[spectre] RECENT NEWS - MAY 2003

[Dominique Fontaine]

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RECENT NEWS - MAY 2003
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/nouvelles/index.html> 

Summary:

Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, a new book from the
Daniel Langlois Foundation (Montreal) and the Guggenheim Museum (New York)

Finding Aids for the Steina and Woody Vasulka Fonds

A June 30 Deadline for the Strategic Grants Program for Organizations

The CR+D's Current Acquisitions: Selection of the Month 

Honours for anarchive 2: Digital Snow



Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, a new book from the
Daniel Langlois Foundation (Montreal) and the Guggenheim Museum (New York)

As part of a research partnership on variable media, the Daniel Langlois
Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum have published together a new book in
English and French. Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach
was published under the supervision of Alain Depocas, the Director of the
Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation, Jon Ippolito, the
associate curator of media arts at the Guggenheim Museum, and Caitlin Jones,
a Foundation fellow working in variable media preservation at the
Guggenheim. The book contains the proceedings of a conference held at the
Guggenheim in New York in the winter of 2001 as well as texts by such
authors as Bruce Sterling, Jon Ippolito, John Handhardt, Steve Dietz and
Nancy Spector. It presents viewpoints, methods and case studies concerning
the preservation of artwork created using non-traditional material, tools
and technologies. Among the works explored are Nam June Paik's TV Garden,
Meg Webster's Stick Spiral, Ken Jacobs' Bitemporal Vision: The Sea, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres' Public Opinion, Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman's The
Erl King, and Mark Napier's net.flag.

To read the press release:
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/informations/nouvelles/index.html> 

To find out more about the Variable Media Network project:
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/projets/1370-2-2002/index.html> 


Finding Aids for the Steina and Woody Vasulka Fonds

The Foundation has developed a series of on-line finding aids including a
detailed description of the Steina and Woody Vasulka Fonds, descriptions of
each series within the fonds, and complete lists of the collection's
contents in the form of bibliographic notes. Other finding aids developed
from the indexing done in the CR+D database complement the fonds'
description. These aids help draw up lists of bibliographic notes on solo
shows by Steina and Woody or group events they took part in (exhibitions,
conferences, festivals) as well as lists related to works (videos and
installations) created since 1970 and to instruments and softwares. These
finding aids complement an already existing section, Steina and Woody
Vasulka: Instrumental Video, which features a biographical timeline and
detailed descriptions of a selection of works by the two artists.

To access the finding aids for the Steina and Woody Vasulka Fonds:
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/CRD/vasulka/index.html> 

To link to Steina et Woody Vasulka: Instrumental Video:
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/collection/vasulka/archives/index.html>



A June 30 Deadline for the Strategic Grants Program for Organizations

Organizations wishing to submit a proposal within the Foundation's Strategic
Grants Program for Organizations must do so by June 30, 2003. This program's
aim is to foster the development of organizations so they can better fulfill
their mandate and goals. The proposals should demonstrate the strategic
nature of the developments planned.

For full details on the program, definitions, criteria and evaluation
procedure, consult our guide:
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/programmes/index_org.html>  


The  CR+D's Current Acquisitions: Selection of the Month 

As we do every month, we're publishing a bibliography of the latest current
acquisitions made by the Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation
:
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/CRD/acquisitions/index.html> 
Our monthly selection is a catalogue published for Lanterna Magika: New
Technologies in Czech Art of the 20th Century, Espace Electra, Paris,
France, October 26, 2002 to January 19, 2003, organized by Camille Morineau
and Vit Havránek as part of the event Bohemia Magica, une saison tchèque en
France :
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/CRD/acquisitions/selection.html> 


Honours for anarchive 2: Digital Snow 

Launched last October in Montreal, this DVD-ROM showcasing artist Michael
Snow's body of work has garnered several prizes. Among them are three
Graphika awards given out by the Société des designers graphiques du Québec
(overall grand prize for 2003, best DVD-ROM and best book design). The disc
also earned honourable mentions at the Creative Review Annual 2002 in
London, at the How Interactive Annual in Cincinnati, and from the Art
Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). ARLIS's Canadian chapter
cited the disc as an exceptional search and reference tool  in the field of
Canadian art. In addition, the work is included in the major exhibition The
Future of Cinema organized by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie
(ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany and will travel with the exhibit to the Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland), the InterCommunication
Center (Tokyo, Japan), and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
(Melbourne, Australia).

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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 aims 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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