MONTREAL In an industrial sector of the South Shore town of Varennes lies a low-slung blue and grey building housing a facility known as the Advanced Laser Light Source, a component of National Institute of Scientific Research. Unlike many other centres of its ilk, the ALLS performs much of its scientific mission without a predetermined outcome for its findings. “The science we’re doing here? We don’t know their applications for the short-term or the mid-term,” said Francois Legare, the director of the Advanced Laser Light Source. When CTV News visited the facility researchers looked at lasers as they shot through gases and solid objects in a darkened laboratory. Those researchers believe they may find useful applications for laser technology at airport security stations, x-rays in hospitals and data processing microchips, which function with magnetic patterns.
Andy Warhol Foundation grant to support book completion
Sergio Delgado Moya, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded one of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writer Grants.
Projects supported by the program address both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to critical reviews and magazine features. Moya will receive $50,000 to complete his book “An Archive of Violence: The Obscene Visuality of Sensationalism.” The book makes a case for sensationalism as a specific kind of violence that falls on marginalized populations who are marked by gender and class, by race and ethnicity, by dispossession and by sexuality.