As part of the #Idéesdébats series organized in partnership with Lieu unique and Nantes Université, Gwenola Wagon will bring an artistic approach to the question of inhabitation to the Habiter, vraiment? cycle.
The housing machine
In this first quarter of the 21st century, living is a problem, in both senses of the word: living at all, as much as living somewhere. This is the story of Max and Norma, who, like other coastal dwellers, have had to abandon their homes on the water's edge. They have founded a new kind of estate agency: they have become agents for imaginary homes generated by AIs, and their screens are the most intimate of living machines. Are the images generated enough to make dreams of living come true? Can we find our own space in a latent space?
6pm
Lieu Unique, Quai Ferdinand-Favre
Free access, no reservation required
Gwenola Wagon is an artist and researcher. She teaches at the Sorbonne School of Arts and the University of Paris 1. Through installations, films and books, she imagines alternative and paradoxical narratives for thinking about the contemporary digital world. She investigates the space of hyperinformation and Internet infrastructures in collaboration with the artist Stéphane Degoutin, with whom she has co-produced a number of pieces, including Cyborgs dans la brume and World Brain, and the book Psychanalyse de l'aéroport international. After Erewhon and Virusland 2020, two post-cybernetic fables, she co-directed with philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguès the film Anarchives du feu and the book Théorie-fiction des AI génératives, soon to be published by UV, which includes the story of Max and Norma.
