ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND MEDIA RECYCLING
Convened by the Literature and Arts Department of the University Grenoble Alpes.
1rst floor — Auditorium Grenoble INP
Wednesday 07 / 01.30 pm > 06.00 pm
Thursday 08 / 09.00 am > 06.30 pm
Friday 09 / 09.00 am > 05.30 pm
“Always Already New” is the title of a book by Lisa Gitelman published in 2006 by the MIT Press in which she challenges our tendency to unconditionally consider as “new” all advances in technology while each of us knows fully well that all “new” media has its roots in an older one which it improves, enhances and enriches. Over the last decades, the most significant advances in media history and archaeology and the emergence of new approaches to media, such as intermediality, have considerably enriched aesthetic approaches to artistic practices. These have become less and less identifiable, being on the verge of theatre and cinema, video and installation, performance and internet art and questioning traditional boundaries between different media.
Forms that emerge from these practices belong to what is called by certain people as the “postproduction” era. (N. Bourriaud, Postproduction, Presses du réel, 2003), and by others “cultural recycling” (J. Klucinskas et W. Moser, “Esthétique et recyclages culturels”. 2004. Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa / Aesthetics and Cultural Recycling). They proclaim that re-using already existing materials, forms or media and diverting them is becoming more and more the distinctive feature of contemporary artistic production. Could we say that our digital era is characterized by media “recycling”, as an artistic act, facilitated by the more and more seamless circulation of cultural and artistic objects, the increasing porosity between art and cultural industry, and by the fact that everyone can access know-how previously reserved for professionals?
Talks at the Symposium will attempt to clearly define the challenges of these recycling practices, present case studies (Jacques Perconte, Joris Mathieu, operas by G. Barberio Corsetti and P. Sorin, etc.), analyse hybrid practices (machinima, found footage, sampling…) and propose meetings with artists like Gwenola Wagon or Jean-François Peyret. The opening talk will be given by Éric Méchoulan, professor of literature at University of Montréal, Director of the Centre de recherche intermédiales sur les arts, les lettres et les techniques (CRIalt) until 2013, entitled “Traces, Archives, Recycling”. Hervé Aubron, former reviewer at “Cahiers du cinéma” and current editor of “Magazine littéraire” will invite us to a drift away with Twin Peaks. Finally, Philippe Boisnard, artist will close the symposium by a performance talk.
The symposium is convened by : UMR Litt&Arts (the Literature and Arts Department) of the University Grenoble Alpes
Organising Committee
Guillaume Bourgois, Litt&Arts, Cinema
Pierre Jailloux, Litt&Arts, Cinema
Alice Lenay, Litt&Arts
Rémi Ronfard, INRIA, Imagine, Computer Science
Julie Valero, Litt&Arts, Performing Arts
Free Admission. Registration is required.
Contact Julie Ridard: julie.ridard@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
