e-art: New Technologies and Contemporary Art
Ten years of accomplishments by the Daniel Langlois Foundation
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Exhibition description:
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (DLF), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present works by ten artists from Canada and abroad who have received funding from the DLF. The exhibition e-art : New Technologies and Contemporary Art – 10 Years of Accomplishments of the Daniel Langlois Foundation presented an outstanding selection of spectacular works, some of which were specially commissioned for this event. They all demonstrate the part played by digital technology in the transformation of a work of art and the artists’ interest in the phenomena of language, encoding and the translation of one system and one reality into another.
Works by the following artists will be presented in the exhibition: Philip Beesley (Canada), Jim Campbell (USA), Marie Chouinard (Canada), Luc Courchesne (Canada), Jessica Field (Canada), Lynn Hershman Leeson (USA), Eduardo Kac (Brazil/USA), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), Catherine Richards (Canada), and David Rokeby (Canada).
This exhibition was a co-production of the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
The exhibition catalog - [link]
La fondation Daniel Langlois, pour l'art, science et la technologie - [link]
Lynn's works on display - [link]
Daniel Langlois
President, Daniel Langlois Foundation
Based on the success of the initiatives undertaken by the Foundation since its inception, we embark on our second decade with a desire to pursue the important and intriguing work we began 10 years ago.The exhibition Communicating Vessels offers the public a fascinating glimpse into the type of artistic research we are pleased to have helped develop and disseminate, and, as a complement to the Foundation's Web site (www.fondation-langlois.org), itself already considered a benchmark for the presentation of art and technology research, this exhibition is also an excellent example of the new distribution approaches we will be focusing on in the future.
When I created the Daniel Langlois Foundation in 1997, my objective was to put in place an organisation dedicated to supporting basic research into the artistic, scientific and technological domains in an effort to deepen our knowledge of the relationship between humans and their technological and natural environments. It is primarily through the convergence of these three research sectors that the Foundation supports artists, organisations and researchers around the world who use new technologies as a medium for expression or in their research processes.
This unique approach has allowed the Foundation to have a significant impact and play a critical role both nationally and internationally in the development of works of art that examine the human relationship with an increasingly omnipresent technological environment. It seems therefore fitting that we have chosen this 10 year juncture to publicly present to a wide audience an overview of the results of the endeavours undertaken by the Foundation to date.