:: Philomène Longpré graduated with a MFA degree in Art and Technology Studies from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and completed a BFA degree specializing in Electronic Art at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Since 1999, her research has focused on the development of video systems. Her artwork juxtaposes responsive membranes, virtual characters, digital interfaces and abstract sounds to elicit new communication between visitors and their environments. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Digital Arts and Experimental Media at DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle.

Her interactive video systems have been shown at international Festivals such as Looptopia (USA, 2007), Coprecupa (Italy, 2007), BUDi (Korea, 2005), FILE (Brazil, 2004) and Nexus (Thaïland, 2004) as well as at several contemporary art galleries in Canada and the United States, such as Parisian Laundry, DX Center, Oboro, UQAM Galerie, Bervely Art Center, Galerie Sans Nom and at The Society of Art and Technology of Montreal. In 2003, the Hexagram Institute of Research decreed to her the Award of excellence in New Media. Ms. Longpré also has the distinction of being the recipient of the Judith Hamel Award in New Media, the Pinsky Medal, the Concordia Studio Arts Award, the New Millennium Scholarship, the Stanley Mills Prize Purchase, the Golden Key International Honor Society Award , and the CVM Culture Merited Award. She took part in a one-year student exchange program at the University of New Mexico, participated in a six-month granted art project in South Asia and in the program of residency AIR at the Hong Kong Art School.