Texts and images in the digital age (2001)

The aim of the course is to examine the impact on the book of new authoring practices related to photography and digital techniques,  of new modes of interactive reading, and of the abandonment of notions of linearity and exhaustivity.

Subjects covered: opposition between text / image and space / time; oral and graphic dimensions of text; fixed and moving images; the impact of digital technology; consequences of the evolution of writing techniques and practices in aesthetic and legal terms (the book as an art object, the concept of author); the consequences of these transformations on the history and nature of the book, the current evolution of its forms and content, and its future.

This cours is offered in French.