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    Keywords/Fields of Study : Depiction, art and science, waves, transdisciplinarity, landscape, data, ecology

    Abstract: The theoretical research of this PhD focus on the rewriting, by contemporary art, of the
    techno- scientific narrative of the 20th century so far dominating, which represents the
    world rather as a resource than as a landscape, place of emotions and territory of
    subsistence. Knowledge beyond disciplines helps to defuse this representation devoid of any relation to
    the sensitive. Artists are invited by scientists to their laboratories promoting thus the
    emergence of crossed and mutually enriched perspectives. How can artists share new modes of being planetary, taking into account the different
    entities in the balance of ecosystems? The 'landscape-installations' proposed by some artists
    attempt to make sensitive the simultaneity of events on a planetary scale and to show the
    interconnection of different ecological phenomena, mobilizing knowledge from different
    disciplines. The practice-based research of this PhD is organized around four research and creation
    'operations' between scientist Patrice Le Gal and the artist, Javiera Tejerina-Risso, author of
    this thesis. As a matter of shape - the wave - and of the concept - the fold - we can notice an evolution
    in the chronology of the featured works. The description of the produced pieces allows, on one hand, to glimpse the creative process
    set up and the aesthetic questions that it raises - in particular on the relationship to time or
    the place of science in the design of the pieces -, on the other hand, to question some others
    artists’ pieces working with tangent themes. The main artistic project features is a series of real-time kinetic installations named ‘To
    record water during days’. Using data from buoys located at the Pacific Ocean or the
    Mediterranean Sea, these installations propose a new kind of landscape, in motion in realtime.
    This review of more than ten years of creation and collaboration between the artist and the
    scientist allows us to understand the reciprocal relationship between the two fields in the
    creation of the featured pieces, and in fine, in the representation of the world.

    Department: Art, practice-based , Aix-Marseille University
    Advisor(s): Jacques Sapiéga, Patrice Le Gal