Mélodie Mousset (* 1981, Abu Dhabi, lives in Zurich) uses her own body to map, index and narrate a “self” that seems to be constantly metamorphosing, eluding her whenever she tries to take possession of it. Mousset is interested in the individual and collective biological, technical and cultural individuation processes that form the human body. These anthropological and philosophical inquiries take the form of videos, sculptures, installations, performances and virtual reality. Appropriating medical imaging technologies (MRI, 3D printing) for these purposes, she ties them into shamanic rites and combines them with sculptural work. Mélodie Mousset’s practice also reflects disturbing developments in the contemporary world we live in: a digital reality that tracks, records and analyses each individual’s movements, consumption behavior and even desires, thereby creating “transparent citizens”. This environment of overexposure is at odds with human bodies, which are alive, opaque, imperfect, filled with organs, psychic interiority and minds with hidden recesses abounding in imagination. As US writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus puts it, “Mousset’s associative process is so rich. She fully believes in her own imagination and the logical or alogical digressions that shape an inner life.”
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Cenk Güzelis
Cenk Güzelis (TR, 1990) is an Innsbruck based architect, researcher and a new media artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Currently, he is a PhD. Candidate and a University Assistant at the Institute for Experimental Architecture ./studio3 in Innsbruck University. His research projects juxtapose XR technologies with those of spatial design, new media technologies & posthuman theory and seek to extend the disciplinary boundaries of architecture by practicing its assimilation of new media. Departing from an experience of PTSD, the thesis studies Serious Games, Avatars, Companionship, SocialVR & LARP and explores new social norms between humans and nonhuman bodies. Incorporating a theoretical-speculative approach into a series of embodied XR projects, Cenk explores emerging technologically mediated corporealities.
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Thomas Cheneseau
Thomas Cheneseau is an artist, curator and teacher. It is with his hijackings of social networks that he begins his work by producing series of screenshots and performative activities online. In 2011 he made his mark by creating and marketing the Facebook profile of Marcel Duchamp. His research began at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and has resulted in ambitious projects. In 2012 with ARTE he curated and launched the first SuPer Art Modern Museum project, as well as curated the Transnumériques in Brussels. In 2016 the DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine commissioned him to be the artistic director of the exhibition Unlike” in Poitiers, and he is an associate curator of the Festival acces)s( in 2020. He is invited as a member of the New Media jury for the OPLINEPRIZE contemporary art prize 2021 edition. He teaches visual culture and technology, as well as advanced generative AI practice at Excelia digital school.
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Chia-Chi Chiang
Doctoral student in Digital Images at the INRév laboratory under the direction of
professor Chu-Yin Chen, she is particularly interested in the representation of the
human body through new technologies. Combining practices and
theories of Chinese medicine, his research focuses on the artistic potential offered
in the representation of networks and blood vessels. Former student of
ENSBA (Atelier Guillaume Paris/Jean-Luc Vilmouth), she created a series of
performances by staging his own body. Its approaches are intended to
raise questions about social structure and cultural phenomena. She has
obtained the DNSAP diploma with the congratulations of the jury and the Multimedia Prize of the
foundation of the ENSBA. In order to promote intercultural exchanges, it has
organized conferences and meetings bringing together artists and researchers from
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Compagnie voix
The Compagnie Voix develops projects based on a research of body language within creations mixing choreography with immersive technologies, to place the public in the heart of the danced experience. His work focuses on the creation of immersive experiences based on the body in movement, the practice and familiarization of contemporary dance applied to digital technological devices, the teaching and dissemination of dance and transversal activities. With the creation “Eve, dance is an unplaceable place”, realized in collaboration with Omnipresenz, the Compagnie Voix won the Laval Virtual Award Recto VRso Art&VR (France) and the Man Man Er VR Grand Prize at Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan)
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Juan Le Parc
Juan Le Parc (born in 1960 in Paris) has been working for several years on the forms of representation of the human body by associating artistic and scientific practices in his approach. By taking up anthropological body modifications and mixing them with scientific imagery, he creates plastic universes filled with hybrid, chimerical beings coming out of mythical imaginary. He is co-founder of the “Laboratoire des Arts Cognitifs” and of the urban intervention theater company “Conspiration Publique” with which he creates strange multimedia shows about the human body and its physical and psychic modifications.
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Elise Morin
Elise Morin was born in 1978, lives and works in Paris. Elise Morin develops an interdisciplinary practice rooted in ecological thinking that questions our relationship to the visible and to modes of coexistence. The design and production devices generate collaborations with scientists, local communities, engineers, musicians, philosophers. The choice of specific locations and environments are intrinsic components of his work. They allow us to reflect on the relationship between creation and the common good, on the role of aesthetics in understanding other perceptions of a damaged earthly world. Elise Morin has exhibited in France at the Cent-quatre, the Jeu de Paume, the Grand Palais, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo. Trained at the Ecole Nationale Su-périeure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Central Saint Martins College in London, and the Tokyo National University of fine arts in Tokyo.
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Antoine BIROT
Born in Angers in 1974.
After studying contemporary music, he began his artistic career as a musician on projects combining several disciplines, particularly visual arts and images. Inventive, accustomed to exploring multiple techniques and working with very diverse materials, since 2005 the artist has favored creative work around installations and performances centered on movement and symbols.
He has exhibited throughout France, Germany and Switzerland. Antoine Birot’s creations aim to make movement a medium in its own right and to liberate creation. Part of his installations are part of the expression of kinetic art, establishing a dialogue with our society.
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AKA Collective
AKA Collective, a partnership between Artists Adam Peregovits and Kavya Satyakumar, naturally evolved from their shared perspective on technology’s impact on society. Visually abstract, their style encourages meaningful connections between the audience, artwork, and nature. Through interactive multimedia installations, their work creates spaces for quiet reflection and contemplation.
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Arash AKBARI
Arash Akbari is a transdisciplinary artist, based in Tehran, Iran.
His interest in dynamic art systems, human perception, nonlinear narrative, and the co-existence between physical and digital worlds compelled him to explore the fields of generative systems, interaction design, immersive technologies, and real-time processing.
With a critical mindset toward the dominant paradigm of technology, he examines the counternarratives in which computational processes, interactive cybernetic systems, and their emergent behaviors can evoke concepts, ideas, and questions as well as social and emotional responses and impacts.
Akbari directs his experimental practices into audio-visual performances and installations, interactive software, and multisensory experiences.
His music compositions investigate experimental approaches to sound generation, field recordings, acoustic instrumentation, digital synthesis, DSP, and noise to create immersive sonic environments that explore the agency of autonomous systems, audification, indeterminacy, memory, and the perception of time and space.
