Institut de recherche et d'innovation
The Institut de recherche et d'innovation was founded in 2006 to research the economic impact of digital technology and culture. Founded by Bernard Stiegler and the Centre Pompidou, the IRI became an independent body in 2008, co-sponsored by the Centre Pompidou, the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, and Microsoft France. Other organisations have since joined the Institute, including Goldsmiths College, ENSCI, Institut Télécom, Tokyo University, Bell Labs, and France Télévisions.
Research areas
The research program of the IRI is focused primarily on cognitive and cultural technologies for addressing the public in the context of the emerging web 2.0 and social networks, and to prefigure Web 3.0 technologies designed as collaborative production and sharing of equipment reviews and critical spaces. The goal is to build such devices and spaces critical to the service of amateur circles. This assumption, which is central to the future of all cultural practices, is concerned at the same time with a much broader field. In truth, it comes to the field of culture, a laboratory for thinking about the transformation of the twentieth century consumerist society into a society based on new forms of exchange and cooperation.The IRI undertakes three activities:
- Explore hypotheses about the potential of the latest technologies of networks and communications devices, through the activities of the workshop, and the implementation of research groups closely associating technological engineers and practitioners technologies modeled and prototyped by the IRI.
- Theorizing and formalizing in College activities the results of this technological research to confront the objects of the sciences and humanities research in this context since the revisiting issues more traditional disciplines ATTACHING TO aesthetics, history of art, psychology, philosophy, mainly in terms of reporting the life of the mind with techniques;
- Staging, implement and test the results of this work, in areas where critical form circles amateurs who are cooperative work spaces is reserved for researchers is common for researchers, fans and different audiences.
Objects and theoretical research programmes
Ecology of attention
At the time of cultural and cognitive technologies and their convergence, is discussed from both the theoretical heritage from the phenomenology and since the recent contributions of work in economics and cognitive attention. Are also taken into account the clinical pathologies in the field of attention as well as experiments conducted primarily in North America to articulate what has been called the deep attention with hyper attention.The figure of the amateur
The topic is discussed in its historical and sociological but also on issues of judgment and its crosses with museum issues and the development of new cultural practices brought about by digital technologies. He was at the heart of the first edition of the new industrial world interviews that were held at the Centre Pompidou on 27 and 28 November 2007 in partnership with Les Ateliers and Cap Digital. The aim of this online journal is to step up from June 2009 until December 2010 as a minimum an observatory of new practices, both individually and collectively, these being specifically considered in terms of qualitative changes induced by the emergence of technologies of high-speed transmission, and in the context of their relationship with the issue of decentralized social networks of mobility, communication devices, and emerging forms of grammatisation or write audio and video.The design of the new industrial world
Collaborations with many partners first and foremost we must mention Microsoft, Les Ateliers and Cap Digital on design challenges in the digital era but also in a changing environment irresistibly towards the industrial age of microtechnology, the nanotechnology and biotechnology, so that the questions design and the design must be reconsidered in depth – and analyzing the consequences of a possible revival of the figure of the amateur, or more broadly, the contributor.Talks of new industrial world (ENMI)
Since 2007, IRI, the competitiveness cluster Cap Digital and Les Ateliers are organizing a joint event, The Analects of new industrial world, which are intended to take place every year. The first edition was held on 27 and 28 November 2007 aimed to reflect on the importance of innovation itself upward and related collaborative technologies, in terms of design and industrial design, and at a time when digital technologies are spreading like cognitive technologies and as cultural technologies, and when emerging transformational technologies.The different themes Talks New Industrial World
Objects and technological research programs
The development of critical equipment
Unlike the Anglo-Saxon dominance, where the term annotation tends to denote any metadata that is produced by a man or a machine, is preferred for this research subject a distinction between the process of indexing and the annotation process. This research claims empirical in that it starts from the analysis of cultural practices identified including operating chains of annotations that will be instrumenting to help overcome them. Research indexing tools, essential in the field of critical equipment, even if it is closely linked to the activity of annotation, then only intervenes.IRI studies, designs and develops accordingly annotation tools and critical equipment of a new kind, based on a combination of documentary and metadata architectures with navigation interfaces hypermedia, modules algorithmic signal detection modules and data representation. The result of this research is regularly embedded software time lines, annotation platform online and offline for the annotation of temporal objects. Research in this area is gradually extended to the field of annotation oral and written language and image annotation.
Experiments around collaborative technologies
To renew and extend beyond the current development that are grouped under the term Web 2.0, IRI conducted a series of research and experimentation in particular on the concept of "Readings signed collaborative" combining modes annotations inherited the book and still exist on the web and new paradigms for collaborative work. An important aspect of this theme is of course the development of technologies for monitoring and administration of exchanges, debates and controversies about the supported languages annotation mentioned in the previous axis. This approach incorporates the assumptions of establishing a technology semantic located, inspired by the theory of cognition located, and who had been a first exploration in the context of a program Cognisciences in 1995. This research subject in fact covers all technologies individuation and collective psychic covers both active reading technology, transcription technologies to move from rhetoric to oral speech written by example, and management tools circles.Work on interfaces and motility (the movement)
The IRI works with the world of higher education and the university in the field of cognitive science and science education to study the long-term impact of technologies affecting the body in general and promoting the emergence new amateur, educational and professional. The motor is a crucial part of the capacity of judgment is often repeating and "gestualisant" symbolic form that we can better understand. The musical ear is formed in the eye and gestural activity coordinated by the instrument and the score, as well as the painter's eye is formed only by the activity of his hands manipulating and mastering techniques. It is through such "circuits" between organs that are formed aesthetic objects. It is particularly in this axis the study and development of new devices to address public using mobile devices in conjunction with the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, multimodal interfaces The use of microtechnology and microsystems and more generally issues digital design that arise in this context.Seminars
Museums , museology and new forms of public address
The IRI has initiated a research program on the development of new devices critical to promote the emergence of a new figure of the "amateur" in case a visitor to a museum. Confrontation of museum experiences and reflections with theoretical and scientific analysis of the impact of the new arrangements address the public on cultural practices at the heart of this axis.2007, engineering knowledge in the museum space
2008/2009, critical collaborative spaces
2009/2010, The techniques of attention
2010/2011, Mobility and motor, under the direction of Armen Katchatourov
2011/2012, Semantic Web and Social Web in museums, under the direction of Alexandre Monnin
2012/2013, Digital Studies / Metadata studies: the challenges of contribution under the direction of Alexandre Monnin
Other Seminars Research
2006/2007:Practice and judgment
The ability to play
Modernities, edited by Huyghe
2007/2008:
Culture 2.0
Desire and Technology, under the direction of Mathilde Girard
Figures amateur, under the direction of Jacqueline Liechtenstein
2008/2009
Policies and technologies of the amateur
Vivagora 2.0: bioengineering
2009/2010:
Cultural Action, creation and territories
Gesture as language, under the direction of Patricia Ribault
Issues of nanoscience and nanotechnology
2007–2009:
Issues anthropological, cultural and philosophical nanosciences and nanotechnologies, and reflection on the social uses of communicating objects, under the direction of Xavier Guchet and Sacha Loeve.