Nicolas Thely
twitter : @nicolasthely
Professor in Art, Aesthetic and Digital Humanities.
Director of The Maison des Sciences de l’Homme en Bretagne (Human Sciences Institute in Brittany)
Research :
- Contemporary Art and Digital Culture
- Data aesthetics
- Publics Spaces and Digital Writing
- Digital Humanities
- Datavisualization and Design of Information
Academic
Since 2011 : Professor in Art, Aesthetic and Digital Humanities at Rennes 2 University.
2003-2011 : Lecturer at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University.
Art Critic
2004-2005: Art critic in Les Inrockuptibles
2003-2004 : Art critic in Arts à Aden, city guide of Le Monde.
2002-2003 : Art critic in Journal des Arts (Art News Papers, french version)
1998-2002 : Art critic in Les Inrockuptibles
1997-1998 : Art critic in Le Monde
2011-2014 : participation WG "Infoviz" of NediMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities).
2010-2011 : Workshop « Best practices » with Amanda Newall (Royal Institute of Art at Stockholm).
2008-2011: research about "Basse définition" (Université Paris 1 – Ministère de la Culture – DAP)
Since 2000 : member of Anarchive, digital archive on contemporary art.
Book in English
Search terms : Basse déf. (dir.), éditions B42, Paris, 2012.
Books in French
Le Tournant numérique de l'esthétique, collection Art, pensée & Cie, Publie.net, Paris, 2011. (This the first essay about Aesthetic and Digital Humanities).
Vu la webcam (essai sur la web-intimité), Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2002. (This the first study in France about the phenomenon of webcam).
Papers (selection)
Nicolas Thély, "O modelo artístico não é mais uma referência", traduction Pauline G. Indicatti, Revista Valise, Porto Alegre, V.2, n°4, 2012.
Nicolas Thély, « De la ruine au délaissé : nos vingt dernières années », Cahiers virtuels, Esthétique numérique vintage, dir. Sandrine Galand et Joëlle Gauthier, Revue en ligne du laboratoire NT2, Montréal, 2012.
Nicolas Thély, « La web-intimité », Revue Raison Publique n°14, dossier L’art de l’intime, Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2011, p. 365-374,
Nicolas Thély, "Rôle et enjeux du design graphique", THATCamp Paris 2012, Non-actes des non-conférences des humanités numériques, éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 2012.
Nicolas Thély, "Archiver le Web", Read/Write Book n°2 (Introduction aux humanités numériques), dir. Pierre Mounier, Open Edition Press, Paris, 2012.
Thély Nicolas, "La victoire des algorithmes", in ART +++, éditions HYX, Orléans, 2010, p. 24-33.
- "Debates in aesthetic", vendredi 8 mars, Groupe 2 "Infoviz" du programme NediMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities),Humlab, Umea, Suède.
- "Aesthetic Reflexion and Digital Turn", 2012, Early Modern Time & Networks : a Humanities + Design research workshop , Stanford.
- "Think With Dataviz", 2012, Groupe 2 "Infoviz" du programme NediMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities), Hambourg.
- "Responsabilité de l'artiste", 2012, Institut Français de Lituanie, Vilnius.
- "Aesthetic and dataviz", 2011, Groupe 2 "Infoviz" du programme NediMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities), Umea.