Franco-British Colour Study Day
CFC Colour Group of Britain · MINES ParisTech, Paris · June 2015
Presentation in English on behalf of the French Centre for Colour Studies (CFC) and the Colour Group of Britain, discussing digital colour reconstruction challenges through research on the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris.
Guest Speaker
Institut national du patrimoine · Paris · June 2015
Lecture to heritage conservation students on how new technologies enable digital restoration of artworks without physical intervention, exploring experimental and ethical perspectives of digital conservation.
Speaker — Colloquium on Heritage Technologies
Musée du Quai Branly · Paris · November 2014
Presentation on digital colour reconstruction techniques applied to heritage preservation, focusing on a medallion from the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris. Discussion of the possibilities and challenges of integrating digital heritage technologies within museum conservation practices.
Speaker — Colour Study Day
Centre Français de la Couleur (CFC) · MINES ParisTech, Paris · June 2014
Presentation on the digital reconstruction of colour in medieval art using the example of a Sainte-Chapelle medallion, as part of a symposium organised by the French Centre for Colour Studies. Findings from Master’s thesis and research internship at the Centre des Monuments Nationaux.
Mona VR — recreating an experience. An artistic and expressive queuing simulator.
Piers Bishop, Chu-Yin CHEN (eds.) · April 2020
Research article following a presentation at Laval Virtual VRIC ConVRgence 2020. Presents Mona VR, a VR experience simulating the Mona Lisa queue at the Musée du Louvre. The parodic nature of the queue simulation invites reflection on the concept of authenticity.
Minsar ou la création spontanée en réalité augmentée comme nouveau mode de rencontre du patrimoine
Chu-Yin CHEN (ed.) · April 2020
Research article in a collective work on artistic mediation in museums. Presents an experimentation workshop held in November 2019 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as part of my PhD, using the Minsar platform.
Regards sur la contextualisation du patrimoine à travers Minsar
Contextualités (Hypotheses.org) · December 2020
Communication at the colloque Arts et Vestiges : Contextualisation, Exposition, Scénographie (INHA, 14–15 October 2019). Presentation of three artistic experiments for heritage using Minsar, each exploring the theme of heritage contextualisation.
Minsar : vers la démocratisation des technologies XR pour le patrimoine
Contextualités (Hypotheses.org) · September 2019
Communication at the colloque La recherche sur le patrimoine et les outils numériques à l’épreuve de l’expérimentation (Université de Lille, 15–16 September 2019). Presentation on the contributions of XR technologies for heritage and the potential of Minsar.
A la recherche de l’Expérience Numineuse Patrimoniale (ENP) : exploration d’une essence du patrimoine grâce aux technologies de l’interactivité et de l’immersion
PhD — Esthétique, Sciences et Technologies des Arts · Paris 8 · 2018–2021
This thesis results from a CIFRE contract between Paris 8 University and Opuscope, which develops a platform named Minsar. It aims at democratizing the use of XR technologies. The goal of the research was originally to create new artistic and cultural mediation experiences of heritage with XR technologies, while shifting the focus to emotion and imagination.The research methodology caused the subject to evolve towards a more introspective approach, which sought the deep roots of our attachment to cultural heritage.
The artistic experimentations with XR technologies around museum habits led to the concept of Numinous Heritage Experience (NHE). This concept thus became the core of the research.The NHE is a transcendental experience which emerges from the encounter between a visitor and an element of cultural heritage. It seizes the person both intellectually and emotionally, but also corporeally. The NHE strongly engages the visitor with cultural heritage. The same can be said from XR technologies, because of their potential of presence and embodiment. The artistic iteration revealed a key aspect of the NHE: the projection, on the object, of a dream of survival.
Through the exploration of these themes, it appeared that practices involving heritage as well as the desire to evade in a fantasized past may result from a search for numen. The numen, feeling of transcendence or mystery, is a manifestation of human existential fears and interrogations. Notably, it provides a way to make sense of the disappearance of another human being. A strong link can thus be drawn between heritage practices and other forms of human rites.
Patrimoine historique et survivance artistique à l’ère du numérique
Master — Esthétique, Sciences et Technologies des Arts · Paris 8 · 2016-2018
Bringing cultural heritage to life has long been an issue. However, the rise of immersive and interactive technologies such as virtual reality casts a new light upon this particular question. These new technologies allow broader research on new experiences, redefining the relationship between cultural heritage and the spectator.
This is especially true from an emotional and artistic standpoint, these new technologies having great emotional potential. This study aims at exploring how they can be used to create cultural heritage experiences that are more emotional than intellectual, through a proper artistic process from the creator.
Les possibilités de la réalité augmentée dans le renouvellement de la connaissance et de la médiation de la polychromie des édifices religieux du Moyen-âge
Master — Médiation Culturelle, Patrimoine et Numérique · Paris 8 & Paris 10 · 2013-2014
The question of medieval polychromy has only attracted researchers’ interest for a few decades. Long denied for both ideological and methodological reasons, it is today an innovative and promising field of research. Augmented reality, for its part, is a new technology that has recently been applied to cultural heritage mediation.
The ambition of this fundamentally transdisciplinary study is to bring these two innovative subjects together: what can augmented reality technology contribute to the renewal of knowledge and mediation of the polychromy of religious buildings from the Middle Ages (7th to 16th century), particularly in relation to restitution operations such as restorations and projected light shows?
Problématique de la conservation des collections à base de verre : enquête auprès de onze musées et sept restaurateurs français
Master — Muséologie · Ecole du Louvre · 2012-2013
Glass is a fragile material, quickly subject to corrosion from water and the environment, but also to mechanical damage such as breakage, scratches, and abrasions. The Joint Research Unit co-directed by the Centre for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France and the University of Chemistry-Paris, established in 2013, aims to find solutions to ensure better conservation of glass-based collections in museums.
To achieve this, however, scientists need to know precisely how these collections are currently being preserved in museums, and what challenges are faced by those responsible for this task. It is for this purpose that this work was commissioned: it consists of a survey conducted among a sample of eleven museums and seven French conservator-restorers, aimed at establishing initial research leads for the scientists of the Joint Research Unit.
This work also provides an opportunity to test a survey methodology developed specifically for this project, and to explore how this method could subsequently be recalibrated and reused by researchers as a source of precise data to guide their work in the conservation and restoration of glass.