Panel Statement

Panel: Recombinant Culture

(Sub-title: L’imageà l’ère de la recomposition informationnelle du sensible.) We shall ask what happens to the Image when, after being integrated into the information economy, it goes from an archeo/logical state (the Analogical trace image) to a radically new techno/ logical (the Numerical numbered image) state. Expanding on the attractive notion put forth by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, we will try to look at the Image, its functionality when the old life-giving couple, Eye & Nature (“the skin’s eye”) gives up its power to a new non-optic logic-based couple: Brain & Information.

• Alain Renaud (France) is a philosopher who created Imaginaire Numerique (1985). He is a member of the management research group on High Definition Television at France-Telecom and professor of anthropology and aesthics at Ecole d’Architecture de St-Etienne.