Gisèle Trudel is a media artist who, together with Stéphane Claude, founded Ælab. She is Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and member of Hexagram, Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. She also worked as a freelance video editor, digital compositing artist, website designer, and was acting as Coordinator of the new media lab of OBORO (97-01), as well workshop instructor at Group Intervention Video. She is very active in the national and provincial network of artist-run centres and has been invited for presentations, artist talks, exhibitions and screenings in universities, galleries and various events internationally.