EXPERIENCE

Claire Bardainne is a visual artist with a background in graphic design and scenography. Born in 1978 in Grenoble, she graduated from the École Estienne and the ENSAD in Paris. Her research focuses on the intersection between images, spaces, and the imaginary. In 2004, she founded Studio BW in Paris with Olivier Waissmann, which focuses on creating visual identities, multimedia graphics, and exhibition and space graphics, and where she worked until 2010. In 2007, as part of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, she initiated her project entitled Wicklow, combining drawing, micro-publishing, and performance. At the same time, through graphic work and the creation of images, she accompanies the theoretical work of researchers in the sociology of the imaginary from the Ceaq (Sorbonne, Paris), a laboratory focused on new forms of sociality and the contemporary imaginary. She has published the art essay book Récréations - Galaxies de l'imaginaire postmoderne (CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2009) with Vincenzo Susca, devoted to the imaginary of contemporary technologies and media.

Adrien Mondot is a multidisciplinary artist, computer scientist, and juggler. Born in 1979 in Grenoble, his work explores and questions movement at the intersection between the art of juggling and computer innovation. Initially a researcher in computer science, he worked for three years at INRIA in Grenoble, where he imagined and designed new tools for graphic creation that was free of reality. During this period, he also developed street art practice with juggled and improvised musical performances. Having been noticed in street festivals, he founded the Adrien M company in 2004 to participate in the Young Circus Talents operation, of which he was the winner the same year. He then closely mixed digital arts, sound, juggling, and movement, exploring the links between technological innovation and artistic creation. Relying on the tools he develops, he frees himself from the rules of weightlessness and time, blurs the lines, and plays with the art of the circus and computers in a work of magical, choreographic and poetic illusion. He also multiplies his collaborations, notably with Kitsou Dubois, Stéphanie Aubin, Ez3kiel and within the undisciplined research laboratories he regularly organizes, which allow him to nourish his reflections and research work. Adrien participated in creating Wajdi Mouawad's show Ciels, made in 2009 at the Avignon Festival. That same year, Cinématique won the Grand Prix du jury in the international competition "Dance and New Technologies" organized by the Bains Numériques festival in Enghien-les-Bains.

Composer, musician

Born in Paris in 1971, Olivier Mellano has been a musician, composer, improviser, author and guitarist in more than fifty bands since the early 1990s. He alternates between pop-rock projects and compositions for symphony orchestras, ensembles of 17 electric guitars, harpsichords, organs, and voice or string quartets. His compositional work extends to film, theatre, dance, and literature. In 2008, he began writing and published his first book. Olivier Mellano offers a composite, generous and demanding work, drawing on the heritage of Carlo Gesualdo, Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Gavin Bryars, Moondog and György Ligeti. He develops a singular musical aesthetic that dissolves stylistic hierarchies in his compositions, sculpting the most volcanic or ethereal sound matter. He puts baroque harmony to the test with sonic fire, investing the symphonic and chamber ensemble with new energy, hybridizing electric guitars and classical voices with a luminous and sacred dimension pulsing at the heart of a maximalist, accessible, and learned writing. His approach, which evolves from the most ambitious pop music to the most uncomplicated contemporary music, is in line with that of a new generation of composers, including Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, and Jonny Greenwood.