Abstract 2010 Edition Gesture as language Under the direction of Patricia Ribault, doctor in Arts and Sciences of the Arts (University Paris I, Sorbonne). Gesture as langage on Lignes de Temps From the gestures induced by the first tools and flint-stones, described by Leroi-Gourhan, up to the latest tactile screens and haptic technologies of the modern communicating objects, gestures has [...]

Abstract 2008-2009 Edition Politics and technologies of the amateur Watch Politics and technologies of the amateur on Lignes de Temps This seminar wants to initiate a new debate on the role and character of the amateur, his cultural, scientific and political practices, as they grow into the internet, with cellphones and mobile devices connected to the web. As the [...]

Abstract 2008 Edition History of the amateur Under the direction of Jacqueline Lichtenstein, from Paris IV University. History of the amateur on Lignes de temps The word « amateur » has lost the precise meaning it had in the XVIIth and XVIIIth century in France. Then, private individuals who were neither painters nor sculptors could nonseminaretheless be received in the Royal Academy [...]