IMAGO, European cultures through images

Lea SAINT-RAYMOND (Teacher-researcher/ ENS-PSL)

Published on

12 July 2021

, updated on

17 July 2021

Honoré Daumier, Les amateurs d'estampes. Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Tony Querrec.

IMAGO is a Jean Monnet Excellence Center, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and the ENS-PSL during three years, from 2019 to 2022. It aims at better understanding images’ circulation with the help of new digital methodologies and cartographies, in order to write a new kind of visual history of globalization within and out of Europe.

IMAGO analyzes how European cultures have met through the international circulation of images.

IMAGO’s objective is to broadcast these new narratives towards publics with teaching and online visualization. The center hosts a collaboration between historians, art historians, cognitivists, computer vision specialists and contemporary artists. IMAGO thus studies, teaches, and exhibits to broader publics to what extent images have been the crucible of European cultural homogenization, or reveal particular cultural and political differences.

The results will also be discussed with artists at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as far as contemporary artists are invited to question our methodologies, our historical results, our narratives, as well as our pedagogy.

Team

Founder and Director of Imago: Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Full Professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland (Faculté de Lettres - School of Humanities), chair for Digital Humanities.
Codirector: Léa Saint-Raymond
Nicolas Baumard (ENS, DEC)
Charlotte Guichard (ENS-PSL / IHMC)
Grégory Chatonsky
Marie José Burki (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris)