2025 Themes
Many of us wear multiple hats—artist-researcher, teacher-designer, curator-entrepreneur. This conversation looks at how our varied roles and mediums allow us to express the richness of who we are. Can these multiplicities deepen self-expression, or do they pull us in conflicting directions?
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This panel brings together voices from across disciplines to explore what becomes possible when we collaborate outside of traditional boundaries. How can cross-field conversations help us move away from destructive production cycles—and toward more expansive ways of thinking and making?
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Digital tools are often created with specific, goal-driven purposes. But what happens when we use them playfully or experimentally—outside the logic of efficiency? This discussion invites us to imagine new ways of working with technology, or even subverting it.
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This panel questions binary views of our world—digital vs. physical, real vs. virtual. How can we move beyond these separations and begin to see our environments, tools, and selves as part of one complex, interconnected reality?
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How do our environments shape us — and how do we shape them in return? This conversation explores practices rooted in bodily perception, environmental narratives, and post-digital materialities.
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Every order also comes with a complimentary limited-edition poster created by Partel Oliva — “The Form of the Book: A Reading Diary of Ways of Seeing for New Ways of Seeing” by Jean-René Étienne — printed by Imprimerie du Marais in Paris.
2025 Line-up
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Digital Artist
ines alpha
Internationally-recognised digital artist pioneering 3D makeup with a signature style that blends beauty and technology. Known for collaborations with Dior, Prada, and Charli XCX, with works featured in media such as VOGUE, i-D, and Dazed beauty.
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Artist
Marisa Musing
Transdisciplinary artist and cyber thinker exploring relationships between the body, digital identity and archaeological history, expressing ethereal feminist ideals through digital and sculptural media. Currently completing a PhD at the RCA.
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Filmmaker
Helio Pu
Filmmaker and a graduate of La Fémis. Drawing from his Chinese-French heritage, his films explore the boundaries of imagination while expanding our perception of time and memory.
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Visual Artist
Educator
Léa Collet
Collet’s practice oscillates between moving images, performance, installations, video and research. Her work shifts and speculates on the interconnections between botany, emotions, territory, transmission and technology.
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Exhibition designer
Simon de Dreuille
Architect and co-founder of Habitante, specializing in Space & Environmental Design, Creative Direction, and Publishing. His practice— often based on his fondness for ecological equations—blends material experimentation and environmental humanities to craft spaces and ideas.
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Publisher
Founder of JBE Books
David Desrimais
Founder of JBE Books, he publishes books in the digital age, in the fields of arts, humanities and poetics. Former Head of Digital Projects for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (2007-2017), Desrimais regularly works as an expert and director of digital projects for cultural and scientific institutions.
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Visual Artist
Adeline Mai
Adeline Mai is a photographer and visual artist whose work blends minimalism, poetry, and technology across fashion, beauty, and digital experimentation. A member of OpenAI’s Artist Alpha Group, she integrates AI into her creative process while maintaining an intuitive, human-centred approach to storytelling.
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Artist
john provencher
John Provencher is an independent artist based in New York City. He writes generative software to make works both on and offline, including digital collections, exhibitions, and commissions. His practice explores the history of the internet and video games, the materiality of images and time as a tool.
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Visual Artist
Researcher
Ambre Charpier
Ambre Charpier is a visual artist, researcher, and doctoral candidate teaching at ÉSAD Orléans and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her work explores internet cultures, fringe theories, and media imaginaries, critically examining how computational media fuel suspicion, control, and conspiratorial thinking.
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Art Curator
Viola Lukács
Viola Lukács is a Basel/Berlin-based curator and writer whose work connects art, technology, and ecology, from large-scale exhibitions to digital innovation. She is the founding curator of BINÁLÉ, Budapest’s digital art biennial, and co-founder of NFT DEB, Europe’s first generative art hackathon and conference.
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Artist
Florian Zumbrunn
Florian Zumbrunn is an artist who paints with code, exploring memory and nostalgia through works that move between the digital and the physical. Each piece begins as an algorithm and becomes a hand-finished print, reworked with pastels to bring intimacy and imperfection. He has exhibited in London, Tokyo, and Paris, and teaches creative coding at Gobelins in Paris.
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Transdisciplinary Artist
HaYoung
HaYoung is a storyteller working across illustration, video, installation, data, and scent, using fiction to probe cultural and technological systems. Their recent project, DATA PERFUME®, turns users’ online data into personalised fragrances. They are currently continuing their research project, Ph-X, in Marseille.
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Educator
Curator
Shanu Walpita
Shanu Walpita is a curator, educator, and foresight director whose work explores the intersections of culture, identity, and technology. She is co-curator of the 2026 State of Fashion Biennale and co-founder of Emergence of Tomorrow. Formerly Course Leader at London College of Fashion, she has collaborated with global brands and organisations on creative futures.
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Editor
Curator
Alex Estorick
Writer, editor, and curator focused on inclusive approaches to new technologies. Editor-in-Chief of Right Click Save and developer of early courses on AI and blockchain, he lectures internationally and writes widely, from Flash Art to the Financial Times. He was lead author of the first aesthetics of crypto art.
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Writer
Jean-René Étienne
Jean-René Etienne, originally from Martinique, trained as a writer before moving fluidly through music, teaching, and translation. His practice resists fixed categories, spanning photography, cinema, fashion, and more. Today he works across the creative field with Lola Raban-Oliva as Partel Oliva.
Lecturer
Professor
Yves Citton
Yves Citton is Professor of Literature and Media at Université Paris 8 and co-director of Multitudes. He has taught in France, the U.S., and Switzerland, and is the author of widely read books on political theory, attention ecology, and media environments. He has been invited to teach at NYU, Harvard, and Sciences Po, and holds a Doctorat Honoris Causa from Université de Louvain.
Performer
Audiovisual Artist
Neurotypique
Sébastien Mercier, aka Neurotypique , is an audiovisual artist based on the outskirts of Paris. He explores real-time links between sound and image, letting the two influence each other through shared data. Teaching and community are central to his practice, and he regularly shares his tools and methods in schools and independent workshops.
Performer
Artist
Ginkgökoko
Ginkgökoko is the hybrid music project of transdisciplinary artist Minh Lê Boutin. Working with her own environmental recordings, she crafts immersive audiovisual worlds inspired by ecopoetry and sound healing. On stage, she blends voice, field sounds, piano, and electronics.
2025 Venues
Ecole Supérieure du Digital
18bis Av. de la Motte-Picquet, 75007 Paris
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