Project Summary
DEM'ARTS is dedicated to the relationship between the arts and democracy through the prism of pragmatism and new technologies. This project is the result of a long-standing collaboration between two partner teams, ACTE and ISJPS from Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and one external partner, New York University. The project aims to set up a creative platform to study the development and democratization of the arts through digital technology, its effects and risks, in particular with its two new partners in computer science, the CRI of Paris 1 and the JFLI (IRL 3527, CNRS and Sorbonne University).
One of the original features of the research already undertaken by members of the DEM'ARTS team is to combine pragmatism and meliorism (Shusterman 1999) in aesthetic research and practice, and to combine concern for the self, collective practice and the democratic project of an ordinary aesthetic. This pragmatist project of transactional aesthetics is rooted in a renewed knowledge of pragmatism. It involves questioning the theme of artistic creation in order to promote a democratic and shared conception of the arts through the digital platforms. Digital art makes it possible to pursue the central political challenge of a pragmatist aesthetic, which is to ensure that meaningful aesthetic experiences are open and accessible to the widest possible audience.
Scientific team
Responsible for the program : Sandra Laugier, professor of philosophy (ISJPS).
Project board : Miguel Almiron PR, Barbara Formis MCF HDR, Aurélie Herbet MCF and Yann Toma PR (ACTE), Philippe Codognet (JFLI - CNRS), Camille Salinesi PR (CRI) and Azadeh Nilchiani post-doctoral researcher, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
