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source: dailytouslesjours

Considering technology as a vehicle for social change, an important part of Mouna Andraos’ work is geared towards demystifying and disseminating technology. She has led numerous workshops in places as diverse as Beirut’s Olympiades culturelles, the San José Biennale and the Nagoya Design Center.

Prior to founding Daily tous les jours, Mouna worked under the label Electronic Crafts exploring the intersection of mass-produced electronics and handmade crafts to create playful, sustainable or participatory objects. Some of her work include a giant word clock that tells the story of passing time and a portable power station that brings alternative electricity to the streets. Her work has been showcased at PS1/MoMA, Queens, as part of the 2008 YAP installation, Exit Art Gallery New York or in her first solo show at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in Montréal.

Her web-based work for Montréal interactive agency Bluesponge has won numerous international recognitions including prizes from Communication Arts, ID magazine, Webby, Best of Show at the SXSW Festival and a CyberLion in Cannes. She was also recently awarded the Phyllis Lambert Design Award along with Melissa Mongiat by the city of Montreal.

Mouna holds a Masters degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and a Bachelors degree from Concordia University. She is also an alumnus of Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City.

She is currently teaching at Concordia University and UQAM’s École de Design.
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source: yatzer

Many of us would describe technology as advancements that facilitate and better our daily lives. We define the word into the construct of objects that allow connectivity, transport and/or facilitate tasks. These objects, are for the most part, an assembly of electronic parts that work together to achieve its final product, consumption. We often rave and wonder about the final object in its exterior but often omit to understand the kit of parts. Its evolution is so rapid that by the time we grow accustomed to it, we desire to relive the cycle of consumption all over again. Mouna Andraos, a Canadian-Lebanese artist, born in Beruit and currently based in Montreal, Canada utilizes technology and electronics as a medium to create dialogue and functional objects. Her multi-disciplinary background in Film and Liberal Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and her Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University gave her the foundation to understanding the difference between a virtual and physical experience with an object. Here is an exclusive interview into Andraos’ work and the interesting relationship she has with electronic and media related technologies