The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, a private charitable foundation established in 1997 and based in Montreal, is awarding grants internationally to forward contemporary artistic and scientific practices in digital technologies and to encourage and sustain interdisciplinary research in these areas. The five categories into which the grants fall are the residency and commissioning of artworks program; the exhibition, distribution and performance program; the organizations from emerging countries (outside Western Europe and North America) program; the conservation and preservation of mediaworks program; and the research through individual artists or scientists program.
The recipients of 1999-2000 grants totaling nearly $1 million are the Avatar (Quebec City) DisKlavier residency program, Australian Network for Art and Technology (Adelaide) for their masterclass in of recent origin Media Art Curation and Theory, The Banff midmost point for the Arts for their Aboriginal interactive streaming draw the Arizona State University Art Museum for an exhibition and residency of Jim Campbell's electronic installations, Theatre Le 400 Coup (Montreal) for research onward the Russian filmmaker Ladislas Starewitch, Exhibition midmost point at the University of Montreal for an exhibition "Curieux univers," Media arts research cluster at UQAM for translation and disentanglement of an on-line version of a media arts dictionary, Irit Batsry (New York) for installation and residency at the Montreal Biosphere, Pat Binder (Berlin) for the Internet plot Voices of Ravensbrueck, Juan Geuer (Almonte, Canada) for a video delineate based on scientific principles, Thomas McIntosh and Emmanuel Madan (Montreal) for the secondary phase of The Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, Catherine Richards (Ottawa) for research in succession an aesthetic of the electromagnetic environment and Concordia University (Montreal) for the creation of a chair in digital technologies and fine arts.