“Ice” is a collaboration between physicist Stephen Morris and artists Jimmie LeBlanc and Fareena Chanda, exploring the formation of icicles. In this project, projections, live performance and music show the constantly changing state of ice, and turn its formation into an event that can be perceived multisensorially, rather than just visually. Beyond the poetry and the aesthetics evoked by this project, one is wondering whether similar practices hold the potential offer new ways to observe, perceive and understand natural phenomena.

Biographies

Jimmie LeBlanc is a composer and guitarist. He completed his doctorate at McGill University Schulich School of Music, honing his skills under the guidance of such composers as Brian Ferneyhough, Michaël Lévinas, and Philippe Leroux. His music has been played by Ensemble Contrechamps, Esprit Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, Pentaèdre, Trio Fibonacci, Les Enfants Terribles, Hwaum Chamber Ensemble, Kore Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal and Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM).

Fareena Chanda is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher who uses a process-based inquiry to explore themes of self-knowledge through time-based media and installation-art practices. Her work incorporates materiality, hapticity and spatiality to create immersive and embodied experiences. Fareena holds a BFA in photography from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) and an interdisciplinary MFA from OCAD University (Toronto, Canada).

Stephen Morris is J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics at the University of Toronto. He specializes in doing experiments with emergent nonlinear patterns in fluids, granular materials and geomorphological systems.