Course L'art à l'ère du numérique [Art in the Digital Age]

Course offered to master’s-level students of digital creation and video games at the CREASUP school in Tonnerre, Burgundy.

Total effective teaching time: 30 hours per semester.

Abstract: This course, which will take place over 15 sessions (30 hours in total), offers a discovery of specific works that use the digital as a medium of creation. The aim is to explore how artists appropriate the medium, to identify the tools they use, and to grasp the creative strategies and protocols they put in place. Over the course of the works, correspondences emerge between the digital arts and other “apparatus-based” art forms such as photography, cinema and video, and extend beyond them to join the tradition of the arts in general. The historical grounding of these creative gestures makes it possible to address the currents of aesthetic thought associated with the digital, which evolve from the first linguistic and immaterial formulations towards new proposals that seek to question the materiality of the medium.

Semester course, taught in both semesters since 2024-2025.