<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Anyone have contacts there? </blockquote><div> Not a problem at all. Off the top of my head, I can think of: Studio XX (<a href="http://www.studioxx.org/splash.html">http://www.studioxx.org/splash.html</a>) a feminist, new media artist run centre with F/LOSS usage actually in its mandate. And they've already expressed interest in being involved. SAT (<a href="http://www.sat.qc.ca/">http://www.sat.qc.ca/</a>) the grand poobah of tech-art centres in Montreal. Very accommodating and I believe LGM has had dealings with them in the past (reception for LGM 2007 was at their space). Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concodia University (<a href="http://design.concordia.ca/">http://design.concordia.ca/</a>) which has some profs who are very keen on exposing their students to F/LOSS and has good ties to other research centres, like Hexagram (<a href="http://hexagram.ca/">http://hexagram.ca/</a>). Daniel Langlois Foundation (<a href="http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/">http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/</a>) which does majorly good work in furthering digital art in Quebec. There's loads more, but that's what immediately comes to mind when I think of media arts in Montreal. (Full disclosure: I studied in Design and Computation Arts at Concordia, work extensively with Studio XX and have colleagues within Hexagram. Although in this case, I think all those tied up interests are a useful thing instead of a conflict.) </div></div> In short, don't worry. -- ginger "all-lower-case" coons <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca">adaptstudio.ca</a> 647.865.7757 (Toronto) 514.213.1318 (Montreal)