Eero Tiainen is a Finnish XR experience creator whose practice combines metaphysical world-building and transpersonal psychology with intimate play.
His latest productions are the cinematic VR experience Love Simulation EVE and the dyadic VR installation Water Spirits. Earlier works include fictional and documentary VR films, immersive performances and new media art installations. Tiainen supports the XR arts at the Finnish Virtual Reality Association FIVR.
Davide Rapp (Verbania, Italy, 1980). An architect by training, in 2014 he participated in the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – Fundamentals (Venice Biennale) with “”Elements””, a 32-minute montage film describing the fundamental elements of architecture through a sequence of over 500 film clips.
His montage films and video essays have been screened in international museums and film festivals. The Milano Film Festival hosted his first retrospective in 2016 and the magazines Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound have included his montages among the most interesting video essays online. He is founder and creative director of the Milan-based creative agency ‘-orama’.
A musician/composer and formally trained pianist, holder of the Institut Dalcroze de Genève award, and possessing a DEA in musicology
A digital artist and co-founder of the AliceA association. At 18, self-taught, I entered the realm of creation through imagery and light.
After a career dedicated to audiovisual media, notably as the manager of the graphics department at Euronews television channel, I am now fully devoted to digital creation.
Over the past 15 years, I have combined video, photography, motion design, text, and music. These techniques have been employed in artistic performances, web documentaries, and poetic shows. I explore various forms of writing offered by new technologies, particularly augmented reality. Through my work, I aim to surpass the mere technical aspects of the tools employed; they are simply means in service of new forms of storytelling.
Jiahe Zhao is an artist and social media influencer. She takes daily life as the creative field and responds to society with creative actions.
Her artwork often involves interaction with social media. She is currently a PhD student at National Tsing Hua University, focusing on the impact of virtual technology on economic institutions and daily life.
A musician, visual artist and teacher, Wilfried Thierry expresses himself in fields ranging from video games and research music to performance art and the visual arts.
Juliette Séjourné is an artist and performer intersecting theater, music and art installation.
Graduated from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris and ENS (Cachan, Paris-Saclay), she performs in a variety of venues and contexts, from opera houses on international tour (Shanghai, Tianjin and Harbin opera houses) and concert halls (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Théâtre de la Colline, Institut du Monde Arabe…) to interventions in basilicas, cinemas, greenhouses, gardens, social welfare centers, hospitals (Consultations Poétiques du Théâtre de la Ville) and scientific symposia.
Throughout her diverse creations, she investigates the “little inner voice” and its different forms of expression. This question merges with a broader reflection on “attention”: how are we attentive or distracted?
Karleen Groupierre is an artist-author and senior lecturer at Montpellier 3 Paul Valéry University.
Her works, exhibited in France and abroad, explore the existence of trans-art, a polyform mode of creation renewing the author’s creative processes as well as the spectator’s relationship to the work. As a specialist in digital technologies, the artist mobilizes them to offer to the public a dreamlike imaginary universe. Also doctor in Aesthetics, Arts Sciences and Technology, her thesis directed by Marie-Hélène Tramus is entitled “Issues of transmedia fiction in terms of creation and reception”.
Neon Minuit is a duo of artists, Léon Denise and Dorian Rigal, who use digital tools.
They capture bits and pieces of reality to stage them in their playground: the virtual world. Their artistic approach is inspired by scientific experimentation and serendipity. Using the tools of video games, they explore and experiment with new ways of perceiving reality, apprehending new spaces and creating illusions. Like modern magicians, they make pixels sing and polygons dance.
