Keynote Speakers

MAURICE BENAYOUN 莫奔 New Media Artist, Theorist and Curator,  Professor, Nanjing University, CHINA Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957 in Mascara, Algeria) is a French pioneer, contemporary new-media artist, curator and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the Internet, performance, EEG, 3D Printing, large-scale urban media art installations and interactive exhibitions. Often conceptual, Maurice Benayoun’s work constitutes a critical investigation of the mutations in the contemporary society induced by the emerging or recently adopted technologies.

Miguel Almiron Professor, University of Paris 1 Miguel Almiron is a member of Institut Acte (UR 7539) University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He leads a theoretical and technical practice exploring and reflecting on the possibilities of expressing the senses of body, and the human being through the use of new digital technologies. His artistic work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in France and abroad. He was associated to the Labex Arts-H2H/Ens Louis-Lumière research program "Deceptive Arts. Machines, Magic, Media."(2015-2018).

Invited speakers include (in alphabetical order):

Conference and Summer School Contributors

1. Maurice Benayoun (Nanjing University, CHINA)

2. Martin Carle (Ionian University, GR)

3. Katerina El Raheb (University of Peloponnese, GR)

4. Iannis Zannos (Ionian University, GR)

5. Panagiotis Koutsabasis (ISD Lab, GR)

6. Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos (ISD Lab, GR)

7. Dijana Lekic-Savatic (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)

8. Giorgos Nikopoulos (Ionian University, GR)

9. Giorgos Papakonstantinou (University of Thessaly, GR)

10. Mathieu Quiniou (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)

11. Samuel Szoniecky (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)

12. Modestos Stavrakis (ISD Lab, GR)

13. Tassos Theodoropoulos (University of Peloponnese, GR)

14. Konstantinos Tiligadis (Ionian University, GR)

15. Prodromos Tsiavos (A. Onassis Foundation, GR)

16. Spyros Vosinakis (ISD Lab, GR)

17. Khaldoun Zreik (CiTU-PARAGRAPHE, FR)

Members of ISD Lab Research Group

1. Babis Alifieris (Interaction Design Lab Technician)

2. Dimitris Baltas (PhD Researcher)

3. Anthoula Kolokotroni (PhD Researcher)

4. Katerina Malisova (PhD Researcher)

5. Marina Stergiou (PhD Researcher)