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Kevin Pinvidic is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtia:ke, Mooniyang, Montreal, Unceded Kanien’keha:ka Territory. His process focuses on the experience of the city and investigates urban planning processes effects on feeling of places. First encompassing painting and drawing, Pinvidic repurposed architectural representations such as plans, models or digital softwares to transpose his own wandering in the city. During his MFA, he then pushed the idea of the whole city as his own studio, which gave shape to scenographies where residual matters and theatre elements, such as lights and projections, were assembled in site-specific works. Pinvidic now explores performative and collaborative methodologies emerging at the intersection of the fields of expanded scenography, performance studies, queer theory, computation arts, performance design, urban studies, geography, computation arts. His recent inquiries seek to develop alternative means of engaging with the built environment by the use of digital technology of 3D scanning tools and computational software, in order to explore the critical potential - both theoretical and practical - coming from the passage of the real into the digital realm. Trained in design and architecture (Ecole Boulle, Paris, 2008, National School of Architecture of Versailles, 2010), Pinvidic has then graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from UQÀM university in 2015. He is currently a Ph.D candidate at Concordia University (INDI program). Complementary to his artistic practice, Pinvidic collaborates in creation research groups (PUSLE,Performative Urbanism Lab for Spatial, Social, and Scenographic Experimentation, Dr. Shauna Janssen; Médiane, Chaire de recherche du Canada en arts, écotechnologies de pratique et changements climatiques, Dr. Gisèle Trudel; Geomedia Lab, Dr. Sebastien Caquard) and works in the field of scenography for performing arts.