Launch of the research seminar “Reality Check: immersion and the construction of reality in the age of digital mediation” A EUR ArTeC project in partnership with École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL and EnsadLab, Université Paris 8 and INDEX.

With Nick Masterton (Forensic Architecture), Sylvie Lindeperg, Elie During, Nicolas Gourault, Elsa Boyer, Mathias Girel, Claire Châtelet, and other guests to be announced…

Synopsis:
At a time when the production and circulation of images is accelerating exponentially, it’s wise to be wary of the narratives they are called upon to deliver. The rise of new imaginative technologies is also accompanied by a certain anxiety about the relationship between contemporary images and reality. Yet this widespread mistrust also carries the risk of dissolving the very conditions of collective apprehension of reality and facts: among deepfakes and other visual manipulations, there are still images that document what is really happening; indeed, without them, it would be impossible to agree on the reality of an event. (“Pics or it didn’t happen”).

The “Reality Check” research seminar invites a plurality of voices – philosophers, historians, filmmakers, artists, researchers, 3D modelers and fact-checkers – to examine the upheavals our collective relationships to images and reality are undergoing today. With a particular focus on the visual regimes emerging as a result of contemporary digital mediations, this seminar will seek to navigate the currents of images and data that feed our senses of reality, between immersion and submersion.

Project leader: Francesco Sebregondi (SpatialMedia / EnsadLab / INDEX)
Scientific supervisors: François Garnier (Spatial Media / EnsadLab) and Dork Zabunyan (ESTCA, Paris 8)

Friday, Oct 18, 2024 – 2pm-5pm
École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL and EnsadLab
Room 306 – 31 Rue d’Ulm, 75005

Free and open to the public
More info: https://eur-artec.fr/projets/reality-check/