Public meeting : Chance in art and science

As part of La Biennale de Montréal 2011, a public meeting will take place at Cinéma du Parc, 3 pm, May 1, during which the artist Jean Dupuy, Professor François-Joseph Lapointe and author Pierre Saurisse will chair a discussion on "chance in art and science."

Born in 1925, Jean Dupuy is a French artist who began his career as an abstract painter in the 1950s, moving to New York twenty years later, and establishing a close relationship with the Fluxus movement. Since the mid-1980s, he has lived and worked near Nice, France exhibiting on numerous occasions both in France and abroad.

Francois-Joseph Lapointe is a professor in the Department of Biological Science at the University of Montreal. He has received numerous awards, including the Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and the prestigious Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Montreal in 2003. As an art researcher, he is interested in the application of scientific models to the creative process and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in art at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Lapointe is also a choreographer, through which he displays the same willingness to blend art and science, creating works that have sought to bring together molecular biology and contemporary dance.

Pierre Saurisse is both an art critic and historian. In 2001 he completed a doctorate in France and currently lectures in contemporary art at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London. He is associated with the research group "Art History and Criticism at the University of Rennes, France and in 2007 published a book on chance in European and American art of the 1960s, "The mechanics of the unpredictable. Art and the random around 1960 " (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2007). His work seeks to emphasise the importance of chance and the random in the creative process.

Sunday 1 May from 15h
at Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Parc Ave.
Free admission