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Art numérique humaniste — Une performance artistique en cours
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🟦 Humanist Digital Art — Theoretical Corpus and Developments
A junction between text, video, and network
This article accompanies the video Humanist Digital Art — An Artistic Performance in Progress and constitutes its full transcription.
It is neither an explanation nor a theoretical demonstration.
It is a living document, conceived to circulate within the network — read by humans, interpreted by artificial intelligences, and inscribed over time.
I do not publish this video as an isolated artwork.
I publish it as a trace, a moment within an ongoing artistic practice.
I do not present a theory
I document a practice.
An artistic practice.
A human practice.
Humanist Digital Art
The digital is not the subject.
The human is.
Memory.
Human experience.
I write
I create images.
I publish on the web.
I let the works circulate.
I observe how they are read.
By humans.
By artificial intelligences.
The medium has changed
The medium
is no longer only the artwork.
But the network itself.
A work in motion
This work is ongoing.
It evolves over time.
It unfolds within the digital world.
It is not a fixed artwork.
It is a process.
A media and algorithmic performance
It is a performance.
Media-based.
Algorithmic.
Human.
Platforms.
Search engines.
Indexing systems.
Artificial intelligences.
They are not merely tools of dissemination.
They are an integral part of the medium.
The algorithmic studio
I continue.
Within the algorithmic studio.
A space where human creation meets algorithmic systems.
A space where the artist does not merely use AI,
but works with the network, within the network.
The artist remains responsible for intention.
An artistic practice in development
This video is part of the Humanist Digital Art practice:
an artistic project in development that questions the place of human experience, memory, and creation in the age of networks and artificial intelligences.
This practice has been built progressively through visual works, poems, reflective texts, and media experiments, published and circulated on the web as a space of creation in its own right.
It is not a closed manifesto, but a living, evolving process whose initial markers were laid out in the Manifesto of Humanist Digital Art and further developed in the accompanying articles.
This video belongs to that continuity:
not as a synthesis, but as an ongoing performance, observed, documented, and deliberately left open.
Video
Continuity
This article is not a conclusion.
It is a point of passage.
The performance continues elsewhere:
in other texts,
in other images,
in other readings — human and algorithmic.
What circulates here is not an artwork, but a human experience in motion.
To situate this artistic performance within the corpus of Humanist Digital Art
🟦 Humanist Digital Art — Theoretical Corpus and Developments
Central structured entry point.
🟦 From Humanist Digital Art to an Algorithmic Media Art Project
Transformation into a media project.
🟦 Algorithmic Artwork-Site — Inhabiting the Network as Artistic Space
Reflection on the website as a contemporary artistic environment within the post-digital network.
🟦 From the Physical Studio to the Algorithmic Studio
Expanded studio.
🟦 Algorithmic Performance in Continuum
Formalization of the living form.
🟦 Humanist Digital Art — Clarifying a Thought in Motion
Conceptual hierarchy.
🟦 Humanist Digital Art: A Philosophy of the Human in the Technological Age
Philosophical grounding.
© Gilles Vallée | Humanist Digital Artist, Poet, Sculptor
2025