Upon a receding sky

Collective art-science exhibition

From the infinitely large to the infinitely small, scientific modernity has sought to illuminate everything, to make everything clear and measurable, to the point of making the heavens 'recede.' Yet beneath this new sky, the world's opacity has not disappeared.

This contemporary blur is no longer the premodern chiaroscuro of religious or metaphysical uncertainty ; rather, it persists in epistemic, environmental, and social forms of uncertainty. It is an unknown that science continues to generate as it advances, and that art continues to reveal by shifting our gaze.

Thus, while modernity may have pushed the heavens back, it has not left them empty. Upon a receding sky is a group exhibition that explores these uncertain territories. Like a cinematographer adjusting the focal length, it alternates between sharpness and blur, clarity and obscurity, unsettling our certainties and opening new spaces of perception. It is precisely within these persistent shadow zones that the most compelling questions emerge, and where the most fertile artistic and scientific inquiries take shape.

 

 

The works brought together in this exhibition explore this new celestial map across a variety of scales and dimensions. They first invite us to renew our attention, whether through the magnification of the imperceptible diversity of life in L'Air of Pollen by Béatrice Albert and Nadia de Bernardi, or through the sense of wonder sparked by the northern lights in Les flammes duu renard du nord by Sami Korhonen.

They then embrace a new relationship with uncertainty and instability: epistemic instability in the oscillation between the sensible and the intelligible in 914 m by Charles Ménard; biological instability in the contamination and intimacy explored by Marie Truffier’s Cosmologie Virale ; and political instability through the emergence of harmful new ontologies and geoengineering in Mariejulie Bourgeois’s controversial OuCliPo.

Ultimately, the exhibition raises the question of the responsibility of the gaze: the gaze that expands light across space in Tim Schneider’s Redshift, and the gaze we cast upon environmental traces and the resonances between past and present in Elise Morin’s Where the Sun Never Sets.

Upon a receding sky is presented by the Paris-Saclay Art & Science Chair as part of the Art-Science Resonances project. The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of talks, readings, and site-specific performances, bringing together artists, scientists, and the public to explore the transformations of our relationship to the world and to these new contemporary skies.

Wilde le Lieu will serve as an ecotone—a transitional zone between two ecosystems—situated between the ecosystem of the city and that of Université Paris-Saclay. Alongside the opening and throughout the exhibition, additional events will take place at the Climate Academy, extending these reflections through conferences, performances, and public discussions rooted in today’s urban and civic debates.

Collective exhibition : Béatrice Albert, Charles Ménard, Elise Morin, Ikse Maître, Mariejulie Bourgeois, Marie Truffier, Nadia de Bernardi, Nicola Lorè, Sami Korhonen, Tim Schneider, Vincent Hulot.

 

Wilde - Le Lieu

Upon a receding sky will be hosted by Wilde – Le Lieu from July 1st to July 12th, 2026. Located in Paris’s Marais district, this distinctive art venue balances tranquility with raw elegance, bringing together old stone, steel, brick, and wood in a space transformed for the occasion into a space for transdisciplinary creation. Spanning 210 square metres across six interconnected rooms on two floors, Wilde combines authenticity and character. 

In the words of its founder and curator, painter Florent Mabilat, Wilde is “a place of encounters, nomadism, and shared humanity, where nature, culture, and the economic world are invited to come together and imagine new possibilities.

 

L'Académie du Climat

As an extension of the exhibition, L'Académie du Climat will host part of the programme, including La Ferme by Olivier Renouf, along with many other events and activities that we invite you to discover below. L'Académie du Climat is located in the former Town Hall of Paris’s 4th arrondissement, on Place Baudoyer, at the heart of Parisian life. The building is organized into several thematic spaces where collaborations, workshops, and public activities take place. Founded by the City of Paris, it aims to raise awareness among young people and bring them together around the challenges of climate justice, fostering a fair and inclusive ecological transition.

 

 

The artworks

Les flammes du renard du nord

Sami Korhonen

Les flammes du renard du nord brings together translucent painted layers that, through superposition and permeability, create a chromatic field evocative of the aurora borealis—not to reproduce its science, but to borrow its mechanics: invisible forces whose interactions give rise to fleeting apparitions. The title deliberately refers to the Finnish term revontulet, literally “fox fires,” the traditional name for the northern lights. According to folklore, the phenomenon was caused by a fox with a sparkling coat sweeping snow into the sky with its tail, sending showers of sparks into the heavens. The Fox, a figure associated with thresholds and cunning, moves through these layers, leaving traces that speak of displacement, fragility, and atmospheric memory. From a distance, the surface appears as a continuous luminous phenomenon; up close, the viewer discovers gestures, textures, and human interventions—brushstrokes, seams, frayed edges—revealing the materiality that underpins the illusion. Suspended between poetic metaphor and imagery borrowed from physics, the work questions the retreat of horizons and the ways in which imperceptible forces shape what we call the sky.

 

Cosmologie Virale

Marie Truffier

A large metal mesh hosts a viral multitude; clay elements absorb and transmit transformations; cracked cones bear witness. Cosmologie Virale immerses us in a spectral world from millions of years ago—one whose history still lingers deep within our flesh. In this ambiguous zone, where the boundaries between things can no longer be clearly discerned, processes become entangled, revealing the plasticity of those who live invisibly with us, against us, and among us.

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914 m

[Conception] Charles Ménard
[Images] Paul Bugsy
[Choregraphic conception and performance] Yu Bai

Since Plato, Western philosophy has divided the world into a “sensible realm” and an “intelligible realm.” Like an atlas, 914 m is an attempt to remap our relationship to the world in light of the ecological crisis and the fragility of the Earth system. It invites us, in the words of Bruno Latour, to learn how to “inhabit the Critical Zone,” the only place where the conditions necessary for life as we know it exist. 914 m associates this Critical Zone with the Planetary Boundary Layer, which extends on average 914 metres (3,000 feet) above the Earth’s surface. As the lowest part of the troposphere, it is where most weather phenomena are generated through friction with the ground. Wind intensity, precipitation, and variations in temperature and humidity are all elements that our senses can perceive directly. This is the “sensible realm.” Beyond it begins climate: a vastly larger and more complex system composed of patterns and regularities that our bodies are far less capable of grasping without the mediation of science and abstract reasoning. This is the “intelligible realm.” Conceived as a triptych shot on exactly 914 metres of 16mm film, 914 m consists of three films, each exploring a distinct territory within this new ecological condition.

 

L’Air du pollen

[Ceramic conception] Béatrice Albert, Nadia de Bernardi
[Scenography] Ikse Maître
[Sound composition] Vincent Hulot
[Digital development] Tim Schneider

Around ten ceramic sculptures are suspended in space, representing pollen grains enlarged to an immense scale, as if they had escaped from a celestial herbarium. They appear inert, precise, almost scientific, revealing hidden textures and delicate irregularities. Each pollen grain tells a story : together, they speak to us of biodiversity. The wonder of this unsuspected microscopic life raises questions about its fragility and its future.

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OuCLiPo

Mariejulie Bourgois

OuCLiPo is a speculative project that proposes rethinking the way we innovate in order to anticipate consequences upstream in the technological process. Art and design are used to construct this fiction and to immerse the public in an ironic ecological experience. 
Speculative design employs fiction to anticipate innovation and question alluring technological dystopias. Technological solutionism is confronted with Promethean reality, engaging our values, communities, controversies, and scientific expertise.
The project includes several associated productions:
– Start-up Nubus
– Activist art collective FakeCloud

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Where the sun never sets

[Conception] Élise Morin
[Directors of photography] Olivier Banon & Élise Morin
[Sound composition] Nadège Feyrit & Élise Morin
[Executive production] Alexandrine Stehelin
[Assistants] Isaure Gentit & Margaux Audebert

Where the Sun Never Sets invites visitors to go through a territory where nuclear memory, sky observation, and stories of resistance intersect. Through the gaze—becoming a tool of exploration—each visitor traces their own path within the work. 
The installation offers a sensory experience of our relationship to radioactivity—solar, atomic, and cosmic—and the traces it leaves in both landscapes and imaginaries. 

With testimonies from : 
Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium ; 
Timothy Mousseau, biologist specializing in the effects of radioactivity ; 
Katherine, NASA astronaut ; 
Members of the Tularosa Downwinders community (New Mexico) ; 
Jim Martinez, specialist in the Chihuahua Desert ; 
Joan E. Price, research associate at the Jornada Research Institute and specialist in the petroglyphs of Three Rivers.

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Redshift

Tim Schneider

Redshift is an interactive video installation that invites visitors to discover the world as it appears in infrared (IR) light. Presented as a polyptych across a variable number of screens, the work features pairs of natural and urban landscapes recorded simultaneously in the visible spectrum (~380–750 nm) and the near-infrared spectrum (~750–1400 nm). The two videos in each pair blend into one another, with the rate of blending varying according to the viewing distance: when a visitor stands far from the screen, only the IR image is visible. As they move closer, the image gradually transforms into the corresponding visible-light video. Moving away reverses the transformation. This color-shifting effect, linked to the relative position and movement between the observer and the observed object, is described by the physical concept that gives the installation its name: redshift. In astrophysics and cosmology, redshift refers to the phenomenon by which light (or any electromagnetic radiation) shifts toward longer wavelengths. Within the visible spectrum, the longest wavelengths correspond to red light—hence the name.

 

 

Art-science Coupling day

Thursday July 2 from 11h to 20h - FREE| Wilde - Le lieu — 4-6 rue François Miron, 75004 & L'Académie du Climat — 2 Place Baudoyer, 75004 Paris

Vernissage starting at 20h | Wilde - Le Lieu

Artists, scientists, students, and curious visitors come together for a day of exchange. Through discussion groups, talks, and presentations of art–science projects, this first matchmaking day seeks to bring together a community around art and science at Université Paris-Saclay. It fosters new interactions and gives rise to further collaborations. The encounter lays the groundwork for possible resonances.

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Day's schedule

• 11h - 13h — Upon a receding sky | the artworks at Wilde - Le Lieu

Charles Ménard, Nadia de Bernardi, Béatrice Albert, Tim Schneider, Marie Truffier

Some of the artists and scientists exhibiting at Wilde – Le Lieu will present their works and share their creative processes with the public. A privileged moment of exchange and discovery, offering an introduction to Upon a receding sky.

 

• 13h - 14h — Lunch break

 

• 14h - 15h30 — Presentation of art-science works

- A Space For You, an invitation to (re)connect | Zéphir Lorne

To what extent can art and technology contribute to the discovery of and access to mindfulness practices? Can they bring a measure of peace to an increasingly chaotic world? This presentation seeks to address these questions and assess their influence on psychological and physiological indicators such as attention and awareness, emotion and affect regulation, relaxation, and bodily grounding.

- As long as clouds exist // Love and sky on the spectrum | Charlotte Mariel

Charlotte Mariel will screen excerpts from her two films shot using a thermal camera. These works open a discussion on the use of infrared vision as a tool for exploring and reflecting upon the limits of human perception and the suffering of the biosphere. By observing both living and non-living entities, these films highlight the deep, porous, and dynamic connections that bind us to the world.

- Ecological Engagement and Curatorial Practice | Julie Sicault Maillé

Whether accompanying an artistic project or conceiving an exhibition, we share the same intention: to infuse sensitivity into the perception of our relationship with living beings and the Earth. Nourishing one another, artistic research and scientific research become interwoven, making visible our belonging to a larger whole.

 

• 15h30 - 16h — Coffee break

 

• 16h - 18h — Performance Make Earth Blue Again | Mariejulie Bourgeois

Nubus offers a solution to global warming: solar geoengineering. This French start-up releases blue clouds to cool the sky in collaboration with the Laboratory of Fluid Pataphysics. These innovations are distributed to polluting industries, local authorities, and private individuals. In the form of a performed lecture, Mariejulie Bourgeois draws on the techno-solutionist imagination and fuels our desires for repair through a satirical approach to climate issues.

 

• 18h - 19h — Exchange | The Klíma Crisis – The Inclination of Sky and Earth, the Social Atmosphere in a Crisis of Reality

Valérie Masson Delmotte, Jens Hauser ; Moderator : Mariejulie Bourgeois

There is no longer any doubt: the machinery of climate denialism fuels the culture war. This new obscurantism goes beyond greenwashing and extends the manipulation of public opinion in service of oligarchic economic interests. We have reached an ideological point of no return. How can scientists and artists play a role in confronting this vast machine of disinformation ?

 

• 19h-20h - Poetry reading & screening | Sabrina Calvo, Élise Morin

A reading of excerpts from Mais cette vie-là demande. toujours. plus. de. lumière. brings Sabrina Calvo’s poetry into dialogue with a video projection by Élise Morin, developed in collaboration with Élise Colin. Drawing on research conducted in New Mexico on the “two suns,” the images explore the notion of infralife within the uncertain space where perception, signal, and imagination converge.

 

 

The events around the exhibition - FREE

To extend these encounters around Upon a receding sky, several evening events will take place:

• Saturday July 4 | 20h, Place Baudoyer, 75004 Paris : open-air performance – La Ferme by Olivier Renouf

 

• Monday July 6 | L'Académie du Climat
  • 19h - 21h : Sublimating Catastrophe: Fire, Matter, and the Referentiality of the Image – Screening of Leçons de ténèbres by Werner Herzog, with Giovanni Perolo
  • Starting from 21h : lecture : Ecologies of the Sublime: From Research to artistic creation with Assim Kalouaz

 

• Wednesday July 8 | Wilde Le Lieu 
  • 19h - 20h : Screenings of As Long As Clouds Exist & Love and Sky on the Spectrum by Charlotte Mariel
  • 20h - 21h : Art-ecology apéro
  • Starting from 21h : musical performance Sounding - de la ligne Kármán à zéro by Filippo Fabbri

 

• Saturday July 11 | 19h : Presentation of Stéréo-drama 1 - Il y a cent mètres entre mes deux oreilles by La Plaine

 

La Ferme — 4/07/26, 20h, Place Baudoyer, 75004 Paris

Olivier Renouf

"How can I avoid silencing this place where I lived until the age of twenty, the place that shaped my being and my attachment to the land, ‘that first world I will leave, and that will never leave me,’ to borrow the words of Marie-Hélène Lafon ? Returning to my roots in order to translate through dance this place of construction, labour, and communion with nature. This is a choreographic installation from which dances emerge—movements linked to work, singular life stories, fragments of memory. Sometimes the human figure is at work; sometimes it becomes a character within the landscape. There are sensations here, gestures sedimented through the labour of working the land. I do not seek to illustrate them but rather to evoke them, transforming them into danced gestures, into choreography, thereby immortalising through art a body of knowledge that is gradually disappearing. The title can be understood in a dual sense: as an evocation of the agricultural world as seen by a child, and as an injunction to silence imposed upon the farming world.”

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Sublimating Catastrophe: Fire, Matter, and the Referentiality of the Image – Screening of Leçons de ténèbres by Werner Herzog —  6/07/26, 19h - 21h, Académie du Climat, 75004 Paris

Giovanni Perolo

When it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1992, Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog, filmed in Kuwait amid the oil wells left burning after the First Gulf War, provoked strong criticism from members of the audience. Herzog was accused of transforming a specific historical event into a sublime and highly aestheticized work of science fiction. Yet beyond this supposed incompatibility between spectacle and eco-political sensitivity in images of burning oil, the film reveals a deeper reflection on oil as a visual material, on the possibilities of its representation, and on war itself. By reactivating cinema’s affinity with the elements of movement par excellence, Lessons of Darkness elevates both events and matter into a field of inquiry concerning the limits of perception and the referential relationship between images and the world itself. In other words, confronted with oil, the image reconsiders itself through its interrelations with extracted matter, bodies, and the environment, placing the destructive event within a dimension of radical excess that amplifies both its testimonial and aesthetic dimensions toward a contemporary dialectic.

 

 

Musical performance of Sounding - de la ligne Kármán à zéro — 8/07/26, 21h, Wilde - Le Lieu, 75004 Paris

Filippo Fabbri

Sounding is a musical and sonic performance based on a vertical traversal of the Earth's atmosphere, from the Kármán line (100 km), the conventional boundary of outer space, down to the ground. The physical properties of the atmosphere’s various layers—density, temperature, pressure, and sound propagation—become compositional materials that structure the musical work. Like the nine heavens described by Dante Alighieri in Paradiso, the piece proposes a vertical journey through the strata of the sky. In a context of climate upheaval, it invites audiences to listen to the atmosphere as a shared and vulnerable material, whose transformations bear witness to the growing impact of human activities on the sky itself.

 

Presentation of Stéréo-drama 1 – Il y a cent mètres entre mes deux oreilles — 11/07/26, 19h, Wilde - Le Lieu, 75004 Paris

Collectif La Plaine

This presentation brings together traces of a performative device developed during the Bien l’Bourgeon festival (organized by the Mix’Arts association) in July 2026 in Gresse-en-Vercors by the La Plaine collective. “During the festival, we recorded a forest using two microphones positioned approximately one hundred metres apart, then listened to the recording through headphones. The gesture is simple: shifting the reference scale of listening from the scale of the body to the scale of the landscape. In doing so, perception becomes impossible, and it is precisely this tension that interests us.” Facing two panels, participants translated what they heard on one side into movements of magnetic shapes, producing on the reverse side a visual scene for spectators. The videos presented here reveal these superimposed readings of the same sonic landscape, each interpretation functioning as a unique staging, a dramaturgy of the act of listening. Their accumulation forms a collective investigation: can patterns be discerned within them ? Are there shared ways of translating a sonic landscape ? Through this device, La Plaine seeks to create the conditions for attentive listening to an environment, to give form to the interpretations it generates, and to archive them as traces of a collective and sensitive form of knowledge.

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Workshops at l'Académie du Climat - On registration

• Monday July 6| 17h - 19h : Gestures of the living, led by Mùden Water
• Tuesday July 7 
  • 10h - 13h : Cyanometer, led by Lucy Winkelmann
  • 15h - 17h : Observing and Translating Living Forms – Flowers and Pollen, led by Béatrice Albert and Nadia de Bernardi
  • 17h - 19h : Affective Contaminations – Geosmin Experiment, led by Marie Truffier

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Gesture of the living — 6/07/26, 17h - 19h

Mùden Water

Led by Mùden Water, this workshop invites participants to rethink their relationship with animals in urban environments and to explore artistic gestures for engaging with living beings. By examining how culture and habits shape our perceptions, we will explore gaze, posture, movement, and voice. Participants are invited to share stories of encounters with living beings—animal or plant—along with sensations, experiences, or a desire to create embodied interactions with their environments. This collective artistic experiment cultivates a spirit of solidarity and ecological awareness, creating resonance with living beings—between fragility and strength—in ways that echo contemporary concerns.

 

Cyanometer — 7/07/26, 10h - 13h

Lucy Winkelmann

Led by Lucy Winkelmann, this workshop offers an introduction to cyanotype, an early photographic process known for its deep blue tones. Using images of “sky matter” as a starting point, participants will experiment with different exposure times in order to create their own range of blues, inspired by the cyanometer. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to discover a brief history of photography and the research of John Herschel. Each participant will leave with their own “sky pantone,” and a collective artwork may be produced during the workshop.

 

Observing and Translating Living Forms – Flowers and Pollen — 7/07/26, 15h - 17h

Béatrice Albert & Nadia de Bernardi

A workshop dedicated to exploring the diversity of floral structures and pollen. Binocular magnifiers and microscopes will allow participants to investigate this surprising and fascinating diversity. At their own pace and according to their curiosity, participants will enter this microscopic world, discuss the structures they observe, and consider their artistic translation.

 

Affective Contaminations – Geosmin Experiment — 7/07/26, 17h - 19h

Marie Truffier

Geosmin is a molecule produced by bacteria of the Streptomyces genus. It is responsible for the characteristic smell of earth after rain. Using this molecule as its point of departure, Geosmin Experiment explores the relationships between perception, affect, and microbial imaginaries. The project juxtaposes different forms of representation of the same biological reality—image and smell—and examines how these media influence our relationship with microbes. While visual representations of bacteria are often associated with imaginaries of threat or contamination, the smell of geosmin frequently evokes forests, humus, rainfall, or personal memories. Thus, the same microbial entity can generate radically different emotional responses depending on the form through which it is encountered. Conceived as both an experimental workshop and a research-creation protocol, the project forms part of the doctoral research project Affective Contaminations. It proposes an exploration of how sensory experiences can contribute to transforming the imaginaries associated with microbes, opening a space of circulation between hostility and hospitality.

 

 

Guest speakers, artists and scientists

Sami Korhonen

Sami Korhonen is a fashion designer and multimedia artist born in Helsinki and based in Paris. Trained in fashion design in Brazil and theatre in Finland, he works at the intersection of bespoke fashion, costume design for theatre and dance, and visual arts. His work has been exhibited internationally, notably at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and his collections have been presented in London.

 

Marie Truffier

Marie Truffier is an artist, designer, and certified design educator. A graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL in 2023 and trained at ENS Paris-Saclay as a student of the École Normale Supérieure, she joined the EnsadLab-PSL research laboratory in 2024. Since 2020, she has been developing a research-creation practice focused on the imaginaries associated with microbes. Through the design of multisensory artistic devices, her doctoral project, Affective Contaminations, investigates the role of affective experience in shaping perceptions of microbial dynamics. Alongside her research, she co-founded the collective La Plaine in 2023, a space for fiction where artists and researchers collaborate on performances combining text, image, scenography, and sound production.

 

Charles Ménard

Charles Menard is a French-Swiss visual artist and doctoral researcher. His work explores our different modes of sensitivity to the Anthropocene through a range of audiovisual disciplines, including analogue film, digital art, photography, and LiDAR scanning. Charles is the co-founder of L’Observatoire de la Fiction, an organization dedicated to studying representations of ecology in works of fiction.

 

Béatrice Albert

A lecturer and researcher at Université Paris-Saclay, Béatrice Albert investigates how the diverse forms of plants are generated by living systems and how these forms influence reproductive success.

 

Nadia de Bernardi

After many years working as a designer in Parisian and international trend forecasting agencies, Nadia de Bernardi has continued her creative journey through the practice of ceramics.

 

Mariejulie Bourgeois

Mariejulie Bourgeois is a digital artist, designer, lecturer, and PhD holder in Aesthetics, Science, and Technologies of the Arts. Born in Paris in 1981, she lives and works in Cachan. In 2008, she completed the New Media postgraduate programme at ENSCI, where she began research involving digital technologies. She then joined the EnsadLab research programme on Relational Devices and Interactive Installations in 2009. In 2018, she completed a PhD in Aesthetics, Science and Technologies of the Arts at Université Paris 8, focusing on Solar Fictions: Devices that Simulate the Behaviour of Sunlight. Since 2013, she has taught at Université Paris-Saclay, and in 2021 she co-founded CondéDesignLab at École de Condé in Paris.

 

Élise Morin

Élise Morin

develops an interdisciplinary research-creation practice at the intersection of art, science, and territory. Her projects rely on experimental devices and transdisciplinary collaborations to investigate regimes of visibility, modes of coexistence, and the role of aesthetics in the production of situated knowledge. Trained in Paris, London, and Tokyo, she lives and works in Paris.

 

Tim Schneider

Tim Schneider was trained in high-energy physics and holds a PhD in radiotherapy and hadron therapy. Having moved into the field of art and science, his research at Université Paris-Saclay now focuses on immersive installations in open environments and on developing new approaches to people and motion tracking systems. He is also a member of the collective Le sas, where he primarily works on the creation and development of interactive digital art works and experiences

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Zéphir Lorne

Zéphir Lorne is an MSc student in Cognitive Science at ENS-PSL. A programmer and videographer, he explores connections between disciplines—science and art alike—in an effort to foster greater peace in an increasingly turbulent world. His work examines how technology may contribute to this goal and evaluates its influence on psychological and physiological indicators such as attention and awareness, emotional regulation, affective states, relaxation, and bodily grounding.

 

Charlotte Mariel

Charlotte Mariel holds a PhD in Arts from the LISAA laboratory (Literature, Knowledge & Arts) at Université Gustave Eiffel and is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Université Paris-Est Créteil, where she teaches aesthetics and art history in relation to environmental issues, communication, and creative practices. She is a member of the associations Non-conférence and TRAS – Transversale des Réseaux Arts Sciences, and co-organizes numerous art-and-science events and initiatives. Drawing upon art theory, sociology, philosophy, and information and communication sciences, her research focuses on representations of fluids—air, water, blood, electricity, oil, shale gas, and more. Through the lens of transdisciplinary issues relating to socio-ecosystems, she examines artistic devices, research-creation methodologies and practices, as well as concepts of science communication, mediation, and public engagement.

 

Julie Sicault Maillé

A graduate of both the École du Louvre and political science studies, Julie Sicault Maillé began her career in cultural mediation and audience development. Drawing on this close relationship with audiences, she turned toward exhibition curating. Rather than considering herself the “author” of exhibitions, she approaches exhibition design in much the same way as mediation: as a form of maieutics, fostering the emergence of ideas. As a curator, she supports artists, architects, designers, and landscape architects in the development of their thinking and the creation of their works. Her areas of interest include landscape and public space, ecology, and living together. Julie Sicault Maillé is Head of Exhibitions at the Domaine départemental de Chamarande and oversees the FDAC (Departmental Contemporary Art Collection) of Essonne.

 

Valérie Masson Delmotte

Valérie Masson Delmotte is a researcher at the CEA’s Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences in Paris-Saclay, part of the Pierre Simon Laplace Institute. From 2015 to 2023, she served as Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change and co-supervised several major assessment reports on the state of climate science. Since 2018, she has also been a member of France’s High Council for Climate, which evaluates public policies relating to greenhouse gas reduction and climate adaptation and provides policy recommendations. She is deeply committed to sharing knowledge about climate change with broad audiences.

 

Jens Hauser

Jens Hauser is a media studies researcher and art curator based in Paris and Copenhagen. His work focuses on interactions between art and technology, transgenre practices, and hybrid aesthetics. He is currently a researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion, holding a dual postdoctoral appointment within both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. He coordinates the (OU)VERT network for Greenness Studies. He is also a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medical University of Vienna, an Honorary Affiliate of the Department of Art, Art History and Design at Michigan State University—where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist residency programme—and an affiliated member of the Department of Image Science at Danube University Krems. Hauser regularly lectures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Innsbruck, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and is an affiliated researcher at École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay. In 2018, he served as Chair of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Since 1992, he has also been a key contributor to the European cultural television channel ARTE, producing numerous reports for French and German public broadcasting services and publishing a wide range of essays.

 

Sabrina Calvo

Sabrina Calvo is a writer, visual artist, game designer, illustrator, and screenwriter. She is the author of around ten novels and collections of short stories, including her debut novel Délius, une chanson d'été (1997), Wonderfull (2001; winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger for Best Novel in 2002), Sous la colline (2015; winner of the Prix Bob-Morane for Best Novel in 2016), which addresses themes of trans identity, and Toxoplasma (2015; winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Prix Rosny Aîné in 2018). Her most recent publication, released in 2025, is the collection of prose poems But This Life Demands. Always. More. Light., published by Éditions du Commun.

 

Olivier Renouf

After studying visual arts, Olivier Renouf joined the National Centre for Contemporary Dance (CNDC) in Angers as a performer. In 2000, he co-founded the company L’Yeuse with choreographer and dancer Erika Zueneli. His artistic research is structured around a particular relationship to materiality and nature, notably through the use of humble or recycled materials that serve as catalysts for the imagination and enable the development of intertwined scenographic and choreographic worlds. Since 2008, he has worked primarily with sticks, rubble sacks, and earth. A certified dance teacher, he regularly leads workshops, classes, and training programmes for both amateur participants and audiences with limited access to the arts, as well as within educational settings ranging from primary schools to secondary education. His practice is strongly influenced by martial arts and qigong.

 

Giovanni Perolo

With a background in literature, documentary cinema, and visual arts, Giovanni Perolo’s trajectory has been shaped by the interplay between image theory and image-making practices. Since 2023, he has been pursuing a PhD in Visual Culture jointly at the University of Milan and IUAV University of Venice. In 2025, he completed a doctoral residency at the Institute for Research on Cinema and Audiovisual Media at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. His research explores the aesthetic, political, and technological relationships between visual culture and ecological thought through the study of oil as a visual material.

 

Assim Kalouaz

Assim Kalouaz is a doctoral researcher in psychology at University College Dublin (UCD) and a digital artist. His research focuses on awe as an emotional experience—how it emerges and how it can take the form of an interactive experience. His artistic practice therefore centres on creating interactive installations grounded in scientific research and infused with wonder. His interests are diverse: helping scientific knowledge move beyond academic publications through public engagement; measuring the impact of art, science, and technology on the well-being of artists and audiences through experimentation; connecting experimental research with artistic creation; and rethinking digital art practices as tools that can support mental health.

 

Filippo Fabbri

Filippo Fabbri has been a lecturer at Université Paris-Saclay since 2010. He is an engineer, physicist, pianist, and composer. His research lies at the intersection of nanoscience and sound art, with a particular focus on smart materials, adaptive acoustics, and immersive technologies. He creates sonic environments for cinema, theatre, and artistic installations, exploring the relationships between sound, space, and perception. Alongside his artistic and scientific work, he directs professional training programmes in sound and image technologies and founded the STAR studio at the IUT of Cachan. Presented in France and internationally, his projects reflect an innovative approach that bridges science and art.

 

Collectif La Plaine

La Plaine is a collective of artists and researchers developing a practice at the intersection of performance, landscape, and storytelling. Drawing on methodologies from science, art, and design, its members conduct field investigations from which they conceive site-specific devices and performances that question the conditions of perception, narration, and attention to environments. Founded in 2024, the collective brings together Daniel Cadot (doctoral researcher in design and ecoacoustics, National Museum of Natural History), Virgile Malarewicz (PhD in Geosciences, Nantes Université), Juliette Mirabito (Programme Coordinator, Frac Lorraine), Diane Reynier (artist and scenographer), and Marie Truffier (EnsadLab pre-doctoral researcher and artist-designer). 

 

Mùden Water

Mùden Water is a visual artist and researcher, and a resident member of the Non-Étoile collective. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne entitled Interspecies Murmurs in Urban Environments: Investigations and Artistic Explorations for Repairing Our Relationship with Living Beings.

 

Lucy Winkelmann

Lucy Winkelmann is a photographic artist whose work explores the relationships between memory, transmission, and photographic experimentation. Through historical and alternative photographic processes—including wet plate collodion, cyanotype, ambrotype, ferrotype, and embroidered photography—she combines photography, textiles, and archives to create sensitive works situated between documentary practice and visual poetry. Her projects are often inspired by travel, individual histories, and overlooked heritage, questioning traces, absence, and collective memory.