Eligibility

Applications for SFSIA 2025 Paris are open to students, practitioners and scholars from the fields of art (including video, photography, installation and multimedia), art history, science and technology studies, philosophy, design, architecture, critical theory, cultural studies, film and media studies, and beyond.

Number of Participants

The number of participants is dependent on interest, but is typically capped at around twenty to ensure an intensive and constructive learning experience based on conversational exchange.

Deadline

May 31, 2025 22:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

June 08, 2025 22:00 UTC

Duration

September 01, 2025 - September 06, 2025

Costs

• €1,250.00 program fee (one-time)

Program Description

In celebration of ten years of programming, this year’s Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Paris, hosted by Centre des Récollets and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, will look at alternative historical frameworks of Conceptual art in order to engage the newfound significance of this movement in the digital information age. To do this, we will introduce the novel category of “Wet” Conceptual art at a moment when the knowledge economy and the significance of mind, brain and consciousness have never been more important. “From Dry to Wet Conceptualism in Cognitive Capitalism” proposes that we require a new assemblage of ‘wet’ conceptual tools in order to develop new conceptual strategies to combat these evolving contemporary conditions. Faculty: Saâdane Afif, Julieta Aranda, Nicolas Bourriaud, Gaëlle Choisne, Mathieu Copeland, Marieke Dittmar, Claire Fontaine, Sozita Goudouna, Jörg Heiser, Helen Hester, Warren Neidich, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Gregory Sholette, and Yann Toma.