International Jury Panel

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Program devised by AICA France Board: Raphael Cuir (President), Elisabeth Couturier, (Secretary General), Marc Partouche (Treasurer) Communication & graphics: Hélène Langlois

About AICA France and AICA International AICA France is the French section of the Association International of Art Critics, an official in partnership with NGO partner of UNESCO, whose goals and missions are to enhance free expression and diversity of art criticism globally. AICA France represents and supports art criticism that promotes information and exchange of ideas on both the national and international Format levels. AICA International was established in the late 1940s with a goal of promoting Ten art critics are invited to present the artist of their choice according to the short independent art criticism around the world. Currently, it has 62 national sections, and format known as PechaKucha. Each presentation will include 20 images; each image over 4500 on five continents. will be discussed for 20 seconds; each presentation will be exactly 6’40 minutes long. In the frame of art criticism this format allows concise monographic introductions to specific works by a living artist chosen by a critic. It enables a large audience to AICA France wishes to thank its partners: discover artists that have not necessarily gained the attention they deserve. The Ministry of culture and communication, the Palais de Tokyo, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Emerige, AICA International, et especially: Marek Bartelik, Efi Strousa, Marjorie Allthorpe- Participating art critics Guyton, the invited art critics, , and the members of the international jury listed above. They have been selected by the participants in the 2013 edition of AICA France Prize: Dominique ABENSOUR, Paul ARDENNE, Léa BISMUTH, Laurent BUFFET, Isabelle DE MAISON ROUGE, Marianne DERRIEN, Françoise DOCQUIERT, Marc LENOT (2014 winner), Bernard MARCADE, Mathilde ROMAN (special prize of the 2014 jury) ; and the AICA France Bureau: Raphael CUIR, Elisabeth COUTURIER, Marc PARTOUCHE.

AICA France Prize With organizing this event, AICA France wishes to increase the visibility of the work of its members, especially their involvement in promoting important currents in contemporary art by focusing on individual artists. The winning presentation will be published in Le Quotidien de l’Art magazine and in a monographic publication. The guest Art Critics The guest Art Critics

Since 1993 Catherine Bédard directs the programme of exhibitions of the Canadian Cultural Centre in Jill Gasparina holds a degree from the Ecole Normale. She is Professor of modern letters, , , where she has held since 2010 the post of Deputy Director. She is lecturer at the University Paris theorist, curator and teacher. From 2009 to 2013 she co-directed the Centre d'art La Sallle de Bains, in III-Sorbonne-Nouvelle where she teaches issues of cultural promotion abroad in a course entitled Lyon. After working on the aesthetic theories of mass art, and crossovers between contemporary art and "geopolitical art. She has organized more than 80 exhibitions and is the author of numerous catalogues cultural industries, she started in 2013 a doctorate in at the Université Paris IV, under the which Nadine Norman: Call Girl (2000), Arnaud Maggs: capital Notes (2000), Ken Lum (2002), John direction of Arnauld Pierre, on the topic of mythologies of the technologies of remote communication in Massey: This Land (2005), Donigan Cumming, Somme, sleep, nightmare (2007), Eric Cameron. Record of artistic modernity (a modern ubiquity, 1840-1989). She continued in parallel with research on futurology, Jill Catherine Work (2008). It also manages the work of the art historian Daniel Arasse, which she has shared life until foresight and anticipation as methods of artistic creation. Gasparina Bédard his untimely death in 2003, and prefaced four of his works including anachronistic (Gallimard) in 2006, a photo © Karolina Markiewicz collection of texts on contemporary art.

Christian Gattinoni is a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles since 1989. PhD in aesthetics, Sally Bonn focuses on the poietics dimension of writing in the artistic field, starting from He is a member of the Association of curators in photography: ORACLE. He is editor-in-Chief of the notion of apparatus. She teaches philosophy of art and aesthetics at l'ÉcoIe Supérieure d'Art de www.lacritique.org which he co-founded in 2006. Since 2005 he collaborates to the magazine Area and is Lorraine in Metz where she co-directs the research centre IDE (Image/Dispositif/Espace) and the Journal involved in the Organization of the online prize Opline Prize since 2009. His work as an art critic looks at Le Salon. She is a member of the ArtCade association in and founder of the association The the relationship between photography, other arts and humanities with the body as a common denominator. Office of Literary Activities, with Nathalie Lacroix and Lola Créïs, editor of the experimental journal Number In this context he questions the relationship between dance and Visual arts. He divides his time between Christian Zero. Lecturer in philosophy of art at Université Paris l Panthéon Sorbonne, she is also curator. She has art criticism, exhibitionw curating, and the pedagogy of the image. After numerous theoretical books and Gattinoni Sally Bonn translated into french the writings of Agnes Martin (Ensba, 1993) and published the Art in England (new monographic catalogues, including a set of three books on the history of photography published by the French edition, 1996). She has also published texts of art criticism in catalogues of artists and magazines Nouvelles Editions Scala his last essay Des annonces faites au corps, danse et art contemporain was as well as two essays at La Lettre Volée: Illuminating Experience, on Barnett Newman (2005) and Cut released late 2013 in the Precursion series of publisher Hermann. Eyelids. Test on devices and aesthetic perception (2009). Ghislain Mollet-Viéville is art agent, Honorary Expert to the Court of appeal of Paris, an minimal & Yves Chatap studied the history of art at the University of Paris I. After a Master search on African conceptual art specialist (his book: Minimal & conceptual Art, Editions Skira, 1995). In his lectures as in photography, he introduced www.vusdafrique.com, which encourages new readings of contemporary his writings, he analyzes the words of the various bodies that update the terms of production, dissemination, acquisition and updating of works whose originality demand new principles of presentation creation. Curator and independent art critic Yves Chatap writes regularly for journals and participates in the reviewing of portfolio of international photographers. Co-founder of the collective On The Roof, he is and activation to present an art tending towards the immaterial. He is actively involved in the Paris Biennale since 2001 and has participated as its spokesman to different conferences in the USA in 2011: co-curator for SYNCHRONICITY exhibitions in Paris and London, Le Socle, at the Buttes-Chaumont Park. He Ghislain Yale University, Queens Museum, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York University. He regularly intervenes in participated in the Organization of the IKT Lab #3 "African art, what for?" with Chantal Pontbriand at the Mollet-Viéville Yves Chatap Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris). the new Institute of advanced studies in fine arts (Iheap).

Dominique Moulon is a member of the Observatory of the Digital Worlds in Humanities, Opline prize for Art critic, Laetitia Chauvin is co-editor in Chief since 2010 - with Clément Dirié - of the semi-annual contemporary art, online and artistic director of the fair Show Off Paris. Founder of the website magazine devoted to young creation Code Magazine 2.0. Graduated in history of art and aesthetics, her MediaArtDesign.net, he also writes articles for ArtPress, Le Magazine des Cultures Digitales and The academic research focused particularly on the ethics of the gesture of the sculptor. After her beginnings Seen. He teaches new media at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, as well as in the abroad (Vancouver Art Gallery, New York's Guggenheim Museum), she joined the Ministry of Culture and universities of Paris 1 and Paris 8, and is regularly invited to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Communication from 2002 to 2012 (DRAC Ile-de-France, former DAP, now DGCA, French Institute). She and at le Fresnoy. His book Contemporary Art New Media was published in french by the Nouvelles participated in the conception of public commission works on the side of artists such as Nicolas Milhé, Laetitia Chauvin Dominique Editions Scala in 2011 and in English on tablet in 2013. He developps his research within the lab Art & Vincent Ganivet, Aurélie Godard… and regularly publishes in catalogues and magazines. Moulon Flux attached to the National Centre of Scientific Research and of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. Julie Crenn received a master degree in history and art critic at the Université 2, the topic of her dissertation was on the art of Frida Kahlo. In the continuity of her research on feminist and post-colonial PhD in philosophy of art, Klaus Speidel is artist and theorist. He has published many articles on modern practices she got a PhD in Arts (history and theory) at the Université Michel de Montaigne, III, and contemporary art in art magazines, scientific journals and texts in catalogs. After a work on the in 2012. She conducts research on so called African contemporary art, in this context she collaborates words-images of René Magritte and non-linear thinking, his research focuses now on narration. He with various journal, Africultures, Afrikadaa, policy African and Africa in Visu. The Editions Derrière la Salle teaches at the Ecole Estienne, Strate Ecole de Design and regularly gives lectures in schools of art, and at the University in France and abroad. He has been a guest for the topic 'Image' of the program Julie Crenn de Bains dedicated a series on her texts: Indoors. She regularly collaborates with magazines Artpress, Laura and Inferno. She has also published in Atlantica, Ligeia, gender & history magazines, Inter-Art- Philosophy on Arte TV and is currently preparing a book on the iconic narrative and temporalities of the current, Slicker, the Nice review, Clio (history, women and societies) and N. Paradoxa. Klaus Speidel still image. In June 2014, Klaus Speidel was curator of the exhibition “Le Recouvrement”.