Printemps numérique Unveils Its Spokespersons for the 2015 Edition

Printemps numérique is pleased and proud to announce that Marie Brassard and Martin Messier are the spokespersons for its 2015 edition.

Marie Brassard is an author, director and actress. For more than fifteen years, her career was closely linked to that of Robert Lepage. In 2001, she founded her own production company, Infrarouge, where she serves as artistic director. Since then, working closely with musicians and visual artists, she has created performances with surreal atmospheres in which video, light and sound occupy a central place. Interweaving voices and music, crossing levels of reality, her productions lead us into a world where the boundary between private and public blurs and the relationship between human beings and technology becomes intimate. Her distinctive work, combining art and technology, has made her a singular voice in contemporary theatre. Her plays have been presented and warmly received in about twenty countries in the Americas, Europe and Australia.

Marie Brassard notes that new forms of digital creation modify and enrich our relationship to the world. These new ways of writing and creating invite us to look differently at things and beings. As warmth returns, she sees the unifying project of Printemps numérique as an ideal event for allowing the public to enrich its knowledge and satisfy its curiosity while promoting the visibility of singular artists on our territory and beyond our borders.

Martin Messier is recognized in the digital-arts field for his staging of sound works. He gives voice to everyday objects, invented machines and bodies in motion. In performances such as Lachambre des machines and Sewing Machine Orchestra, he pushes the imagination of daily life further by reinventing use. At the foundation of his choreographic works, including Hit and Fall, Derrière le rideau and Soak, is the desire to reverse the hierarchical relationship between music and dance so that sound becomes the driving force of gesture. Presented in about twenty countries, his pieces have received several distinctions, including a mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2010, a nomination at the Prix Opus 2012 and a 2013 experimental short-film award at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival. In 2014, he received the Canada Council for the Arts mid-career Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Award.

Martin Messier stated that by federating all actors in the field under a collective banner while preserving each one’s identity, Printemps numérique allows for large-scale promotion of Montréal digital creativity and highlights its immense diversity. He is very happy to be co-spokesperson for this unifying movement.

The launch of the 2015 edition of Printemps numérique will take place on March 19 at 5:30 p.m. at the Musée d’art contemporain. Manon Barbe, president of the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal, emphasized the dazzling growth of Printemps numérique, both in the participation of Montréal organizations and in the scope of the activities offered. The diversity and originality of the activities created by digital-sector artists and organizations for spring 2015 are astonishing, and the team is eager to unveil the program.

As a capital of digital arts, Montréal offers residents and visitors an exciting season of discoveries in many forms: interactive spaces, visual and sound performances, immersive experiences, 3D productions, cutting-edge electronic music, installations, studio visits, openings, conferences andinternational-calibre events. Printemps numérique receives support from Tourisme Montréal, theConseil des arts de Montréal and La Vitrine. Itis

produced in association with

Métro newspaper.

About Printemps numérique. Printemps numérique introduces a wide public to works by digital creators and attracts an international audience through the scope and diversity of its programming. This major initiative strengthens Montréal’s positioning as a creative capital, encourages emerging and original practices and fosters collaboration by connecting the communities that drive it: creation, production, dissemination, research, industry, tourism and institutions such as museums and universities. Follow Printemps numérique: Twitter @PN_MTL

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