Facilities

It ensures students have access to both cultural heritage and the current state of artistic creation in its most varied forms, always closely linked to the teachings. The library is a conducive space for exchanges, research, inquiry, and enrichment, offering diverse documentary resources.

Collections

The library provides its users with over 17,000 works related to visual arts, design, photography, multimedia, architecture, art history, and the humanities. The collection is particularly rich in exhibition catalogs and artist monographs.

It also has 40 subscriptions to specialized periodicals (both French and foreign), a rich collection of old periodicals, and a multimedia collection (DVDs, CDs, lectures). Electronic resources are available on-site (online press, databases, access to the Universalis Encyclopedia).

In line with current events, the library is also a source of information on cultural events, professional life, international mobility, and guidance.

Documentary resources

The computerized catalog and the library portal are accessible at: ensa-dijon.bibli.fr

Old collection

The school’s old collection is deposited at the Law-Letters Library; books can be consulted or borrowed upon simple request at: budl.contact@u-bourgogne.fr 

Networks

→ Participation in the SUDOC-PS network by cataloging the library’s periodical collections in the collective catalog of university libraries: sudoc.abes.fr 
→ Participation in the Specialized Database in Art and Design (BSAD), which catalogs articles from many art and design journals as well as DNSEP theses, accessible online at: bsad.eu/opac 

→ Video: HD digital cameras, 3D cameras, Go-Pro camera, analog and digital video projectors; HD and 3D flat screens; DVD and Blu-ray players; cathode monitors.

→ Sound: Digital audio recorders, audio mixing tables, audio speakers, 5.1 spatialization devices, voice and directional microphones.

→ Photo: Film cameras: 24×36 reflex, medium format 6×6 and large format, bridge cameras, reflex cameras, medium format 6×6 digital backs.

→ Lighting: Fresnels, HMI lights, fluorescent…

This workshop is available to all students in Art and Design. It is here that they meet, work and exchange on the processes of creation which differ for art and design.

They share the intimate need to create, combined with the desire to contribute to the invention and experimentation of attractive forms in both specialisations.

It is an open space wherecreation and know-how mix.Students are supervised throughout the manufacturing process in order to gain independence as technique remains essential to creation.

These spaces are equipped with professional machinery:

→ The wood section includesa panel saw, a band saw, a radial-arm saw, circular saw, a computer-driven tracer, a laser-cuttingmachine and a stock of handheldmachines and hand tools

→ The metal area contains electricshears, a metal folding machine, a metal cutter, two stations forTIG/MIG aluminum and stainlesssteel welding

→ The casting area has a thermal-forming machine, a hollow base for moulding, a computer-aidedmachine for cutting polystyrene,a ceramic oven and a 3D printer.

Students who have learned tobecome familiar with these spaces and their safety regulations canthen experiment with construction techniques involving wood,metal and art materials as a wayof researching and understanding space and volume.

The approach is centered on the individuality of each student to developall his/her potential. It is forvalidating theories. The objectiveis to make the student independent in the workshop to buildand develop their artistic projects, activities, work tools andresearch.

Learning is achieved through the elaboration of well-drafted projects with cost estimates, critical analysis and methodological advice on the feasibilityof projects for 2nd to 5th year students. It is a place wherethinking and producing alternatein order to develop a critical eye.

At any time, students can add credit to their printing account by contacting Francine Vernardet (Villa, 2nd floor) and paying by direct debit or cheque (not folded or cancelled), made out to “Régisseur de recettes ENSA DIJON”. Unused credits are rolled over to the following year for returning students, but are non- refundable for those leaving the school.

Prices are posted in the Printing-Publishing workshop. They are fixed at current prices depending on the document size, type of printing (black & white or colour) and printer used. For special editions (notably large format), the students should ask Eric Marillier beforehand for an estimate, then settle the amount with Francine Vernardet.

Students have at their disposal sophisticated equipment:

→ A room for video classes equipped with 20 workstations (Mac & PC).

→ Shooting equipment: HD digital movie cameras, 3D cameras, Go-Pro cameras, audio-digital recorders, voice and directional microphones, lighting, stands, travelling rails

→ A film-making studio: motorized technical grid with lighting for photo and video, natural light, technical control room, overlay resources of various colours

→ 2 sound booths

→ Several workstations for digital editing with the following software: 3D Studio Max, After Effect, Photoshop, Digital Performer, DVD studio pro, Encore DVD, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Cineform 3D, Smoke, Avid, IRCAM, Melodyne, Metasynth, Peak

→ Broadcasting machinery: HD and 3D flat screens, video projectors, amplifiers, multi-format retro-projection screen, spacialisation device for audio 5.1 and multi-screen video splitter

A second studio is also at the students’ disposition: it is equipped with a sound recording booth using Mac station, recorders Zoom F16 and micro Neumann 103. Available in Equipment Loan is a Mac laptop pre-installed with applications (Max, P 10, Live 10), 2 sound cards, digital recorders (Zoom H4N, Pro, H5, H6), various microphones, 2 Schoeps, 2 Neumann 184, Canon AKG, hydrophonic, binaural, wireless… and around 20 speakers, with or without preamplification, as well as 3 mixing tables, 2 sono combinations (2 HP and Grave chamber). This space is intended for students in both Art and Design options whose works interact with video, sound, installation including proposals from the field of Space Design.

Furthermore, a subscription to IRCAM Forum allows access to various programmes that IRCAM distributes online. The Sound Studio collaborates regularly with the association Why Note and La Générale d’Expérimentation (a concert with students that takes place during the Open Day, at Interface Gallery and other nearby festivals) and other players in the Dijon Cultural Scene. An ARC entitled “The Art of Sound” is run by Nicolas Thirion and Diane Blondeau and has a Moog Matriarch, a Tascam Model 16 mixing table and Akai MPC X for experimentation.

Experimentation can also take place during the workshops held by invited artists who bring with them their own methodologies and production processes. One of the first approaches consists in a comparative study of nuances proposed by different manufacturers of paint for artists. This approach allows students to question the relevance of nuance in current painting practices.

Material Storeroom

The material storeroom is an educational tool that was conceived from the start as a visual and technical database of materials (in the form of leaflets and samples).

As part of the ongoing research into colour, it establishes an interface between our partners in the chemical industry, industries involved with colour, and artists.

Digital Practices

The advent of digital technology has provoked a genuine rupture for some artists who must integrate these new devices into their artistic creations. Having recourse to technologies whose standards, codes, colorimetric profiles are essentially defined by the industries of advertisingphotography and cinema, artistshave no other alternative but tobe subjected to these toolsor to continually reinvent them. The role of the digital laboratory is first of all to identifyand list problems and to imaginethe primary elements in methods linked to artistic practices.

Photography

The photography studio, designed for all Art and Design students, provides a photo/video making studio equipped with a technical grid, background screens and tripods, flashes and generators. It also contains three black and white photo labs equipped to produce larger format prints, a classroom exposed to daylight for viewing digital prints and a room for developing and treating files deriving from digital scans or shots. Photographic equipment – small and medium-sized photographic boxes both digital and analogue format, photographic chambers, lighting equipment – is available to students from Equipment Loan. A post-production studio is also available for screen retouching and calibration (see Computer Graphics and Serigraphy Workroom).

Post-production

For photography, the school hasthree dedicated areas for photographic post-production where you will find installed:

→ 2 Apple computers, 2 MacPro Xeon E5 3.7 GHz and a MacPro

→ All computers are equipped with Adobe Creative Suite, Lightroom, Capture One

→ Profiling and print managementsoftware paired with a spectrophotometer

→ 2 large format printers, Epson SureColour SC-P9000 and Epson StylusPro 11880 and a A3+ printer Epson Stylus Photo R2400

→ A laminator for PVC media up to 120×240 cm

Publishing and computer graphics

It is made up of several work areas devoted to different digital processes. For the useof all students in art and design,it provides them with training in techniques of image processing, post-production, page setting and printing. Compulsory courses are offered to first year students. After whichfollow-up appointments can bemade for your personal projects.

→ 20 Apple iMac computers withIntel Core i5/2.7 GHz 21.5”, 2 Apple iMac computers with Intel Core i7/3.4 GHz 27” and 2 Apple iMacwith Intel 3.06 GHz Core2 Duo 24”

→ Printing can be done on 2 laser colour printers, one Xerox Docucolor 240 and one Canon C5045i

→ A collection of tools necessary for staple or glue binding are also available.

→ All the computers are equipped with the latest available programmes of Creative Suite Adobe, Lightroom, Open Office.

Serigraphy

A technique for manual planographic printing, historically close to painting from which it shares pigment use and some supports, serigraphy has broadened its territory over time by integrating, among other things, resources, photographic and digital image. At the outset destined to reproduce the same image in large quantities, think posters, its use has evolved to become a preferred medium for some artists used in the creation of unique artwork.

The Multiples workshop explores the possibilities of limited edition publishing within contemporary art, promoting direct and experimental productions. It serves as a cross-disciplinary research space embedded in the school’s pedagogy. A dedicated area for graphic design education, project communication, and editorial design is included, alongside supervision for theses. The workshop emphasizes engagement with external professionals in publishing, graphic design, and art criticism. Annual workshops and theoretical and practical interventions, like those on “Art and Anthropocene,” also enrich the workshop’s activities.

Equipment
→ Computer workstations for project design (for creating models, prototypes, and multiple artworks);
→ A3 scanner, graphic tablets (internal use), drawing tables;
→ 4 drawing tables;
→ Large format drawing paper roll cutting machine (excluding cutting hard materials other than paper);
→ Classroom space with a video projector;
→ Discussion and debate area, as well as a space for presenting works.