Art and Science Days: discover projects in an original and interactive way

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Published on April 22, 2025 – Updated on April 22, 2025
Dates

from May 15, 2025 to May 16, 2025

Conservatoire de Nice Thursday, May 15, 2pm-6pm
Campus Georges Méliès Friday, May 16, 2 pm to 6 pm
Location

Unknown label, Campus Georges Méliès

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On May 15 and 16, 2025, Université Côte d'Azur invites you to an immersive experience where art and science merge to give birth to innovative projects. This year, forget traditional lectures: become an actor by directly experiencing the devices created by our researchers and artists.

This year, theAcadémie 5 "Homme, idées, milieux " , the EUR Arts et Humanités and the MSHS Sud-Estare organizing two half-days of restitution of projectscombining art and science, on May 15 at the Nice Conservatoire and May 16 at the Georges Méliès Campus. Project leaders (researchers and/or artists) will present the results of their work in an original and interactive way, and share their experience of collaborative projects.

Why come along?

  • A unique annual event : discover scientific projects from an artistic angle, just once a year.
  • Interactivity at the forefront : immerse yourself in installations where your participation is essential to bring the works to life.
  • Artistic theme in the spotlight: this edition focuses on art, offering a new perspective on scientific advances.

Registration

Admission is free, but places are limited. Register now to guarantee your participation.

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Hip hop pedagogy
EMILIE SOUYRI, LIRCES
Presentation of the European Hiphop Studies Network (EHHSN) and the research project studying how artistic practices, and in particular hip-hop, can constitute an alternative, horizontal means of transmitting culture. Through podcast excerpts, we'll hear from artists and school teachers who are using rap and tag as pedagogical tools, as well as the feedback from the "Passe ton rap d'abord" workshop recorded with students.es of English and applied foreign languages at Université Côte d'Azur.

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Tiers-lieux culturels: un paradigme français en dialogue avec des expériences internationales
MATINA MAGKOU, SIC.LAB MEDITERRANEE ET GREDEG
A participatory workshop with Frederic Alemany (HUBLOT) will enable participants to discover the history and different definitions of a cultural "tiers-lieu", and to experiment with their creation.

Digital Musical Interface for Distributed Creativity
GAEL NAVARD ET GILLES MOTTET, CONSERVATOIRE DE NICE
An immersive tour of the Conservatoire's digital musical interface development rooms will enable visitors to gain an interactive understanding of how they work. These digital devices are used, among other things, to enable the visually impaired to produce electroacoustic music, as well as to introduce musical creativitý in schools.

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Micadôme
MICHEL PASCAL, CONSERVATOIRE DE NICE
The visit continues with a listening session in multichannel sound, in the Côte d'Azur's immersive music dome, a cube of 32 3D speakers equipped with interactive spatialization devices enabling creative research at the interface between sound arts and cognitive sciences.

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Les Suds comme résistance: Creating a new imaginary
MICHELE PEREZ AND NICOLAS PELISSIER, SIC.LAB MEDITERRANEE
How do artists from the Suds contribute to a renewed imaginary of resistance to dominant values and possible social change? A podcast will be presented, focusing on the project's general problem and its initial application to the political legacy of Rachid Taha, a committed Franco-Algerian musician. The qualitative survey produced excerpts from interviews with family and friends and musicians, complemented by collective workshops that identified a number of values common to the Suds and to resistance.
Women's voices: Italian women in the public eye between the 19th and 20th centuries
BARBARA MEAZZI AND DANIELA VITIGLIANO, CMMC
Women's public lectures in Italy, at the dawn of the so-called "first wave" of feminism, marked their appropriation of public space, their influence on other women and the circulation of their ideas. The presentation of Femmes en voix - Voix de femmes will be accompanied by a performance by the group Ascolta, interpreting a song from the period in homage to one of these Italian lecturers, Maria Goia.


 
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Capturing musical gestures, models and experiments
JEAN-FRANÇOIS TRUBERT AND MAXENCE MERCIER, CTELA
In this workshop, you'll discover the motion capture devices used to study the relationship between music, emotion and space, through a demonstration followed by an interactive experiment.



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Painters' workshops: writing and pigments
PERRINE SAILLARD, CEPAM
This project combines traditional disciplines, such as medieval art history and attributionism in painting, with the tools of applied mathematics and spectral photography, in order tostudy epigraphic inscriptions and identify the hands behind the texts in late 15th-century wall paintings in eight places of worship in the southern Alpine Arc. The restitution of the research project includes a demonstration of the operation of the photographic equipment and a detailed poster presentation of the project.
ProPhilia: Philosophy dissemination and research-creation
THOMAS MORISSET, CRHI CHARLES MEYER, LIRCES
How can knowledge be disseminated creatively and dynamically? The conclusions of the "Se promener dans les œuvres" seminar and the Prophilia festival will be presented through an interactive exploration of Charles Meyer's research-creation videogame.

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Analysis of dance movement: the contribution of AI
PHILIPPE ROBERT, COBTEK
IDIR CHATAR, CIE LA PARENTHESE
The research project investigates the relationship between stress, anxietý and expression in a bodily practice, during dance practice, with the help of new technologies (artificial intelligence). In an interactive session, participants will play the role of judges. After a brief presentation of the research project and its experimental protocol, they will observe a dancer performing classical dance exercises and will be invited to assess her stress level via an online form. These assessments will be compared with the project's hypotheses and the dancer's feelings, to open the discussion.

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Editing the dance of the past: bodies, writings and digital humanities
MARINA NORDERA, CTELA
An interactive workshop will enable the public, on a voluntary basis, to discover through the body one of the oldest treatises on dance, "De la arte di ballare e danzare" by Domenico da Piacenza (c.1455). The results of the research project's process of transcribing, translating, editing, recreating and recording choreographic material from this treatise will also be presented through images and video extracts.
Women's voices: Italian women in the public eye between the 19th and 20th centuries
BARBARA MEAZZI AND DANIELA VITIGLIANO, CMMC
Women's public lectures in Italy, at the dawn of the so-called "first wave" of feminism, marked their appropriation of public space, their influence on other women and the circulation of their ideas. The presentation of Femmes en voix - Voix de femmes will be accompanied by a performance by the group Ascolta, interpreting a song from the period in homage to one of these Italian lecturers, Maria Goia.
 
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