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DISNOVATION.ORG MERGES CONTEMPORARY ART, RESEARCH & HACKING TO CRITICALLY TRANSLATE COMPLEX ECO-SOCIAL DEBATES INTO OPERATIVE AND PROVOCATIVE EXHIBITS. THEY CREATE RADICAL ARTWORKS STAGED AS LARGE LAB EXPERIMENTS FOCUSED ON ENERGY, ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS THAT WORK AS CATALYSTS FOR CRAFTING FUTURES THAT DIVERGE FROM PREVAILING NARRATIVES. THEIR SHOWS, BOOKS AND VIDEOS PERMEATE GLOBAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPES FOSTERING A CRITICAL DIALOGUE AT THE NEXUS OF ARTISTIC, POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.

THEIR WORK HAS BEEN PRESENTED INTERNATIONALLY INCLUDING:
Centre Pompidou (Paris), Transmediale (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FILE (Sao Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Strelka Institute (Moscow), ISEA (Hong Kong), Elektra (Montreal), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), and the Chaos Computer Congress (Hamburg)… Their work has been featured in: Forbes, Vice, Wired, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte TV, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural.it, Digicult, Gizmodo, Seattle Weekly, torrentfreak.com, and Filmmaker Magazine among others.

THEY HAVE RECEIVED AWARDS INCLUDING:
Research fellowships at UC Berkeley, TU Dublin, Durham University (2022-24)
CNC Dicream, Grant for the Post Growth Prototypes series, Paris (2022)
Lumen Prize 2022 Nominees, UK (2022)
Starts Prize 2022 Nominees, Linz (2022)
Co-Grantees of Horizon 2020 MSCA RISE: NEST (2021-25)
Opline Prize: Disruptive Art (Curators Prize), Paris (2021)
New commision by Ars Electronica Center, Linz (2021-23)
New commision by The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2021)
Fellowship at UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (2020-22)
Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine (2019)
The WRO Biennale Awards (Critics and Art Editors), Wroclaw (2019)
Design Trust Grant, Hong Kong (2018)
Fellowship at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam (2018-2020)
Fellowship at UCL Louvain (2018)
First Prize for Digital Arts from Arte Laguna (2016)
Award for Artistic Technology Research, Vienna (2015)

SELECTED ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS:
Makery, Post Growth: The Biosphere’s Work and The Solar Salary (2/2), March 23, 2021
Makery, Post Growth: a Toolkit for Radical Transitions (1/2), March 1, 2021
We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com, POST GROWTH. Ideas and toolkit for a world in crisis Oct 21, 2020
We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com, A Bestiary of the Anthropocene. Hybrid plants, animals, minerals... March 19, 2021
Schloss Post, From Surveillance Capitalism to Glitch Capitalism, September 5, 2019
Switch on Paper, Interview with Disnovation.Org, June 8, 2018
We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com, Shanzhai Archeology: defying our standardized technological imagination, June 8, 2017
Creative Applications, Sight + Sound 2017 – A Spectrum of Non-Compliant Futures, November 11, 2017
We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com, The Pirate Book, December 1, 2015
ZéroDeux, Disnovation, interview with Nicolas Maigret, Summer, 2016
Wired, The Pirate Cinema Trasforms Film Torrents into Illicit Interactive Art, May 30, 2013

CONTACT & ONLINE PRESENCE:
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DISNOVATION.ORG CURRENT TEAM INCLUDE:
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA [PL/FR]
NICOLAS MAIGRET [FR]
BARUCH GOTTLIEB (CA/DE)
JEROME SAINT-CLAIR (FR)

CURRENT COLLABORATORS INCLUDE:
DASHA ILINA (RU)
CLÉMENCE SEURAT (FR)
JULIEN MAUDET (FR)
PAULINE BRIAND (FR)
CLEMENT RENAUD (FR)
HONGYUAN QU (CN)

PREVIOUS COLLABORATORS INCLUDE:
BERTRAND GRIMAULT (FR)
BRENDAN HOWELL (US/DE)
JEAN-MARIE BOYER (FR)
TERRELL DAVIS (US)
GREGOIRE LAUVIN (FR)
BLACK SIFICHI (UK)

PREVIOUS STUDIO INTERNS INCLUDE:
JULES BARTON (FR)
MACHA SAVYKINE (FR)
IVAN MURIT (FR)
MARGAUX SALGADO (FR)
KEVIN NIEMESKERN (FR)
CARLOTTA AOUN (VE)
ERIC DELPLANCQ (FR)

PROJECT CO-PRODUCERS INCLUDE:
ASSOCIATION PHOSPHENE (FR)
IMAL (BE)
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY (UK)
STRP (NL)
TRANSMEDIALE (DE)
JEU DE PAUME (FR)
CHRONIQUES (FR)

PRESENT & PAST ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
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PUBLICATIONS
2020   A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, Nicolas Nova & Disnovation.org, Onomatopee – NL
2020   Shanzhai Archeology, in progress
2020   REALTIME: Making Digital China, EPFL Press – CH
2020   Post-Growth, Neural issue #64, co-edited with A. Ludovico, Neural magazine – IT
2016   The Pirate Book - Source Files USB, Neural magazine – IT
2015   The Pirate Book, ed. Aksioma – SLO
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022   TEKS, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre – NO
2022   Aksioma, Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana – SLO
2022   Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne – FR
2022   Impakt, Utrecht – NL
2022   Telematic Gallery, San Francisco – USA
2021   UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve – BE
2021   Theatre de l’Orangerie, Geneva – CH
2020   IMAL, Center for digital cultures and technology, Bruxelles – BE
2020   3 BIS F, Art center, Aix-en-Provence – FR
2018   Watermans Art Center, London – UK
2018   Museum L, Louvain-La-Neuve – BE
2017   Stereolux, Nantes – FR
2017   Seconde Nature, Aix-en-Provence – FR
2017   Le Commun, Geneva – CH
2017   Galerie Co-Exist, Tokyo – JP
2016   Le Pavillon, Caen – FR
2016   Fotomuseum, Winterthur – CH
2015   Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy – FR
2015   Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana – SLO
2015   Link - Center for the Arts of the Information Age – IT
2012   Devotion Gallery, New York – USA
2012   Interstices, Caen – FR
2011   Trackers Tower, São Paulo – BRA
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EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS (SELECTION)
2022   Feedback #6 : Marshall McLuhan & the arts, Montreal – CA
2022   Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture – LU
2021   Festival Artifice Numérique #04, Le Hublot, Nice – FR
2021   Feral File, Instructions Follow
2021   There Is No Planet B, Ars Electronica Center, Linz – AT
2021   Proof of Stake - Technological Claims, Hamburg – DE
2021   Re-nature Festival, Den Bosch – NL
2021   Biennale Wro 2021, Wrocław – PL
2021   Video of the Month, HMKV – DE
2021   STRP Festival 2021 - Collectivity, Eindhoven – NL
2020   The Sea Is Glowing, Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture – HR
2020   FEEDBACK #5, Fonderie Darling, Montréal – CA
2020   DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague – CZ
2020   DA Z Festival, Digital Arts Zurich, Zurich – CH
2020   Kochi Muziris Biennale 2020, Kerala – IND
2020   Le Supermarché des Images, Jeu de Paume, Paris – FR
2020   Trondheim Biennale Meta.Morf X, Trondheim – NO
2020   Biennial of design Ljubljana, BIO 26 – Common Knowledge at MAO – SLO
2020   Art Souterrain Festival, Montréal – CA
2020   Human Tech Days, L'antre Peaux, Bourges – FR
2020   Human Tech Days, Palais des Congrès, Tours – FR
2020   Bucharest Artworlds, The Wrong Biennale #4, Bucharest – RO
2020   TEC ART 2020, Quantum Supremacy, Rotterdam – NL
2019   The Glass Room SF, San Francisco – USA
2019   WIRED 25, The Glass Room, San Francisco – USA
2019   GOGBOT festival, Enschede – NL
2019   Die Digitale Festival, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf – DE
2019   La Mistura Fest, ETOPIA Center for Art and Technology, Zaragoza – SP
2019   Network Effects, OODI, Helsinki – FI
2019   Open Codes. Connected Bots, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai – CH
2019   Escaping the Digital Unease, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourgogne – FR
2019   Human Aspect, WRO, Wroclaw – PL
2019   Ici Sont Les Dragons 3/3 : Juste Fais-Le, Maison Populaire, Montreuil – FR
2019   Out of the Box, Ars Electronica, Linz – AT
2019   Radical Immersions, Watermans Art Centre, Brentford – UK
2019   Alt-Right Complex, HMKV, Dortmund – DE
2019   MUTEK.SF, San Francisco – US
2019   The Unseen – Performing Surgery on Your Inner Reality, Liminal, Bucharest – RO
2018   Tentacular Festival, Matadero, Madrid – ES
2018   Open Codes II, ZKM, Karlsruhe – DE
2018   Im Zweifel für den Zweifel, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf – DE
2018   Gray Area Festival, San Francisco – USA
2018   The New Newsroom, MU artspace, Eindhoven – NL
2018   Robot Love, Eindhoven – NL
2018   Sortir du Désenchantement du Numérique, Espace gantner, Bourogne – FR
2018   Coder Le Monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris – FR
2018   HeK net based award, Online - Basel – CH
2018   MetaDada, Berlin – DE
2018   Fake, Science Gallery, Dublin – IR
2018   Feedback #2, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – DE
2018   EP7, Paris – FR
2017   The Art of Secret, Mundaneum, Mons – BE
2017   The World Without Us, Aksioma, Ljubljana – SLO
2017   The World Without Us, Mali salon Gallery, Rijeka – HR
2017   PatchLab, Krakow – PL
2017   TodaysArt, The Hague – NL
2017   Escaping the Digital Unease, Kunsthaus Langenthal – CH
2017   Nemo, le 104, Paris – FR
2017   Chaos Communication Congress 2017, Leipzig – DE
2017   West Gallery, Den Haag – NL
2017   Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris – FR
2017   Biennale de Design de Saint Etienne – FR
2017   Alien Matter, HKW Berlin – DE
2017   Haunted by algorithms, Galerie Ygrec, Paris – FR
2017   Home Cinema - OCT, Shenzhen – CN
2016   Mondes souterrains, Paris – FR
2016   Arte Laguna, Venise – ITA
2016   Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona – ES
2016   Fotomuseum, Winterthur – CH
2016   Streaming Egos, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf – DE
2015   Aksioma, Ljubljana – SL
2015   Domestic Affairs, UABB, Shenzhen – CN
2015   Elektra Festival, Montreal – CA
2015   Exit Festival, MAC, Creteil – FR
2015   MonadDigital, HangZhou – CN
2014   Jeune Création, Le 104, Paris – FR
2014   Sécession, Institut Français, Berlin – FR
2014   Seconde Nature, Aix-en-Provence – FR
2014   The Pirate Party of Israel, Tel Aviv – IL
2014   Fondation Vasarely, Aix-En-Provence – FR
2013   Abandon Normal Devices, Liverpool – GB
2013   Sanatorium, Istanbul – TR
2013   ShowOff, Paris – FR
2013   V-Art Center, Shanghai – CN
2013   National Art Museum, Beijing –CN
2013   The Pirate Bay 10 Years Anniversary, Stockholm – SWE
2013   Eastern Bloc, Montreal – CA
2013   MUCEM, Marseille – FR
2013   Sonic Protest, Paris – FR
2013   La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris – FR
2013   Sonar, Barcelona – ES
2013   SETI Institute, San Francisco – USA
2013   Sight & Sound, Eastern Bloc, Montreal – CA
2012   Controlled Evidence, Simons Center, New York – USA
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PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)
2020   L'antre Peaux, Bourges – FR
2017   Sight+Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montréal – CA
2017   Nuit de la Piraterie, Centre Pompidou, Paris – FR
2016   CYNETART, Dresde – DE
2016   Real Time, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona – ES
2016   Transmediale Festival, Berlin – DE
2016   Mirage Festival, Lyon – FR
2015   Strelka Institute, Moscow – RU
2015   Eastern Bloc, Montréal – CA
2015   Mal au Pixel, La Gaité Lyrique – FR
2015   Transmediale Festival, Berlin – DE
2014   Palais de Tokyo, Paris – FR
2014   Gamerz Festival, Aix-en-Provence – FR
2014   North West Film Forum, Seattle – USA
2014   Tropisme festival, Montpellier – FR
2013   Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel – CH
2013   Gamerz Festival, Aix – FR
2013   SONAR, Barcelona – ES
2013   SETI Institute, San Francisco – USA
2013   Museum for Arts and Design, New York – USA
2013   Spectrum, New York – USA
2013   Emily Harvey Foundation, New York – USA
2013   Eastern Bloc, Montreal – CA
2013   BodyControlled #6 - LEAP, Berlin – DE
2012   Freitag Tower, Zurich – CH
2012   Simon’s Center, New York – USA
2012   Trinity College, Dublin – IRL
2012   Mapping Festival, Geneva – CH
2012   Landmarke Lausitzer, Senftenberg – DE
2012   School of the Art Institute, Chicago – USA
2012   Stony Brook University, New York – USA
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RESIDENCIES, GRANTS (SELECTION)
2021-2024   Research Fellowship at ArTeC - University Paris 8 (2021-24)
2021-2022   Fellowship at UCL Louvain, BE (2021-22)
2021   Residency, M-Cult, Helsinki – FI
2020   iMAL, Center for digital cultures and technology, Bruxelles – BE
2020   3 BIS F, Art Center, Aix-en-Provence – FR
2020   Grant, production, Dicream, CNC – FR
2019   Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM Center for Art and Media
2019   Residency, M-Cult, Helsinki – FI
2017   Grant, production, Dicream, for Shanzhai Archeology, CNC – FR
2017   Residency, Haus der elektronischen Künste (HeK), Basel – CH
2015   MasterClass, Machine Learning, Acud, Berlin – DE
2015   Residency, MuseumsQuartier, Vienne – AU
2014   Grant, production, Dicream, CNC – FR
2014   Residency, Parsons – The New School, Paris – FR
2014   Residency, M2F-Créations, Aix-en-Provence – FR
2013   Residency, Maison Pop, Montreuil – FR
2013   Residency, Fondation Vasarely, Aix en Provence – FR
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CURATORIAL WORKS (SELECTION)
2018   ReFrag / Cradle-to-Grave, Parsons School, Espace en Cours, Paris – FR
2017   Functional Failures, HeK & Critical Media Lab, IXDM, Basel – CH
2017   Non-Compliant Futures, Eastern Bloc, Montréal – CA
2017   Non-Compliant Futures #2,#3 – Jeu de Paume, Paris – FR
2017   Go Canny, the poetics of sabotage – Villa Arson, Nice – FR
2016   Non-Compliant Futures #1, Espace Virtuel - Jeu de Paume, Paris – FR
2015   Disnovation, Strelka Institute & Polytechnic Museum, Moscow – RU
2015   Disnovation, Galerie des Etables, Bordeaux – FR
2015   Disnovation, Refrag Paris - Parsons School – FR
2014   Disnovation, Festival, Bel-Ordinaire & Accès-s - Pau – FR
2011   Transmission Arts, Sketchpad - New York – USA
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TEACHING, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS (SELECTION)
2021   Teaching, Conference, Workshop, NØ SCHOOL, Nevers – FR
2021   Conference, Hors Pistes 2021, Centre Pompidou, Paris – FR
2020   Conference, ESADSE, Saint-Etienne – FR
2020   Conference & Workshop, NØ SCHOOL, Nevers – FR
2020   Conference & Workshop, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris – FR
2020   Conference & Workshop, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague – CZ
2020   Conference & Workshop, “Angles morts du numérique”, Cerisy – FR
2020   Conference, DA Z Festival, Digital Arts Zurich – CH
2020   Conference & Workshop, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2020, Kerala – IND
2020   HASH Awards 2020, Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM, Karlsruhe – DE
2020   Conference, Trondheim Biennale Meta.Morf X, Trondheim – NO
2020   State of arts, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris – FR
2019   Conference, Impakt Festival, Utrecht – NL
2019   Conference, Urban Knights, Bristol – UK
2019   Film projection, Bartalk, Den Haag – NL
2019   Conference, Beyond Oil, Train From Oslo To Bergen – NO
2019   Workshop, Field Notes 2019, Bioart Society, Saana – FI
2019   Conference, Kikk Festival, Le Delta, Namur – BE
2019   Conference & Workshop, NØ SCHOOL, Nevers – FR
2019   Conference, Breaking the Fifth Wall, Pixelache, Helsinki – FI
2019   Conference, Computing within Limits, Lappeenranta – FI
2019   Workshop, Aalto University, Helsinki – FI
2018   Conference, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris – FR
2014-2018   Professor of New Media Arts, Parsons The New School, Paris – FR
2006-2010   Assistant Professor of New Media Arts – Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux – FR
2018   Conference, Tentacular Festival, Matadero, Madrid – ES
2018   Conference, 30th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig – DE
2018   Conference, Gray Area Festival, San Francisco – USA
2018   Conference, Goldsmiths University of London – UK
2018   Watermans Art Center, London – UK
2018   Conference, Micro Meso Macro, Lyon – FR
2018   Conference, KIKK Festival, Namur – BE
2018   Conference, Robot Love, Eindhoven – NL
2018   Conference, Impakt Festival, Utrecht – NL
2018   Conference, Frankenstein Symposium, Montréal – CA
2018   Conference, Sight+Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montréal – CA
2018   Conference, 5th Trondheim Biennale, Meta.Morf 2018, Trondheim – NO
2017   Conference, Sight+Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montréal – CA
2016   Conference & Workshop, School of the Art Institute, Chicago – USA
2016   Conference, Disnovation + The Pirate Book, Transmediale Festival, Berlin – DE
2015   Conference, Disnovation, Strelka Institute, Moscow – RU
2015   Conference & Workshop, Disnovate!, Parsons The New School, Paris – FR
2014   Conference, Media Mediums, La Gaîté lyrique, Paris – FR
2014   Conference & Workshop, Parsons The New School, Paris – FR
2013   Conference, 30th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg – DE