Lectures
Forum fnac Victor Hugo, Grenoble.
Free entrance

Elie During
10 March 2005 at 17:30
Born in 1972 in Teheran, Elie During graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds the aggrégation in philosophy. After spending several years in New York, he now teaches at the Université de Paris X – Nanterre and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon. His special fields are the philosophy of science and aesthetics. He is the co-author of Matrix, machine philosophique (Ellipses, 2003), and has published a commentary on Poincaré’s La science et l’hypothèse (Ellipses, 2001), as well as philosophical anthologies on the soul and on metaphysics (Flammarion 1997, 1998). He has also written articles on contemporary art and electronic music.


Florent Latrive
12 April 2005 at 17:30
Aged 32, a journalist at Libération, Florent Latrive has published an essay, Du bon usage de la piraterie (Editions Exils, 2004 and www.freescape.eu.org/), which “reveals the stakes in the current battle over intellectual property. Whether for online music or images, the circulation of knowledge or medical patents, he argues for a carefully controlled openness and against wholesale legal protection. Instead of treating all ‘pirates’ as criminals, whoever they are, we should establish a balanced system for the immaterial, in which creators and the public are no longer subject to the dictates of intermediaries and producers.” (Du bon usage de la piraterie, note on the inside back cover)


Grégory Chatonsky
26 May 2005 at 18:30
His training: interdisciplinary studies at Paris 1, a doctorate in aesthetics (Technology-Based Creation) and then a multimedia masters at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1999. He founded Incident.net in 1994. Between 1995 and 1998, he worked with survivors of the camps, the result being the CD-ROM Mémoires de la déportation (Prix Mobius). He designed the websites for the Villa Medici (1997) and the reopened Centre Georges Pompidou (1999). He has been artist in residence at the CICV, at C3 in Budapest (2001), at the Abbaye de Fontevraud (2002) and at Le Fresnoy (2003-04), and has won numerous prizes both in France and abroad (Filmwinter, Sound Space, Computer Space, Viper [2001], Vidéoformes [2003], SCAM [2004]. “Fascinated by optical theory but opposed to formalism, convinced that multimedia can be used to generate new forms of writing – with the time of the narrative depending on the spectator/actor – Chatonsky uses the tools of his generation to look back to the genesis of the world that spawned cyberspace.” Anne-Marie Morice.
http://gregory.incident.net


Anne-Marie Morice
22 June 2005 at 17:30
A journalist since 1981 (Libération, Création, Télérama, La Croix, etc.), Anne-Marie Morice specialises in the relations between the creation of systems of representation and their diffusion, from advertising to photography, to video and the electronic arts, as well as the “traditional” visual arts. In 1995 she set up the Synesthésie website which has its own online journal and hosts a space where artists and critics can explore the potential of digital media.
http://synesthesie.com