Lydie Delahaye

Lydie Delahaye is Associate Professor in Visual Art and Art Theory at the École des arts de la Sorbonne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), affiliated with the Institut ACTE (UR 7539), and a visiting researcher at the Maison française d’Oxford (April 2026). She completed a doctoral dissertation on films on art as a form of cinematic engagement with artworks (Filmer l'art. Enjeux critiques, esthétiques et historiques de l’art filmé, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis). Her current research focuses on the cultural conditions underlying visual perception and on the relationships between science, technology and aesthetics. She is currently co-editing a volume entitled Visions kaléidoscopiques, forthcoming with Presses du réel. She also leads the project ASTRA (Art, Science and Technologies: an Observatory of Artistic Representations and Imaginaries of Space), which traces how artistic and filmic practices take up the observational devices and scientific images of astronomy, combining the history of optical apparatuses, film theory and practice-based research.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of film theory, art history, and the history of science and technology.