Archives numériques et langages audiovisuels

Abstract

The article aims to test a semio-rhetoric approach to archives, whose long-term objectives are: 1) to examine the evolution of audiovisual languages in the era of digital archives; 2) to develop tools for computer analysis and strategies for the enhancement of archives. Within this contribution, the central question will be the construction of its epistemological foundation, based on the relationship between the technical and the semiotic dimensions of visual archives and languages. Starting with a reading of the theory of enunciation, we will discuss two conceptions of the technical formats of images: the media formats that have accompanied the evolution and diversification of production technologies, as well as the computer formats that manage the coding, conversion, and visualization of data. By analysing these two conceptions, we will provide an overview of their interrelationships, as well as a review of the rhetorical strategies pertaining to them.

Keywords

• cinema
• media
• enunciation
• digital
• rhetoric
• plane of expression