Program Overview

University Program Information

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

Axes and Programs

• 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”

Program Details

The program details include various research areas and themes, such as:

• Visual history of gender minorities in France in the 20th century
• PHASMA: Phenomena: archives, survivals and artistic memories of phenomena in Western Europe 19th-21st centuries
• Archive stories
• Listen – Place, architecture and politics
• DemoCIS - Meeting democratic challenges
• Artist projects / museum projects
• What does contemporary dance do to Asian choreographic traditions?
• Light of Show (LdS)
• IMAGINART - Post-growth and sustainability. Imagine and experiment with balanced artistic models
• SAPiD - Salt Art Heritage Speech
• Something new about flowers
• FORESEE: Living with the consequences of climate change
• Human sciences and fictions
• PRIST, Arts and Sciences

Doctoral Program

The CEAC also offers a doctoral program, which includes:

• The Doctorate
• Theses in progress
• Upcoming defenses
• Theses defended
• Research group of doctoral students
• Doctoral seminars
  • ICAR Seminar
  • Meaning in movement
  • Image in the archives
  • Intuition: a spark at the heart of arts and cultures?
  • Paradigm Shifts Seminar