Schoolchildren

For the 2025-2026 school year, CHRONIQUES has come up with two different proposals depending on the students’ level:

Une Rentrée Numérique – Projecting your dreams aims to help students understand and differentiate between objects, their images, and their dematerialization. How do we move from the real to the virtual? Is the object still the same? This reflection on the dematerialization of the world will be explored through practical activities. We will invite students to project their dreams using hologram technology.

Une Rentrée Numérique – Video games, is that life? aims to examine video gaming from both an artistic and sociological perspective.
With video games becoming increasingly present in major museums around the world, how can they be considered an art form? More importantly, how do video games shape our imaginations? We will work with students to understand the essence of video games in order to deconstruct them and rethink new ways of telling stories and inhabiting them.
The productions will be presented as part of a major event dedicated to video games, which will take place in the amphitheater of La Manufacture (Aix-en-Provence) on March 11, 2026.

For the 2025-2026 school year, CHRONIQUES has come up with two different proposals depending on the students’ level:

Selfie generation! At a time when students spend a lot of time on social media, it is becoming increasingly important to raise their awareness of how it is used and its potential pitfalls, but also of the extraordinary artistic potential of these tools. After discovering augmented and virtual reality works at the MÉDIALAB at La Friche la Belle de Mai, students will create fake Instagram accounts using artificial intelligence in artistic and digital workshops in class. The aim is to encourage them to question their own identity and learn to represent themselves in a positive way without putting themselves at risk.

My Digital Herbarium – Through a fun exploration of botanical iconography and digital artworks that question the links between art and science using or representing plants, students will reflect on the ecological challenges that their generation will sadly face. After familiarizing themselves with the world of botany in class through a game, they will set off on a quest to find wild flora hidden in the Friche Belle de Mai to create a digital herbarium. They will therefore have to find and identify these plants in order to archive them. Then, using their notes, sketches, and photographs, they will be asked to imagine new species that can adapt to climate change.

A look back at the “Memories, Memories” project

While Les Amandeirets middle school in Chatenauf-les-Martigues is being demolished and rebuilt to address the dilapidated state of its premises and new demographic challenges, 8th-grade students sought to build dialogue between generations by staging the memories of former users of the school.
In a project combining visual and audio elements, they presented the memories they had collected. After meeting visual artist Julia Lema Barros, whose work is closely related to the themes raised here, they created short animations to recount anecdotes, either their own or those of their elders. These films were shown during a powerful presentation in the Simone Veil auditorium.

As part of the 2024 Digital Imagination Biennial, three projects entitled En route pour la Biennale (On the way to the Biennial) were developed with schoolchildren. For this edition, the projects focused on mediation tools and professions:

Students studying dance and theater at Lycée Paul Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence designed an augmented reality mediation tour to accompany your visit to the “Like moi” exhibition held at 21bis Mirabeau – Espace Culturel Département.

At La Friche la Belle de Mai, at the entrance to the exhibition “PIB – Plaisir Intérieur Brut” (Gross Domestic Pleasure), students from the 1st year BMA signage and painted decoration class at Don Bosco High School created the signage for the “Expo Pause” area, a space entirely dedicated to mediation.

Finally, 8th grade students at Collège Arc de Meyran created short animations using stop motion techniques to explain the work of artist Lucien Bitaux. These works were presented in his solo exhibition “Désastre des astres” (Disaster of the Stars) at the Vasarely Foundation.