularity of the frozen sound by moving freely in space. Thus, it is no longer the sound that travels to our ears but our ears that must travel through the sound.

This project was created by Victor Drouin-Trempe (V.ictor) and Jean-Philippe Coté, from an original idea by Victor. Jules Roze collaborated to the visuals.
https://djip.co/art/empreintes-sonores

• Jean-Philippe Coté is an artist, researcher and professor based in the Montréal (Québec, Canada) metropolitan area. His work takes shape at the juncture of art, obsolescence, materiality and technology. His interactive art practice explores a diffractive mirroring of the visitor’s body and gestures using appropriated, and often outdated, technical devices. https://djip.co
• Victor Drouin-Trempe is an artist, researcher and professor in sound creation and philosophy at Cégep du Vieux Montréal, Canada. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy and is currently pursuing a PhD in Art Studies and Practices at UQAM. https://v-ictor.ca