Laboratory Training

Introduction to digital investigation

Since

Index passes on its tools to those who can put them to use: students, journalists, activists, grassroots collectives. Since 2023, a two-part introductory programme in digital investigation – audiovisual analysis and 3D modelling – has brought together more than 150 participants.

An Index speaker comments on a video timeline projected on a large screen during a workshop
Workshop at the Triangle-Astérides art centre, Marseille (May 2025)
Participants gathered around a work table, a laptop displaying a video annotated with a red circle
Introductory workshop on image-based investigation, SACRe seminar – La Fémis (February 2025)
An Index speaker at the microphone in front of a screen showing a subtitled testimony
Virtual reality demonstration for 3D investigations, Fête de l’Humanité (September 2025)

This work goes wherever the tools are missing: to the premises of activist collectives, to universities, cultural centres, and schools of art and architecture. Since 2023, it has mainly taken the form of a two-part introductory programme in digital investigation – audiovisual analysis and 3D modelling – supported by the Guerrilla Foundation, which more than 150 people have attended online and in person.

In 2025, these workshops were held in particular at La Fémis, as part of the SACRe doctoral seminar (February), at the Triangle-Astérides art centre in Marseille (May), and at the Fête de l’Humanité (September), where Index publicly demonstrated the use of virtual reality for 3D investigations.