A UNIQUE NEW RESOURCE IN MONTREAL

THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
OF THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION OPENS ITS DOORS!

Montreal, October 3, 2000 - This morning, The Daniel Langlois Foundation
for Art, Science and Technology opened its Centre for Research and
Documentation (CR+D) to researchers working in the field of multimedia
and new technologies. The Daniel Langlois Foundation also took the
opportunity to introduce its new Web site. "In establishing this Centre
for Research and Documentation, the Foundation wishes to offer the
Montreal community of researchers, creators and members of the public
interested in multimedia and new technologies in the arts a valuable
resource for understanding the new culture emerging in this new
century," said Daniel Langlois, President of the Foundation.

The only resource of its kind in Montreal, and one of a handful in the
world, the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) will be
instrumental in fulfilling one of the Foundation's objectives, namely to
make public the fruits of its own research and the research it has made
possible through its funding programs. More specifically, CR+D's mandate
is to document the history, works and practices associated with
technological/media arts and electronic and digital arts, and to make
this information accessible in an innovative way using telematic means.
The CR+D collection covers the main trends and practices seen in
electronic and digital arts from the early sixties to the present. The
collection comprises books, exhibition and festival catalogues and
periodicals of historical and current importance. A collection of rare
CD-ROMs and other digital material has also been assembled and is
available for consultation.

The Foundation's collection includes the Images du futur Collection, the
Steina and Woody Vasulka Archive and the Experiments in Art and
Technology (E.A.T.) Document Collection. The Images du futur Collection
includes printed material (catalogues, conference proceedings,
periodicals, etc.), videos, slides and documentary files on artists,
groups and organizations. This collection, which runs from the eighties
to the mid-nineties, brings together international documentation
corresponding to the 10-year history of the Images du futur event
organized, from 1985 to 1996, by Herv