Marie LeBlanc Flanagan

Email: hello@marieflanagan.com | Website: marieflanagan.com

Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan is an artist working in the spaces between people, especially those related to expression, connection, and community. Marie’s tools are fluid and have included experimental gameplay, virtual and augmented reality, open-source data, bio-signals, smell art, computer vision, machine learning, and above all, cooperative/collaborative systems. Marie is currently working online, building connective experimental spaces for people in isolation.

GROUP Exhibitions

2025 Pique (Ottawa, Canada)
2022 Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) (Montreal, Canada)
2021 Soft Sanctuary
2020 A MAZE. Berlin (Online)
2020 Living Arts (Mississauga, Canada)
2020 Hand Eye Ball (Toronto, Canada)
2019 No Quarter Exhibition (New York)
2018 Winter Play (San Francisco, USA)
2018 A MAZE. (Berlin, Germany)
2017 $Bash (London, UK)
2017 A MAZE. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2017 Arcadia (Dundee, Scotland)
2017 IXDS (Munich, Germany)
2017 Transmediale Vorspiele (Germany)
2016 Beta Public (London, UK)
2016 Plan - B (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
2016 PLAY (Hamburg, Germany)
2016 Incubate (Tilburg, Netherlands)
2016 A MAZE. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2016 Beta Public (London, England)
2016 PLAY (Hamburg, Germany)

SOLO Commissions

2022 Tender Circuits (Web) - Exploring artist works through the concept of connection and fungal intelligence.
2022 ComeWithMe (Installation) - Interactive digital art piece exploring connection and the spaces between people.
2021 Soft Sanctuary (Web) - Peacefully connecting space Proyecto Bios & Canadian Embassy.
2020 Throne room (Web) - Collaborative online bathroom graffiti at A MAZE.
2019 Follow (Installation) - Two-person cooperative installation at NYU.
2018 Common (Installation) - City-wide online and offline cooperative installation at CAFKA.

Collaborations

2024 Monahan (Web) - Meditative sound piece and narrative experience, inspired by the Monahan wetlands.
2023 Grow Still (Installation) – A game-poem with Heather Kelley.
2022 What Brings You In (Web) - Experience Design for Leslie Ting.
2021 GAIA Symposium – An international think tank for the game arts community.
2021 Mummer's Journey (Web) - Musical Web experience.
2020 Mood Ring (Web) - Musical web installation with Debaser.
2020 Special Guest (Web, Performance) - Playful guests to improve online meetings.
2020 Neighbourbot (Web) - Temporary connections with neighbors at online events.
2018 Dream Room (Installation) - Peaceful space for connecting & grounding with others.

Solo WORK

2024 Loser Lane (Web) - Protest game for Toronto bike lanes.
2023 Montreal Cultural Calendar (Web) – Started a group and calendar to foster community.
2021 Friend news (Web) - A simple friends-only social media platform.
2020 Sound Games (Web) - Collection of playful connections to sound for Drone Day.
2019 Emergency Exhibition Care (Performance) - Rogue acts of care at ITP.
2016 Closer (Installation) - Physically cooperative game for two players.

Residencies

2024 Satosphère (second residency)
2024 SAT Residency
2023 Entertainment Technology Center (Carnegie Mellon University)
2022 SAT Metalab Artist Residency
2020 Softie Feelies Online Artist Residency
2019 NYU Game Center Artist in Residence
2019 LIVE Lab Artist Residency
2018 TAG Concordia Artist Residency

Juries/Committees

2019-2023 - Eastern Bloc Programming Committee
2019 The Bit Awards
2015-2020 Polaris Music Prize
2017 Northern Game Design

Boards

2015-2022 Inter Arts Matrix
2015-2016 NUMUS - New Music Now

Founded

2023 Toronto Games Week - A celebration of playable arts and culture organized with local games enthusiasts, community organizers, and Jim Munroe (co-founded).
2021-21 Imaginary Residency - An open-source collaborative artist residency (co-founded).
2018-21 A Kind of Play - Creating, teaching & connecting with play.
2015-21 Drone Day - Annual celebration of drone and ambient sounds around the world.
2012-21 Wyrd Arts/Weird Canada - National arts nonprofit celebrating experimental music, zines, and art.