Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies

Olivier Aubert

Olivier Aubert is a research engineer at Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique at the graduate school for engineering sciences at the University of Nantes. Auberts research area lies in the Digital Humanities and focuses on knowledge engineering, document engineering, audio-visual annotation, hypervideos and user-centered systems. His ongoing projects are Advene, a video annotation and hypervideo production platform and a joint project with the Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI) and Free University Berlin called Affektrhetoriken des Audiovisuellen (AdA).

His latest publication is „REMIND : une méthode pour comprendre la micro-dynamique de l'expérience des visiteurs de musées“ (2017) with Daniel Schmitt, in Revue des Interactions Humaines Médiatisées (RIHM) = Journal of Human Mediated Interactions.

For the Center for Advanced Film Studies Cinepoetics, the exchange with leading scholars from all over the world is of profound importance.

The fellow program is designed to support academics in their research on audio-visual images and enables them to bring their experience and expertise into the center in order to engage in critical dialogue.

The program is flexible in that it facilitates short-term collaborations as well as longer, project-oriented stays. In addition to inviting exceptional scholars (Senior Fellows) working in the field of research, project-specific calls for proposals explicitly address young academics (Research Fellows and Junior Fellows).

Furthermore, within the framework of selected project foci, the presence of Artists in Residence allows for productive debates with filmmakers and professional artists.