We Are Not the Number We Think We Are
Cité internationale des arts | February 2–3, 2018
This original event organized by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation creates dialogue between arts, sciences, and society so that we can imagine tomorrow. In partnership with La Chaire Arts & Sciences and Cité internationale des arts.
Cité internationale des arts | February 2–3, 2018
This original event organized by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation creates dialogue between arts, sciences, and society so that we can imagine tomorrow. In partnership with La Chaire Arts & Sciences and Cité internationale des arts.
Committed and interdisciplinary collective practices: collaborative workshops, exhibitions, performances, installations, conferences, and other events.
The seminar “Composing knowledge”: around 50 initiators of cooperative and experimental projects in the arts and sciences, supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation “Citizen Art” program.
“Converging Futurologies” conferences: Ecologies/territory, activism and autonomy | Managing a mass of information | Powers and counter-powers | Museums and education | Democratizing democracy
Interactive festive night-time event: “Discontrol Party”
Family Fun
An invitation to sketch out the landscape of what might exist in the future, inspired by The Compass Rose (1982), a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. The goal: to accept the unpredictable, to clear a path into the unknown, and to question once again the value of proof, doubt, accident, and investigation.
How can we invent forms that call up and represent, or that activate and mobilize, so that we can imagine a future and a project for society in common?
2 days & 1 night open to the general public, to discover a constellation of out-of-the-ordinary experiments.
36 hours of international programming, to take the time to think about and participate in scientific, ecological, and civic reflection.
With this event, the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation and La Chaire Arts & Sciences create a moment of renewed dialogue among artists, scientists, thinkers, and the general public, with the aim of going beyond the boundaries that exist between experts, specialists, creators, students, and novices, but also of exploring new aesthetic, multi-sensory, and creative experiences.
Workshops, meetings and artistic proposals
Cité internationale des arts | Feb. 2–3, 2018
Throughout the weekend, committed and interdisciplinary collective practices: 15 collaborative workshops, exhibitions, performances, installations, conferences, and other events.
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“Composing Knowledge” seminar
Cité internationale des arts | February 2, 2018
The “Composing Knowledge” seminar brings together around 50 initiators of cooperative and experimental projects in the arts and sciences supported through the “Composing knowledge to better understand the issues of the contemporary world” call for projects, which is part of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation “Citizen Art” program.
“Converging Futurologies” conferences
Cité internationale des arts | February 2–3, 2018
The conference series “Converging Futurologies” attempts to map the fields for working on today, in order to build a real alternative to an expected dystopian future.
In order to envisage other worlds and find better ways to illuminate the one in which we live, we need a more precise view of what’s at stake in the present: Ecologies/territory, activism and autonomy | Managing a mass of information | Powers and counter-powers | Museums and education | Democratizing democracy.
The goal of this program is inspired by the theorist Donna Haraway, i.e. to seek a “common language, in which all resistance to instrumental control disappears and where heterogeneity can be subjected to disassembly, reassembly, investment, and exchange.
”Curators of the “Converging Futurologies” event: Mélanie Bouteloup (Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche and Villa Vassilieff) and Nora Sternfeld (Kassel School of Art and Design).
Discontrol Party
Cité internationale des arts | February 2–3, 2018
The Discontrol Party project is an interactive festive experience imagined by Samuel Bianchini. It brings together two worlds: the world of the most advanced surveillance technologies and the world of parties. Discontrol Party acts as a large-scale game: the dance floor is set up as a data-driven control room (with computer vision, infrared camera, face detection, identification, indoor geolocation, interaction via smartphones, etc.) within an openly visible surveillance system.
The participants, while partying, are confronted with multiple visualizations produced by the computer system, which is observing them and trying to analyze their behavior. The challenge: Can the party beat the system? Cause a breakdown? Create a bug?
By making the revelers confront the system and by encouraging the possible overtaking of one world by the other, “Discontrol Party” aims to overturn control systems so that we can better reconnect with the primitive features of some of our celebratory rituals.
This third edition, proposed at the Cité internationale des arts in connection with the “Faits d’hiver” festival of micadanses, follows an initial Discontrol Party held at the Next Festival in 2009 and a second one at La Gaîté Lyrique in 2011.
An event for the whole family
Cité internationale des arts | February 2–3, 2018
For ages 5 to 15 : dive into the playful world of arts & sciences with your family!
Put your imagination to work to create a robot, touch the clouds and marvel at the poetry of the Nephelograph, walk through walls without using the doors, discover what a performance is, make a volcano explode… A myriad of multi-sensory, educational, artistic, and fun experiments, games, and workshops for 5 to 15-year-olds to discover with the whole family!
