Exhibitions | Background


EXHIBITIONS

2023

  • Loophole
    Nov 30 – Dec 2, Köln, Germany
    Collective exhibition curated by XOR Space x Timcheh Music Festival.
    Featuring The Monster Within: A Resonance of a Revelation in collaboration with sound artist Neil Bruce (VR immersive sculpture & sound).
  • Venice International Art Fair
    Sep 21 – Oct 6, Venice, Italy
    Collective exhibition curated by Luca Curci.
    Featuring a collection of 3D animated sculptures: The Law of Passion I, The Law of Passion II, Something About Power, The Act, A Matter of Perception, Auto-immunity.

2022

  • Tifawt Digital Art
    May 15 – 21, Rabat, Morocco
    Collective exhibition curated by Morocco Numerica at the Rabat International Digital Art Festival.
    Featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes (interactive installation with eye-tracking technology) and The Promising Closure of the Black Widow (VR 3D sculpture).

2021

  • Bateau Lavoir St-Julien
    July 7 – 11, Laval, France
    Duo exhibition as part of the Journey of the Imaginary project at the Recto VRso International Digital Art Festival, curated by Judith Guez.
    Featuring a collection of digital and plastic arts: Perceptual Serendipities (2 printed digital paintings), Random Perception 03 (8 drawings), Virtual Sculptures (1 printed digital painting), Talismans (sculpture installation), The Progress of Words (interactive sound installation), and Pareidolias – Composition IV (video installation).

2020

  • Children of Cyberspace
    Permanent online virtual gallery
    Collective virtual exhibition curated by In-Dialog.
    Featuring Random Perception (3D sculptures).

2019

  • Libre Est L’Art Gallery
    Oct 12 – 19, Paris, France
    Collective exhibition of photography and digital art, curated by Léa Rime.
    Featuring Perceptual Serendipities (1 printed digital painting), Virtual Sculptures (2 printed digital paintings), and Talismans (sculpture installation).
  • Safran
    March 19 – 23, Amiens, France
    Collective exhibition at the Safra’Numérique Digital Art and New Technology Festival.
    Featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes (interactive installation with eye-tracking technology).

2018

  • Recto VRso Tent
    April 3 – 8, Laval, France
    Collective exhibition Real Matter/Virtual Matter at the Recto VRso International Digital Art Festival, curated by Judith Guez.
    Featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes (interactive installation with eye-tracking technology).
  • Folie Numérique N°5
    Jan 12 – 14, Paris, France
    Collective exhibition at the Digital Art Center, curated by Fées d’Hiver.
    Featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes (interactive installation with eye-tracking technology).

2017

  • Maker Faire Taipei
    Nov 3 – 5, Taipei, Taiwan
    Collective exhibition as part of the Maker Art Exhibition.
    Featuring Solar Insects Vivarium (light and sound interactive installation).
  • Inkub Center
    Oct 17, Nevers, France
    Art presentation featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes (interactive installation with eye-tracking technology).

2016

  • Les Féeries Nocturnes
    July 3 – Aug 9, Crévoux, France
    Collective exhibition at the Digital Art Festival, curated by Fées d’Hiver.
    Featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes (interactive installation with eye-tracking technology).

2014

  • University of Paris 8
    April 14 – 17, Saint-Denis, France
    Collective exhibition at the CIVD Intercultural Festival.
    Featuring Objects, Imaginaries (art installation).

2010

  • Kheireddine Palace
    Tunis, Tunisia
    Collective exhibition curated by the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Tunis.
    Featuring Human Brain, Artificial Brain (engraving series).
  • Maison des Associations Médicales
    Slimania, Tunisia
    Art competition and exhibition Youth and Creation, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation.
    Featuring Colors (painting on canvas).

2009

  • International Plastic Arts Festival of Mahares
    Collective exhibition at the FIAP.
    Featuring Untitled (painting on canvas).

2006

  • Lycée Pilote des Arts El Omrane
    Tunis, Tunisia
    Student group exhibition featuring Hiéroglyphe (painting on papyrus).

ART RESIDENCIES

2020

  • Château Ephémère: Fabrique Sonore et Numérique
    June – Sep, Carrières-sous-Poissy, France
    Writing and production residency featuring The Progress of Words.
  • Recto VRso International Digital Art Festival
    March – April, Laval, France
    Writing and production residency during the first lockdown.
    Featuring Random Perception 3 (a series of drawings) and The Progress of Words (with poetry).

2015

  • Fées d’Hiver Digital Art Center
    May, Crévoux, France
    Experimentation and research residency.
    Featuring Anima: Draw with Your Eyes and other 3D animation projects.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

2017

  • Doctorate Degree
    PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences, and Technologies of Arts.
    Specialty: Digital Images & Virtual Reality.
    Digital Image & Virtual Reality Laboratory, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.

2012

  • Master Degree
    Masters in Aesthetics, Art, and Culture.
    Specialty: Aesthetics.
    Saint Charles Center of Plastic Arts and Science of Arts, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.

2011

  • Master Degree
    Masters in Aesthetics, Art, and Culture.
    Specialty: Aesthetics.
    Saint Charles Center of Plastic Arts and Science of Arts, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.

2010

  • Master Degree
    Masters in Fine Arts.
    Specialty: Engraving.
    Fine Art Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.

2020

  • Training
    Explanatory Interview Techniques (35h).
    By Anne Cazemajou, LE GREX (Pierre Vermersch).

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & TALKS: SPEAKER

2023

  • QLD XR Festival
    February 25, Discord.
    «Immersive Perceptual Experiences & Dreamlike States».

2022

  • XRMUST
    July 5, Discord.
    «Live Discussion on Immersive Art & Exhibition».

2019

  • Apostasis Virtual Artistic Laboratory
    April 18-19, Paris, France.
    «Behavior Interactive Interface: A Methodology Toward Building Dynamic Systems in Multi-User Environments».

2018

  • International Forum Ancient Drama & the Digital Era
    November 5, Athens, Greece.
    «Anima, Into the Mind’s Eye».

2017

  • 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL)
    September 4-8, Lyon, France.
    «Sense of Presence in Oneiric Virtual Environments: Sketching the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions».

2016

  • 19th International Research Conference: Consciousness Reframed
    November 26-27, Shanghai, China.
    «Digital Interaction as Opening Space for Aesthetics of Consciousness».
  • VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
    June 27 – July 2, Lisbon, Portugal.
    «Aesthetic of Ambiguity and the Right of Imagining: A Critique of Realism».
  • Laval Virtual 18th International Conference
    May 23-27, Laval, France.
    «Eye Tracking for Understanding Aesthetic of Ambiguity».

2015

  • Doctoral School in Cultural Studies
    December 17-18, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    «What Method for Interpretation of Interactive Digital Artworks?».
  • Critique <=> Création International Colloquium
    December 10-12, Paris, France.
    Discussant at the LABEX Arts-H2H event.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & TALKS: ORGANIZER & MODERATOR

2021

  • Laval Virtual World
    April 14-16.
  • «Online Art Today: Historical Perspectives» with Yann Minh, Maxence Grugier & Peggy Schonegge.
  • «Virtual Exhibition / Real Exhibition: Curating Digital Art Today» with Julie Walsh, George Vitale, Myriam Achard & Valérie Hasson-Bénichon.
  • «Creations and Adaptations» with Beth Kates & Helen Varley Jamieson.
  • «L’Art en Ligne: Recherches et Créations» with Château Ephémère, Indialog & LEV Festival.

2019

  • Folie Numérique
    April 18-19, Paris, France.
    «Third Multiplier Event: Conference and Exhibition» with Athens School of Fine Arts, University Paris 8, Argenia Association of Generative Art, La Folie Numérique No5, Parc de la Villette.

ART & RESEARCH

2022

  • Brill Editions
    «The Constellation Model: A Mindful Methodology of Research-Creation».
    In Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases and Practices.
    Link.

2017

  • Erasmus+
    «Poiesis in Artistic Real-Time Collaboration: Towards an Idiosyncratic Methodology of Research-Creation».
    Apostasis Virtual Artistic Laboratory.
    Link.
  • MIT Press
    «Sense of Presence in Oneiric Virtual Environments: Sketching the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions».
    In Proceedings of the 2017 ECAL.
    Link.
  • Intellect
    «Digital Interaction as an Opening Space for Aesthetics of Consciousness».
    In Technoetic Arts, Vol. 15.3, pp. 231-245.
    Link.

2016

  • ACM
    «Eye Tracking for Understanding Aesthetic of Ambiguity».
    In Proceedings of the 2016 Virtual Reality International Conference.
    Link.

EXPERTISE IN RESEARCH-CREATION

2020

  • École 42, Paris, France
    January 11.
    Masterclass on Methodology of Research-Creation for Digital Arts.

2018

  • Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
    November 14 & January 22.
    Masterclass on Methodology of Research-Creation for Art, Virtual Reality & Multi-User Systems of Artistic Expression.
  • University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
    February 20.
    Masterclass on Methodology of Research and Writing for Arts & Image Technologies.

ART TEACHING: THEORY & PRACTICE

2021-2022

  • University Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France
    Lecturer for 3rd-year Bachelor students.
    Methodology of Disciplinary Work (Pictorial and Textual Analysis).

2019-2020

  • University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
    Lecturer for Master students.
    Photography and Contemporary Art.

2018-2019

  • University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
    Lecturer for 1st-year Bachelor students.
    Digital Humanities.

2015-2016

  • University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
    Lecturer for 3rd-year Bachelor students.
    History of Digital Art.

SUPPORT RESEARCH / COACHING ARTISTIC CREATION

2022

  • Laval Virtual Center, Laval, France
    June.
    Explanatory interview and project writing assistance for artist Cédriane Fossat (Cross Residency Recto VRso x Stereolux).

2021

  • Laval Virtual Center, Laval, France
    June.
    Explanatory interviews for artists Léa Dédola and Katia Morel (Cross Residency Recto VRso x Stereolux).

CURATION, ARTISTIC & SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION

2021-2022

  • Recto VRso International Digital Art Festival, Laval, France
    Assistant Art Director.
  • Virtual Exhibition / Real Exhibition: Online Art Virtual Conference & Exhibition 2021.
  • Virtual Exhibition / Real Exhibition: Online Art Physical Edition 2021.
  • Real Environment / Virtual Environment Edition 2022.

2018-2019

  • University Paris 8 & Athens School of Fine Arts
    Research Engineer (Post-Doctorate) for the European Programme @POSTASIS: Virtual Artistic Laboratory.

JURY, REVIEWER

2021-2022

  • Château Ephémère Fabrique Sonore et Numérique 2022
    Artistic Residency (Jury Member).
  • Crossed Residency Recto VRso x Stereolux 2022
    Real Time / Virtual Time (Jury Member).
  • Recto VRso Festival 2022
    In Situ Experimentation Real Environment / Virtual Environment (Selection Committee).
  • Recto VRso Festival 2021
    Virtual Exhibition / Real Exhibition: Online Art (Selection Committee).

2019

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium in Applied Perception 2019
    Reviewer.

2016

  • University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
    Member of Preselection Committee for the Bachelor Program in Arts & Technology of the Image (ATI).