Aquaphoneia-Kapelica Gallery | 2019
AQUAPHONEIA
2016
​Aquaphoneia is an alchemical installation centred around the poiesis of time and transmutation of voice into matter.A large horn floating mid space echoes the ghosts of Edison, Bell, and Berliner’s machines. But unlike early recording, herding sound energy to etch pressure patterns in solid matter, this odd assemblage transmutes voice into water and water into air. Disembodied voices abandon their sources to cross the event horizon of the horn. Estranged, the schizo-phone falls into the narrow depths of the bell, squeezed into spatiotemporal infinity, calcinated, liquified and released: The aqueous voice then flows into three alchemical chambers where inner time is surrendered to the tempi of matter: unbound, yet lucid and sound.In one corner, voices bubbling inside a sphere of fire are brought to entropy and transmuted into a timeless concentration of spectral mist and phonetic vapour. An ouroboros chamber twists fermented vowels into distilled consonants to release a thin blade of prosody. This viscous alchemical matter lowers itself to the terra beneath where matter dances to its own affective tonality. Another module separates speech into vital elements a drop at a time: words into phonemes, into phono particles, and the invisible quanta of silence.

Einstein's Dreams  
2013

Einstein's Dream proposes to build time conditioning installations & techniques that  create palpable alternatives to the everyday time that’s governed by calendars, universal clocks, and Internet services that never sleep. We’ll do this by building physical zones in which objects and fields of lighting, sound, and video change in concert with the inhabitants’ movement to create powerfully alternative senses of time, rhythm and pattern. We will thus develop a new architecture of kinetic material and digital media in which time becomes an elastic medium of expression, learning, and invention - a new art of time for the 21c.

The floor of the space was covered with 13 metric tons of sand in order to provide an organic surface with which the body could interact.  The ability to play with the material that one walks on  and the ability to change the spaces architecture by moulding the sand provided a unique opportunity to interact with reality and its technologically augmented cousin at the same time.
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Shadowhood 
collaboration with "mere phantoms- October 2012

A two week workshop combining projection, shadow puppetry and animation techniques.

"mere phantom" is a Montreal-based collaborative studio that uses light and motion to create spaces and experiences with ambiance, allure, spectacle and intimacy. Exploring the ephemeral qualities of time based media, the studio produces innovative installations, projects and workshops that employ a range of projection, shadow puppetry and animation techniques.
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The Project 
Alkemie inc. - Interactive Installation  
Gray Centre - University of Chicago - 2013

The Project is an experimental Alternate Reality Game that combines transmedia storytelling, performative role-playing, and live gameplay dimensions. The game will unfold both online and through site-specific events in Chicago.  It will run from April 1-25, 2013. Over the course of these three and a half weeks, visitors will explore what at first appear to be three unrelated conspiracy groups. 


A collective of players will encounter a series of initiation and play events that tell a story through challenging games, audiovisual media, responsive environments, and interactions with characters. All of the events will be related to an undertaking known only as "The Project."

In the course of participating in an installation, watching a performance, solving a puzzle, or orienting themselves via web-based interaction, visitors discover a deeper myth that connects these installations to another world and strange phenomena called the Sandbox and the Anomal. Only the observant and curious will find the conspiracies and make sense of The Project.

The Project culminates on Thursday April 25th in an installation gaming event from 7:30 - 9 pm in the Courtyard, 014 and Performance Penthouse of the Logan Center for the Arts. 

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Gray Center - University of Chicago / alternate-reality-a-pervasive-play-project

Nuit Blanche 
Alkemic study #1 / Les persiennes et les sortilèges
March  2, 2013

Someone's behind those Venetian blinds.  A finger slips over an edge and pulls them down. Two fingers, four. A pair of lips mouth your name. Then eyes appear from a darkened room, seeking to connect with those on the other side. Who is it?  And how does he or she know you, standing at the window, if she's only a ghost of a ghost. A seductive, beguiling interactive work veiling and unveiling perceptions. 

Who is the seer, and who or what the seen?  Come to the Goethe Institute / La Nuit blanche, when *Alkemie animates the windows with responsive video-performers haunting video-persiennes.


Goethe Institute - Suite 100
1626 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montréal, QC  
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Alexander Wang - Fashion Night out 
New York - Alkemie 
Interactive Installation -2011

The three windows of the store were covered with framed screens of layered white and black projection material. A small camera was mounted on the centre screen focused on the activity outside. Three 20K lumen projectors were mounted on pillars inside the store and focused onto the screens in the windows. As people moved outside, their movement would created openings in the screen revealing electronically altered images of what was happening inside the store or  time shifted reflections of themselves .

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WunderKammer  Alkemie - in  process - 

It is a particular kind of time machine that travels from place to place, carrying doppelgangers, imprints, palimpsests, and ghosts of the people it meets. The WunderKammer is designed to serve as an apparatus within which we can explore some of the same themes of multiple senses of time, elastic and poetic modulations of people’s senses of rhythm, repetition, and corporeal memory, integrating five years of the Topological Media Lab’s media techniques and theatrical methods in the format of a miniature portable theatre.

The installation stands about 60 x 150 x 45 centimeters high, about the size of an old steamer trunk.  It refracts the geometries and materials of the age of iron and crystal, and combines the mechanical tropes of Victorian science, 19c theatre techniques (such as Pepper’s Ghost 
superposition) with 21c live computational video and sound processing.  Upon approach, you see a miniature stage in an ornate box made of crystal, wood, and metal.  You see yourself projected inside the WunderKammer stage, in a mixture of real and projected objects, present people 
and historical personages, material and immaterial textures, all in concerted movement. Unlike its mechanical forebears, the action in this responsive time crucible changes according to a specific composition as well as the contingent movement of the visitors. 
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