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Christine Unger was born in Vancouver, B.C. and lives in Deux-Montagnes, Québec where she works as a visual artist and freelance researcher, and writer. Her painting is represented in Montréal by Galerie Sandra Goldie. While her undergraduate studies at the UBC were focused on history she received her MFA in 1998 from Vermont College of Norwich University (Montpelier, VT, USA). Christine’s work is increasingly directed toward interdisciplinary events in which research is a strong component. Her works tends to focus on surprising connections between historical and contemporary expressions of culture. In 2000 she began a series of collaborations with her husband, composer Michael Oesterle. They collaborated in the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal's (ECM's) Union Libre I which was presented in Quebec city and Montreal. In 2002 a second collaboration for ECM's Union Libre II was shown at Pierre Mercure Hall (Montreal). This October she and Oesterle along with video artist Frédérique St–Hilaire participated in the Montreal Biennale 2004 with a multimedia installation. In 2005 she worked with composers Andre Ristic and Oesterle to create an interactive installation for Het Muziekgebouwaan'tij in Amsterdam. She also collaborated on an arte in situ installation that was part of Fondation Derouin’s, Symposium 2005. She is currently working with Oesterle on the development of an opera with the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company as well as a book exploring visual metaphors in the history of astrophysics.
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