i8u
France Jobin aka i8u (b. 1958) is a sound / installation / web artist residing in Montreal, Canada. i8u’s audio art can be qualified as
"sound-sculpture". It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web
art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements.
I8u has created solo recordings for (bake/staalplaat Amsterdam) (piehead Toronto) (oral Montreal) as well as collaborative works
with Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and Tomas Phillips. She has been included in compilations on ATAK (Japan), bremsstrahlung
(USA) and Mutek (Canada).
She has participated in various music and new technology festivals across Canada, Europe and the US, such as Silophone
(Montréal, 2000), Mutek (Montréal, 2001, 2004, 2005), Le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Ver Uit de Maat
(Rotterdam, 2002), SEND + RECEIVE (Winnipeg, 2003, 2005), Les Digitales (Bruxelles, 2004 )Club Transmediale (Berlin, 2004) as
well as a soundtrack by Bubblyfish and I8U for the movie Swordswoman of Huangjiang / Huangjiang Nuxia presented at the Film
Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater Festival : Heroic Grace : The Chinese Martial Arts Film.
i8u’s web work and installations have been shown at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Toronto’s Images independent film
festival and at the Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique 06.
Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.
tomas phillips
Tomas Phillips has composed electronic and electro-acoustic music since his first solo contribution to the Shadow Tape
compilation in 1994. He has since released limited edition cd-r’s under the names Sea Optic, Lisbon and Eto Ami (in collaboration
with Dean King). In 2002, Eto Ami created the sound design for choreographer Steve Paxton’s Flat, under the direction of Julee
Snyder, in Carborro N.C. 2003 saw the release of Tomas’ On Dit on Trente Oiseaux. Selected performances: the Feather Net
gallery in Raleigh, N.C. (2002), the Société Des Arts Technologique in Montreal, Quebec (2003), the Monument National in
Montreal to accompany the 2003 production of Sarah Kane’s Crave (with J. Winston Phillips), an Eto Ami playback presentation at
the Overgaden Sound Art Festival in Copenhagen (2004), a Technopera, in conjunction with Tobias C. van Veen and the McGill
University Opera Company (Montreal, 2004) and the Placard Headphones Festival (Montreal 2005). Current and future projects
include collaborative releases with Tobias c. van Veen (If Not, Winter, and/OAR 2005), Chantale Laplante (Chair Bell Floor 2006),
i8u (Anther, Petite Sono 2006) and Dean King (À Travers le Bord 2006).