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Sonic Apophenia (2026)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An audiovisual performance, Sonic Apophenia<\/em> unfolds across eight evolving scenes in which sound and image oscillate between abstraction and figuration, never settling into a fixed state. Apophenia \u2014 the tendency to perceive patterns or meaning in randomness \u2014 lies at the heart of the project. Dense clusters of evolving sound textures, generated by modular synthesis, pulsate, fragment, and reassemble, evoking forms that remain elusive. At the same time, machine learning systems generate visual hallucinations: ambiguous figures and landscapes that hover between recognition and artifact. Caught in a feedback loop, sound and image are constantly transforming each other, turning perception into an unstable terrain where meaning is not given but projected \u2014 emerging from noise, illusion, and uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Myriam Bleau<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist, and performer based in Montreal. Taking music and sound as a starting point, she creates audiovisual performances, video works, installations, and interactive interfaces that articulate sound, light, and movement. Her work is rooted primarily in the field of performance, exploring ephemeral and elusive contexts. From code to machine learning, through physical computing and device-making, she considers technology to be endowed with an agency that participates in the co-creation of the work. Her hybrid practice explores porous zones between the physical and virtual worlds, between the natural and the synthetic. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally at festivals and events such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), S\u00f3nar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), ELEKTRA (CA), MUTEK (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), ACT (KR), L.E.V and LABoral (ES), Scopitone (FR), and Caf\u00e9 Oto (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philippe Vandal<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Philippe Vandal is a new media artist whose practice engages with technological, ecological, and aesthetic concerns. Drawing inspiration from the visual and material cultures of environmental chemistry laboratories, he recontextualizes scientific aesthetics to explore contamination as a simultaneously political, poetic, and aesthetic matter. His work offers a critical reflection on modes of knowledge production and on the history of scientific instruments. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Intermedia Cyber\/Arts and a master’s degree in arts from Concordia University, where his thesis Spectral Narratives<\/em> focuses on protocols for detecting petroleum hydrocarbons in urban soils. He has been affiliated with the Milieux Institute, Hexagram, and the Speculative Life Biolab. His work has been presented internationally, notably at Ars Electronica and the Centre Pompidou. He is also a member of the audiovisual trio Mesocosm, with whom he performs at festivals such as MUTEK, ELEKTRA, and FIBER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sonic Apophenia (2026)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An audiovisual performance, Sonic Apophenia<\/em> unfolds across eight evolving scenes in which sound and image oscillate between abstraction and figuration, never settling into a fixed state. Apophenia \u2014 the tendency to perceive patterns or meaning in randomness \u2014 lies at the heart of the project. Dense clusters of evolving sound textures, generated by modular synthesis, pulsate, fragment, and reassemble, evoking forms that remain elusive. At the same time, machine learning systems generate visual hallucinations: ambiguous figures and landscapes that hover between recognition and artifact. Caught in a feedback loop, sound and image are constantly transforming each other, turning perception into an unstable terrain where meaning is not given but projected \u2014 emerging from noise, illusion, and uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Myriam Bleau<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist, and performer based in Montreal. Taking music and sound as a starting point, she creates audiovisual performances, video works, installations, and interactive interfaces that articulate sound, light, and movement. Her work is rooted primarily in the field of performance, exploring ephemeral and elusive contexts. From code to machine learning, through physical computing and device-making, she considers technology to be endowed with an agency that participates in the co-creation of the work. Her hybrid practice explores porous zones between the physical and virtual worlds, between the natural and the synthetic. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally at festivals and events such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), S\u00f3nar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), ELEKTRA (CA), MUTEK (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), ACT (KR), L.E.V and LABoral (ES), Scopitone (FR), and Caf\u00e9 Oto (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philippe Vandal<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Philippe Vandal is a new media artist whose practice engages with technological, ecological, and aesthetic concerns. Drawing inspiration from the visual and material cultures of environmental chemistry laboratories, he recontextualizes scientific aesthetics to explore contamination as a simultaneously political, poetic, and aesthetic matter. His work offers a critical reflection on modes of knowledge production and on the history of scientific instruments. He holds a bachelor's degree in Intermedia Cyber\/Arts and a master's degree in arts from Concordia University, where his thesis Spectral Narratives<\/em> focuses on protocols for detecting petroleum hydrocarbons in urban soils. He has been affiliated with the Milieux Institute, Hexagram, and the Speculative Life Biolab. His work has been presented internationally, notably at Ars Electronica and the Centre Pompidou. He is also a member of the audiovisual trio Mesocosm, with whom he performs at festivals such as MUTEK, ELEKTRA, and FIBER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sonic Apophenia (2026)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Performance audiovisuelle, Sonic Apophenia<\/em> se d\u00e9ploie \u00e0 travers huit tableaux en transformation o\u00f9 le son et l\u2019image oscillent entre abstraction et figuration, sans jamais se stabiliser. L\u2019apoph\u00e9nie \u2014 cette tendance \u00e0 percevoir des motifs ou du sens dans le hasard \u2014 constitue le c\u0153ur du projet. De denses amas de textures sonores \u00e9volutives, g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9es par synth\u00e8se modulaire, pulsent, se fragmentent et se recomposent, \u00e9voquant des formes qui demeurent insaisissables. En parall\u00e8le, des syst\u00e8mes d\u2019apprentissage automatique produisent des hallucinations visuelles : figures et paysages ambigus vacillant entre reconnaissance et artefact. Pris dans une boucle de r\u00e9troaction, le son et l\u2019image se transforment continuellement, faisant de la perception un terrain instable o\u00f9 le sens n\u2019est pas donn\u00e9, mais projet\u00e9 \u2014 \u00e9mergeant du bruit, de l\u2019illusion et de l\u2019incertitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Myriam Bleau<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Myriam Bleau est une compositrice, artiste num\u00e9rique et performeuse bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al. Prenant la musique et le son comme point de d\u00e9part, elle cr\u00e9e des performances audiovisuelles, des \u0153uvres vid\u00e9o, des installations et des interfaces interactives qui articulent son, lumi\u00e8re et mouvement. Son travail s\u2019inscrit principalement dans le champ de la performance, explorant des contextes \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8res et insaisissables. Du code \u00e0 l\u2019apprentissage automatique, en passant par l\u2019informatique physique et la fabrication de dispositifs, elle consid\u00e8re la technologie comme dot\u00e9e d\u2019une agentivit\u00e9 qui participe \u00e0 la co-cr\u00e9ation de l\u2019\u0153uvre. Sa pratique hybride explore des zones poreuses entre le monde physique et virtuel, entre le naturel et le synth\u00e9tique. Son travail a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu et pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019international dans des festivals et \u00e9v\u00e9nements tels que Prix Ars Electronica (AT), S\u00f3nar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), ELEKTRA (CA), MUTEK (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), ACT (KR), L.E.V et LABoral (ES), Scopitone (FR) et Caf\u00e9 Oto (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philippe Vandal<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Philippe Vandal est un artiste en nouveaux m\u00e9dias dont la recherche se d\u00e9ploie \u00e0 travers des pr\u00e9occupations technologiques, \u00e9cologiques et esth\u00e9tiques. S\u2019inspirant des cultures visuelles et mat\u00e9rielles des laboratoires de chimie environnementale, il recontextualise l\u2019esth\u00e9tique scientifique afin d\u2019explorer la contamination comme une mati\u00e8re \u00e0 la fois politique, po\u00e9tique et esth\u00e9tique. Son travail propose une r\u00e9flexion critique sur les modes de production du savoir et sur l\u2019histoire des instruments scientifiques. Il est titulaire d\u2019un baccalaur\u00e9at en Intermedia Cyber\/Arts et d\u2019une ma\u00eetrise en arts de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Concordia, o\u00f9 son m\u00e9moire Spectral Narratives<\/em> porte sur les protocoles de d\u00e9tection des hydrocarbures p\u00e9troliers dans les sols urbains. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 affili\u00e9 au Milieux Institute, \u00e0 Hexagram et au Speculative Life Biolab. Son travail a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019international, notamment \u00e0 Ars Electronica et au Centre Pompidou. Il est \u00e9galement membre du trio audiovisuel Mesocosm, avec lequel il performe dans des festivals tels que MUTEK, ELEKTRA et FIBER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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