{"id":1020,"date":"2026-07-03T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/llist\/?page_id=1020"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:39:35","slug":"keynote-speaker-audrey-moutat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/llist\/en\/keynote-speaker-audrey-moutat\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote speaker – Audrey Moutat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Audrey Moutat<\/a>
University of Limoges
Centre de Recherches S\u00e9miotiques (CeReS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Design to Immersion: Spatial Dynamics in Digital Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote talk \u2013\u00a09 September 2026 \u2013\u00a011h<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This study offers a semiotic analysis of the computational methods used to create video game environments. We will demonstrate how the mechanisms for constructing digital worlds, on the one hand, and the experience of those worlds, on the other, challenge the concept of spatiality, whose meanings already vary according to different epistemic frameworks.

Indeed, when developing these digital environments, tools such as text editors and game engines generate spaces governed by computational logic and precise algorithmic rules that shape very distinct creative spaces. The experience of these environments is based on a fusion of the real and the virtual made possible by the use of immersive technologies, resulting in hybrid spaces that redefine the modalities of embodiment and corporeality.

This presentation will outline a typology of virtual spaces by examining their design and uses. By comparing creators\u2019 intentions with users\u2019 spatial practices, we shed light on the processes of hybridization at work. Our analysis focuses on the interface between physical and digital worlds, which we view as a boundary that reveals new modes of interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audrey Moutat is a Lecturer [Ma\u00eetre de Conf\u00e9rence<\/em>] in Language Sciences and Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Limoges, where she teaches semiotics, communication, and user experience design in the field of digital media. A researcher at the Centre for Semiotic Research [Centre de Recherches S\u00e9miotiques<\/em>], her work focuses on sensory discourses (texts, photographs, painting, digital art), the semiotics of perception, and sensory enunciation, as well as experiential writing practices for digital objects. She has published several articles on these topics, along with two books: Du sensible \u00e0 l\u2019intelligible. Pour une s\u00e9miotique de la perception<\/em> (2015) by Lambert-Lucas, and Son et sens<\/em> (2019) by Presses Universitaires de Li\u00e8ge, Sigilla series<\/em>. She is also Assistant Secretary (external communications) of the French Semiotics Association (AFS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moutat, Audrey (2026),\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Effets de r\u00e9alit\u00e9 dans la virtualit\u00e9. \u00c9tude de la simulation des ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes naturels dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle\u00a0\u00bb,\u00a0in\u00a0Beyaert-Geslin & Forthoffer (\u00e9ds.),\u00a0Le vivant comme effet de sens, Pessac, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, Collection PrimaLun@ 36, 2026, 43-60.\u00a0https:\/\/una-editions.fr\/effets-de-realite-dans-la-virtualite\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audrey Moutat (2025), \u00ab Espaces d\u2019\u00e9criture et de v\u00e9cu des mondes num\u00e9riques \u00bb, Signata, 16 | 2025. http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/signata\/6137<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moutat, Audrey (2025), \u00ab\u00a0Prol\u00e9gom\u00e8nes \u00e0 une s\u00e9miotique des mondes num\u00e9riques\u00a0\u00bb,\u00a0Lexia,\u00a0in\u00a0Ch\u00e2tenet\u00a0&\u00a0giuliana\u00a0(\u00e9ds),\u00a0Semiovers\u00a0: s\u00e9miotique des mondes virtuels et num\u00e9riques, Saggi di Lexia, Ariccia, Aracne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moutat, Audrey (2025), \u00ab Apport de la s\u00e9miotique dans la mod\u00e9lisation de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience utilisateur des interfaces num\u00e9riques \u00bb, in Biglari (\u00e9d.), La s\u00e9miotique et ses horizons, Paris, L\u2019Harmattan, 455-471.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch\u00e2tenet, Ludovic, Moutat, Audrey (2024), Tactilit\u00e9 du visuel et mondes num\u00e9riques, Visible, 13. Disponible sur : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25965\/visible.726<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moutat, Audrey (2020), \u00ab \u00c9criture et mat\u00e9rialit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique, de la substance aux formes de l\u2019expression \u00bb, Semen, 49. Disponible sur : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/semen.14475<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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