The concept will celebrate the Quartier Latin area with an installation whose contents will be composed entirely by texts: by data entry, by content display and by the generation of constructed and luminous typographic landscapes. On an introverted square, as much by its configuration as by the winter, a writer perched in his tower of frost, will write the winter for 70 days and 70 nights.
He will find his inspiration in the quotations that mark the history of Quebec, as well as in the murmurings of passers-by.
From this anonymous author, isolated by winter in his tower, extending the quotations towards the landscape, will be projected on the square typographical textures, illustrations composed of print.
These quotations and textures will write the story of the 70 days of winter on the Emilie Gamelin square. This virtual writer will live for 70 days in a frost studio perched above the square. His presence will be revealed by his shadow, his table and his ''winter writing machine''.
Inspired by words transmitted by visitors stopping on the various giant keywords on the square, or by the "text messages" of Montrealers (twitter, email and / or SMS), the virtual writer will draw on the wall of the lantern a quote on winter drawn from a bank of the rich literary, musical and cinematographic history of Quebec. This poet will be assisted by Michel Faubert whose pen has told many stories where winter was present.
A "winter textture" associated with the quote, will cover the grounds of the square and its setting of buildings. This luminous landscape will be a combination of graphic textures composed of characters and words and messages transmitted by the visitors.
A winter landscape will be modulated and written during the 70 days of the installation. The landscape of winter 2011-2012 will be created by linking it to the northern history of our Quebec country.
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The members of the jury underline the richness of the installation in terms of content and its poetic character. The cultural, even educational contribution of the concept appealed to the jury. The writer's house creates a strong evening presence and, in the vicinity of the large library, this virtual writer makes sense. The concept offers potential possibilities for linking its content to other events.
While the project undeniably has great aesthetic qualities at dusk, the jury notes that the daytime component of the project is rather weak and disappointing. Despite the fact that the team incorporated shadow elements, the jury questions the somewhat dull appearance of the large white cube canvas inanimate during the day.
The jury discusses the interactive component of the project at length. The team seems to have wanted to create multiple possibilities of intervention for the users. However, the jury points out that the interactive experience is too complex and non-intuitive for passers-by who will have difficulty understanding how they can intervene in the installation. This "multi-layered" technology unnecessarily diminishes the concept. Although this project is distinctive and of high quality, the jury does not recommend that the project be continued.
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