Art

Locus sonus

Locus Sonus is a 3rd cycle of the research type, specializing in audio creation research.
It unfolds in the form of a one-year session validated by a certificate of 3rd cycle of research in sound art (BAC+6). Locus Sonus is a research cycle common to the Higher School of Art of Aix en Provence and the National Higher School of Art of Bourges. On the horizon of this art orientated 3rd cycle is the opening up of cycles of art research programmes with a view to establishing the specific nature of art education.
The human and technical resources of both schools are pooled within the framework of a convention which permits both the optimum circulation and development of the initiatives of Locus Sonus concerning the DNSEP curriculum, and the basis for a cycle of research in art. The three axes of research in the programme are currently determined on the basis of three vectors (approach, collective, network), mixing two fields of practice and research (Audio and Spaces, Audio and Networks).
http://locusonus.org

DNAP option Art
DNSEP option Art

E-Topie (E-Topia)

E-Topia is a programme of thinking, exchange, experimentation and creation, a platform which has been structured progressively since 2010 and we would like it to be operational at the beginning of the 2013/2014 school year. It is equally a space for collaboration between different partners with complementary activities which allows this platform to be deployed both in and outside the school in different forms. E-topia is spread over five principal programmes: FRONTIERS of the 21st Century, MENTION A/RT, OBS’IN, LOCUS SONUS, DOCTORAT DE CREATION.

Locus Sonus – audio in art

Locus Sonus is a post graduate research laboratory in art, shared between the Higher School of Art of Aix en Provence and the National Higher School of Art of Bourges. It provides structure for the 3rd cycle of the E-topia programme, in particular through the CNRS/MCC framework agreement which has permitted cooperation with the MMSH and the IMéRA since 2007 on a local and international level.
This innovative and experimental project in the field of audio art is run in collaboration by the teachers Jérôme Joy (ENSA Bourges) and Peter Sinclair (ESA Aix en Provence). Its objective is to experiment with innovative and trans-disciplinary aspects of forms and artistic sound practices with regard to issues of spaces and networks. It exists in part to fulfill the mission of creating a corpus of knowledge and a critical space concerning practices in sound art which are currently in a period of evolution. The principal implementation of the laboratory concerns the transport of sounds (and atmospheres) giving rise to the construction of approaches to streaming and flow (live transmission of sound via internet) and to sensorial and experimental environments, playing with the interweaving of places and distances and the resulting modifications of perception that they generate.
The project welcomes a small number of postmasters researcher-artists who constitute, along with the permanent members, the research team. The artists develop projects which fall somewhere between their own concerns and those of the laboratory. Locus Sonus regularly publishes texts in international science publications and proposes a cycle of symposiums, workshops and pedagogical activities for schools each year.

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Doctorate in creation

On the request of its rapporteur, Jean-Raymond Fanlohe, the ESAAix has documented the creation of a new “Practice and Study of Artistic and Literary Creation” doctorate, adopted by the scientific council of the AMU (the University of Aix Marseille). The modes of accompanying questions of methodology concerning this new path for the thesis in addition to questions of co-direction are ongoing.
The ENSP of Arles also participates.

Frontiers of the 21st Century

Frontiers of the 21st Century is a trans-disciplinary and exploratory research programme by Cédric Parizot and was launched in September of 2011 in the IMéRA. Associating the ESAAix from the beginning, it brings together researchers from the social and natural sciences, artists and professionals (customs officers, industrialists…) to rethink the mutations of systems of control on state borders and their impact on spaces and populations.
Operating a real decompartmentalization between different fields, it constitutes a major tool for structuring the e-topia arts/sciences/technologies platform for research and creation, allowing for the modeling of the question of research in the ESAAix in a multidisciplinary convergence. The overlapping of approaches allows for experimentation of proto-form models of art/science/technology research and the invention of new forms of production pertaining to questions of edition and exhibition.

Mention A/RT

The A/rt mention, attached to the DNSEP art option, will be proposed to 2nd cycle students at the beginning of the first semester of 2013/2014. In this way, a student’s journey within the art option which has characterized an aspect of our teaching for a number of years, will be made explicit. This path requires the structuring of this platform in which it participates as a space for training and experimentation, while not excluding the other studios in the school. Transversality is at the very heart of our pedagogical practices.

Obs’in

Founder of the Obs/in, the Observatory for creative practices in digital imagery, with the National Higher School of Photography and the IUT of Digital Imagery (AMU-Arles), the specific contribution of the school is linked to the interwoven relationship between art, science and technology that the school has developed over a number of years, and more specifically in the permanent Art Temps Réel studio established in 2010.

Publishing of artists’ books

Exhibitions (School Gallery), conferences
Three annual themed weeks
Video Instants
The “tous courts” festival (programme of creative video)

Open studios: children, teenagers and adults. Fifteen or so propositions allowing amateurs to indulge in various media such as painting, drawing, photography and visual arts.

Interculturality is a fundamental element in the pedagogy of the school, from teachers to students, and also with guest participants and artists. The office for International relations coordinates the ensemble of international partnerships, in Europe and around the world, as well as the organization of student exchanges (a period of study or training elsewhere in 4th year).
The erasmus programme, grants for mobility and a complete list of partnerships on the schools website, in the École/Relations internationales section.

Foundational practices in art: wood, metal, volume, video, painting and drawing workshops
Image and publishing platform: photography, graphic design, computer graphics, screen printing (tracer, scanners, printers).
Real Time platform: robotics workshops, mecatronics (3D printer and digital milling machine), sound, 2D computing and hypermedia programming, virtual 3D.
Meta workshop.
The workshops are networked and connected to the internet.
A centre for documentation (an important stock of digital art).

ANdEA, ELIA.
Festival GAMERZ., Résidences OHP (Observatoire de Haute Provence), GMEM, FRAC, Maison Numérique, AJMI

Jean-Paul Ponthot Directeur
Dalia Messara Secrétaire Générale
Céline Marx Coordination pédagogique
Caroline Attard Secrétariat pédagogique
Julie Karsenty Relations internationales
Joël Belouet Communication et partnariats
Marie-Françoise Borel Bibliothèque

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13100 | Aix-en-Provence
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