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Grande Image – CoSiMa

Published on 04/05/2021

Overview

Grande Image Lab (The Big Picture Lab) reflects on the status of the image in contemporary art, and on relationships between art and the urban context, and art and specific technologies, especially digital. It aims to further investigate contemporary productions involving gall these issues. With technical support from ETC London Paris, the project allows guest students and artists to conduct experiments and to maintain critical thought on monumental projection practices. Grande Image Lab joined the CoSiMa consortium for the French national research body in 2013 for a 42-month programme alongside IRCAM, EnsadLab and several business and service partners.

Research results

Grande Image produced public showings in Nantes, Lyon and Beaune for the Festival of Lights, at the Val de Marne Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC VAL, Paris for the Nuit Blanche (White Night) and Orléans, among others. Since 2009, study days, seminars, conferences, workshops and public showings have been organised. The aim is for shared methodological reflection about the development of digital tools. Between 2015 and 2020, CoSiMa study days were organised as part of the programme. Experiments and collective interaction challenges, 21 and 22 September 2016 (IRCAM, EnsadLab, and the companies IDscenes, Orbe and No Design, TALM-Le Mans). The Centon Digital project was developed by Christophe Domino: In December 2016, a presentation of the research was made at the Movimenta symposium in Nice, with a public show in 2017.

Connection to the curriculum

The issues addressed in the Grande Image research programme sustained coursework for the entire period between 2015 and 2020, through a Grande Image research and creation workshop (ARC) (Christophe Domino and Marie-Laure Cazin from 2015-2016 to 2017-2018) and Grande Image belles lettres (Grande Image Beautiful Letters) ARC (Christophe Domino and Ronan Regent in 2018-2019 and Christophe Domino and Olivier Houix in 2019-2020).

Two 4th-year students in the Art option had internship projects with the programme and participated in various research phases between February and October 2016. A TALM-Le Mans graduate specialising in Sound Design was associated with a creation.

Informations sur le programme

  • Campus: TALM-Le Mans.
  • Professors: Christophe Domino and Marie-Laure Cazin.
  • Partners:
    • ETC London Paris;
    • Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique et musique;
    • École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs EnsadLab.
  • Start date: 2009.
  • Fundings:
    • Ministère de la Culture (appel à projet de recherche 2016);
    • French Agence Nationale de la Recherche between 2013 and 2017;
    • TALM.

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