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I see art as a social tool for exploring and stimulating cultural transformation. My methods of working include Interactive Wireless Installations operated by cell phones, site specific installation works, new media eco installations, Digital Portraits, miniature water colours from worldwide travels, jaw dropping androgynous oil paintings, erotic surrealist charcoal drawings, giant ants on the Cameron Art Bar in Toronto to name a few, even building props for the Pee Wee Herman TV show!

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Napoleon Brousseau collaborated as a member of Fastwurms, the Canadian Art Collective with Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse showing with the Ydessa Gallery in Toronto. In 1987 they where invited by Achille Bonito Oliva to participate in the Rezegna International Del Arte in Sicily, Italy. The ecological and politically oriented ground breaking art collective produced installations, and successful shows that garnered raving accolades in Canada, the USA, Europe and Japan at Osaka '90. The work is in the collections of The Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery and The Vancouver Art Gallery.

In 1991, I left the Fastwurms and traveled for the following years through South East Asia and Europe.

In 2001 I graduated from The Canadian Film Centres, New Media Lab where I art directed the “Swamp” prototype, a metaphorical story narrated musically, using a cell phone. The “Swamp” was presented at Siggraph in Los Angeles 2001 where I also worked on the Panels Committee Art Directing the Digital Senses Show “Sensapalooza”.

In 2006, I Directed Emmersive Gallery, with it’s mandate in exploring and presenting exclusively New Media Art. In 2007 I was Artistic Director and coordinator of “The Josh Lederman Art House” which was a one-night event each month event presenting a broad range of talent within thesame space, bringing a mix of new media, art performance, and conventional wall art.

In 2005 I founded the SEED Collective with generous support of the CFC Media Lab , and formed a triad with programmers Gabe Sawhney, Galen Scorer developed an interactive, cell phone driven art work that enables individuals to participate in local urban reforestation initiatives through the creation of virtual trees. Each virtual tree is them matched in dollars by sponsors with the money donated to local volunteer organizations for the planting and maintenance of real trees. Seed has been presented in Australia, China, Canada and the USA in the last six years. In 2007 Seed help raise money to replant trees lost during Hurricane Katrina.

Today my interests are in further development of my conceptual landscape installations and augmented reality projects with the A.R.T. Collective. (Augmented Reality Toronto).