iPak - 10.000 songs, 10.000 images, 10.000 abuses

Bio Martine Koutnouyan was born in Lyon, France in 1954. After immigrating to Montreal in 1977, she began organizing live art events and thus became involved in the local art scene. She also directed an art gallery in Old Montreal. Partner to Joseph Lefèvre for many years, she has produced most of her recent work in collaboration with him. Since her beginning in the world of VJing with the band Wetfish at the SAT in 2001, VJ Liberty, fueled by her new-found passion for projecting images in real time, has performed on many more occasions both at home in Quebec and internationally. Some of the major events of her career include: PixelAche with Swedish musician Andreas Tilliander; Péchés capitaux/7 for the FCMM (Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media); Dancing with DJ Ram and Martin Tétreault; Nuit ÉlectroniK for Mutek; Technopera - Turandot, in collaboration with the SAT and the Opera of Montreal; Nouvelles Images in Mexico with Éloi Brunelle; NextArt for the Florida Film Festival in Orlando; Art Futura in Barcelona; Viva Chizé; the "Biennale d'art contemporain" (Biennial of Comtemporary Arts) in France; and more recently, Technopera - The Turn of The Screw. Her style is very dynamic and she easily adapts to various music genres. She centers her work around specific ideas and uses video loops composed of original and borrowed material to embroider on their themes. She creates abstract textures that are all movement and then fades them in with more concrete images. She prepares her clips long before any performance but her strength lies in her ability to awaken them into rhythms that bring the music to life.