Troy David Ouellette (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Brock University's Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. As an artist/researcher specializing in Assemblage theory, technology and conceptual art. His current practice focuses on creating organizations that help creative practitioners engage in research-creation and extend the field of media art practice into the community.
Ouellette is a founding member and former Chair of the London Ontario Media Arts Association (L.O.M.A.A.) and "Principal Organizer" of the Sound Art Innovation Lab (S.A.I.L.). His practice dovetails, with interests in conceptual art, as his approach often involves investigations into how organizations (as organisms) function as platforms for social justice and studies in environmental and cultural reciprocity. In addition, Ouellette's research often extends into how culture, technology, and the environment might interact beyond anthropocentric and economic concerns.
His recent ideas regarding "Synæsthetics" is an attempt to bridge digital and sensory divides. Synæsthetic works are realized from sensory cues and extrapolated possibilities and are ideologically driven by the phenomenon of synesthesia. In contrast Synæsthetic associations are shaped by data, software algorithms, statistics, or differential inputs that drive the complexity of these inputs to a live and/or recorded output and are not necessarily expressed through biological means.
As one who has settler ancestry I acknowledge that I reside on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and is within the land protected by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum agreement. Today this gathering place is home to many First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples and acknowledging reminds us that our great standard of living is directly related to the resources and friendship of Indigenous people.
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Ouellette is a founding member and former Chair of the London Ontario Media Arts Association (L.O.M.A.A.) and "Principal Organizer" of the Sound Art Innovation Lab (S.A.I.L.). His practice dovetails, with interests in conceptual art, as his approach often involves investigations into how organizations (as organisms) function as platforms for social justice and studies in environmental and cultural reciprocity. In addition, Ouellette's research often extends into how culture, technology, and the environment might interact beyond anthropocentric and economic concerns.
His recent ideas regarding "Synæsthetics" is an attempt to bridge digital and sensory divides. Synæsthetic works are realized from sensory cues and extrapolated possibilities and are ideologically driven by the phenomenon of synesthesia. In contrast Synæsthetic associations are shaped by data, software algorithms, statistics, or differential inputs that drive the complexity of these inputs to a live and/or recorded output and are not necessarily expressed through biological means.
As one who has settler ancestry I acknowledge that I reside on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and is within the land protected by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum agreement. Today this gathering place is home to many First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples and acknowledging reminds us that our great standard of living is directly related to the resources and friendship of Indigenous people.
© 2023 | All Rights Reserved.
