Documenter et communiquer la recherche en arts numériques par la mise en situation dialogue de l'artiste contemporain

International audienceThe proposed paper provides an unprecedented review of the dialogism, designed as a mechanism, an engine of a documentation system of digital art research. The latter is an activity extremely hybrid, charac- terised by its capacity to produce simultaneously a work of art, technical devices and theoretical knowledge about the art and the technologies. Faced with a number of issues and the spectacular results, valued in differ- ent academic fields and by many contributors, the performers of digital art research are trying to invent the forms of its scientific communication. Moreover, in the context of the University and the Graduate Art Schools, many artists-researchers note that the research in arts does not give the immediate results, for it is largely based on the hardly observable prac- tices. The articulation between the theory and the practice leads to the emergence of scientific communication in order to shape a word, which, according to Pierre Gosselin, a professor within the Quebec context who introduced the concept research creation, is situated “in-between”, between the doing of the creative practice and the verb of the theoretical practice of the research. The novelty of the proposed approach in this paper consists in analysing the documentation as “in-between”, i.e. as a means of putting in wordsand of collecting knowledge and expertise that come into light by the creative process. The information-documentation approach enables to consider it as a document, a carrier of the information to transmit, since it performs within the info-communicational scheme which registers it and communicates it. The advantage of the dialogism is that it incites the contemporary artists and their teams to think in a way that allows them to step back to analyse their practices and to communicate them.The argumentation of this paper is based on the analysis of the documen- tation system and its different dialogical situations4, developed as part of artistic projects in Kawenga, digital territory. Located in Montpellier (France), this cultural structure is an artistic medialab, an experimental ground for the arts and the digital cultures, symptomatic of the con- vergence of the technological innovation and the contemporary artistic creativity. The study of this documentation system calls on two con- cept-tools: that of info-communicational scheme, which enables to look at it through its various forms (technical, socio-organisational and socio-economic), and that of editorial enunciation6, which enables to conceive the plurality of enunciation of its dialogical situations. The proposed analysis in this paper shows that the documentation is shifting to the scientific communication. The disclosing of plural edi- torial’s enunciation marks proves the capacity of the documentation, perceived both as a set of documents and an activity, to become a tool for digital art research communication