Daniel Langlois Foundation
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The Daniel Langlois Foundation is a non-profit, philanthropic organization endowed by Daniel Langlois
Daniel Langlois
Daniel Langlois, OC is the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.Daniel Langlois also founded Softimage Inc., serving as its president and chief technology officer from November 1986 to July 1998...

 and chartered in 1997 with the mission to support artistic and scientific projects and research dedicated to further general human awareness as well as the understanding of human relation with its natural and technological environment.

The purpose of the Daniel Langlois Foundation is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies and the environment. The Foundation seeks to nurture a critical awareness of technology's implications for human beings and their natural and cultural environments, and to promote the exploration of aesthetics suited to evolving human environments. The Foundation Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) seeks to document history, artworks and practices associated with electronic and digital media arts and to make this information available to researchers in an innovative manner through data communications.

In 2005, the Daniel Langlois Foundation initiated the development of DOCAM
DOCAM
DOCAM is an international research alliance on the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage....

 (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage). This international research alliance's primary objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting technological and electronic works of art

The Daniel Langlois Foundation, DOCAM and its Centre for Research and Documentation are located in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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For more information consult the Foundation Daniel Langlois website: http://www.fondation-langlois.org

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