Yves Citton is professor of French Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, New York University, Harvard. He is member of the Institut Universitaire de France, directed the ArTeC graduate school from 2018 to 2021, and co-directs the journal Multitudes. Apart from a dozen books in French, he published The Politics of Curiosity. Alternatives to the Attention Economy (with Enrico Campo, Routledge, 2024), Mediarchy (Polity Press, 2019), The Ecology of Attention (Polity Press, 2016). A translation of his 2010 book Mythocracy will be published by Verso in 2025. His articles are in open access on his website www.yvescitton.net.
Awarded a European Research Council Grant to create a new research team and LAB around the topics of her interdisciplinary project “BlackBox – A collaborative platform to document performance composition”.
Trained as a cognitive linguist, her current research focus is in the intersection of Arts and Cognitive Science, Multimodal Communication, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Performance Studies (from cognitive and ethnographic perspectives). Particular interests include human non-verbal behaviour in creativity settings, the power of performing arts in communities and society in general, and the creation of digital “archives of processes” as alternative ways to document more ephemeral art forms.
She supervises PhD and MA theses at NOVA and other national and international universities, and is author of book chapters and numerous papers in international journals and conferences in the fields of Multimodal Communication, Human Behaviour in creativity settings, Performing arts documentation, and preservation of Intangible Heritage via new media.
Bojana Cvejic
Oslo National Academy of Arts
Jonathan Burrows
Centre for Dance Research Coventry University