18.07.2024
ISSUE #24 Digital Materialities
This issue brings together contributions that question the materialities of digital technologies, and the ecological, class, racial and gender concerns that run through them.
Category : Research Institute for Art and Design
15.07.2024
From cloud aesthetics to alternative circuits and assemblages
Bridging theory, fieldwork and design to nuance our computational tropes and narratives
From the seminal “cloud” metaphor to green buttons and blue thumbs-up emojis, our interactions and dominant discourses around the digital embody a specific capitalistic agenda: the one of technology as a commodity…
15.07.2024
Learning from waste: repairing, reusing, and diverting to regain control of digital equipment
This contribution looks at digital technology through the prism of waste and waste’s potential. The contribution is based on a case study from an ethnographic survey that Bloch has been conducting with Thibault…
07.05.2024
Voyage Voyage, music as a vehicle
Voyage Voyage (Desireless, 1987) functions performatively: it’s less about convincing the listeners to explore the world one day than about allowing them to take a virtual journey with the singer, one that…
06.05.2024
Poetics of the round-the-world trip: a reflection on the footsteps of Orelsan
The author reflects on the ‘poetics’ of the round-the-world trip, showing that Orelsan’s La Terre est ronde (2011) is part of a long tradition of both literature and tourism which produces a…
06.05.2024
Enchanted journey with Bongo Joe Records
An interview with Quentin Pilet (Bongo Joe Records) by Raphaël Pieroni
Pieroni of HEAD – Genève discusses the many links between music and geography with Pilet, of Bongo Joe Records.
06.05.2024
Singing in the museum. Exhibiting the imaginary world of geographical songs
Exhibiting popular music raises methodological and museographic questions, which the author explores through the example of the exhibition, “Voyage enchanté. Chansons et imaginaires géographiques” (“Enchanted Journey. Songs and Geographical Imagination”) presented in…
06.05.2024
ISSUE #23 Enchanted Geography
At the heart of the enchanted geography lies the relationship between songs and places as well as their effects on the world.
20.02.2024
Play-to-Learn
Anthony Masure and Guillaume Helleu present their research project that focuses on using video game platforms and cultures to explore the humanities and social sciences.
12.02.2024
Habits de scène, vêtements de vie
Désassigner les pratiques : modes de (dés)emploi
A dialogue with choreographer and performer François Chaignaud, led by philosopher and choreographer Emma Bigé and art historian Magali Le Mens, co-organized by HEAD – Geneva and the Centre Maurice Chalumeau en…