The Panoscope is a unique immersive existence simulator apparatus which allows for a single-channel immersive 3D experiment in real-time and opens the door to an entire universe of new feelings.

Join us, and fly through space as in dreams, and you also will be able to answer the fundamental question: Where are you?

Luc Courchesne will be accompanied by Guillaume Langlois and Sébastien Roy who collaborated in the realization of the project.

Born 1952 in Quebec, Luc Courchesne studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (Bachelor of Design, 1974) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (Master of Science in Visual Studies, 1984).

His design work covers a wide range of projects in graphic, product and exhibition design. His art installation work includes Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous (1999), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001), Untitled (2002) and Where are you? (2005).

He exhibited extensively worldwide in venues such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; La Villette, Paris, the ZKM, Karlsruhe. He was awarded the Grand Prix of the ICC Biennale 1997 in Tokyo and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 1999 in Linz, Austria.

Courchesne is currently interim director of the School of Industrial Design, University of Montreal and president of the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT).