Langlois Foundation Grants - The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology - Brief Article

Afterimage, Sept, 1999

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, a private charitable foundation established in 1997 and based in Montreal, is awarding grants internationally to promote contemporary artistic and scientific practices in digital technologies and to encourage and sustain interdisciplinary research in these areas. The five categories into which the grants fall are the residency and commissioning of artworks program; the exhibition, distribution and performance program; the organizations from emerging countries (outside Western Europe and North America) program; the conservation and preservation of mediaworks program; and the research by individual artists or scientists program.

The recipients of 1999-2000 grants totaling nearly $1 million are the Avatar (Quebec City) DisKlavier residency program, Australian Network for Art and Technology (Adelaide) for their masterclass in New Media Art Curation and Theory, The Banff Centre for the Arts for their Aboriginal interactive streaming project, the Arizona State University Art Museum for an exhibition and residency of Jim Campbell's electronic installations, Theatre Les 400 Coups (Montreal) for research on the Russian filmmaker Ladislas Starewitch, Exhibition centre at the University of Montreal for an exhibition "Curieux univers," Media arts research group at UQAM for translation and development of an on-line version of a media arts dictionary, Irit Batsry (New York) for installation and residency at the Montreal Biosphere, Pat Binder (Berlin) for the Internet project Voices of Ravensbrueck, Juan Geuer (Almonte, Canada) for a video project based on scientific principles, Thomas McIntosh and Emmanuel Madan (Montreal) for the second phase of The Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, Catherine Richards (Ottawa) for research on an aesthetic of the electromagnetic environment and Concordia University (Montreal) for the creation of a chair in digital technologies and fine arts.