LANGLOIS FOUNDATION AWARDS.The Daniel Langlois Foundation The Daniel Langlois Foundation is a non-profit, philanthropic organization endowed by Daniel Langlois and chartered in 1997 with the mission to support artistic and scientific projects and research dedicated to further general human awareness as well as the understanding of human for Art, Science and Technology, a private charitable foundation established in 1997 and based in Montr[acute{e}]al, awarded nearly $1.5 million this year in international grants in order to promote contemporary artistic and scientific practices in digital technologies. The grants are to encourage and sustain interdisciplinary research in five categories: the residency and commissioning of the artworks program; the exhibition, distribution and performance program; the organizations from emerging countries (outside Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). and North America) program; the conservation and preservation of mediaworks program; and the research by individual artists or scientists program. The recipients are Franklin Furnace Archive Inc. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) for a series of live art presentations using the Internet; Institute of International Visual Arts (London) for a series of artists' commissions for a virtual gallery called XSpace; Artec (London) for a performance, event and Web art investigation by Canadian artist Sara Diamond; Studio XX (Montr[acute{e}]al) for a series of six residencies for artists using QuickTime VR; Galerie S[acute{e}]quence (Chicoutimi, Canada) for a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). residency project featuring artist Rober Racine; Arts and Science Laboratory (Santa Fe) for the Development of Techne & Eros: Art and Science Laboratory; Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver, Canada) for an exhibition of new work by Canadian artist David Rokeby; Electronic Music Foundation The Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) is a "not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that organizes concerts and festivals, publishes and disseminates information, and provides access to materials relevant to the history and creative potential of electronic music" ([1]) (Albany, NY) for research and dissemination of electronic instruments; WRO WRO Western Regional Office WRO World Robot Olympiad WRO Wroclaw, Poland - Strachowice (Airport Code) WRO World Regenesis Organization WRO World Rescue Organisation WRO Work Release Order WRO War Risk Only Foundation for Media Art (Wroclaw, Poland) for the exhibition component of the WRO Media Art Biennale The name Biennale is Italian and means "every other year", describing an event that happens every 2 years. One of the most important Biennales is an art exhibition that takes place for three months in Venice — the Venice Biennale — but there are numerous others: adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an Dutch Electronic Art Festival; Creative Time Inc. (New York) for a public artwork to be developed by artists Natalie Bookchin and [(R).sup.TM]ark; Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies (Liverpool) for the 6th Mini-International Festival of Videoshorts devoted to East European artists; Arts Council of England (London) for a conference dealing with open and free source software; Thread Waxing Space (New York) for the presentation of artist Constance DeJong's latest performance work; Quartier [acute{E}]ph[acute{e}]m[grave{e}]re (Montr[acute{e}]al) for the transformation of Silo silo, watertight and airtight structure for making and storing silage. Silos vary in form from a covered pit, such as was used by the early Romans, to the modern storage tower, dating from the 19th cent. #5 in the Old Port of Montr[acute{e}}al into an interactive musical instrument; Video Pool Inc. (Winnipeg) for a festival devoted to sound art; Universes in Universe (Berlin) for an Internet-based database for the visual arts of Africa, the Americas and the Asian Pacific region; Nickalai Molok (Moscow) for research and a Web site devoted to renowned architect Giovanni Battista Piranisi; Greylands (Hull, Canada) for a satirical comment on the use of urban space and city planning; The Center for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi) for the development of the Sarai Media Lab; Center for Contemporary Art (Prague) for the development of a media lab; Art Today Foundation (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) for a conference and exhibition dedicated to media artists working in the Balkans; Electronic Arts Intermix in·ter·mix tr. & intr.v. in·ter·mixed, in·ter·mix·ing, in·ter·mix·es To mix or become mixed together. [Back-formation from obsolete intermixt, from Latin (New York) for the conservation and archiving of one of the world's major collections of media art; Rhizome rhizome (rī`zōm) or rootstock, fleshy, creeping underground stem by means of which certain plants propagate themselves. Buds that form at the joints produce new shoots. Communications Inc. (New York) for the development and growth of Rhizome's ArtBase; Western Front (Vancouver) for research on and restoration of one of Canada's richest collections of media art; Atau Tanaka (Tokyo) for a multisite network music installation and performance on the Internet; Lynn Hershman Leeson (San Francisco) for a new Internet-based artwork; Luc Courchesne (Mon tr[acute{e}]al) for a panoramic interactive installation using the human voice; Jim Campbell (San Francisco) for the creation of a series of works comprised of a custom-built display device; Eduardo Kac (Chicago) for a transgenic installation that investigates the implications of protein synthesis; Lorella Abenavoli (Paris) for a sound sculpture based on the earth's natural movement and sounds; Samuel Bianchini (Paris) for an artistic biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. environment on the Web; George Legrady (Stuttgart) for a team-based installation to introduce audience interaction to data contribution; Sharon Daniel (Oakland) for a public artwork conceived as a Web-based authoring environment for the production of maps; and Alain-Martin Richard (Qu[acute{e}]bec) for a poetic game that centers around the circulation of pieces of a sculptural object that are traced on the Web. |
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