The
event
The PLAYABLE Exhibition presented the works of the three schools,
all of which have a multimedia branch orientated towards experimentation
and research in the field of interactivity. This has been
for them, not only an enriching occasion to meet with the
public, but especially the opportunity to create inter-school
dynamics favouring exchange and
international relations in a very specific area, in which
the fields of application remain at present, countless, and
unexplored. The maintained works bear witness to remarkable
inventiveness in experimentation and interactive research.
The event also gave rise to two workshops. During the course
of the exhibition, students in visual communication participated
with Gwenola Wagon (creator of interactive works and researcher
in Paris 8) and Alex Chazard (programmer, Cergy Pontoise Fine
Arts graduate, in charge of course at Paris 8) in a workshop
on experimental creation, on the same site as the exhibition;
Parallel to this, post-grad students worked alongside Jean
Louis Boissier. The two workshops, on different themes, used
video and interactivity. The work done was able to be seen
immediately, and was "rendered playable" for the
exhibition's audience. This event revealed the common preoccupations
of the three research institutes in this specific domain.
The stakes are so much higher as it deals with current development
of the animated image via the digital and its diverse possible
extensions.
Indeed, the exhibition has retraced current questions, but
more importantly, it has been the necessary answer to the
need to go beyond the known limits of the domestic virtual.
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