As part of the partnership built over several years with Technopol, the association serving electronic culture, IESA arts&culture students took part in Paris Electronic Week at the Gaîté Lyrique.
An opportunity for them to meet the main players in contemporary music.
Paris Electronic Week 2018
Paris Electronic Week, the event dedicated to electronic music, was held this year from September 26 to 28, 2018, right after the Techno Parade that took place on Saturday, September 22.
IESA arts&culture has been a partner of the event since its creation, at the initiative of Fabrice Bonniot, lead professor for "Contemporary Music and Cultures" at IESA arts&culture. Each year, about twenty of the school’s students take part in this exciting event throughout its duration and are thus confronted with carrying out this important cultural gathering. An experience rich in meetings, exchanges and unique experiences with concerts and parties.
Halfway between a trade show and a festival, nicknamed the PEW, it continues to grow in its sixth edition with an expanded program of conferences and workshops organized at the Gaîté Lyrique, the event’s historic venue.
Other venues are taken over by the PEW such as the Aérosol, the Centre Pompidou, Concrete and the Maison de la Culture du Japon, with a fine artistic program of live shows, DJ sets, audiovisual performances and even an original artistic creation.
Of note: Signal Space, which took place on Thursday and Friday evenings with digital installations and unprecedented encounters between video artists and electronic music composers; the Centre Pompidou hosted the Japonisme electro night, with Japan being featured this year along with Croatia. Finally, the Maison de la Culture du Japon teamed up with the PEW by hosting the Tokyo Hit night with prestigious guests.
More than one hundred international speakers led no fewer than forty meetings around the electronic ecosystem and made for a great many exchanges. Fabrice Bonniot notably led two meetings:
- with Olivier Degorce, photographer and visual artist, on the occasion of the release of his book this year "Plastic dreams" on the birth of the electronic scene in the Île-de-France region in the 90s
- with Ben Vedren, Aki-Ra Sunrise and Femur for "Bio-scillations", the French-Japanese creative residency
From September 21 to 24, 2016, about fifteen students took part in the production, cultural mediation and communication of the Paris Electronic Week, organized by Technopol at the Gaîté Lyrique.
Reception and ticketing, communication, marketing and community management, management of masterclasses and media sets, translation of lectures (English/French): they showed their effectiveness and energy in every key role at this event.
IESA arts&culture thanks the association Technopol, and especially its president Tommy Vaudecrane, for the trust he placed in the students and for the team spirit he built in carrying out this event, whose success rested on conviviality and professionalism.
Thanks also to our faculty advisor in this area, Fabrice Bonniot, also a member of Technopol, and to our students Jessica Reding, a student in the Master in Performing Arts Production who had the heavy task of coordinating the work and schedule of all the interns, and Céline Paris, a student in the Professional Master in Cultural Project Management who was in charge of community management for the entire event.