Draft:Bernard Guelton

Bernard Guelton is a French researcher, artist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon‑Sorbonne, where he has worked on fiction, media, and spatial cognition.[1] His career combines artistic practice with theoretical research, focusing on how fiction and immersion intersect with social, architectural, and urban contexts. After his research on fiction, he gradually shifted his focus to the scientific analysis of collective behavior in urban environments. He now entirely devotes himself to scientific research in spatial cognition.[2][3]

Career

In the late 1980s, Guelton started to develop artistic projects exploring the relationships between art and urban environments.[4] His projects include mobile works and urban games, often in collaboration with his research team Fictions & Interactions at Sorbonne Paris 1. This team examines fiction in artistic and visual practices, with an emphasis on intermediality, interactivity, and the blending of fiction and reality. After his research on fiction,[3] he shifted his focus to the scientific analysis of collective behavior in urban environments. The team’s international research projects include:[5]

  • Creation and Immersion in Fictional and Virtual Devices (2011–2013) France, Canada, China.[6]
  • Espaços Outros”, Virtual and Fictional Territories (2012-2014) France, Brazil.
  • Digital Interfaces in Situations of Mobility: Cognitive, Artistic, and Game Devices (2013–2017)[7]
  • Situated Media & Shared Mobilities (2017–2019) France, Canada
  • Behaviors and Collective Spatial Representations in Urban Areas (2019–2025). Funded by ANR (French National Research Agency).

Publications

Books:

Guelton has authored and edited numerous books with academic publishers:

  • Drawing from Memories (Cambridge Scholars, 2024, with Teriitutea Quesnot)
  • Mémoires dessinées (L’Harmattan, 2024, with Teriitutea Quesnot)[8]
  • Médias situés et mobilités partagées (Éditions Hermann, 2020)[9]
  • Fictions secondes (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019)[10]
  • Digital Interfaces in Situation of Mobility: Cognitive, Artistic & Game Devices (Common Ground, 2017)[11]
  • Dispositifs artistiques et interactions situées (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016)[12][13]
  • Les figures de l’immersion (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014)[14][15]
  • Images et récits: la fiction à l’épreuve de l’intermédialité (L’Harmattan, 2013)[16]
  • Fictions et médias: intermédialités dans les fictions artistiques (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011)[17]
  • Les arts visuels, le web et la fiction (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2009)
  • Archifiction (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007)
  • L’exposition: interprétation et réinterprétation (L’Harmattan, 1998)[8]

His articles have appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Memory, and EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies. Topics include spatial cognition, collective spatial representations, immersive modes in art, and the cognitive implications of urban games.

Articles in Journals:

  1. Metric and temporal relationships in collaborative map drawings, Environment and SocialPsychology 2024 Volume 9 Issue 9 doi:10.59429/esp.v9i9.2928[18]
  2. Spatial Behaviors and Mental Representations: Interactions of artistic and scientific perspectives, With Teriitutea Quesnot, Xavier Boissarie, Aurélie Herbet. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies 2024 Vol. 10[19]
  3. Collective interactions, collaborative inhibition, and shared spatial knowledge, with Teriitutea Quesnot, Memory, 2023. DOI:10.1080/09658211.2023.226719[20]
  4. "Mental maps": Between memorial transcription and symbolic projection, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Front. Psychol. 14:1142238.doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1142238. 2023, March 28[21]
  5. Comportements et représentations spatiales collectives en milieu urbain: incidences des cartographies instrumentales et partagées, Les journées SHS, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, 2020
  6. "Impact of navigation tools on pedestrian navigation: preliminary results". EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies, 2019, September 23[22]    
  7. "New Entanglements between Instrumental, Shared and Mental Maps in the Exploration of Urban Space: an Experimental Project," EAI Transactions on Creative Technologies, 2017. Received on 6 September 2017, accepted on 2 December 2017, published on 10 April 2018 doi: 10.4108/eai.10-4-2018.154448[23]
  8. "Localized media and shared mobilities, creation and activation in three contemporary artistic devices", in [Méta]morphoses numériques de la culture et des médias : quelques pistes de réflexion, Cahiers du CRICIS, Centre de Recherche Communication, Information, Société, Numéro Spécial, 2017-1, UQAM[24]
  9. "Interactive narratives in mobility and spatio-temporal horizons", in Arnaud, J., (ed.) Espaces d'interférences narratives, Presses universitaires du midi, 2017.[25]
  10. "Immersions in an Urban Game Project: Experiments and their Cognitive Implications." Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies 7 (4): 23-33. doi:10.18848/2154-8676/CGP/v07i04/23-33.2016 ISSN: 2154-8676 (Print) ISSN: 2154-8684 (Online)[26]

Artistic Work

Guelton has exhibited widely in France and internationally. His solo exhibitions include shows at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon (2001) Un détail immense,[27] 34 secondes pour 3400 bio-robots,[28] L'absorption,[29] Le Bonimenteur,[30] Côté cour,[31] Smoking,[32] Kaidan,[33] La maison Bienert,[34] Spook-cities.[35]

In total, he has presented more than 40 exhibitions, including collaborative curatorial work and student‑led projects.[36] He has conducted around thirty workshops in Paris, Shanghai, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and Seoul between 2013 and 2019 as part of his Fictions and Interactions team. https://fictions-et-interactions.net/worshops/

Conferences and Lectures

He has been invited to conferences at institutions worldwide, including:

Recognition

His work is referenced across academic platforms. He has more than fifty papers on Academia.edu.[2] His publications on ResearchGate have been cited over thirty times. Articles such as Mental Maps: Between memorial transcription and symbolic projection (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023)[38] have received thousands of views and downloads, reflecting his influence in interdisciplinary research on art and cognition.

References

35. "34 secondes pour 3400 biorobots" (http://www.archifiction.org/SPOOK-CITIES.html). www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.

http://www.archifiction.org/3400%20biorobots%20web/acueil%203400%20biorobots.html

36. Un détail immense : [exposição / exposition] Museu nacional de arte antiga, Junho - Julho 2001 (https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39908579r). Lisboa: Museu nacional de arte antiga. 2001

http://www.archifiction.org/detail%20immense%20web/un.detail.immense.html

  1. ^ Quesnot, Teriitutea; Guelton, Bernard (2025). "Remembering routes: confronting spatial behaviours and sketch maps in individual and collective contexts". Frontiers in Psychology. 16: 1541363. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1541363. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 12082656. PMID 40386670.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  2. ^ a b "bernard guelton". bernardguelton.academia.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  3. ^ a b "M. Bernard Guelton | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne". www.pantheonsorbonne.fr (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  4. ^ "Bernard Guelton". Loop. Archived from the original on 2025-04-05. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  5. ^ "Archifiction - Quelques rapports entre les arts visuels et la fiction - Bernard Guelton (EAN13 : 9782859445614)". Éditions de la Sorbonne (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  6. ^ "Publishing". Fictions & Interactions. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  7. ^ "Publications". Fictions & Interactions (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  8. ^ a b "Bernard Guelton – Bio – Actu- Les Editions L'Harmattan". Editions L’Harmattan (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  9. ^ "Médias situés et mobilités partagées-Bernard Guelton-Editions Hermann". Hermann. 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  10. ^ "Fictions secondes - - (EAN13 : 9791035102982)". Éditions de la Sorbonne (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  11. ^ "Digital Interfaces in Situations of Mobility: Cognitive, Artistic, and Game Devices (Hardcover) | Head House Books". www.headhousebooks.com. May 2017. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  12. ^ Clouard, Pierre-Alexandre (2017-11-20). "Dispositifs artistiques et interactions situées". Critique d'art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l'art contemporain (in French). doi:10.4000/critiquedart.23447. ISSN 1246-8258.
  13. ^ "Presses universitaires de Rennes". Presses universitaires de Rennes (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  14. ^ Drugeon, Fanny (2016/juin/01). "Les Figures de l'immersion". Critique d'art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l'art contemporain (in French). doi:10.4000/critiquedart.17510. ISSN 1246-8258. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "Presses universitaires de Rennes". Presses universitaires de Rennes (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  16. ^ Marti, Marc (21 December 2018). "Guelton Bernard, Images et récits. La fiction à l'épreuve de l'intermédialité". Cahiers de Narratologie. Analyse et théorie narratives (in French) (34). doi:10.4000/narratologie.9108. ISSN 0993-8516.
  17. ^ "Fictions & médias - Intermédialités dans les fictions artistiques - (EAN13 : 9782859446611)". Éditions de la Sorbonne (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  18. ^ Guelton, Bernard (2024-11-27). "Metric and temporal relationships in collaborative map drawings". Environment and Social Psychology. 9 (10). doi:10.59429/esp.v9i10.2928. ISSN 2424-8975.
  19. ^ Guelton, Bernard; Quesnot, Teriitutea; Boissarie, Xavier; Herbet, Aurélie (2024-10-02). "Spatial Behaviors and Mental Representations: Interactions of artistic and scientific perspectives". EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies. 10. doi:10.4108/eetct.5133. ISSN 2409-9708.
  20. ^ Quesnot, Teriitutea; Guelton, Bernard (2023-11-26). "Collective interactions, collaborative inhibition, and shared spatial knowledge". Memory. 31 (10): 1352–1370. doi:10.1080/09658211.2023.2267190. ISSN 0965-8211. PMID 37862434.
  21. ^ Guelton, Bernard (2023-03-28). ""Mental maps": Between memorial transcription and symbolic projection". Frontiers in Psychology. 14 1142238. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1142238. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 10086158. PMID 37057159.
  22. ^ Guelton, Bernard (2019-01-30). "Impact of navigation tools on pedestrian navigation: preliminary results". EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies. 6 (18). doi:10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.160387. ISSN 2409-9708.
  23. ^ Guelton, B. (2018-04-10). "New Entanglements between Instrumental, Shared and Mental Maps in the Exploration of Urban Space: an Experimental Project". EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies. 5 (15). doi:10.4108/eai.10-4-2018.154448. ISSN 2409-9708.
  24. ^ "[Méta]morphoses numériques de la culture et des médias : quelques pistes de réflexion – CRICIS" (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  25. ^ "Espaces d'interférences narratives". Presses universitaires du Midi (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  26. ^ Guelton, Bernard. "Immersions in an Urban Game Project". cgscholar.com. doi:10.18848/2154-8676/CGP/v07i04/23-33. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  27. ^ "Un détail immense". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  28. ^ "34 secondes pour 3400 biorobots". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  29. ^ "L'Absorption". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  30. ^ "Le Bonimenteur". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  31. ^ "cote cour". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  32. ^ ""smoking"". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  33. ^ "Kaidan". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  34. ^ "La Maison Bienert". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  35. ^ "34 secondes pour 3400 biorobots". www.archifiction.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  36. ^ Un détail immense : [exposição / exposition] Museu nacional de arte antiga, Junho - Julho 2001. Lisboa: Museu nacional de arte antiga. 2001.
  37. ^ Bernard, Guelton, (2023-03-28). ""Mental maps": Between memorial transcription and symbolic projection". Frontiers in Psychology. 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1142238/full. ISSN 1664-1078.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  38. ^ Guelton, Bernard (2023-03-28). ""Mental maps": Between memorial transcription and symbolic projection". Frontiers in Psychology. 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1142238. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 10086158. PMID 37057159.
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