Champ Libre's Mission

Since its foundation in 1992, Champ Libre has explored processes of creation and presentation which involve relationships between architecture, public space and new media arts that provoke encounters between art and the citizen. Resolutely interdisciplinary, Champ Libre is interested in electronic art as a venue for the convergence of new technologies and current practices in contemporary art. Inspired by nomadism, Champ Libre privileges the exploration of alternatives to conventional frameworks of broadcasting and of the consumption of images which influence our vision of the world as individuals and collectives.

The Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Montreal (MIVAEM) punctuates the work of Champ Libre every two years. Open to new tendencies and a plurality of expressive methods , the Manifestation takes a critical viewpoint upon current problems within the field of electronic media and arts notably technological determinism and the position of the artist as he/she faces this evolution. The Manifestation, of whose every edition embraces a noticeably different character, fascilitates an empirical development of expertise by means of collaboration and diffusion of ideas. . Champ Libre proposes to artists participating in the event a true research and creative protocol that has electronic arts, architecture and urbanism meeting within an in situ context.

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