Manuel Chantre
Manuel Chantre
Genres: canada, electronic
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About Manuel Chantre
Based in Montreal, Chantre is a digital artist and composer. He is interested in the diversion of cultural symbols and phenomena of perceptions, in order to create works at the junction of a dramatic fictional universe and an essay. His approach has been characterized by integrating music, sound, video, programming, electronic and moving lights for creating performances and installations with volumetric visual content. Alongside video artist Jean Ranger, Chantre has explored the various characteristics of storytelling within immersive installations. He also works with nonlinear narratives through his musical compositions and sound design. His collaborations have included Six Mil Antennas (2011), and Entre ciel et terre (2009), both designed for a dome screen developed at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) as well as the film Réflexions / Réflections (2007) designed for a 360 degree screen. Since 2009 he creates audiovisual installations made up of 24 video screens assembled to make a unique maze of video projections. Dispergere Maiz deals with the corn crop and its associated symbolism, while Memorsion, focuses on the memories of abandoned urban structures. His latest work, Light Attraction (2012), is a performance for a giant prism that turns powerful lights into a dense mass of over-changing geometric composition. The work refers to the phenomenon whereby nocturnal insects are attracted to light, a metaphor of human’s impulsive and obsessive behaviour. Inspired by the misappropriation of mass culture, Chantre also founded the Popcore collective in 2006 in collaboration with the SAT weekly MixSessions events. The final appearances of the collective were presented under the moniker Popcore Duo. Chantre and Laroche created a new genre of “participative-noise-narrative” performance. The performances are based on the deconstruction of a robotic body (Popcore Duo), a « mashup » of contemporary rituals (Popcontinental) and a dual in which the public is set in the middle of the arena (Polypingpop). Chantre is known through his musical performance project Taxi Nouveau from 2004 to 2009. He is also a founding member of the Toy Company, a Montreal's chiptune/8bit music collective. His works has been co-produced by notable international media art institutions such as the Society for arts and technologies (Mtl), Mois-Multi (Quebec), Videographe (Mtl), Eastern Bloc (Mtl) and presented by Elektra (Mtl), the Mapping festival (Switzerland), the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Video Pool (Winnipeg), WORM (Netherlands), and STEIM (Netherlands).
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