Philippe Vandal

Philippe is a new media artist based in Montreal. He is a student member of Concordia University’s Milieux Institute, the Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality, Hexagram, Speculative Life Biolab, and of the Topological Media Lab. At the intersection of technological, ecological, and artistic preoccupations, Philippe’s work bridges bio-inspired critical design, environmental chemistry, and site-specific tangible media interventions.

Philippe has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia Cyber Arts and a Masters of Arts in the Individualized Program (funded by SSHRC and FRQSC 2022-2024) from the Concordia University titled Spectral Narratives: Art-Science Objects Unveiling Scientific Protocols for Detecting Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Urban Soils in Montreal. He used to be part of the Speculative Life's Cluster at Concordia's Milieux, for which he has been nominated an Undergraduate Fellow for 2020-2021, and a member of the Hexagram Network (UQAM). His work has been featured at Milieux Institute (2023), Eastern Bloc (2017, 2022), during the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2020:What is Sentience?), Concordia’s VAV Gallery (2019), Art Mûr (2019), and collaborated for an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (2021), Ars Electronica (2021), and Montreal's Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium (2022).