[spectre] Airport Montréal-Trudeau launches its first ever media art exhibition

[Max Neupert]

Press release

Montréal-Trudeau launches its first ever media art exhibition.  Télé- 
Québec to partner with Aéroports de Montréal in production of  
upcoming exhibitions

Montréal, August 25, 2005 - In the company of representatives from  
Montréal's artistic and cultural circles, Aéroports de Montréal today  
inaugurated a media art exhibition in the new international arrivals  
complex at Montréal-Trudeau Airport. The event includes video and  
photographic works by 23 Montréal artists and is the first of its  
kind to be held at Montréal-Trudeau, indeed the first exhibition ever  
to be staged in an air terminal.

The some three million international passengers who transit through  
Montréal-Trudeau each year will henceforth be treated to an  
impressive visual display of avant-garde digital works by Montréal  
area artists, an innovative undertaking designed to position the city  
as a leader in media art.

"The staging of this media art exhibition is an initiative developed  
within the framework of ADM's Montréal Identity Program which seeks  
to lend a distinctively Montréal flavour to the Montréal Trudeau  
facility, while contributing to cultural and artistic development in  
the Greater Montréal area," stated Christiane Beaulieu, Vice  
President, Public Affairs.

"As a result of the permanent installation of projection screens and  
equipment in the new international arrivals complex, Montréal-Trudeau  
Airport has become one of Canada's foremost media art exhibition  
venues and the first airport in the world to be equipped with such an  
ever-evolving cultural showcase."

Entitled Espaces vitaux / Extravagances, the current exhibition  
consists of two parts. The first, Espaces vitaux is projected on a  
2.7-metre by 4.8-metre LED screen located above the exit of the  
Canada Customs Hall. The second, Extravagances, is presented on five  
1.5-metre projection screens strategically located throughout the  
baggage claim area.

Comprising 11 works, Espaces Vitaux is a succession of three  
tableaux: A bird's eye view of Montréal; selected urban cityscapes;  
and, Montréalers at home in the city. The 19 works which make up  
Extravagances constitute an exercise in movement and engage viewers  
in a humour-based discovery walking tour past various Montréal  
landmarks and through city districts suggestive of Montréal's  
cosmopolitan flair.

The artists featured in the exhibition include as follows: Jocelyne  
Alloucherie, Raymonde April, Marie France Brière, Melvin Charney,  
Lucie Duval, Rachel Echenberg, Julie-C Fortier, Gabor Szilasi, Adad  
Hannah, Isabelle Hayeur, Tania Huerta, Manon Labrecque, Paul Landon,  
Francine Larivée, Joseph Lefèvre, Max Neupert, Alain Paiement,  
Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Alain Pelletier, Nicolas Renaud, Jocelyn  
Robert, Ariane Thézé, and Richard-Max Tremblay.

Aéroports de Montréal wishes to underscore the cooperation of  
external members of the Montréal Identity Program Advisory Committee:  
Pierre Bellerose, Vice President, Research and Public Relations,  
Tourism Montréal;  Johanne Brouillet, Artistic Director and Art  
Gallery Exhibition Coordinator, Université de Sherbrooke Cultural  
Centre; Michel Hardy, Design Authority, Cardinal Hardy Architects;  
and, Danielle Sauvage, Director General, Montréal Council for the Arts.

Aéroports de Montréal, which intends to renew the exhibition  
annually, seized the occasion to announce a partnership with Télé- 
Québec for the joint production of upcoming exhibitions. Under the  
terms of the memorandum of understanding signed today, Télé-Québec is  
to provide-free of charge-all human and technical resources required  
for post-production and final editing. As architect of the  
initiative, Aéroports de Montréal will be responsible for selecting a  
commissioner, overseeing planning and securing requisite funding.

Aéroports de Montréal is the local airport authority responsible for  
the management, operation and development of Montréal-Trudeau and  
Montréal-Mirabel International Airports under the terms of a lease  
entered into with Transport Canada in 1992. The Corporation employs a  
combined total of some 600 individuals at the two airports and at  
head office.

Source:      Christiane Beaulieu
              Vice President, Public Affairs

Information: Maurice Boucher
              Communications Consultant
              mboucher.comm at sympatico.ca

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Max Neupert
Tutor im Fachgebiet Medienkunst
Hochschule für Kunst und Design
Burg Giebichenstein
Halle, Deutschland

http://kunstundmedien.burg-halle.de