Workshop: Hackathon "Data & Art" 2

From Tuesday May, 30 until Thursday June, 1, 2017, from 11 am to 7 pm, at 42.
Jury on Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research.
Registration until May 15, 2017
Send a short bio and few moti­va­tion words at : public­s@­be­ton­salon.net, with as object: INSCRIPTION Hackathon.

Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, École
Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy and 42
are delighted to announce the second edi­tion of the hackathon Data & Art.

The Hackathon “Data & Art” is an inten­sive work­shop, free upon reg­is­tra­tion, which brings together young artists and coders in order to develop inno­va­tive responses to tomorrow’s artistic and cul­tural chal­lenges. For its second edi­tion, the Hackathon will be led co-jointly by Emmanuelle Lainé, artist, and Natasha Marie Llorens, curator, sup­ported by the team of Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Multidisciplinary team will be formed on spot and its mem­bers will work on pro­jects that will be pre­sented to a jury. In the sci-fi novel Pattern Recognition (2003), William Gibson wrote that “We have no future because our pre­sent is too volatile. We have only risk man­age­ment. The spin­ning of the given moment’s sce­narios. Pattern recog­ni­tion.” In the art world, the works that are pro­duced exceed their own phys­ical bor­ders and include the con­text that par­tic­i­pated in their cre­ation: con­ver­sa­tions, ges­tures, invis­ible traces of a pro­fuse ecosystem. At a time when infor­ma­tion, images and sounds cir­cu­late and mix, how can we record and pre­serve what is ephemeral?

42 is a French pri­vate com­puter-pro­gram­ming school cre­ated by Xavier Niel (founder of Illiad-Free), with sev­eral asso­ci­ates such as Nicolas Sadirac, Kwane Yamgname and Florian Bucher. Since the first classes that took place in 2013, the training has been inspired by the changes brought by internet, and through a “peer-to-peer” learning. The school pro­vides a cur­riculum com­pletely free-of-charge to its stu­dents, empha­sizing on high quality skills in pro­gram­ming and inno­va­tion. The name of the school is a direct ref­er­ence to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which 42 is the answer to the ques­tion of life, of uni­verse and of all the rest.

L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) is sup­ported by the Ministère de cul­ture et de la com­mu­ni­ca­tion and pro­duces artists and cre­atives of inter­na­tional renown in dif­ferent dis­ci­plinary fields. It was founded in Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, in the 1970s (Vald’Oise). Determinedly cross-dis­ci­plinary, ENSAPC is con­ceived as a lab­o­ra­tory of artistic prac­tice, standing out as spring­board for cre­ative and intel­lec­tual pro­duc­tion. To nur­ture a crit­ical approach to con­tem­poray chal­lenges, the school is nimble, respon­sive, and alert to new fields of knowl­edge that invite the explo­ration of new ter­ri­tory.

Emmanuelle Lainé (born in 1973 in Paris) lives and works in Marseille. She grad­u­ated from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Elaborating on the speci­fici­ties of each exhi­bi­tion venue, Emmanuelle Lainé uses her host insti­tu­tion fur­ni­ture and archi­tec­tural fea­tures to provide a “method­ology of places” that is an inter­face between spaces, works and their audi­ence. Her prac­tice con­sists in mon­u­mental in-situ instal­la­tions that blur dis­tinc­tions between the dif­ferent media she uses. This pro­cess allows her to create a com­plex cog­ni­tive space where sev­eral tem­po­ral­i­ties coexist, making sense only through the eye of the beholder, con­sid­ered as the priv­i­leged agent of the exhi­bi­tion.

Natasha Marie Llorens is an inde­pen­dent curator and writer based in Marseille and New York. She has two on-going cura­to­rial research pro­jects: one exploring the rela­tion­ship between vio­lence and rep­re­sen­ta­tion in con­tem­po­rary art from a fem­i­nist per­spec­tive, and the other about crit­ical con­tem­po­rary painting. She has curated exhi­bi­tions at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (Brooklyn), REVERSE Gallery (Brooklyn), the Project Space at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), Ramapo College (New Jersey), the Zabludowicz Gallery (London), MomentArt (Brooklyn). She has taught at Columbia University, the Cooper Union and Eugene Lang College, all in New York City, and is cur­rently adjunct fac­ulty in the Curatorial Studies MA pro­gram at Parsons in Paris.

Restitution of the Hackathon « A Wolrd in Flux » on Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research , event co-organized by Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, ENSAPC and 42.

Restitution of the Hackathon « A Wolrd in Flux » on Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research , event co-organized by Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, ENSAPC and 42.

Restitution of the Hackathon « A Wolrd in Flux » on Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research , event co-organized by Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, ENSAPC and 42.

Restitution of the Hackathon « A Wolrd in Flux » on Friday, June 2, 2017, at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research , event co-organized by Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, ENSAPC and 42.