[Reader-list] RECENT NEWS FROM THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION - OCTOBER 2003

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RECENT NEWS - OCTOBER 2003
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*NEW INTERNET SITE FOR THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION*
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The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (DLF) is
proud to unveil its new Web site. In addition to a new graphic design, the
site will allow easier access to its wealth of unique editorial material:
information on media artists and projects combining artistic, scientific and
technological research, access to an extensive data base and numerous
audiovisual documents, as well as many other improved features. 

To systematize the information as efficiently and logically as possible, we
have employed "content blocks" which display all the information related to
a particular subject, be it an individual, organization, work or other type
of document. Since this is a research and documentation site, all texts are
printable for easier consultation, and each content block has its own URL
resource link -as do all search results- including bibliographies and lists
of events allowing for later reference.

Among the innovations in the Foundation's updated site are interfaces
allowing a wide variety of search options. They provide access to various
database modules for documents, individuals, organizations, events, works
and projects subsidized by the DLF. The interfaces simplify access and
browsing within the entire body of data.

The new Web site of the Daniel Langlois Foundation has been constructed
entirely with Flash, which allows us to better integrate multimedia content
while offering users a variety of configuration possibilities.

We invite you to visit the new Web site of the Daniel Langlois Foundation,
and to discover or rediscover the myriad resources it contains!

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*THE 2003 RECIPIENTS OF STRATEGIC GRANTS FOR ORGANIZATIONS*
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The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology supports
eight organizations that are encouraging the meeting of art and science in
the field of technologies, as part of its new Strategic Grants for
Organizations. In its first year of existence, the Program supports
activities and programs that are considered strategic to the development of
a particular organization. The Foundation defines the term "strategic" as
projects, activities and programs that have a demonstrated potential, as a
plan, to better position the organization to fulfill its mandate and to
enhance its capacity to act on issues and concerns in its milieu or
community, or in the Foundation's fields of interest.

The Foundation received 168 submissions in response to its call for
proposals within this program, of which eight were selected: four from
Canada, two from the United States, one from India and one from Peru. The
grants range from $25,000 to $50,000. 

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+ For 2003, the following organizations have been selected as recipients of
financial support from the Foundation: 
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ATTAKKALARI CENTRE FOR MOVEMENTS ARTS (Bangalore, India)
+ Nagarika - an integrated information system on Indian physical expressions
through technology

The Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (ACMA) key objective is to create a
context for contemporary performing arts in India through three programs:
Strategic Movement and Digital Arts Development, Education and Outreach, and
National and International Platforms. Attakkalari's main focus for the
coming years will be an ongoing project called 'NAGARIKA, which is being
supported by the Foundation. 

Nagarika is a core project of ACMA that involves an engagement with physical
traditions such as dance, martial arts, and yoga, in order to research body
positions, movements and lines. This  will be documented through digital
technology in a studio environment generating an information database, and
new contemporary works that will emerge from this research. In particular, a
site-specific installation performance will be presented at the Bangalore
Biennial 2004. Also envisaged are outreach activities that will create
interactive sessions with the public and students.

CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
+ An international colloquium/workshop on digital architectural archives
entitled *Devices of Design: Architecture and Variable Media*

As an international research center and museum devoted to architecture, the
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has an urgent responsibility to
examine the widespread use of digital media in the architectural design
process and its consequences for contemporary architectural theory and
practice. The Centre must also establish a method for the evaluation of
digital architectural archives and to determine how these are to be
conserved.

In collaboration with the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the CCA will organize
an international colloquium/workshop to take place in Spring 2004. The
colloquium will examine the theoretical and philosophical relationships
between the new media and historical architectural procedures, design and
theory. The workshop will look into the question of evaluating and
conserving digital documents of architectural design and communication. The
proceedings of the colloquium will be published and will also be available
on-line. The workshop will be videotaped, and the participants'
contributions will form the basis of an ongoing written record of
deliberations on the conservation of digital architectural archives.

CENTRO BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS (Cusco, Peru)
+ Amauta Project

The Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas (CBC) was founded in 1974 by three
scholars. Its objective is to advance the study and the awareness of the
Andean world with its historical, cultural, social, linguistic, and economic
complexities. Through its activities, the Center serves as a place of
reference, debates and active interchange among students, professors, local
officials and local indigenous people interested in the development of the
Andean region. Among the many activities related to the Centro Bartolomé de
Las Casas mission is the Amauta Project. 

The Amauta Project's objective is to influence artists, humanists,
environmentalists and communication professionals of the Andean Region
through an intercultural exchange program that reflects a new understanding
of a world where humanism in all its forms, technology and ecosystems are
the main protagonists.  The intention is to study, through scientific
methodology, the complexity of so called "undeveloped" and disconnected
societies and individuals to find still unknown sources of influence for new
media and technology creativity through a digital workshops program.

THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER (Newark Valley, New York,United States)
+ Video History Web>Resources>Tools: An Inventory and Evaluation of Paper
Files and Audio Materials Related to Early Media Instruments

The Experimental Television Center was founded in 1971, an outgrowth of a
media access program developed by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in
1969. The Center's mission is to provide support and services to the media
arts community. Through its mission, the Center supports the creation of
work using new electronic media technologies and also encourages an informed
appreciation of media art. As well, in the context of honoring its moving
images heritage, the Centre initiates projects, such as the Video History
Web site, participates in partnerships that address the needs for research,
education and preservation, and places independent work within a larger
cultural context.

The Video History Web site functions as both a dynamic and interactive
on-going research collection and dissemination vehicle for media
professionals, educators, and media programmers as well as the general
public. The fully searchable site structure provides information contained
in 10 databases holding over 3500 records, and gives the visitor a
user-defined timeline generator. The Experimental Television Center will
continue the research and building of the databases for the Video History
Web site, with specific emphasis on early media instruments, their
associated texts, documentation, events and interviews. The data will be
published on the existing Video History Web site.

greenmuseum.org (Corte Madera, California, United States)
+ Toolbox: Online introductions to environmental art

greenmuseum.org is an online museum of environmental art that advances
creative efforts to improve our relationship with the natural world. Since
many environmental art projects are collaborative, large scale,
site-specific or ephemeral, greenmuseum chronicles this movement and serves
the dispersed communities involved. The museum has been online since
December 2001.  

In response to the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of many
environmental art projects, greenmuseum.org will research and develop
collaborator-specific introductions to environmental art. These will serve
as part of a toolbox of resources for the educators, environmental
organizations, community groups and resource managers who have historically
collaborated with artists in the field.  The aim is to research and present
through case studies, interviews and visual documentation online, the
interdisciplinary work that generates environmental art.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FONDATION (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
+ Film, video and new media conservation program

The National Gallery of Canada holds one of the most important media art
collections in the world. Thanks to the foundation's support the Gallery
will set up a Film, video and new media conservation program. This program's
goals are twofold: to preserve the Gallery's current and future multimedia
collection; to provide artists, scientists and individuals working on media
art or multidisciplinary projects with free access to historical, practical
and technical data about new media conservation. 

OBORO (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
+ Audio Art and Sound Creation Axis

Established in 1982, OBORO, is a non-profit artist-run centre devoted to
contemporary and new media art. OBORO supports research, production and
distribution in the fields of visual art, media art, performance and new
technologies. The centre's activities attest to the diversity of
contemporary modes of expressions and include exhibits, curatorial projects,
residencies, lectures, workshops, network projects and publications. OBORO
plays a central role in Montreal's media art ecology. For twenty years,
OBORO has been a meeting and discussion space for artists, organizations and
interest groups from diverse disciplinary horizons and communities. 

The Audio Art and Sound Creation Axis seeks to consolidate audio art and
sound creation as strategic and development axes at the very heart of
Oboro's new media laboratory's activities. Its goal is to provide a range of
activities and services, in a continuous and progressive manner, as well as
regular audio art and sound creation programming.

PARALOEIL (Rimouski, Quebec, Canada)
+ Paraloeil, Media Arts Access Centre

Founded in 1999, PARALOEIL is a Bas-Saint-Laurent (region of the Quebec
province) organization that specializes in video production and
distribution. Its first mandate is to distribute independent film and video,
mostly works from Quebec, that touch upon social, political, research, art
and experimentation issues, and diverse regional and youth related
realities.  Its second mandate is to provide access to video production and
to encourage the exploration of new media.

The foundation's support will allow PARALOEIL to pursue its organizational
development and to go ahead with the activities planned between 2003 and
2005, as well as setting up a consolidation and improvement plan for its
building.  The goal is to continue to offer quality services (distribution
and production) to support local artists and to consolidate the work team.

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About the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology 

The Daniel Langlois Foundation's purpose is to further artistic and
scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the
field of technologies. The Foundation seeks to nurture a critical awareness
of technology's implications for human beings and their natural and cultural
environments, and to promote the exploration of aesthetics suited to
evolving human environments. The Centre for Research and Documentation
(CR+D) seeks to document history, artworks and practices associated with
electronic and digital media arts and to make this information available to
researchers in an innovative manner through data communications.

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