The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology


Sylvie Lacerte, Accredited Researcher 2005

The Foundation is pleased to announce the publication on its Web 
site of the text 9 Evenings and Experiments in Art and 
Technology: a gap to fill in art history's recent chronicles, by 
Sylvie Lacerte. In Spring 2005, Ms. Lacerte was an accredited 
researcher with the Foundation, where she prepared a paper that 
she delivered at REFRESH! The First International Conference on 
the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, held at the 
Banff New Media Institute from September 28 to October 3, 2005. 
Following her in-depth research into the many activities 
conducted by EAT to support artists in their experiments with 
technology in the 1960's and 1970's, Ms. Lacerte asks why the 
chronicles of this groundbreaking organisation have been largely 
overlooked by the majority of works that examine art history of 
the past four decades. In her text, she offers a few hypothesis 
to help explain this mystery:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=1716


DOCAM: Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage

The DOCAM research Alliance announces the launch of its new Web 
site http://www.docam.ca/
Initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and 
Technology, DOCAM's primary objective is to develop new 
methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and 
documenting technological and electronic works of art. The DOCAM 
Web site allows visitors to explore the research alliance's key 
areas of focus:
- The conservation of works of art featuring technological components
- Documentation strategies and structures adapted to these works 
of art
- A typology and historical listing of the technologies deployed 
by the artists
- Catalogue structures and methods for works featuring 
technological components
- Terminological tools and structures for the electronic arts
The DOCAM Web site also offers a list of related research 
committees and their members, information on DOCAM events, and 
electronic and media art conservation and documentation resource 
directories. Research reports and articles on case studies 
conducted by DOCAM will also be added regularly to the site. And 
finally, a thematic scan of the key research areas targeted by 
DOCAM is accessible from the site.



Daniel Provost
Agent de recherche / Research agent
la fondation Daniel Langlois
    pour l'art, la science et la technologie
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