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.