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Elisa Mignot

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Di Sciullo, man of characters
Monday 11 July 2011
"Merci de votre compréhension" in Qui ? Résiste n° 13 © Pierre di Sciullo
Pierre di Sciullo is a hybrid graphic designer. Perhaps this is the only way he defines himself. Typographer, designer of letters, professor, occasional lecturer. He is an atypical air traffic controller in the sky of graphic art. In conjunction with... Read more
Tags : graphics, typography

Author: Elisa Mignot
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Étienne Mineur, hacker of books
Tuesday 19 July 2011
"The books which wants to be a videogame"
Rich with experience in the digital world, designer Étienne Mineur decided, around two years ago, to reclaim the book, this mighty paper giant whose end has been prophesied by many. An excursion into his studio ahead of his exhibition at la Gaîté lyrique. Read more
Tags : press, graphics, design, informatics

Author: Elisa Mignot
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The skateboarding culture, a fashionable platform
Friday 24 June 2011
At age 37, his room is no longer plastered with skateboarding posters, but Pascal Monfort still dreams of a country cottage with a skatepark. The fashion sociologist recounts how this underground culture, discovered in his adolescence, set the course... Read more
Tags : skateboard, fashion, urban culture

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"Mal au Pixel" does good to society
Tuesday 7 June 2011
On the occasion of "Mal au Pixel", the festival of open source cultures which will be held in Paris from June 9th to 19th at la Gaîté lyrique and elsewhere, the festival's two organizers, Kevin Bartoli and Mathieu Marguerin, discuss digital... Read more
Tags : do it yourself, economy, policy, ecology, society

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Indonesia raises a glass, HONF creates
Friday 3 June 2011
On the occasion of the Mal au Pixel festival, la Gaîté lyrique welcomes the Javanese collective HONF and its installation designed to produce its own fruit wine and find a solution for a social issue in Indonesia: the cost of alcohol. Meeting with Irène... Read more
Tags : biotechnology, do it yourself, society

Author: Elisa Mignot
Diaporama
Entrez, dansez, filmez qui vous vous voulez
Wednesday 1 June 2011
IDILL, le concours international de films de mouvement et de danse de format court, débute aujourd'hui. Ravivons nous la mémoire avec cette présélection des meilleurs créations de l'édition de 2009, commentés par Thierry De Mey. Read more

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Gilles Peterson, le vinyl junkie
Friday 20 May 2011
Gilles Peterson est un dj, un animateur radio et un producteur connu pour son éclectisme musical. De retour de Cuba et avant de faire escale à la Gaîté lyrique, samedi 21 mai, pour une soirée consacrée à la scène londonienne, le franco-suisse-britannique... Read more
Tags : jazz, world music, music

Author: Elisa Mignot
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Le prochain candidat PS...c'est vous !
Wednesday 18 May 2011
Aperçu - primaires de gauche - newsgame
Depuis 2009, des journalistes du monde.fr et des game designers élaborent ensemble un « newsgame », prochainement en ligne, consacré à la primaire socialiste. L'occasion de revenir avec Florent Maurin, l'un de ces concepteurs, sur la... Read more
Tags : internet, serious game, video game, media

Author: Elisa Mignot
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The other legacy of free radios: the case of Apo33
Tuesday 12 April 2011
There are still people today who create spaces for sound freedom. Artists, scientists, musicians, media hacktivists; in their own way they are the heirs to the spirit of free radio. The sound lab Apo33 is part of that. Its founder, Julien Ottavi, shows... Read more
Tags : sound art, do it yourself, social interaction, radio, sound

Author: Elisa Mignot
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Immortality comes before the court for the first time
Thursday 7 April 2011
Immortality comes before the court for the first time
Last Tuesday night at la Gaîté Lyrique, the first conference conceived as a trial cycle, "The Court for Future Generations," was held, organized in partnership with the magazine Usbek & Rica. Chronicle of a real-fake case against immortality. Read more
Tags : cyberculture, social interaction, utopia

Author: Elisa Mignot
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Allô Elektra ?
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Behind the invention of the "Mesh Potato", a device that, when connected to a landline, liberates its users from the large power and telephone companies, is German hacker "Elektra" and a particular philosophy of life. Behind the device,... Read more
Tags : social interaction, open access culture, telecommunication, hacktivism

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Les autres héritiers des radios libres : le cas Apo33
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Il existe aujourd'hui encore des créateurs d'espaces de liberté sonore. Artistes, chercheurs, musiciens, media hacktivistes, ils sont à leur manière les héritiers de l'esprit des radios libres. Le laboratoire sonore Apo33 en fait partie.... Read more
Tags : sound art, do it yourself, internet, radio, sound
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In Memory of Chuck Poynter
Monday 21 March 2011
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Tags : net art, computer
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Bimbo Tower, the underground record shop
Monday 14 March 2011
Bimbo Tower is at the forefront of the seething musical underground movement in Paris. Its founders, Franq and François, attempt at promoting music and artists outside the major distribution networks.Take a tour of "Bimbo" with Franq. Read more
Tags : label, music, sound

Author: Elisa Mignot
Vidéo
The 1920s: "The smell of the wings"
Monday 28 February 2011
Gisèle Casadesus is an actress. In the 1920s, she spent a good part of her childhood running through the corridors of la Gaîté Lyrique, which was then the temple of operettas, and where her father was a music director. It was there that she acquired... Read more
Tags : theatre, Gaîté lyrique

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1974-1978, Alexis Gruss : the circus and the school of arts
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Alexis Gruss, godfather of the french circus circuit, met once actress Silvia Monfort. In la Gaîté lyriqueTogether they gave birth to the "Ecole au carré", the first french profesionnal school of circus, a major step to include the circus... Read more
Tags : circus, Gaîté lyrique

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The 1970’s - Theatre Without Constraints
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Lucien Attoun is a theatre and radio man, the co-founder of Théâtre Ouvert and a critic for France Culture for close to 40 years. He grew up in the 1940’s, in the lively neighborhood of La Gaîté Lyrique; he returned there in the 70’s to discover... Read more
Tags : Gaîté lyrique

Author: Elisa Mignot
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Gaîté in practice
Monday 28 February 2011
Jérôme Delormas is the director of la Gaîté lyrique. During a visit with the collective of British artists UnitedVisualArtists, who will be featured during the opening week of March 2-6, 2011, he examines the potential of this building-tool. It's... Read more
Tags : Gaîté lyrique

Author: Elisa Mignot
Vidéo
April 2011 : phantom sounds in the concrete
Tuesday 1 February 2011
Arandel is the name of a musical project that was born out of the album 'In D'. The composer, who doesn’t reveal his name or face, will be in charge of sound design at la Gaîté lyrique during a week dedicated to the music label Infiné,... Read more
Tags : Gaîté lyrique, sound

Author: Elisa Mignot
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2002-2004: "An eerie and inhabited place"
Monday 21 February 2011
Julie Morel is a digital artist of the Incident group. During the period of foreshadowing in 2003 and 2004, the City of Paris opened the doors of la Gaîté Lyrique for some months to the digital arts. For the website created for the occasion, Julie Morel... Read more
Tags : web design , Gaîté lyrique

Author: Elisa Mignot
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I craft, you craft, we craft
Thursday 24 February 2011
The “free culture” doesn’t only imply source codes and computer programs. For the so-called crafters, it also means do-it-yourself, embroidery and cooking. Becky Stern, an American crafter and columnist, is our guide in this hands-on world with... Read more

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The origins of the panopticon
Wednesday 23 February 2011
With their installation for the opening of la Gaîté lyrique, the United Visual Artists collective call attention to the notion of the “panopticon.” This architectural concept, which has become a metaphor for a society of surveillance as well as... Read more
Tags : history, surveillance, utopia

Author: Elisa Mignot