édition 2025

new media jury 2025

Discover below the new media jury of this edition 2025 !

Véronique BATON

Direction – Programming Le Grenier à Sel

Art historian, specialist in Italian art of the late sixteenth century. Independent curator for various institutions including the Domaine départemental du Château d’Avignon (in 2011). Successively Curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, at the Collection Lambert of the Musée d’art contemporain in Avignon, Director of the MIAM, Musée international des arts modeste, in Sète and Director of the Visual Arts Pole in Lauris, Vaucluse.

Evelyne DERET

President of Art Collector

Evelyne Deret has devoted a large part of her career to Human Relations management in companies and to the professionalization of training actors, notably by teaching at the University of Paris Dauphine. Voluntary and committed, she has been particularly involved in several European and international bodies to promote training and lifelong learning.
Since 1987, she has practiced as a psychotherapist, for adults and children, while continuing her training mission, particularly with personnel dedicated to early childhood

Marie-Odile FALAIS

Strategy Consultant, Influencer

After a Research Master in Art History at La Sorbonne Paris 1,
Marie-Odile spent a few years working in the art market. At
the same time, she developed an Instagram account and then
TikTok @imagine_moi to share her visits and art reading keys
to make her community want to see exhibitions. This experience has led her to become a Social Media Strategy Consultant and Cultural Content Creator. Since 2019, she has started
a collection of physical works of art and a collection of digital
works thanks to the NFT.

Valérie Hasson-Benillouche

Founder ofGalerie Charlot

Valérie Hasson-Benillouche founded the Galerie Charlot in 2010 with the aim of promoting innovative practices in contemporary art. Sensitive to artistic experimentation, the Galerie Charlot explores the links between art, technology and science.

With her avant-garde approach, Valérie Hasson-Benillouche has created a space dedicated to contemporary art, where her expertise in digital art brings together artists, collectors and scientists. The calendar of the Galerie Charlot is punctuated by conferences and performances on digital art and its role in contemporary art. The gallery features emerging, mid-career and established artists.

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Daniel KAPELIAN

Artistic director OMA Corée

Daniel Kapelian cultivates his selective creativity to initiate projects at the crossroads of disciplines and transversal forms. He operates a wide international network of resources, collaborators and partners.
Since he started partnering with OMA Space in 2018, he has opened new directions to explore, from craftsmanship to art and technology mixing primitive techniques with digital tools.
In 2019, OMA Space won the Google Art Residency to produce the studio’s first immersive installation at Mobilier National in Paris.

Fanny LAKOUBAY

Advisor in Art & Crypto Teacher - NYC/ Paris

Fanny is a French-born, New York-based digital art consultant and curator with 14 years of experience in art, technology and finance. An alumna of artnet and Christie’s, she founded LAL ART Advisory in 2018 to support artists, collectors and institutions looking to embark on the NFTs journey.
She takes part in support initiatives for the crypto art ecosystem, including GreenNFT, WAC Fellowship (Web3 for Arts and Culture), and Blockchain Art Directory (BAD 2.0). She writes regularly on the topic, speaks at conferences around the world, and teaches at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.

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Sophie LANOË

Cultural strategy consulting #NFT #Crypto-art

Sophie Lanoë is the director of ëmisphères, an incubator for cultural projects.
She accompanies art professionals in their strategy and animates a cultural ecosystem.
She transmits her expertise through various conferences and trainings in prestigious schools and institutions.
She is the author of «The Annual Guide to Contemporary Art Awards» and «NFT: An Award Without a Price! «and «NFT: UNE MINE D’OR les acteurs, season 1».

Olivier LERNER

Writer, journalist, speaker, consultant

Co-author with Sophie Lanoë of «NFT Mine d’or Acteurs du Crypto-Art Saison 1», he was a Grand reporter for France 2 and previously a news anchor for RFM. He teaches at ENA on the Art of the interview. Co-founder of LearningLabNFT.

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Emmanuel MAHÉ

Research Director ENSAD

Emmanuel Mahé, a humanities researcher at EnsAD, specializes in the study of new uses of information and communication technologies, focusing particularly on the fields of exploratory design and digital arts.
For a decade, he has been involved in various activities focused on the interactions between the worlds of art and science.

Corinne PULICANI

Director of the Domaine de Longchamp / GoodPlanet Foundation

Corinne Pulicani is Director of the Domaine de Longchamp/ GoodPlanet Foundation, Vice-President Education and Culture of L’Internet Society France

Corinne Pulicani has been involved in the cultural, environmental, social and creative transformation and emancipation of society for over 20 years. In order to respond to the challenges of major changes that arise for different actors in society, she explores new territories of cross-innovation, with the objectives of strengthening creation, education, solidarity and knowledge sharing.
Corinne Pulicani’s areas of expertise are cultural, economic, environmental and social engineering and the creation of innovation ecosystems with positive impacts.

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Martin ROBAIN

Architect and founder of Architectoniestudio

Martin Robain, architect and founder of Architectoniestudio in 1973, defends the concept of “group architecture”. His agency is behind major projects such as the European Parliament, the large auditorium of the Maison de la Radio and the restructuring of the Jussieu campus. Founder of AFEX (French Architects for Export), APO (Academy of the First Work) and the Syndicat de l’architecture, he chaired the Academy of Architecture in 2019. Martin Robain has also taught in France and West Africa.

Janine SARBU

Founder of Metahaus

Janine Sarbu is an artist specialized in geometric abstraction, optical art and lumino-kinetic.

She is the founder of Metahaus, a digital creative studio based in Shanghai that creates experiences between virtual and reality.Her work explores the interactions between shapes, colors and lights, contributing to innovation in contemporary art.

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Alain THIBAULT

Director Elektra. Canada

Audio artist and composer whose pieces have been presented in various European countries, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, Brazil, the United States and Canada. Alain Thibault is currently artistic director of Elektra, a festival dedicated to digital arts, presented annually in Montreal since 1999. He is also director and curator of BIAN, the Biennale internationale d’art numérique, which he founded in 2012. His exhibition Physical/ité was presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in May 2014.

Mathieu VABRE

Artistic director Chronique Marseille

Mathieu Vabre is one of the founders and director of Seconde Nature, an association recognized for its pioneering commitment to contemporary artistic creation in the digital age.
Today, co-director of Second Nature and Zinc, and specialist in the relations between contemporary arts and technologies, he is the artistic director of the Biennale CHRONIQUES.
Curator and executive producer, he has worked on numerous international exhibitions and programs