Marc Audette is an artist, educator, and curator. He earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Université du Québec en Outaouais and a Master of Visual Arts from York University. Curator of exhibitions at the Glendon Gallery from 2001 to 2014, he is a founding member of the Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones (AGAVF). He is also an active participant in the genesis and creation of the Toronto Art Lab, an organization that supports creation, production, and innovation in the media arts sector. In addition, he has served on numerous boards of directors and advisory committees.
Classical techniques for representing the world quickly transformed and multiplied in the digital age. Since the mid-1980s, Marc Audette has been interested in how collective digital innovations shape the ways we see. These software-enabled conventions largely go unnoticed. They reconstruct our gaze, our imagination, and our understanding of reality and its effects.
The artist harnesses and explores conventions and technological characteristics, defining both the limits and the possibilities of the image. Through videos, photo projections, backlit photographs, and still images with video overlays, he restages the fundamental processes of visualization, imagination, and communication, creating magic and incongruity. The relationship to binary code, the backdrop of the landscape currently formed by media and images, is more difficult to discern. The dynamic, sumptuous interplay of colour, dramatic components, and light creates countless narrative possibilities that engage our senses and our capacities for learning and seeing.