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University Program Information

The Center d’Étude des Arts Contemporains (CEAC) offers various research programs and axes. The programs are categorized into four main axes: Devices, images, memories; Gestures, corporeality, societies; Creative process, experience, interculturality; and Arts, sciences and experiments.

Axis 1: Devices, images, memories

• “Emancipated Imaginaries” Chair Program (CPJ)
• Program “ICAR: forgotten images. Critical uses of photographic and film archives »
• “Colors and Alterities” program (starting from autumn 2026)
• Associated program “Sensitive law”

Axis 2: Gestures, corporeality, societies

• Program “Visual history of gender minorities, in France, in the 20th century”
• Program “PHASMA: Phenomena: archives, survivals and artistic memories of phenomena in Western Europe 19th-21st centuries” (IUF)
• “Archive Stories” program

Axis 3: Creation process, experience, interculturality

• “Listen – Place, architecture and politics” program
• Research program (AMI SHS) “DemoCIS – Meeting democratic challenges”
• “Artist projects / museum projects” program
• Program “What does contemporary dance do to Asian choreographic traditions? »

Axis 4: Arts, sciences and experiments

• “Light of Show (LdS)” program
• “IMAGINART – Post-growth and sustainability” program. Imagine and experiment with balanced artistic models” (ANR)
• “SAPiD – Salt Art Heritage Discourse” program
• “News on flowers” program
• Associated program with UGA: “FORESEE: Living with the consequences of climate change” (AMI)
• Associated program with Fresnoy: “Human sciences and fictions”
• Associated program with Esä: “PRIST, Arts and Sciences”

Associated Program with Fresnoy: “Human sciences and fictions”

This interdisciplinary research program, initiated by the Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, invites artists, academics, scientists, philosophers, and literary figures to reflect on what is meant by "human" in today's world. The program is situated at the intersection of art, philosophy, science, and technology, and succeeds the research group “The Human Who Comes.” The group will convene regularly to conceive two major events: a colloquium and an artistic program, organizing a dialogue between speculative thought and artistic creation. Partners include the Center Pompidou, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, Ircam, Inria, and the University of Lille.