Move over, da Vinci
Daniel Langlois' St. Laurent
Blvd. cinema Ex-Centris was the site of a press conference and
reception on March 2, when the Daniel Langlois Foundation Chair
in Digital Technologies and the Fine Arts was inaugurated. Seen
above are Daniel Langlois, cultural philosopher HervŽ Fischer,
who was named to the chair, and the Foundation's program
director, Jacques Gagnon, who is a Concordia graduate. Fischer
said that he looks forward to attracting the best minds in the
field to Concordia, both as students and researchers, and to
creating a world-class media lab. The $300,000 gift is the
largest made so far by the Foundation, and brings together
expertise in Concordia's Faculties of Fine Arts and
Engineering/Computer Science. As Professor Terry Fancott, one of
the speakers, said, it's the first time those disciplines have
been so close since Leonardo da Vinci flourished in the 15th
century.
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