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unusual facts about Edmond Couchot


Joëlle Morosoli

In 1997, she moved to Paris where she undertook doctoral studies at Paris 8 University under the supervision of Edmond Couchot, and obtained her doctorate in aesthetics and science and technology in the arts with her thesis L'installation en mouvement: une esthétique de la violence (The installation in motion: an aesthetics of violence) in 2002.


Digital art

Leading art theorists and historians in this field include Oliver Grau, Christiane Paul, Frank Popper, Mario Costa, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Dominique Moulon, Robert C. Morgan, Roy Ascott, Catherine Perret, Margot Lovejoy, Edmond Couchot, Fred Forest and Edward A. Shanken.

Installation art

Interactive installations appeared mostly at end of the 1980s (Legible City by Jeffrey Shaw, La plume by Edmond Couchot, Michel Bret...) and became a genre during the 1990s, when artists became particularly interested in using the participation of the audiences to activate and reveal the meaning of the installation.


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