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Montreal, May 22, 2003


THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION
GRANTS NEARLY HALF A MILLION TO 16 PROJECTS IN THE
RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS OR SCIENTISTS


The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology has just
granted nearly half a million to 16 projects by artists dedicated to merging
art and science through the use of new technologies.

The Foundation received 297 applications during its 2003 call for projects
for The Research Grant Program for Individual Artists or Scientists. Its
international jury examined 83 of the projects, selecting 16 to benefit from
the Foundation's program for individuals. Of the projects chosen, six are
from Canada, four from the United States, four from the United Kingdom, one
from Brazil and one from India.

Besides Mr. Daniel Langlois, the jury included Mr. Jim Campbell (United
States), Ms. Nina Czegledy (Canada), Mr. Jocelyn Robert (Canada) and Mr.
Jean Gagnon, the Foundation's executive director. This year, grants range
from $10,000 to $45,000. Please find below 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, in September.


For more information:
JEAN GAGNON, Executive Director
DOMINIQUE FONTAINE, Program Officer
E : [email protected]
T : (514) 987-7177


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LIST OF THE GRANT RECIPIENTS
Research Grant Program for Individual Artists or Scientists


AElab (Gisele Trudel and Stephane Claude) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"DATA"

Philip Beesley and Diane Willow (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
"Reflexive Membranes"

Peter Blasser (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
"The shinth: an inner-surface for circuit benders"

Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu (Salto, Brazil)
"VOID: a stereoendoscopy into a Blackbox"

Chris Csikszentmihalyi (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
"Edgy Products"

Jessica Field (Pickering, Ontario, Canada)
"Semiotic Investigation into Cybernetic Behaviour"

Marc Fournel (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"Tontauben"

Steve Heimbecker (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"Wind Array Cascade; phase 2b 'Si(g)n(e)"

Giles Lane (London, United Kingdom)
"Urban Tapestries"

Golan Levin (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
"Messa Di Voce"

Jessica Loseby (Chichester, United Kingdom)
"views from the ground floor"

r a d i o q u a l i a (London, United Kingdom)
"Radio Astronomy"

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"Sustained Coincidence"

Vishal Rawlley (Bombay, India)
"TYPOCITY-2"

Pletts Haque (Usman Haque and Josephine Pletts) (London, United Kingdom)
"Sky Ear"

Sha Xin Wei (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
"Topological Softwear"

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Pour information
Montreal, le 22 mai 2003


LA FONDATION DANIEL LANGLOIS
ATTRIBUE PRES DE UN DEMI MILLION DE DOLLARS A 16 PROJETS DANS LE CADRE DE
SON PROGRAMME DE BOURSES POUR LES ARTISTES ET CHERCHEURS INDIVIDUELS


La fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie vient
d'attribuer pres d'un demi million de dollars a 16 projets soumis par des
artistes voues a la rencontre de l'art et de la science sur le terrain des
nouvelles technologies.

La fondation a recu 297 dossiers au terme de l'appel de projets 2003 dans le
cadre du programme de bourses pour les artistes ou chercheurs individuels.
Suite a une premiere etape de selection, 83 projets ont ete presentes au
comite d'evaluation. De ce nombre, 16 projets ont ete retenus, soit six en
provenance du Canada, quatre des Etats-Unis, quatre du Royaume-Uni, un du
Bresil et un de l'Inde.

Outre le president de la fondation, M. Daniel Langlois, le jury comprenait
M. Jim Campbell (Etats-Unis), Mme Nina Czegledy (Canada), M. Jocelyn Robert
(Canada)) et M. Jean Gagnon, directeur general de la fondation. Les sommes
attribuees vont de 10,000 $ a 45,000 $. Vous trouverez ci-dessous la liste
des recipiendaires. Une description detaillee de chaque projet sera
accessible en ligne sur le site Web de la fondation :
http://www.fondation-langlois.org, en septembre.


Pour plus d'information : JEAN GAGNON, Directeur general
DOMINIQUE FONTAINE, Agent de programmes
E : [email protected]
T : (514) 987-7177

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LISTE DES RECIPIENDAIRES 2003
Programme de bourse de recherche pour artistes ou scientifiques individuels


AElab (Gisele Trudel et Stephane Claude) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)