Alchimies numériques exhibition
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Pictorial introduction: surface vs. windowThe surface is what separates the painting from the Albertian window. While the transparency of the latter lets History, the discourse of power and the Word…The digital StackLaid bare by the artistic gesture, the surface of the painting expresses itself in an evident way: it settles and merges with the surface of the earth in…MicrostructuresIn the work of Alexis Allemand, the painter’s gesture is transformed and displaced. It does not act directly on the surface of the image, a direct contact…Elasticity of timeAmong the works presented, it is perhaps in tx-reverse (2019) and in 1MTH/MIN (2021) that the digital image appears in all its temporal elasticity. While…DefragmentationsWhile the previous works play out at the level of the microstructure, it is at a higher level, that of the fragment, of the patch, that Adieu, Corpus !…Concrete materialitiesIntuitively and concretely, when it comes to thinking about the different barriers that the artistic intention crosses as it seeks to model the digital…The digital dissectedThrough the prism of the works, the digital system is dissected, the mythological “cloud” vanishes, and with it the window-screen, leaving visible a series…Materiality of the digital, materiality of bodiesThe exhibition Alchimies numériques vibrates not only with representation but also with the condition and experience of bodies (of our bodies) evolving in a…Cite this pageCórdoba, Pablo-Martín. “Alchimies numériques exhibition”. In Making Digital Images in the Light of Experimental Cinema — Anthropological and Political Resonances of Algorithms in Contemporary Art, Doctoral thesis in visual arts and photography, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Doctoral School EDESTA (no. 159), research unit AIAC, 2026. https://www.pablomcordoba.com/thesis/alchimies-numeriques-exhibition/