Lines of research

One thread runs through this work: technical transitions — from oral to written, from analogue to digital — are moments when representations, and therefore politics, are redistributed.

Diego Jarak is a researcher and director of the PoLiCÉMIES laboratory at La Rochelle Université, and an associate researcher at the ERIMIT laboratory of Université Rennes 2. Much of his work belongs to research-creation and action research, informed by long practice as an exhibition curator and mediator.

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Media and representations

The technical and technological dimensions of media, and how their use contributes to new forms of narrative — political, artistic and cultural.

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Orality and writing

Orality as a medium in the nineteenth century and the shift to writing: a technical transformation whose consequences remain under-examined (PhD, Aix-Marseille, 2008).

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Photography in Latin America

The arrival of photography and its development in the second half of the nineteenth century — “Orality, photography and nation in nineteenth-century Argentina” (HDR, Rennes 2, 2017).

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New electronic media

From video to virtual reality: what these devices shift in the ways we perceive, archive and exhibit.

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Art · science · technology

Since 2018, the relations between art, science and technology, and mobile, small-scale museum forms — the NANOmusée.

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Research-creation

Situated methodologies that make processes visible rather than results alone: seminars, anti-conferences, mobile laboratories, research-creation doctorates.