Since 2009, I am core tutor and co-supervisor of study for the networked media branch of the Media Design and Communication Master. I am also an MPhil/PhD student,  funded by the Hogeschool Rotterdam, studying at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London under the supervision of Matthew Fuller. My research revolves around online art and design communities, free culture licenses and resources, and distributed collaboration.

My role at the Piet Zwart Institute is to help shape the networked media course and guide our students to develop their projects, on both a technical and conceptual level. I teach on an individual basis, and also give workshops (from Pure Data to DVCS and the odd command line trick) and sometimes join the other staff members during technical days and theory sessions.

My background is in fine art and graphic design. During my studies in France, I have worked as an art director, creating and developing multimedia projects for several brands such as Fujifilm, Givenchy, as well as a couple of government funded organizations and institutions.  In 2002, I graduated Fine Art with first class honours (DNSEP Beaux Arts Poitiers, option communication), and later on completed my DEA “Arts Numériques” under the supervision of Sally Jane Norman.

In 2003, following a desire to support art and music creation in a less top down and classical approach, I co-founded GOTO10 with Thomas Vriet, a non profit organization and artist collective, with the goal to promote the use and support of free software in electronic music and media art creation.  I have been active in the collective until 2010 and have initiated several projects such as:

• make art, a yearly international no nonsense festival for software artists using and writing free software (reviewed a.o. by Arte and Libération)
• Puredyne, a popular live GNU/Linux distribution for creative media (ACE funded, Pixelache software of the Year 2010)
• FLOSS+Art, the first collection of essays on FLOSS and digital art production (reviewed a.o. by Mute and Neural)

With Dutch artist Marloes de Valk, I worked on Metabiosis, a collection of experiments about software art and digital processes which was developed over three artist in residencies (Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Sign, Waag Society) and two fellowships (University of Huddersfield and Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln). The last node of the project, “hello process!” has been part of several exhibitions, a.o. “After the Net” (Joasia Krysa) and “Process is Paradigm” (Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers).

As a musician, next to my solo projects, I mostly collaborate with Taiwanese artist Chun Lee and French designer Olivier Laruelle within the 0xA band, and with Dutch musician Jan-Kees van Kampen on text based network music performances and installations.

At the moment I am busy working on a new project, dealing with social gaming, media and software in collaboration with Marloes de Valk and Dave Griffiths.

Publications and texts, a selection:

• “Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Floppy Disks” with Anne Laforet and Marloes de Valk, in Archive 2020. Sustainable archiving of born digital cultural content. Ed. Annet Dekker. Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam (forthcoming May 2010).
• “The Art of Surviving in Simcities” in proceedings Walled Garden Conference. Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam. 2009, ISBN:9789490108038.
• “FLOSS+Art”, Ed. Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk. Openmute, London 2008. ISBN 1906496188.
• “Digital Artists’ Handbook”, Ed. Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk. Folly/GOTO10, Lancaster 2008
• “Digital Feedback as another State of Matter – Automated Creation Processes as a new Clay” Revised Version, in After the Net Catalogue, Ed. Joasia Krysa. Kurator.org/Observatori. Spain 2008.
• “pure:dyne second version”, Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee in proceedings Pure Data Convention. SAT Montreal 2007.
• “Digital Feedback as another State of Matter – Automated Creation Processes as a new Clay” in [the] xxxxx [reader]. Ed. Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp. Openmute, London 2006. ISBN 0955066441.
• “pure:dyne” Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee, Antonios Galanopoulos, in proceedings Linux Audio Conference. Berlin 2006.

Personal Website
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