ARNUM
ARNUM Laboratory
Art and digital research
The perservation of digital art
The preservation of digital art and Internet art gives rise to many issues - conceptual , protocolar and technical, even juridical ones.
The research project will focus on the analysis of the issue of the perenisation of artworks (open standards will be specially studied),
the setting of protocols, documentation and restauration. The artworks that will be studied are part of public collections in France or abroad
as well as part of private collections. The project will be supervised by specialists of preservation, in interaction with a network of international partners.
The artists whose artworks will be studied will be consulted all along the project.
Researcher team
Claire LEROUX:
ESIEA professor ; Head of ARNUM Laboratory.
Biography:
The world of the 70s which Claire Leroux discovered said itself modern and not still postmodern. It proclaimed the death of art, crisis of values
and advent of computer, and got ready to navigate between real and virtual at the dawn of 2000s. Witness of these evolutions, Claire Leroux continued
her artistic formation and began her professor’s career around three poles: aesthetics, art critic, connections between sciences and arts. After features
for L’image and Connaissance des Hommes, she wrote during six years the "Arts" section for Lunes review, assuring criticisms, interviews and reports of
exhibition, then carried on her criticized activity for the on-line revue Archée. In 2003, her situation in the Engineering school ESIEA allowed her to
create an interface between her students in computer sciences and digital artists, whom became in 2007 the ARNUM laboratory - Art and digital research.
She is also a member of the International Association of the art critics ( AICA) and intervenes in symposiums on the digital art and on the art-science
connections. Her PhD in aesthetics at the Sorbonne university " The Response of Criticism to Technological Art: the archaeology of a
discourse" took her to organize materially and scientifically the archives donation of the art critic Raoul-Jean Moulin for the MAC/VAL (Museum of contemporary
art of the Val de Marne) and to watch her valuation by the researchers and art critics.
http://professeurs.esiea.fr/leroux/
http://archee.qc.ca/index.html
http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?article1807
Christophe BRUNO :
Digital artist ; Associated researcher to ARNUM Laboratory.
Biography:
Christophe Bruno lives and works in Paris. He began his artistic activity in September 2001.
His polymorphic work (installations, performances, conceptual pieces…) has a critical take on network
phenomena and globalisation in the field of language and images. He was awarded a prize at the Madrid
Contemporary Art Fair with the ARCO new media prize 2007, at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003 and the Piemonte Share Festival in 2007.
His work has been shown internationaly: Jeu de Paume in Paris, Biennale of Sydney, ARCO Madrid, FIAC Paris, Diva Fair in New-York, Palais de
Tokyo in Paris, ArtCologne, MOCA Taipei, Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New-York, National Museum of
Contemporary Art in Athens, Tirana Biennale of Contemporary Art, HMKV Dortmund, Gallery West in The Hague, Vooruit Arts Center in Gent, Share
Festival in Torino, Transmediale in Berlin, Laboral Cyberspaces in Gijon, galerie Sollertis in Toulouse, ICC in Tokyo, Nuit Blanche de Paris, File
Festival in Sao Paulo, Rencontres Paris-Berlin, f.2004@shangai, ReJoyce Festival in Dublin, P0es1s.net in Berlin, Microwave Media Art Festival in
Honk-Kong, Read_Me Festival in Dortmund and Aarhus, Vidarte in Mexico City…
He also curated, together with Daniele Balit, the exhibition Second Night
produced by Paris City Hall, that took place on Second Life and at the Hôtel d'Albret during the Nuit Blanche 2007.
Trained as a scientist (Ecole Centrale de Paris, PHD in theoretical physics and a few years of post-doctoral research at
Osford University and Bern University), he now divides his time between his artistic activity, curating, teaching, lectures and publications.
Awards / grants:
Winner of the ARCO new media prize 2007, Madrid
Winner of the Share Festival 2007, Torino
DICREAM (CNC-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication), production grant, 2006
CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), first exhibition grant, 2006
DICREAM (CNC-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication), model grant, 2004
Honorary Mention at the Ars Electronica Price 2003, Linz
Websites where you can consult his work:
http://www.christophebruno.com/
http://www.iterature.com/
http://www.cosmolalia.com/
http://www.unbehagen.com/
hhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Bruno
Anne LAFORÊT :
Theoretician of the digital art ; Associated researcher to ARNUM Laboratory.
Biography:
Anne Laforet has recently completed her PhD in
information science (from the University of
Avignon in France) on the preservation of net
art. It will be published in the autumn by the
French publisher Editions Anwar. She has written
a report entitled "Net art and artistic
institutions and museums" for the French
Ministery of Culture in 2004. She has presented
her research in Europe and Canada.
Anne writes on digital art and digital culture
for the French online magazine Poptronics and the
website of the French-German public TV channel
Arte.
http://www.sakasama.net/
http://www.sakasama.net/conservationnetart/DL-001052-04-01.01.00.pdf
http://www.poptronics.fr/
http://www.arte.tv/fr/70.html/