Cross-disciplinary seminar of DEM'ARTS
The seminar will examine the place of digital technology in the development of the arts from a pragmatic angle, and will consider digital art within a perspective of shared experience. The idea is to study the evolution and democratization of the arts through the digital environment, as well as its effects and risks in various cultural fields: plastic arts (visual and non-visual), dance, theater, music, architecture, design, cinema, photography, performance... By transcending traditional dichotomies (theory/practice, knowledge/technology, action/idea, fact/value, body/spirit), the aim is to develop a concrete approach to the relationship between the arts, philosophy, and the digital.
Program
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October 8, 2024 (6-8 PM, Paris time)
Sandra Laugier Professor/ Philosopher, Institut des sciences juridiques et philosophique de la Sorbonne
“Culture and democracy, from pragmatism to the digital”
Yann Toma Professor/Artist, Institut ACTE - Arts Créations Théories Esthétique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.
“Post-Creation, Towards a universalization of creation”
> Moderator : Camille Salinesi PR (CRI)
October 15, 2024 (6-8 PM, Paris time)
Philippe Codognet Professor Sorbonne University, Director of the Franco-Japanese Computer Laboratory, IRL CNRS Research Center, Japan.
“Experimenting AI through Digital Arts”
> Moderator : Sandra Laugier PR (ISJPS)
November 14, 2024 (6-8 PM, Paris time)
Lev Manovich Artist/Presidential Professor, City University of New York (CUNY).
“ ‘Make it New’: AI, Modernism, and Database Art”
> Moderator : Azadeh Nilchiani Postdoc DEM'ARTS
November 26, 2024 (6-8 PM, Paris time)
Cécile Proust choreographer, dancer, researcher, and Jacques Hoepffner photographer, video and digital artist.
“What age brings to dance”
Armando Menicacci Artist/Artistic co-director of SIT (Scènes Interactives Technologiques)
“Corporality as a battlefield”
> Moderator : Yann Toma PR (ACTE)
February 4, 2025 (6-8 PM, Paris time)
Yuriko Saito Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA
“The Art of Housework: Promises and Challenges of Digital Technology”
> Moderator : Barbara Formis MCF HDR (ACTE)
March 11, 2025 (6-8 PM, Paris time)
Indiana Collet-Barquero, Design Historian, Fabrice Cotinat, Video Artist, and Jessie Derogy, Designer, École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Limoges
“New Gestualities”
> Moderator : Aurélie Herbet MCF (ACTE)
June 2025
(*This seminar will take place in June, with the exact date to be determined.)
Francesca Ferrando Philosopher, Professor, New York University (NYU)
“Arts, post-humanism and democracy”.
> Dialogue with Miguel Almiron PR (ACTE)