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ALAIN DEPOCAS - Biography

Head of the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) of The Daniel Langlois Foundation since September 1999, Alain Depocas has been named Director of the CR+D in March 2003. In this capacity, he is in charge of a documentary collection covering the history, works and practices associated with the media, electronic and digital arts. He has also set up a database for managing the collection and information on CR+D's areas of interest. 
After studying art history at the Université de Montréal and earning a master's degree in 1991 on the history of theories of photography, titled Les paradoxes de la photographie (Paradoxes of Photography), he worked from 1991 to 1999 as a researcher and then documentalist at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM). Among other duties there, he was responsible for the MACM Media Centre Web site and was involved in developing a contemporary art thematic scan project.
He has long been interested in research data management and documentation in the field of art history, and specifically in the use of databases and telematics.
As a lecturer, he has participated to the 1998 symposium Nouvelles technologies et institutions muséales in Dijon; to the 1999 symposium Archiving the Web, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; to the Inter Society of Electronic Arts' Cartographies symposium held in 1999 in Montreal; to the 2001 Ars Electronica festival in Linz; to the 2002 symposium Looking Back/Looking Forward, organized by the Experimental Television Center in New York and also to the 2002 Annual AMIA Conference in Boston.
Email
adepocas@fondation-langlois.org