Mission and governance

Hexagram is an interdisciplinary network dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts, cultures and technologies. It comprises around forty co-researchers, forty collaborators, and a little over 200 students from various artistic disciplines related, in particular, to living arts, visual arts, design, and media arts, while also touching disciplines in the social sciences and humanities or natural sciences and engineering.

45

co-investigator members

40

collaborator members

+200

student members

Mission

COLLABORATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY

It promotes collaborative work and the sharing of facilities by federating human and material resources between 8 universities, mainly from Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, but also those of Université de Montréal, École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Université Laval, and McGill University.

It creates opportunities for knowledge-sharing between experts from different creative disciplines and various fields of research by facilitating collaboration between members in interdisciplinary activities.

EXPERIMENTATION AND MOBILITY

It supports the development of experimental or critical research-creation projects by offering residency programs and national and international mobility grants.

DISSEMINATION, CURATION AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

It helps explicate and disseminate the various methodological approaches and theoretical foundations of research-creation through the publication of books, radio broadcasts, and videographic material accessible online.

It organizes artistic and scientific events such as symposia, conferences, exhibitions, concerts, shows, and other creative forms in public space.

PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

It encourages knowledge-sharing and exposure for emerging artist by developing partnerships with educational institutions, artistic organizations, and cultural businesses located in Quebec, Canada, and abroad.

Artwork : Mélodie Claire Jetté
© Ethel Laurendeau

Governance

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
  • Sofian Audry, Co-director of the Hexagram Network, UQAM.
  • Bart Simon, Interim Co-director of the Hexagram Network, Concordia.
  • Sandeep Bhagwati, Co-investigator, Concordia
  • Jean Dubois, Co-investigator, UQAM.
  • Laureline Chiapello, Co-investigator, NAD-UQAC.
  • Marie Christiane, Co-investigator, Université Laval.
  • Jean-Philippe Côté, Student Member, UQAM.
  • Christian Scott, Student Member, Concordia.
  • Lena Krause, Student Member, UdeM.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
  • Barbara Clausen, Vice-Dean for Research and Creation, Faculty of Arts, UQAM.
  • Dominique Michaud, Representative of Associate Vice-President, Research, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Concordia.
  • Yan Breuleux, co-investigator member, NAD-UQAC.
  • Jean-Pierre Richer, Representative of Vice-Rector for Research, Creation and Diffusion, UQAM.
  • Marc Ménard, Vice-Dean for Research and Creation, Faculty of Communication, UQAM.
  • MJ Thompson, Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia.
  • A representative of the research office of ÉTS.

© Philippe Vandal

REPRESENTATIVE OF PARTNER INSTITUTIONS
  • Alanna Thain, Co-investigator, McGill.
  • Bart Simon, Co-investigator, Concordia.
  • David St-Onge, Co-investigator, ÉTS.
  • Sofian Audry, Co-investigator, UQAM.
  • Jean-Ambroise Vesac, Co-investigator, UQAT.
  • Marie-Christiane Mathieu, Co-investigator, Université Laval.
  • Aleksandra Kaminska, Co-investigator, UdeM.
  • Yan Breuleux, Co-investigator, NAD-UQAC.
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (EDI) COMMITTEE
  • Sofian Audry, Co-investigator, UQAM.
  • Alanna Thain, Co-investigator, McGill.
  • Rilla Khaled, Co-investigator, Concordia.
  • André-Éric Létourneau, Co-investigator, UQAM.
  • Elina Kasatkina, student member, UQAM.

General Bylaws

Hexagram’s general bylaws and organizational structure are based on the principles described in the Common General Rules of the Fonds de recherche du Québec​ (2019) and in the Strategic clusters – Fall 2019 competition​ program’s call for applications. ​They are also in compliance with the governance and management policies of partner universities, according to the statutes and procedures that apply to their respective institutional frameworks.

[re]capture, 2022. ©Dr. Alice Jarry, Brice ammar-Khodja, Jacqueline Beaumont, Asa Perlman, Philippe Vandal et Ariane Plante.

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