Marc Couroux
The work of intermedia artist Marc Couroux is firmly rooted in experiences developed while active as a contemporary music pianist. His early works were centred around a reformatting of the audience-performer dialectic, challenging the orthodoxies of transmission and reception within the sociopolitical confines of the public event. Couroux founded and directed Ensemble KORE (1997-2010) in Montréal with composer Michael Oesterle in order to recreate a living relationship between the composer and the listener. He has lectured on music and video art at the Dartington College of Arts (UK), Princeton University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Eastman School of Music, the University of York (England), the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), McGill University, and Concordia University. Couroux is presently Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at York University in Toronto.