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BIOGRAPHY
France Jobin aka i8u (b. 1958) is a sound / installation / web artist residing in
Montreal, Canada. i8u’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”. It reveals
powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet.
Her installation/web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both
musical and visual elements.
i8u has created solo recordings for bake/staalplaat (Amsterdam), oral (Montreal), as
well as many collaborations notably with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian,
Bernhard Gal and Tomas Phillips. She has produced compilations tracks for ATAK
(Japan), bremsstrahlung (USA), Mutek (Canada) and Extract,Portraits of
Soundartists (book + 2 cd) on the label nonvisualobjects (Austria).
She has participated in various music and new technology festivals Canada, Europe
and the United States such as such as Silophone (Montréal, 2000), Mutek (Montréal,
2001, 2004, 2005,2007, 2008), Le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
(2002), Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam, 2002), SEND + RECEIVE (Winnipeg, 2003,
2005), Les Digitales (Bruxelles, 2004 ), Club Transmediale (Berlin, 2004), V’elak
(Vienna, 2008) as well as a soundtrack by Bubblyfish and i8u for the movie
Swordswoman of Huangjiang / Huangjiang Nuxia presented at the Film Society of
Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater Festival : Heroic Grace : The Chinese Martial
Arts Film.
She is currently collaborating closely with New York visual artist CHiKA. They have
presented “Infinity”, an audio/video piece at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in
the context of: the Hammer presents Restless Brilliance. A screening was showed
at the San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall as part of LISTEN/VISION series, both
events were curated by VOLUME. A façade projection also showcased this work at
the MenschMeerMedien in Nordwolle, Germany.
i8u’s web work/installations have been shown at Musée national des beaux-arts du
Québec, Toronto’s Images independent film festival and at MIVEAM 06.
Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new
environments.
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