Arts, Ecologies, Transitions

Roberto Barbanti is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Universite Paris 8 and a member of the Arts des images et art contemporain research unit. He co-founded and co-edited the journal Sonorites (2006-2017) and is an advisory board member for the publisher Eterotopia France. His research areas cover ecosophy, sound ecology, and contemporary art. His publications include: Les limites du vivant (co-edited with Lorraine Verner, 2016), Dall'immaginario all'acustinario. Prolegomeni a un'ecosofia sonora (2020), and Les sonorites du monde. De l'ecologie sonore a l'ecosophie sonore (2023).

Isabelle Ginot is Professor of Dance Studies at Universite Paris 8 and co-founder of the association Association d'individus en mouvements engages. Her two main areas of research intersect with issues of vulnerability and difference in dance. The first addresses dance performance analysis and criticism, and focuses on artists with disabilities who perform on stage. The second analyses practices, especially practices (workshops, performances, participatory art) with "non-dancers" who have disabilities, are ageing, or are affected by social discrimination and exclusion. From 2010 to 2019, she chaired the research group Soma&Po, developing research and practices on the political and social uses of somatic practices. Currently, she runs a practice-based seminar entitled "Mouvements engages" (Engaged moves), a peer-led workshop that shares dance practices in French care institutions. Lastly, she investigates alternative formats for academic research, involving the participation of artists, activists, and non-scholar actors.

Makis Solomos was born in Greece and lives in France. He is Professor of Musicology at Universite Paris 8 and Director of the research unit MUSIDANSE. He has published many books and articles about new music. His main areas of research are the focus on sound, the notion of musical space, new musical technics and technologies, the mutations of listening, and the ecology of sound. His book From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music (Routledge, 2019) deals with an important change in today's music. His latest book Towards an Ecology of Sound: Environmental, Mental and Social Ecologies in Music, Sound Art and Artivisms (Routledge, 2023) addresses an expanded notion of ecology, mixing environmental issues and socio-political questions. He is also one of the main Xenakis specialists, to whom he has devoted many publications. For Xenakis's centenary (2022), he co-organized the "Xenakis22: Centenary International Symposium" and he is the editor of Revolutions Xenakis (Editions de l'OEil - Philharmonie de Paris, 2022).

Cecile Sorin is currently Professor in the Department of Cinema at Universite Paris 8. After having published books on practices of parody and pastiche in cinema (Pratiques de la parodie et du pastiche au cinema, 2010) and Pasolinian pastiche (Pasolini, pastiche et melange, 2017), she is currently examining processes of subjectivation in Pasolinian cinema and contemporary French cinema. Her recent work reassesses Pasolini's work through the prism of ecopoetics. In addition, she is co-editor of the "Esthetiques hors cadre" series from Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.