New Keynote Speakers Announced for XARTS 2025 Summer School and Conference
The XARTS 2025 International Summer School and Conference on Extended Arts, to be held in Syros from 21 to 28 June 2025, has officially announced its keynote speakers. The event, organised by the University of the Aegean in collaboration with partner institutions, continues to position itself as a critical forum for dialogue at the intersection of art, science, and emerging technologies.
This year’s keynote programme features two leading figures whose work has shaped contemporary discourse in new media art and digital aesthetics:
MAURICE BENAYOUN 莫奔
New Media Artist, Theorist and Curator,
Professor, Nanjing University, CHINA
Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957 in Mascara, Algeria) is a French pioneer, contemporary new-media artist, curator and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the Internet, performance, EEG, 3D Printing, large-scale urban media art installations and interactive exhibitions. Often conceptual, Maurice Benayoun’s work constitutes a critical investigation of the mutations in the contemporary society induced by the emerging or recently adopted technologies.
Miguel Almiron
Miguel Almiron
Professor, University of Paris 1
Miguel Almiron is a member of Institut Acte (UR 7539) University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He leads a theoretical and technical practice exploring and reflecting on the possibilities of expressing the senses of body, and the human being through the use of new digital technologies. His artistic work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in France and abroad. He was associated to the Labex Arts-H2H/Ens Louis-Lumière research program “Deceptive Arts. Machines, Magic, Media.”(2015-2018).
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