Vincent Charlebois

Artist-researcher, Front End Developer and Creative Technologist

Github: tripledoublev

Email: vincent@charlebois.info

Portfolio: vincentcharlebois.net

Current position (since November 2022)

Front End Developer with Hypha Worker Co-operative
- Collaborating with communities to build better relationships with technology.

Key skills

Critical, creative & strategic thinking
Knowledge of web3 and Ethereum development tools
Decision making & prioritization
Great communicator for a variety of audiences
Solid knowledge of Accessibility standards
Open source advocate
Self-driven and motivated to learn
Curious, independent and responsive

Summary of technical skills

HTML, CSS & JavaScript
Python and Web3.py
WAGMI and Viem
Svelte.js and React.js
Bootstrap and Tailwind
Solidity Smart Contracts
Node.js
Git and pull request based workflows

Art Projects

Solo exhibition

2022 Conditions actuelles, Quai 5160, Montreal, QC

Group exhibitions

2024 Art Souterrain en collaboration avec le FIFA, Place Ville Marie, Montréal, QC
2022 Toil, and a Peaceful Life, Pumice Raft, Toronto, ON
2019 The Yard, The The The, Toronto, ON
2017 Something about Plants and Cables, Ostavinska Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 Residency, Jetrichovice, Czech Republic (organised by New Scenario)
2015 APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 of PLA, Baile, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2015 HYPERLOCAL, Sight & Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC
2015 Whether Forecasting, Modelling Current Conditions, French Restaurant, Montreal, QC
2012 pr0n, Galerie Pangée, Montreal, QC

Conferences/Workshop

2022 Environmental Data Perceptualization, ISEA2022, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Current conditions; drawing the weather, Quai 5160, Montreal, QC
2016 Data ecology, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 Creative Data : inputs & outputs, Atelier La Source du Lion, Casablanca, Morocco
2015 Art, nature et technologies, Concordia University, Montreal
2012 World Wide Web : l’art sur le net, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC Canada

Performances

2022-2023 Am I at the Studio?, Online, on-chain
2017 I did not. I did not. I do not say that, World Money Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 (TVP6000x2m)Trust me, Place Publique, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, QC
2016 NNNN, Interesting, Nadie Nunca Nada No, Madrid, Spain
2014 Le pelleteur de gravier, DARE-DARE, Montreal, QC

Residencies

2023 WILD: Season 2, online and New Orleans, USA 2017 Ostavinska Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 New Scenario, Jetrichovice, Czech Republic
2016 Theertha’s Red Dot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
2016 Sound Development City, Madrid, Espagne et Casablanca, Morocco
2014 Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Dead sea, Israel/Palestine
2013 Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico
2012 Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Anafi, Greece

Web sites

2022 postvisions 2021 décompte 2018 nodes
2017 MCCM;nodes
2016 Rhytidome
2015 if 2 words

Screenings

2024 Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal, QC
2012 Une soirée de projections, Astérides12, Marseille, France
2012 Kinoautomat, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, QC Canada

Print

2017 ETC media magazine #110
2017 Sound Development City, Publication, PDF
2015 Après tout Internet par Gregory Chatonsky, ETC media magazine #106
2014 Bosquet magazine #02

Web mentions

2023 Rhizome: Announcing Some Tumblrs!
2017 tzvetnik : New Scenario’s RESIDENCY
2016 Art Agenda: Experimental Education Protocol by Tess Edmonson
2016 About Growing Forests and Data Patterns by Uwe Lützen
2014 AQNB: An Interview With Vincent Charlebois by Eva Folks
2012 Rhizome :The Eternal Internet Brotherhood by Joanne McNeil

Web presence

Selected web projects

Am I at the studio?
- Personal web site that gets updated whenever I enter or leave the studio
- HTML, CSS, Javascript that fetches environmental data from Raspberry Pi
- Web3.py to interact with Optimism
- Ethers.js to fetch blockchain state
- Solidity Smart Contract
- Github actions
Consecutive days at the studio (on-going)
- Personal python project that generates html from my personal timecard data
- Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Github actions
Je me souviens
- Personal project for a humorous memorial to the local curfew and lockdown
- HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Built from scratch
- if ‘curfew is active’ and ‘end of curfew is unknown’, display ‘time since curfew started’.
  if ‘curfew is active’ and ‘end of curfew is known’, display ‘time left until the end of the curfew’.
  if ‘curfew is over’, display ‘time since the curfew was lifted’.

Additional Skills

Blockchain experience:
- DAOs
  - DAO Member and contributor
  - Kernel block 5 fellow
- Timesheet:
  - Wrote my own Solidity Smart Contract
  - Python interface with Web3.py
  - Front-end web app with Ethers.js
- NFTs
  - HTML, CSS, Javascript, SVG and other interactive NFTs
Generative and AI systems
- Stylegan
- VQGAN-Clip
- Different diffusion models
Raspberry pi, node-red and environmental data sensing
- Enviro board by Pimonori
- A node-red web app to fetch weather data from my cloud-connected weather station
Digital Fabrication
- 3d printing
- Rapid prototyping
- 3d scanning and photogrammetry
Max/MSP & Jitter
Rhinoceros/ Grasshopper
Kirby, Wordpress and Drupal CMS
Audiovisual editing and processing
Adobe, Microsoft and Google suite

Previous positions

2021 - 2022 Web Specialist and Multimedia Coordinator with the Digital Initiatives at the McGill University Library
2019 - 2020 Production & Operations Manager at Fablab inc, a 3d printing start-up
2012 - 2018 Project manager for Reforestation projects with multiple Canadian Silviculture companies

Education

2019 Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
2012 BFA Intermedia & Cyber arts
Concordia University
2006 College diploma in Communications and Media Studies
Cégep du Vieux-Montréal