Eva
Quintas
Photography and Media Arts
eva@agencetopo.qc.ca
After studies in literature and photography, Eva
Quintas has exhibited widely since 1990 in Quebec, Mexico and Europe
Her current work is shared between her own projects that revisit the
travel photography and her collaboration to a literary and plurimedia
photonovel, Liquidation, that she develops since 1994
with the writer Michel Lefebvre. She began working on web-based projects
in 1997, realizing the web episodes of Liquidation
and collaborating to the production of various cultural webcasts.
Coordinator of the Montreal photographers collective Fovea, she has
also founded in 1993, Agence TOPO, an art organization interested in
the convergence of photography, literature and new media. With TOPO,
she has recently directed the collective web project FiXions,
gathering 10 Montreal photographers and writers.
For ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, she has develop
the network Afrique Virtuelle/Virtual Africa, and has directed the project
Dakar Web, a series of web
creation workshops with twenty senegalese artists, in February 1999.
She
has recently participated to the event Le Festival
de l'Eau, a collective creation with 12 media art artists, along
the river Mouhoun, in Burkina Faso.
A selection of her photographic work is published on the CD-Rom Musée
Virtuel de la photographie québécoise, Production
Vox Populi, 1998, Montréal.
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Liquidation
a plurimedia photonovel
(CD-Rom, web, radio, installation)
1998-2000
Liquidation - a random photonovel : the CD-ROM
Video Lisboa-Romerias, Lisboa, April 2000
Festival Images du nouveau Monde,
Québec City, February 2000
Canadian Currents, Goethe Institute, Toronto, November 1999
III États généraux de l'écriture interactive,
Forum des images, Paris, November 1999
Festival du nouveau cinéma et des nouveaux médias de Montréal
(FCMM), October 1999 - Telefilm
Canada Award, Best Canadian Work, New Media
Liquidation - a web-audio fiction
- Radio :
Broadcasting of threee 30 minutes radio plays on the Radio-Canada
Cultural Chain simultaneously with the web presentation (January 1998)
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Projections/Events :
Cinémathèque qubcoise, Building Danse, Café
électronique, Montréal
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Exhibitions :
Festival international du film de l'internet (FIFI), Lille, France,
March 2000
Annual Conference, Independant Video and Film Alliance,
Fredericton, June 1999
European Media Art Festival (EMAF),
Onesbrck, Germany, May 1999
Biennale de Montréal, (CIAC), August-Oct.1998
Nomination to the Golden Web, Multimedia International Market
(MIM), Montréal, May 1998
Genèse et aboutissement d'une liquidation : a multimedia installation
Photographic and multimedia installation, Centre des arts actuels
SKOL, Montréal, May1998
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