Workshop for adults: Fabrique(s) de l'image numérique : entre fixité et mouvement [Making(s) of the Digital Image: Between Fixity and Movement]

Workshop offered to adults during 2023, held at the Immix gallery in Paris, which is part of the Jemmapes community center.

Objectives: Increase technical skills: discover software tools and learn basic computer programming for manipulating photos, from the intimacy of the pixel to the processing of large sets of images, still or moving. Acquire aesthetic foundations around the photographic image in order to approach the specific reflection on digital images, their circulation and their new uses. Analyze works representative of the latest artistic trends, stemming from practices that combine art and technology and bearing witness to the many issues associated with digital images today. Plan and get under way an individual artistic project mobilizing photography in the broad sense, paying particular attention to the new possibilities offered by digital technologies.

Artistic project: From the beginning of the course and over the sessions, each participant will develop a personal artistic project combining practice and reflection. This reflection may be aesthetic, social, political, etc., and must be at one with the images, their plasticity and the way they are installed in space. Any kind of approach mobilizing photographic images will in principle be possible, particularly the implementation of the new possibilities offered by the digital: exploring fixity through movement and vice versa, interactivity in photography, glitch art, staging the circulation and uses of images on the Internet…

The sessions will take the form of a seminar: alternating discussions, practice and lectures. Each individual project will benefit from a kind and constructive collective perspective, as well as from the debates that will emerge around the sensible forms.

Technical skills: Important technical principles concerning the digital image will be explained (structure of the digital image, color space, printing), and associated software tools will be presented: pixel-level processing (with Python) and algorithmic processing (with Processing). If needed, and depending on the requirements of each project, specific technical support may be considered.

Theoretical elements and analysis of works: Through the discovery of these works, we will seek to grasp some of the important issues that bear today on our images, their production and their circulation on the Internet. It will also be a matter of drawing inspiration from the various strategies that artists employ to make the sensible and the sayable converge in a coherent whole.

(*) Reference exhibitions: Tous photographes, Musée de l’Élysée, 2007. From Here On, Arles, 2011. Mois de la photo à Montréal, 2015. Le supermarché des images, Jeu de Paume, 2020. Chants du ciel, la photographie, le nuage & le cloud, Arles, 2022.