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From digital to analogue: media archaeology, poor image, expanded cinema
Description
The Art and Design Research Programme (PAD) “Media Archaeology and Images” (AMI) aims to explore the concept of the ‘poor image’ in contemporary artistic practice, in dialogue with media archaeology.
The AMI research programme is not an analysis of media, but an artistic, philosophical and aesthetic reflection on the intrinsic nature of the image produced through recording devices and technical media for image and sound, as well as on its role and evolution within our societies.
It is not merely a matter of producing images, but of understanding their conditions of existence, their circulation, and their appropriation within a context of hybridisation between current and historical technical media, through an authorial approach situated in the interstice between art and design.
At the heart of the research programme lies a reflection on technical media, on how these recording devices shape stories and narratives, and influence documentary, technical, poetic and artistic approaches.
The aim is to experiment with and explore the plurality of the image in all its forms and spatial arrangements: still image, moving image, time-based image and sound image.
With a view to revitalising practices and fostering a dialogue with contemporary production, the PAD AMI engages in a discussion between a current theoretical approach to post-photography and several concepts developed at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, including that of the ‘poor image’, ‘dead media’ (or “zombie media”) and “spectral practices”.
With this in mind, at a time when it is no longer necessary to question the distinction between analogue and digital, the PAD AMI proposes to approach the image through thinking and productions ranging from the digital to the analogue, revisiting the notion of the image in the light of an aesthetics of the signal, of high and low definition, of poor practices, of expanded cinema, of archived/appropriated images…
The Team
Lecturers and researchers at ECOLAB
Laurent Baude, Ambre Charpier, Maurice Huvelin, Julien Levesque
Student researchers affiliated with DSRD
Louise Cotte, Hugo Delattre
Website
Visual Media course website: https://vm.esadorleans.fr