PARTICIPANTS
Marine Bléhaut
Marine Bléhaut is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Her work lies at the intersection of cinema, digital art and artificial intelligence.
With a background in art history, cultural management and graphic design, she began her artistic practice with contemporary drawing before turning to digital media. Her work now draws on video, digital art and AI-generated archival imagery to explore new perspectives on care, feminism, memory and empathy.
David Chavalarias
David Chavalarias is a Research Director at the CNRS and heads the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France. Former Vice-President of the Complex Systems Society, he holds degrees in mathematics and computer science from ENS Cachan and a PhD in cognitive science from École Polytechnique. His research focuses on social and cognitive dynamics, with a particular emphasis on large-scale web data analysis.
Lê Nguyên Hoang
Lê Nguyên Hoang, born in 1987, is a French mathematician, web video creator and writer.
He is the CEO of cybersecurity company Calicarpa, while also conducting research on AI safety and communicating science to the public across fields such as mathematics, computer science and physics. His work also focuses on promoting Bayesianism, better approaches to debate and discussion, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Serge Tisseron
Serge Tisseron was born in Valence on 8 March 1948. He is a psychiatrist, a member of the Académie des technologies and the Conseil national du numérique (CNNUM), and holds a PhD in psychology, with an Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in Clinical Humanities. He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre de recherches Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société (CRPMS, EAD No. 3522, Université Paris Cité).
He has published around forty books of essays, around fifteen books in collaboration with other authors, edited seven collective volumes, seven journal issues, and written around twenty forewords, as well as contributions to some fifteen textbooks and encyclopaedias, 80 contributions to collective volumes, and more than 200 articles. His books have been translated into around a dozen languages.
More than half of his work focuses on our relationship with technological objects, particularly those whose interfaces rely on screens.
His books have received several awards in France, and in 2013 he received an Award from the Family Online Safety Institute in Washington for his body of work on young people and the Internet. He also co-authored the Académie des sciences report L’Enfant et les écrans (2013).
A 45-minute film combining animation and live-action footage, Tisseron en quête de Serge, was made about him for a tribute organised by the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 30 November 2019. His complete archive is available for consultation at the BnF.
