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André Éric Létourneau

André Éric Létourneau
Born (1967-09-25) September 25, 1967 (age 49)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Residence Canada
Nationality Canadian
Fields Art
Experimental music
Media studies
Sociology
Institutions Université du Québec à Montréal
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
National University of Colombia
Hexagram - Centre interuniversitaire en arts médiatiques
Chaire de recherche du Canada en dramaturgie sonore au théâtre
Art & Flux - CNRS, ACTE Institute (UMR 8218) Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University
Institut supérieur des beaux-arts de Besançon Franche-Comté
Alma mater Université du Québec à Montréal
Université de Montréal
Artez

André Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, researcher, author, musician, composer, curator and professor based primarily in Montreal and Saint-Alponse-Rodriguez, Québec, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most notably Benjamin Muon and algojo)(algojo. His work has been associated with the development of performance art, radio art, process art, sound poetry and experimental music. Since the 1980s, Létourneau has presented intermedia works in international performance art festivals, galleries and museums such as the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre (1992), The James H.W. Thompson Foundation in Bangkok (one of Thailand's National Museums directed under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, 2006) and at the Pointe-à-Callière Museum (as part of Les Escales Improbables in Montréal, 2007). In 2006, he was one of the artists selected to represent Canada at the XVth Biennale de Paris under a pseudonym. Since 2012, Létourneau has also contributed to the Biennale des Arts d'Afrique de l'est EASTAFAB-BURUNDI, the festival InterAzioni in Italy, the Steirischer Herbst (Graz, Austria), Festival Phénomena (Montréal), Grace Exhibition Space and The Emily Harvey Foundation (New York) among many tohers.

Létourneau produced several radio art projects and music compositions for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC, Canada’s national public radio and television broadcaster). In 1999, he was the producer for the CBC of the special Hörspiel broadcast from 10 to 12 PM on the night of December 31 for the passage to the new millennium. Another Hörspeil, "Standard III" (2002), was commissioned by the CBC and broadcast on the night of Easter Sunday in 2003 under a program developed and curated by Mario Gauthier and Hélène Prévost,. He received several grants and awards including grants from the Artists and Community Collaboration Program (ACCP), the Inter-Arts Program of the Canada Council for the Arts and from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for his artistic and curatorial work.


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