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Sylvie Lacerte
| Sylvie Lacerte American University in Cairo Alliance de recherche DOCAM la fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie Email: slacerte@docam.ca sylvielacerte@videotron.ca T.(514)987-7177 (4206) F.(514)987-7492 www.docam.ca |
Independent scholar and curator Sylvie Lacerte is the author of
La mÈdiation de líart contemporain (2007, Šditions díArt Le
Sabord). She holds a PhD in Art Theory and practices from UniversitÈ
du QuÈbec ý MontrÈal (UQ¿M) and an MA in Museum Studies from New York
University. Her main fields of interest are the mediation of
contemporary art, artistsí creative and working processes as well as
the historiography of collaborations between artists, engineers and
scientists. In 2001, Sylvie Lacerte undertook an extensive research
on the collaborative endeavours of artists and engineers that worked
towards the presentation of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering held
in New York City, in 1966, which later led to the creation
Experiments in Art and Technology. She was an accredited researcher
at the Daniel Langlois Foundation (2001-2002 and 2005), for this
particular project, during which time she met with Billy Kl¸ver and
Julie Martin on a few occasions. Sylvie Lacerte has published essays
and given talks on EAT, both in Canada and in Europe. She has also
published other texts in art journals, anthologies and catalogues as
well as delivered lectures on her other fields of interest, in Canada
and Europe. She has been course lecturer at UQ¿M and will be teaching
the DOCAM Seminar at McGill, during the winter of 2008. She has been
coordinator of the DOCAM (documentation and conservation of the media
arts heritage) Research Alliance, at the Daniel Langlois Foundation,
MontrÈal, since the summer of 2005.
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