ARNUM

ARNUM Laboratory

Art and Digital research



ARNUM Lab.

Introduction to the laboratory

Research themes

Partners

Contact

Key words



Introduction to the laboratory

Rarely practiced, the cross fertilization of the contributions between engineers and artists is obviously a source of conceptual and methodological enrichments. Also, receptivity to new ways of seeing the world, the development of critical judgment, the study of creativity and the capacity of modeling develop through a constructive dialogue between specialists of both domains.

The ARNUM© laboratory (Art and Digital Research)) at ESIEA organizes these exchanges and stimulates this positive reflection.

First, it offers to ESIEA students a space to exercise the theoretical and practical imaginative qualities of the engineer. Concurrently, the cultural teaching involved leads them to put into transdisciplinary perspective the study of the technological changes and the productions that mobilize computer science.

Finally, the laboratory offers its technical expertise and its collaboration to its partners - cultural institutions and artists.



Research themes

Created by Claire Leroux in 2007, the ARNUM© laboratory is transdisciplinary by nature. Its domain of excellence is artistic creation with a scientific and technical character.


  1. A first research subject, applicative, concerns images, which may be s, till, animated or interactive, 2 or 3D, and their codification, their frames of reference and their realization, often in close collaboration with the Arts office of the ESIEA.


  1. The ARNUM engineer students take part also more or less directly in the realization of digital art creations. In association with our partners - artists or cultural institutions - they develop prototypes which are often conceptual and technological challenges.


  1. Since the 80s, digital art is developing in a exponential and spread to the contemporary artistic creation. But a fundamental problem appears regularly, which slows down the installation of artistic practices of the digital technology in the contemporary art and in its market: the creations obsolescence. Preservation of the digital art will be the main subject of research for the laboratory ARNUM in 2009-2010. click here


  1. A last approach, theoretical also, analyses how the artistic practices using the NTIC, are received by the artist as well as the direct users and specialists.



Partners

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Artistic partners :


Contact

  • Head of laboratory : Claire Leroux

  • Postal address

ESIEA Recherche

Laboratoire ARNUM

9 rue Vésale

75005 Paris

Key words

ARNUM – art – digital art – ESIEA – image – computer science – engineer – interface – computer generated images – multidisciplinary –

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