Nicolas Thely
nicolas.thely[at]univ-rennes2.fr (nicolas[dot]thely[at]univ-rennes2[dot]fr)
Currently
University Professor of Art, Aesthetics and Digital Humanities
Deputy Director of the Fine Arts Department
Member of the Board of the Pratiques et Théories de l'Art Contemporain team
Member of the Prospective section of CESER Bretagne (external personality)
Director of the Esthétique des données collection publishedbyB42
Previously
2019 - 2024: Member of the board of the Réseau national des MSH (Infra structure de recherche en SHS)
2016 - 2024 : Director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme en Bretagne (UAR CNRS n°3549)
2015 - 2019 : Director of the Art, Creation, Culture and Heritage Department (ACCP) of the Comue Bretagne-Pays de Loire
2019 -2023: President of section 18 - CNU
2007 - 2011: 2nd Vice President MCF of section 18 - CNU
2018 - 2024 : Member of the Artistic and Scientific Council of EESAB
2008 - 2016: Member of the jury for the Aesthetics section of the agrégation externe d'arts plastiques (admissibility).
2005-2008: Member of the jury for the practical test of the agrégation externe d'arts plastiques (admissibility and admission).
2003 - 2005: Member of the ‘Image Mouvement’ commission (Délégation aux Arts Plastiques/CNAP)
2009 : Habilitation to direct research in Aesthetics, Rennes 2 University - Aesthetic responsibility, circumstances, contingencies and conditions.
responsibility, circumstances, contingencies and conditions. Jury: Leszek
Brogowski (guarantor), Anne-Marie Duguet, Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Françoise Parfait, Christophe
Viart and Michel Guérin.
2001: PhD in art studies, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne - L'image sous le régime de la surveillance
underthe supervision of Anne-Marie Duguet. Jury: Anne Cauquelin,
Jean-Louis Weissberg, Denys Riout and Jean-Paul Fargier.
1998: DEA in Aesthetics and Art Sciences (Paris 1)
1997: Maîtrise Philosophie & étude cinématographique (University of Paris 8)
1995 : Degree in Philosophy (Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Fd)
1994: DEUG in Philosophy (Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Fd)
Fields of research :
- contemporary art, emerging artistic practices
- aesthetics of digital social networks (web-intimacy, low definition)
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.
Year 2024-2025
Licence 1& 2 Arts Plastiques - TD - Aesthetics
Licence 2 Arts Plastiques - CM - Art & SHS
Master of Fine Arts - Research seminar
Master of Fine Arts - CM - Aesthetics and theories of contemporary art
Recent articles
Nicolas THÉLY, ‘How MSH design interdisciplinarity’, in Interdisciplinarity in XXI century. Theory and practice in the interdisciplinary production and reproduction of scientific knowledge, Olga POMBO (ed.), Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning (LAR), Springer, 2023, pp.157-168.
Nicolas THÉLY, ‘Pourquoi le design. Une évidence problématique dans le domaine des humanités numériques’, in Techniques & Design graphique, (ed.) Vivien PHILIZOT and Jérôme SAINT-LOUBERT BIÉ, Paris, B42, 2020, pp.
Nicolas THELY, ‘ Digital Humanities & Happy Few : de nouveaux outils pour réinvestir un champ sous-estimé de la critique d'art ’, in La critique : art et pratique, dir. Laurence CORBEL and Agnès LONTRADE, Presses Universitaires du Midi (PUM), Toulouse, 2016, pp. 39-60.
Publications
Le Tournant numérique de l'esthétique, collection Art, pensée & Cie, Publie.net, Paris, 2011 (re-edition 2019)
Hyper Geography, Joe Hamilton, Nicolas Thély, Jean Boîte éditions, Paris, 2014. (bilingual French / English).
THATCamp Saint-Malo 2013 (non-conference proceedings), ed. with Alexandre Serres and Olivier Le Deuff, éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, 2014.
Mes favoris, éditions Mix, Paris, 2008.
Basse def, partage de données, with Stéphane Sauzedde, Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2007.
Corps, art vidéo et numérique, Sceren-Cndp, Paris, 2007.
Vu la webcam (essai sur la web-intimité), Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2002
Art criticism
Since 2018: collaboration with the ideas daily AOC (Analyse Opinion Critique)
2004-2010: collaboration with Les Inrockuptibles, Beaux-Arts magazine...
2003-2004: Arts editor at Aden, Le Monde cultural supplement.
2002-2003: editor of Journal des Arts
1998-2002: editor of the weekly Les Inrockuptibles
1997-1998: collaboration with Le Monde (Culture section)
Programme COST
- 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.
- Esthétique et dataviz », 2011, Groupe 2 “Infoviz” du programme NediMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities), Umea.