Hexagram Institute Receives a $21.9-Million Cf I Grant Funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation Will Provide Research Space and Equipment for the Digital Arts
Concordia's Vol. 26, No. 10 February 7, 2002 pr.concordia.ca/ctr Hexagram Institute receives a $21.9-million Cf I grant Funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation will provide research space and equipment for the digital arts BY BARBARA B LACK 40 per cent by provincial agencies, communications and sound The CFI apphcation was made by of the money will buy exciting new and 20 per cent by other sources. researchers in a multi-media evalua Concordia Fine Arts Professors Lynn equipment for researchers, including exagram, the new inter-uni About $8 million will go to build tions lab. Hughes and Barbara Layne under the two Sony high-definition cameras H ve rsity project in digital art ing Hexagram's research space in the About $1.5 million will go to Con name Conve rging Digital Content: ($355,000 each), Avid production that is led by Concordia, has been arts/engineering complex to be built cordia's main partner, the Universite Interdisciplinary Research in Emerg and post-production fa cilities, a awarded an Innovation Grant by the at Guy and Ste. Catherine Sts. Nearly du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), to ing Cinema and Interacti ve Media robotic arm, digitally-assisted Canada Foundation for Innovation. $500,000 will be spent on renova build an interactive explorations centre Arts. The interim director of Hexa jacquard weaving looms, and two The grant is for $2 1,963,639, of tion in the Drummond Building on that will match and be connected to gram is Dean Christopher Jackson. rapid-prototyping machines, which which 40 per cent is funded by CFI, the Loyola Campus to accommodate the one in Concordia's new building.
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