The Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM) is an association of 61 researchers at Concordia University, UQAM and the University of Montreal. These researchers study the applications, content and development of technologies that have an impact on the new media arts.
The Daniel Langlois Foundation’s purpose is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies. 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 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.
The Foundation’s mission is to:
Promote contemporary artistic practices that use digital technologies to express aesthetic and critical forms of discourse;
Encourage interdisciplinary research and, in general, sustain the development of projects calling for co-operation between people from a variety of fields, such as artists, scientists, technologists and engineers.
Make available the results of research supported by its programs.
Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture se consacre au développement du système de recherche et d’innovation québécois en sciences sociales et humaines, en arts et en lettres. Pour ce faire, le Fonds soutient financièrement la recherche et la formation des chercheurs dans ces secteurs en plus de favoriser la diffusion et le transfert des connaissances. Il établit aussi les partenariats nécessaires à l’avancement des connaissances scientifiques portant sur des problématiques sociétales
Les divers programmes s’adressent à quelque 4 200 professeurs-chercheurs et professeurs-chercheurs-créateurs, 22 000 étudiants de maîtrise, de doctorat et de niveau postdoctoral qui œuvrent dans les grands domaines de recherche couverts par le Fonds. De plus, bon an mal an, près de 1 300 étudiants des 2e et 3e cycles et chercheurs postdoctorants reçoivent une aide financière par l’entremise des bourses d’excellence et de perfectionnement. Le Fonds se met également au service des milieux de pratique, d’intervention et de décision qui manifestent des besoins en recherche, en favorisant le maillage avec la communauté des chercheurs. Le Fonds s’acquitte de sa mission grâce à un partenariat actif avec, d’une part, les universités et les administrateurs de la recherche et, d’autre part, les professeurs-chercheurs qui participent aux comités d’évaluation des demandes d’aide financière soumises au Fonds.
Hexagram was constituted on August 27th, 2001. As its geometric name suggests, it symbolizes the coming together of progressive trends. Hexagram was born out of the shared visions of Montreal’s two leading research institutions in media arts and technologies: Concordia University and UQAM. The goal was to combine their expertise in media arts and thus turn Montreal into an internationally recognized hub of creation and development.
At Hexagram, academics specialized in media arts and technologies can work together, forming the necessary critical mass to support innovation in this sector. A researcher based at Université de Montréal who developed a rapid-prototyping lab within his institution has recently joined the team of research members from UQAM and Concordia. More than 75 artists/researchers and 350 graduate students are now working together to make Montreal a showcase of academic excellence in media arts and technologies. From the beginning, the decision was made to set up a non-profit organization, located outside the two founding universities, with an independent Board of Directors.
“Hexagram is a catalyst and promoter of world-calibre research/creation within universities, building bridges with the media arts sector.’’
This is an exciting challenge for Hexagram. In this role it will act as a facilitator and catalyst for media arts through mobilization, transfer and commercialization activities.
Supporting Resilient and Creative Communities. The Rockefeller Foundation has supported efforts to preserve and renew the cultural heritage of people excluded from the benefits of globalization. Fostering Creativity and Knowledge The Rockefeller Foundation is helping strengthen civil society and the free flow of ideas through supporting individual artists and humanists and their institutions.
Enhancing Creativity and Innovation in a Global Age The Rockefeller Foundation is supporting new art forms which promote cultural diversity, innovation and understanding across cultures.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is an arm’s-length federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in the social sciences and humanities. Created by an act of Parliament in 1977, SSHRC is governed by a 22-member Council that reports to Parliament through the Minister of Industry. SSHRC-funded research fuels innovative thinking about real life issues, including the economy, education, health care, the environment, immigration, globalization, language, ethics, peace, security, human rights, law, poverty, mass communication, politics, literature, addiction, pop culture, sexuality, religion, Aboriginal rights, the past, our future.
Le Fonds Nature et Technologies est un organisme public relevant du ministre du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation (MDEIE) du Québec, monsieur Raymond Bachand. Les domaines de recherche du FQRNT sont les suivants: Structures abstraites, Nature et transformation de la matière, Études du vivant, Environnement, Ressources naturelles, Matériaux, Technologies de l’information et des communications, Conception, mécanique et structures, Systèmes et procédés, Méthodologies, techniques et instrumentation.