[NOW] Ambre talks about cemetery architecture in Delpire and Co Librarie, about the wonderful Collectionner Les Tombes edited by Editions Païen

French translation of BROWN, Bill, Materiality, in HANSEN, Mark et MITCHELL, William John Thomas (éds), "Critical Terms For Media Studies", Chicago, University of Chicago Press, coll. « critical terms », 2010, p. 49-62.

Ambre is an affiliate teacher @ESAD Orleans in the research program titled "Images and Media Archeology"

[NOW] Ambre teaches a methodology course on writing an art dissertation and creative writing @ ESAD Orléans

Ambre participates to the HEAD Genève Option Construction jury

🔗https://head.hesge.ch/construction/projets/ 🔗

Ambre edited new glossary terms for D.i.T magazine

All of entries were written by ENS LYON students in the art departement, and supervised by Occitane Lacurie

Ambre and Kim Sacks write an essay on images authenticity, conspiracies and artists as conspiracist

available here 🔗le bruit des images🔗 thanks to the wonderful artist Ellie Wyatt for discussing her works with us xx

Ambre talk about death rituals, monuments and design for a new cemetery landscape @ le bal

Ambre writes an essay on rethinking monumentality and new death rituals for Païen Editions

buy the book here : L'homme qui collectionnait les tombes

Ambre talks about esoteric web culture, conspiracies, artistic strategies of revelation and internet infrastructures

Cycle de conférence-recherche du Master MAC et Esthétique

[NOW] Ambre teaches a methodology course on writing art essay and art commentary @ ESAD Orléans

Ambre teaches a class on rituality and design at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

You can request the syllabus at ambre [dot] charpier [at] univ [figure dash] paris1 [dot] fr

[a must read!] Ambre writes an essay on the midjourney/dall-e craze and why GAN images are a snoozefest for Plastik

📖 Variation continue https://plastik.univ-paris1.fr/variation-continue-la-manie-autoreferentielle-des-images-contemporaines/

[NOW] Ambre and Anitra Lourie writes on open secret, artists being spies and unveilling digital infrastructures

Extract : "Recently, this Glasnost logic has hit American political parties hard; as the battle over the possession of classified documents rages on between Republicans and Democrats - Trump's Mar-a-lago scandal and Biden's Think-tank scandal - we find that the content of the documents fanning the fratricidal war are hardly discussed (a dark tale of Middle Eastern espionage?), only whether or not these documents are partially or fully declassified, whether or not they pose a threat to the nation's security. In the end, it's all about the visibility of the invisible, the performativity of secrecy and its exposure in redacted documents that bear the marks of these rituals of veiling/unveiling: crossed-out words, long black lines that partially conceal paragraphs of text that are, in the final analysis, not very evocative. The revelations of investigative journalism, which expose the corruption of power hierarchies ranging from favoritism to insider trading, continue to pile up in the endless piles of documents yet to be examined by overburdened citizens trying to make sense of the inner workings of state and private authorities. These secrets - in the explicit form of redacted documents, partially masked screenshots and other iconic representations - that circulate in all spheres of the web clearly demonstrate that the era of free information exchange and hypervisibility has engendered that strange aesthetic phenomenon that critic Pamela Lee calls "Open secret" and defines as a "visible invisibility .... that functions less to reveal than to declare the prerogatives of those who conceal." In this case, the sensation of revealing hidden content is in fact merely a disclosure of obstructive intentions that are, in a collective public consciousness, already known." A paraitre !

Ambre teaches a class on Hippie Modernism, renouncing design pratices and D.I.Y culture at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus online 🔜

Ambre teaches a class on media archeology at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus ⬇️ 🔗Les machines imaginaires : méthodes et esthétiques de l’archéologie des média 🔗

Ambre teaches a class on speculative and critical design at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus online 🔜

Ambre translates and edits a chapter for the antology Materiality for D.i.T magazine

French translation of BROWN, Bill, Materiality, in HANSEN, Mark et MITCHELL, William John Thomas (éds), "Critical Terms For Media Studies", Chicago, University of Chicago Press, coll. « critical terms », 2010, p. 49-62.

Ambre writes a text of why people should stop saying "immateriality" when talking about media

"Il est difficile d’ailleurs, pour descendre d’une strate supplémentaire, de saisir où commence et quelle est la matérialité des signes et représentations qui structurent nos images, sons, vidéos et textes. Est-ce la lettre, sa forme, son référent ou sa traduction par une multitude d’interfaces interopérantes, du BIOS18, des composants électroniques individuels, de l'électricité qui y circulent, des minerais et plastiques vers lesquels nous devrions nous tourner, afin de saisir ce qu’est le médium ?"

👀📖 les grands combats

Ambre talks about fetichism, objects sensuality and spiritual materiality @ la HEAD Geneva

Ambre writes an critic of Hito Steyerl' book "De l’art en duty free : L’art à l’époque de la guerre civile planétaire" for Design, Art et Médias

"Cette prédation de l'histoire et cette guerre civile planétaire guident Hito Steyerl dans l'ouvrage où elle dresse plus généralement un constat sombre, pour ne pas dire franchement dystopique, des technologies contemporaines. Elle y dépeint dans l'essai Proxypolitique : signal et bruit, des médias communicants abêtissant des foules délirantes, elles-mêmes lentement remplacées sur le web3, blockchained, par des bots à leur image commissionnés à déclencher stratégiquement des conflits armés du bout d'un clic par tweets interposés pour des états profonds."

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Ambre, Catarina Bassotti and Occitane Lacurie organize a symposium on media-archeology of haunted machines

with the collaboration of [Débordements]() and Le Cinéma St André des Arts

Ambre writes an essay on the weird desire for technological eternity and Nick Land's hypersitition for the collective Fanstames en Projet

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Ambre teaches a class on amateur practices and design formalism with Dorian Reunkrilerk at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus ⬇️ 🔗 pratiques_informelles 🔗

Ambre teaches a class on design projects at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus online 🔜

Ambre talks about horror philosophy, media as medium and the strangeness of mediated culture

🔗cycle DAM🔗

Ambre talks on swiss radio about death, technology and haunted media

🔊 à écouter 🔗La mort dans la vie numérique🔗

Ambre teaches a class on design projects at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus online 🔜

Ambre teaches a class on reparation and waste titled "Réparer le monde" at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus online 🔜

Ambre organises a symposium on new subjectivities in the post-cinema age with a lot of people

documentation ⬇️ 🔗Reshaping our Digital Subjectivity 🔗

Ambre teaches a class on the concept of program and programming titled "Programmable" at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

"Based on an analysis of texts produced in different disciplines - design, philosophy, sociology - we will question the notion of program. We will explore the material reality of programs, the impact of programmatic logic and the repercussions of this logic on the common imagination, through a presentation of discourses, films and artifacts. From program operators in military complexes, to programs that decide the future of the workforce and those that mimic the dead, students will participate in case studies that trace the social, cultural and political role of programs and communicating devices, in order to establish a project that problematizes the issues raised during the course."

Sadly, no syllabus for this course.

Ambre teaches an introductary class on media theory at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The "In media res" syllabus online 🔜

Ambre teaches a class on design projects at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Syllabus online 🔜

About

Ambre Charpier is an art researcher, artist and art critic based in Paris suburbs. After two master's degrees in arts and in design at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she pursued her reflections on technological mediation and contemporary occulture in her doctorate thesis.

She is a member of the editorial and organizational committees of the scientific journals Design, Arts, Médias and Design in Translation. In parallel, she is sometimes invited to speak at symposium but more often writes, notably theoretical texts and essays on contemporary art, its precarization in the age of platform capitalism and algorithm's imagination. She teaches most of the time @ESAD Orléans and Sorbonne Art School.

She participates in para-university events with the young researchers' groups Pratiques Spectrales and Hoosh.