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ArtLab

Attached to the EPFL College of Humanities (CdH), Artlab presents temporary and long-term exhibitions that bring the world of science and the Humanities closer together. It also houses a Montreux Jazz Café in which it is possible to consult the festival’s audio-visual archives.

Catherine Leutenegger, Infinity Room I, © Leutenegger Photography, Installation view

The 3 pavilions of the building

Pavilion A (DataSquare)

Located in the northern part of the ArtLab building, open to the Esplanade, the Datasquare presents a long-term exhibition on the theme of big data.

Pavilion B

This space, the most spacious in the building, hosts temporary exhibitions that showcase, through technology, a scientific, artistic, historical and cultural heritage.

Montreux Jazz Café and Festival Archives

Located in the southern part of the building, on the lake side, this space is dedicated to the enhancement of the Montreux Jazz Festival archives, which are registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

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Sarah Kenderdine in Sanchi, India © Leo Meier

"We want to create a narrative out of all the heterogeneous data"

— Summer series: A calling for research. Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology in the College of Humanities, has spent the last four years tracing, photographing, and digitally reconstructing the seldom-told story of Buddhism’s maritime spread across Asia.

Social distancing is deeply questioning the nature of what it means to perform © iStock/Chan2545

Creating cultural experiences for a post-pandemic society

— A new interdisciplinary project, hosted by the UNIL-EPFL Center for Digital Humanities (dhCenter), aims to develop digital tools and practices to help museums, music festivals, and theaters continue to operate – and even thrive – in an age of social distancing.

Jeffrey Shaw specializes in the application of digital media to artistic and cultural works. © Jeffrey Shaw

CDH welcomes visiting professor Jeffrey Shaw

— EPFL’s College of Humanities (CDH) is pleased to collaborate with renowned new media artist Jeffrey Shaw, who will adapt his visiting professorship to accommodate confinement measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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