Workshop with David Desrimais: Archiving in Style, Part 1

The workshop means to extend the most genuine qualities of the internet, as we love it, to some physical incarnation. If I need to summon this online feeling and there is no electricity, what can I do? What are the textures, the smells, the weight we could associate to digital feelings? Here the feeling serves as an element of preservation, and the physicality of things as a way to think perennial in digital.

Based on each participant’s digital practice and knowledge and crossed with David Desrimais’ (Jean Boîte Éditions) know-how, this workshop is a round-trip from digital to analog feelings, and back.

David Desrimais is a publisher based in Paris, France. Founder and director of Jean Boîte Éditions (with Mathieu Cénac, since 2011), he publishes books in the digital age, in the fields of arts, humanities and poetics. Conceived hand-in-hand with worldwide artists and authors, all the books are shaped for International distribution (now in 15 countries). In the academic field, David Desrimais works as Associate Professor (PAST) and co-director of the Création Éditoriale (Creative Publishing) Master's degree at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (France), where he is also Associate Researcher at the CELIS laboratory (Centre d’étude de la littérature et de la sociopoétique). Former Head of Digital Projects for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (2007-2017), David Desrimais regularly works as an expert and director of digital projects for cultural and scientific institutions, as well as for private clients (Mobilier national, IDDRI-Sciences Po, Mairie de Paris, Google Arts & Culture).