The Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, main sponsor of the Ircam initiative
As the new sponsor of the Ircam initiative, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation will this year finance a doctoral thesis on the new methods of musical and multimedia interaction, bringing together movement, sound, images and video, with an expected impact on the performance arts (dance and theatre). The Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation will also support the production of works using "sound and images" by the best students from Ircam in partnership with other higher education structures in Europe. These works will be presented to the public at Ircam's Agora festival in June 2008. Finally, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation is going into partnership with Ircam and the Pompidou Centre to offer vocational schools in the Paris region artistic education programmes using the latest technologies.
"With this partnership, remarks Renaud Leblond, assistant director of the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, we are opening new avenues in the digital field combining creativity, research and solidarity". "With the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, explains Frank Madlener, director of Ircam, we will go further in the creation of new media content and in experimentation with new uses".
Research, creation and communication are the objectives pursued by Ircam, an organisation affiliated with the Pompidou Centre, which, since its foundation in 1977 by Pierre Boulez, has been one of the largest public research centres in the world dedicated to music production, known by the public for its artistic season and its Agora festival. Ircam brings together a research unit affiliated with the CNRS, a community of around one hundred researchers, the experimental artistic production of new works and both scientific and artistic higher education associated with the academic world.
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