“Hacktivisms ‣ Chapter 1 of Ambivalences #3 – Rennes

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• Moderated by Pauline Briand – journalist and author
  
  Pauline Briand is a journalist and author specialising in environmental issues. For Billebaude, Usbek & Rica and the National Museum of Natural History, she has written about myxomatosis, forests and climate change, the disappearance of insects, the evolution of life, and anthropology beyond the human. 
  
  With Astrid de la Chapelle, Disnovation, the Internet of Dead Things Institute and Nicolas Nova, she participates in projects between art and research that work on the narrative of Easter Island to the hybridisations of the Anthropocene. Pauline Briand contributes to the Centre for Earth Policies.

• Jean-Paul Fourmentraux (FR) – Socio-anthropologist and art critic
  
  Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, socio-anthropologist and art critic, is a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille and a member of the Norbert Elias Centre at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is the author of several books on digital (counter-)cultures, including Art et Internet (2005), L’Ère Post-media (2012), L’œuvre Virale (2013), Identités numériques (2015).
  
  For these Ambivalences meetings, he will present the work compiled in his latest book antiDATA – La désobéissance numérique (Les Presses Du Réel, 2020).
  
  

• Gwenola Wagon (FR) – Artist and Lecturer at the University of Paris 8
  
  Gwenola Wagon is an artist and teacher at the University of Paris 8. Her work imagines alternatives and paradoxical narratives to deconstruct the contemporary digital world.
  She makes films and installations for festivals and exhibitions in France and abroad. She has published Psychoanalysis of the International Airport with Stéphane Degoutin and Planète B (369 editions).

• Christophe Bruno (FR) – Visual artist
  
  In the early 2000s, Christophe Bruno entered the net.art movement by poetically and sensitively hijacking Google Adwords, the Google advertising network. Today, the polymorphous visual artist ventures into many mediums, from sculpture to NFT and performance, to propose a critical reflection on network phenomena in the fields of image and language.
  
  Artist-in-residence at IMéRA, Institut d’Études Avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université, “Art, Science, Société” programme and laureate of the “Résidence Hors les Murs Villa Médicis 2016” programme of the Institut Français, “Digital Arts” category, he has been involved since 2013 in the Improbable workshops, the Art Thinking workshops of the Institut Jean-Baptiste Say, and gives lectures at the Collège de France and at Université de Stanford.

• Julie Morel (FR) – Artist & Teacher at ESAS-Tours
  
  Julie Morel is an artist. She has participated in numerous collectives (incident.net, Kom.post, Le sans titre). Her plastic and graphic proposals, often linked to the history of conceptual art, are directed towards textuality: the different aspects of written text. Her practice, fuelled by a desire to question the relationship between man and language, develops in various forms: editions, interactive devices, websites, installations, drawings, collaborative workshops. In this way, she examines and explores different fields of writing: literature, translation, computer code, metalanguage, commentary, score. Her work is exhibited in France and internationally. She teaches editorial and digital practices at ESAD Tours.