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From: Angela Plohman <info@fondation-langlois.org> Subject: The Daniel Langlois Foundation THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION FOR ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM GUIDE MANDATE Established in the spring of 1997 through an endowment provided by Daniel Langlois, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is a private charitable foundation whose scope of activity is international. The purpose of the Foundation is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies. The Foundation seeks to nurture a critical awareness of technology's implications for human beings and their natural and cultural environment, and to promote the exploration of an aesthetics suited to new human environments. OBJECTIVES The Foundation's mission is : - to promote contemporary artistic practices that use digital technologies to express aesthetic and critical forms of discourse; - to encourage interdisciplinary research and, in general, to sustain the development of projects calling for co-operation between people from a variety of fields, such as artists, scientists, and technologists or engineers. 1. RESIDENCY AND COMMISSIONING OF WORKS OF ART PROGRAM The Foundation encourages projects that enable high-level artists or scientists to reside in centres where they have access to equipment and facilitates allowing them to develop their projects and further their research. The Foundation may also support the commissioning of works of art by major institutions such as museums, educational institutions, and organisations active in dance, theatre, music or media arts. 2. EXHIBITION, DISTRIBUTION AND PERFORMANCE PROGRAM The Foundation encourages projects designed to exhibit, distribute or perform technological works using art galleries, museum institutions, theatres and other public spaces, or digital telecommunications systems. The Foundation emphasises the development of innovative exhibition, distribution and performance projects, as well as research focusing on issues relevant to the technological arts in the context of today's digital culture and media-dominated societies. 3. PROGRAM FOR ORGANISATION FROM EMERGING COUNTRIES The Foundation encourages projects from organisations active in the Foundation's priority regions outside Western Europe and North America. Generally speaking, the Foundation supports projects allowing artists or scholars who are not European or North American to immerse themselves in technological contexts that are non-existent or difficult to access in their own country, in order to promote the integration of knowledge and practices specific to different cultures. The Foundation may also support research projects that combine the traditional artistic practices of certain cultures with advanced technology, or that explore methods and processes based on the unique aesthetic principles of certain cultures. 4. CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF MEDIA WORKS PROGRAM The Foundation helps scholars or institutions holding major collections carry out research on issues of conservation, preservation and restoration of media works. The Foundation defines media works as works whose basis of production and distribution is electronic or digital and may include complex computer systems. 5. RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS OR SCIENTISTS Through this program, the Foundation provides grants to individuals who are making an exceptional contribution to the advancement of knowledge at the crossroads of art, science and technology, or to individuals whose project is highly original and/or innovative. This assistance is intended to support individuals in their research, their experimental work and the development of their projects. Projects presented by scientific researchers, computer scientists or engineers must involve a partnership with an artist and must help artist carry out a project. Strictly scientific and technological research projects will be considered only if they demonstrate a potential for application in contemporary artistic practices. Eligibility for the research grant program shall be subject to the terms and conditions established by the Foundation. The Foundation's decisions, and those of any Committee established to select the projects that best satisfy the requirements of the program, shall be at the absolute discretion of the Foundation or the Committee, and shall be final and binding. Projects that entertain a commercial approach will not be eligible for the research grant program. ELIGIBILITY FOR THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION PROGRAMS First and foremost, the Foundation's contribution is intended to sustain development, research, exploration and experimentation in the area of techniques and processes, and, in general, to support aspects of creative research related to project development. The following are eligible for support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation: registered charities or other qualified donees pursuant to the Income Tax Act (Canada), particularly those in artistic or scientific fields, and, in the case of the research grant program, individuals. Also eligible are non-profit organisations, artistic or scientific organisations or institutions, institutions of higher education, and individuals, as long as their project is presented in partnership with registered charities or other qualified donees as defined above. Projects presented by these organisations or institutions must rely on established administrative structures capable of guaranteeing that the project will be continued, completed or distributed, or present evidence of partnership with institutions, companies or organisations having such capacity. The Daniel Langlois Foundation does not fund the operating or administrative costs of organisations. The following are not eligible for support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation: in consideration of the above-mentioned eligibility criteria, commercial corporations with share capital or other; partnerships, projects for the production of films, TV programs or series, or for the publication of multimedia titles; projects for equipment acquisitions, except in the case of equipment needed to carry out a project supported by the Foundation; projects to create or increase endowment funds; and projects to market cultural products, even if these products are derived from research and development supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. HOW TO APPLY FOR SUPPORT FROM THE FOUNDATION The Foundation will consider project proposals once a year. The annual application deadline is January 31. Material received after this date will not be considered. If this date falls on a weekend or a holiday, applicants must make sure that their material reaches the Foundation no later than 5 P.M. on the next business day. No exceptions will be made. In the context of this call for projects, eligible candidates (individuals or organisations) who are interested in submitting a project to the Foundation must, as a first step, send a letter no more than eight pages long providing the following information : - A brief description of your organisation, or, if you are an individual, of your activities; - A brief description of the projects; - A brief description of the individuals and/or partners involved in the project; - The overall cost of the project, the amount requested from the Foundation and an explanation of how the grant will be used; - The duration of the project and/or the proposed dates on which the project will begin and end. At this stage, applicants must send an example of past works (maximum one videotape, or one audiotape, or ten slides or photographs, or one CD-ROM, etc.) Applications must be type-written. The Daniel Langlois Foundation will not accept handwritten or incomplete applications. The Foundation only considers submissions written in English or in French. NOTE: Applicants are entirely responsible for the costs of transmitting their documents to the Foundation. The Foundation will not cover courier, postal or other such costs. Documents sent to the Foundation will not be returned unless the applicant has provided a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Documents that are not returned will be kept at the Foundation's Research and Documentation Centre (see below, Research and Documentation Centre of the Daniel Langlois Foundation). During the second step, after the initial letter, the Foundation will ask selected candidates to present a more detailed application. Others will rapidly be informed that their project has not been retained. PROJECT SELECTION AND EVALUATION As part of the second step, projects are evaluated by international committees of experts appointed by The Daniel Langlois Foundation. Committee members are specialists in the artistic and scientific disciplines involved in the projects under consideration. The Foundation may occasionally call on independent evaluators to assess specific aspects of certain projects. Committee evaluations and the Foundation's decisions are based on the following criteria : - The project's potential or significance; - The project's relevance to the goals and objectives of the Foundation and its programs; - The project's beneficial impact on initiators, participants, and/or the specific milieu or group to which it is addressed or in which it takes place; - The project's contribution to the advancement of knowledge in areas of interest to the Foundation. Any decisions by the Foundation and/or the Committee are at the absolute discretion of the Foundation and/or the Committee and are final and binding. No correspondence or appeal shall be entertained. By taking part in the process, the applicant accepts as final and conclusive the decisions of the Foundation and/or the Committee and agrees to be bound by all such decisions. Candidates may expect an answer three to four months after submitting their initial application to the Foundation. For information : Phone : (514) 987-7177 Fax : (514) 987-7492 e-mail : info@fondation-langlois.org THE RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE OF THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION Among its programs, the Foundation has created, and is developing, a Research and Documentation Centre. This Centre aims to fulfil the obligation of the Foundation "to render public the results of its research supported by its programs". Audio-visual, photographic and written documents that are not returned to applicants after the evaluation process will be deposited in the Research and Documentation Centre where they will be available for researchers solely for consultation on the premises. The policy of the Foundation is to protect the copyright of artists and other copyright owners, and it will prevent any unauthorised copies from being made. Any other use of these documents, of any kind, will be the object of a specific agreement with the copyright owner. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress