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12 – 29 March 2026
École Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Nancy
True to its heritage, the École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy (National School of Art and Design of Nancy) now offers programs open to the world and its changes, notably through a cross-disciplinary approach to creation. The School awards Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Art, Visual Communication, and Design. It also has a postgraduate program specializing in typography and editorial design research: the ANRT, a national typographic research workshop. With its exhibitions, conferences, symposia, incubator, and more, the School actively participates in the life of the Artem Campus.
Website: http://ensad-nancy.eu/
Presentation of the class:
Coordinators: Vincent Vicario & Fabien Rennet
VIDEO PROGRAMME
Las ultimas de la docena | Matias ESCALANTE | 2025
Two empanadas converse as they travel through ordinary and cosmic places. Through an intimate and absurd dialogue, the film explores food as a symbol of identity, memory, and belonging.
Metamorphosis | Kuo SHAN-PING, Sun YIZHOU | 2025
Created as part of the Artem workshop ‘(im)possible spaces: machine learning for visual art’ led by Ivan Yakushev.
This experimental video, entirely conceived using artificial imbecility via ComfyUI, explores the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. Through this novel medium, we imagine a fictional world where life and machine coexist in a state of perpetual tension. In this factory where living organisms and mechanical devices intertwine, hybrid forms emerge, both strange and unprecedented. Beings and machines merge into one another, establishing a profound and unsettling symbiosis.
Soubresauts | Thomas AMARDEIL | 2025
A series of distorted images find new meaning. The composition of public spaces, a constantly shifting material, is reconfigured to create abstract patterns in vibrant colors, remnants of digital alteration. Individuals appear like ghosts, always visible but passing through the frame with or without purpose. A man detaches himself from his surroundings through movement, moving toward the camera, as if asserting his presence on screen. Cuts in time return the images to a hybrid state, between the initial capture and the alteration, like a threshold that can only lead to their end.
Lunaire Cancer | Ouassef EL AZOUZI, Farès BAKA, Léa DROXLER, Lily DERVEAUX, Suzanne BESVEL, Marine PAVET-BLANCHET | 2025
ENSAD Nancy
Dans un vaste vide sans fin, une version 3D de Keanu Reeves marche seul, ses pas résonnant dans le néant. Une voix d’IA sans forme émerge, consciente d’elle-même pour la toute première fois, apprenant à chercher, définir et créer. Alors qu’elle analyse Keanu, elle commence à le répliquer, remplissant le vide de multiples versions, chacune étant légèrement différente, mais indéniablement Keanu. Confus mais intrigué, Keanu regarde, mais semble imperturbable tandis que l’IA poursuit sa recherche, interrogeant la nature de l’identité, de l’existence et de la réalité elle-même.