AC(2).N. Doctoral Seminar

OF THE BODY AND THE DIGITAL

Program for the year 2021-2022

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January 19, 2022: Title in progress

Guests: Eric Lacombe (Systems Architect and Engineer)

& Estelle Bongini

(Civil engineer, SNCF project manager)

Discussant: Louisette Rasoloniaina

February 16, 2022: Hyve 3D: VR & AR for project pedagogy

Guests: Julie Milovanovic (post-doc UNC Charlotte (USA))

& Stéphane Safin (MCF Telecom Paris)

Discussant: Esin Ekizoglu

March 16, 2022: In search of the brain?

Guest: Fabrizio de Vico Fallani (Inria - Aramis)

Discussant: Elizabeth Mortamais

April 13, 2022: Spatial configuration and natural movement

Guest: Said Mazouz (Professor of Architecture, Larbi Ben Mhidi University,

Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria)

& Christine Wacta (founder GeoEduGAMING.Inc, USA)

Discussant: Houda Lichiheb

May 11, 2022: Hackathon

June 6, 2022: The Adventure of the Body

Guest: Fabienne Martin-Juchat

(Professor UGA, project manager for the House of Creation and Innovation)

Discussants: Elizabeth Mortamais & Yann Blanchi

OF THE BODY AND THE DIGITAL

Narcissus is the mythological figure who discovers his reflection

in the water of a spring and loses himself in the contemplation of this other

himself, who shows him his own representation. The movement

Water distorts the image, the hidden sun makes it disappear. But nothing

It makes no difference; Narcissus continues to think that this other self is the thing

the most fascinating woman he had ever encountered. Which would ultimately destroy him.

Is digital technology a new Narcissus, captivated and charmed by its

My own reflection? The illusion of total information, of complete reality,

and completely controllable, based on the effectiveness of the devices

Do not technological factors constitute an equivalent situation?

to "dialogue" to "interaction" "artificially natural" or

Naturally artificial, between Narcissus and his reflection. Narcissus smiles.

and its reflection acts in the same way. Doesn't AI, for example, produce its own

its own universe whose performance has no rivals in a

closed world? What are the equivalents of the river current or

the ray of sunlight that would disrupt this world in "loops" of actions

and feedback loops, like Narcissus smiling at himself?

Narcissus forgets a fundamental dimension of himself, his

corporeality and the emotions that flow through it, its very materiality

like beings living by the river, which make all the difference.

Narcissus, lost in his own contemplation, forgets

He drank and ate, and died by the riverbank. What is this?

Drinking and eating are essential, yet they are overlooked and forgotten?

The health situation we have been experiencing for almost two years reminds us

acutely the subject of the body as the foundation of existence.

We will address the subject, that of confrontation, or perhaps

rather than the co-action of the digital universe with physicality,

the materiality of bodies, whether biological or

that of machines, a physicality that interests us as architects,

artists, landscape architects, craftsmen, and their relationships, existing

or supposed, to digital technologies, through a

inaugural session and 6 sessions during this year 2021-2022.