Mineminemine are an eclectic Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 and performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

 group, working since the late 1990s in conceptual

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1999 by the three interdisciplinary artists Magali Babin

Magali Babin

Magali Babin is a musician, composer and sound artist based primarily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Active since the mid-1980s, she received several commissions from many prestigious new music festivals and organisations....

, André Éric Létourneau

André Éric Létourneau

André Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, author, musician, composer and curator based primarily in Montreal, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most notably François Quoirez and algojo)André Éric Létourneau (born September 25, 1967) is a French Canadian media and...

 and Alexandre Saint-Onge with the support of the Centre de recherches culturelles interdisciplinaires in Montréal, Canada. An American tour of the band have been organised by the Baltimore based interdisciplinary artist John Berndt

John Berndt

John Berndt is a musician and organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who is best known as an extended-technique experimental saxophonist and electronic musician. He participated in the second wave of the neoism cultural movement, the first wave having consisted of Monty Cantsin, Istvan Kantor, and...

  in 2000, involving Christof Migone

Christof Migone

Christof Migone is an experimental sound artist and writer, formerly based in Montreal, now living in Toronto.He is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and is a lecturer at the Centre for Visual and Media Culture at The University of Toronto's Mississauga campus.Migone's solo recordings...

 as a guest for the concert in New York City . Mineminemine performed in many important art galleries and festivals in Europe and America such as the Red Room

Red Room

is an interactive Adobe Flash horror animation, entirely in Japanese, about an urban legend called "the Red Room". The protagonist searches on the Internet for proof of its existence, only for the results to go horribly wrong...

 (Baltimore, USA), Hull Time Based Arts (Hull, UK), Westwerk (Hamburg, Germany), Université du Québec à Montréal

Université du Québec à Montréal

The Université du Québec à Montréal is one of four universities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Basic facts:The UQAM is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec , a public university system with other branches in Gatineau , Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, and...

, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery and Sala Rosa (Montréal, Canada). They are currently working on an important Web art project with Agence TOPO in Montréal and a series of radio collaborations with conceptual sound collective Experimentallica.