HÉTÉROTOPIES

Benjamin Bardou (b. 1981) is a French artist whose work explores the intersection of memory, the city, and digital technologies. With a background in visual arts and experience in the field of visual effects, he has developed a distinctive body of work at the crossroads of cinema, painting, and artificial intelligence. Through his various projects, he investigates the persistence of images in human consciousness and the layered memories embedded in urban spaces. Using techniques such as point clouds, volumetric video, and AI-generated imagery, Bardou creates immersive fictions that unfold like waking dreams. He has collaborated with artists such as Ridley Scott, Liam Wong, and Ikumi Nakamura, and has also worked with companies like Apple, Meta and Microsoft. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals both in France and internationally.

Louis-Paul Caron is a French artist exploring the connections between ecology, art and digital technologies. Through oil painting, video, and generative AI, he creates contemplative images that evoke change and ecological tensions. Inspired by the concept of solastalgia, he develops a poetic vision of the environmental collapse.

Ivona Tau, PhD is a new media artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code in experimental photography and motion painting. Her goal is to find and evoke emotions through artificially intelligent tools. She creates universally relatable memories by transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through generative neural networks (GAN). Tau comes from the intersection of arts and technology, with 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research. She was awarded the best award in the Digital Ars 2020 contest for art created with AI, the Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021, and elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by the Women in Tech Foundation. Tau's work has been exhibited widely, including Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE, CAFA, Art Week Shenzhen, Vellum, Bitforms New York, Venus Over Manhattan, The House of Fine Art, Bright Moments Berlin, Christie's New York and Sotheby's New York. Her work has been acquired by ZMK Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany & Francisco Carolinum Linz in Austria. Ivona Tau is active in the research community and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She published multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks. Ivona Tau is currently represented by MTArt Agency.

Alec Waxman (b. 1997, New York) is an American-Israeli painter and creative technologist based in London, drawing on a background as a software engineer to explore the relationship between human beings and the natural world in an increasingly digital age. His paintings depict vast, otherworldly landscapes populated by small, anonymous figures and dreamlike architectures, drawing on the visual languages of Romanticism and Surrealism.

Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano are the art couple behind Wen New, an atelier that dwells in the liminal space between art, language and technology. Their polysemic works, at once playful and critical, lay bare the ambivalence of contemporary digital life and advance alternative ways of imagining, using and relating to text and technology.

Ryan Koopmans (b. 1986) and Alice Wexell (b. 1992) are Sweden-based artists whose collaborative practice explores the evolving relationship between architecture, nature, and time. Working together for the past fifteen years, they create works that merge photography, motion, digital reconstruction, and sculptural form to reimagine built environments as living, transformative, and imaginative spaces. Koopmans is a Dutch-Canadian lens-based artist whose work examines architecture, society, and the natural world through geometry, repetition, and colour. Wexell is a Swedish digital artist whose background in animation, coding, and emerging technologies informs the duo's distinctive approach to constructed environments that blur the boundary between the real and the imagined.