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Michel Blazy lives and works in Paris. Since his studies at the Villa Arson in the 1990s, the artist has been working on the exploitation of matter and the living. Favoring humble materials, generally from his daily life, products that can be found in the kitchen or living elements from the garden, Michel Blazy shows free and evolving proposals tha...

Arts and Social Signs   Franck Scurti uses all mediums indifferently: video, sculpture, installation. His work is constituted around a reflection on art, social signs and the reality of the time. His works are often created from found materials and forms, things devoid of values that he carefully redefines by elaborating each time their logic of ...

What is black art? Anne Lafont is an art historian and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. She has recently published two books: Une Africaine au Louvre ; La place du modèle and a monography entitled L'Art et la race. L'Africain (tout) contre l'œil des Lumières (Presses du réel, 2019) which won her the Maryse C...

Equality of (artificial) intelligences. Catherine Malabou is a specialist in contemporary French and German philosophy. She works on the importance of the concept of plasticity in neuroscience. Today, intelligence allows its own simulation by synaptic chips. The Human Brain and Blue Brain programs intend to map the human brain in its entirety u...

The names of the present. Jacques Rancière is Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris VIII. It is by working on proletarian writers that he develops his reflection on the equality of citizens before power and knowledge, thus questioning, even in crisis, the dominant positions of the thinker and the intellectual who tells the truth of the wor...