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Artiste visuel eric lafond

BIOGRAPHIE

Eric Lafond is a multidisciplinary artist born in Montreal in 1977.

He studied studio arts at Cégep du Vieux Montreal where he learned the techniques of painting, clay modelling, observatory drawing, as well as plaster, stone, wood and metal sculpting.

He later follow a formation at Université du Québec à Montréal ( UQAM ) where he showed interest in ceramic, film photography and video art.

From a young age the artist showed interest in modern technologies which he now use for its audio and graphic design series yet find traditional disciplines an escape to balance from a world that is becoming more and more virtual and disconnected from our physical realities. He use traditional disciplines to ground himself from the metaverse yet find a creative exploration and immersion in it.

Valuing freedom, he is a longtime member of the open source technological community and prefer to use open source technologies in is art as well as in other aspect of his life over proprietary ones.

The artist have an innate love for nature and the element of water. He enjoy kayaking, canoeing, surfing and snorkelling and find inspiration in natural environment which he prefer to overly large metropolis that are becoming more and more dense.

Current practice

His current practice involve making series which involve something that is similar in each unit yet slightly different from one another with the odd one that sometimes creeps in. It is a reflection on societies and its systems where most of the units of a system are similar yet each have there own uniqueness yet the black sheep is often found in a group in which barely belong where he sees himself has.

Every piece of art is made by the artist himself (no artificial intelligence nor automated process are used during the creation process).

Every bit of software used for the creation of the artwork is open source. The artist use a computer that only contain hardware built by manufacturers who support open source software and operate on Parabola Linux, an Arch Linux based operating system that is custom built by the artist that do not contain any proprietary drivers nor packages. Every piece of software used in the full creation process is free and open source.

Recently, the artist started releasing some of its graphical art as NFT (Non-fungible token) but still find comfort in the practice of hand drawing and painting.

The artist is currently working on “The Blue Dolphin Project”.

The project consist of the creation of a série of 1000 different variations of the “Blue Dolphin” graphic artwork that will be released one by one over non determined amount of time.

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