Course Du numérique au post-digital [From the Digital to the Post-Digital] (theory course)

Weekly theory course (3 hours per class) for students of the Master’s program in Photography and Contemporary Art at Paris 8.

Total effective teaching time: 36 hours per semester.

Abstract: In this course, we will attempt to set in tension different theoretical approaches that have accompanied the generalization of digital images and their varied dissemination in the arts: from the first interpretations built on the immateriality of language to more recent proposals that focus on the material base of digital technologies, from proposals placed under the sign of an analog/digital rupture to projects that envisage lines of continuity. These attempts sometimes overlap, complement each other, oppose each other, and help to draw a horizon of reflection and artistic practices in constant evolution, whose conceptual framework comes up against the complexity and speed of technological change as well as against social, economic, political and geostrategic issues. In this context, we will favor contact with works and curatorial proposals, considered as the sensible universe from which reflection emerges.

Course taught in the second semester, in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.