Digital Campus, for the second consecutive year, was a partner of Digital Week in Bordeaux, an event in the Gironde capital featuring a series of varied events open to the general public and professionals alike. Under the theme "You have a date with tomorrow", Digital Week Bordeaux invited everyone to discover how digital technology is entering our lives and our city. Here is a summary of the activities in which the school took part!
- Innovation Village
- Frieder Nake
- Go, e-Girls!
- Conference at Mollat
- La Grande Jonction
- Carton Park
- Sound Trail
- La Nuit Digitale
- Triple C
- Acknowledgements
THE WRAP-UP!
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Innovation Village
First-year Digital Campus students participated throughout the week of 25–30 March as mediators at the Innovation Village in the salons of Bordeaux City Hall. The City of Bordeaux hosted a concentration of innovative technologies as a place of discovery and experimentation. Visitors were invited to explore interactive devices and innovative services — emerging from university research labs or industrial design offices — that are already transforming or will transform our lives & our cities.
Each student was a mediator for an innovative technology space such as: the NAO robot, the 3D printer, the fashion 3D fitting booth, or Watson, IBM's computing system. Their role was to explain how these technologies work and to welcome visitors at the various stations.
Frieder Nake
A team of second-year Bachelor Web students — Sophie Degremont and Nicolas André — handled the video capture at the CAPC on 26 March from 6:30 to 10 pm. Frieder Nake, a German mathematician and computer scientist and pioneer of computer art, gave a talk on algorithmic art. A pioneer of generative art from the 1960s, he presented the rich but little-known history of the computer's arrival in artistic practice — a history that undeniably marks a turning point in our future digital lives. The students gained a deeper understanding of today's new media through this dive into the past. In addition, an interview with the artist was arranged the following day to produce a feature report on this remarkable personality.
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Go, e-Girls!
This event aimed to raise awareness among approximately one hundred female sixth-form students about digital careers.
Digital Campus represented web design during this morning session and ran a workshop on the topic. The goal was to describe a typical day in the life of a web designer and to explain the profession. Camille Laine, a second-year student who will specialise in web design the following year, played along in a duo with a professional web designer. The event poster was created by Thibault Saint-Germain, also a second-year student.
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Conference at Mollat
Myth or scientific reality? Between Nature and Culture, real or imaginary creature — does the Yeti truly exist?
The common thread of the Digital Trail was the presence of Yetis throughout the city of Bordeaux. The school's students participated in this conference in a playful way: in agreement with the improvisation league running the event, they were to ask questions about the Yeti in order to lend credibility to the scientist being interviewed. The aim was to surprise the audience and observe reactions: fact or fiction?
La Grande Jonction
All Bachelor Web students (from year 1 to year 3), supported by five students from the ESGC&F business school, were called upon that day for mediation, welcome duties and logistics. A day rich in professional contacts. A day of discussion around the challenges of digital technology in the economic growth of businesses and cities. Local economic development players, cities, chambers of commerce, regions and professionals reviewed various avenues to accelerate the growth of digital companies in their territories.
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Carton Park
For this event held at the Musée d'Aquitaine, two second-year students — Lara Junières and Sophie Degremont — managed the on-site animation with the children and parents who attended. For this project, four artists pushed the boundaries of new technologies, sound and image, creating a device as vibrant as it was innovative, involving the live manipulation of cut-out cardboard characters filmed by 4 cameras, motion and sound sensors… Five other second-year Bachelor students also handled the set-up and take-down of these installations.
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Sound Trail
20 students from Digital Campus and the ESGC&F business school took part in the Sound Trail on Saturday 30 March from 3 to 6 pm.
During this special day, 10 shops in the city centre came alive to the rhythm of electronic music. Initiated by Digital Campus and I.BOAT in partnership with Boxon Records and Pictoplasma, this trail symbolised the link between the commercial life of the city centre and the digital world of electronic music artists.
A selection of 10 artists/DJs performed for the occasion in various shops throughout the centre. Each DJ was accompanied by a student partner whose mission was to distribute the last remaining tickets for the evening's Nuit Digitale 2013 to members of the public, through quizzes, challenges and dancing!
The teaser and trail guide were produced by Sophie Degremont, a second-year student. The Sound Trail concept, pitched to I.BOAT, was the initiative of Nicolas André, a student from the same year, who also managed on-site logistics in collaboration with technicians and artists from I.BOAT and Boxon Records.
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La Nuit Digitale
The first part of the evening took place to music in the gardens of City Hall, with the presentation of the work ARYTHMIE, created by Alban Curnillon for Julien Minet as part of the Re-Design Boxon project. The piece takes the form of a heart, 2 metres tall, 1.20 metres wide and 80 centimetres deep: it is dressed in thermoformed vinyl panels mounted on a pivot, with a light-and-sound device at its centre.
This work was installed by four second-year Bachelor students in collaboration with the Boxon Records label.
Ten other students were responsible for managing all entries to La Nuit Digitale, whether VIP, press or general public. Performing at the event were Etienne de Crécy and his special project Beats N'Cubes, the French electro trio dOP, and the German artist Ander with his multicoloured machines.
Several school students had the opportunity to work on the set-up of the event and all the interactive installations alongside professional technicians.
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Triple C
Nine first-year students formed a genuine communications unit for the occasion and covered the entire Digital Week from 25 to 30 March with video capture. They carried out substantial work in production, video interviews, editing and preparation of their questions beforehand: true digital journalists (JRI) in action!
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Thank you to all the students who participated in this Digital Week
Carole Bourges |
Nicolas André |
Pierre Bouyssonie |
