People

Organizers

Wendy Mackay is a Research Director at Inria Saclay and leads the Ex-Situ research lab in Human-Computer Interaction, which is joint with the LISN (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS) Computer Science Research laboratory. Internationally recognized in this discipline, she is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy (Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction), has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and was named ACM Fellow in January 2020. She also received the Suffrage Science Award from the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and is the 2021-2022 Annual Chair for Computer Science, Collège de France. Her ERC Advanced Grant (CREATIV) was awarded for her research on human-computer partnerships and co-adaptive instruments. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed research articles in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. Her current research interests include human-computer partnerships, supporting human creativity, co-adaptive instruments, mixed reality and interactive paper, and multidisciplinary research methods.

Janin Koch is a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Paris-Saclay in France, working with Prof. Wendy Mackay on human-computer partnership approaches for design practice as part of the European HumanE AI initiative. She holds a PhD from Aalto University in Finland where she was working with Prof. Antti Oulasvirta in the User Interface group, also interned at Autodesk Research. Her main research interest lies in human-AI collaborations for creative tasks. She is particularly interested in how systems can actively participate in the construction and exploration of abstract concepts in design. Her work is published in top-tier HCI venues like ACM CHI, DIS, and CSCW, and bridges research from the fields of HCI, design research, and artificial intelligence.

Jeanne Turpault. After a Master 2 in Arts and Contemporary Thought at the University of Paris Diderot, Jeanne Turpault joined the professional Master in Arts and Culture Management at the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne. Under the direction of Romain Tichit, director of the contemporary art fair YIA Art Fair, she is in charge of production for the 2016-2017 edition in Paris, Maastricht and Brussels. She co-founded the association iilim which promotes and supports young contemporary creation in the field of visual arts and sets up digital educational workshops. She joined Societies team in the fall of 2017 to work on the New Patrons program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France, and takes charge of the Art & Education axis of the association. She develops art commission projects in higher education institutions and elementary schools and implements the actions of the Art & University Experience Office.

Benoît Monegier du Sorbier worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry where he held multiple communication positions, from public affairs to digital communication and press relations. Three years ago, he joined an endowment fund whose mission is to finance medical research projects through crowdfunding, as head of partnerships, before creating his own communication consulting business in the health and research sectors. He is now in charge of communications and external relations for the DATAIA Institute.

Nicolas Taffin is a graphic & UI designer. He is a member of the Inria Ex-Situ research lab in Human-Computer Interaction led by Wendy Mackay. After Philosophy studies and research on type, he moved to graphic design and his work focused on the culture, science and research areas. He is co-founder of the publishing house C&F éditions and has been teaching publishing and digital publishing in the Caen Normandie University. He has also been president of the type association Les Rencontres internationales de Lure. His work “Livre,” was exhibited at the BPI-Centre Pompidou and through France.

Artists

Maxime Bondu lives and works near Geneva. Born in the Parisian area in 1985, he begins his studies in Art History and Archeology at the university of Marne la vallée and then enters the Fine Art school of Brest where he graduates in 2009. Represented by Jérôme Poggi Gallery, his work has been shown in many institutions, galleries and artist runs spaces. He works is focus on the notion of Information, read from the past or projected in future and his practice is made of multiple case studies. A short subject list of his works would include, for example, an abandoned cinema, chromatic experiments, the conquest of space and ideologies of progress (The Color of the Cosmos), the World Chess Championship 1972, research on telekinesis and the Cold War (The Remote Viewer), artificial intelligence (The Deep War)… Also into community experiments and collective projects, he set up a regular camp site in an old quarry on the Loire valley (Dampierre, FR), and draw, built and develops collectively Bermuda, a mutualized space for research and production at Sergy (FR). Since 2019 he is teaching architecture studio at Alice, EPFL (CH)

Ittah Yoda is formed by Kai Yoda and Virgile Ittah based between Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo. They both attended the Royal College of Arts in London. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they have developed their artistic identity as a duo through a vector of cross-cultural creative collaborations combining traditional craftsmanship with science and digital technology, with a focus on the collective and Deep time. Recent and upcoming projects include; Arles Photo Festival, Arles (FR); Mutation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE); Artist Running Festival, SODA, Kyoto (JP) Ovni Festival, Nice (FR) Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP); PM/AM Gallery, London (GB); Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (DE); Gr_und, Berlin (DE); Averard Hotel, London (UK); Annka Kultys Gallery, London (UK); and Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest (RO). Ittah Yoda is a recipient of the Stiftung Kunstfonds (DE) and the Cité Internationale des Arts (FR), VR residency by Institut Français (FR), VR inc by Format C + SWS (HR), Sigg Art Residency (FR), and Rupert Residency (LT).

Christophe Lemaitre is an artist, editor and teacher. Beside Remi Parcollet and Aurélien Mole, he co-edits Postdocument, a regular publication about exhibition photography. He had solo exhibitions at Parc Saint Léger (Pougues-les-Eaux), Zoo galerie (Nantes), Shanaynay (Paris). DOC (Paris) and Confort Moderne (Poitiers) hosted his two major solo exhibitions to date. Christophe Lemaitre has participated in several group exhibitions, including High Art (Paris), Klemm’s (Berlin), The Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht). Christophe Lemaitre collaborated on various long-term projects with Cneai and Macval. He is also the author of the books The Life and Death of Works of Art and Two Found Stones by Amedeo Modigliani (both published by Tombolo Presses). Christophe Lemaitre is currently in charge of the Studio Arts Plastiques at Ensci (Paris), and he co-directs the Master's degree in Graphic Design at Fonderie de l'Image (Bagnolet). He also teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Lecturers

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is Professor of Computer Science, Classe Exceptionnelle, at Université Paris-Saclay and a senior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France. He has worked in human-computer interaction for over 30 years and was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2006. His research interests include fundamental aspects of interaction, novel interaction techniques, computer-supported cooperative work and engineering of interactive systems. He has published over 200 papers and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. His current research is conducted in the Ex-Situ group, a joint lab between Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS and Inria. He is the laureate of an ERC Advanced Grant and the head of the Digiscope and CONTINUUM infrastructure projects. Michel is currently vice-chair of the ACM Technology Policy Council. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2015.

Coaches

Romain Di Vozzo is the Director of Fablab Digiscope | LISN | UPSaclay, the Project Manager for Fablabs at UPSaclay, a Mentor of the Global Fablab Network and a former student of SPEAP - the Experimental Master in Arts and Politics created by philosopher Bruno Latour at SciencesPo Paris. Trained as both an artist and as a Digital Fabrication Guru (Fab Academy Diploma 2012), Romain has dedicated 20 years of his life to Fine Arts before starting to explore new ways of bringing publics to empower themselves through Design and Digital Fabrication Technics. He also holds a diploma in Bio Design (Bio Academy 2015) and in Fashion Design (Fabricademy 2019). Romain is also an advocate for Distributed Design and Circular Fabrication as possible ways the mitigate Environmental Issues. Among other art projects of his own exhibited in places like the MIT Short Film festival (Holbach), Romain designed the incubator for Pierre Huyghe installation "Living Canver Variator" exhibited at Le Palais de Tokyo in 2016.

Jonah Marrs (Fablab Manager) has a background in History, Architecture and Electronics. He is interested in the intersection between Media Archaeology and avant-garde creative practices and hopes to develop new ways to introduce students of design to electronics and computer science. Jonah has worked as an intern architect in Berlin, an electro-mechanical prototyper at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a guest digital archival researcher at Montreal’s Canadian Center for Architecture, and an Artist in Residence at Autodesk’s Pier 9 in San Francisco. He now works at L’Université de Paris Saclay as a Research Engineer developing hands-on electronics workshops and kits for students of the Fab Academy. Jonah has been invited to present his research at Oxford University’s Internet Institute, Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, the Universität der Künste Berlin, the University of Southern California’s Art History Department, and the Architecture Schools of Carnegie Mellon, McGill University and at MIT as the 2017 Schlossman Fellow recipient.

Jessalyn Alvina is post-doc ex)situ, INRIA Saclay and Universite Paris-Saclay. She just finished her PhD under the supervision of Wendy Mackay. Her research focuses on enhancing mobile interaction by leveraging human ability and motor control to perceive and to produce rich data. During her master, she worked at in|situ, LRI with Caroline Appert and Olivier Chapuis. Afterwards, she worked as a research assistant at NUS HCI Lab with Shengdong Zhao.

Alexandre Battut is a PhD student at ex)situ and Universite Paris-Saclay under the supervision of Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. His research focuses on finding new ways to interact and browse temporal data in a collaborative environment. He also worked on the collaborative version of VideoClipper, an Ipad video prototyping application that encourages planning of the capture phase, resulting in a complete, reusable video artifact at the end of the design session.