La créativité au-delà de l’humain en art et en science

June 2024

Alice Jarry, Jacqueline Beaumont, Gabrielle Simard and Philippe Vandal  participate to La créativité au-delà de l’humain en art et en science, a partnership between Hexagram and Passerelle Arts Sciences Technologies involving networking and knowledge dissemination activities in Toulouse, France.


From June 5th to 12th, the Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès will host a Quebec delegation for its Summer School, made up of ten members of the Hexagram Network. Among them, co-investigators and student members from Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University will participate in research activities on Toulouse soil. Together with their French collaborators, the delegation will take part in residencies in two scientific laboratories and in the colloquium “La création au-delà de l’humain : Métabolisme spéculatif entre arts et sciences”, which aims to bring together knowledge related to projects in the arts and sciences.

“The art-science dimension, or more broadly research-creation, reveals a wealth of new knowledge that needs to be explored. The presence of the Hexagram Network, as well as their contribution to numerous events during their stay, will provide an opportunity to pursue this rapprochement, which is both desired and eagerly awaited by French researchers.”—Frederick Garcia, Research Director, INREA.

The interdisciplinary approach made possible by the partnership between the arts and the sciences is leading to unprecedented advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and the production of biomaterials. This kind of collaboration comes at a crucial time for the development of socio-ecological technologies and the ethical issues surrounding them. 



Critical Practices in
Materials and Materiality
alice.jarry@concordia.ca