Peter Courtemanche | Absolute Value of Noise

B I O G R A P H Y

Peter Courtemanche is a contemporary sound and installation artist from Vancouver. He creates radio, installations, network projects, performances, curatorial projects, and handmade CD editions. His art works often have a literary basis - inspired by narrative texts and the history of specific installation sites. Installation works include: "Divining for Lost Sound"(1996-99) - an outdoor interactive sound work created in collaboration with Lori Wiedenhammer; "Spark-Writing" (2004) - a sound piece that plays with ideas of fantastical musical instruments; and "Preying Insect Robots" (2006) - a set of six hand-sized robots that are active in a variety of performance and installation spaces. Network pieces include ".. devolve into II .." in collaboration with Roberto Paci Dalò (commissioned by ORF Kunstradio, 2002) - a conceptual and technological platform for collaborators to question issues of public vs private, virtuality and isolation from physical/green environments. In recent performance works (2004 - 2007), the artist uses a variety of gadgets - custom turntables, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, and VLF receivers. He recently founded Second Site collective - a group of artists creating electronic art for outdoor spaces. The first Second Site exhibition took place in July 2007 at the VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver.

(Peter Courtemanche, September 2007)

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