MYRIAM BLEAU & PIERCE WARNECKE The End Product
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Myriam Bleau y Pierce Warnecke return to LEV with a collaborative project that lays bare the underlying structures of how we live in the age of connectivity. The End Product is an audiovisual performance exposing our daily online experiences and our ambiguous relationship with social media. Through multiple tableaux, it explores different forms of data extractivism, from personal information and physical appearance to location, social interactions and even financial information.
Paying homage to Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman’s 1973 short video ‘Television Delivers People’, the performance The End Product reflects on how social media continues this tactic of delivering people as products to advertisers and if, perhaps, our data might be more valuable than the services we give it to, often freely and half-knowingly.
Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, her hybrid electronic practice recontextualizes pop culture elements and music history tropes through performances, audiovisual interfaces, video works and installations that articulate sound, light, movement and images. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally, in festivals such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Japan Media Arts Prize (JP), Sónar (ES, HK), MUTEK (MX, CA, AR, JP), ISEA (CA, KR), LABoral + L.E.V. (ES), Transmedia (DE), Scopitone (FR) and Cafe Oto (UK), to name a few.
Pierce Warnecke is a US multidisciplinaly digital artist at the intersection of experimental music, digital arts and video art. He has presented his work in the form of performances, concerts and installations at Rewire, Mutek, GRM, ZKM, ManiFeste (IRCAM), CTM, Elektra, KW Institut, La Biennale Nemo, Sonic Acts, Martin Gropius Bau, MAC Montreal, Gray Area SF, Scopitone, LEV Festival, Semibreve, SXSW, FILE, etc. In addition to his solo works he often collaborates with artists such as Ketih Fullerton Whitman, Frank Bretschneider o Matthew Biderman, among others.
