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Criticism, theory & documents

ArTeC

 
The ArTec University Research School (successor of the Labex Arts-H2H) explores new connections between arts, humanities, sciences and techniques, between the physical space and the data space, between artistic forms and their mediation. Its projects are transdisciplinary and collaboratively developed, bringing together corpuses, methodologies and scientific formats with artistic creation. ArTeC creates spaces for hybrid experimentations, between theory and practice, and its research connects arts to the world, to social sciences and experimental sciences, considering new configurations brought by the digital age.
 
Vivian Sobchack - Le corps du film - Une phénoménologie de l\'expérience filmique
Vivian Sobchack
Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of Vivian Sobchack's work, Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
En quête d'images – Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD – Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
Jamie Allen
Infrastructures critiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Imaginaires technologiques
Imaginaires technologiques
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
Steven Feld
La recherche comme composition
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
Carmelo Bene
L'esthétique du déplaisir ebook
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun - Codes, races, climat, habitudes - Implications sociales de la numérisation
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Codes, races, climat, habitudes – Implications sociales de la numérisation
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
New media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun exposes her original conception of programming and code, alerts us to the racialization bias, homophily and eugenic tendencies that govern our interactions on platforms, and analyzes the need to call upon the humanities and social sciences in the development of algorithmic models for predicting the evolutions and impacts of climate change.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
Mário Pedrosa
Discours aux Tupiniquins ebook
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Simon Frith - Une sociologie des musiques populaires
Simon Frith
Une sociologie des musiques populaires ebook
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.
Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire - Un glossaire critique et amoureux
Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire – Un glossaire critique et amoureux
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Blind spots of the ubiquitous digital—a critical and loving glossary: 138 entries to explore the unspoken aspects of new technologies, artificial intelligence and other aspects of digital.
Dieter Schnebel - Son et corps
Dieter Schnebel
Son et corps ebook
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
N. Katherine Hayles
Parole, écriture, code ebook
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Friedrich Kittler - Mode protégé
Friedrich Kittler
Mode protégé ebook
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.
Artistes-chercheur·es, chercheur·es-artistes - Performer les savoirs
Artistes-chercheur·es, chercheur·es-artistes – Performer les savoirs
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
Innovative hybridizations between research, creation (theater and performance) and pedagogy.
Le cinéma muet italien, à la croisée des arts
Le cinéma muet italien, à la croisée des arts
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
New perspectives for a history of Italian silent cinema.
Giorgia Aiello - Communication, espace, image
Giorgia Aiello
Communication, espace, image
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A critical approach to visual communication and contemporary globalist aesthetics.
Brian Massumi - Pensée en acte - Vingt propositions pour la recherche-création
Erin Manning, Brian Massumi
Pensée en acte – Vingt propositions pour la recherche-création ebook
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.
Architectures of Memory
Architectures of Memory ebook
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The complex architectures of the new “memory palaces”, from libraries, archives and museums to the IT structures, databases and server farms that feed the flow of data on the network.
Benjamin H. Bratton - La Terraformation 2019
Benjamin H. Bratton
La Terraformation 2019
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A provocative and stimulating manifesto by Benjamin Bratton that promotes new ways of inhabiting (and artificialising) the planet, facing the environmental, economic and social crisis that radically belies the possibility of a continuation of the current globalised capitalist model.
Le Comportement des Choses
Le Comportement des Choses
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A polyphonic investigation that reveals the potential of fictional and philosophical suggestion of the animation of things, questioning the persistence of forms of animism within the project of modernity, in the horizon of a questioning of the anthropocentric foundations of the Western culture.
Politiques de la distraction
Politiques de la distraction
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A collective and transdisciplinary reflection on the notion of distraction, thought both as the stigma of our societies and as its antidote.
Architectures de mémoire
Architectures de mémoire
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The complex architectures of the new “memory palaces”, from libraries, archives and museums to the IT structures, databases and server farms that feed the flow of data on the network.
Zoe Beloff - Techniques de la distraction
Zoe Beloff
Techniques de la distraction
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
Carmelo Bene
L'esthétique du déplaisir
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Brian Massumi - Pensée en acte - Vingt propositions pour la recherche-création
Erin Manning, Brian Massumi
Pensée en acte – Vingt propositions pour la recherche-création
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – ArTeC
20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.
Simon Frith - Une sociologie des musiques populaires
Simon Frith
Une sociologie des musiques populaires
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.
Star Turns in Hollywood Musicals
Star Turns in Hollywood Musicals
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
This book focuses on the distinctiveness of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. These stars were cast for their specific dancing or singing skills, that could be recognized by audiences and sold by the studios' publicity machine. They acquired Hollywood stardom through a dialogue with highbrow culture and mass industry, that cinema tried to bring into harmony. This collection brings together the contributions of American, British and French researchers.
Stars et solistes du musical hollywoodien
Stars et solistes du musical hollywoodien
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
This book focuses on the distinctiveness of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. These stars were cast for their specific dancing or singing skills, that could be recognized by audiences and sold by the studios' publicity machine. They acquired Hollywood stardom through a dialogue with highbrow culture and mass industry, that cinema tried to bring into harmony. This collection brings together the contributions of American, British and French researchers.
Dieter Schnebel - Son et corps
Dieter Schnebel
Son et corps
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.
The Digital Subject
The Digital Subject
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
Mário Pedrosa
Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Jane Feuer - Mythologies du film musical
Jane Feuer
Mythologies du film musical
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
First French translation of a pioneering study on Hollywood musicals.
Le sujet digital
Le sujet digital
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
Hans Haacke - Esthétique des systèmes
Jack Burnham, Hans Haacke
Esthétique des systèmes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
N. Katherine Hayles
Parole, écriture, code
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Friedrich Kittler - Mode protégé
Friedrich Kittler
Mode protégé
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.
Alieneering – Manuel pour un jeu de rôle entre recherche et création
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
L'autre tournant pédagogique – Faire alliance
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create another pedagogical turning point.
Faire preuve par l'image – Enquête et contre-enquête
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.
Vilém Flusser
La recherche-création – Avant, après
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
forthcoming
Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).
The Feedback-Game
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
Un art de la réparation – Réparer (par) les arts vivants
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
Erin Brannigan
Cinédanse, chorégraphie et image en mouvement – Pour une généalogie féminine
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
forthcoming
The choreographic in cinema.
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