esad_orleans school of Art and Design
« Orléans School of Art and Design revives the social, scientific and cultural role of art through design. The design it teaches could be defined as art that is committed, at the heart of our current society, and which seeks through art to answer issues raised by the technological environment and the industrial society. Since the latter has changed nature over the past few years, the school has put emphasis on the digital environment. It offers students practical and theoretical knowledge, methods and means, to allow them to both assess fairly and act on this environment by transforming the effects it produces on our society, ways of living and cultures. »
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DNSEP 2021, Eva Vedel
Research program « Objects, Crafts and computation »
The research program questions, through art and design, the nature of objects in connected spaces. Objects, Crafts and Computation starts from the hypothesis that digital data can be considered as a material that the designer or artist can seize to create singular, critical and poetic forms: DATA_Sculptures.
Professors: Caroline Zahnd (director), Olivier Bouton, Sylvia Fredriksson
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Research projects
⁖ Europa 2022
From February 7 to 10, 2022, as part of the French Presidency of the European Union, the Grand Palais Éphémère organized the EuroFabrique event. ÉSAD Orléans presented the « Europa 2022 » project designed and developped by the research program Objects, Crafts and Computation.
Going beyond a definition of Europe based solely on its borders, Europa 2022 imagines a sound topography of Europe that reveals its linguistic diversity and its identity through its languages, accents and intonations.
The project has been exhibited in different art centers and museums since 2022 last of which at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris for the launch of their EU.topia event in february 2024.
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⁖ DATA_vessel
2020-2024 ⁖ Initiated with Olivier Bouton and now developped with the research programme Objects, crafts and computation at ESAD Orléans, the DATA_vessel project consists of the creation of a funerary monument whose form is derived from the deceased’s own data. It is composed of a circular tombstone digitally carved, and of a ceramics 3D printed oya-urn.
The project has been featured in Culture & Recherche n° 145 « Création artistique et urgence écologique » – see full article here
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