Luc Grenier

Hello!
I am an interdisciplinary artist working based in Boston, MA, USA thinking about time (all the time, and at all times) using a variety of art media: 
– print and publishing – film and video – media arts – performance

Selected Work






Kourken
Kourken is a video installation and performance which uses the repetition in particular symbologies of Armenian visual culture and history as a mode of communicating a familial narrative on diaspora and continuance.

2024
հաստատակ.html
In [has.taˈtak].html, your interaction proliferates the visual signs of Armenian architecture with the same regularity in which they appear in a collected data set reflecting on memory, heritage, time, and migration.
2024
Two Essays
Two Essays is a two-channel video installation and non-narrative publication  which questions the confines of the physical space it inhabits; featuring an accompanying publication, two separate videos are synced to become one cohesive film. 


2022
Narrative as Found Object
Narrative as Found Object: Cinematic Storytelling of the Taiwanese New Wave is a research project culminating in a scholarly monograph and creative publication concerning the work of  two prominent Taiwanese directors.
2023
webgazing
This series of Risograph prints uses a JavaScript to track the movement of the artist’s gaze across a screen displaying scenes from a film. The “watching-data” accounts for where the viewer’s eye spent the most time.


2022
Co-Op Play
This artist’s book and game-set borrows its aesthetics and function from a popular party game, but with altered gameplay and winning conditions, participants are encouraged to cooperate with one another, rather than compete.


2024
Backup Copy
This packaged print-product replicates the artist’s hardrive: in a limited edition, these hyperreal simulacra make an additional copy of their referent while stripping it of its utility.
2024
Auscultation 2023-12-12 19:33:24:29
This sound performance uses the artists’ live heartbeat as a temporal device for making and distorting musical meter.
 2023
Thermochromic Pigments / Animated Sequences
This research funded by the Schwartz-Paddock Fellowship for the visual and performing arts uses thermochromic silkscreen inks–pigments which shift in hue when exposed to heat–as a means of exploring temporality in printed and animated processes.
2023
Script
Script is an interactive web-based narrative which uses basic HTML and JavaScript to explore ideas of time and place through repetitive imagery and engagement.
2023