LOUIS
LIARD AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-SORBONNE
18 JANUARY 1985
For
the defense of his doctoral thesis on “Sociological Art, the
Esthetics of Communication, and Artistic Communication” the
artist turns the formal thesis defense ritual into a work of art—a
video-enhanced performance that uses the members of the jury (Abraham
Moles, Bernard Teyssèdre, Jean Duvignaud, Dominique Nogues,
and Frank Popper) as its main objects. The work illustrates several
of the points made in the thesis itself including the meta-communicational
function of artistic media hybrids and the esthetic properties of
the new forms of space and time created by electronic media.