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Lecture / Presentation by Jean Gagnon
Electronic Instruments to Play Images and Sounds
A Lecture / Presentation by Jean Gagnon
Jean Gagnon is Interim Director of Collections at the Cinemathèque québécoise and an independent curator and art critic based in Montreal.
From March 2008 to September 2009, he was Director/curator of the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Montreal. Prior to this, Mr. Gagnon was Executive Director of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology from 1998 to 2008. Since 2004, he has been Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. Between 1991 and 1998 he was associate curator of media arts for the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa. Mr. Gagnon initiated the DOCAM research alliance on documentation and conservation of technologically-based art works. He recently co-edited a special (bilingual) issue of Artpress 2 (Spring 2009) entitled Media Arts: Conservation and restoration. He is completing a PhD in Étude et pratique des arts at UQAM about instrumental playing in audio-visual and new media arts.
Where:
Concordia University, Department of Music
MB 8.255 (Guy and de Maisonneuve)
When:
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Cost:
Open class given as part of Ricardo Dal Farra's New Music and Media Arts course.
