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Canadian artist, musician and professor (born 1959)
Bill Vorn
Born Yves Bilodeau
1959 (age 64–65)Nationality Canadian Occupation(s) Artist, musician, professor Years active 1981- Known for Robotic art,
Rational Youth
Bill Vorn (born 1959) is a Canadian artist, musician and professor known for his robotic artworks.
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[2] Vorn was also a member of the band
Rational Youth from 1981 to 1983.
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Vorn was born Yves Bilodeau
[4]
[5] in 1959 in Montreal, Quebec.
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In 1981, Vorn was a founding member of the Montreal electronic music group Rational Youth.
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[7] The group is considered to be one of the first electronic music groups in Canada.
[8] Vorn left the band at the beginning of 1983
[9] to complete a
Master's degree and
PhD in
communication studies at the
Université du Québec à Montréal .
[10]
Vorn is a full professor in the studio art department of
Concordia University .
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Since 1992,
[12]
[13] Vorn has worked in the area of robotic artworks and installations that employ artificial intelligence.
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[14]
[15] He has created numerous works in collaboration with Louis-Phillippe Demers.
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[18] These robotic artworks have been widely exhibited internationally, in both installation and performance contexts.
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Inferno (2015) is a robotic installation that where performers don harnesses that control their arms in synchronization with music and light.
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In 1996, Vorn received an award of distinction at
Prix Ars Electronica .
In 1998 he received the Leprecon Award for Interactivity, and in 1999 Vorn received the Life 2.0 award for his robotic artworks.
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For his work Inferno with Louis-Phillippe Demers,
[22] he received an honorary mention at
Prix Ars Electronica in 2016.
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"Artist/Maker Name "Vorn, Bill" " . Canadian Heritage Information Network . Archived from
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c Christoph Lischka; Andrea Sick (July 2015).
Machines as Agency: Artistic Perspectives . transcript. pp. 185–.
ISBN
978-3-8394-0646-5 .
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"Rational Youth" . CBC .
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
^ Gedeon-Matusky, Julia.
"Where artists' dreams come true" . Concordia University . Archived from
the original on 1 October 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
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"Bill Vorn Biography" . Societe des Arts Technologiques . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
^ Gerfried Stocker; Christine Schöpf (1 January 1996).
Memesis . New York.
ISBN
978-3-211-82846-5 .
^ Michael Barclay; Ian A. D. Jack; Jason Schneider (2011).
Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995 . ECW Press. pp. 173–.
ISBN
978-1-55490-968-1 .
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"A Canadian minimal wave retrospective: Rational Youth's Cold War Night Life (1982)" . CKUT blog . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
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Canadian Pop Encyclopedia ,
Profile of Rational Youth
[usurped] . Retrieved 2013-01-07.
^ Marletta, Donata.
"Bill Vorn: Immersed in a world of robots, metaphors, and paradoxes" . Digicult.it . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
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"Bill Vorn" . Concordia University . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
^ Daniel Ichbiah (20 September 2005).
Robots: from science fiction to technological revolution . Harry N. Abrams.
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"Bill Vorn" . V2_NL insttitute for Unstable Media . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
^ Falk Heinrich (21 March 2014).
Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture . Routledge. pp. 110–.
ISBN
978-1-317-75518-0 .
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Decentralized Performance: An Exploration of Agent Behaviors in Metacreative Musical Systems . 2008. pp. 115–.
ISBN
978-0-549-74757-4 .
^ Todd Winkler (January 2001).
Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max . MIT Press. pp. 298–.
ISBN
978-0-262-73139-3 .
^ Chris Salter (2010).
Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance . MIT Press. pp. 295–.
ISBN
978-0-262-19588-1 .
^ Stephen Wilson (2002).
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology . MIT Press. pp.
465 –.
ISBN
978-0-262-73158-4 .
^ Luppicini, Rocci (31 October 2012).
Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society: Identity in a Technological Society . IGI Global. pp. 684–.
ISBN
978-1-4666-2212-8 .
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"Bill Vorn" . Daniel Langlois Foundation . Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
^ Dufétel, Camille.
"www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/06/02/elektra-biennale-dart-numerique-au-cur-de-lart-robotique" . Journal de Montreal . Retrieved 7 June 2016 .
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b Cloutier, Mario.
"Inferno: L'âge de la machine" . La Presse . Retrieved 7 June 2016 .
^ Weber, Jennifer.
" "Inferno" – oder die Kontrolle an Roboter abgeben" . Tele Basel . Retrieved 7 June 2016 .
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"Robot love" . The Gazette . Canada.com. Archived from
the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
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"Winners 2016" . Ars Electronica . Archived from
the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 1 June 2016 .
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