After studying art history at the École du Louvre and law at the Université Paris-Sud, Philippe Bettinelli passed the competitive examination to become a Conservateur du Patrimoine (heritage curator). From 2015 to 2020, he worked at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) as curator responsible for the public art collection and then the plastic arts collection (1961-1990). In 2020, he joined the New Media Department at the Centre Pompidou, where he curates a collection of over 2,600 works in the field of video, sound and digital art, ranging from video art of the 1960s to recent NFT. He regularly curates exhibitions including ‘Sans objet : 9 œuvres abstraites pour le navigateur internet’, ‘Mode d'emploi: suivre les instructions de l'artiste’, and ‘Chine, une nouvelle génération d'artistes’.
Jean-Marie Dallet has been an artist with the SLIDERS_lab collective with Frédéric Curien since 2005. The collective's work is multi-faceted, ranging from audiovisual installation and performance to sculpture, design and experimentation. He is also an exhibition curator and university professor at the Sorbonne School of Art, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is co-director of the ‘Master pro en alternance Management de l'Innovation Arts & Industries Créatives’ and co-responsible for the ‘Arts, Sciences, Sociétés’ research axis of the Institut ACTE. He has edited the books ‘Cinéma, interactivité et société’ (2013) and ‘Architectures de mémoire’ (2019), as well as the catalogue of the exhibition he curated, ‘Mémoires vives. From Nam June Paik to SLIDERS_lab’ (2019).
Patrick Flandrin is Director of Research emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He works at the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and is a specialist in signal processing. Since completing his PhD in 1982, he has pursued research activities in three main directions. Firstly, he has made theoretical and algorithmic contributions to the time-frequency analysis of non-stationary signals, leading to the writing of two monographs: ‘Temps-Fréquence’ (Hermes) and ‘Explorations in Time-Frequency Analysis’ (Cambridge University Press). He has also played an active role in the development of wavelet theory, in particular with contributions to the multi-resolution analysis of scale-invariant processes. More recently, he has turned his attention to the study of complex systems linked to human activities, using graph and network-based approaches. He was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 2010 and served as its President from 2021 to 2022, before becoming its Delegate for Scientific Information and Communication.
After studying art history in Munich, she works for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993-1996 and then become project manager for exhibitions and accompanying symposia at the Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz. In 1999 she takes over as exhibition director at the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005-2011 she is director of the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg. In 2011, she curates “Gateways. Art and Networked Culture” for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Sabine Himmelsbach has been director of the HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel since 2012. Her exhibition projects include “Poetics and Politics of Data” (2015), “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence” (2016), “unREAL” (2017), “Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence” (2019). In 2022, she creates the exhibition “Earthbound - In dialogue with nature” for the European Capital of Culture Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg. In lectures and texts she works on topics of media art and digital culture.
Margit Rosen studied art history, political science, philosophy and media arts at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), and the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). In 2016 she was appointed Head of Collections, Archives & Research at ZKM. She taught at HfG | University of art And Design Karlsruhe, at CAFA Beijing and is a faculty member of the Master's program Media Art Histories at the Danube University Krems. In 2011 and 2013, she was a visiting professor at the Art Academy Münster, in 2014 at the Università degli Studi di Milano. Her research, publication activities as well as curatorial work is dedicated to the art of the 20th and 21st century, especially the history and aesthetics of electronic arts.
Dr Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. She is professor at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, leading the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+). She has created over 110 exhibitions and major installations.
Born in Granada in 1964, Blanca Li is a choreographer, dancer, director, and producer. Trained in New York at Martha Graham's school, she also attended Alvin Ailey's studios before founding her first company in Madrid, then her company in Paris in 1993. A fan of novelty, fusion, and constant renewal, she draws inspiration from a wide range of expressions, from flamenco to classical ballet and urban dance. She has created numerous hybrid works combining video, sound immersion, dance, and mixed reality, such as Le Bal de Paris, an immersive virtual reality show that won an award at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021. Artistic director of Teatros del Canal from 2019, then president of La Villette in 2024, she continues her technological exploration in 2025 with L'Ombre, a mixed reality show created at the IRC - Centre Pompidou with her colleague Edith Canat de Chizy. On April 24, 2019, she was elected a member of the choreography section of the Académie des beaux-arts.