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From the late 19th century onwards, within modern Western societies, art assumed the mission of shaping the sensibility of "Man" and revived the fantasies of the artist-inventor within the avant-garde, fantasies that persisted after World War II through the "art and technology" paradigm.

This lecture will revisit some aspects of the interactions between artists and technical objects within increasingly complex and ubiquitous media-technical environments, in the historical context of what has been called the "electronic age" since the 1950s, a period tinged with both the dreams of a cybernetic world and the fears of a "control society."

Alternatively an ambassador, an agent of subversion, or a "visionary," the artist's role in this framework is not neutral. Between the desire for control and transparency of communications and information systems, positivist utopianism, militant reappropriation, and social and cultural critique of technocracy, we will explore the relationships between the institutional, industrial, financial, political, and ideological aspects of art-technoscience interactions. These interactions raise, for example, social, feminist, environmental, and post-colonial issues. The analysis of several Western historical cases of these entanglements in the second half of the 20th century will prove to be a tool for understanding our contemporary relationship with technical objects and environments.

More information: https://www.gmea.net/evenement/l-art-est-un-radar