Nouvelles Rencontres: Corps et Images au Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains

The Centre des arts d'Enghien-les-Bains presents 'Nouvelles Rencontres. Entre corps et images', an exploration of how digital technologies transform the relationship between body and image in contemporary performance. The essay, drawing on Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes, argues that digital media create a new 'state of matter'—the numerical state—enabling intersemiotic transformations. Artists such as Rachid Ouramdane, Maria Donata d'Urso, Digitalflesh, Thierry de Mey, Pedro Powels, Helder Vasconcelos, Aurélien Bory, Aniara Rodado, and Adrien Mondot are featured for their works that integrate interactivity, motion capture, and real-time processing. Key pieces include Ouramdane's 'Au bord des métaphores', d'Urso's 'Strata 2' (winner of the 2012 Bains Numériques prize), De Mey's 'Light Music', and Powels' 'Sens' trilogy. The text questions how these technologies alter perception, co-authorship, and the boundaries between disciplines, referencing theorists like Pierre Lévy, Marshall McLuhan, and Giorgio Agamben. The event took place at the Centre des arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, with specific performances scheduled around May–June 2013.