Luc Courchesne

	Luc Courchesne University of Montreal/Society for Arts and Technology Professor, Artist, Designer   Born 1952 in Québec. Luc Courchesne studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (Bachelor of Design, 1974) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (Master of Science in Visual Studies, 1984). His design work covers a wide range of projects in graphic, product, exhibition, interactive and experience design. His art installation work includes interactive and immersive installations such as Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous (1999), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001), Untitled (2002), Where are you? (2005-2009). He holds patents for the Panoscope360, a single channel immersive projection system developped in the course of his art and design projects. He exhibited extensively worldwide in venues such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; La Villette, Paris; the ZKM, Karlsruhe; Kiasma, Helsinki; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prix of the ICC Biennale 1997 in Tokyo and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 1999 in Linz, Austria, and Two awards for the Federation Informatique du Québec for his achievements in immersive projection technologies. Courchesne is professor at the University of Montreal where, during his tenure as director of the School of industrial design, he oversaw the creation of a graduate program in game design. He also sits on the board of the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) [www.sat.qc.ca], and of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec [www.calq.gouv.qc.ca].   http://www.umontreal.ca