Luc Courchesne

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| birth_place = Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec

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| occupation = artist, professor

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Luc Courchesne {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} D.F.A. (1952) is a Canadian artist and academic known for his work in interactive art.{{cite web|title=Artist/Maker Name "Courchesne, Luc"|url=http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app;jsessionid=C6CFCCA6479B41907D40F9EFCD9A9238?rID=22927&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=223&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|website=Canadian Heritage Information Network|accessdate=31 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624075137/http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app;jsessionid=C6CFCCA6479B41907D40F9EFCD9A9238?rID=22927&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=223&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|archive-date=24 June 2016|url-status=dead}}

Life

Luc Courchesne was born May 20, 1952, in Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec. He received a bachelor's degree in design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1974. In the 1980s, he received a Master of Science degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{cite web|title=Luc Courchesne (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)|url=http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=128|website=Daniel Langlois Foundation|accessdate=31 May 2016}}{{cite web|title= Luc Courchesne|url=http://www.vitheque.com/Enprimeur/Topchoices/tabid/169/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1163/language/en-US/Luc-Courchesne.aspx|website=Vitheque|accessdate=31 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624073858/http://www.vitheque.com/Enprimeur/Topchoices/tabid/169/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1163/language/en-US/Luc-Courchesne.aspx#|archive-date=2016-06-24|url-status=dead}} Courchesne was a member of the MIT Media Lab at its inception in 1985.{{cite book|author=Hartmut Koenitz|title=Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZsGCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|date=10 April 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-66868-8|pages=41–}}

Courchesne was a professor of industrial design at the Université de Montréal.{{cite book|author1=Louise Poissant|author2=Pierre Tremblay|title=Prolife ́ration Des E ́crans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLIj2XCm9m0C&pg=PA131|year=2008|publisher=PUQ|isbn=978-2-7605-2196-4|pages=131–}}

Work

Courchesne is known for his interactive video installations and environments. He began working in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies,{{cite web |title=Elastic Movies |url=https://vimeo.com/22695464 |website=vimeo.com |date=21 April 2011 |publisher=Vimeo |access-date=17 June 2022}} and since has produced many installation works and image series. In his early works such as Family Portrait and Portrait One (1989),{{cite book|author=Timothy Scott Barker|title=Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGfJcBtpHBEC&pg=PA136|year=2012|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1-61168-301-1|pages=136–}} the viewer interacts with the a human image programmed to engage in a lifelike conversation with the viewer.{{cite book|author=Michael Heim|title=Virtual Realism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4nyKP2-KlXAC&pg=PA33-IA4|date=13 April 2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-535009-8|pages=33–}}{{cite book|author1=Raivo Kelomees|author2=Chris Hales|title=Expanding Practices in Audiovisual Narrative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDZQBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA129|date=16 October 2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6906-5|pages=129–}} His later work Landscape One (1997){{cite book|author=Harrison, Dew|title=Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSl1CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA6|date=31 March 2015|publisher=IGI Global|isbn=978-1-4666-8206-1|pages=6–}} surrounds the viewer with a 360 degree immersive and interactive video projection of a park.{{cite book|author=Stephen Wilson|title=Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology|url=https://archive.org/details/informationartsi0000wils|url-access=registration|year=2002|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-73158-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/informationartsi0000wils/page/826 826]–}}{{cite book|author=Margot Lovejoy|title=Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Aw1nuFZ5NUC&pg=PA172-IA4|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-39729-7|pages=172–}}{{cite book|author=Steve Dixon|title=Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ybrAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-04235-2}}

On September 11, 2001, while he was on assignment in New York City for a "Québec–New York" cultural event, Courchesne happened to be videotaping the smoldering North Tower of the World Trade Center as the second plane hit the South Tower. The 23-minute video of his experience was made available at CBC/Radio-Canada's archives.{{Cite web |url=http://archives.radio-canada.ca/c_est_arrive_le/09/11/ |title=Attentats au World Trade Center |website=CBC/Radio-Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926002735/http://archives.radio-canada.ca/c_est_arrive_le/09/11/ |archive-date=2009-09-26}}

In 1994, he exhibited his work in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York titled Project 47: Luc Courchesne.{{cite web |title=Exhibition Archive |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/history/?sort_date=relevance&mde_type=All&location=both&begin_date=1990&end_date=1999&q=Project+47%3A+Luc+Courchesne |website=www.moma.org |publisher=MOMA |access-date=17 June 2022}} and has had numerous later solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally. In 2022, Luc Courchesne - Observateur du monde, an exhibition, was shown at the Carrefour des Arts, Université de Montréal.{{cite web |title=Luc Courchesne: Observer of the World |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Luc+Courchesne+-+Observateur+du+monde%2C |website=www.google.com |publisher=Université de Montréal |access-date=17 June 2022}} He is represented by gallery Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal.

He has been awarded several artist-in-residence positions internationally.{{cite web |title=Luc Courchesne |url=https://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=128 |website=www.fondation-langlois.org |publisher=Langlois Foundation |access-date=18 June 2022}} Since 1996, he has been a member of the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2005, then Vice-Chairman from 2005 to 2008.

Collections

Courchesne's work is included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada,{{cite web |title=Luc Courchesne |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/search-the-collection?search_api_views_fulltext=Luc+Courchesne&sort_by=search_api_relevance |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=15 June 2022}}{{cite book|author1=Martin Rieser|author2=Andrea Zapp|title=New Screen Media: Cinema/art/narrative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5FPAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=BFI Pub.|isbn=978-0-85170-865-2}} Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec{{cite web |title=Luc Courchesne |url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600010213 |website=collections.mnbaq.org |publisher=MNBAQ |access-date=18 June 2022}} and elsewhere as well as in many institutions internationally such as the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://zkm.de/en/person/luc-courchesne |website=zkm.de |publisher=centre for art and media, Karlruhe |access-date=17 June 2022}}

Awards

1997 - his installation Paysage no. 1 won the Grand Prize of the first biennale of the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo.{{cite web|title=Examination result|url=http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/feature/1997/ICC_BIENNALE97/examination.html|website=ICC Biennale 1997|publisher=NTT Inter Communications Centre, Tokyo|accessdate=31 May 2016}}
1999 - honorary mention in the category of "Interactive Art" of the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz.{{cite web|title=1992 Prix Winners: Interactive Art|url=http://www.aec.at/prix/en/winners/1992-prix-gewinner-interactive-art/|website=Ars Electronica|accessdate=31 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808143206/http://www.aec.at/prix/en/winners/1992-prix-gewinner-interactive-art/|archive-date=8 August 2016|url-status=dead}}
2010 - member of the RCA by way of their nomination process.
2019 - received the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec's highest award in visual arts.{{cite web |title=Luc Courchesne |url=https://prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recipiendaires/luc-courchesne |website=prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca |publisher=Government of Quebec |access-date=15 June 2022}}
2021 - Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.{{cite web |title=Luc Courchesne |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knMslfic5fM&list=PLjhCs-hRAvsHsn4qvIbJGO7WFQ05mSaXG&index=9 |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=Governor General of Canada |access-date=17 June 2022}}
2022 - awarded an honorary doctorate from NSCAD.{{cite web |title=NSCAD UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES ITS 2022 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS |url=https://nscad.ca/nscad-announces-2022-honorary-degree-recipients/ |website=nscad.ca |date=11 April 2022 |publisher=NSCAD |access-date=15 June 2022}}