The biennial event “Figures de l’interactivité”, TAP, Poitiers
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In partnership with the University of Poitiers, the CIAM and the University of Québec at Montréal, the ÉESI and the Mendès France space have organized an international symposium, “Cinéma interactivité et société” (Cinema, interactivity and society), November 19-21th, at the TAP — Poitiers National Scene.
The first symposium “Cinéma interactivité et société” invited artists and researchers to broaden the horizon, starting from cinema, and sweeping over a large range of issues connected to perception and the creation of moving pictures, from the viewpoint of interactivity.
A panel of international lecturers
29 artists, philosophers, theorists, researchers in the fields of media studies, cinema, interactivity and video games have come from France, Canada, Australia, Japan, United States, Belgium, Great Britain and Germany. They followed eacher other during three days to share their knowledge, their questions as well as their doubts on the changes which society has currently undergone, related to the evolution of technology and digitality.
The diversity of speakers, as well as the programming and the showing of works of digital cinema led to an original cultural event in autumn 2008.
Lecturers :
Hubertus Von Amelunxen (de) / Bertrand Augereau (fr) / Jacques Aumont (fr) / Yves Bernard (be)/ Samuel Bianchini (fr) / Jean-Louis Boissier (fr) / Victor Burgin (uk)/ Jean-Claude Bustros (ca) / Jim Campbell (ca) / Luc Courchesne (ca) / Frédéric Curien (fr) / Jean-Marie Dallet (fr) / Anne-Marie Duguet (fr) / Masaki Fujihata (jp)/ Thierry Guibert (fr) / Christian Laroche (fr) / Georges Legrady (us)/ Alain Liedts (be)/ Julien Maire (fr) / Stéphan Natkin (fr) / Bernard Perron (ca) / Louise Poissant (ca) / Yannick Prié (fr) / Vincent Puig (fr) / Jeffrey Shaw / Douglas E. Stanley (fr) / Bernard Stiegler (fr) / Steina Vasulka (us)/ Gwenola Wagon (fr) /
A regional partnership
The symposium “Cinéma interactivité et société” was the first edition of the “Figures de l’interactivité” biennial event, launched both by the European School of Visual Arts and the Mendès-France Space. This biennial event aims to root firmly into the regional landscape an international network of research and reflection on interactivity in art, science and society.
Directly linked to the research carried out by the ÉESI and the Mendès-France Space, the biennial joins a long-lasting partnership between the two organizations, which materialized for instance during the Souffle de l’Equinoxe festival and numerous workshops, and more recently, during the first world retrospective on the work of the director Peter Greenaway in May 2007.
The partnership also extends to the the Faculty of Arts of the University of Québec at Montréal (UQÀM) and to the University of Poitiers.
An educational event aimed at the viewership
The main educational goal was to raise the public awareness of the issues of digital technology, interactivity and the future of cinema.
Consequently, on thursday, November 20, we have presented two pieces of software to the public: first, the software Lignes de temps (Time Lines), created at the IRI, is dedicated to the tagging of films by amateur communities, the other, the SLIDERS software, invented at the ÉESI, allows to play in real time with movie scenes and explore the potentialities of a new cinema.