The Daniel Langlois Foundation

Features

CineChamber
MUTEK and the Daniel Langlois Foundation are honoured to present the North American festival debut of CineChamber, from May 22 to June 3, 2012 at Excentris (Montreal) in the context of the 13th edition of the MUTEK festival.

Radical Software
From 1970 to 1974, the magazine Radical Software published 11 issues, which, over time, became a pre-eminent source of information on the pioneers of the video age. The Daniel Langlois Foundation has made the entire content of this magazine available on the Web.

David Rokeby, The Giver of Names (1991-)

Towards an oral history of new media art
New media art presents a challenge to existing documentary and archival practices. Critical accounts of new media artworks emphasise the role of the participants, but descriptions of their experiences in their own words rarely appear in the documentary record.

Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Electroacoustic Music
Latin American electroacoustic music has a long, interesting, strong and prolific history, but it's a history that is little known even within the region itself. This archive has been developed by Ricardo Dal Farra during a residency at the Daniel Langlois Foundation.

Sonia Sheridan, Interactive correspondence, 1970

Sonia Sheridan Fonds
This fonds exemplifies the groundbreaking role played by Sonia Sheridan in the use of industrial photocopiers and early computer graphic systems as creative tools.

Our Publications

Digital Snow – Now on the Web!
The DVD-Rom Digital Snow is what Michael Snow calls an encyclopaedia of his work of the past six decades. The Daniel Langlois Foundation, with permission from Michael Snow and anarchive, has just completed the conversion to the Web of Digital Snow.

Steina and Woody Vasulka Fonds
This fonds highlights Steina and Woody Vasulka's contribution to defining a formal vocabulary specific to electronic images as well as the couple's pioneering role in the field of computer-assisted video.

9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering poster (1966)

9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
In 1965, Billy Klüver sought the expertise of some 30 engineers at Bell Labs, requesting that they participate in an project blending avant-garde theatre, dance and new technologies. Ten artists, like Yvonne Rainer and Robert Rauschenberg, were paired with engineers, each created an original performance.

Vera Frenkel, ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008–2009)

Vera Frenkel: Mapping a Practice
The 2010 exhibition Vera Frenkel: Mapping a Practice brought together, for the very first time, three seminal new media works in conjunction with a selection of elements that include photos, designs, and sketches from the artist's personal collection and the Vera Frenkel fonds of the Queen's University Archives.

DOCAM 2005-2010
The main objective of the DOCAM Research Alliance (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) was to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art.

Events

Max Dean: Album
Artist Max Dean launches a public project at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in tribute to the family photo album (until September 9, 2012). Throughout May, Dean will also travel to various locations in Toronto (ON) in the Foto Bug to showcase his collection and pass albums on to new owners.
ago.net/max-dean-album

Oh Canada
The largest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever produced outside Canada, Oh Canada features works by more than 60 artists, spanning multiple generations and working in all media. Gisele Amantea and Michael Snow are among the featured artists. From May 26, 2012 to Apr 1, 2013, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (MA).
massmoca.org

Steina and Woody Vasulka, Solo for 3, 1974

Watch This! The Smithsonian has assembled a permanent collection of video and time-based artwork. Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image features works by video pionners like Steina and Woody Vasulka, Joan Jonas, Peter Campus... Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (DC).
americanart.si.edu