Biography
Syd (Sylvain) Reynal is a tenured Associate Professor of Epistemology (CNU 72) at ENSEA Graduate School and a lecturer at ENSAPC School of Art and CY Cergy-Paris University. He is also an artist-researcher affiliated to the Design-STS research team of ETIS.
His field of research encompasses Art and Science interactions, artistic research and emerging epistemologies. His current objects of research are artificial creation, Art and AI, imaginaries around AI and novel subjectivities that emerge in connection with post-modernism and the neoliberal era. In collaboration with Lilyana V. Petrova, he is also working on trans-disciplinarity, legitimation/territorialisation processes and the hierarchy of disciplines. He has also had a long career in music alongside.
Reynal has had numerous collaborations with artists in the last decade, including Olga Kisseleva from Institut Actes (Sorbonne), Eric Maillet from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy, the Cantierezero collective (Trieste, Wien), Ooze architects (Rotterdam), Compagnie Luciernaga (Paris), ….
Find out more on reynal.etis-lab.fr (academic website) and sydxrey.art (artist-researcher portfolio)
Research activities
- Artistic Research, Art & Sciences, practice-based research,
- Art & AI, creative AI
- Science and Technology Studies
- Philosophy of technics, Epistemology
Ongoing projects
- Ways of being Cyborg (with Lili M. Rampre, PhD Candidate 2024-2026, co-advisors L. V. Petrova and A. Pitti)
- Terrain Vague Europe (with Lilyana V. Petrova and the PiPeR collective of piratery in STS)
- echo x echo, exoskeletons and contemporary music around works by P. Manoury (2020-2023, with Clémence Martel, artist, HMDK Stuttgart)
- Wunderblock/Reincarnation of data through digital traces (2022, with Ninon Lizé-Masclef, artist, Dassault Systems, now at MIT MediaLab)
Teaching activities
- Master Degree Political Ideas in a Digital Age (PIDA), CYU Cergy-Paris University (course in english) : ethics of AI
- Art & Science Bachelor Human-IT at ENSEA : philosophy, epistemology, artistic practice
- Master of Engineering Degree at ENSEA: entrepreneurship
- Ligne de recherche Terrain Vague at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy (with Eric Maillet)
- Bachelor APA at Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage
