Authors:

 Abou-Jaoude, Georges and others. PANEL

Title:

 from signal to sign

Keywords:

 Numerical Electronic Space, Signal To Sign, Memory and Electronic Memory, mono-media, virtuality, phenomenological, Hyper-reality, Space/Time.

Abstract:

 Art and Science, is the main subject of interest of our new institute at the EPFL,
Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland in Lausanne. Within IRE, we teach Theory of Representation from History to Semiotics, including Computer Science. Therefore, Art and Science is our major concern in teaching and research.

Image as representation is developed all the way from Theory to Expression going through traditional means from photography to painting, etching or sculpture as well as numerical images, animation, video and mechanically generated sculpture. In other words, we use numerical high end technology as well as traditional media as support to our reflection on art and science.

Three persons from our institute would participate in a panel :

Georges Abou-Jaoudé, Professor at EPFL:
- Architect & painter.
- Teaching and research in Theory of Representation and Informatics ( Computer Science)

Arduino Cantafora, Professor at EPFL:
- Architect & painter.
- Teaching and research in Theory of Representation.

Rober Ireland, First Assistant and Lecturer EPFL:
- painter & sculptor
- Teaching and research in Theory of Representation.

Covering three aspects of the subject, respectively
Art and Science as an indivisible binomial, History and Continuity (A.Cantafora), Electronic Numerical Space (G. Abou-Jaoudé) and Contemporary Art (R. Ireland).

Our presentation could go through our Research and Teaching, and specific subjects including our personal artistic work.

In order for you to have a better idea of our subjects of interest, I attach a short abstract of my main actual subject of research for theoretical development and personal artistic expression.*

Thank you in advance for taking this submission into consideration, and please mail if you need more information. Please consider that we are not proposing before hand a closed specific subject in order to open the discussion with you in case you are interested in our field.

* Statement "From Signal To Sign", is the fundamental relation between the Numerical Electronic Space and the rest of the world including Human. Understanding this fundamental relation In and Out of the NES (Numerical Electronic Space) in terms of firstness, secondness and thirdness as proposed by Pierce, leads us to better circumscription of a parallel between Matter & Memory as developed by Bergson and Matter & Electronic Memory as an interstice for art in the electronics. Reading Bergson today to understand computers as defined by Turing, allows us to look at electronic memory as a mono-media where only the phantom of matter is kept, leaving the reconnection with matter similar to filling the gap between Ideal and Material. Working on the Mimesis between Memory and Electronic Memory ,gives virtuality it's full meaning, oscillating between the numerical image as mirror of matter or matter as the mirror of the electronic image like in Plotin's inversion, where the object is mirror of the soul. Once we have attempted to understand what is the Electronic Space and how it connects to the fundamental relation of Man and World, we can shall investigate it's relation to an artistic process as emotion between the eye and the hand from a phenomenological point of view.

Within this global canvas I develop Concepts, images, paintings and videos around the ollowing subjects:

Hyper-reality and hyper-realism.
Continuity of Space/Time in the Numerical Electronic Space.
Viewing time as a spatial projection.
Images of movement and movement of images.
Abou-Jaoudé, Georges. Georges.Abou-Jaoude@epfl.ch Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland Lausanne My name is Georges Abou-Jaoudé, and I am professor of Computer Science and Representation at EPFL. Co-director of the institute, IRE, Informatics Representation Expression. - Architect & painter. - Teaching and research in Theory of Representation and Informatics ( Computer Science)

Cantafora, Arduino. Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland in Lausanne Professor at EPFL - Architect & painter. - Teaching and research in Theory of Representation.

Ireland, Rober Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland in Lausanne First Assistant and Lecturer EPFL: - painter & sculptor - Teaching and research in Theory of Representation.