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 [...]

Abstract 2007-2008 Edition The internet has deeply affected the cultural sphere through digital mutations. What drew the attention first was the impact of the digitalization phenomenon and the dematerialization of cultural industries : it was followed by gains of productivity, convergences, cooperation and competition betweens traditional actors of the cultural sector and actors from the digital sphere, [...]

Presentation 2007 Edition 2008 Edition 2009 Edition 2010 Edition 2011 Edition Since 2007 IRI, the competitiveness pole Cap Digital and the ENSCI (National Superior School for Industrial Creation) join once a year to organize the New Industrial World Forum. The first edition of this Forum initiated a reflection on the rising issue of new forms of ascending innovation as defined [...]

Abstract Interviews Modernization on Lignes de Temps This seminar wants to be a break-through from the traditional lecture model, by the direct manifestation of its subject. Recent technologies are thus applied to valorize a collective modern intelligence at work. Diverging from the tradition wich tries to define from Baudelaire to Walter Benjamin what is « modernity », this seminar asks itself [...]