MATTHEW BIEDERMAN & ALAIN THIBAULT

L.E.V Matadero presents Incertitude, an audiovisual research created by Matthew Biederman and Alain Thibault. The work invites us to reflect on the tensions between trust and uncertainty, between sound and image, between algorithmic order and the beauty of chance.

In Incertitude, Biederman and Thibault fuse analog material with digital control to offer a synesthetic experience. The image is sculpted in real-time by algorithms that dialogue with synthetic and repetitive music, evoking the hypnotic minimalisms of a Philip Glass distorted by grainy layers of sound. This algorithmic structure gives way to an aesthetic that explores the materiality of the pixel and the sound grain in a narrative that alternates between musical and purely textural states.

The performance reveals the technical complexity that underlies its creation: digital systems can only function in conjunction with conventional computers, and it is in this hybridization that the work achieves its most outstanding expressive richness. As an aesthetic and sound research that never renounces experimentation, it is an immersion in expanded cinema and in repetition as a tool to transform the perceptual experience.

Matthew Biederman has been working at the intersection of light, space, and sound since 1990, exploring the complexities of perception through projects exhibited at events and venues such as the Biennale de Lyon, the Tokyo Museum of Photography, Ars Electronica, and the Biennale of Digital Art (CA). As co-founder of the Arctic Perspective initiative, together with Marko Peljhan, he has developed artistic and scientific projects in remote Arctic environments.

Alain Thibault is a key creator in the digital and sound art scene, as well as the founder and artistic director of events such as ELEKTRA and the BIAN (International Biennial of Digital Art) in Montreal. His music has been presented at festivals in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and his curatorial work has been instrumental in understanding the evolution of experimental sound in recent decades.