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Michael Longford's creative work and research activities reside at the intersection of photography, graphic design and new media. Currently, he is a co-principle investigator for the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), a joint research project launched by Concordia University and the Banff New Media Institute. He has organized numerous workshops, artist talks, exhibitions and conferences. He has also served on a number of committees overseeing the integration of new technologies in the Faculty of Fine Arts. He is a founding member of Hexagram and was a former axe director for the Advanced Digital Imaging and 3D Rapid Prototyping Group. |
Before moving to OCAD in 2005, she was the award-winning Director of Research at The Banff Centre and Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts for fourteen years. She founded the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) in 1995 and since then, with her team at Banff and a number of national and international partners, has built the BNMI into a globally recognized content incubator, workshop and think tank. Diamond's network reaches from Asia to Eastern Europe, Brazil, and the Arctic; from research labs to Silicon Valley; from television to software development. She is currently co-principle investigator on the Mobile Digital Commons Network. Her research and publications explore software visualization and the history of media art. |
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Paula Gardner is Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of
Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and is a
researcher/designer and co-coordinator for the MDCN team at OCAD. Paula is a Communication
Studies researcher and a documentary video producer, holding a Master's Degree in
Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in Communication
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on cultural
studies of psychiatry, and new media technologies as a vehicle to democratic
citizenship. She is completing a manuscript entitled Recovery, Inc.: Depression,
Power, Democracy, and a full-length film entitled "Eyes That Don't See, Hearts
that Don't Feel", a critical piece that traces the lives of four families fleeing
global conflicts in the 1990's, and their ongoing displacement due to the problematic
American asylum system.
Bruce Hinds is Assistant Professor of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design where he teaches Design Process, Interaction Design, Design Drawing, Think Tank (co-chair) and Biomimetics (curriculum leader). As a licensed Architect, Bruce maintains an active practice addressing issues of sustainable community structures in the Third World. Current projects include working with a multidisciplinary team of physicians and specialists in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania to construct a sustainable community for children affected and infected with HIV.
Bruce is an active member of the Architectural Institute of British
Columbia, The Ontario Association of Architects, The Royal Architectural
Institute of Canada, Associate of the Architectural Institute of America, member of Architects for Humanity and the Toronto Society of Architects.
Bruce holds degrees in Psychology, Architecture and Painting.
Martha Ladly is an Associate Professor of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design,
where she teaches Interactive Communication and Design. Martha is a Registered Graphic
Designer and a member of the Chartered Society of Designers, UK. She is a mentor with
the Canadian Film Centre's Interactive Project Lab (IPL) and a faculty member with the
Habitat Interactive Art and Entertainment Program. Martha was the Creative Director of
HorizonZero; a bilingual on-line publication dedicated to digital arts and culture in
Canada. She worked in the UK for many years, notably with artist Peter Gabriel, as the
head of Real World Design. In a former life, Martha played keyboards and sang backing
vocals with the legendary Toronto band, Martha and the Muffins.
David McIntosh is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
His ongoing research interests include: globalization and the political-economies of audiovisual
spaces; network theories and practices; new media narrativity; and insurrectional media history.
He is currently developing a research network with media researchers and artists in Argentina,
Peru and Colombia. He is an award winning producer/screenwriter, producing Brenda Longfellow?s
feature documentary Tina in Mexico (2002), and writing the dramatic feature film Stryker which
premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Former Director of the legendary Funnel Experimental
Film Centre and currently Senior Programmer for the Hot Docs Documentary Festival, he has
curated a range of media programs for venues including the National Gallery of Cuba, the
National Gallery of Argentina, the Toronto International Film Festival and Cinematheque
Ontario. His critical writing has been published extensively in books and periodicals,
including Ride Queer Ride, Video Re/View, Money Value Art, Fuse, C Magazine, CineAction,
Zebra and Parachute.
Angus Leech is a new media artist, writer and editor. He is currently Lead Artist /
Producer for the Banff New Media Institute's ART Mobile Lab, a research unit devoted
to creating multimedia content, experience design concepts, and software applications
for portable media devices. As part of the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), the
Mobile Lab also conducts participant ethnography and user integration research to study
patterns of mobile media use ? in particular, to evaluate the usability and applicability of
locative media with respect to outdoor environments and audiences. The Lab's current
MDCN research initiative is Tracklines, a mediascape project or 'walkumentary' which
explores the potential of locative media for enriching the experience of trail environments in
Banff National Park for local audiences and park visitors.
Susan Kennard appointed on July 1, 2005 as director and executive producer of the Banff New Media Institute brings a wealth of experience in developing new media research, production, and events to the role. Since 1997, she has been the executive producer for BNMI, responsible for the implementation of all BNMI projects including summits, workshops, research, and co-production of new media and arts television works, and has frequently acted as faculty or moderator of BNMI events and partner activities. Prior to her work with The Banff Centre, Kennard worked in television as an associate producer for the International Hour, CBC Newsworld, and Dateline NBC, and in radio as a writer/broadcaster for CBC Radio and as station manager for CKIZ radio in Pincher Creek, Alberta. She has extensive experience in policy development, training, and advocacy for the not-for-profit community radio sector across Canada, and is the co-founder of radio90.fm, a hybrid net/fm radio station. In June 2005, Kennard completed a master's degree in Communication for Development from the University of Malmo, Sweden, completing a thesis on the relationship between artistic practice and development, and the interplay between globalisation, contemporary art, and civil society in post-war Sarajevo.
She participates on juries and review panels in the arts and sciences
and is a co-director of the Interactive Project Lab, a new media
accelerator program in partnership with The Canadian Film Centre
(Toronto) and L'institue Image et du Son (Montreal).
Geoffrey Shea is a media artist/designer who has been producing video objects, installations and webworks for over two decades. His company, Unscrambled.com, has produced several pioneering entertainment websites, including Monster Home, Great War Online and United Store. He has coordinated festivals, exhibitions and conferences, including: Scenarios From Africa: Dealing with HIV/AIDS (at the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film), FRAIL.ca - an ongoing, online, international exhibition of media art, Jerk & Jounce: symposium at OCAD (directed with Caroline Secks Langill) and Les Lieux de Vid? - International Video Exhibition (at UMAS). He leads the alt-cabaret musical ensemble, Gigi Minor, writing many of their songs and coordinated co-productions with filmmakers.
Shea is an elected Councillor for the Municipality of West Grey and teaches both media art and design at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
Patricio is a multi-disciplinary designer and artist. He has worked on projects that involve graphic design, photography and video, writing and research, curation, information architecture and interactive design. Before becoming Research Coordinator for the Mobile Digital Commons Network at OCAD he was Associate Creative Director at ICE Inc. where he lead a team of designers on projects ranging from branding, advertising and interactive media. Some past clients have included Bell Canada, Telus, CIBC, the Marshall McLuhan Festival, VISA and the Toronto International Film Festival. As an independent designer and researcher he has worked on interactive community-building projects such as the Museo Solidaridad Museum. In his photo-based art practice, he explores memory, identity and the nature of subcultures and their relationship to dominant culture. He has also worked as editor on various documentaries. Patricio has taught digital production techniques to traditional designers in Havana, Cuba. He has recently lead fourth-year students through an Art Director?s workshop at OCAD and lectured at Sheridan College.
Patricio holds a Bachelor of Design from the Ontario College of Art and currently lives and works Toronto.
Brenda Goldstein is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, writer and curator. She specializes in video-based performance and installation artworks. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2006 and has received several awards, including the William F. White Prize for excellence in film production, the Charles Street Video Prize, both in 2001 and the Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Award for Film and Video in 2005. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals across Canada and the U.S. including the Herland Film Festival, Calgary 2006; the Planet in Focus festival, Toronto 2005; Images Festival, Toronto 2005; and at the PDX Film Festival in Portland Oregon in 2004. In 2006, her work was included in Atchung, Baby, a program of performance video curated by artists Johanna Householder and Nina Czegledy. The program traveled to Bratislava in Slovakia, Budapest, Hungary and Cluj, Romania.
Goldstein curated The Centre Cannot Hold at the Toronto Free Gallery (April - June 2006) and will
complete Spin, a video installation with artist Alissa Firth-Eagland in 2007, for which she received a
2005 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Award. She co-authored an article about the future role
of artist-run centres for the upcoming book The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto,
2006 Coach House Press. This project was in collaboration with Dana Samuel, Director/curator of
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
Tom Donaldson has worked as an inventor for Nike, Speedo, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson.
His first foray into mobile software was through CTNY, a New York based company. He created a
multi-platform mobile email service, ThinAir, spun-out as ThinAirApps and sold to Palm, Inc.
He created Escape Velocity, a UK based start-up AI software company that launched Sessami, the
UK's first mobile entertainment channel. In collaboration, he produced Medulla Intimata,
responsive video jewelry, which has shown at the ICA, UK and other venues. He is currently at
the Banff New Media Institute where he is creating a rapid-prototyping environment for outdoor,
mobile, sensor-based content.
Amitava is a certified Information System Professional in Canada and has been working in the industrial automation, information systems and telecom software development domain over the last 8 years as an engineer and project manager. He has completed his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Concordia University and has received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor's in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.
He is presently associated with Hexagram, a multi-disciplinary (art and technology)
research organisation in Montreal. He is a member of IEEE, Canadian Information
Processing Society and Society for Research Administrators. His interest lies in
networking, performance engineering, real-time applications, distributed systems,
system software, embedded systems, sensors, research and engineering management.
In March 2006, Rupinder Deol joined the Banff New Media Institute's ART Mobile Lab as
it's Mobile Applications Engineer, and he has been working passionately on the Tracklines
project ever since as a member of the MDCN network. Rupinder's main role is to create
Java applications for mobile phones using the Mobile Experience Engine (MEE) -
in fact, he developed the Java version of the MEE from scratch. Rupinder is
appreciated by his colleagues for his technical skills and his ability to
work across disciplines with artists and other non-technical people in a
very creative environment. He provides consulting and technical assistance to
artists and designers so they can focus on creating media for mobile applications and devices.
Originally from Italy, Davide Di Saro is a sound artist and musician. He is currently
the Audio Designer for the MDCN Tracklines project at the Banff New Media Institute's
ART Mobile Lab. He has a Master?s degree in Fine Arts and Design from the Dutch
Art Instutute, and has exhibited his sound art works internationally in China,
Norway, Germany, Netherlands, and Italy. One of his works was awarded honourable
mention by UNESCO digital arts award in 2003. He is the co-founder of the
Italian record label Fosbury Records, and has released his music works in
three compilations and a vinyl album. For more information see www.365soundproject.org
David Gauthier is a programmer from Montreal whose interests lie in advanced imaging and games
research. After earning a degree in Mathematics, he worked on several rendering and gaming
engines. As part of the Yumi-co collective, he worked on the cuteXdoom game, which has been
exhibited in numerous new media festivals. Curious about new ways of interfacing game
worlds and experiencing narrative content, David joined the Banff New Media Institute
Research Games team and is now focusing on ways to develop avant-garde gaming experiences.
Jennifer Gabrys is a writer and artist living in London and Montreal. She is a PhD
candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University, and is completing her dissertation,
Electronic Waste: Excess in the Information Age. Some of her articles and media projects
on culture and technology include "Media in the Dump", forthcoming from Alphabet City
(2006); "Appliance Theory, forthcoming from Cabinet Magazine (2006); "Machines Fall Apart:
Failure in Art and Technology" (Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 2005); and Airdrop
(Bookworks, 2004). She also writes a column, "Refuse Report", for the bi-annual
SurfaceTension supplement. With the Digital Cities project, she is currently
writing essays, "Automatic Sensation: Environmental Sensors in the Digital City", and
"Wiring the Ruins: Imagining and Salvaging the Digital City". Her current research can be
found at www.signalspace.net.
Armen currently holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at Concordia University. In the past, he has taken on such roles as project manager and president of the IEEE Concordia student branch, research assistant for the ELEC 421 semiconductor physics lab, as well as teaching assistant and courseware designer/programmer for COEN 231 (discrete mathematics). His involvement with MDCN consisted of manufacturing environmental sensor prototypes for the Digital Cities Project, and assisting in circuit design for the SenseCube project.
Some of his current interests include sensor interfacing, wireless
communications, and electromagnetic compatibility.
Jagmit Singh is Mobile Application Engineer at Mobile Digital Commons Network, Ontario College of Arts and Design (OCAD) since April 2006. He received undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He recently completed his master degree in Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal in 2005.
He loves sports, regular visitor to sports and recreation center. He also
enjoys biking, trekking and being outdoors. Other interests include
environment Issues, politics and future of technology and society.
David Gauthier is a programmer from Montreal whose interests lie in advanced imaging and games
research. After earning a degree in Mathematics, he worked on several rendering and gaming
engines. As part of the Yumi-co collective, he worked on the cuteXdoom game, which has been
exhibited in numerous new media festivals. Curious about new ways of interfacing game
worlds and experiencing narrative content, David joined the Banff New Media Institute
Research Games team and is now focusing on ways to develop avant-garde gaming experiences.
Christopher holds the post of Interaction Designer at the Banff New Media Institute's
ART Mobile Lab, where he has been working on the MDCN Tracklines project since April
2006. Christopher has experience in many aspects of the creation process, ranging from
user and functional testing to hardware installation - however, his primary focus in
Banff is interaction design, graphic/motion content, and implementation and documentation of
locative experiences for mobile devices. He comes to the MDCN project from Immersion
Studios, where he worked as a media designer for group interactive immersive experiences,
and collaborated on various international projects from inception to installation.
Recent projects have taken him to The London Science Museum in the U.K;
W5-whowhatwherewhenwhy in Belfast, Northern Ireland; and La Cite des Sciences et de
l'industrie in Paris France. Christopher also writes, compiles, and shares his personal
interests via his web site sneakerbike.com
Wai Kok OCAD,
Jeff is just finishing his undergraduate studies in the Communications and
Cultural Studies department at Concordia University. He is originally from
British Columbia where he experienced the joys, trials and tribulations of
coordinating community projects. He also has experience teaching English in
Laos and Cambodia.
Marie-Claude has resided in Montreal for the past three years, where she is presently completing her degree in Design at Concorida University. She also holds a diploma in Visual Arts from Beauce-Appalache in St-Georges, Quebec. Her creative method fuses various modes of art with the dynamics of visual communication, motivated by diverse methods of creation. Throughout her design career, she has drawn inspiration from various artistic mediums and interactive media spheres, but focuses primarily in print-based work. Her passion for the meaningful marriage between type and image, brought her to a collaborative project with McGill University. Here, she created the design for the magazine HOTEL, which publishes insightful writings within the spheres of literacy and cultural criticism.
Always stimulated by new challenges, she recently joined the MDCN team where she
is now exploring new creative territories through the implementation of technology
in relation to the arts.
Born and raised in Toronto, Ken is currently pursuing a degree in Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design. In 1998, he completed a BSc in Psychology from the University of Toronto, with an emphasis on cognition and human perception. He also has over six years of experience in the realms of information technology and web development, working with such companies as BCE Inc. and Young & Rubicam. Ken's main passion lies in the interplay of art, design research, the social sciences, and technology. Some of his other interests include sustainable design, web art, interactive sculpture, and the harmonization between nature and machinery. He has also been actively involved in community work for over 10 years, having volunteered with Red Cross, CAMH, and The Mon Sheong Foundation, and is currently collaborating with the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) on various advocacy initiatives.
As a research assistant with the MDCN team at OCAD, he is enjoying the
opportunity to apply his diverse background and explore his
multidisciplinary interests.
Nevena just recently graduated form the Ontario College of Art and Design, completing her BDes in Graphic Design. She also has a previous Fine Arts education. She loves to imagine, discover and create with a very curious mind that is eager to learn and to know. Always been fascinated by invention, she is constantly looking for new inspiration and expression. Enthusiastic about the symbiosis that letterforms and images create, the interaction between the physical and virtual, and the process of composing a finished piece from scratch is what inspires her to do design and art.
She now lives in Toronto working as a research assistant for MDCN.
Leanna is presently a student at Concordia University, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Design, where she also works as a research assistant for Professor Michael Longford. As well, Leanna holds diplomas in Applied Communication Arts, and Graphic Design, which she received in her hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Looking for a challenge and feeling somewhat hindered by the constraints of living in a small city, in 2002, Leanna relocated to Montreal where she now resides. She is presently working on several freelance web and print projects with clients in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax.
Leanna's primary interests in the field of design reside in the study
of the intricate relationship between design as an art form and the
technology that facilitates it.
Marit-Saskia is an exchange student from Bauhaus University?s programme in Product Design, located in Weimar, Germany. She is currently registered in Concordia University?s Design programme and has been assisting Professor Michael Longford in his research initiatives. Having completed half of her studies in Weimar, she has found the opportunity to be involved in interdisciplinary research projects across the fields of art, design and technology. Her interests lie in the connections between the invisibility of digital media and their physical outcomes.
She holds a degree in Pharmacy, which she completed before commencing her studies in Product Design.
Marit-Saskia has been living in Montreal since August 2005 and plans to stay until the following summer.
An exchange student from France, Jérôme is pursuing studies in Contemporary Art and
Communication, to develop his own artistic approach of computation and experimental arts.
His research is explored the relationship between the socialization of art and direct
interactivity, focusing on the experiences of urban social behavior.
Lately, he has collaborated with graphic designers and artists on various artistic and
research projects on visual communication. He also the president of An artistic
association, which stimulate artistic initiatives to develop an international network of "intervenants artistiques".
Barbara Crow co-ordinates the master's programme in Communication and Culture at York
University. Current research projects include: 'Digital Cities,'' focusing on the
relationship between digital technology and multimedia cities; 'Canadian Sexual
Assault Law and Contested Boundaries of Consent: Legal and Extra-Legal Dimensions'
(with Lise Gotell), investigating women's organizations and legal discourses; and
most recently, the 'Mobile Digital Commons Network,'' exploring relations of mobile
technologies and cultural production. Professor Crow has been a visiting scholar at
McGill University and Barnard College and was awarded a Telus Distinguished Scholar
award. She was president of the Canadian Women's Studies Association, 2002-2004.
http://www.yorku.ca/comcult
Kim Sawchuk is the current editor of the Canadian Journal of Communications.
Her research involves the close study of the relationship between embodiment,
social practice and discourses on technology. Kim has an unusual passion for
methodology, particularly qualitative methods. She has been experimenting with
the potential of open source software and multimedia tools for collaborative
research and developing research protocols and processes for better understanding
how to enhance user participation with locative media projects. When Pain Strikes
(1999, with co-editors Cathy Busby and Bill Burns) and Wild Science: Reading
Feminism, Medicine, and the Media (2000, co-edited with Janine Marchessault)
are but two of Kim?s many publications. In addition to her academic interests,
Kim has been a new media activist. In 1996 she co-founded StudioXX, a feminist
research and media arts centre in Montr?l.
Neil is a first year MA student in the Media Studies program at Concordia. He
graduated with a BA in Philosophy from Villanova University in Pennsylvania,
and spent time working at the Media Education Foundation before moving back to
his hometown, Montreal. His thesis research is focused on bias in television
news and the use of PR-produced news segments. He is also doing work on municipal
wireless projects in the United States and Canada.
Alison Harvey is a second-year MA student in Media Studies at Concordia University.
Her current areas of research include narratology, video game history and theory,
virtual communities, digital cultures, and new media. She is currently writing her thesis.
Ganaele is a PhD candidate in the joint programme in Communication and Culture at
York University. Her research is focused on the question of representation on the
Web and argues for a better understanding of the technical mediations that shape
the language, or semiotics, of the Web. Ganaele's research is influenced by medium
theory, Actor-Network Theory, discourse analysis and software criticism.
Janice Leung is currently completing her MA in Communication and Culture at York and
Ryerson University. She graduated in 2004 with an Honours BA from York in Communication
Studies and Psychology, and has worked in various non-profit arts organizations in
Toronto including the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Harbourfront Centre and the
Art Gallery of York University. Janice continues to work at the AGYU as a freelance
print and web designer, and is responsible for initiating the first public gallery's
podcast in Canada. Janice?s current research focuses on teenage girls and their uses
of cell phones in pop and rock concerts.
Andrea Zeffiro is a P.h.D. candidate in the joint programme in Communication Studies at
Concordia University, where she is in the preliminary stages of developing her
dissertation on locative media. Having spent a number of years actively involved
with the Maquila Solidarity Network, drafting and implementing garment-purchasing
policies for the public sector, she turned her creative energies towards AMBUSH, a
line of clothing, which she designed and created from second hand garments. Interested
in pursuing academic research, she channeled her interests into an M.A. thesis and
examined the cultural politics of the fashion runway space.
Jason Lewis is a digital artist and technology researcher whose work revolves around
experiments in visual language, text and typography. His other interests include
computation as a creative material, emergent media theory and history, and methodologies
for conducting art-led technology research. His creative work has been featured at the
Ars Electronica Center, ISEA, and SIGGRAPH, among other venues, and supported by the
Canada Council for the Arts, the English Arts Council, the Banff Centre for the Arts,
Arts Alliance and Heritage Canada. Lewis was trained in philosophy and computer
science at Stanford University and in art & design at the Royal College of Art. He is
currently an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University where he
founded and directs Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media. Please see www.obxlabs.net for more information.
Yannick Assogba is about to complete a BSc in Computer Science with a minor in
Computation Arts at Concordia University. He currently works as a research assistant
and software developer for Jason Lewis at Obx Labs. His interests include interactive art,
electroacoustics, software development and the relationships between societies and technology.
Lucie is currently fulfilling undergraduate studies in computer science and in
computation arts while working as a research assistant for Jason Lewis at Obx labs.
Not being able to choose between her scientific curiosity and her need for
creativity, she discovered the new media world which allowed her to take advantage
of her multidisciplinary background. Her main interest lies in exploring and
experimenting the relations between humans and machines. Her areas of interests
include interface development, tangible media and wearable computing.
Maroussia Lévesque is an undergraduate Computation Arts student and research
assistant for Jason Lewis at Obx Labs. She deals with conceptual, design and
dissemination development on Cityspeak and Intralocutor. She is more interested
in politics than computers, but tries to reconcile both through elaborate.ca.
Her experience in hip hop and community work is motivated by the potential of
subcultures as social emancipators, the tension between local and global, as
well as a potentially revolutionary stance against the current order. Maroussia
has a background in visual arts, litterature and political science.
Zehuan Liu is currently working towards his BS in Computer Science at Concordia
University, where he also participates in the Cooperative Education program.
After receiving a Diploma in Computer Science in Tianjin University of Technology,
Tianjin, China, he worked as an application software developer and project manager
for 5 years. He was also a database analyst for several enterprise management
systems before he came to Montreal. He presently works as a Java programmer and
software architect for wireless communications at Obx Labs for Experimental Media
at Concordia University. He has a passion for Object-Oriented system design, web
architecture design and game programming.
Alexander Taler is a professional software developer. He has a BSc in Mathematics
and a BA in Philosophy. After graduating from McGill University in 1997, he
initially worked in calendaring, with participation in the IETF and the publication
of an RFC. He then worked at Zero-Knowledge Systems in the Internet privacy space,
where he developed a knowledge of network security and privacy. He has also
participated in the free software movement, founding the LibCVS project.
Michael Lenczner works at the intersection of community and
technology. He has worked helping different populations (immigrants,
seniors, and teenage mothers and in West Africa) appropriate new
information and communication technology. Besides working with ?e
sans Fil (a Montreal-based community wifi group he co-founded in 2003)
he works as a consultant in online collaboration tools and grassroots
new media. He is also taking part-time classes at Concordia.
http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org
Holding a degree in Finance from Montreal HEC, Daniel Lemay has been
Fonds de solidarité FTQ's manager of information systems for nearly 15
Years and has been working as a freelance consultant in management and technology since 2002.
Over the last year, he has mainly worked as a trainer at International Institute of
Technologies here in Montreal. Daniel is also a volunteer for Île Sans Fil
(a non-profit community group devoted to providing free public wireless internet
access to mobile users in public spaces throughout Montreal), where he is acting
as president of the Board. In MDCN, Daniel is responsible for transforming concepts
and designs into a workable virtual office and web site for the project's team.
http://www.daniel-lemay.com
Benoit Grégoire is the current technical coordinator of Île Sans Fil. He holds a BS
in computer engineering and primarily works as a consultant to Qu?ec's public
education sector, where he specializes in e-learning, learning objects standards
and free software project management. Benoit was also involved in several Open Source
software projects (he started the LibOfx (OFX banking protocol implementation), got
heavily involved in GnuCash (accounting software), and currently works on the WifiDog
embedded captive portal system.
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