About
Antoine Bellemare-Pepin
Transdisciplinary artist and researcher in digital art and neuroscience
My work blends cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and digital art to study and shape creative experience. I design cyber-ecosystems to inspire new ways of perceiving, being and connecting with our environment.
- Now
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Bard College and Université de Montréal
- Collective
- Kairos Hive, research-creation instigator
- Languages
- French, English, Spanish
- Contact
- antoine.bellemare9@gmail.com
Education
5- 2024 to now Postdoctoral Fellow Bard College and Université de Montréal Creative neurofeedback and Indigenous knowledge.
- 2018 to 2024 Individualized Ph.D. Concordia University Neuroscience, digital art and AI. Computational and cognitive neuroscience of creativity.
- 2016 to 2017 Diploma in Art, Creation and Technology Université de Montréal Research-creation, digital art, electroacoustics, experimental cinema.
- 2014 to 2016 Master's in Psychology Université de Montréal Music cognition, supervised by Prof. Isabelle Peretz.
- 2010 to 2013 B.Sc. Psychology Université de Montréal
Exhibitions and performances
10- 2024 Ecotones of the Mind OHBM BrainArt Exhibit, Seoul
- 2023 NeuroAI Creative Hacknight, organiser OHBM satellite event
- 2022 to 2023 InOutSelf, neurofeedback and AI audiovisual performance COSYNE 2023, Groove & Bass Festival 2022
- 2021 Numina, audiovisual neurofeedback installation Montreal Connect
- 2019 Painting exhibition Exposant 17 at Nomad Life
- 2019 Performance with the Concordia Laptop Orchestra Festival de la Imagen, Colombia
- 2019 CoCo Brain Channel performance Montreal AI & Neuroscience Conference
- 2016, 2018 Mind Dripping, solo painting Espace Scuderi, Mont-Tremblant
- 2018 Interactive sonification of brain activity Portal Festival
- 2018 Installation for Le Printemps Numérique McCord Museum
Awards and grants
11- 2025 to 2027 CfP-05 Grant, $80,000 Abundant Intelligences
- 2024 Public Engagement Award, $2,000 Queen Mary University of London
- 2024 Honorable Mention, Ecotones of the Mind Art of Neuroscience
- 2023 Residency in Haptic Biofeedback Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology
- 2023 Research and Exploration in AI, $25,000 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
- 2023 Field School Award, $1,500 Thomson Family, Concordia
- 2021 Best Poster Award 5th HBP Student Conference
- 2020 Research-Creation DEMO Grant, $1,000 Hexagram
- 2019 to 2023 Doctoral Fellowship, $84,000
- 2019 Field School Award, $1,500 Thomson Family
- 2013 Mention of Excellence B.Sc. Psychology
Research positions
6- 2024 to now Postdoctoral researcher AgeTeQ Laboratory Sonification of biological and ecological data for art-science eco-sensitisation. Plant sociology and creative data applications.
- 2021 to 2023 Research assistant Concordia University Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE). Co-creating mini-operas.
- 2018 to 2022 Research agent E-Learning Institute for Leadership
- 2018 Technical assistant Sainte-Justine Research Center
- 2015 to 2017 Research assistant BRAMS Motion capture, ECG and respiration.
- 2015 to 2017 Research assistant CERNEC fMRI data collection.
Commissions
6- 2024 Music composer LE BEAM Soundtrack for the short film Evangéline.
- 2024 Narrative designer and AI storytelling artist City of Val-des-Sources Graphic novel for the 125th anniversary.
- 2024 Consultant in biosonification Hot Sugar Sonifying data from in-silico brains (organoids) for a new album.
- 2019 to 2023 Consultant in brain-computer interfaces La Maison de Prod Neurofeedback pipeline for the feature film VFC and an augmented reality project.
- 2018 Music co-designer Montréal Complètement Cirque
- 2017 to 2019 Music composer Seedbox Technologies Film music for series.
Press and public engagement
8- 2025 Reclaiming Creativity: Cultural Rights, AI, and the Future of Human Expression United Nations report on creativity and AI
- 2025 Why Our Brains Find Meaning in Random Patterns The Science of Happiness podcast
- 2023 AI, Creativity, and the Future of Film, neurofeedback demonstration School of Cinematic Arts, USC
- 2023 Public debate, créativité humaine et intelligence artificielle Carrefour des savoirs, Université de Montréal
- 2023 Youth science TV guest CURIUM, Radio-Canada
- 2023 Radio interview on brain music Radio-Canada
- 2018 Awakening artistic workshops Community centre, Montréal
- 2018 Youth outreach program SEUR, Université de Montréal
Teaching and workshops
5- 2023 Creativity facilitator Moment Factory Neuroscience of creativity and AI, for the creative team.
- 2021 Workshop designer Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal Creative perception and AI, for the public.
- 2018 to now Substitute teacher Commission scolaire de Montréal
- 2017 to 2018 Neurofeedback coach Alpha-Neuro
- 2014, 2019 Teaching assistant Université de Montréal Social psychology, methods in neuroscience.
Talks and posters
30 2025
- The Hidden Harmonies of the Body Harmony Workshop keynote, Mallorca oral
- Rooted connections: parallels between plant and brain networks AgeTeQ summer school, Arts, Culture, Société et Santé oral
- Allying AI, Semantics, and Cognitive Science to Study Context-Sensitive Indigenous Symbolism Abundant Intelligences AGM oral
- Sensory Flexibility in Creative Cognition: Exploring the Role of Perceptual Ambiguity Embracing Complexity poster
- Divergent Perception: A New Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Creative Cognition ASSC poster
2024
- Évaluation de l'harmonicité et de la complexité dans les états psychédéliques induits par la DMT NEUROQAM Colloque, UQAM oral
- V F C: An adaptive cinema experience powered by brain-computer interface ISEA, 29th Symposium on Electronic Art oral
- Bio-Mechanical Poet: An Immersive Audiovisual Playground for Brain Signals and Generative AI ICCC 2024 oral
- Latent Ecologies of the Mind: Harmonic Synchrony and Complexity in Human Brain Signals and Beyond International Society for Contemplative Research poster
- Latent Ecologies of the Mind Interdisciplinary College 2024 poster
- Assessing Harmonicity and Complexity in DMT-Induced Psychedelic States ASSC poster
2023
- Exploring states of consciousness through EEG harmonicity: insights from sleep recordings ASSC oral
- The Hidden Harmonies of the Body Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts oral
- Accessible and Modality-Agnostic Biofeedback Framework for Explorative Experiments Cutting Gardens Montréal oral
2022
- La créativité est-elle l'apanage des intelligences biologiques ? TimeWorld oral
- Divergent perception: Probing the neural correlates of creativity with MEG and machine learning Montreal AI & Neuroscience poster
- Divergent perception: Linking creativity with perception of ambiguous visual stimuli OHBM, ASSC, SfNC poster
2021
- VFC Project: An Adaptive BCI Cinema Experience IEEE Brain-Machine Interfacing Workshop oral
- An entropic-bidirectional BCI to foster creative auditory exploration of mental states 3rd COBS Student Symposium oral
- Creative Brain-Computer Interfaces 20e Gala Hexagram oral
- Probing the creative mind through pareidolia induced by fractal patterns 1st Canadian Consciousness Research Symposium oral
- La perception créative: l'effet de la fractalité et de la créativité sur la paréidolie 88e Congrès de l’Acfas oral
- The role of creativity and fractality in visual pareidolia 9th HBP Tea & Slides, invited oral
- Processing visual ambiguity in fractal patterns: Is pareidolia a sign of creativity 5th HBP Student Conference poster
2020
- Probing the creative mind through pareidolia induced by fractal patterns Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity oral
2019
- The use of biotic and datamoshing signals in multimodal digital filtering 18th Festival International de la Imagen oral
- Systemic ambiguity: the effect of creativity and fractal dimension on pareidolia 41st Cognitive Science Society Meeting poster
2018
- Creative Perception: Pareidolia and fractal properties 13th Scientific Day, Psychology, Université de Montréal oral
- CoCo Brain Channel: Algorithmic music composition through real-time EEG INCF Neuroinformatics, Resting State and Brain Connectivity, NeuroMusic oral
2016
- Mesurer les habiletés à percevoir et à se synchroniser à la pulsation musicale Université de Montréal, CERNEC, NeuroSymposium poster