| Peter Courtemanche is a Vancouver based contemporary electronic
media artist and curator. He works primarily in the realm of sound, radio-art,
and interactive installation work. As a curator and technician at the Western Front he has worked with many established and emerging artists in the production and installation of video, audio, and computer/electronic based art. He is part of a generation of artists who were exposed to electronics and the creative potential of technology at an early age. His formative, poetic works used early generation micro-computers to generate an "artificial creation machine". This interest in technology led to many experiments interfacing the old to the new; connecting the worlds of early mechanical devices and late 19th Century inventions with modern computer control systems. The product of these experiments was largely featured in his early sound work. His work in radio began in university - at the campus radio station CITR FM, in Vancouver - where he hosted a weekly program "The Absolute Value of Noise" (1988 - 92). This program featured a wide variety of radio-art and experimental audio - often generated live on the air. This radio show developed into the annual "24 Hours of Radio/ART" program (1992-96) - a collaborative event that explored the concept of a "radio-art" station; an event that posed the question: "What would happen if your local FM pop-rock station suddenly decided to go to an all audio-art format?" More recently, Peter has moved in the direction of installation and computer interactive art. He collaborated with Lori Wiedenhammer on "Divining for Lost Sound" - an outdoor interactive sound installation that premiered at the Saint Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre in Manitoba. This work was recently featured at Kunst in der Stadt 2 - a public art exhibition/festival in Bregenz, Austria. Peter is currently producing a new interactive film work entitled "Spirit Hands", which pays reference to the spiritualist movement of the late 1800's and early 1900's. His recent work for the Internet ("Spirit Sounds" and "Audio Monster") can be viewed at http://www.front.bc.ca Peter Courtemanche (with Lori Weidenhammer) took part in exhibition "Kunst in der Stadt" in Bregenz, Austria. This included their installation "DIVINING FOR LOST SOUND" and participation in the Kunstradio project "Immersive Sound", (together with Elisabeth Schimana). Courtemanche/Weidenhammer/Schimana "Immersive Sound" Project Description |
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Sendungen im ORF-Kunstradio: 15. 12. 1998: "SOUND WORKS" |