ARC « Forms of writing (Formes de l’écrit) »

This Research and Creation Workshop questions the links between drawing, writing and memory. How to represent, leave a trace, write, draw, report, record (…)? These questions of restitution go through time and continue to be an important subject for many artists, researchers, historians…
This is a formidable field of exploration because it invokes different types of language (computer, new technologies, choreographic, virtual, but also scriptural, graphic, typographic) evolving with the times. From graffiti to conceptual art, in the history of art, the relationship between writing, drawing and memory has inspired many artists (Tania Mouraud, Irma Blank, Mirtha Dermisache, Sol Lewitt, Daniel Buren…)

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Questioning the forms of information with the Datavisualisation programme

Similar to ‘research through design’ (Findeli, 2005), the programme questions the visual forms of data and its processes. It explores the potential relationships between graphic & digital design on the one hand, and scientific analysis of bigdata on the other, by proposing to make research data, their processing methods (algorithms) and their intrinsic tendencies sensitive and visible before any analysis. The hypothesis being that a visual representation a priori coupled with an exploration tool articulated to a given research process is likely to produce an enrichment, or even a displacement of this process…

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Interrogating the relationships between Forms, Technologies, Society.

The Forms, Technologies, Society programme consists of meetings between theorists and practitioners, in the form of seminars, study days and colloquia, co-organised by Esad Reims and the Institut Mines-Télécom, since 2011.

If the wide diffusion of information and communication technologies participates in a cultural and social mutation of our societies, the multiple stakes of the digital era invite to explore this mutation by soliciting various disciplinary fields coming from the human and social sciences, as well as from the engineering sciences or design…

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