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The NXI Gestatio laboratory at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), the INIT Robots laboratory at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) and Spéléo Québec, in collaboration with the borough of St-Léonard, invite citizens to Cavernautes, a unique artistic exploration of the St-Léonard cavern.
The caves, which were recently discovered and still inaccessible to the public, can be visited through Cavernautes at the Pie-XII Park pavilion until Friday, August 16 every day from 1 to 6 p.m. Access to the installation is free.
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Wanting to introduce Montrealers to this treasure hidden beneath the surface of the city for thousands of years, Nicolas Reeves, professor at the UQAM School of Design and internationally renowned artist, and David St-Onge, professor at ÉTS, robotics specialist and arts engineer, have imagined a unique and immersive experience. This “research-creation” project, a relatively recent discipline, sees art and scientific research collaborate in a symbiotic way.
Cavernautes is an artistic and technological exploration of the depths of the St-Léonard cavern that uses a flying automaton, a kind of hybrid between a drone and a dirigible, to explore these difficult to access places.
The experience combines the capture of ambient and external sounds by microphones and hydrophones, as well as the broadcasting of sound sequences by semi-submerged loudspeakers.
The sounds emitted will produce wavelets on the water which, by modulating the light diffused by lighting installed in the cavern, will create changing patterns on the walls, adding a visual dimension to the installation.
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