:: Hexagram Mondays

13 | 03 | 2006 @ SAT :: Les lundis d’HEXAGRAM

6pm- Free admission

For their IXth
and last 2005-2006 edition, the Hexagram Mondays at SAT are
pleased to introduce France Pépin (CIAM), Jean
Gervais (UQAM) et Timothy Clark (Concordia).

Hexagram Mondays
at SAT are co-produced by Hexagram, the Society for Arts and
Technology (SAT) and the Interuniversity Center for Media Arts
(CIAM).

Bio
France Pepin is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice oscillate between
dance, music and visual arts. She is currently completing a Ph. D. in Étude
et Pratiques des Arts à l’UQAM. Her research-creation focuses on
the thematics of corporal mediation. In 2004, she presented the first version
of Diastolic Landscape, a digital photography triptyque based on the growth
of microscopic organisms on biological materials, at the Society for Arts and
Technology. Her thesis work, “Mosaic”, will be presented in Montreal
in 2006. She obtained numerous grants from different organisms, including the
FQRSC and the UQAM Foundation.

JEAN GERVAIS
(UQAM)
The making of a software for theatre set design

Abstract
Many softwares are currently available for architecture and interior design,
but none of them is specifically adapted to theatre set design. Set designers,
lighting designers and directors are thus forced to use CAD softwares whose
functions and interface are ill-adapted to their work. Developed from the needs
encountered in professional practice, the Set Design project aims to fulfill
this void. Jean Gervais will describe the evolution of this software. He will
present its main functions, as well the specificities of its interface, showing
how his team achieved an impressive tool that will soon be available to the
whole theatre community.

Bio
Jean Gervais is a professor at the Supérieure de Théâtre
de l’UQAM. He has been working for more than twenty years in the fields
of scenography and lighting. He wrote two books on the history and technique
of theatre lighting, and has directed eleven theatrical events. He is the author
of fifteen scenographies, many theatre works, and of 178 lighting designs, many
of them for world tours by famous Montreal directors or choreographers. He contributed
to the development of the Microlux lighting software.

TIMOTHY CLARK (CONCORDIA)
The Strange and Wonderful Case of Professors Bostrum and Sloterdijk

Bio
Tim Clark works on a number of overlapping research areas. In particular, the
historical relationship of art, science, aesthetics, and technology. In addition,
he also writes on the theology of the film work of the French director Bruno
Dumont.

Abstract
Tim Clark will talk about the Swedish philosopher and mathematician Nick Bostrum
and the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk.
Bostrum is presently the first director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute,
which is part of the recently founded James Martin 21st Century School at Oxford
University. Sloterdijk is a Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung
in Karlsruhe. Germany. He is the Recipient of the German Academy for Language
and Poetry award, the Sigmund-Freud-Award for Scientific Prose in 2005.

More info :
www.hexagram.org