The School

DOCUMENTATION CENTER:

The documentation center offers approximatively 15,000 publications, some sixty periodical titles, some may be borrowed, more than 1000 sound and audiovisual documents (DVDs and VHS, CDROMs, Audio CDs) as well as the DNSEP students’ dissertations at the ENSAPC starting in 2011. The documentation center is part of the BEAR network (Bibliothèques d’écoles d’art en réseau) and has agreed a partnership with the University Library from CY Cergy Paris University for free access to both collections.

The documentary fund is specialised: monographs and artists’ writings, exhibitions catalogues, technical publications on fine arts, cinema, digital art, photography, performing arts, art history books, aesthetics… in direct relation with the school pedagogy. The ENSAPC constantly enriches its contemporary art fund and is keen on promoting publications on emerging artists.

The documentation center users may use its two computer stations and the photocopier, with the standard copyrights rule applying. A video space may also be used to watch multimedia resources on site, especially the ‘consult on site only’.

Practical Information and loan conditions are all specified on the online website.

Documentation Center Head:
NADINE LERIGOLEUR
+ 33 (0)1 30 30 78 91

WORKSHOPS

VOLUME

This workshop accommodates all the tools and machinery dedicated to producing 3 dimensional volumes. Under the guidance and support from the teachers in charge and the workshop leader, students conceive their installations and/or sculptures using any material they need: wood, metal, composite materials, etc.

Studio Heads:
DAVID COUSINARD
SAMUEL GARLAND

SOUND

Recording, editing, mixing, images post-production, sound installations, performances, on-site technical montages, listening sessions, sound creation, sound restoring… The studio activities are led by the students’ needs and their personal projects. A significant part of the activities is dedicated to images post-production (sound editing, voice-over recording, dubbing, sound effects and music, stereo or multi-channel mixing) for videos and cinema. The other main activity involves musical production: sound recording, editing, mixing. The studio has been a IRCAM member for many years, allowing all students to use and train on the latest software developments.

Studio head:
NICOLAS DAVID

PHOTOGRAPHY

The photography studio has all the equipment necessary for a complete and professional production and postediting setup: from 24X36 shooting to analogue 4×5 photography, large and medium format digital cameras, portable lighting equipment (flash and spotlights), as well as a 200 m² shooting set with floodlights and 9400 joules flashlights. Also on-site: a dedicated space for digital scanning and postproduction on calibrated screen, analogue printing darkroom and a finishing room with presses for bonding and cold and hot applied coating. This production equipment is available to the students, in close relationship with the other studio spaces and is fully integrated within the school pedagogy and project.

Studio Head: :
CHRISTIAN GENTY

SERIGRAPHY, PRINTING 

The serigraphy and digital printing workshop enable the students to discover and practice two typologies and image printing techniques. Firstly, digital printing, using two professional machines and a range of printing papers (photo gloss, semi matt, matt, canvas, blue-back…)  and grammages. The serigraphy technique enables printing on all sorts of flat surfaces (paper, fabric, metal, wood, PVC, glass) with a large spectrum of colours. These two approaches to the printed image enable students to familiarise themselves with a range of tools and media and to adopt a specific production attitude linked to the current issues surrounding the image and the different ways in which it is displayed and distributed. The technical supervision offered by the workshop head allows for expanding towards other possibilities whilst developing an awareness of the inherent actions required to print manually and digitally as integral part of the students learning process. This process of discussions and reflections allows them to invest a space of creations and experimentations resonating with all the other workshops and the school learnings.

Workshop Head: :
BERENICE LEFEBVRE

VIDEO

The video workshop provides students with the tools to learn and manipulate equipment for shooting, postediting (MacPros, Imacs), and using the appropriate software for editing and video production (Adobe, Vinci, Apple). The workshop head supervises the students along all the stages of audiovisual creation: project writing, locations scouting, cutting, shooting prep, postproduction (editing, calibration compositing…), diffusion preparation (compression, online diffusion, projection, installations…). All the creative workshops (photo, cinema and sound) on the campus work alongside to make it happen.

Workshop Head: :
JEAN-LUC JUSSEAU

PRINTING

The printing workshop is where various editorial projects are conceived and created. Unique or multiple examples can be produced, as personal or collective projects or as part of the thesis in the second cycle. On site, students can print digitally and use the paper resources including the binding material needed. The workshop head supervises the students along each stage of the conception and making of their editing projects, ensuring they learn how to use and manipulate the different tools. Students at thesis level are especially looked after. Connected with the photography and serigraphy workshops, the printing unit is an integral part of the design and printing process. Indeed, images can be thought differently and lead to wider perspectives in narration, sometimes associated with texts, they may be mounted, juxtaposed and articulated in book formats and therefore deployed – over tens or hundreds of pages. The printing workshop enables thinking about the space in a book as an exhibition space as a whole, or as ways of apprehending other possibilities to present and diffuse an artistic practice.

Workshop Head:
LIONEL CATELAN

EQUIPMENT STORE

Photography equipment (cameras, tripods), video equipment (video cameras, readers, projectors, monitors, screens), sound equipment (speakers, mics, mixing tables, recorders, headphones) and tools are available at the loan shop to all the students and teachers at the ENSAPC. Rules and loan conditions are detailed in the rules of procedure.

Equipment store Head:
LYDIE PACILLY