Philippe Alain Michaud Conference

The Analog, the Digital, and the Icon or the Legend of Reproductibility

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    The history of techniques does not evolve at the same rate, and it perhaps does not follow the same path as that of the representations: we can thus advance the hypothesis that the emergence of cinema was accompanied by a return to pre-modern image regimes in which the status of the icon, as stabilized in the Byzantine universe between the 2nd and 8th centuries, can help us think.

  • Date and place:
  • De 21-06-2021 à 10:00h 12:00h

    L'AGORA GABES

Philippe Alain Michaud

Philippe-Alain Michaud is a curator at the National Museum of Modern Art - Pompidou Center, in charge of the film collection and teaches Cinema History and Theory at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Aby Warburg and the Moving Image (Macula, 1998), The Image People (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004), On Film (Macula, 2016), Primitive Souls. Film, plush and paper figures (Macula, 2019). He has written extensively on the relationship between film and the visual arts. He has curated several exhibitions, including: Dreamlike drawing (Louvre Museum / Pompidou Center, 2004), The movement of images (Pompidou Center, 2006), Electric nights (Museum, photography, Moscow and Laboral (Gijon, Spain) 2007, Flying carpets (Villa Medicis, Rome and The Slaughterhouses, Toulouse) 2010, Endless Images, Brancusi photography, film (Pompidou Center, 2012 with Quentin Bajac and Clément Cheroux), Beat Generation (Pompidou Center, 2016), The Ecstatic Eye: Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of the arts (Pompidou Center-Metz, 2019).

Philippe Alain Michaud

Philippe-Alain Michaud is a curator at the National Museum of Modern Art - Pompidou Center, in charge of the film collection and teaches Cinema History and Theory at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Aby Warburg and the Moving Image (Macula, 1998), The Image People (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004), On Film (Macula, 2016), Primitive Souls. Film, plush and paper figures (Macula, 2019). He has written extensively on the relationship between film and the visual arts. He has curated several exhibitions, including: Dreamlike drawing (Louvre Museum / Pompidou Center, 2004), The movement of images (Pompidou Center, 2006), Electric nights (Museum, photography, Moscow and Laboral (Gijon, Spain) 2007, Flying carpets (Villa Medicis, Rome and The Slaughterhouses, Toulouse) 2010, Endless Images, Brancusi photography, film (Pompidou Center, 2012 with Quentin Bajac and Clément Cheroux), Beat Generation (Pompidou Center, 2016), The Ecstatic Eye: Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of the arts (Pompidou Center-Metz, 2019).