Exposition 60 ans Vidéotron

We were mandated to develop three installations for an exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Videotron. The temporary exhibition took place in the exhibition room of the Québécor head office.

The first installation used a very affordable microcomputer to loop video playback into an old television screen with RCA output. Like in the good old days 🙂

The second interactive consisted of a microcomputer connected to an audio amplifier that we installed in an old roller telephone. Each time someone picks up the handset, a different audio track plays. The audio tracks highlighted interview sequences with André Chagnon, the founder of Videotron.

The third and final interactive was an old computer keyboard that was used as an audio sequencer. The 26 letters of the keyboard each represented a vintage sound of the technologies of the time. For example: sounds of clicks, Windows starting, errors or even the famous sound of the internet modem using the telephone line. When one of the sounds was triggered, it was positioned in the sound sequence which played in a loop. On the screen, we saw the timeline moving forward. Everything was powered by an application deployed autonomously on a microcomputer.

We are proud to have participated in this fun exhibition which took us back to the 1990s and which reminds us of the path taken by this emblematic Quebec company.