La lettre n°4

OBSERVATOIRE CRITIQUE
des ressources numériques en histoire de l'art et archéologie



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Three sons ! No doubt... But we can also see in these three portraits, Rimbaud, Jesus Christ, Che Guevara, three tutelary figures in the three orders, artisitc, religious and politic... Emblematic figures of the photographic paradox ; poweful because they are depositories of the index imprint (real or false, it doesn’t matter), as well as empty because they are increased until exhaustion. Ghosts which became signs. Here, multiple has mutated, it scatters on the network and offers its faces to anyone ready to take charge. Power reversion, the idols are handed over : to touch, to distort, to bring back to life ? Here, the face becomes interface, in each and every dot ; on contact with the pointer, the screen’s skin clings to the “doer’s” intention. The mouse is worried. In interactivity, it is the reflexivity forced on the “interactor” which interests Luc Dall’Armellina.

The month's artwork

Three Sons – e-portraits e-moving 
Luc Dall’Armellina, 2001

              Downloadable screensaver for handhelds (PDA, etc.) and computers. Cf. How Tap works.

Commissioned by Dia Center for the Arts, in 2002.

Artist's screen

TapJames Buckhouse

in collaboration with Holly Brubach, 2002



Notification. February the 15th. Intervention in the Seminar “Political economics of digital edition”, coordinated by Pierre Mounier and Gérard Wormser. ENS Lettres et Sciences humaines, parvis René Descartes, Lyon 7ème, Métro Debourg. 

On the theme of «  Text-sound-image Convergence ». 
Internet and the Web take the written documents out of the seclusion enforced by printed edition. The convergence of oral and written data, textual, visual or acoustic, becomes every day easier to operate, especially thanks to the democratization of editing tools. Multimedia, first considered as an embellishment, an illustration for the publication, will play a strategical part : it gives access to material, to sources of intellectual work. The technical possibilities tally with the Humanities’ “data” and “corpus”. 
Speakers : Daniel Bouillot (Université de Savoie - G-SICA - CITIA) and Corinne Welger-Barboza (Observatoire critique des ressources numériques en histoire de l'art et archéologie -Université Paris 1 ). Coordinator : Marc Veyrat (Université de Savoie - G-SICA - Société imateriel).  

Nota Bene : We wish to point out  a small change in our editing system. The SNAP software enables our visitors to get a visual preview of the sites  we are linking to by rolling over any link. This is a significant comfort improvement for the consultation of our link-filled articles. Moreover, several introductions and abstracts in english have been added to the articles for our visitors who are not fluent in french.

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