Enaction and Visual Arts : Towards Dynamic Instrumental Visual Arts

International audienceThis paper is a theoretical paper that presents how the concept of Enaction, centerd on action and interaction paradigm, coupled with the new properties of the contemporary computer tools is able to provoke deep changes in arts. It examines how this concept accompanies the historical trends in Musical, Visual and Choreographic Arts. It enumerates the new correlated fundamental questions, scientific as well as artistic, the author identifies. After that, it focuses on Dynamic Visual Arts, trying to elicit the revolution brought by these deep conceptual and technological changes. It assumes that the contemporary conditions shift the art of visual motion from a ''Kinema'' to a ''Dyname'', allowing artists ''to play images'' as ''to play violin'', and that this shift could not appear before our era. It illustrates these new historical possibilities by some examples developed by the scientific and artistic works of the author and her co- workers. In conclusion, it assumes that this shift could open the door to a new genuine connection between arts that believed to cooperate but that remained separated during ages: music, dance and animation. This possible new ALLIANCE could lead the society to consider a new type of arts, we want to call ''Dynamic Instrumental Arts'', which will be really multisensorial: simultaneously Musical, Gestural and Visual

Animation of Interacting Objects with Collisions and Prolonged Contacts

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MIMESIS, un environnement de conception et de simulation de modèles physiques particulaires masses-interactions CORDIS-ANIMA pour l'animation : du mouvement généré à l'image du mouvement

This thesis deals with the design of a computer framework dedicaced to animation by the physical mass-interaction CORDIS-ANIMA networks. Genericity and modularity of CORDIS-ANIMA having been still largely proved, the design and the implementation of such framework have to face with other theorical and practical problems that are discussed here in order to include every function that are required for an interactive creation of models and the communication inside a global chain of production of animated pictures. This thesis ends on the report of various situation of use in pedagogical, research and creation contexts.Cette thèse a pour objet la conception d’un environnement pour l’animation à l’aide de réseaux masses–interactions CORDIS-ANIMA. La généricité et la modularité de CORDIS-ANIMA ayant largement prouvé leur intérêt pour l’animation depuis 25 ans, la conception et l’implantation d’un environnement de conception de tels modèles doivent faire face à d’autres problématiques théoriques et pratiques qui seront discutées dans ce manuscrit, dans le but d’inclure dans cet environnement toutes les fonctionnalités requises pour une création interactive de modèles de mouvement et leur insertion dans une chaîne globale de production d’images animées. Cette thèse se terminera par le compte-rendu de situations d’utilisation dans un cadre pédagogique, de recherche et de création