Founded in 1997, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology is a private, non-profit institution, committed to nurturing critical engagement with the interrelation between art, science and technology through the support of experimental research that explores our interdependency with the technological environment.
Based in Montreal, Quebec the Foundation funds a variety of projects by artists and researchers from around the world including art projects and investigative residencies that explore the nexus between art, science and technology. Recent projects included Ælab’s DATA (2004) , a collaboration that explored the representation of the micro and nanometric imagery with the Lennox Lab in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University; and Judith Barry’s 3-D video work Not reconciled: Cairo Stories (2006).
Central to the foundation’s investigation of the aesthetics of our technological environment is the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D), a media collection devoted to trends and practices in electronic and media arts from the sixties to the present day. The growing collection is an invaluable resource for researchers interested in the history of new media and theory surrounding its documentation. The collection’s web site is an integral part of the Centre’s strategy: In Digital Preservation: Recording the Recoding – The Documentary Strategy, CR+D’s Director Alain Depocas writes “To make accessible – and to access – is to preserve.”
Since 2002, CR + D has funded innovative residencies for curators, artists and researchers interested in engaging with the media collection and investigating the special challenges inherent in preserving and documenting new media. Recent residents have included Australian-based curator Lizzie Muller, Variable Media Network curators Caitlin Jones and Paul Kuranko and, in conjunction with OBORO’s MediaLab , Uraguayan artist Juliana Rosales.