Jean-Pierre Balpe [moderator]
Writer
Université Paris VIII - France
   
Director, Hypermedia department, University of Paris VIII; Paragraphe, CIREN and CITU laboratories. A writer and theorist of information technology literature, author of scientific works, researched contributions of IT to writing. First interactive television script, “Shanghai-Paris”, written in 1985 for INA and Ftélécom. Later created writing software: “Un roman inachevé” (MILIA, Montreal, 1995), “ROMANS” (Roman), “Artifices” (November 1996); “Three mythologies and a blind poet” IRCAM 1997, Interactive show; TRAJECTOIRES, a digital novel (www.trajectoires.com); “MeTapolis”, an installation at MARCO in Monterrey (Mexico) with Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi, music, and Miguel Chevalier, interactive scenography.