Gisèle Trudel
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Gisèle Trudel is an artist. She works under the name Ælab since 1996, an artistic research unit co-founded with sound artist Stéphane Claude. Ælab’s commitment to collaboration and creative dissemination are ways of thinking and doing that try to bridge different fields of inquiry. Their process-oriented investigations creatively engage art and technology, intertwined with philosophy. Dr. Trudel is a full professor at UQAM’s École des arts visuels et médiatiques, where she has been teaching since 2003 and a research member of Hexagram since 2004. She and teams of students and professionals pilot MÉDIANE, the Canada Research Chair in Arts, Ecotechnologies of Practice and Climate Change (2020-2025).
Image credit: Lisa Graves.