Samuel TRONÇON.
Philosopher.
Researcher in computer science and social sciences.
PhD in philosophy and theoretical computer science.
Classical music school from 8 till 18. ZX81 programmer at 10, and then CPC464, and later MacOS, and later Unix. Reading a lot during youth, everything, at all time: from Camus, Fanon, Vallès, Proudhon, Cioran, Miller, Dumont, Schumacher, all the parents' library, even Marx and the Bible, Elle Magazine and Fluide Glacial. Politically committed at 15, with intensive experience in political organizations, and fired from the party school because of mistrust in childish historic lies given by compromised adults. Find, for a time, my place in activists groups essentially composed by depressive talentuous old beatniks (who were my high school teachers the day). At 17, read for the first time "La pesanteur et la grâce", changing-life encounter with Simone Weil.
At 18, study law and economics at the university, but spent the most important part of time playing music and discovering new horizons: Pasolini, Reich, Eno, Abramovicz, Monk, Bacon, Jodorowsky, Hesse and Mann, Michaux, Stockhausen, Coltrane, Shakti, Fela Kuti, Bharata Natyam, and so many others treasures... Entering Sciences Po Aix at 20, but fired 8 months later, after having refused to ask stupid questions just for the grade : a crime in this temple of the speech-even-when-nothing-to-say skill. Many thanks for that repulse, it was my momentum ! Stop studying and want to do something real and useful. Proceed to National Service with civilian affectation as an educator, from 21 till 23.
Back to the university (thanks to the ever-convincing Arnaud Rey) at 22, both in Philosophy and Psychology Licences. Became a very good worker-student, never present in the classrooms, but all-reading the bibliography. First-time father at 24, and as a pragmatic corollary, Cultural Manager the same year. High-school philosophy teacher at 25. Two years later, Master in Philosophy and Logic with honours, and first company created.
So a challenging moment when the respected philosopher Pierre Livet accepted me as his doctoral student, and said the mathematician Girard would never accept my project, because absolutely no philosopher could approach him without being atomised in space. "Try the impossible, it's your job, and it could open a very new philosophical approach". Two months later, so an incredible moment the day I've crossed by chance the famous Jean-Yves Girard on the Cours Julien, and he accepted to take me into his research team after 5 hours of a very intense discussion about the sense of all things we know, in the streets of Marseille.
By consequence, obtain a doctoral fellowship at 27, and a position in one of the world's best Theoretical Computer Science Labs, at the heart of the Calanques Reserve. So many thanks to you Jean-Yves and Pierre for these years.
At 28, Assistant Lecturer both in Mathematical Logic (for philosophers) and Philosophy of Language (for mathematicians). PhD at 32 with honours, after the longest defence I've seen in my life, and second-time father a few days later: by chance, it was not before. Understand brutally there is also bad-intentionned people in science (they will recognize themselves !), thanks to the good Philippe Minh for having opened my eyes.
Just after the PhD, five years post-doctoral researcher, working on many different projects in computational linguistics and social modelling, still between Paris, Roma, Marseille... Colloquium, congress, applications, projects, talks and posters, credits management absurdities, until the overdose. So interesting research topics, so bad working conditions for fundamental and multi-disciplinary research... Stop public research.
Creating a second company near 40. Connecting a lot with Contemporary Art, especially following the net.art way and fruitful collaborations with great spirits like Christophe Bruno. Realizing that things are sometimes closer than we can imagine between Art and Science, poetry happening and network dynamics, History of ideas and Art History. Also accomplish a lot of Digital Humanities projects, sometime for Humanities Labs, sometime for start-ups, or just for my own serendipity. From 2012 till 2019, working hard in Beijing, Taipei, Paris, Lyon and forming a new chapter in Arles since 2016.
Last company created at 50. Working now on democratic sustainability, Art, IA and Politics. Preparing big new projects in art, science and participative governance. Writing a new book about "creative processes in art viewed from mathematics". Writing also a collection of small books about computers, IA, intuition and truth.
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- CEO and founder of SCIC SAS ANANKE (La coopérative des transitions)
- CEO and founder of SARL RR&D (Arles)
- Digital Humanities, policy analytics and evaluation.
- Founder of the non-profit Résurgences Insertion (Arles, Marseille)
- Social inclusion and training programs in web development, for long-term unemployed people and migrants.
- Board officer of the non-profit Rencontres de Rochebrune sur les systèmes complexes naturels et artificiels
- International Scientific Encounters about the artifical and natural complex systems, each year since 1992.
- President of the non-profit Parade (Arles)
- Artistic, cultural and environmental activities for all audiences, at the heart of the city of Arles.
- President of Circuit-Court Productions (Marseille) :
- Experimental movies production and found-footage heritage.
- Board Member of the SYNESI (Syndicat National des Employeurs Spécifiques d'Insertion)
- Board Member of the UDES-PACA (Union des employeurs de l'économie sociale et solidaire)
Below are the main achievements in which I have been involved till now. If you don't find a reference, it's probably because I've had to make choices and/or I can't update this page often. You can message me to find out more.
Software
AKTONE System Lead dev
Samuel Tronçon
AKTONE is a distributed and data-driven informational system and dev framework for data-science and fast prototyping applications in social sciences. It consists in a 3 levels DEVOPS architecture of tools, libraries and : - an adaptative servers fleet with automated scripts for maintenance, bots control, back-end operations, - a set of heterogeneous databases systems controlled with abstract models implementation, - a set of heterogeneous softaware systems controlled by the core framework, implementing open source libraries of various languages (PHP, Python, Javascript, D3.js, Node, Shell Scri [...]
KOIKOI Machine Learning Experiment Lead dev
Samuel Tronçon
KOIKOI is an algorithm based on some of my previous articles in Theoretical Computer Science, and inspired by the work of Jean-Yves Girard, namely his reconstruction of logic known as "Ludics". KOIKOI is specially designed for machine learning and simulation, with an underlying process of 'learning by interaction' similar to the social process of "learning by means of other's interpretation of actions and reactions". The core algorithm of KOIKOI is presented in the book 'Mathématique du dialogue', written with Christophe Fouqueré, Myriam Quatrini, Alain Lecomte and Pierre Livet. Koikoi is t [...]
e-COOPILOT platform Lead dev
Samuel Tronçon
e-coopilot is a software infrastructure to assist stakeholders in participatory processes, from citizens to managers and politicians, to the governance and management of territorialized socio-environmental systems. e-ccopilot is the result of the collaboration between the CoOPLAaGE team of INRAE and RR&D.
PIA Littoral + (Action AATRE) Partner
2019-2024
Région Occitanie
Initiated by the Occitanie Region and the Parliament of the Sea, in connection with the actors of the territory and various partners from the economic world and the world of research, the Littoral + project carries the ambition to make the Occitanie coast more resilient in the face of to increasingly diverse forms of vulnerability (demographic, economic, ecological and climatic, etc.) In response to these risks and challenges, the project must help promote the development and resilience of the coastline through innovation, with the implementation of new actions or practices tested with and fo [...]
AATREXXIVè Rencontres de Rochebrune sur les systèmes complexes Coordinator
2017
Samuel Tronçon
The 24th edition of the international meetings on natural and artificial complex systems, organized by Samuel Tronçon, was devoted to the theme of “processes and dynamics”. These two notions share the fact of being both at the center of the researcher's questioning when it comes to his or her object of study (spatial and social dynamics, cognitive and physical processes, morphogenesis and evolution), and at the heart of research practices. , particularly in the permanent interaction with the IT "context" (algorithmic methods, data capture, visualization and simulations). The field of inve [...]
XXIV Rencontres deRochebruneFP7 LIBEAC : Liberalism in Between Europe And China Partner
2013-2017
Jean-Yves Heurtebise
The LIBEAC project is among the few elite projects selected by the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission inside the Seventh Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FP7-PCRD).
This International Research Staff Exchange Scheme aims at improving international mobility of researchers among the world and especially between European countries and Third Countries partners in order to foster the emergence of multidisciplinary and multicultural research network.
The pojects involves international partners : AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE (AMU), RR&D LAB [...]
ANR LOCI : Locativity and interaction in Logic, Computer Science and Linguistics. Partner
2010-2013
Alain Lecomte
As coordinator of the third workpackage : "Social interactions and language learning".
LOCI was an international research program funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche with Roma Tre Università, INRIA, Aix-Marseille Université, Université PAris 8, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord and RR&D Lab.
ANR PRELUDE : Toward pragmatics based on Ludics Theory and Continuations 2nd coordinator
2007-2010
Alain Lecomte
PRELUDE was an international research program funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-BLANC) wich aim is to "give a significant boost to ambitious projects which position themselves favorably in international competition and which present original objectives, breaking with well-marked research routes". With Roma Tre Università, INRIA, Aix-Marseille Université, Université Paris 8, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord.
Logic and interaction: towards a cognitive geometry (LIGC group) Coordinator
2002-2007
Samuel Tronçon
Co-founder of the group with Pierre Livet (Philosopher) and Jean-Yves Girard (Mathematician).
Co-organizer of three editions of the seminar.
LIGC brings together philosophers and scientists from various backgrounds (mainly specialists in Mathematical Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, and Philosophy of Logic). The group intends to develop a common philosophical reflection on the impact of recent metamorphoses of logic in the context of its dialogue with theoretical computer science and, by transitivity, with other disciplines (physics, biology, linguistics...).
Main members : Jea [...]
Journey to the west Producer
2013
Tsai Ming-Liang
A film by Tsai Ming Liang, with Lee Kang-Sheng And Denis Lavant.
Resuming the Buddhist walking ritual some several centuries old, a monk walks extremely slowly in the busy streets of Marseille and Noailles' market.
Producers : House on Fire, Neon Productions, Groupe Résurgences.
The film has been made during a creative residency in Marseille, produced by Résurgences and Samuel Tronçon, granted by the PACA Region and the Bouches du Rhone Council, under the coordination of the Marseille Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture.
Artwar(e) : computer assisted art curating Author
2009-2013
Christophe Bruno, Samuel Tronçon
A platform for assets management and computer-assisted curating in contemporary Art. The artistic project was about the life-cycle of creative objects, their emergence and obsolescence,
and how plagiarism and import-export play essential roles in art history. The aim of Artwar(e) is mapping the circulation of value in the arts.
Creation at the Centre d'Art des Capucins, Embrun, 2010. Exhibitions and conferences at Share Festival Torino 2010, Bibliothèque Nationale de France 2009, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS 2010, Ecole d'Art d'annecy 2010, Centre Pompidou 2010, Jeu De Paume 2011, Bibliothèque N [...]
Mémoire d'Outre-Mer Producer
1998
Claude Bossion
Mémoire d'Outremer retraces moments of life taken over the course of events in the former French colonies, between the 1920s and 1960s. These authors, fathers of families, doctors or soldiers, make us discover through their images the intimacy of their life. From this intimate space emanates a strange atmosphere between fascination and repulsion, which transcribes well the complexity and ambiguity of the relationship between colonists and colonized peoples.
Circuit-Court Productions
Chroniques Urbaines Producer
1997
Claude Bossion
Claude Bossion, filmmaker and documentary filmmaker, has filmed for four years in the northern districts of Marseille, observing the daily life of the inhabitants, the development of urban projects, questioning politics on its functioning, in particular on the place which is left to the inhabitants in the decision-making, exposing amateur images of the district, in the eyes of contemporaries, thus questioning the future of these districts. Through the words of the inhabitants and the actors of these changes (technicians or politicians) the films update the social and cultural dynamics that hav [...]
Circuit-Court Productions
New-York Memories Text author
1996
Claude Bossion
This short movie is an experiment on collective memory and an inner dialogue by the film-maker, Claude Bossion : what is filming? What is a film-maker? and how banal images can reach a powerful level of imagination. With participation of Pierre Clémenti, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas, Jerome Charyn.
Circuit-Court Productions