Entre la première thèse en informatique graphique (soutenue en 1968) et la première publicité entièrement synthétique diffusée à la télévision (en 1983), les images de synthèse se transforment en “nouvelles images”. Il ne s’agit pas d’évaluer ces prétendues images nouvelles en fonction de leurs qualités distinctives de rupture ou de continuité que l’expression a tendance à appeler, mais d’étudier leur mode de production et de représentation afin de déterminer ce qu’elles montrent des techniques employées, et les imaginaires que ces dernières véhiculent au moment d’émergence de l’image numérique, comme autant de propositions créatives mais aussi d’enjeux idéologiques. Étudiées d’un point de vue technique puis esthétique, grâce à l’étude croisée de témoignages, de littérature grise, et de l’analyse formelle des films, ces productions donnent à voir un processus de réappropriation du médium, avant et après l’image. Si elle définit une histoire « officielle » des images de synthèse en France, en replaçant aussi précisément que possible les productions dans leur environnement technique, politique et culturel, cette thèse a finalement mis en évidence les temps des images de synthèse en tant que produit innovant, depuis leurs lieux de fabrication jusqu’à leurs lieux de légitimation. Ses conclusions mettent en jeu les différentes circulations locales des hommes, des outils et des images, au moment où la politique culturelle de 1981 favorise la jonction art-ordinateur, et l’indiscipline des créations. / Between the first PhD in computer graphics (defended in 1968) and the first entirely synthetic advertisement broadcast on television (1983), computer-generated images became “new images”. The aim is not to assess these so-called new images according to their distinctive qualities of rupture or continuity, as the expression would suggest, but rather to study their mode of production and representation in order to determine what they show from the techniques employed, and the imaginative worlds that they convey at the time of the emergence of digital images, like so many creative suggestions but also ideological issues. Studied first from a technical, then from an aesthetic point of view, thanks to the cross-study of testimonies, grey literature and a formal analysis of the movies, these productions show a process of recovery of the medium, before and after the image. This PhD not only defines an “official” history of computer-generated images in France, replacing as precisely as possible the productions in their technical, political and cultural environment, but it also reveals when computer-generated images are innovating products, from their places of fabrication to their places of legitimacy. The conclusions question the different local circulations of people, tools and images, at a time when the cultural policies of the year 1981 promotes the bond between art and computer, and the indiscipline of creations.

Colonie grecque, Apollonia d’Illyrie (Albanie), a connu à l’époque romaine des phases de construction et d’aménagement importantes. En témoigne le centre monumental qui a fait l’objet de fouilles et de dégagements sous la direction du français Léon Rey au début du XXe siècle. Après la seconde guerre mondiale, les équipes albanaises ont poursuivi les recherches archéologiques et ont réalisé les restaurations et les présentations actuelles. Le centre monumental est organisé autour de deux édifices principaux, l’odéon et le monument des agonothètes. Ces lieux d’assemblée attestent du caractère public de ce secteur de la ville comme le fait un arc de triomphe légèrement postérieur. Des boutiques témoignent d’une fonction commerciale annexe. L’aspect religieux est illustré par un temple ionique, entouré d’un portique, associé à un bâtiment nommé usuellement "prytanée", et par un petit sanctuaire. Enfin, un édifice de plan carré peut être soit une bibliothèque soit un Augusteum. Après l’analyse des vestiges accessibles et de la documentation, une approche des fonctions des différents monuments et les renvois aux éléments comparatifs des hypothèses de restitutions sont proposées puis transposées en images de synthèse. Elles sont ensuite assemblées en une vision globale du centre monumental romain, dans son état du début du IIIe siècle ap. J.-C. Dans l’attente de l’achèvement des recherches sur l’agora, localisée à quelques centaines de mètres, cet ensemble pourrait être un complexe architectural dédié au culte impérial dont l’importance aurait attiré, dans le courant du IIe siècle, le bouleuterion que prudemment on désigne encore comme "monument des agonothètes". / During the Roman period, “Apollonia of Illyria”, a greek settlement in Albania, knew several phases of construction and development. This is demonstrated by the study of the monumental center which was the object of excavations supervised by a French archaeologist Léon Rey at the beginning of the XXth century. After World War II, Albanian teams pursued the researches. They realized the restorations and the current presentations. The monumental center is organized around two main buildings, the Odeon and the “monument of Agonothetes”. These meeting places give evidence of the public character of this part of the city, just like the existence of a triumphal arch built later on. Shops also prove the commercial function of this place. Then, the religious function is illustrated by an ionic temple surrounded by a portico associated with a building named “prytaneum’ and by a small sanctuary. Finally, a square building is either a library or an “augusteum”. After an analysis of the visible vestiges and documentation, a report on the functions of the various monuments and a presentation of the comparative elements, the hypothesis of reconstructions will be proposed and transposed into computer-generated images. They will be assembled in a global vision of the roman monumental center at the beginning of the third century. Researches concerning the agora, localized a few hundred meters further, are not achieved yet but this place could be an architectural complex dedicated to imperial cult. During the second century, its importance could have attracted the bouleuterion that remains, for the moment, named as “monument of Agonothetes”. / Kolonia greke e Apolonisë së Ilirisë, në Shqipëri, ka njohur faza të rëndësishme ndërtimi dhe riorganizimi urban në periudhën romake. Këtë e dëshmon qendra monumentale që ka qenë pikësynimi i gërmimeve dhe zbulimeve të kryera nën drejtimin e francezit Leon Rei, në fillim të shekullit të XX. Pas Luftës së II Botërore, ekipet shqiptare kanë vazhduar nxjerrjen në dritë të saj, si dhe kanë realizuar restaurimet dhe pamjet që shohim sot. Qendra monumentale është organizuar rreth dy godinave kryesore, odeoni dhe monumenti i Agonotetëve. Këto vende mbledhjesh dëshmojnë për karakterin publik të kësaj zone të qytetit, ashtu si dhe një hark triumfi pak më i vonshëm. Dyqanet dëshmojnë për një funksion tregtar aneks. Aspekti religjioz ilustrohet me praninë e një tempulli jonik, të rrethuar me një portik, dhe që lidhet me një godinë të ashtuquajtur prytaneum, si dhe me një faltore e vogël. Së fundmi, një ndërtesë në formë katrore mund të jetë ndoshta një bibliotekë apo augusteum. Në përfundim të studimit të rrënojave të dukshme dhe të dokumentacionit përkatës, parashtrohet trajtimi i funksioneve të monumenteve të ndryshme dhe i elementeve krahasuese të rimëkëmbjes hipotetike të tyre, që më tej transformohen në paraqitjet e informatizuara. Më pas, të gjithë elementët janë bashkuar në një pamje gjithëpërfshirëse të qendrës monumentale romake, ashtu siç paraqitej ajo në fillimin e shek. III të e. sonë. Në pritje të përfundimit të kërkimeve në agora, e cila gjendet vetëm disa qindra metra larg, ky ansambël duket të ketë qenë një kompleks arkitekturor që i kushtohej kultit perandorak, rëndësia e të cilit do të tërhiqte përgjatë shek. II të e. sonë buleterionin, që ende në mënyrë të kujdesshme emërtohet si “monumenti i Agonotetëve”.