The Daniel Langlois Foundation

Features

Shifting Polarities
Shifting Polarities by Caroline Langill is a research project which documents the production of electronic and new media works by Canadian artists between 1970 and 1990 like Vera Frenkel, Tom Sherman, Michael Snow, Norman White, and many more.

Digital Snow : Michael Snow, Venetian Blind, 1970

Michael Snow
A multidisciplinary artist, Michael Snow is a painter, photographer, filmmaker and musician. He is considered among Canada's most important artists.

George Legrady, An Anecdoted Archive From the Cold War, 1994

George Legrady
In 1997, the National Gallery of Canada presented a solo exhibition on the works of George Legrady. To mark the exhibition, the Gallery collaborated with the artist to produce a catalogue on CD-ROM. The Daniel Langlois Foundation, with permission from Legrady, has adapted in 2005 the CD-ROM for the Web.

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.

Our Publications

Yvonne Rainer, Carriage Discreteness (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.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Subtitled Public, 2005

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Subtitled Public
Initiated by Caitlin Jones and Lizzie Muller, the second instalment of this series of Documentary Collections is about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Subtitled Public.

Vera Frenkel, String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video (Montreal–Toronto, 1974)

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.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Battements et papillons, 2006

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

Michael Snow, Recent Works
Michael Snow, Recent Works is the first solo show presenting the work of the influential Canadian artist Michael Snow in Austria. From February 23 to April 15, 2012 in Vienna (Austria).
www.secession.at

Visions fugitives
Le Fresnoy is offering Visions fugitive (Fleeting Visions), an exhibition of animated works. The notion of 'animation' is to be understood here in its broadest sense. For example works by Jim Campbell are on display. From February 11 to April 15, 2012, Le Fresnoy Studio national, Tourcoing (France).
www.lefresnoy.net

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965 to 1980

Conceptual Art in Canada The touring exhibition Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965-1980 is visible until February 25, 2012 at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal (QC).
ellengallery.concordia.ca

Recorders
Recorders, Australia's first solo exhibition by one of the world's favourite interactive artists, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is part of the Biennale of Sydney. Until February 12, 2012 at the MCA, Sydney (Australia).
mcarecorders.com.au