Valérie LaMontagne

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(1968-2019)

ISEA2020

Professor Valérie LaMontagne was a Montréal artist-designer, curator, and completed her PhD in “Performative Wearables: Bodies, Fashion and Technology” from Concordia University in the Department of Design & Computation Arts in 2018. She had just been appointed as professor of the Fashion Research and Technology research group at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) in 2018 and was about to take her post when she found out she has leukaemia, and spent a year fighting it. Valérie had just successfully won her battle with the disease in August 2019, but then deteriorated and died October 4th, 2019.

Valérie was the owner & designer of the brand 3lectromode, a wearable electronics atelier dedicated to avant-garde crafting and consulting in fashionable technologies. She was collaborating on the project “synapseWear” with Alexander Reeder from Art and Program Inc., based in Tokyo, investigating artistic uses for environmental data in wearable devices.. Lamontagne’s research focused on how emerging technologies are creating new platforms for wearable fashion.

Valérie has curated and collaborated on design and media arts exhibitions and events such as: “Fashiontech Festival,” McCord Museum, Montréal, Canada (2017); “Tech-à-porter,” MUTEK IMG, Montréal, Canada (2016); “The Future of Fashion is Now” at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2014); “TechnoSensual” at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria (2012); “Clothing Without Cloth” at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2011); “Electromode” at Vancouver Winter Olympics, Canada (2010); “Sartorial Flux” at A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, USA (2006); “Ellipse” at Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, Canada (2002); and “Location / Dislocation” at New Museum, New York, USA (2001).

ISEA2015

Valérie LaMontagne, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

ISEA2014

Valérie LaMontagne was a Montréal-based performance and digital media artist, freelance art critic and independent curator.

ISEA2011

Valérie Lamontagne was a digital media designer-artist, theorist and curator researching techno-artistic frameworks that combine human/nonhuman agencies. Looking at the rich practice of performance art, social intervention and interactive installations, she was invested in developing responsive objects (specifically wearables) and interactive media scenarios which interlope the public-at-large, the environment and matter as “performer”. She is the Founder and Director of 3lectromode, a design studio invested in developing wearables that combine D-I-Y technology with current fashion research. Her work has been showcased in festivals, galleries and museums across Canada, the United States, Central and South America and Europe. She holds a BFA and MFA in visual arts and is presently a PhD candidate at Concordia University investigating Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables, where she teaches in the Department of Design & Computation Arts.

ISEA2010

Valérie LaMontagne was a digital media artist, designer, and curator. She founded 3lectromode, a design group developing wearables combining D-I-Y technology with current fashion research. Her Ph.D. investigates “Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables”.

ISEA2009

Valérie LaMontagne, Canada.

ISEA2008

Valerie Lamontagne [1968_2019], Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

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http://valerielamontagne.com/

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Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Amsterdam, NL

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Title: Culture + Wearables Skillshare
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| Organiser/Presenter(s):
- Valérie LaMontagne
- Mika Satomi

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