Willy Le Maitre › CV
Currently works and lives in Toronto, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
title flight tiger compound returns, CANADA, New York
Chiral Eyes, EM Media, Calgary, Canada
dia, VIVO, Vancouver
CANADA, New York
Interaccess Electronic Arts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Kitchen, NYC
Interaccess Electronic Arts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Strike Three Gallery, Peterborough, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions, Festivals, and Screenings
The Thick Stream, CANADA, New York, NY
[I]n the image of..., SVA Curatorial Studies Masters Program Thesis show, curated by Michele Thursz, New York, NY
Art Basel, Miami
Frieze, New York
Edgy Media, University of Windsor Art Gallery / Detroit CSS
Are We In Sync? SVA Curatorial Studies, New York, NY
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, New Media Scotland,
Hannah Maclure Centre, Dundee, Scotland
Call and Response, Jacksonville Moca, FL
Frieze London
Feedback: McLuhan and the Toronto School, Gallerie West Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands
VRTO exhibition and conference, Ryerson University, Toronto
TIFF Cinematheque, survey screening, Toronto, ON
Hannah Maclure Centre at Abertay University, Dundee, U.K
Frieze London
Art Los Angelles Contemporary
Frieze London
Dallas Art Fair
CANADA, New York
Idea Gallery, Ontario Science Center
Occam’s Razor, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada
Nada Art Fair, CANADA, Miami
Screening at Land/Slide, Possible Futures, Markham Museum
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto International Stereo Conference
Pleasure Dome, New Toronto International Stereo Conference
Art Cologne, CANADA, Cologne, Germany
Dallas Art Fair, CANADA, Dallas, Texas
Nada Art Fair, CANADA, Miami
She Dreams in Code - performances at Jacobs Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts
Screening of Stereo - 3D video works, presented by Janine, Marchessault at the Havana School of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
She Dreams in Code - performances at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City
Eclectic Electrics - Outlook Express -stereographic installation, Meaford Ontario
Interactive Futures Festival, ECCAD, Vancouver
In-Site Toronto , commissioned works exhibited on-line
'I see Uranus’, CANADA, New York City
Bitforms, New York City
Cino'matic Perception- The New Museum, New York City
Art Center of Troy, Troy, New York State
'Le Mois Multi', Quebec City, Canada, February
'Transmedia 2000' - outdoor video billboard, Toronto
'Sound Foundations" - Bard College Museum, New York State
Mitsui Video Wall - Rockefeller Center, NYC
'Rencontres de Musique Actuelle', Montreal, Canada
'New Work of Ontario' - The Cinemateque of Ontario
'The Edge '97', Artscourt, Ottawa, Canada
'Body Electric Festival of Electronic Arts', Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Performances
Edia – stereographic meta planetarium cinema presented with spoken narration, Electric Fields, Art Engine, Ottawa
Vivo Media Arts Center, Vancouver
Infringement Festival, Hallalls, Buffalo NY
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Roulette, NYC , 2002: improvised video and music performance system with Eric Rosenzveig, Rachid Bakr and Ellen Cristie
FIMAV '96 (Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville), Victoriaville, Quebec, May, 1996 same ensemble as above without poets
ICMC '95 (International Computer Music Conference), keynote event, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, Sept.
Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Meduse, Quebec City, Qc., Canada
SEA '95 (International Symposium Of Electronic Artists ), Montreal, Canada
Beat The Competion, performance with professional boxers
Donovan Lee Horse, Scnezin Seclik, trainer Curtis Mann, Computed Art Intensive Weekend Western
Front Lodge, Vancouver, Canada
Installations, Projects and Video Records
Clear Lake Archipelago – room scale VR/ video installation – variable dimensions 2017-19
Detail Street Process - stereographic 3D video installation 6 minutes, 2015
W.E.N.S. Now - stereographic 3D video installation 19 minutes
Occupy Image - stereographic 3D video installation 13 minutes
She Dreams in Code - video set décor, in collaboration with Liz Gerring Dance Company, 50 minutes
Chiral Eyes - stereographic 3D video installation , 11 minutes
Outlook Expressed - stereographic 3D video installation , 11 minutes
World Inside.us -The Art Drug ; a multiple of the art inducing drug DRT
Edia – stereographic 3D HD video, 11 and 22 minute edits
Insights Cataract – stereographic 3D HD video, 9 minutes
Liver, Squid, Kelp - stereographic installation , 11 minutes
After The Ediacaran – stereographic 3D HD video, 6 minutes
The Two In The One - stereographic DVD, 9 minutes
The Birds of the Seen - stereographic DVD, 6 minutes
PlayListNetwork - software to facilitate the authoring of multithreaded A/V works
Diatoma - a video palindrome, projection installation
New Releases - objects and DVD's produced by the Appearance Machine
Some Of The Parts In Rooms - series of short videos, display shelf and objects
The Appearance Machine - autonomous system for media generation
Flight - public window projection
The Ecstasy Of Small Change - five channel panoramic A/V projection installation
Interplace - Betacam SP, 2 channel, 18 minutes
InterPlace - interactive, two channel video, three channel audio installation
Space Arm Program - window projection installation
Prizes and Grants
Toronto Arts Council - Media Arts Grant
CanWest fellowship at the Banff New Media Institute
Canada Council for the Arts: grant for Chiral Eyes
Canarie Canada: grant for PlayListNetwork
Canada Council for the Arts: New Media Artist in Residence grant, Ryerson University
Canada Arts Council: Media Arts Production Grant - 'FunTV', Spring
Experimental Television Center: Finishing Funds, Oswego, New York
Canada Council for the Arts: travel grant
Telefilm Canada prize: Images Independent Film & Video Festival, Toronto,Canada, (best film or video in Festival for installation The Appearance Machine
Vida 2.0 (Artificial Life) competition: 2nd prize and Public Choice Award-The Appearance Machine, Madrid, Spain
Ontario Arts Council: Media Arts production grant, 'The Ecstasy of Small Change', Fall of 1999
Jerome Foundation: Meet The Composer grant, Harvestworks, New York, NY
Quebec Arts Council: Media Arts production grant, The Space Arm Program
Canada Council for the Arts: Media Arts touring grant, Fleabotic Hyper Media Nonet
Canada Council for the Arts: Media Arts production grant, Fleabotics
Kreig of Magdaberg: project grant: Gallipieren Himmelfahrt
Jeaune Voluntaires: grant for painting murals
Talks
As Yet Impossible conference - Media City, Manchester, U.K.
Liminal Screen, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Canada
Artist's talk at VIVO, Vancouver
Interactive Futures, Emily Carr, Vancouver
Subtle Technologies (panel moderator) Toronto
Liminal Screen, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Canada
Liminal Screen, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Canada
FLOSS in design, V2 Rotterdam
Tools and Creators, V2 Rotterdam
Quebec-Ontario Elecronic Arts Symposium, Toronto
New Museum, NYC
Subtle Technologies Conference, Toronto, Ont.
Art ex Machina: Digital Culture and the New Media, Symposium on the Interface of Art & Technology, Carelton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ont.
Artist talk, National Center For Performing Arts, Bombay, India
Residencies
Ryerson University, Synthops Lab, Toronto, ON, 9-month research residency
Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, residency
SAW Video, Ottawa, Ont., video post production residency
Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, artist in residence
Center for Arts, Technology and the Environment; Mysore India, artist in residence
Banff Centre Of The Arts, Banff, Alberta
Bibliography
Heather, Rosemary. “Willy Le Maitre”, Border Crossings issue no.140, 2017
Gopnik, Blake. "Willy Le Maitre, Cézanne's 3D Heir?" artnet news 11 May
Macaulay, Alastair. "Toe to Spine, a Study in Precision." New York Times review of She Dreams in Code, 14 Oct 2011
Marks, Laura U. "Enfoldment and Infinity," MIT Press, 2011
Wilson, Steven. "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology," MIT press
Interview and feature in Sandbox magazine, October issue.
Lewis, Jon. "The End of Cinema as I Know It: American Film in the Nineties." NYU Press.
Marks, Laura U. Live Video, article featuring The Appearance Machine. AIVF Independent, July.
review and feature of The Appearance Machine, Globe & Mail, Toronto. May, 2000.
Shields, Rob. "Ethics of Dust," critical essay on Fleabotics, Image/Duration, Installations of the Moving Image, Gallery 101.
Wawzonek, Donna. review of Interplace, Parachute Magazine, October.