Art
Design

Grande Image

Originating in experiences with contemporary art practices, a preoccupation with the urban, art on the scale of the landscape, a thinking on the context of art, a pedagogical idea within an art school along with a favorable urban context and strong partners, Grande Image is a project that has, over three years joined together questions and committed partners. The development of Grande Image has led to the formation of a network of contacts and of a working group that has since been built in a more formal manner, bringing together participants, as much in artistic practice as in theoretical thinking on art, the image and the city.
Carried by the higher school of fine arts, Grande image has enlarged its scope of action to other partners in France and abroad. Its development, as much on a theoretical level as in the production of experiences and artistic works required the setting up of a structured and coordinated research programme. This programme completes and enriches the territory of work developed within the school to join with a thinking on the status of the image in contemporary art, on the relationships between art and the urban context, between art and specific technologies, particularly digital, and deepening the view of contemporary productions that bring the whole of these questions into play.

Synthetic

The Synthetic research programme aims to question the impact of computationalism on modes of production and of work in our technological societies, specifically in the domains of art, design and architecture. This impact is especially comprehensible as a climate of radical, theoretical and practical innovation, in all domains where the computational mode provokes a convergence of knowledge (symbolic, calculative and experimental). Synthetic thus proposes gathering together different actors (academic, scientific and industrial) and envisages production in the context of design and architecture from the angle of automation, vision of computers, advanced materials and the cognitive sciences.
One of the major objectives of the programme is to dissolve the idealism that too often governs research in the domain of the digital, that accompanies the banal fascination with the technical element transported outside of its usual field and because of this can not consider the true consequences issued from a generalized use of calculators on the shaping of knowledge, on the conditions of production and on the creation of value. It is from a realist point of view that finds it impossible to exclude the challenge of technological determinism, that Synthetic attempts, through collective experiences such as workshops, seminars, experimental platforms for creation and the making of prototypes, to perceive the concrete effects of the computer on forms (objects, environment and symbolic), on work and its organization and on the costs of fabrication.
Synthetic is open and collaborative in nature, in a context where culture, technology, work and politics are linked by way of the computer.

Proceedings of seminars, artists’ books, leaflets for exhibitions.

Exhibitions: 3 or 4 per year. Study days in the framework of the Carrefours de la Pensée, Forum Le Monde-Le Mans, in collaboration with Le Monde diplomatique. Concerts, sonic poetry evenings. Projections of experimental cinema at Beaubourg hors les murs.
Workshops: artist residencies, invited guests
Trips to Paris, the region and abroad (Venice Biennial, Documenta in Kassel, Naples, Barcelona, Amsterdam Dusseldorf…).

Extracurricular classes (6e-5e et 4e-3e) and adult courses (aged 15 and up)

The TALM Esba expands its international scope each year by developing numerous partnerships with foreign art schools and establishments. The establishment itself offers a number of possibilities for study abroad. The exchange programmes are part of the standard student curriculum and are mainly geared towards fourth year students. A period of study in a foreign school demands that the student present the outline of their personal project to other teachers, other pedagogical and cultural milieus. The three school sites have signed bilateral Erasmus conventions for the mobility of their students and teachers and also maintain privileged partnerships with institutions located outside of Europe.

School gallery

Drawing, painting, sculpture, engraving, typography, casting, wood, metal, ceramics, smelting, film and digital photography, video, sound, infography, library, videotheque, internet, radio-phonics/digital.

ANdEA, Art Accord France, ELIA, Institut français, OFAJ Franco-German Youth Office.

Institutional Partnerships
– In the context of the Sound Design Master’s degree: The Institute for Coordination of Acoustic and Musical Research (IRCAM), the National Higher School for Industrial Creation (ENSCI), the Acoustics Laboratory of the UNiversity of Maine (LAUM).
– In the context of the Space of the City Design Master’s degree: The Higher School of Surveyors; Georges Pompidou Centre, Beaubourg “Beyond the Walls”; The National Fund of Contemporary Art; Frac Pays de la Loire, the Le Mans Espal, the Foundry- Théâtre du Radeau, Le Mans ; Les Carrefours de la Pensée, Le Mans.

François Landais Directeur général de l’EPCC esba TALM
Didier Larnac Directeur du site – Responsable Pédagogie et Recherche EPCC
Aïcha El Hadj Ressources humaines et finances
Diane Debuisser Pédagogie et scolarité
Pauline Clausse-Lebrun Accueil, communication, relations internationales
Fanny Peltier Bibliothèque
Henri-Michel Jean Informatique
Georgina Corcy Technicienne photo
Olivier Chouteau Technicien volume
Lucas Fossey Adjoint technique son et vidéo
Cyrille Charretier Bâtiment
Jimmy Vallée Entretien et gardiennage
Yann Delem Entretien et gardiennage

28 avenue Rostov-sur-le-Don
72000 | Le Mans
tél. +33 (0)2 43 47 38 53
fax +33 (0)2 43 47 49 65
contact@esba-lemans.fr
www.esba-lemans.fr
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