Programme

(green: artistic proposal; italics: presentation in English)

Thursday 12 June

Conference Centre, Room 100, Campus Condorcet

09:00–09:30: Conference opening by Erika Fülöp (Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, PLH) and Alexandra Saemmer (Université Paris 8, CEMTI)

09:30–10:30: Keynote Lecture: Philippe Bootz (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe): “Balpe: Stop or More?”

10:30–11:00: Coffee break

11:00–13:00: Generations of Generators (Chair : Alexandra Saemmer)

• Samuel Szoniecky (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe): “From Chaotic Generators to Generative AIs”
• Alexandre Gefen (CNRS/Sorbonne, THALIM): “Generative Literature in the Age of AI”
• Carrera Dashiel (University of Toronto): “Nabokov's Cards: A New Approach to Prewriting for LLMs”
• Marc Veyrat and Philippe Franck (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe): “VOX eP≈íTICS @PARIS”

13:00–14:00: Lunch break

14:00–15:30: Historical Contexts (Chair : Erika Fülöp)

• Marie Vicet (Centre Pompidou): “From the Exhibition Les Immatériaux to Memories of the Future”
• Andreas Broeckmann (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig): “Machine Aesthetics in the Work of Balpe and ALAMO”
• Claudia Kozak (University of Buenos Aires/CONICET): “From Analogue to Digital Experimental Poetry. Divergent and Convergent Lines in France and Latin America Since the Mid-20th Century”

15:30–16:00: Coffee break

16:00–18:00: Memory and Transmission (Chair : Samuel Szoniecky)

• Alexandra Martin (Université du Québec à Montréal): “Encountering the Past in Digital Art: A Case Study on the Aesthetic of Memory in Jean-Pierre Balpe’s La mort dans l'âme*
• Elen Riot (Université Paris 8, LED): “From Ossian’s Echoes to Jean-Pierre Balpe”
• Nathalie Brillant Rannou (Université Rennes 2, CELLAM): “Infinite Learning: Balpe on Teaching Poetry”
• Julie Marie: “A ‘Roem’: Conceptual Blondness, Wildness, Multimodalities, Curry, etc.”

18:00–19:00: Memory Lane - Roundtable discussion with Imad Saleh (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe), Ghislaine Azemard (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe; FMSH), Sylvie Leleu Merviel (Université Polytechnique Haut-de-France, LARSH)

19:00: Launch of the online exhibition Jean-Pierre Balpe, by Erika Fülöp and Dene Grigar, with artistic contributions by Alexandra Martin and Gaël Patron (La mort dans l’algorithme) and Margot Mellet (Un dégénérateur de texte: Perdmens), followed by drinks reception

Friday 13 June

Humathèque, Auditorium, Campus Condorcet

09:00–11:00: Networks and Remediations (Chair : Philippe Bootz)

• Nasreddine Bouhai (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe): “Technological Remediation of a Pioneering Work of Generated Literature: Jean-Pierre Balpe’s Trajectoire”
• Everardo Reyes (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe): “Generative Poetry and Visualisation: A Semio-Digital Approach to the Stein Poems”
• Alexandra Saemmer (Université Paris 8, CEMTI): “‘Making a Novel Out of Nothing(s)’: Jean-Pierre Balpe and Social Media”
• Servanne Monjour (Sorbonne Université, Sellf) and Nicolas Sauret (Université Paris 8, Paragraphe): “Researcher Archives on Jean-Pierre Balpe”

11:00-11:30: Coffee break

11:30–12:30: Round Table: Born-Digital and Hybrid Literary Archives: Preservation, Processing, Analysiswith Laurence Le Bras (BnF, Archives and Manuscripts), Alexandre Faye (BnF, Legal Digital Deposit), Aurèle Crasson (ENS, ITEM), Jérémy Pedrazzi (ENS, ITEM), Erika Fülöp (PLH)

12:30–13:30: Lunch break

13:30–15:30: Interartistic Links (Chair : Nathalie Brillant Rannou)

• Flavie Maury (Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès): “When the Machine Poeticises: Typography and Phenomenological Self-Reflection of the Mind in Jean-Pierre Balpe”
• Gaëlle Théval (Université de Rouen Normandie, Marge): “Generative Literature as Performance: Orality and Balpean Performography (Three Mythologies and a Blind Poet)”
• Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi: “Creative Dialogue – When Generative Music Met Jean-Pierre Balpe’s Generative Text”
• Maurice Benayoun (Nanjing University), Carte blanche

15:30–16:00: Coffee break

16:00–17:00: Keynote Lecture: Grégory Chatonsky: “Excession”

17:00–19:00: Hervé Nisic: Presentation and screening of the documentary Personne (2000)