Baron Lanteigne is a Canadian multimedia artist who hijacks digital technologies to reveal their materiality and potential. His audiovisual performance, ‘hard data / soft bodies’, explores the ambiguity between the body and technology, between human memory and synthetic recollection, in an inherently generative and open-ended system of performance.
Within the performance, Lanteigne’s body becomes, through gestural interfaces, a method of communicating with floating biological fragments and digitally reified residues: disjointed bones and distorted data streams twisting together in unpredictable, uncertain choreography. Specifically reinvented for the huge projection surface of CAMP Praha, ‘hard data / soft bodies’ opens Lunchmeat Festival 2025 by interrogating the boundary line between the human and the machine.
The presentation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Co-presented by MUTEK Montreal
