Organiser: Didier Larnac, école des beaux-arts du Mans
The increasing number of programs devoted to sound practices and research in art school curricula internationally is remarkable. For some the engagement with sound has continued for a significant number of years. One cannot deny the diversity and richness of such experiences, nor ignore the broad diversity offered by the multiple ways to deal with acoustics and sound design in the art field.
The sound territory, whose scope could be compared to the potentials and cross-over of the digital world, offers the capacity to establish educational fields and programs in partnership with the industrial, communication and cultural sectors, and with experimental creative art or research.
Art schools, whose primary mission is education, must not only preserve the plurality of outcomes, but also reflect on the development of these outcomes by giving networks a structure, by listing available means and by identifying fields of research. How to approach such educational models within art schools, how to bring life to an international network whose aim would be the development of research, networking art schools, laboratories, universities and the buissness sector? How to highlight the numerous research projects in the field of sound and accoustics by training, research, innovation and dissemination?
Based on testimonies of the experiences which are being developed today within schools and institutions, a partial landscape will emerge, offering the opportunity of an effective international collaborative commitment.
Guest-speakers of this debate are:
- Patrick Susini : Researcher, IRCAM, Paris
- Benoït Pécan : Lecturer, Haute école d’art, Bern
- Peter Sainclair : Lecturer, Ecole supérieure d’Art, Aix en Provence
- Ludovic Germain & Philippe Langlois : Lecturers, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Le Mans.
