[spectre] FONDATION-LANGLOIS - Organisations/projects 2002

[Dominique Fontaine]

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**Press Release**

THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION GRANTS MORE THAN HALF A MILLION TO 19
PROJECTS
=46unding Programs for Organizations


Montreal, October 17, 2002 - The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science
and Technology has just granted more than half a million dollars to 19
projects by organizations dedicated to merging art and science through the
use of new technologies.

The Foundation received 202 applications during its 2002 call for projects
for the exhibition, distribution and performance program for organizations
and the program for organizations from emerging regions. Its international
jury examined 103 of the projects, selecting 19 to benefit from the
=46oundation's programs for organizations. Of the projects chosen, six are
>from Canada and three from the United Kingdom. Other projects also come fro=
m
Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, Latvia, Peru, the Netherlands, Sweden and the
United States.

Besides Daniel Langlois, the jury included Sarah Cook (Canada/U.K.), Daniel
Dion (Canada), Antoni Muntadas (Spain) and Jean Gagnon, the Foundation's
Director of Programs. This year, grants for organizations range from $10,000
to $100,000. Below is a list of the grant recipients.

A detailed description of each project will be posted on the Foundation's
Web site (http://www.fondation-langlois.org) later this year.


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SOURCE:

JEAN GAGNON, Director of Programs
DOMINIQUE FONTAINE, Program Officer
dfontaine@fondation-langlois.org
http://www.fondation-langlois.org
t: (514) 987-7177
f: (514) 987-7492

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PROJECTS SELECTED BY THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION FOR 2002
=46unding Programs for Organizations


ACADIA UNIVERSITY (Wolfville, Nova-Scotia, Canada)
*Ideas in Residence/Creative Dislocations: Sense of Place and Digital
Connections in the Rural Landscape*

This project focuses on the dynamics of human activities and environmental
change in the Bay of Fundy area, a highly sensitive ecosystem with a rich
cultural history. Through its artist-curator in-residence program, Acadia
University will invite Scottish artist Gair Dunlop.


CAPACETE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
*Mobile Culture*

Capacete, through its mobile high-tech office Banca No. 2, wishes to help
integrate digital and electronic elements and equipment into local artistic
practices and set up a shared space and program for creating and
distributing experimental artworks.


CREATIVE ROOM FOR ART AND COMPUTING (Stockholm, Sweden)
*Crac in Context: RAM ROOM*

The project consists in exhibiting, distributing and developing the results
of the RAM (re-approaching new media) workshops, an interdisciplinary
initiative involving Crac (Sweden), Rixc (Latvia), Vilma/Jutempus
(Lithuania), Atelier Nord (Norway), E-media Centre (Estonia) and Olento
(Finland).


ESPACIO LA REBECA (Bogota, Colombia)
*Espacio La Rebeca, Exhibitions 2002-2003*

The grant will help develop Espacio La Rebeca's 2002-2003 exhibitions and a
screening program that will present emerging Colombian artists and
filmmakers as well as international artists.


=46ACULTY OF MUSIC, MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
*The Daniel Langlois Visiting Professorship CIRMMT at the Faculty of Music*

Creating a visiting professor position in music media and technology has
become a top priority for the Faculty of Music. Such a position will provide
intellectual leadership and add international distinction to the faculty's
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology.


=46INE ARTS AND VISUAL ARTS MASTER PROGRAM, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
(Bogota, Colombia)
*Quiasma*

Quiasma, a research group within the Fine Arts and Visual Arts Master
Program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, will produce an audiovisual
support (DVD) to act as a bridge between symbolic images and media images.
The group will also focus attention on areas in Columbia affected by war and
conflict.


GRAMOPHONE RECORDS MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER (Cape Coast, Ghana)
*Ghana's Highlife Music: A Digital Repertoire of Recordings and Pop Art*

This project focuses on an existing collection of 20,000 records. The main
goals are to develop an interactive research tool based on these records, to
include textual information, recorded music and images from disc sleeves and
record labels, and to give access to this information through the Internet.


INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MUSEOLOGICAS Y ARTISTICAS, UNIVERSIDAD RICARDO
PALMA (Peru, Lima)
*7th Festival Internacional de video / arte / electronica*

The 7th Festival Internacional de video / arte / electronica will analyze,
discover and present different ways to use technologies related to
expression media.


MOBILEGAZE (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
*MobileGaze*

MobileGaze develops thematically curated selections of Web art as well as
interviews with artists, critical texts about cyberculture, and other
ephemeral on-line projects.


MUTEK (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
*Festival MUTEK.CL in Valparaiso, Chile*

This project entails presenting a South American edition of the MUTEK
festival. MUTEK.CL is scheduled for January 2004 in Valparaiso, Chile.


NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (London, United Kingdom)
*Nanoscopic Culture*

Nanoscopic Culture is the working title for a series of artist interventions
that the art program at London's National Institute for Medical Research has
initiated and that will culminate in a touring exhibition in 2003. This
exhibition suggests that there is a culture of trying to define things
beyond the phenomenological world. This culture exists as much in the
practice of certain artists as in the field of scientific research.


NEUTRAL GROUND (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
*Untitled Series*

The grant will support Neutral Ground's Soil programs, which will facilitate
a professional partnership with the new media lab being built at the
University of Regina.


NEW MEDIA SCOTLAND (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
*Drift: A Festival of Sound Art and Experimental Music Across Glasgow and
Liverpool*

The Foundation is supporting the second edition of Drift, a sound art and
experimental music festival first held in 1999 in Glasgow. The events in
Drift 2 will take place in two cities, Glasgow and Liverpool.


RIXC - THE CENTRE FOR NEW MEDIA CULTURE (Riga, Latvia)
*Media Architecture (Research and Festival)*

This project delves into media architecture, the merging of post-modern
urban geographies and information networks. The project also investigates
how social dynamics from virtual networks, when applied to physical
conditions, facilitate the expansion of public space.


SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION (New York, United States)
*Variable Media Network: Year Two*

Variable Media Network is a consortium dedicated to inventing and sharing
approaches to preserving art in new media. The Foundation is supporting the
second phase of the network's activities.


TATE (London, United Kingdom)
*Net Art at Tate, a Program of Net Art Commissions*

The grant will be used to commission four artists to create on-line works to
be displayed at tate.org.uk and complemented by a program of Tate-wide
educational events.


V2_ORGANISATION, INSTITUTE FOR THE UNSTABLE MEDIA (Rotterdam, the
Netherlands)
*Capturing the Unstable Media*

V2_Organisation's project involves researching ways to capture unstable
media art and preserve it in a medium-independent way.


WALKER ART CENTER (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)
*Translocations*

The grant will help commission an interdisciplinary collaboration and
installation by Raqs Media Collective (new media, New Delhi) and Atelier Bow
Wow (architecture, Tokyo).


WALTER PHILLIPS GALLERY (Banff, Alberta, Canada)
*Pretty Good Access*

The grant will be channelled into creative research, project development,
and the creation of Pretty Good Access, an international group exhibition of
contemporary art. The exhibition will explore artwork and emerging cultural
forms conceived of or related to databases.



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