Images
Documents
Editing

This option is intended for students who wish to develop their artistic practice through a critical approach to visual culture. Whether selecting extracts in order to (re)work them, appropriating pre-existing material purely and simply to reorganize it (such as sampling in music) or developing practices that seek to establish more egalitarian exchanges with the fields they explore (management of image banks, collection of folk objects, etc), what we call “appropriation” covers a wide range of practices linked to every aspect of creativity, from drawing, painting, photography and animation to the publishing of artist’s books, performance and writing.

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Performances
Writings
Digital culture

The Art/Action option explores the relationship between art and action, both from a concrete and a theoretical perspective. Here we seek to develop artistic work whose modus operandi is specific, because the form of the work is set in the here and now, in it’s making of. The Art/ Action option trans-cends disciplines, media and categories of representation (even though performance is perhaps its closest definition), paving the way for research and development focusing on creativity in action.

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Sculpture
Objects
Installations

The Construction option offers a cross-disciplinary approach to sculpture, installation and space viewed in their broader context: the production of objects, assemblage, systems, media, public art, environments and sound. The option adopts a dual approach that closely integrates the place of the workshop within the school with the development of events outside its walls— in public spaces or in the context of international exhibitions—and offers a formal and conceptual initiation that seeks to align the student’s project and its gradual formalization with the cultural, social and political dimension of mutual acceptance, the collective and the city.

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Photography
Video
Medias

What does an artist do with a device that records, reproduces and diffuses images and sounds? Unwilling to simply add images to a spectacular world already saturated with them, they put forward a specific relationship with the cultural and social environment. This relationship may involve fiction or autobiographical stories, documents, the constitution of archives, diversion, anthropological studies, participation in communities, etc. Through the awareness of social and cultural issues, we aim to introduce students to a political understanding of the image in practice. The option encourages self-exploration as they work on their projects and the questioning of the conditions of their recognition.

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Digital culture
Interaction
Sound

The Interaction option looks at how the environment and our links to reality and other people are being transformed by today’s use of technology and computer displays. The practices studied include not only the creation of images, videos, sounds, assemblies, installations and texts, but also communication and appearance strategies in the media and networks. The option teaches students how to handle software and machines by thinking about ways of collecting and sampling images, sounds and other online material, creating virtual worlds and 3-D environments, détournement and bricolage and the use of obsolete technologies. Crossovers between visual and audio arts are encouraged.

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Painting
Drawing
Installation

Using the specific tools of painting, drawing and installation, how can we think outside the framework of a blank canvas or sheet of drawing paper? Through the rationale of the workshop, this option engages with day-to-day creativity and issues of a theoretical nature. It offers a broad understanding of art and images viewed in their cultural, social and political context. Combining various other media and techniques—from publishing to the moving image and performance—this option leaves students’ suggestions open, rather than consigning them to a particular current or trend. Here, on the contrary, professors help to breathe life into evolving projects, responding in real time to the needs of evolving independent thought.

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