HexagramCIAM
Montreal, QC
15th of July, 2010
HexagramCIAM in it's location
From now on, CIAM is HexagramCIAM and the newly formed center has integrated its new premises in the Coeur des sciences at UQAM.
Indeed, the merger between HexagramUQAM and CIAM is now done and the new HexagramCIAM research center occupies the premises formerly used by HexagramUQAM. The premises, located on the fourth floor of the Biological Sciences pavillion, 141 avevenue President Kennedy, now house the entire support staff and resources dedicated to HexagramCIAM's advanced research in media arts at UQAM.
Immediate consequences of this reorganization are that the old premises at Judith-Jasmin, now empty, are handed to the use of the School of Visual Arts and Media and the phone number # 3026 is no longer being used now replaced by # 2929 starting from July 15, 2010.
Fusion of both entities at UQAM
Following the acceptance by the COREC, the Commission des études and the Board of directors of UQAM, of our request for recognition as an Institutional Center with the PAFARC, the CIAM and HexagramUQAM has been been dissolved to form a new center HexagramCIAM.
Although this initiative announces a possible grouping with Concordia, it is important to note that the subsidy to be received from the PAFARC is granted only for the activities of the UQAM center.
FQRSC fundings
However, the obtained funding is different from the one being asked via the letter of intent which Mr. Nicolas Reeves has just deposited aiming at the recognition of HexagramCIAM as a Strategic Grouping with the FQRSC and which contains a different list of members including researchers of all the participating universities. While the UQAM recognition comes into effect on June 1st, 2010, the possible FQRSC recognition will come into effect only in April 2011. The letter of intent deposited with the FQRSC and supported by the UQAM and Concordia universities is only a first stage, an eliminating one though, leading at the request for the targetted funding as such.
The integration of the two centers, at UQAM, poses a number of challenges, mainly because the CIAM already had its center of activities and management.
The challenges encoutered at Concordia are not similar in nature and will be the subject of several discussions in due course.
Website and other communication tools
The consolidation of communications tools and structures of operation is in progress and should be, if not completed, at least operational this fall.
By the time that the communication media should be reorganized, we find the relevant information about the constituent entities at:
