In this talk, I will describe several projects where I intersected performance and dance with interaction design. I will detail my methodological approach deploying artistic research to choreograph dance pieces integrating interactive technologies to provoke theoretical methodological and critical questions. While providing poetic experiences, my artworks enact experimental situations that enable reflections on how art can contribute to knowledge or how humans co-exist with each other and with technologies to emerge.

Between Research and Artistic Creation: Epistemologies, Models, Practices

The idea that there is no hermetic barrier between artistic creation, scientific research and technical development is nowadays accepted. Artistic research or "research-creation" programs have been established for several decades now in various artistic, academic and technological institutions. However, it is often difficult to reconcile different epistemic, aesthetic and institutional standards, depending on each context, trajectories and standpoints. In the face of criticism that these initiatives are doomed to produce insipid art or bad science, what principles, approaches and models would help structure this family of projects and provide the operational epistemology it needs? What lessons can we draw from the experiences, positive and negative, gathered in the field?