The advent of the Internet and connected mobile devices has led to the dematerialization of representations, which now circulate in the form of files and data.
Vues & Données is an original proposal based on a research-creation project on the question of data, led by artist-photographer Aurélie Pétrel and philosopher Fabien Vallos, in collaboration with artist Dieudonné Cartier and Master's students from ENSP Arles and HEAD - Geneva.

This symposium corresponds to the final phase of the project of the same name, with its exhibition at the Photo Élysée museum in Lausanne, which hosts the restitution of all our research and the work of our Master's students (ENSP d'Arles and HEAD – Genève). 
The final phase of the project is an exhibition that can be understood as both a form and an image: the shape of a kind of "container" into which Aurélie and Fabien have continually deposited works and comments. Designed and produced in collaboration with the artist Dieudonné Cartier, this structure takes the form of a container, pierced through and through to display what has been produced, collected and commented on. As an image, it is that of the plasticity of data, so that what is shown is the combinatory power incessantly renewed by the relationships between objects and comments. 

Vues & Données
The present symposium is entitled Vues & données II; the first edition (Vues & données I) took place on February 13 and 14, 2020, in Arles.
This first stage allowed us to establish, on the basis of a survey and speculative analysis, an archaeology of the concept of data. The existence of data presupposes the occurrence of a capture, and a capture of sight, in the double sense of a capture as image and as theory. For ancient thought, theôria is the capture of the world by sight; its transfer into data is called theoritical thought, then theorematic thought. This presupposes that something is "taken" in order to be "given" in another way...

This second symposium brings together the elements of our research, which can be summed up in two main points:

• data is acosmic, in the sense that it does not allow us to produce any system of representation (i.e., it does not allow us to make a world)
• it is undoubtedly preferable - following Catherine Malabou's theories - to attempt to give it plasticity. This means granting it the possibility of a form rather than that of a value.