Nelly-Eve Rajotte

Nelly-Ève Rajotte is a professor at the School of Design at UQAM, where she leads the Moving Image and Sound Design research axis. A visual and media artist, her practice engages time-based media, moving image, sound, immersion and the experiential dimension of perception, explored through performance and installation. Her research-creation focuses particularly on non-human modes of landscape capture, using LiDAR, biosensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics, while examining the sensitive entanglements between technology, the body, and the environment. Her works, recognized for their immersive and monumental presence, challenge conditions of reception and open new forms of perceptual otherness. In Quebec, her projects have been presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), the Musée d’art de Joliette (MAJ), Fonderie Darling, Occurrence, Clark, Optica, and Circa. Internationally, her work has circulated in festivals and events such as MUTEK (CA, JP, MX, AR), the International Festival of Films on Art, the KIKK Festival (Belgium), Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA, Lab30 (Germany), and the International Short Film Festival of Berlin.<br>Her upcoming exhibitions include solo presentations at Contemporary Calgary (CA) and Emerson Contemporary (Boston, US) in 2026. Her works are part of several public collections, including that of Hydro-Québec.

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9min30, stéréo, Canada, 2017

Par un déplacement robotique aérien, le sublime des paysages nord canadiens est survolé par l’œil-machine en fonction du point de vue du spectateur même. Ouverture sur un cinéparc enneigé où un écran de cinéma blanc au centre du paysage invite le spectateur à se perdre à l’intérieur du point de vue (« God eye’s POV ») de la machine parcourant le paysage.

Through an aerial view offered by a drone, the sublime of Northern Canada’s landscapes is glanced upon by an eye-machine that adopts the very perspective of the spectator. The video opens on a drive-in, covered in snow, in which the white cinema screen in the middle of the field invites the spectators to lose themselves inside that God-like point-of-view offered by the machine flying over the land.