Michael Bussiere
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Michael Bussière is a multimedia artist specializing in computer music.
[edit] Career
Bussière has been making computer music and multi-media since the early 1980s when he shared the stage of Toronto’s Dumaurier Theatre Centre with Australian performance artist Stelarc. A graduate of the Royal Conservatory, the University of Toronto, and the State University of New York, Bussière received two national gold prizes in composition in 1987 awarded by SOCAN.
In recent years, Bussière has turned his attention to the development of interactive installations that expand current notions of computer music as a performance form. One such work is the VIP; an interactive computer music sculpture commissioned for the Festival Plaza in front of Ottawa City Hall.
Bussière is an adjunct professor to the Centre for Immersive Media Studies, School of Architecture, Carleton University. He founded SDI Inc. to conduct experiments in interactive art, and to investigate the creative possibilities of performance-based broadband content. SDI has collaborated with numerous government, academic and private partners to create content for CA*net4. He has presented this work at academic conferences from Singapore to the UK. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D with Roy Ascott's Planetary Collegium.
[edit] Awards
Bussière’s works have been commissioned and presented by such prestigious venues as the Summit of the Americas, Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, Bourges (France) Festival, Video Roma, The Banff Festival of the Arts, Music Toronto, the Dumaurier Theatre Centre, the Canada Dance Festival at the NAC, as well as nationwide on CBC Stereo and Radio-Canada.
Bussiere was a finalist in the 2000 Canadian New Media Awards.
