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THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION AND THE
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM LAUNCH THE BOOK PERMANENCE THROUGH CHANGE: THE VARIABLE
MEDIA APPROACH


Montreal, May 7, 2003 - The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and
Technology and the Guggenheim Museum held a book launch at Ex-Centris today
for PERMANENCE THROUGH CHANGE: THE VARIABLE MEDIA APPROACH. This bilingual
publication was produced as part of a research partnership on variable media
and published under the supervision of Alain Depocas, 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 to preserve variable media at the Guggenheim.
The book contains the proceedings of a conference held at the Guggenheim in
New York in the spring 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.

Those attending the book launch included Jean Gagnon and Alain Depocas for
the Daniel Langlois Foundation and Jon Ippolito and Caitlin Jones for the
Guggenheim. They presented the variable media concept for preserving artwork
created using non-traditional means and also spoke about the Variable Media
Network. Mr. Gagnon emphasized that one of the Foundation's key interests is
research into preserving our digital artistic and cultural heritage, in
other words, artworks commonly produced today via new technological means.
"That's why we wanted a hand in developing a variable media network," Mr.
Gagnon said. "The book marks the first milestone in this project."

A Web site, *www.variablemedia.net*, has been created to inform people
interested in the variable media concept. The site offers the book
Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach in PDF format. Also
available are texts outlining the main aspects of the concept as well as
full transcripts and video excerpts from the 2001 conference. In addition,
video interviews with artists and answers to a questionnaire on variable
media will later be added.

As part of the same research, an experimental database is in the works and
will be available to members of the Variable Media Network. This database
will help preserve and share information taken from a questionnaire that
artists are invited to fill out. Starting this fall, a version of this
database will be offered on the variable media Web site.

*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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Sources
Alain Depocas, [email protected]
Director, Centre for Research and Documentation, Daniel Langlois Foundation
(514) 987-7177
www.fondation-langlois.org

Information
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(514) 270-5005
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A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
- the online New Media art environment -

announces proudly the launch of

[R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0

for 1 July 2003,

on occasion of the participation in
InteractivA '03 - Biennale for New Media Art
at Museum of Contemporary Art Merida (Yucatan/Mexico)-
11 July - 28 September 2003
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A short introduction to
[R]-[R]-[F] - Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting

From its structures, [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival is an
experimental New Media art project in form of an online festival created,
programmed and realized by Agricola de Cologne.
Its central subject, abbreviated in the capital letters of the title, is
"Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting".
A new way of art working is practiced: networking as artworking.
Experimental fields of memory are developed by inviting curators from
different countries around the globe, eg directors of media festivals or
curators specialized in New Media, who have to select a number of artists of
their choice according the terms of the project.
The dynamic of this ongoing and continously changing project,
as it is set up for being presented in festivals and media exhibitions,
manifests itself not only in the artistic online environment, especially
created for [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival, but also progressing when for each
new presentation a new project version is created, including new subject
related aspects, new curators and new artists and new visualizations of the
connected memory fields.
Continuously expanding, these memory fields containing curators
and artists of the previous project versions will be always present in the
background while slowly a networking universe of collective memory comes up.
The project uses the Internet not only as an artistic environment,
but primarily also as a communicating medium and a data base
which is closely connected to memory and loss of memory,
thus the subject of the festival project.
The Internet represents not only the ideal medium in many ways,
but allows above that direct intercultural networking like no other medium.

These invited, selecting and participating curators form the basis
of Version 1.0 of [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival:

Fran Ilich (Mexico, Mexico)
Wilton Azevedo (Sao Paulo,Brazil)
Anna Hatziyannaki (Athens, Greece)
Branca Bencic (Pula, Croatia)
Vincent Makowski (Lille, France)
Eugeny Umansky (Kaliningrad, Russia)
Caterina Davinio (Rome-Milan, Italy)
Agricola de Cologne, Melody Parker Carter (both Cologne, Germany)

More details, eg the selected, participating artists, etc
can be found on [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival site:
www.newmediafest.org/rrf/

[R]-[R]-[F] - Festival -
'Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting'
New Media project in form of an 'online festival'
- conception and realisation by Agricola de Cologne
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The Postman is a Genius:


Experience and Imagination in Seoul





August 29 - October 18


Opening August 28, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.



Participating artists: Flyingcity, Im Heung-soon, Jo Seub, Koh Seung Wook, =
Park Hwa Young and Rhii Jewyo



The exhibition The Postman is a Genius: Experience and Imagination in Seoul=
reveals how South Korean artists experience life in one of the largest cit=
ies of the world, Seoul. In their work they let us see experiences and fant=
asies about their life in a city with 12 million inhabitants. The artists a=
re between 30 and 35 years of age, and the background of this generation ha=
s been shaped by the immense political and economic changes, including urba=
nization, that have taken place in Seoul over the last decades. The need to=
visualize the consequences of these changes is the motivation for these ar=
tists. They not only show us how Seoul looks, but also raise the question o=
f what has been forgotten and repressed during the process of change in the=
past decades. With their work they lodge a protest against what has been l=
ost. Their approach to that problem is predominately light and amusing, but=
the undertones are melancholic and serious.



The artists have made use of diverse media. Their works vary from video fil=
med in documentary style to fantasy films, from photography to drawings. Th=
ere are also cardboard models of an ideal city made by children under the g=
uidance of the artists' group Flyingcity.



An extra video program goes further into how this city is visualized in con=
temporary South Korean video art. Artists in this program are Bae Young-Hwa=
n, Hoi Jung-Kwa, Kim Beom, Kim Ji-Hyun, Lim Minouk & Frederic Michon, Mix=
rice, Park Hye-Sung and Park Se-Jin.



The Postman is a Genius is the outcome of collective organization by The Ne=
therlands Media Art Institute and the Marronnier Art Center (MAC) of the Ko=
rean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul. The exhibition is the result of a =
collaboration between Mark Kremer, guest curator at the Netherlands Media A=
rt Institute, and Beck Jee-Sook, curator of the MAC. The exhibition takes p=
lace as part of Facing : Korea, a set of four exhibitions of Korean artists=
, opening simultaneously on August 28 at four Amsterdam institutions: De Ap=
pel, Foam, Canvas International Art and the Netherlands Media Art Institute.



Note for the press: Curators and artists are available a week before the op=
ening. Please contact us if you wish to arrange interviews.



For more information / visual materials: Marieke Istha (communications) T +=
31 (0)20 623 7101 E <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]. Exh=
ibition open Tuesday - Saturday 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. Entrance: 2,50/1,50

Marieke Istha
Communication

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T +31 20 6237101
F +31 20 6244423
[email protected]
www.montevideo.nl

'Perspectives'03' -
competition and showcase
deadline 1 September 2003

organised by

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org

in co-operation with
Computer Space Festival Sofia/Bulgaria
www.computerspace.org
and
Goethe Institut - Internationes Sofia/Bulgaria
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91 artists from 18 countries will enter the selection process with 173
works.

The finalists will be notified by 21 September 2003.

"Perspective'03" - the show will be launched on 13 October and will be
presented in physical space as part of Computer Space Festival Sofia from 16
until 18 October 2003.

The Goethe Institut -Internationes Sofia will present in co-operation with
JavaMuseum during the festival as an accompanying program the featured
show:
"Netart from German speaking countries"
curated by Agricola de Cologne,
including following artists
Reiner Strasser, Nadja Kutz und Tim Nikolai Hoffmann
Jens Sundheim, Sascha Buttner, Bernhard Reuss,
Martin Mittelmeier, kyon, Per Pegelow, Jurgen Trautwein
Franz Alken, Ralf Hellmann, Joern Ebner, Thomas Tirel
Roman Minaev, Stephan Harger, Malte Steiner, AmbientTV, Johannes Auer,
Isabel Saij, Marcello Mercado and Agricola de Cologne.

"Netart from German speaking countries" belongs to the "3rd of Java series"
and will remain online for permanent as an ongoing project.New artists and
new net based art works are welcome at any time.

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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
[email protected]

is part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
- the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.

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A YEAR OF REFLECTION AT THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION FOR ART, SCIENCE,
AND TECHNOLOGY

The Daniel Langlois Foundation begins a year of consultations to assess the
impact of its programs and decide on future directions.


Montreal, November 13, 2003 - In keeping with its mandate and goals, the
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology has funded some
55 projects by international artists and 108 projects by organizations
worldwide since 1997. Over the years, the Foundation has undertaken such
major projects as an exhibition of drawings by filmmaker Sergei M.
Eisenstein as well as the DVD-ROM DigitalSnow spotlighting a lifetime of
work by the prolific Canadian artist Michael Snow. It has also set up its
Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) at the Ex-Centris Complex in
Montreal to document history and contemporary practices at the crossroads of
art, science and technology. This centre, which is like no other in the
world, has quickly developed into an essential site for doing research in
the field. In total, the Foundation has channelled about $12 million in
funding into its programs and activities.

The Foundation's mandate is to advance knowledge in art and science through
direct contact with technologies. The aim is to nurture a critical awareness
of how technologies influence humans and their natural and cultural
environment. The Foundation also hopes to encourage the exploration of an
aesthetic that reflects the evolving human environment. Therefore, thematic
focuses include art, science and technology, art and the environment,
development in emerging regions, and research into preserving digital
heritage.

As a follow-up to its many accomplishments, the Foundation has decided to
step back and assess the impact of its activities and funding. As a result,
the Daniel Langlois Foundation is placing a moratorium in 2004 on its two
main programs: the Research Grants for Individual Artists or Scientists and
the Strategic Grants for Organizations. During this freeze, the Foundation
will thoroughly review the effects of its funding and activities worldwide
so it can devise strategies for the future that are better tailored to its
different clients. Note that the moratorium doesn't apply to the Program of
Grants for Researchers in Residence.

Jean Gagnon, Executive Director of the Foundation declares: "The aim of this
period of reflection is to consult the people and communities concerned by
our areas of activity. Given how circumstances have evolved artistically,
socially and economically these past few years, it is important to rethink
some of our approaches so we can find better ways to assist the individuals
and organizations that best reflect our philosophy and goals. Through
research missions, we plan to head out into the field to meet with the
various players and learn what circumstances they face and how we can have a
lasting and structuring effect on the developments sought in certain regions
and fields."


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SOURCE:
Jean Gagnon, Executive Director
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology
T (514) 987-7177, F (514) 987-7492
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.fondation-langlois.org <http://www.fondation-langlois.org>