Louise Poissant, Ph.D. in philosophy, Professor at the School of visual and media arts at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), is the Director of the Group of research in media arts (GRAM) since 1989 and Director of the Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques, the CIAM. The Centre includes researchers from Concordia University, University of Montreal, McGill University and the UQAM.

Poissant has authored many books and papers in the field of the media arts published in various journals in Canada, in France and in the United States. Among others achievements, she directed the writing and the translation of a dictionary on media arts published in French at PUQ and by sections in Leonardo. The electronic version of this dictionary, available since 1997, became an encyclopaedia that includes works from artists around the world. She had also co-authored a series of 13 video documentary on media arts in collaboration with TV Ontario and TƒLUQ and she collaborated to a several artists portraits on video with the Museum of contemporary art of Montreal. Her current research themes are the new technologies applied to the field of arts of performance and the biotechnologies and arts.

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