Your Word in Lights is a participatory Media Performance created by Daniel H. Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc within the Fresh AIR program at Hopewell Rocks. Many of our projects focus on the environment and the passage of humans in the landscape. Your Word in Lights falls into this category. We will ask visitors to offer us one word that describes their overall impression of the site. For example, the word might represent a

Daniel H. Dugas et moi sommes très heureux de faire partie du prochain Symposium d’art/nature qui se tiendra du 22 septembre au 2 octobre 2016 à Moncton, au Parc Écologique du Millénaire. Notre projet Visible / Invisible est un dialogue entre la matérialité du monde et la matérialité de l’espace. Le Symposium d’art/nature : Moncton est une initiative du Département d’arts visuels et du Département de

Write up of the MediaPackBoard experience / involvement with the World Portable Gallery Convention, Halifax, NS.

World Portable Galleries Convention 2012 Halifax, NS A collaborative work instigated by Daniel Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc Here is a first glimpse at the project.  We will be adding to the documentation. For the WPGC we assembled a bamboo ‘fishing pole’ and hooked up a mini-spy cam to it. Valerie put on the MPB and we stepped out to explore views of the city not readily visible to passersby. We talked with other

The World Portable Gallery Convention 2012 is an international convention on portable galleries and alternative spaces hosted by Eyelevel Gallery during the month of September. The project celebrates the variety of spaces with which curators around the globe have extended public interaction with art institutions. http://www.eyelevel-gallery.tumblr.com/galleries Wednesday, September 5th Opening Reception for WPGC 2012 8pm

Daniel Dugas and I are bringing the MediaPackBoard to EyeLevel Gallery in Halifax to participate in the WPGC 2012! It’s going to be great ! More to come later, in the meantime, here is the

Soundbury Thierry Bissonnette Français Daniel Dugas et Valérie LeBlanc se sont faits chasseurs ­cueilleurs sonores lors de la foire d’art sudburoise. Ces artistes de Moncton ont déambulé parmi les activités de la FAAS 2010 afin de prélever des séquences qui formeraient Soundbury, une collection en ligne de moments audio qui livre leur vision singulière d’une période effervescente sous la forme d’une

END OF SIGNAL report for Wednesday, August 27, 2011 – THE VIEW FROM PEGGY’S COVE. Random MPB outings investigate the question of what the viewing audience will lose when the transition* takes place. This evening the MediaPackBoard set out from Halifax to catch non-satellite, non-cable television at this world famous Nova Scotia location.  Arriving and setting up at dusk, the MPB was unable to receive any coherent

In 2005, the MPB stepped out to create and to perform in public spaces.  MPB happenings continue with new experiments.  In August, MPB has been making the rounds to access television before it will be necessary to purchase a digital-to-analogue convertor box, or to subscribe to cable or satellite TV.   “Taking it out to capture analogue Television, I am surprised to see that I am getting a much better signal than I

WHERE & WHEN Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen: June 27 to July 2, 2011 1 pm until 5 pm Struts Gallery: July 4 to July 8, 2011 1 pm until 5 pm CAMEO, a research project by Valerie LeBlanc featuring interviews of creative persons. A cameo role refers to a famous person playing her/himself in a brief appearance. Like a cameo brooch a director, actor or celebrity is instantly recognizable when she/he appears in a