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Professor Gourd's research, funded in part by the Fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'Art et la Science, VidÉographe, Fonds d Innovation Techno-pédagogique of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Hexagram deals with the development of interactive systems for new media and real-time performance, as well as the study of sound issues in a context of interactivity and use of new technologies. He is more particularly interested in the perception of music language and the phenomena of representation emerging from new practices.
Part of his current work involves a meeting of living beings and artificial automatons in the development of an art of the imagination. He is a member of the research teams of Hexagram, l'Institut de Recherche et Création en Arts et Technologies Médiatiques http://www.hexagram.org, in the VAAR laboratory, the LMI, and the Vitamin Beziehungen research collective (UQAM-Vidéographe).
Simon-Pierre Gourd has a Master's degree in interactive multimedia (communication) from UQAM, and a Bachelor s degree in music from the Université Laval. He has also done undergraduate and graduate work in electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal and in drama at UQAM. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary program for the study and practice of art at UQAM (artificial life, cybernetic performance and sound expression). He has been in residence at GRM in Paris (Groupe de Recherche Musicale), the Vancouver School for the Contemporary Arts (Simon Fraser University) and GMEM (Groupe de Musique Expériemntale de Marseille).
