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Pierre Tremblay

Professor
EducationM.F.A., Art and Technology of Image, University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. B.F.A., Media Art, Toronto Metropolitan University B.A.A., Graphic Art, Laval University
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Interdisciplinary artist, Pierre Tremblay is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, School of Image Arts. His artistic practice, combining new technologies and video, questions the world in flux, how we see and perceive. His work can be found in Paris in the collections of the Musée Carnavalet, the Bibliothèque nationale, and the Musée Rodin, as well as the Louise Bourgeois Archives, housed at The Easton Foundation, New York, USA. Exhibitions of note include Art is like a game, 300 Days of Indulgence - Negotiating with the Beyond, Continuum, Portraits in a Sentence, Pools, Meta Incognita at The Photographers' Gallery - The Wall, London, England and Dans la nuit des images, at the Grand Palais, Paris, and recently at CICA Museum in Seoul as well as the 2023 Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. He has made numerous films exploring artistic practice, including creators such as Louise Bourgeois, Max Dean, Michael Snow, Françoise Sullivan, R. Bruce Elder, Anna Ridler, Magali Desbazeille and Jake Elwes. He also continues to work on an extended series of ArtWalk films. Tremblay's films have been screened at international festivals such as FIFA and Videoformes at Clermont Ferrand. In his role at TMU, Tremblay has facilitated conferences and edited books that have brought scholars and artists from Ontario, Quebec and France together for cross-cultural exchange on a variety of new media topics. Together with Gerda Cammaer, he is the co-founder and curator of Moving-Image-Arts, a thematic International short film festival that takes place annually in the School of Image Arts.

Toronto-Montréal-Lille Conference (external link) 

A biennial of artistic exchange
The Inventions of Light / Les inventions de la lumière
School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto

This bilingual conference is the 6th edition of the Toronto/Montreal/Lille biennial of artistic exchange. Titled The Inventions of Light / Les Inventions de la Lumière, the conference will focus on what light makes possible in the parallel realms of perception and creative imagination.

Short Filmmaking: On Location Iceland, Finland

Short Filmmaking: On Location Iceland, Finland (opens in new window) 

Living in our world exposed to constant media sources, the sharing of information informs our reality. In this production class, we are looking at media arts, using the inspiration of art and popular culture. Innovative approaches to short filmmaking will the focus of the course. Motion will be explored in a digital environment, using principally After Effects & Premiere Pro. Combining technical and theoretical components, this unique course will take advantage of various shooting locations and cultural resources available in Helsinki and surrounding areas.