NEWS

For the 2007-2008 Funding Competition for the research, 10 projects of Hexagram members/researchers have been accepted. They will also receive a financial support in order to realize their projects that having an important potential of creation and evaluation. The total amount of this Funding Competition reaches 369 556 $ and comes only from the Hexagram Funds, a private funds composed by four founding partners : the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Cirque du Soleil, the Gillett Entertainment Group and Clear Channel Entertainment.

19 projects have been proposed and 10 of them have been chosen by the Board of Directors.

 Ying Gao, exercices de style

 Tomas Dorta, Collaboration et apprentissage hybride

 Robert Normandeau, spatialisation timbrale

 Barbara Layne, Currente Calamo

 Lynn Hughes, Connect the Orbs

 Kim Sawchuk, From Web-cam to camera phone, the network image and the re-mapping of city space

 Marcelo Wanderley, Papyrus (Paper-based Re-usable sensors)

 Jean-Claude Bustros, La porte

 Sha Xin Wei, Ozone Continuous Dynamics Media Choregraphy

 Martine Époque, Création d’une collection numérique de signatures motrices de danseurs, de sa médiathèque interactive et de sa banque de données paramétrées.

The total amounts allowed for each project are between 8 024 $ and 55 955 $, that brings the final amount of the grants fort the research/creation to 4 448 312$ since the beginning of Hexagram. Founded by UQÀM and Concordia, Hexagram is the largest Canadian university consortium dedicated to research/creation in media arts. Overseeing over 90 university-level artists/researchers, assisted by over 350 graduate students, Hexagram contributes to make Montreal a leader in the field.

At this occasion, Hexagram would like to thank its partners and collaborators for their support since the beginning : Valorisation Recherche Québec (VRQ), Canada Economic Development (CED), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Ministère du Développement économique, de l’innovation, et de l’exportation (MDEIE), the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), UQÀM, Concordia University, the Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM) and the Ministère des Affaires municipales, du Sport et Loisir. Its private partners are the Cirque du Soleil, the Société Radio-Canada, the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the Gillett Entertainment Group and Clear Channel Entertainment.