Keynote Speakers
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
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).
Samuel Bianchini
Professor École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD, PSL University, Paris)
Samuel Bianchini is an artist and teacher-researcher (professor, habilitated to supervise research) at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD, PSL University, Paris). He lives and works in Paris. With more than 100 collective and 20 solo exhibitions, his works are regularly presented in Europe and around the world: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Belo Horizonte, Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasilia), Benaki Museum Pireos (Athens), Red Brick Museum (Beijing), MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Jeu de Paume (Paris), Zürcher Gallery (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Medialab Prado (Madrid), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Waterfall Gallery (New York), Art Basel, etc.
Speakers List
Maurice Benayoun (Nanjing University, CHINA)
Martin Carle (Ionian University, GR)
Katerina El Raheb (University of Peloponnese, GR)
Iannis Zannos (Ionian University, GR)
Panagiotis Koutsabasis (University of the Aegean, ISD Lab, GR)
Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos (University of the Aegean, ISD Lab, GR)
Dijana Lekic-Savatic (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)
Giorgos Nikopoulos (Ionian University, GR)
Giorgos Papakonstantinou (University of Thessaly, GR)
Mathieu Quiniou (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)
Samuel Szoniecky (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)
Modestos Stavrakis (University of the Aegean, ISD Lab, GR)
Tassos Theodoropoulos (University of Peloponnese, GR)
Konstantinos Tiligadis (Ionian University, GR)
Prodromos Tsiavos (A. Onassis Foundation, GR)
Spyros Vosinakis (University of the Aegean, ISD Lab, GR)
Khaldoun Zreik (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)